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Show "News Bits About Yester-Years" 5 YEARS AGO Blaine Elmer, of Alterra High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ray-mond Elmer, RFD, Roosevelt, won second place in the recent state essay contest on "Hire the Handicapped, Handi-capped, It's Good Business," according ac-cording to an announcement this week by the Governor's committee commit-tee on National Employment of the Physically Handicapped Week. Miss Jean McClellan, of Roosevelt; Roose-velt; Miss Eleanor Hackford of Alterra, and Miss Velma Brum-mett Brum-mett of Myton, have been chosen to represent this area in the fourth annual Utah Girls' State, to be held June 25-July 2 in Logan. The Roosevelt stake players, ably directed by Mattie J. Edwards, Ed-wards, gave a creditable performance perform-ance Friday night of a serious production, pro-duction, "The Magnificant Obsession." Obses-sion." Members of the cast included in-cluded LaRue Nixon, Randall Stewart, Ellen Rawlings, Virginia Burton, Jimmy Lewis, Bob Andrews, An-drews, Vere Johnson, Carma Win-terton, Win-terton, George Stewart, Marge Crittenden, John Gilbert and Colleen Col-leen Rasmussen. Mr. and Mrs. Axel Birch left this week on a vacation trip to New Mexico, Texas and other southwestern states. Dr. and Mrs. Vere Johnson are the parents of a 9 lb. 6 oz. daughter, daugh-ter, born May 7 at the Roosevelt Hospital. 10 YEARS AGO Louis Uresk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Uresk of Myton, was named valedictorian of the Roosevelt Roose-velt High School class of 1945, at a recent faculty meeting. Reta Hutcheon of Neola won 2nd honors, hon-ors, and will represent her class as salutatorian at the annual graduation grad-uation exercises on May 18. Miss Hutcheon is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hutcheon of Neola. Germany's once mighty land, air and sea forces, now humbled, defeated and largely destroyed after five years and eight months of war, surrendered unconditionally uncondition-ally to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhow-er, supreme commander of the allied al-lied expeditionary force, and the Soviet high command in a grimy room of a French industrial school at Reims, Monday morning. More than 150 sportsmen and sportswomen of Roosevelt and vicinity, vi-cinity, were entertained at the meeting held in the American Legion Leg-ion barracks, Friday evening, May 4, where Lee Kay, publicity director di-rector of the State Fish and Game Commission presented his latest films. Commisisoner George H. Harrison Harris-on conducted the meeting and complimented the local organizations organiza-tions on their cooperation with the state commisison. He then presented Mrs. Ellen Rawlings, president of the Women's Fish and Game Club of Rosevelt, who explained that the club had been actively organized since 1936, at which time Mrs. Violet Harrison was its first president. 20 YEARS AGO Upon opening for business early Tuesday morning, Elroy Wilkins, head of the Wilkins & Sons firm of this city, discovered the store had been broken into and considerable consid-erable merchandise hauled away. Officers in the case are of the opinion that the job was done by local culprits and their theory was strengthened when they were informed that the same night the Roosevelt High School was broken into, with the loss of candy and one gun. Now that definite dates have ben set for the fifth annual Roosevelt Roos-evelt Fish and Game Clubs "Sportsmen's Riot," which will be held in the usual place, the Big Park in Uinta Canyon, Saturday night, June 1st, and Sunday, June 2nd, all committees are hard are hard at work, under the direction of entertainment chairman, M. E. Lundberg, shaping up one of the best programs of its kind ever to be staged in eastern Utah. |