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Show "News Bits About Yester-Years" 5 Years Ago Two representatives from the district OPA office in Salt Lake, Vera Coleman and Mr Sperry met in Roosevelt Tuesday with i local volunteer OPA workers. One of the feature discussions of the conference concerned the use of No. 4 ration book. Lions club officers from Roosevelt, Roos-evelt, Duchesne and Moon Lake in a move to bring about closer cooperation and a mutual understanding un-derstanding of existing local problems, met in Roosevelt Monday Mon-day night. Subjects of discussion discus-sion dealt with road construction construc-tion and improvement in Duchesne Du-chesne county, a new high school to serve Roosevelt and adjacent comunities, and a new county court house in Duchesne. The Sweetheart Ball was a success. The queen, Esther Wo-gec Wo-gec and attendants, Velma Todd and Betty Sprouse, were presented pre-sented with lovely corsages and the evening was enjoyed by everyone. ev-eryone. Word has been received that Kenneth E. Zirker, son of Mr and Mrs. John E. Zirker, of Myton, has just received his second commission and is now a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He is stationed at Pearl Harbor. 10 Years Ago Negotiations for purchase of 480 acres of land in Crescent Cove were completed Tuesday by a group of ranchers in that section including Ben G. Dye, A. C. Nelson, J. B. Lawson, Everett Ev-erett Lawson and E. J. Asay, who met with Duchesne county commissioners. 1 Mrs Ruth Haslem, of Jensen, I known throughout the state for her ability as a public speaker, will address a meeting of the American Legion auxiliary at the Legion barracks on Wednesday Wednes-day evening, March 12. Her subject sub-ject is Pan-Americanism. . Two new teams will make their bid for district championship champion-ship this week when winners and runners-up from both divisions di-visions of District No. 5 play 'off a round robin tournament at Vernal The two teams to win berths in the district tourney for 'the first time are the Longhorns (from Altamont high school in Duchesne county and Monticello in San Juan county. Altamont defeated Alterra Friday evening. 53-17. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Brighton, Brigh-ton, of Ballard, announce the i marriage of their daughter, I Ruth, to Albert Saari. of San 'Francisco, Calif. 20 Years Ago Mrs. Leslie Ashton, of Vernal, mother of C. L. Ashton, of Roosevelt, who for the past three months has been touring the world, writes the Standard telling of the terrible conditions existing in China. Mrs. Ashton expects to be back home the last of April or first of May. By virtue of winning both games played the past week with Central high and Blanding, the runners up from the other two divisions in this district, the Roosevelt boys are still in the race and the team is the dark horse team in the round robin. About 11:30 Saturday night the town of Myton was aroused by snouts of fire and three shots soon the bell rang. The water system had been out of commission commis-sion most of the winter, so there was very little water. Waugh's store was saved, but several other buildings were completely burned. There was some insurance, insur-ance, but not enough to cover teh damage, so it will be a great loss to the people of that community. com-munity. Officers for the newly organized organ-ized club, "Uintah Basin Associ- - 1 n 1 ation Game Clubs," were e g ed Saturday and are as foil -V J. V. McLea, Roosevelt i dent, Frank Siddoway Venv i vice-president; Mr. pope jj L, chesne, vice-president. ' j' |