Show In n the Good Old Days Eay 20 YEARS AGO 30 YEARS AGO GO r 75 YEARS AGO July 12 1956 July U 1916 July I 13 1901 Vernal has definitely been established as the headquarters for the Flaming Gorge project A temporary bridge will be built above the dam as part of the 17 mile construction access road between the paving of Wyoming near Linwood Utah and the Flaming Gorge dam site More than 1500 residents of the the- Uintah Basin flocked to the Vernal airport last Sunday for forthe forthe forthe the third annu annual l observance of air fair day sponsored jointly by bythe bythe bythe the Civil Air Patrol and the Utah National Guard and Frontier Airlines A popular outdoor attraction a band concert in city park willbe will willbe willbe be featured by visiting Denver Scouts outs Thursday August 2 at 8 pm p.m. The band will be returning to Denver after a concert tour and will stop over at Vernal on the way At a special meeting of the members of the Moon Lake Electric Association Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- Wednesday in the Uintah High School aUditori auditorium m a firm majority vote was cast in favor of centralizing the head office of the system by moving it from Altamont to Vernal Our Way Free enterprise personal liberty and political freedom are inseparably united in what we call for want of a better phrase our American way of life Richard A A. A Riley President Firestone Tire and Rubber Co Vernal's rodeo grounds grounds' are this week undergoing a process which will provide facilities here to enable Vernal's annual show August 1 I 2 and 3 to match Cheyenne Days and Pendleton Roundup as outstanding Western spectacles spec spec- Some Giles County Moon Moon- shiners are arc fortifying their product with headache powders Sheriff Emory Johnston believes A party of law enforcement officers raiding a still near Petersburg West Virginia recently seized a large quantity of headache powders the sheriff said and found the ground littered with empty packages The Basin Flying Service at atthe atthe atthe the Vernal Municipal Airport has been approved by the Civil Aeronautics authority to operate a veterans veteran's flight training program under the GI Bill of Rights it has been announced announced announced an an- by Jack Turner manager of the flying service The program will permit veterans who wish to learn to fly to o do so at government expense expense A new oil company has been organized by Rifle people and is is' officially known as the Johnnie Pyle Oil Company owner Co-owner and pharmacist of the new quality rate cut-rate drug company which opens in Vernal this week is John R R. Berntsen who came to Vernal June 24 to tomake tomake tomake make his home Dr T T. R R. Seager of Bingham Canyon took his place this week on the Vernal Clinic staff The Vernal Clinic on West Main Maln Street now includes Dr F. F G. G Eskelson Dr R. R E. E and Dr Seager J I It tt Is estimated that residents of Salt Lake City expended not less than on fireworks this year in the celebration of the birth of our nation This isan is isan isan an average expenditure of 25 cents for every man woman and child in the community Two women whose names were unknown met with a shocking accident while out inspecting the boiling mud Paint pots at the thumb of Yellowstone Lake in the National Park Saturday af The women omen mother and daughter who entered the park by the Monida route fell into the natural caldron where the boiling mud was waist deep and could only be rescued with difficulty They were taken to the Lake hotel where a physician said their injuries might prove fatal Grasshoppers are playing havoc with the vegetation just across the Jordan river from Salt Lake City eating everything in the way of garden vegetables except tomatoes while the grapevines are stripped as bare as though they've gone through ugh a fire The government thermometers thermometers thermometers ther ther- reached The body of Abraham Lincoln has been secretly moved to a special private vault in the monument as a safeguard against any attempt to carry it away Robert T T. Lincoln son of the deceased president came to Springfield on May 23 and since that time timework work on the secret vault has been going on on It was completed a few days days' ago and removal of the remains was accomplished in hi secret Word was received yesterday over the telephone that Fort Duchesne has a case of small pox Sheriff turned his pris prisoner ner Harley Thomas loose last Saturday as the Sheriff of Carbon county Wyoming failed to show up within the ten day limit that a sheriff is allowed to hold a prisoner from another state Mr went to Browns Brown's Park this week and got three of the stolen horses I In n rut 11 |