Show Cliff Midge leave newspaper Field after nearly 28 years When Clifton N. assumes the office of Administrative Division Chief for the Utah State Highway Department on June he ends nearly 28 years of weekly newspaper publishing which began July in Carbon HIS RESIGNATION from the Utah House of effective May ended five years as a legislator representing Duchesne He served as the Majority Leader of the 1965 session which was concluded on March and held major committee assignments during the 1961 and During 1963 and 1964 he was a member of the Utah Legislative Council and served as chairman of the State and Local Affairs A native of Scipio in Millard attended Snow High School and College in Ephraim and is a graduate of the University of He went to Carbon County as a school teacher and athletic teaching at and He was principal of the Helper Central School when he resigned to enter the weekly newspaper and his were co-publishers of the Helper Journal from July 1937 until June when they sold their They moved to Roosevelt where they became publishers of the Uintah Basin Record at Duchesne and the Roosevelt Standard at Roosevelt on The two papers were merged Jant as The Uintah Basin Active in civic and church has been a since July 1934 and has served two clubs and as president and two terms as Lieutenant Governor of the Utah-Idaho He is a past president of the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce and has been in-s in water problems of t the He is currently ing as a director on the Vt Kent Duchesne County Water Users Association He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Utah IN CHURCH HE is currently a member of the High Council of the Roosevelt and has in a as stake mission president and missionary and stake and ward Sunday School a native of who has been advertising manager society has also been very active in civic and church She is past president of the Uintah Basin women s past PTA president and regional past president of the Culture She has held offices in the Primary and the in the ward for several has been age group counselor in the Roosevelt Stake and served as secretary before She was released last week as a THE only living Kent is presently serving as an missionary in the East Central He is now acting as mission recorder in He will be released in September and will return to the BYU where he will pursue his A Carol died on 1955 of acute after a very brief Succeeding the as See Page 12 from publishers of the Uintah Basin Standard are and Clarin D. Ashby of Castle They officially take over on June They are also purchasing the Standard building and the For the past nearly nine years they have published the Emery County Progress and He is a native of where he lived until he was 12 then moved with his family to More background of the Ashby family will be found in another article this |