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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1947
Page
2
Fragmented ad style text extols savings bonds and patriotism. Mentions Senator Fulbright and a call for less secret methods of destruction. The garbled copy hints at a public savings program and national defense themes with vague promises and cheerful performance.
Vintah high school students dominated the region business skills meet held last Friday at Price. About 35 VHS participants earned top spots across bookkeeping typewriting and shorthand events, with multiple students from Uintah Monticello and Roosevelt securing first and second places.
Albert Dinell a foundry foreman watched five of his children wed in a triple ceremony in Corapolis. Lawrence 25 and Yolanda Loretta wed in Corapolis, Joseph 23 to Antoinette Meyers also of Corapolis, and Virginia 21 to Albert Dalenzie of Bewickley. The Dinell clan planned a joint honeymoon to New York with a 400 guest open house and an orchestra. Remaining children aged 4 to 19 were listed, along with regional forensic contest qualifiers and extemporaneous speakers from Uintah and Carbon counties.
The passage cites Congressmen Fogarty and Taft discussing shared duties and public works with Burma references. It oddly lists Burmese cities Rangoon Mandalay and Moulmein and notes colonial governance. A ragged note mentions air routes and islands in the South Pacific and a statement about Americans lacking health facilities.
An 11 year old, taught by his friend Thomas R. Merritt of Brewer, tries a telephone for the first time. They discuss inventor Alexander Graham Bell, born a century ago, calling him a right amateur figure. The piece also mentions winter fuel use and a Congress member Michener quote on veterans.
The forest service announced that serial spraying of infested pine plantations in Wisconsin and Michigan national forests achieved better than 0 percent kill of the spidabug. Two planes were used to spray 2,400 acres, tackling native and nonnative trees across the states.
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