Show In Yn the Good Geed Old Days 20 40 YEARS AGO JULY IB 19 1956 A delegation of eight business and civic leaders from Vernal met with the State Road Commission in Salt Lake City Tuesday to request that a permanent paved highway be constructed into the Flaming Gorge dam site area immediately im Im- im- im mediately The group stressed the need for such a highway to make sure that Utah gets its share of ol the tourist trade and materials sales that will arise from the construction of the dam Details were released to the Vernal Express recently of the first scale large-scale privately financed project in the world to produce conventional petroleum products from a raw material other than crude oil The project will convert gilsonite into coke for forthe forthe forthe the aluminum industry and high octane gasoline The good old American system of private enterprise Is paying off for two young Vernal men Hal lIal Spaulding 19 and Chuck Spaulding 17 The young businessmen sons of Mr and Mrs Charles W W. Spaulding of 38 North West are partners in Ground Products Company The youth sack sawdust and sell it to mud companies that supply oil drilling outfits The The sawdust is mixed with mud and helps help hold the mud in the drilling hole Adults and teenagers will compete for valuable book prizes during a summer reading contest to start Monday at Uintah County Public Library Mrs Marjorie Eaton librarian announced today 30 YEARS AGO JULY 16 18 1918 The annual Story Festival sponsored by the Uintah Stake MIA under the direction of the Stake activity counselors is scheduled for Monday evening July 22 at pm p.m. at the Uintah High School lawn Indications that the teacher shortage in the Uintah County school district may be more acute th than n during war years were voiced today by II H. H Grant Vest county superintendent of schools Vernal's problem Is aggravated by the fact that teachers who would like to teach here cannot find places to live The county school district needs 10 secondary school schoolteachers schoolteachers schoolteachers teachers and 10 elementary school teachers to complete the staff of 1946 47 six members of the Uintah High School Club hilarious at the success succeSs of their eight-day eight tour to Yellowstone Park buzzed the Main Street of Vernal Sunday afternoon upon their return home The group rode in a large trailer semi-trailer driven by Lawrence Allen and carried with them camping equipment for their extended trip Under the direction of Doyle Landon agriculture supervisor at the high school the group left Vernal July 8 via the Manila Highway and stopped at Jackson Hole Fishing ng Bridge Mammoth Hot Springs Old Faithful ul Idaho Falls and Salt Lake City The era of the American doughnut is just about over in liberated Europe The Red Cross which estimates that it has served million doughnuts along with million cups of coffee since the invasion has closed up its hospitality activities 75 Y YEARS ARS AGO JULY 20 1901 Robert Witmer the timer was fined lined 2 and costs amounting to 10 in Justice Davids court yesterday for lor drawing a gun on Joe Neilson The work of putting down the asphalt on the streets has been in progress all the week The square between the four lour stores Is about covered Mr hauls pounds at a trip on three wagons and has been making two trips every day An average speed of forty- forty five miles per hour exclusive of ol stops was made by the winner of the first annual run of ol fe 2824 miles in the three days days' automobile race from Paris to Berlin which is to be finished today Does this mean that the railway is to yield to the highway highway highway high high- way In an exceedingly suggestive article In the June North American Review Mr Mr H. H G G. G Wells Wells' foretells the reconstruction reconstruction reconstruction recon recon- of modern cities Inthis in inthis inthis this country through the automobile moving over new systems of broad smooth roads carrying freight as well as passengers eclipsing railroads in enterprise comfort com com- fort adaptability and speed and lengthening the limit of the on one one hours' hours ride and so the radius of the urban district to miles At a meeting of the building committee Thursday night the bids were were opened for the building of the Episcopal church Andrew Berkley was awarded the contract for the them m mason mason son work-foundation work and walls to furnish the material t himself for 1265 William was given the carpenter work Other work such as plastering painting etc willbe will willbe willbe be let later The case of smallpox at Fort Du Duchesne as reported ported last week proved to be the effects of an anover an anover n nover over dose of rott whiskey One of the boys had imbibed to freely and the next morning had hada a a high fever He poked his head out of the Ule window and told a passing sentry that he had smallpox and from that the rumor rumor arose to |