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Show THE WAY IT WAS. orm to his job; Buck was just a kid. I had paid him a little but thought he could earn more elsewhere. I went back to the sheep camp leaving Otho and Uncle Felix to take care of Aunt Mame and Grandma. My kids stayed with Dad until school was out, then they came to the sheep camp in the new camp trailer. Felicia and Jo (Josephine) came to take care of them. I never got along with Tom Murphy and I did not want him as a partner. He did pay Aunt Mame’s doctor bills, paid the doctor, and he got her things she needed but he never could see why a woman should have any money when he sold her steers. She wanted him to kill a beef. He wouldn't, but when Dad killed a beef which belonged to him and Mother, Tom was right there for some of the meat. Dad and Tom owned about 75 head of cows so Dad traded his interest in the 7M cows for Aunt Mame’s sheep. Aunt Mame went along with the trade because she knew she did not have long to live and she knew Tom would be an extra burden for me. Dad needed my help. Dad wanted to move his family away from Moab and off the Murphy ranch, so he traded some of his cows for a down payment on the Herb Day place in La Sal. Then the move started and it did not take long. The kids were very enthusiastic. Dad had a good wagon and a team of mules and 20 head of cattle that had been Mother's from her milk cows. Dad and Nick moved the household goods and farm equipment. Felix drove the cows. It took him two days and he camped out one night. When he got back, of course, he had to help Dad and Nick some. From the time Dad left the Murphy ranch, Felix was the sheep camp mover and often the sheep herder. I owned a car, wagon, and the camp wagon, which we lived in now. The camp wagon had a died there was tons of food in his shed which the rats had destroyed, holes in the cloth and blankets. There was nothing left fit for people to eat or use. In Grand County it was different. The man who lived in a big house, but could not get a job had to eat also. The man who had a mortgage on his place could not pay. The lender could not pay. They both had to eat. In Grand County if you needed something you got it and nothing was wasted. The States and Counties made a few jobs but only for the head of the household. But young people who did not live at home had to eat, so the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) was created and many young men started working. They got $30 a month and had to send $25 home to their families. They built the CCC camps or barracks, got their meals in camp, were furnished clothes and beds, had a Doctor and sick bay in camp. It was like the army. They built dams, roads and trails; anything that would help the country. We worked hard, had some problems, but fun, too. We went to dances in the La Sal school house. Wesley and Minnie Newman played for them. Pete and Flora rode over from Old La Sal, stayed at our place, and went to the dances with us. There were also dances at Old La Sal which we went to. Felix was camped at Trough Springs herding the sheep. Sometimes Nick and sometimes Dad would stay with him. But he was alone one evening when he brought the sheep to camp, I should say to the bed ground because the camp had burned down. There was no bed and no food, so he rode to the school house. There was a dance that night. Him and Nick went to the ranch, rounded up a camp outfit, and after the dance, they went to the sheep herd. It was cold with no shelter, just a campfire. We bought a tent and camp stove for them as soon as possible. February 10, 1933 we consigned our wool to the Utah Wool Market. We received an advance of $155. That was enough to get shearing supplies, pay wages to the shearers. We gave them room and board. trailer hitch so we could pull it behind the wagon. I had a good gentle team but when we were moving, no saddle horse. I did not mind walking. “OVER THE TOP”| — With = Nemerenviie SUSTAIN the PRESIDENT --- VOTE DEMOCRATIC STRAIGHT — In November 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in a landslide and was inaugurated the following March 4, 1933 (An amendment to the constitution later moved Inauguration Day to January 20). It isn’t often that a presidential election can have such farreaching effect, but FDR’s presidency moved The old Colorado River Bridge in the 1920s. and shook the entire country, even in the remote red rock outback of Moab. The nation was desperate-more than a quarter of its population was unemployed, American children were starving and whispered speculation about the future of the United States had become a loud and persistent shout. It was not at all ridiculous to think that the Radio government might collapse. After four years of benign neglect by the Hoover Administration, Roosevelt’s plan was to try something, anything, to get the country moving again. If one idea didn’t work, admit it, and move on. But keep trying. He initiated dozens and dozens of federal programs to bring relief to the nation’s citizens and to stimulate the economy. Moab saw one of the earliest CCC Camps--the Civilian Conservation Corps. It was a government program whose purpose was to put healthy young unemployed men to work. For Every Family in Moab! : N OCT. 1, KSL of Salt Lake City will go on the air with one of the most powerful stations in the country, and will aopes a unit of the National Broadcasting Circuit. This means that radio reception will be ens 100 pe way thal we get pood daylight receptionIn Mond the year round matt wondertel features in lars tar poe thts fall at es wegen eflicee—as If they wore in the same Hundreds of projects, from trail and road maintenance in the La Sal National Forest to flood control on the cliffs around Moab, were completed by the "CCC Boys." And the addition of 200 men helped to invigorate a slumping Moab economy. In addition a grant through the Works Progress Administration financed the construction of a new courthouse for Grand County. It is still used today. For Verona, she continued to maintain her sheep with the help of her family and struggled like so many others to survive the Depression... 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