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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1957
Page
15
Shalluintah County Utah incur debt and issue bonds of four hundred thousand dollars for up to twenty years at four percent interest to pay for public buildings site furnishings and equipment. Voting hours 2:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Polling places and judges listed for District No 1 Jensen.
In Holiday Magazine May issue Wal lace Stegner portrays Great Salt Lake as “the world’s strangest sea.” He notes its rise since 1940, ghost like towns, and a Southern Pacific route as best access. He describes Little Valley camps, conveyor rock supply for a lake crossing trestle, a double tracked line, and a famed tourist lure despite harsh terrain.
The fragment lists Harold Mud and Chemicals alongside Timbers Thermoid Drilk ing Supplies and Construction firms as part of an inconclusive industry naming sequence. The readable text appears as a stray enumeration of company names without an identifiable event or outcome.
Probate and guardianship notices appear with consult guidance to the county clerk for further particulars. The notices indicate formal proceedings and require interested parties to seek details from the clerk’s office for dates, names, and actions.
Estate of Austin Bryant also known as Joseph Austin Bryant. Creditors must present claims with vouchers to E. R. Lawrence Cooper, Attorney, Uintah State Bank Building, Vernal Utah, on or before the last day of May 1957. Clifford Bryant is the administrator.
Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at her office in the Uintah State Bank Building Vernal Utah before the first day of May 24 KR Lawrence Cooper Ancillary administrator M28 A18
The U S Department of Agriculture Resettlement Administration requests a three year extension from March 10 1957 to March 10 1960 to file Proof of Appropriation for Application No 10053 for 4500 ac ft of Brush Creek water in Uintah County Utah for irrigation. About 112 060 is spent on works with 8 000 needed to complete and use the water. Protests must be sworn affidavits by May 18 1957 with a hearing set for May 23 1957 at 3 00 pm in the Vernal Utah courthouse.
The Utah Water and Power Board requests an extension from March 1 1937 to March 11 1962 to complete Proof of Appropriation for Application No 1419 on 48 sections of Uintah River water in Uintah County for irrigation. About $502 317 has been spent on related construction. A court hearing is set in Vernal Utah on May 23 1937. protests may present testimony.
Sen. Wallace Bennett reports the CCC plans to ship Turkey 3 million pounds of CCC wool in exchange for chrome and other strategic materials. The Agriculture Department has completed work on the agreement and awaits Turkey’s approval, with possible separate talks on about 30 million pounds of wool.
An old note humorously compares a Yeoman’s typing effort to large weights. It claims 14 ounces of pressure needed to strike a key and translates daily workload to 378000 ounces, 23625 pounds, or 214 percent tons, illustrating extreme productivity in a quirky way.
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