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Show "News Bits About Yesler-Yearg" 5 Years Ago James Lloyd, Ioka rancher, has been appointed to the Duchesne Du-chesne county Board of Com-jmissioners Com-jmissioners to fill the unexpired j i term of Willaid A. Day, who ! resigned, effective July 1, to take over his new duties as a member of the State Road Com-! Com-! mission. I Rose Marie Brokaw. daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Brokaw, Bro-kaw, of Myton, is one of 24 i girls from high schools in Utah, , Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming entered en-tered in the Ogden Pioneer Days Sweetheart contest to be held in Ogden, July 12. j A visit of 1C0 Salt Lake City civic and business leaders on what the Salt Lake City Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce has termed, I "a tour of Uintah Basin oil and mining boom towns," is scheduled sched-uled to start from Utah's capitol city at 7:30 a. m. July 12. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Wogec, of Roosevelt, announce the engagement en-gagement of their daughter, Wil-ma, Wil-ma, to Ted M. Campbell, son of Mrs. Louisa Campbell, of Roosevelt, 10 Years Ago James Dalgleish, of Myton, was elected commander of district dis-trict No. 5 of the American Legion Le-gion at the annual district convention, con-vention, held Sunday in Duchesne. Du-chesne. A series of suppers similar to. those of last summer which proved so popular, will be held in the Roosevelt ward hall each I Friday for eight consecutive Fridays, Fri-days, beginning July 11. All proceeds will go toward the completion of the Roosevelt hospital. hos-pital. A new Adams No. 8 road maintainer was purchased from me iang company of Salt Lake City by Duchesne county last week for the sum of $li20.00, it was announced by the Duchesne Du-chesne county commissioners in session Tuesday. I The newly completed $9,000 I L.D.S. chapel at Bluebell was j dedicated in ceremonies Sun-I Sun-I day in connection with Moon Lake stake quarterly conference. confer-ence. Joseph Merrill of the Council of Twelve Apostles dedicated the building. Mr. and Mrs. Axel Birch, their daughter, Carol, and Fletcher Learning, of Moab, returned Sunday evening after spending-' two weeks in the Canadian Rockies near Alberta, Canada. 20 Years Ago The Roosevelt Lions club elected the following officers and directors for the next year at their banquet held Thursday evening: C L. Ashton, president; Dr. Robert Q. Warnock, first vice president; Ray E. Dillman, second sec-ond vice president; Chas. Albright, Al-bright, Lion Tamer; W. H. Rup-pel, Rup-pel, Jr., Tail Twister; J. V. McLea Mc-Lea and Marrell Wilkins, directors direc-tors for term qf two years; Homer Hom-er P. Edwards, secretary; Lyle Reynolds, treasurer; Ray S. Jordan Jor-dan and Luke Clegg, hold-over directors. The first inter-golf club tournament tourn-ament played on the Roosevelt course came up to the finals on Wednesday, July 1, when Fish Wardle won out over C. L. Ashton, with a 4-up, placing himself in the final bracket. Tuesday afternoon, J, H. Harrison Harri-son played a brilliant game with R. Howard Harrison, with a 7-up, 7-up, placing himself in the final bracket. C. L. Ashton is credited with the best score of the tournament, tourna-ment, a 92 in his first round of play, with J. H. Harrison next with a 94, and Fish Wardle a very close third with a 95. CHEER UP, BASIN FOLKS We should consider ourselves among the more fortunate ones in the entire United States, or, in fact, in the whole world And we'll tell you why! Last week was the breaking point of the depression in the Uintah Basin when the news broke telling tell-ing us that the state and federal fed-eral governments had decided to construct the Moon Lake water storage project, which will cost in round numbers about $1,200,000. i |