Show In n the Good Goad Old DId Days 2 W zO y YEARS yR R AGO December 26 26 1946 i Assurance that work will begin early in 1947 on Vernal's Field House of Natural History to be constructed on US U.S. 40 at atthe atthe the state park site just east ast of oC the county courthouse was given last week when the Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial Development allocated to the project T 5 Jerald Trujillo son of Mr and Mrs James Trujillo of j Tridell is pl playing football with the army team in Italy and it is tep reported th that f he lie refused a chance to come come home hom in October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober in order to complete the I season season with his football bud bud- dies Possibility was seen this week in Washington D. D C. C that portions of West Western Colorado along with sliceS sliced of the newfound newfound newfound new new- found wealth of the Ra Rangely gely OilField Oil OilField OilField Field area with be giyen given back to the Indians or they v will be recompensed for fen forit it it Vernal's cra crack k independent basketball team the Vernal made its debut before local o al fans M Monday and p pleased eased a well filled house by turning in ina a 11 40 38 o 3 victory ov over r the rugged Carbon College ollege of J rice jj a Marion li n Hall 28 World War 11 II veteran of th the European atre r p m-p was was to be holding his rin Salt Lake Veterans Hospital Wednesday following a plane crash December 24 near his home in Dry Fork 30 YEARS AGO AGOn n December cember 27 1956 Construction of the access road bridge over the Green River east of Linwood and reconstruction of slightly more moreth th than n seven miles of the lower portion of the Green River Linwood Dutch John access access ro road d is expected to be under underway underway underway way within the next few weeks Vernal Airport committee last week presented Frontier Airlines station manager Karl Bancroft an Award of Honor from the National Safety Council A damage suit has been brought against the Ute Ote Indian tribe of the Uintah and Our Reservation by a father of a teen ager who was was killed Inan in inan inan an explosion at Duchesne August 30 1954 The tribe was named as party defendent in the suit brought Inthe in inthe inthe the US U.S. District court at Salt Lake City by W. W L. L Robbins former formet Duchesne resident and the father of Vernon Robbins the victim Utah Gas Service Co which supplies natural gas to customers in Monticello Moab and Vernal has been granted permission to reduce its rates The State Public Service approved the rare type of application application application ap ap- ap- ap Tuesday Mr and Mr Mrs Dellis Morrill returned ed s Saturday y from froin the the South Australian lian mission after serving there 2 years Johnny Johnson son of Mrs Mable Johnson of Vernal is one of the first youths in Ashley Stake to qualify for the Duty of God award 75 YEARS AGO December 21 1901 William G. G Davis started for Price Tuesday morning with John and his family Mr is in the third stage of consumption and Is making the attempt to reach his home in the Indian Territory ry before the inevitable overtakes him Roy Duke of Glines and Miss Lottie Nye were ere married at Fruitland New Mexico November r 28 Thanksgiving Day and are expected to be home next week Over in Routt County a deer was killed recently that had specks of flour gold on its lower jaw and the papers are making a terrible fuss about their deer having golden teeth nothing every fellow in Vernal and Ashley valley has two or three dears with gold in their teeth and ears as aswell well Miss Clara Burton has been h hovering vering between life and death for several days past and is not expected to live r Brights disease in tl the principal trouble Louis Hodgkinson met with a avery avery avery very painful accident a few days ago He was holding a rifle which was discharged The contents tearing the flesh from and grazing the bone of one of his fingers Boys be careful with Louis firearms will h here r after Eastern Montana is experiencing ex experiencing experiencing ex ex- ex the coldest oldest December weather ever known there A temperature of 47 degrees degrees' below having been recorded The snow is fifteen feet deep in the summit of f Elk Creek mountain between Warrens and Thunder Mountain FIRST TOY SOLDIERS DATE BACK TO THE TilE MIDDLE AGES The toy soldiers which will figure in a number of Christmas stockings can boast of a long and distinguished pedigree The children an ancient Rome played with miniature warriors and some of the toy soldiers of the Middle Ages are real works of art A number of them are still preserved in British museums and are elaborate models of knights in armor or real artistic value But they were originally childrens' childrens toys Later in the seventeenth century miniature soldiers were made which were really pioneers of the modern mechanical cal toy as they could go through the regulation drill of the time |