Show WAY BACK WHEN E One Year Ago 1949 Representatives A. A I. I Tippetts reported in his column Going On Around Here that the Capitol Hill was playing host to as many deer as most farm yards do doto doto doto to chickens One legislator reported report report- ed having had his shrubs eaten to the ground and then having to pay to have a dead deer hauled out of his driveway The Weber College bill was the hot po potato potato potato po- po tato in the Capitol and Representative Represent Represent- Tippetts reported that both he and Senator Ray Lund were opposed to it because the state lacked funds to take proper care of the institution already established The new 1949 Pontiac was announced announced announced an an- by Chief Pontiac Company a year ago Manti won their first basketball game of the season a year ago North Sanpete came within 8 points of Snow the closest any team had come to them that far in the sea sea- I son As we write up the basketball this year we think back to that Snow team of a year ago and of the other teams in the league last I year and the year before Two years ago Gunnison got into the Continued on Pace 5 WAY VAY BACK WHEN Continued from Page 1 1 finals with their teams and last year Snow won consolation We doubt that any team in the league this year could come within 15 points of those two teams Five Years Ago 1945 Sergeant Junior Cox wrote home homeI from Belgium to say that the weather weather wea wea- I ther was plenty cold over there He said the men at the front were digging into snow banks to keep the wind from freezing them to death Junior had been n in the European Theatre for some 9 months with a Field Artillery outfit Mrs l Eunice Thompson daughter of Win Wm Munk received word five I years ago that her husband Reed Thompson had been wounded in Belgium Reed was serving with the Division and it was the second time lime he had been wounded Thomas Mack Parry was in Alaska five years ago and wrote home to S say y I UI have a good job now ow I am veterinarian to two mechanical cows They put powdered powdered powdered pow pow- dered milk water and butter in a machine that turns out milk milks to 4 drink It It makes a swell cow as long ong as it works He also mentioned mentioned men- men 1 the numerous dogs in that area used by the ilie Indians in dog teams He said they had 10 Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian pilots with them for Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas dinner Mark Munk wrote from the ilie Philippin Philippines Philppine's Phil- Phil s to say he had been in on the he invasion of Lingayen Gulf and that hat a Jap bomber had almost hit his lis ship The collection of fats was lagging lagging lagging lag lag- ging in Utah five years ago and citizens were being urged to continue continue con- con saving waste paper and fats More public use of the Manti ManU library was urged by Manti City I and by ian Marion King five years ago Library Library- hours were announced to to help clear up any misunderstanding on them by the public I Ten Years A Ago o 1910 The budget for Sanpete County was vas listed as Do you know enow what the ilie ho holders dels del's of county offices were paid ten years ago Most of them got and their deputies made less than 1000 Dr W. W E. E Thorpe was serving as president of the Board of Edu- Edu I cation ten years ago and had published published pub- pub a lengthy article explaining the le boards board's stand against new building building build- build ing ng programs in Gunnison and Monti Manti He stated slated that the programs asked for would cost The district would have to pay I and the rest would be fur fur- furnished by labor and material The board had borrowed the September in order to operate the schools and it seemed that the lack of funds was the big reason for holding up the programs in Manti and md Gunnison Three full pages of the Messenger Messen Messen- ger were taken up by the ilie County financial Report ten years ago and we ve notice at they the end of the report leport re report re- re port the ilie total bonded indebtedness of the county was then Twenty T Years Ago 1930 Dewey Domino 2nd a Hereford bull jull was purchased by R R. E E. E L. L for the Manti Livestock Company at the Ogden sale twenty years ago The bull was one of the priced highest-priced animals at the sale and arid was purchased for I The Bure Bureau lU of Internal Revenue made new regulations for employers employ employ- ers twenty years ago It said they tiley reports wages paid by February Fe 15 instead of the old March 15 date Back in those days a guy could I make 1500 before paying any in income income in- in come tax and in those days a dollar was a dollar Pheasants were were having a hard hard winter twenty y years years ars ago and people people people peo peo- were being urged to feed them to keep the few available in exist- exist ance Manti High Goes Down With Colors Flying was the heading of the article twenty years ago which told of a 20 to 13 to 13 defeat for Manti Mantion on the tile Ephraim floor The Manti ManU team was given credit for having played the best floor game but the article listed four Manti players as being Off Wallace Vallace Madsen was the only player who could hit the hoop when he was given a chance the article said The game was a rough lough one and the final paragraph of the article stated A deplorable characteristic of the ilie game was the tile unnecessary roughness It will certainly certainly er- er be a happy day when Manti and Ephraim can play a game of ball as it should be played Incidentally Incidentally Inci Inci- dentally the score at the end of the first quarter of that game twenty years ago was 2 for Manti and 2 for Ephraim The new Ford was announced inthe in inthe inthe the Messenger twenty years ago and it was listed as Another Step Forward One of the new models was pictured in front of a huge mansion and some ladies in those dilly the over-the-ear hats hals were looking looking looking look look- ing it over The Ford Roadster cost and their biggest model sold for Heavy 36 inch outing flannel was listed at per yard in a Mes Messen Messenger engel en- en ger gel ad 20 years ago |