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Show "News Bits About Yesier-Years" 5 Years Ago Top scholastic honors were accorded Robert Penfield and Laurel Snyder last Friday when the Roosevelt high school faculty fac-ulty selected them from a group of outstanding students to represent rep-resent the class of 1947 as val-edictorial val-edictorial and salutatorian, respectively. re-spectively. These two posts represent rep-resent the ultimate in honors accorded ac-corded by the local high school. Louis A. Jensen, a graduate of the Utah State Agricultural college, and an expert in cattle-management, has been named nam-ed County Agent for Duchesne County, according to word released re-leased by ' the Extension Service Ser-vice Wednesday afternoon. Plans for a long awaited Uintah Uin-tah Basin baseball league were completed Wednesday night, when representatives from Basin towns met in Roosevelt to outline out-line a schedule. A team lineup, which will include Vernal, My-ton, My-ton, Roosevelt, Duchesne, Mont-wel, Mont-wel, Neola, Fort Duchesne and Bennett, was approved at the meeting. The Ladies' Fish and Game Club met Monday, March 31. at the home of the president. Thora Yack. 10 Years Ago Mrs. R.' T. Bonin writes from Washington, D. C, and explains briefly conditions in the U. S. captiol. There will not be the usual Cherry Blossom festival this year, and the government is discouraging visitors in Washington Wash-ington for the duration of the war, due to the crowded conditions. condi-tions. The Roosevelt Women's Fish and Game Club held its annual election meeting Monday evening eve-ning at the home of Mrs. Far-rel Far-rel Wilkins. Mrs. Farrel Wilkins, an ardent organization leader for many years, known to' the sportswomen sportswom-en of the basin at "Tina," was elected president for 1942. The following members were elected to serve with her: Erma La-brum, La-brum, vice-president; Olive Harrison, Har-rison, secretary-treasurer; Edna Curtis, Pearl Redmond. Effie Verholt, Helen McAfee and Beu-lah Beu-lah Gagon, board members. Quentin Kolb, a Roosevelt High School student, was successful suc-cessful in winning first place in the -oratorical elimination contest held at Roosevelt, was awarded the right to enter the . finals for Region 5, held Monday,, Mon-day,, March 30, at Price. Quentin Kolb, of Roosevelt, and Judd Killpack, of Huntington, Hunting-ton, were selected by the three judges to represent the 5th Region Re-gion at the state finals which will be held at Murray on April 4. . j Roosevelt city had its first fire in several months Monday at 1 p. m. at the old Leo Young residence in Plat E, which is now occupied by the Hollis Hullinger family. , 20 Years Ago Thursday, April 14, will be the 30th anniversary of the founding of the J. C. Penney Company, that being the data in 1902 when Mr. Penney opened op-ened the first store in the mining min-ing town of Kemmerer, Wyo., which, ultimately became the mother store of the present organization or-ganization now covering every state in the union with a chain of more than 1000 retail stores. Today noon, the uptown citizens citi-zens of Roosevelt were treated treat-ed to some real good band music mu-sic when our high school, dressed in their neat suits white trousers and blue jackets trimmed with gold paraded the streets. Band Leader Glenn M. Webb should be complimented upon rounding out a talented organization, organ-ization, and it is hoped that they win out in their division at the meet in Price, to be held April 14-16. LaVoyle Wilkins was pleasantly pleasant-ly surprised on her 15th birthday birth-day Sunday evening by her friends. The evening was spent in playing cards and games, with Floyd Smith receiving high honors. At the last meeting of the Book Club of the Extension Se--vice of ,the U.S.A.C.. Mrs. Beryl Mullins reported on the book "The White Monkey," by John Galsworthy. Mrs. Viola Harm-ston, Harm-ston, president of. the club, reports re-ports one more book review in the first series of books. |