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Show "News Bits About Yesler-Years" 5 YEARS AGO Helen Hemphill will represent the Wm. R. Sands Unit No. 50, American Legion Auxiliary, of My-ton, My-ton, at Girls' State, to be held on the USAC campus from June 21 to July 1. She was a junior student at Alterra High School during the year just ended. Seven graduating seniors from the Roosevelt High School have been selected for college scholarships scholar-ships to the three senior colleges and two of the state's junior colleges. col-leges. According to LaMont Nielson, chairman of the scholarship committee, com-mittee, Miss Jean McClellan, valedictorian val-edictorian of the 1951 class, was the winner of the USAC scholarship. scholar-ship. The University of Utah accepted ac-cepted the application of Rawlin Spencer; and the two students, Maurine Gilbert and Alta Jackson, are the recipients of the two scholarships presented by the BYU at Provo. Don Horrocks was awarded the Carbon College scholarship at Price and Joe Reidhead, Jr. gained a like honor from Dixie College at St. George. Richard Hurley, class salutatorian, gained the Burgess Bur-gess Foundation scholarship. Douglas Labrum, who was rushed rush-ed to the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake a week ago last Sunday, returned re-turned home with his parents, Monday and is reported recuperating recuper-ating from an operation. 10 YEARS AGO The Altamont Livestock Show held Friday, May 17, at the Altamont Alta-mont rodeo grounds, was acclaimed acclaim-ed by its sponsors as being the most successful in the event's four year history. Members of the 4-H and FFA Clubs throughout the state will receive 12 live calves as special awards, contributed by outstanding outstand-ing cattlemen throughout the state, in addition to $3,000 in special awards, nearly $1,000 in cash and merchandise as extra awards, and nearly $200,000 in sales money at the Intermountain Junior Fat Stock Show, Merrill Perkins, show manager man-ager has announced. Quality calves are being con- tributed by Bert Lusty, Duchesne and H. L. Allred, Roosevelt. Long discussed plans to organize a community band have materialized material-ized at last and steps are being taken to call a group together for rehearsal, according to Johnny Cook, one of the instigators of the band idea. Lending interest to nuptial news this week is the announcement of the marriage of Miss Erma Sutton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Sutton of Mapleton, Illinois, and Frank Malnar, son of Mrs. Mary Malnar of Neola. ?fi YEARS AGO Wednesday at 10 a.m. Wasatch Academy held its sixty-first annual an-nual exercises. Many students from the Uintah Basin attended the Academy this year, and those graduating were Ruth Nell Dart of Myton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Dart;, Gordon Harm- ston, Roosevelt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Harmston;, and Keith Lambert, Roosevelt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Parley Lambert. Gordon Harmston, a local boy, has certainly made good at the Academy during his four years, walked away" with many awards and honors. He tied for valedictorian valedic-torian of his class. Miss" Evelyn Ashton and Miss Marilyn Whitmore of Roosevelt, both students of the academy, took part in the piano recital given giv-en at the school during commencement commence-ment week. . Elmo Nelson and Theron Lambert, Lam-bert, Roosevelt, and Thoral B. Larson, Randlett, will be members of the largest graduating class in the history of Brigham Young University, Un-iversity, which will receive degrees de-grees at the 60th commencement on June 10th. The Vernal league baseball team will cross bats with the Roosevelt team as a feature game during the afternoon of the sportsmen's riot, June 7th. |