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Show "News Bils About Yesier-Yars" 5 YEARS AGO At 8:30 p.m. tonight a Chamber of Commerce for Roosevelt will be organized when all business and professional, men of the community com-munity assemble at the Elementary Elemen-tary school in a mass meeting to elect a board of governors, approve ap-prove by-laws and discuss projects pro-jects that tshoultf . serve as the inspiration behind the organization. organiza-tion. A total of 475 students from western Uintah and eastern Du chesne counties have registered, and Wednesday were going through the school program at Union High, with additional enrollment en-rollment of students expected to incresae the total for the school's first year to over 500. Another first in the life of Union High School will unfold into in-to the pages of history tomorrow afternoon at 1:15 p.m. when their nameless football team will be hosts to a visiting grid eleven from Pleasant Grove in the first football game ever played at Union High School. 10 YEARS AGO The Bureau of Reclamation has indicated that the construction of Echo Park Dam shall be among the first on the list of projects to be built. Utah should be prepared pre-pared with all data end every possible argument in favor of this j, dam which appears to be the key project for the development of power on the Colorado river within with-in the upper basin, advises William Wil-liam R. Wallace, president of the Utah Water Users Association. Duchesne County's first polio case of the year was reported this week when it was reported that Mary Ann Rodgers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rodgers of Mt. Emmons had contracted the dreaded disease. The first Teen Age dance of the season at Vict6ry Park last Wednesday Wed-nesday evening went over with a bang with teenagers from all parts, of the basin on hand to take part. Winners of the shoe dance were Cloyd Kump of Alterra, the boy with the biggest feet, and Isabel 1 Wall of Roosevelt, the girl with the Littlest feet. W YEARS AGO That the Indians of the Uintah-Ouray Uintah-Ouray reservation keep well a-breast a-breast of the times is displayed in the remarkable exhibits of agriculture ag-riculture products such as canning cooking, sewing, health, flowers, ect, on display in the exhibit buildings at Fort Duchesne. The display's are much more elaborate and on a larger scale than last years. The building of a double tennis court in the city park, a WPA project sponsored by the Business and Professional Woman's club, which has been hanging fire since last May has finally been given definite approval and Mr. Bev-ridge Bev-ridge of Provo, district WPA director di-rector has promised that if all necessary papers are returned to his office Thursday, work will begin on the courts next Monday. Mrs. Russel Harrison of Neola was badly- injured 'last Thursday evening when she was knocked down and trampled on by a bull. Mrs. Harrison and children were doing chores on the farm yard when she was attacked. Due to her weakened condition from a recent illness she was unable to keep out of the bulls way and did not receive help until she was seriously hurt. " |