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Show BASIN BRIEFS Basketball Basketball games scheduled for Friday, Feb. 7, are as follows: fol-lows: Altamont vs. Alterra, played play-ed at Alterra; Tabiona vs. Duchesne Du-chesne at Duchesne, and Roosevelt Roose-velt vs. Uintah at Vernal. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Ashton returned re-turned Sunday evening from a two week vacation trip to California. Cal-ifornia. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Harrison Har-rison have taken an apartment in Salt Lake, where Mr. Harrison Harri-son is convalescing from an operation. op-eration. They expect to return home in the near future. Mrs. Joe Moysh returned last week after spending several months in California. She will rejoin Mr. Moysh at Livermore, California after a short stay here with her daughter, Mrs. Mont Killian. Mrs. Romney, from Salt Lake spent last week visiting with her sister, Mrs. Wm. H. Ruppel. Mrs. Ethan Nealson is visiting relatives in Salt Lake City. She is expected to return home Friday Fri-day evening. Lillian Henderson, of Vernal, Uintah Basin district president of the Federated Women s Clubs, visited in Roosevelt Friday with Mrs. Clem Labrum, president of the local club. j James Lloyd, of Roosevelt, was among the top producers of Occidental Life Insurance Co. during the year just passed, according ac-cording to figures released by W. H. Trentman, executive vice-president vice-president of Occidental Life. Mr. Lloyd will be the guest of the company at the annual convention of the Honor Club in Havana, Cuba, in April. Clem Labrum drove to Salt Lake Wednesday to get his plane which had been grounded at the Salt Lake airport due to weather. weath-er. He returned Wednesday evening. eve-ning. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Labrum i went to Salt Lake Tuesday, Jan. 28, for dental care. They returned return-ed Saturday. Mrs. Da.rrell Wardle took care of their baby during their absence. Bishop Stephen C. Clark, of Salt Lake City, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah, was a Roosevelt visitor on Thursday. Bishop Clark, who was installed as bishop of the Diocese in January Jan-uary upon the retirement of Bishop Arthur Moulton, has spent the past week in the Uintah Uin-tah Basin making a survey of church property and contacting members of the various congregations Word has been received that Captain Elbert R. Curtis sailed from San Francisco on February 3 aboard the U. S. Army Transport Trans-port General Hodges, bound for Manila, P. I., where he will be assigned to duty. His wife, the former Vera Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ren Johnson, of Roosevelt, will visit with her parents until quarters are available before joining Captain Curtis. Captain Curtis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin R. Curtis, of Ft. Duchesne. Mrs. Maud Heal returned to her home in Provo, Wednesday, after spending a few days in Roosevelt. She came out to attend at-tend the funeral services for her brother, Fred Jensen. Mrs. Louis Laris returned Monday night after spending the past week visiting relatives in Price. Wm. H. Ruppel left for Sail Lake City, Monday, where he will spend the week at the main office of the Uintah Transportation Transporta-tion Co.' Chase Watterson, manager of the Watterson Saw Mill, was transacting business in Roosevelt Tuesday. He reports that the roads are in good shape, Considering Consid-ering the amount of snow that has fallen. He expected to start sawing yc-stc.rday. Eva Koyen of the state central cen-tral committee, and Fern Moffitt, I county chairman of the Duchesne County Republican party, will sponsor a Lincoln Day program and dance in the Duchesne High school gymnasium, Wednesday, February 12 at 8 p. m. A speaker from Salt Lake has been engaged, and a program of local talent will be presented. Mrs. Ray Jordan spent two days in Vernal this week visiting visit-ing with her sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Homer P. Edwards Ed-wards drove to Salt Lake City, Wednesday. They expect to return re-turn home Saturday. Bennie Schmiett and Joe Mower spent three days in Salt Lake City on business for the Roosevelt Flying Service. Music lovers of the Uintah Basin widely acclaimed the concert con-cert presented by the Utah Symphony Sym-phony orchestra at Vernal on February 3. Under the direction of the renowned re-nowned conductor, Werner Jans-sen, Jans-sen, the full orchestra of 68 pieces played a variety of numbers num-bers designed to appeal to both the music connoisseur and the novice. Enthusiastically received by a music hungry audience, the orchestra or-chestra was called back for three encores. |