Family and community notes from Ogden ward events and local drilling update
Doris E Glines reports on a busy Ogden ward week with visits to see nephew Barnell Haws a marine from San Francisco and a farewell for the Reynolds family moving to Naples Ward. Also covered are Bee Hive Week plans Swarm Day exercises Easter program in Sunday School and local social visits plus an update on Operation Continues at Fee No 15 Rangely including drilling progress water challenges and a May 23 to 19 license issuance at the bounty courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Timothy
Lee Murray
Ogden
Barnell Haws
Barnell
Meet
San Francisco
Warren
Fred Reynolds
Charles Batty
Naples
MIA
California
Dakota
Warren Pickering
California Co
Weber
Dakota State
Loffland Bros
Bill Crow Slim
Sammy Hith
Rogers and
Dutch Barner Arel
Utah State Highway
Drillers
Trol
Leaping Dime Trick Across a Glass
A playful note explains how to blow a dime across a glass. Keep the Ips level with the coin, neither above nor below, then blow sharply to flip the coin theatrically and land beyond the rim.
Basin Laundry Begins Operation in Vernal
Basin Laundry opens on First West Street between Main and First South in Vernal after months of construction. Dale Jensen, manager and former senior noncommissioned officer who ran laundry operations at Ft Warren and in Burma India, leads the plant with Don Jensen, a master sergeant in aircraft mechanics. The $30,900 investment includes a 50 by 80 foot building by contractor Bus Hatch and will employ about 10 people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale
den Jensen
Basin
First Fast Street
Main
First South
Uintah Basin
Dale Jensen
Ft Warren Wye
Chins
Burma India
Don
Basit Hospital News and Local Births Highlight Week
Vernal resident Mrs Brent Jones and Rangely resident Paul Elfering are patients at Basit Hospital. Surgical patients include Mrs Robert Olsen and Mrs Ernest McLean. Mrs W Lewis suffers a broken knee. Spring Canyon visitors Ted Bills family and Lydia Bills return. Howard L Caldwell welcomes a boy born Sunday April 41 with four sisters. Lawrence Swain’s daughter born April 24. DeWayne Merret and Jenne Snow connection noted. Lowell Cookney born April 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brent Jones
Vernal
Paul Elfering
Rangely
Basit Hospital
Robert Olsen
Ernest McLean
W Lewis
Lewis
Westover
Ted Bills
Spring Canyon
Lydia Bills
Howard L Caldwell
Lawrence Swain
Swain
Marian Marshall
DeWayne Merret
Merriam
Jenne Snow of
Jensen
Lowell Cookney
Fragmented Oil Well Activity Across Multiple Firms
A garbled 1920s era listing documents oil wells and rigs state by state. Companies such as Continental Oil, Phillips Petroleum, Stanolind, and Central Petroleum appear with various well completions, rig placements, and production figures in barrels per day. Names like McLaughlin, Haygood, Licey, and Mary C Haygood show as operators or locations, alongside locations including California, Idaho, Wasatch, and Texas. The entry notes multiple derricks completed or spudded, with production rates ranging from single digits to several hundred barrels daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Raven
Continental Oil— Booth
Wasatch
McLaughlin
Allen
Wasatch Phillips
Newton Oil
Phillips Petroleum
Levision
Haygood
Mary C Haygood
Larson
GOVERNOR SPEAKS AT ALTAMONT ON ROAD FUNDS
Gov Herbert B Maw told Du chesne county residents at a mass meeting that the county will receive its allotment of road money for secondary roads with over 2 million dollars available this year. He noted the Central Utah Project and anticipated federal funds for the mammoth irrigation system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altamont
Herbert B Maw
Duchesne County
Central Utah
Mammoth
Asa Johnson Burns In Brush Fire Near Jensen Ranch
Asa Johnson receives treatment at Veterans Hospital Salt Lake City for severe burns to his back and arms after a flame throwing unit exploded while burning brush near the Haslem ranch at Jensen. He is a veteran son of Mr and Mrs R L Johnson of Jensen, discharged from the Marine Corps in 1945. William Henry Harrison, inaugural president, served one month in 1841 before dying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asa Johnson
Veterans Hospital
Salt Lake
Haslem Ranch
Jensen
Johnson
R L Johnson
Marine Corps
Reclamation Office to Open Field Office in Spanish Fork
The Reclamation Office, directed by Rulon H Sorenson, will open a field office May 1 in Spanish Fork for surveys and investigations on reservoirs tunnels and canal lines in Utah and nearby counties. The office, part of Region 4, will operate from the Spanish Fork Federal Building while the director coordinates ongoing projects.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sport Jackets
Ragedty Ann
Raggety
Andy
Web
Boy Call
Jimmie
Lelt
Doris E Johnson
Yaaa Ai Ae T
Ward Chapel
Mary Price
Provo
BYU
Loreen Johns
Ri Point
Martin Curtis
Rita
Salt Lake City
Agene Tuckett
Ray Aitken
Spanish Fork
Tuckett
Marcia Fletcher
Cecil Billings
Nanc
Hollands
Steven Case
Mar
Tyn Tuckett
Melvin Hodgkinson
Ivan Perry
Stake High Council
Wilford Bastian
Neldon Calder Doyle Johnson
Ingrid Borgia and
Boig Crosby
ST. Mary's
Feraturi
Gerald Mohe
Jamee Carter
Lone Wolf
Clues Starn Tty
Texas
Westinstallmancy
Kin
Jie Hooster
Claudette Colbert
George Brent
Orson Wells
Abracadabra
Basin Laundry
Hospital News
America
Edough
Calders’ Dairy
Vernal, Utah
Gulverson Et al- Algard
Emerald
Mctaughlin Consolidated
McLaughlin Consolidated No A
Hancock Cove
Willard Johnson
Roosevelt
Duchesne Stake Hall
Stke
Duchesne
George W Feuerstein
Craig
Utah
Obra Myers
Minersville
Craig Fair Grounds
Cray
William Henry Harrison
United States
Betty Hutton and
Barry Fitzgerald
the Stork Club
Presser
Freddie Stewart
Shor
Mary
Edmund Lowe
Jean Rogers
Mr. Gregory
Arizona
George Raft
Ava Gardiner
Searle’s Saving Center
Woodey Searle
Myron
Unitah
State Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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