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Show ftronological Account looking BacEiThrougEi The Year 1954 cnlTOR'S NOTE: Following brief, chronological account S h-t has happened in the of . ftvear. Not all the top stor-f stor-f L recorded, but some of ie5 major achievements are ' tinned in the hopes we will jS the progress in 1954. H-flJABV ! jiurphy, assistant manager , Commercial Bank of Utah, -evelt office, Monday was in-as in-as mayor of Roosevelt, two new councilmen, E. .,in Buchanan and Floyd R. rson, received their oaths of ?ce The ceremony was per-ied per-ied at high noon, with John lUertel, city justice of the e administering the oath of first to make his debut at the osevelt Hospital in 1954 was new arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Jensen, of Roosevelt. The je fellow made an appearance " Saturday, Jan. 2, at 9:36 a.m. .J weighed in at 7 lbs. 10 oz. answers to "Brad." Final rites were held on Tuesday Tues-day for Mrs. Josie Piah, 102 who is believed to be the oldest resident of this area, at the Ouray Community house t A "Save Echo Park" delegation consisting of twenty-nine men and women, representing all the people peo-ple in Duchesne and Uintah Counties, Coun-ties, are leaving this weekend for Washington, where they will participate par-ticipate in a special congressional hearing on the Upuer Colorado River project that has been given the nod of the Interior Department. Depart-ment. t Local police officers are still following up clues and leads in an effort to solve the Cash Meat Market safe-cracking robbery that took place early last Friday morning, morn-ing, Jan. 15. Reports from the police department indicate the job was a thorough one, as the yeggs did a complete job of peeling the safe and escaped with approximately approxi-mately $1200.00 in cash. Two sets of twins, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Mar Ross and Mr and Mrs. Shelby Gail Anderton, arrived at the Roosevelt L.D S Hospital Sunday, eight hours apart to make history. t ' Additional state aid authorized by the recent special session of the Legislature will total $15 529 or approximately $167 per distribution distri-bution unit in Duchesne School District, it was estimated this week by Utah Foundation. t FEBRUARY .... Mrs. Earl Timothy was voted the "Polio Mother" for Roosevelt for 1954 during the "Mothers' March on Polio" last Friday night. Announcement was made by Mayor May-or Paul Murphy at the basketball game. t The Roosevelt Parent-Teacher Association observed Founder's Day last Thursday evening at the Elementary School, by honoring past presidents and presenting a Founder's Day skit. Mrs. Mary Orser, who served as P-TA president in 1927, and who is nearly 91 years old, was present, and spoke briefly to the audience. Ten of the twelve past presidents residing in the community com-munity were present, including the following: Mrs. Orser, Mrs. C. L. Ashton, Mrs. Horace Allred, Mrs. Louie Galloway, Mrs. Paul Wilkins. Mrs. Ervin Wardle, Mrs. George Stewart, Mrs. Gilbert Mc-Kenna, Mc-Kenna, Mrs. Ned Bellon and Mrs. Cliff Memmott. t A new ward was formed in the Roosevelt stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, last Sunday, Feb. 7, and two existing wards were discontinued. According Accord-ing to President Hollis G. Hullin-ger, Hullin-ger, the Randlett and Leota wards were both discontinued and the membership joined together in the formation of the new Avalon ward, and Ralph Durfee was called call-ed and sustained as the new bishop, bish-op, with Calvin Jorgensen as his first counselor. Second counselor and ward clerk were not yet chosen. chos-en. t Boy Scout week in the Roosevelt Roose-velt District is being appropriately observed with various activities having been arranged to honor the boys and their leaders. Displays will be cited and awards given the Scout troops and the Guide patrols. pa-trols. t A Parent-Teacher Association was organized at Union High School Wednesday night, Feb. 17, with Mrs. Rex Curry, Roosevelt, elected president, Mrs. Elmer Hu-ber, Hu-ber, Lapoint, 1st vice-president; and Roy Adams, Ft. Duchesne, secretary-treasurer. The principal is automatically the second vice-president. vice-president. t Ten well-groomed basketball teams, representing five stakes and the Western States Mission, Church of Jesus Christ' of Latter-day Latter-day Saints, are all primed to open the second annual Sub-division, No. 14, M Men-Explorer basket- ball tournament at Union High School. The winning M Men team will enter the All-Church finals next month at the BYU fieldhouse. t Last Wednesday, Feb. 17, was a red letter day in the life of the Uintah Basin Telephone Association. Associa-tion. It was on this date the board of directors approved the first payment of $4,081.06 to the Rural Electrification Administration. It was over two years ago when the REA approved a loan of $449,000 to build the present telephone system now controlled by the UBTA, which includes approximately ap-proximately 750 telephones in the Basin, extending from Hanna to Ouray. t MARCH .... As the Idies of March approached ap-proached early Monday morning the membership of the L.D.S. church in Roosevelt, who constituted consti-tuted the two existing wards in Roosevelt, found themselves divided divid-ed in four wards and new officers sustained to preside oyer the four units of the church. John L. Swenson, W. Ralph Shields, Alva C. Snow and Merlin Mer-lin Sullivan were called as bishops to lead the four ward organizations. organiza-tions. The identity of the four new wards will be known as Roosevelt, Roosevelt Second, Roosevelt Third and Fourth. X Mrs. Alma L. Anderson, wife of the late Peter Anderson, was voted vot-ed the Uintah Basin District Mother Moth-er to represent this area in Salt Lake City in the near future, where the Utah Mother will be selected to travel to New York to vie for the honor of The American Mother. t Honor came to two Union High School girls the past week as Miss Barbara Ray was declared the winner in the Regional American Legion Oratorical contest held at Provo on Monday. Miss Ray previously pre-viously had placed second in the Basin Post 64 and District No. 9 1 contest, entering the Provo finals as runner-up to Miss Renae El-dredge, El-dredge, who won the $25.00 savings sav-ings bond two weeks ago in the local post finals, and last week was declared the winner in the finals of District 9. t Information received from Washington yesterday as reported by B. H. Stringham, state Senator from Vernal, and the "Boost Echo Park Dam" committee from the Uintah Basin, indicate the fight for the Upper Colorado River projects as now being considered, is still boiling and greater support of the program is sorely needed. t Miss Nancy Todd, A3c, who enlisted in the Women's Air Force in November, is now stationed at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, where she has been assigned to the radio technician department. j. i President and Mrs. Ray E. Dill-man, Dill-man, who were recently "released as presiding authorities over the Western States Mission, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-dayy Saints, have returned to their home in Roosevelt. They have served approximately 4l2 years, having assumed their duties in October, 1949, with headquarters at Denver. t President Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisenhow-er last Saturday came out foursquare four-square for the Upper Colorado storage project including $176 million mil-lion for Echo Park Dam and $231 million for completion of the Central Cen-tral Utah project. -i. J. x i APRIL Members of the Ute Indian Tribe Recreational Department got themselves. all daubed up with war paint and attired in their native costumes as they prepared to enter en-ter their first AAU boxing tournament tour-nament in Salt Lake City. . . Directing Di-recting the boys who gave a good account of themselves in their ; first encounter was Ray Summers, personable tribal recreational director. di-rector. t A new American Legion Auxiliary Aux-iliary unit, No. 126, has been organized at Ft. Duchesne, its first meeting has been held, and officers elected to carry on the affairs of the group. Officers elected were: president, Lena Sixkiller; first vice-president, Thelma Iorg; 2nd vice-president. Flora Cuch; secretary, Violet Par-riette; Par-riette; treasurer, Josephine Cuch; chaplain, Ada Zufelt. t New officers were elected during dur-ing the past few days by the two major parties in Roosevelt City, and delegates named to the forthcoming forth-coming county conventions. The Republicans met last Friday at the American Legion Barracks and selected Howard Harrison as their city chairman, and Monday the Democrats selected John Zup-ko Zup-ko as their chairman at the Frontier Fron-tier Grill Cafe. t In a surprise move on Wednesday, Wednes-day, March 31, the Ute Tribe in general conference at Fort Duchesne, Du-chesne, passed a resolution declaring declar-ing the policy of the Congress and the Department of Interior should be to terminate as soon as possible possi-ble the supervision of the Federal Government over the property and affairs of the Indian Tribes. The resolution declared that the mixed bloods of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation are better prepared, educationally and otherwise, to assume as-sume full responsibility of citizenship citizen-ship than the full-bloods. t Despite the continuous attempted attempt-ed stall of the opponents of the (Continued on page 4) Looking Back . . . (Continued from Page 3) Echo Park Dam who tried in the Monday test meeting of the House Irrigation Sub-Committee to delete de-lete Echo Park from the initial phase, the committee voted 12 to 5 against the amendment. t Kenneth Aycock, manager of the Uintah Power & Light Co. of Roosevelt and Duchesne, last week was elected chairman of the Duchesne Du-chesne County Republican Central Committee, replacing J. V. McLea. t Announcement is made this week that Dr. Dan Dennis, of Idaho Ida-ho Falls, will arrive in Roosevelt soon to take over the veterinary practice of Dr. Wesley R. Peterson. Peter-son. t Elmer Yergensen, Myton dairy farmer, and active civic and Farmers' Union leader, was elected elect-ed last Saturday by Duchesne County Democrats to succeed Bennie Schmiett as the party chairman for the next two years. f Clarence Allred was recently installed in-stalled as commander of the Roosevelt American legion Basin Post No. 64, having been elected early this month to succeed Rae Scholes, who was chosen as . adjutant. ad-jutant. t MAY - - - - The House Irrigation Sub-Committee Monday passed the billion dollar Upper Colorado River Storage Stor-age project by a vote of 12 to 9, to cross the first big hurdle in the test that might see a western dream come true. t George W. Walkup, employee of the U. S. Forest Department for thirty-five years, retired from service on April 30, and will devote de-vote the rest of his life to operating oper-ating his ranch on Farm Creek above Whiterocks. Funeral services were held in Salt Lake City, Thursday, May 6, for Dr. Philo T. Farnsworth, 53, principal of the Altamont High and Elementary schools, who died Monday at 5:15 p.m in a Salt Lake hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. t Mrs. Tina Wilkins was elected president of District No. 9 of the American Legion Auxiliary at the district convention held in Jensen Jen-sen Sunday, May 2nd. t Four Basin high schools prepared pre-pared graduation programs, with Duchesne leading the parade of graduates on Tuesday, followed by Tabiona on Wednesday, Altamont Alta-mont on Thursday, and Union on Friday, May 21. t Union High School senior girls were complimented at a beautifully beauti-fully appointed tea Monday evening eve-ning at the Howard Harrison residence, resi-dence, given by the Roosevelt Business and Professional Women's Wo-men's Club. Approximately eighty-five eighty-five guests called. t The Duchesne County Board of Education at their last monthly meeting held May 11, accepted the resignation of Dean C. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen as superintendent of the District he has served the past four years. No successor has been named by the board. t It was a close "shave," but the Upper Colorado Storage and Development De-velopment bill was approved last Tuesday by the House Committee ond Interior and Insular Affairs by the vote of 13 to 12. The bill includes the controversial Echo Park Dam and the Central Utah Projeot. t f Two Roosevelt women were injured in-jured last Sunday afternoon, when the ambulance they were driving blew a tire, careened 180 feet and struck a concrete bridge near the Alma Wills home on the Neola highway. Mrs. Elsie May Bearid was taken to the St. Mark's Hospital, Hos-pital, suffering a compound fracture frac-ture of the left leg and internal injuries. Mrs. Opal Dillman was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital, where she was treated for shock and cuts and bruises. t Young Roland Miles, sort of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Miles of Mt. Home, was announced winner of a purebred pure-bred Hereford calf he won last week at the Altamont Junior Livestock Show. Presenting the calf was the Uintah Farmers' Union Un-ion Cooperative Association, Mill and Service divisions. t JUNE At a reorganization meeting of the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, held Tuesday, June 1, Howard How-ard Harrison, manager of the Roosevelt and Uinta Theatres, was elected president for the ensuing fiscal year that begins July 1st. He succeeds Dr. Paul Stringham, who has served since the resignation resigna-tion of Paul Murphy last November. Novem-ber. t Seven girls from Roosevelt and surrounding areas will have the privilege of attending Girls' State, to be held in Logan on June 6th. They include Deanne Asay, sponsored spon-sored by the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 64; Barbara Ray, sponsored by Socialette Club; Marion Gardner, sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 126, Fort Duchesne, Women's Club and Alterra P-TA; Alyce Smith and Sally Burgess, sponsored spon-sored by the Myton Legion Auxiliary, Aux-iliary, Unit 5; Carma Jean Hansen, Han-sen, sponsored by the Altamont Auxiliary, Unit 53; and Maurine Allred, sponsored by Culture Club. t Mrs. Mary Rogers Orser observed ob-served her 91st birthday last Thursday, May 27, when approxi mately twenty friends called during dur-ing the afternoon to offer congratulations. con-gratulations. ' t Mrs. Adelyn Logan was elected treasurer of the State Business and Professional Women's Club at the state convention, held at Provo, June 4th, 5th and 6th. Attending At-tending from the Roosevelt Club were: Mrs. Logan, Lenore Hutch-ings, Hutch-ings, Wanda Riggle, Veda Jensen, Virgie Murphy, Ellen Rawlings and Jessie Orser. t Announcements were made this week by Harold and Opal Dillman and Joseph E. Olpin that the lat- ter had purchased the assets and I good will of the Dillman Mortuary, Mor-tuary, and that the latter company com-pany would cease to operate as funeral directors in the Uintah Basin. t I Cinemascope technique with panoramic screen will be installed 1 in the Roosevelt Theatre this week announced Howard Harrison, manager. man-ager. "The Robe," the first picture pic-ture produced in CinamaScope, will play at th Roosevelt Theatre starting Tuesday, June 22, for one week. t June 24, 25 and 26 will find upwards up-wards of two hundred and twenty-five twenty-five Scouts and Explorers camped on top of the world at East Canyon Can-yon (30 miles north of Vernal). They will be participating in the 1954 Uintah Basin Conservation Camporee. t A Provo contractor, Witt Construction Con-struction Co., was awarded the general contract on the Altamont High School building by the Board of Education of Duchesne County, with sub-contracts for plumbing and heating, and electrical work, going to Leland Stevenson of Altamont, Al-tamont, and Max Allred of Duchesne. Du-chesne. t Donald Ford, about 32, Cedar City, Utah, was killed instantly when the light plane he was flying, fly-ing, crashed near the Howard Roberts Rob-erts farm in Pleasant Valley, south of Myton, at approximately 6 a.m. this morning, June 24. t Two members of the Council of Twelve, Spencer W. Kimball and Richard L. Evans, Tuesday night officiated at the dedication of the newly built Randlett LDS chapel, which will be used especially as a place of worship for the Uintah Basin Indian Mission. In a surprise bit of business, James E. Bacon, Roosevelt, who has served since the of the Uintah Basin ffl5 s.on m 1948 as presWem an leased, and Forrest r"', rt Tridell was Place Counselors to " k (Continued on p" !j- Looking Back . . . (Continued from page 4) mission president are Devon McKee, Tridell, and Lionel Jensen, jjeola. f ' JULY ffillard S. (Bill) Murdock, past District 9 and Basin Post 64 commander, com-mander, last week was honored at L Utah Department convention veld in Ogden, when he was chos- n second vice-commander, 'pother Roosevelt civic worker, K!rS irma Sutteer, past District 9 Auxiliary president, received recognition rec-ognition when she was elected 2nd i-e-president of the Utah America Ameri-ca Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. Tina H'ilkins was installed president of District 9, and chosen a delegate to the National Convention. The Utah Department chose Cark Cheney, Kaysville, as their neff commander to replace another anoth-er Roosevelt Legionnaire, William Sutteer, who also is a member of Basin Post 64. t Miss Joan Wash, daughter of j Mr. and Mrs. Neil Grant, of Fort j Duchesne, was chosen "Miss Ute Tribe of 1954" at a celebration ! held last Saturday, June 26. Junior Jun-ior Cuch was named the "Brave of 1954." Glen Appawoo of White-rocks, White-rocks, was named the outstanding dancer of the Tribal War Dance; Rufus Starr of Whiterocks, the "Junior Brave of 1954," and Mrs. Grigs?'110"' "MrS- Ute Tribe t The American Legion, Wm R Sands, Post No. 5, at Myton, ?s sponsonng two boys to Boys' State, which will convene at Camp Williams July nth. The boys are Hha,d Fenn. sn of Mr and Mrs. Aldon Fenn, and Gerald Giles' f Mr" 3nd Mrs- Don From Roosevelt and surrounding surround-ing areas planning to attend are: Haslem, Lynn Forakis, Norman Nor-man Hanson, Gordon Eldredge, Mark Neilson, Charles Bartlett, Fred Riding, Dale Womack, Ruben Brodenck, Howard Andrews, Kenneth Ken-neth Anderton, Ray Labrum, Dick Weiss, Golden Heed and Richard Durfee. t Duchesne and Uintah Counties were among the few areas in Utah that are menaced by an infestation infesta-tion of grasshoppers that threaten i to destroy 16,000 to 20,000 acres of hay and pasture land in the Neola-Hayden vicinity. Accohring to Robert Murdock, county agent, and A. Hale Holgate, Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural Department representative representa-tive in the Basin, plans were underway un-derway immediately to spray approximately ap-proximately 8,000 acres of land t Miss Maurine Yack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yack, of Roosevelt, was selected as the Queen to reign over the 1954 UBIC festivity. Named as attendants atten-dants were Miss Maria Pulos, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Pulos, and Miss Shirley Harmon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross I Harmon of Myton. Another July 24th celebration made history last Saturday when large groups assembled at the City Park to enjoy the day's activities. acti-vities. Prizes for the parade were announced as follows: Floats 1st Roosevelt Second ward Relief Sc ciety; 2nd, Ioka ward; 3rd, Roosevelt Roose-velt 3rd ward MIA; honorable mention, Montwel; best decorated bicycle, Tanna Krissman; best decorated buggy, Joan Dickerson; best character, Duane Perrv t AUGUST Miss Barbara Ray, of Fort Duchesne, Du-chesne, was crowned Dairy Darling Dar-ling to reign over the Dairy Day of the 1954 UBIC in Roosevelt. Chosen as attendants to Miss Ray were Miss Janet Stevens, Roosevelt, Roose-velt, and Miss Joy Oaks, Vernal. t Beautiful girls, beautiful floats and pleasant weather -featured the opening parade on Wednesday morning as the 1954 Uintah Basin Industrial Convention got underway under-way in Roosevelt. t Mrs. Clarence (Sara) White, of Tabiona, has been named co-chairman co-chairman for the Democratic State Convention to be held in Ogden at the White City ballroom on Saturday, Aug. 7. t John Frey, 59-year-old hiker from Switzerland, is walking from New York to San Francisco, every inch of the way. He stopped at the Basin Record office for a chat Monday morning. He is a jolly little fellow who carries a pack that is almost as big as he is, and a sign, "Please, No Lift, Walking Walk-ing to San Francisco." Chosen as the most outstanding float in the UBIC parade last i week was the "Wheel of Pro- i gress," made and entered by the Roosevelt Second LDS ward. The winning commercial float was entered en-tered by the Uintah Freight Lines, and best novelty float was entered enter-ed by Cash Meat Market. t Talent show winners included Shirley Ann McConkie, of Mt. Emmons, who was judged first in the junior division. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyrad McConkie and played a piano solo. In the senior division, a new comer to Roosevelt from Ogden, Russell Nielson's baritone solo, "My Friend," gained the favor of the judges. t Two pre-school events have been scheduled for the Duchesne School District personnel. The opening op-ening activity for the term is a Sunday evening service, scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. on Sept 5, at the Duchesne chapel, reports Supt. Rowan C. Stutz. f t John W. Benson, star athlete at Union High School, becomes the first member of the newly-formed Roosevelt Fourth ward to be called call-ed to fill a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. t The U. S. Senate put off action on Friday night, Aug. 20, at least until early next year when they reassemble in the 84th congressional congres-sional session, on a bill to authorize author-ize the $1.5 billion Colorado River Riv-er Storage Project, which included includ-ed the controversial Echo Park damsite. SEPTEMBER Anthon B. Christensen, Du- . i i chesne County Farm and Home Administration supervisor, has been chosen as president of the 1955 Uintah Basin Industrial Convention, Con-vention, following an election held last Friday evening at the Roosevelt Roose-velt City Park. He will succeed Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Yergensen, who served the present year, and who will automatically become honorary vice-president. t The City of Duchesne has spread wide the welcome mat as they prepare to play host to the Duchesne County Fair that officially of-ficially opens tonight, Sept. 2, at 8 p.m. with the annual Miss Duchesne Du-chesne County contest. t Miss Maura Hurley, whose talent tal-ent presentation was a creative dance number, won the "Miss Duchesne" Du-chesne" title last Thursday night at the county contest held a the Duchesne stake center. Selected to reign over the fair with Miss Hurley Hur-ley were Miss Shere Henrie, first attendant, who played a piano solo; and Miss Joyce Londgren, second attendant, who sang a vocal vo-cal solo. t Three girls from the FHA Club at Union High School, entered articles ar-ticles in the Woolgrowers' contest held in Vernal. According to Myrtle Myr-tle Lambert, FHA adviser, Peggy Goodrich of Tridall was judged first place winner in the senior division on her wool dress entry; and Polly McConkie, also of Tridell, Tri-dell, won a second place rating in the junior division on a coat. i A surprising announcement was made Monday by Ezra J. Nixon, manager of the Roosevelt J. C. Penney Company since Feb., 1944, that effective Oct. 1 he was re tiring from the company and that a temporary successor had been appointed to take his place. Merlin Mer-lin Hayes, former assistant manager man-ager of the Price store will arrive to replace Mr.. Nixon. t Miss Marian Gardner was chosen chos-en Harvest Ball Queen Wednesday as a result of votes cast by the Union High School studentbody. t OCTOBER Official action was taken on the proposed curb, gutter and sidewalk Monday evening at the city council meeting, is an announcement an-nouncement made by Mayor Paul Murphy. He also reported a sewer project for the northwest part of the city was approved by the council. t Last week Paul Murphy, Utah National Parks Council vice-president; James E. Bacon, Roosevelt district chairman; Ted Olpin, finance fi-nance chairman, and Merlin Kill-pack, Kill-pack, of the advancement committee, commit-tee, returned from the Council an nual meeting in Provo, where they learned that Scouting is paying dividends. t Returns on the Duchesne Agricultural Agri-cultural Stabilization and Conservation Conser-vation county committee election held in Roosevelt on Sept. 21, shows that Joseph Wilcken, of Roosevelt, was elected chairman; Alfred S. Goodrich of Bluebell, vice-chairman, and William R. Peatross of Duchesne a member. Alma Wills of Roosevelt and Linden Lin-den Hansen of Altamont were elected as alternates. -L. X A 1 Last Friday's devastating hail storm that hit the Roosevelt area not only did thousands of dollars worth of damage to the crops, homes and buildings, but pounded two airplanes at the Roosevelt airport, air-port, causing approximately $2000 worth of damage to the top of the planes. t Dr. Henry Aldous Dixon, new candidate of the Republican party for the office of congressman from the First District, will replace Rep. Douglas R. Stringfellow, who resigned as a candidate after admitting ad-mitting that his story of wartime exploits was a hoax. t Don B.. Nielson, former Unit conservationist for the Soil Conservation Con-servation Service in the Roosevelt area, who recently purchased a farm in the Ballard district, last night was chosen to lead the Roosevelt Kiwanis Club during 1955 as president. NOVEMBER The first attempt to bring a Civil Defense orientation school to the Uintah Basin will be realized next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Nov. 10, 11 and 12, when a full program of education is to be presented to the people of Duchesne Du-chesne County and Western Uintah Uin-tah County. B. A. (Jake) Jacoby of Duchesne is Duchesne County chairman, and Mrs. C. L. Ashton, Roosevelt, is county chairwoman for Civil Defense. f The Cougars of Union High School last Friday finished out its regular grid season among the few undefeated high school teams in the state, as they got by a surprising Moab team 18-14. It was the final Region Five game and moves the twice successive champions into another quarterfinal quarter-final game next Friday with Millard Mil-lard at Fillmore. -4- -- For the first time in the history j of the Union High School they have been given a seat on the Region Five Utah Activities Association As-sociation board, with the appointment appoint-ment of Principal L. F. Hutchings, who is also secretary of the board. t Special awards were cade at the Roosevelt 4-H Achievement program during October have been listed by Duchesne County Extension Exten-sion workers, Mary Lois Reichert and Robert S. Murdock. The two five-year leadership pin awards were presented to Nadene Ottosen and Delight Andrews of Roosevelt, both clothing club leaders. lead-ers. Gale Larsen of Arcadia was awarded the Achievement medal for all-over 4-H achievement during dur-ing the year. . 4 ' Thirty men have enlisted in the armed forces from Duchesne County since the first of the year, according to Mrs. Vangee D. Mor-rell, Mor-rell, clerk of the Selective Service board of Duchesne. t Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woodward Wood-ward of Roosevelt observed their Golden Wedding anniversary Sunday, Sun-day, Nov. 21, with an open house celebration at their home, when approximately 75 guests called. t Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Olin Sol-omonson, Sol-omonson, Roosevelt, pioneer resi- (Continued on page 6) Looking Back ... (Continued from page 5) dents of the Uintah Basin, recently recent-ly observed their fifty-fifth wedding wed-ding anniversary, Nov. 8, with members of their family calling to wish them well. t Duchesne County taxpayers' total to-tal bill this year is nearly $100,-000 $100,-000 less than the 1953 taxes charge to the treasurer for collection. collec-tion. This year's total amount charged to the treasurer is $315,-201.17, $315,-201.17, compared with $408,-780.52 $408,-780.52 last year. t While the Chest X-ray Mobile Unit and Blood Testing Survey were in Duchesne County, Nov. 8, 9, and 10, 2,068 persons were examined. ex-amined. t Effective Dec. 1st the Uintah Basin began receiving an additional addition-al mail service between Salt Lake and Vernal. Linck Trucking Co. of Myton will make the extra pick-up and delivery of mail to various towns in the Basin. t Rulon Dean Skinner, new Field Scout Executive for the Uintah Basin, arrived in Roosevelt last Monday to replace Carl Holley, who has been transferred to Richfield. Rich-field. t Rex Curry and Supt. Rowan C. Stutz, co-chairmen of the mental health committee recently set up in Duchesne County, called a meeting Wednesday, Nov. 24. i ' ' i Dates from Dec. 6 to in 1 up to conduct meetiWit communities in fte , iC , which time speaker C?bO Utah State Depa , i will assist in organSl f HJllh ' Plaining the mega 7 S , gram. nalth Pro. p |