Show Bits About 5 YEARS AGO The City of Duchesne has spread wide the welcome mat as they prepare to play host to the Duchesne County Fair that officially opens September at 8 with the annual Miss Duchesne county A parachute jump Is also A reception at Emmons was given for and Darwin Weekend guests of Carol Lynn Cook were Edna Neilson and Charlene Young of Fran Harrison returned home last week from St. George where she visited relatives for a D. Daryl Bohlman of Cedar City arrived in Roosevelt to be assistant county Anthon B. has been chosen as president of the 1955 Uintah Basin Industrial 10 YEARS AGO A ground breaking ceremony for the new Union high school will be held Saturday morning at The Childs and school architects will be present when the bulldozer turns over the first scoops of Horse racing and parades highlighted the 1949 Indian Days and attracted curiosity of Neighborhood Sewing Club met at the home of Llewelyn and guests were Louis Clifton Parley Stanley George Neldon and Howard Charles Taylor of Vernal won a jy iy Studebaker given by the Lions and was so pleased that he presented the club with a check for In the heavily eroded country south of Pleasant the Pleasant Valley Oil Company Is drilling at 1890 feet in its 3 test 20 YEARS AGO There was more war talk and preparations for war in England than in other countries she visited in ac cording to Miss Dicia teacher at Roosevelt elementary who returned home after spending three months Air raid shelters have been built throughout she George H. mayor of was elected third vice-president of the Utah State Municipal Axel A. Birch of who for the past few years has been a combination man for the Roosevelt and Vernal branches oi me Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph was made manager of the Roosevelt and Duchesne exchange last The coming of light and power to three communities of upper Duchesne county was celebrated in elaborate ceremonies held at the Altamont high school in Emmons and a great step forward in the progress of development of rural communities when light was turned on in and It was completed under a federal REA project sponsored by Moon Lake to columnist Virginia Wizard of is taking the country by Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland made New York appearances publicizing the Picnic hams at Safeway were selling for 19 cents per land bacon was slightly more at 23 |