Show In the Good Old DId Days 20 YEARS YEARS' AGO August 8 1956 Uintah Utes football team will face an new all-new league this year year considered considered the toughest in the state state disclosed disclosed Leo Conk football coach Wednesday Wed Wed- Mr Conk asked for Cor the support of oC all local people at the new seasons seasons games The coach said that the local players had a good chance of oC winning and average weight in the line was l Ibs w well n above t ve avei average g f for r high si school hool youths A truck and jeep road has been completed to the Flaming Gorge dam site on the west side of the river The road is an extension of oC the Greendale road and is about 35 miles north of oC Vernal Improvement of oC lunching facilities has led a a remodeling and renovation project at t Ashley Valley Jr High School The old lunchroom which was wasa a former barracks building will willbe willbe willbe be moved and likely used for Cor storage space The new lunch lunchroom lunchroom lunchroom room was previously used for Cor forthe forthe the music room A classroom on the north side of oC the new lunch lunchroom lunchroom lunchroom room has been remodeled and will be used as a kitchen Never has s softball been enjoyed enjoyed en en- joyed more than this summer under the lights at the local ball baU cool evenings have attracted thousands to the games The well trained teams are as a rule evenly matched There is no admission charge to the games and oft times oft times the major part of oC the community will turn out to lo support their team Besides filling the bleachers carloads of oC spectators spectators spectators spec spec- line the perimeter of oC the field It is said that Vernal games are the m most melt t popular Inthe in inthe inthe the state 30 YEARS AGO August 8 1946 Vernal City council members took action Wednesday to save the city's vegetable gardens from Crom drought following the disappearance during the past ten days of oC water from lo local al irrigation ditches ditches' The acute water shortage threatens destruction of oC oft oCr produce in several hundred r t vegetable gardens and council members voted to save what irrigation water remains by turl turning ng it into the city mains Vernal's portion of oC the city- city county own owned courthouse park became Vernal State Park at designation and dedication ceremonies Friday at which Aaron W W. Tracy chairman of oC the Utah publicity and industrial industrial in in- development Com Commission commission commission com com- mission was the keynote speaker Ch Champion teen-age teen table tennis lennis players for Vernal in boys and girls classes will be named Friday at the Teen Teen Age Age Canteen according to Ted Thacker canteen club president Fridays Friday's program will include include include in in- clude the tennis tournament winners of oC which will get attractive attractive attractive at at- prizes and also other games and contests Door prizes will also be given during the evening according to club officers Earl J J. J Freeman and his son Earl J J. J Freeman Jr have announced the opening of oC their cleaning and tailoring establishment on First South Street between Vernal Avenue and First West The Freemans recently returned to Vernal after tours of duty in the a armed med services and have spent the past three months remodeling and redecorating redecorating redecorating re re- re- re decorating the old Dillman building for Cor their new new dry cleaning establishment 75 YEARS AGO AGOA A August gust 10 1901 A cloudburst in the canyon above Manti Mantl Thursday of oC last week sent down a flood of oC water which the town flowing through dwellings and depositing a a. a vast a-vast vast amount of oC mud and debris in the streets In order to save it from grasshoppers many fields of oC oats near Manti ManU have been harvested in n an an immature state and will bei bel fed Ced as hay Everything green green greenis is being devoured and even clotheslines are stripped unless guarded Seattle will use Utah asphalt in paving her streets in preC preference ence to to the California product The first consignment will be shipped shipp d August A W 10 and hundreds of oC tons will be used The asp asphalt deposits are sixty- sixty seven miles from Crom Salt Lake City on the Rio Rio Grande Western in Tie Fork Canyon The street paving has been put down the length of oC one block There was a large crowd d at atthe atthe atthe the lake last Sunday evening The band was there and entertained entertained entertained en en- the people with a few Cew of oC their choice selections People living in town enjoy a drive in the country on a hot Sunday afternoon and the lake seems to be filling a long felt Celt want and is appreciated by the people judging from Crom the number who drive out there every evening and especially on Sunday It certainly beats loafing or driving around the streets of oC Vernal especially during the hot weather veather Mr had his horses rigged up with nobby hobby new harness from Crom R. R Jensens Jensen's harness shop and altogether the band wagon presented such an attractive appearance that the photographer could not not resist the temptation of oC taking a few Cew snap shots of oC the outfit as they passed along According to a Price dispatch in the Salt Lake Herald rat rattlesnakes rattlesnakes are getting so bad north of oC the town ditch that people living in that tha t vicinity are becoming alarmed A. A E E. E Jones who is making brick just north of oC town had to move out move out on account of oC the snakes lie He with his family were camped near the brickyard in a tent tent and the snakes would come in run the folks out of their tent and take possession Mr Jones had to move his family near to town |