Show NEWS HAPPENINGS IN THE DUCHESNE AREA Warm weather is reported in Duchesne Area DUCHESNE A lot of Duchesne people literally hot under the this The mercury rose to 92 on June 27 and dropped to 90 the next During- the earlier part of the the temperature fluctuated from 80 to 87 for 13 days and was a cool 70 to 79 degrees for 10 days and in the for three In the cool of the the temperatures rose from a low of 38 to a high of but held mostly in the The of an inch of that wet the gardens and pastures of spread the moisture on nine different probably saving these since most of the towns irrigation water supply has been cut off and the culinary water supply lowered by the construction of a sewer extension project and a complete new culinary water None of this moisture fell during the last ten days of the and no irrigation water has been in some of the ditches since the last of Unless there is or water in the ditches within the next day or great losses will be sustained by owners of gardens and small some of the gardeners said Last the highest June temperature was 95 degrees on the and A total of of an inch of rainfall was registered for five days of The mercury was in the seven days during June NO TELEPHONE Have you ever been without a phone When report time came i And everybody everywhere Just stayed well You couldn't talk to anyone About their kith or And though you wished for They were strangers who dropped So the missing And chat among Next week I'm pretty certain There'll be a phone upon the There has been a change in offices for the Selective Service Welfare Department and the Civil defense the past completing the change for the County Nurse on Monday This is the reason for the lack of phones in these The Selective Service will now be found in Room County Room and Civil Room 18 in the County Court BIRTHDAY Dianne Horrocks observed her ninth birthday Monday at a party at her by her Doug Fifteen of her friends joined her at the birthday Refreshments of ice homemade cupcakes and punch were served by the and Mrs Rex Parrish and son and daughter stopped by the Harvey Partridges Friday evening on their way en-route to Paradise Lake in northern Uintah They were to join Mr Parrish s brothers and families at the lake for an Mrs Alice Summers told that she had received a letter from Bessie who is spending the summer with her son Jack in stating that she was in a hospital where she is having skin grafting done on an injured GROUP WILL GET RIDING INSTRUCTIONS DUCHESNE Youngster of Duchesne have an ity to improve their riding skill through instruction given in t club organized with Mrs Karen Gall and Dean Young This riding has Chery Swope as Wag vice Rickie Rob and Jon More than 10 members were enrolled in the club at starting date June The club will participate in the Duchesne County Fair Parade and other Other members include Claudia Louise and Joyce and Kent Mr and Mrs Orlando B Merrill and who have resided here the past several months while Merrill has been filling the post of Coun-tj School took their leave on Saturday for They were dinner guests of and Burt Rouse before their departure Saturday Mrs Helen was for surgery but because of a bout with the the operation was Family members report that Tatton Bench who was released from the Veteran's hospital in Wednesday of last week is progressively improving now at the home of his and Mr and Charles Cary in Mrs Bench reported on Saturday that her husband was to see his doctor on July and if his improvement has been he will bo permitted to return home Venice who came to be with her Tatton Bench during his returned to her home in on the WALKS BUILT Four-foot-wide cement walks are being installed in front of the Duchesne District Ranger home and and along the west side of this property the remainder of the garage driveway and parking area is being covered with This cement work contracted by Ted included laying of cement walk in front of the assistant ranger's home adjacent to U. S. Highway Ray Pepper and his and were last week guests of Mrs Zella Lee Cowan of Duchesne Junior Los son of and Ray drove his father is and his mother to Duchesne for the visit with who is a sister of the elder Mrs Cowan says this is the first visit she's had with her brother in several SETS UP SUMMER HOME Emest of Salt Lake has established his summer camp at Moon Morrell said Sunday he came into the area the middle of on a special then moved his tent and camping equipment out May 28 He expects to camp at the lake campground through the first week in the father of Mrs Ralph Halstead of and Frank a former resident of said that he has spent the past seven summers camping at Moon Lake and he had been fishing the lake before it was a reservoir for 35 He says several couples or men spend the summer from year to year and get a lot of enjoyment out of the great the simple living and each others' company The campground has been enlarged the past few years by personnel of the Altonah Ashley National Forest MOON LAKE IS FISHING IS GOOD Moon Lake is almost Fish were being caught the past weekend good rainbows from off the Your reporter saw children dragging in these Others were catching smaller fish from the shoreline of the lake in other Moon Lake Dam was built by the U. S. Department of the Bureau of under the Moon Lake Storage capacity of the reservoir is The dam is feet in height and feet in The area immediately east of the dam is restricted to |