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Show "News Bits About Yester-Years" ! 5 Years Ago A new city council was sworn in Monday, and pledged itself to support a policy of progressive progres-sive planning for Roosevelt. The city officers who took their oaths on Monday were: Homer P. Edwards, mayor; Steve Bei-lon, Bei-lon, 4-year councilman: Joe Harrison and Elmer Eldredge, 2-year councilmen; George Hacking, recorder, and Arnold Reef, treasurer. Norman Murphy, Mur-phy, 2-year councilman-elect, and E. J. Nixon, holdover councilman, coun-cilman, were out of town when the new city administration assumed as-sumed leadership on Monday. The organization of a University Univer-sity of Utah Alumni club for the Uintah Basin is underway, and tentative plans call for a Basin-wide get-together of former for-mer "U" students sometime in February. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Oldroyd were among those who extended hospitality on New Year's eve. Thev entertained Mr. and Mrs. Clair Larsen and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Roberts at a dinner and theatre party. The younger set of the Roosevelt Roose-velt Ward enjoyed a hilarious coasting party Tuesday evening, Dec. 20, when the male members mem-bers of the ward paid off for losing a ward-wide attendance contest. 10 Years Ago Sgt. Victor Woodward, son of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Woodward, Wood-ward, of Neola, has been home on a furlough. He is stationed 1 at Ft. Lewis, Washington. Clifford E. Young, assistant to the Council of the Twelvj of the LDS Church will be the principal speaker and will give the dedicatory prayer at tha dedication service's of the Ioka Ward chapel Sunday at on.; o'clock, Bishop Edwin Webb reports. Mayor George H. Harrison, of Roosevelt City, was installed as new president of the Utah State Municipal League at its installation instal-lation meeting held at the New-house New-house Hotel Monday evening, Jan. 4. The following newly elected officers of Duchesne county were sworn into office at 12 o'clock noon, Monday: J. Lamar Johnson, county clerk and L. J. Gilbert, as county commissioner, who replaced G. A. Goodrich and Lyle L. Young. Flovd Case, hold-over commissioner, was appointed ap-pointed to serve as chairman of the Board of Commissioners. 20 Years Ago Pledged to rigid economy, Henry H. Blood, of Kaysville, became Utah's seventh governor Monday. Melvin Allred, of Roosevelt, Utah, has entered a ten months old baby beef in the Ogden Livestock show. His calf is the one that won first place in the Future Farmers 4-H baby beef show held at Roosevelt in Sept. Chall Allred, of Roosevelt, is entering two Aberdeen Angus baby beeves at the show. Chall obtained his calves from Wil-ford Wil-ford Whitlock, of Leeton, Utah. Ted Allred, of Roosevelt, is entering a yearling Hereford I baby beef, also. These boys are the Mr. and Mrs. Horace Albli of Roosevelt, and are all 4-M pi01 members. L'ub Ted Harmston, who recem, met with a rather severe , y 1 dent, is getting along niCPi!c ; lhe DrWhitmore hospi |