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Show In The Good Old Bays 30 YEAKS AGO Aug. 27, 1953 Whether or not Pacific Northwest Pipeline company will be allowed to lay a gas line from San Juan fields to Seattle, Wash., is still being decided in a hearing of the Federal Power Commission. Pacific Northwest Pipeline claims to have a gas reserve of 3,600,000,000,000 cubic feet. Slightly more than three trillion cubic feet of this reserve is in the San Juan basin of Colorado and New Mexico, according to the company. Vernal merchants are offering special back to school bargains in their stores during the Hi-Neighbor Days promotion Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Climaxing the three days of sales will be a barbecue party at Merkley Park, Saturday night. Purpose of the party is to help newcomers to Vernal the past few years get acquainted with the Chamber of Commerce. About 5,000 back to school bargain folders have been distributed to shoppers shop-pers within a 75-mile radius of Vernal listing the specials of each of the merchants. The annual amateur roping meet being be-ing held in Vernal at the fairgrounds this Saturday night is free to the public, and is open to anyone who would like to participate in the events. Seven roping clubs will meet in contests con-tests beginning at 7 p.m. Clubs who will participate are: Vernal, Roosevelt, Neola, Rangely, Hayden, Craig and Meeker. Entrance fee will be from $5 to $50. A second rodeo meeting will be held Tuesday, Sept. 8 at the Bank of Vernal, Ver-nal, according to 1953 President Warren War-ren Mott. Purpose of the meeting will be to elect an eight man committee to put on the 1954 Vernal Rodeo. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 29, 1953 An announcement was made Saturday Satur-day that following a conference on Wednesday of last week, between the state officials and the Carbon County Commissioners, that a ten-mile stretch on U.S. Highway 50, east of Price, will be paved with Utah Rock Asphalt. The roadbed will be prepared and the asphalt mined this year, the paving pav-ing to be done this spring. The cost of the project will be $80,000. Work will be furnished to a large number of local men. It is expected that practically every former resident of Dry Fork or Mountain Moun-tain Dell, as it is now known, will be in attendance at the homecoming on Friday, at least those living in the Uintah Uin-tah Basin. Responses for invitations have in nearly every instance been heartily in support of the event. Everv former resident, as far as possible, has been invited in-vited to be present and make the day one of the best for a social good time in the Ashley Valley's history. After a delay of several days the crews at the Jensen bridge are again busy as the new steel piling arrived last week. It was found impractical to pull the piling around the pier which was built last spring, so new piling was ordered. The steel crew are putting up the second se-cond span and as soon as the last pier is completed will be ready to lay the last span. Within a few days, the first span completed will be ready for pouring pour-ing the cement for the floor. |