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Show Laraba chosen as new museum curator The new curator who has taken the reigns at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park in the past few days, has expressed his excitement ex-citement for the- bountiful array of present and possible exhibits for the museum. Peter H. Laraba, who will be serving serv-ing as the curator at the museum in Vernal, has been in Utah for about two months. He was working for the Park Service at the Dinosaur Monument Monu-ment in Jensen prior to taking over his new assignment. Laraba is formerly of Massachusetts. He has worked at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico and at Death Valley, Calif., in Scotty's Castle. He was also involved with a museum in Tuscon, Ariz., prior to working with the Park Service. The hew curator remarked,"There is a lot of potential where historical and archeological finds are concerned concern-ed in this area. It will be exciting to develop these things into exhibits for the public enjoyment." The former curator, Kurt Sinclair, has taken a new position with the Parks Service at Steinaker Lake State Park. Laraba, and director at the Field House, Alden Hamblin, are presently showing off two new exhibits: a collection col-lection of gastroliths or Morrison stones donated to the museum by Reverand Herbert A. Rast. The stones were discovered near Moab, Utah. They are believed to have been fYir7rran?innTrHi Li UUJ UUUUUUV U M O Ol O o rublic Meeting Vernal Boys Baseball UHSAVARoom 7:30 p.m. Hunter Education Regis. Aug 26 AVA KoomL'HS 6:30pm. KexMralion- Muihrr'i Program Wnuih School District Alternative High School S 398 mlo3p m. Behavior Mwtiflctlfon (1art Utah Valley Hospital ' Registration at AVMC 77:Wp.m. I tr Market Iblif nlc Rurgrrl'ry Am. brgitmhU2 JrnftiLrifmllaU toa m loSpm C'ominiiofl Meeting ,'intah Cour.Jy Hir.!of ie PrrscrVStion County Library 4 p.m. I'tRSTbAVOr SCHOOL Hfefml ilhe Vtk" Battle Hollo titml 1pm. Kirthwf J t timmnnitt (. fcwf t Wf ihl Wait ten ytatfl North swollowed for digestive purposes by some species of dinosaurs, birds and members of the crocodile family. The stones were rubbed smooth and pitted by digestive juices from these animals; and a tooth whorl of a helicoprion, a shark like fish, that is on loan from Verl I. Mumford of Bear Lake County, Idaho. The tooth whorl is dated at about 225 B.C. and is , associated with phosphate deposits. ' Hamblin said the holidays have been particularly busy this year. He said the attendance at the museum always drops off after school starts. According to Laraba, many items are on temporary display which gives a variety of subjects to the public and new things to see each 1 time they visit the museum. The exhibits also give recognition to the donor. Laraba said there are enough materials and articles that have been found and continue to be uncovered in the Uintah Basin, to keep him busy preparing exhibits for a number of years. The park has entertained a record number of visitors this year. In July 29,822 visited the park as compared with 28,122 in July of 1984. There have been 18,746 visitors from Aug. 1 through Aug. 19 this year. In the same period last year 17,782 visited the park. In 1984, from Jan. to Aug. 19, there were 86,838 visits compared with 89,624 in the same period of 1985. This is a difference of 2,786 which is a three percent increase for the year. ALDEN HAMBLIN goes over a few fine points of the museum with its new curator, Peter H. Laraba. GASTROLITHS BELIEVED to be used in the process of digestion by several pre-historic animals make an interesting display at the Field House of Natural History in Vernal. ! r r" """'r' Ji i ' .. t . ' .. I ' 1 i '- I.' 5Ti' Ann Jillian No woman, no matter how healthy, how (It, how privileged, is Immune from breast cancer. I wasn't and you're not. Every fifteen minutes three women will contract breast cancer and one of them will not survive. 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