Show fi jJ 14 IJ Hn fin The Good Old 9 Days 7 Q 20 YEARS AGO March Matth 29 1951 In two t separate business transactions this week United Intermountain Theatres Thea tres annexed the thc Vogue Theatre in Vernal Vernal Ver Vrr nal and the Starlite 1 Drive In Theatre just outside of the city limits its A letter lettel of resignation from Carl ll R. R president of the Hoard Board of l' l Education Edu cation has been beNt received by Earnest M. M Johnson clerk to the board Latest equipment added to the Vernal Volunteer Fire tire Department is a double double- resuscitator the cost cast shared equally by Uintah County Coady Vernal City and the Fire Department 30 YEARS AGO March 27 1941 Sole survivor of a n South Sea pearl expedition that ended in a Fiji Island shipwreck after aHel the tragic death of her husband and another couple apparently of starvation and thirst Fern Thompson Thomp Thomp- son 21 returned Monday 1 to Los Ange Ange- les Mrs 1 Thompson is a former Uintah High Ugh School student Leon LlOIl Glenn son Mill of Mr 11 and Mrs 1 Leon Glenn of Vernal Venial and his crew of five lve men were trapped in a n tunnel at al Nantahala Nantahala Nan Nan- North Carolina CalOlina for 15 hours Tourists are arc running through Utah like a fire in a powder mill reported the Interstate Motor 1 Tom Tourist 1st Tavel Bureau Although tourists went through Utah they left only in their wake Work is progressing for the beautification cation of school buildings and grounds in Uintah County Huge steel pipes for the IlEA ItEA power plant being erected 40 miles north of Duchesne on the Yellowstone River willbe will willbe willbe be routed roiled through Reber Heber during the coming summer Dr DI I F. F G G. G Eskelson will open his new offices located in the former Farrar Grocery Tuesday The suite consists of seven modern rooms including the reception room consultation room Xray Xray X X- ray rny room opera operation lion and two ropy and diathermy rooms 40 YEARS AGO March 19 1931 The Steamboat Springs Transfer and Storage Company was granted a permit permit per per- mit from the Public Utilities Commission Commission Commission Commis Commis- sion for the operation of a freight service service ser ser- vice between Craig and Denver over the Gore Pass The latest fad is the permanent wave being worn by the boys Some of the boys have started the fashion which seems to be gaining in popularity Mrs Irs Frank Noel opened a kindergarten ten class Monday 1 morning at the Central I School with 12 students Long miles in short seconds to Du Du- by telephone 45 cents for star sta lion station day rate tong Long distance rates rule have been reduced four times since late laic 1020 1921 Slot machines punch boards and other similar gambling devices must go The decision was made by the mayor and eil city council at ut their regular session Wednesday Wed Wednesday evening The edict goes into ef effect feet Wednesday April 1 1 Don Hacking lacking and Harold Calder arc are starling work on a new service station on the old Cook corner southeast of or the old Red Hed Planer corner The station will be of a modern type with six gas pumps wash racks grease racks and brake adjusting equipment 60 YEARS AGO The baseball nines of the Uintah Basin Ba Ha Basin sin ale are arranging to form a ball league John W. W Austin is visiting at his old home in Wales Last week Rex Hex Clines Glines jumped from a wagon n dla by a runaway team and sustained a fracture of both bones and ankle of the right leg Sheep shearing will commence at the shearing place April 3 3 70 YEARS AGO Ira Jacobs and his son law left Vernal with their theil families for or the new settlement near Grand Junction where the they will make their homes John W. W Pope moved his watch repairing repairing repairing re re- re- re pairing tools from the Shop to the store where he is now ready to start work 50 YEARS AGO The Raven Oil and Refining Company struck two new wells The largest will produce approximately barrels daily A A. A A A. A Brigham and Homer E E. E Rich Richare Richare are arc new officers of the Commercial Club The Ute Oil Company has been granted grant grant- ed cd a lease to develop a tract of approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately 2000 acres of land in the Uintah Basin 80 YEARS AGO AGOA A party consisting of 11 members of Vernal society's upper crust made an excursion to Ouray Agency to witness the bear dance They left Saturday and returned Monday 1 The Uintah Asphaltum and Varnish Company was organized in Salt Lake City March 26 1891 They own a strip of country in Ashley Valley for the distance distance distance dis dis- tance of 13 miles Jesse Smith is clerk elerk at Ouray S S. S Nickelson has resigned his position as carpenter and will make his home in alt Lake City it 9 president of the stake Primary Association |