Show V W M MIn r VA V if W V WA V Jr W 1 In The Good Old pays Days l lW W W W VA V VIi V VIi Im II I 20 YEARS AGO February 14 1952 tt P Improved Rural Living will be the theme of the E 1 c tio ference in the Uintah held at the Union High School Friday and Saturday The conference will feature several prominent speakers experts in several fields as consultants in group discussion with special summarizer in inthe inthe inthe the concluding sessions of the two two day day affair Superintendent Dean C C. C Christensen Christ Christ- ensen of Duchesne County Schools is chairman of the event Three wildcats have been listed as dry hole plugged and abandoned this week although two companies announced their intention to do de further testing this spring Owning a band of hungry sheep is an expensive business in the Ashley Valley this winter Deep snow on the range around Vernal has made foraging impossible impossible impossible im im- possible for several months and most stockmen report their sheep to be on full feed with the hope of an early thaw as the only possible relief The first annual meeting of the mn- mn tah Service Organization publishers of the Uintah County Newsletter for servicemen servicemen ser met February 11 in inthe the Uintah State Bank Building All the officers of the organization who have served through the first year of publication were unanimously re-elected re to office Performing at the Winter Carnival festivities was Claudius Banks who was featured skier at the night performance at Steamboat on Saturday evening 30 YEARS AGO February 12 1942 Members of the American problems class at the Uintah High School have initiated the sale of defense bonds and stamps in the school This Bonds for Victory club has now caused to be invested in bonds and stamps The new beautiful ul and elaborately equipped theater at Roosevelt will be completed and ready for its opening on Valentines Valentine's Day Affecting every male resident in Utah between the ages of 20 and 45 will bethe be bethe bethe the selective draft next Monday to complete complete com com- the registration of Americas America's potential potential po military power Over people viewed the new Roose velt Hospital Sunday which was recently re Gently completed at a cost of Mayor B H. H this week proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed d that Vernal Verna would put into effect effect ef ef- ef Daylight Saving time on February 9 0 which would last throughout the tho war The Uintah County schools will con continue to operate under the old time and will not change to the War Time limo until April or until the weather permits II 11 S S. S took the first truck truckload truckload truckload load of scrap paper to Salt Lake City last weekend for the tho defense program The Tho annual report of If the tho Uintah County public library by Mrs Maker II 11 for the year 1941 shows that books were circulated 40 YEARS AGO February 4 1932 t The regular meeting of the county x commissioners commissioners' was held Saturday where they decided to authorize the making of a survey of the secondary state road One thousand deer hunters spent in ten days hunting deer in Utah during the open season here One of the most thrilling games played played play play- ed in the high school gymnasium for some time was between Naples and Vernal Second Ward The Board of Education this week decided decided decided de de- de- de that school would be held as long longas as present funds lasted probably seven to eight months It is anticipated that the funds will be sufficient for a seven month term for the district school and seven and one half or eight months for far forthe forthe the high school Nearly one hundred adults attended the opening classes of the adult school being conducted by the Uintah High School It is that a Washington memorial highway from Jensen to the Dinosaur National Monument will be built in the near future Afton Bingham of Vernal a sophomore sophomore sophomore more at the Utah State Agricultural College Col Col- lege was last week elected vice president president president dent of the local chapter of the Spur Club The hog ground-hog certainly did not see his shadow Tuesday About two and one half inches of snow fell during the morning 70 YEARS AGO February 8 1902 Salt Lake City's new mw evening paper the Telegram made its appearance last Thursday selling for three cents Ed Whipple has completed his task of supplying Ft Duchesne with 1000 cords of wood at 9 a cord The Browns Brown's Park Cattle Growers Grower's Association As As- offer 20 per head for each and every wolf killed on that range Bartlett Brothers and Merkley's millrace mill millrace millrace race in the canyon washed over just above the mill Friday the water carrl carried d mud down onto the machinery below A occurred on the street Monday Monday Mon day night at 12 o'clock in which a soldier was hit on the head with a six shooter The members of the Ashley District LAS Sunday School installed their new organ in the school house last Sunday morning The new instrument is the tho Isamo kind as the one that was blown up with th power last fall The Elk building has a new gasoline street lamp that lights up the street for quite a distance 76 YEARS AGO February 13 1896 It is said that onion juice will cure baldness The cure would be about as rough as the one tried by several young men in this valley last summer that of cutting out the crown of their hats and MUng the sun bake the top of their heads until it was a mass of blisters Only a quarter 25 cents Is ts a small sum to owe owe but that is the amount that one of the society b belles lIes of the valley claims a prominent young man of Vernal Ver Vet nal nat owes her for going buggy riding with him last fall Cruel hearted hard-hearted young The owners O of the tho Kattie Roseman mine are congratulating themselves on ona a rich strike they have made in their 2322 in silver and 36 percent lead |