| Show Police School Boards Promise ise Tou-ghe-l Tou r Stan d Against Feu Feuds ds d's An emergency session of school boards administrators and police officers was held Friday and resulted in a promise of stricter action against youthful mob violence following ball games s The school boards of Uinta Uintah and Duchesne Duch districts school administrators and Vernal and Roosevelt city police at Union HIgh Friday even even- evening ing Fights and disorders th that t followed the Union Uintah-Union basketball game here Wednes- Wednes Wednesday Wednesday day of last week prompted the meeting hospitalized ONE YOUTH WAS hospi- hospi with a head cut It was agreed at the meet meet- meeting meeting ing that if these problems continued that all direct com com- competitive competitive activities between the two schools would be curbed It was also pointed out that Utah Activities Association tion could rule both boUl Uintah and Union teams ineligible for state participation if the problem recurred The police forces of both areas promised full support and planned to take much stricter ter action against young people participating in the fu- fu future future ture LAW ENFORCEMENT off i- i cers decided that those involved ed in brawls would be arrest arrest- arrested arrested ed whether juveniles or adult The combined school boards passed a joint motion request request- hag Ing requestIng the of both Uintah m and Union high school to take WIne seine immediate action which included appealing to their to refrain from disturbances in the fut ur ure and to take 11 action against students knoWn to be troublemakers An appeal was made to par par- parents to show better sportsman sportsman- ship themselves and to as- as assume sume more responsibility for forthe the action of their own young people in discouraging participation participation pation this type of mob ac- ac ac tion and violence THE POLICE reported that most of the trouble was caus caus- caused ed by alumni students of the two schools and that actual students were involved main main- mainly mainly ly as spectators who followed each other from one center of Continued on page 8 wr it t I Feu Is ii I Continued from page ge 1 I disturbance to another Persons at the he meeting stat stat- stated ed that the problem went be- be beyond beyond yond the responsibilities of the two schools arid and that city I and county officials and par par- particularly parents in both areas par par-I were more directly responsible responsible ible to take action to cUrb fur tur- furl turI further the ther outbreaks of violence l I LA LAW W OFFICERS attending i the meeting from Verna Vernal were yere Police Chief Claudius A Banks City er Jacc L Boren and Deputy Sheriff Wm V Mott Roosevelt City Police Chief Chiet Dave Dave Roberts also was p present with a de- de I All three Vernal law en- en enforcement enforcement I agencies s combined on the night of February 20 to prevent isolated fights from r mb vio- vio violence lence GROUPS WERE m milling ar around until l 1 am Thursday morning and officers reported they bloke up gathering at after ter gathering One year old Roosevelt youth suffered a head cut when It was reported that he fell lell during a an argument He was treated at the hospital and taken home Local police pollee received com com- complaints plaints that car cars returning to the Roosevelt area were pelt pelt- pelted ed with rocks as they left the valley hill No property damage was reported in the Vernal area POLICE SAID that boys I girls and graduates were In- In Involved involved in fighting Both high school principals were out of town at the time officers said and were hur hurriedly summoned to return Law officers reported that Thursday evening a carload of girls arrived In Vernal from Roosevelt and they circulated around challenging local girls to fights A AT T THE FRIDAY evening meeting Vernal law officers said that the violence apparently apparently did not stem entirely I from the basketball game but I was a continuation of a long feud between the two corn com comI I which erupts erupts from fromI I time to th time Mayor Merlin Sullivan of Roosevelt said that a gang fight had almost taken place between young people of they the I I two communities at Roosevelt airport during the cele- cele celebration celebration bration last summer reported reported He that 64 car car- carloads carloads loads of youngsters were in- in involved in Other incidents were reported taking place during the summer in both Vernal and Roosevelt areas THE PROBLEMS following the local ball game were par par- partly an aftermath of some Un Un- Union ion High School students hay hay- haying ing their hub caps stolen when they attended the Sweetheart Ball held at Uintah High School for stu stu- stu students dents in the Basin area Union High students felt that Vernal students were re- re responsible responsible for the theft Administrators ot of both high schools planned to warn their this week of the I consequences of any further I problems of this nature |
