Debating winners and local notices from 1926 column
Beulah Samuels and Howard Dudley won a division debating meet at Price defeating opponents. The question argued was Resolved That The Immigration Laws of 1924 be amended. The Associated Oil Company shipped 506 tons of drilling equipment to test Dakota sands at the Rangely oil field, including rotary sid cable tools. Mr and Mrs Don S Hill welcomed a baby boy born April 17, and Mrs Hill will be remembered as Julia Herriott, daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Herriott. Mr and Mrs Leslie Ashton returned home after spending three and a half months in San Fernando, California, for Mr Ashton’s health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah Samuels
Howard Dudley
Price
Associated Oil Company of
California
Dakota
Don S Hill
Hill
Julia Herriott
Henry Herriot
Dynamite Ditching Experiments In Roosevelt Area
The Soil Conservation district and Alinois Powder Company representatives tested blasting for ditching at the Senor Mortensen property in Roosevelt. Thirty to fifty percent powder set 18 inches apart blasted 160 feet of ditch, three and a half feet deep and five and a half feet wide, with wet soil producing best results. A second test at the Arden White place in Ballard fared worse due to insufficient moisture. Other participants included Cody of Salt Lake City and Mike Evans of Missoula, with J J Andrews and W A Jacobe joining to seal prairie dog dens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senor Mortensen
Roosevelt
Ain Rah
Arden White Place
Ballard
Powder Company
Bruce Fitzgerald
J J South
Ayn Andrews
W A Jacobe
Amite
The
Soil Conservation Office
Local Landowners To Comply in Soil Conservation
Uintah Basin soil conservation district officials urge landowners to align acreage with district recommendations and service agreements. Notable participants include Harry Ratliff and Hugh Colton with hundreds of acres, Maeser and Eldon Billings, Doni Batty, and Orson Caldwell. A five acre leveling on Theodore Johnson farm at Glines aids safer irrigation. The district sells a D7 tractor to Earl Brimhall. monthly supervisor meetings set policy and provide engineering and technical assistance from soil conservation, grazing, forest services, and the county agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uinted County
Soil Conservation District
Harry Ratliff
Jensen
Hugh Colton
Maeser
Eldon Billings
Doni
Earl Brimhal
Board of Supervisors
Soil Conservation Service
The
Grazing Service
Forest Service
Vernal Housing Not Restricted to Vets Says Man
A Utah official in Vernal says housing in the area is now allowed for non veterans under new regulations. Gov Herbert B confirms permission to build for Bureau of Reclamation workers on Echo Park dam surveys and projects, after contact with federal housing authorities in Salt Lake City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert B
H Grant West Uintah Duchesne County
Vest
Bureau of Reclamation
Echo Park
West
Gordon Weggland
Federal Housing Administration
Salt Lake City
Reclamation
Burn Trash Now Say Fire Experts
Utah Board of Forestry and Fire Control urges cleanup around farms and irrigation ditches between now and May 31. It notes spring carries lower risk than summer, but warns unattended fires and careless burning of dead grass and weeds along ditch banks can escape, causing costly damage to improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah Board of Forestry and Fire Control
Ranger Work-Load Study on Ashley Forest
Forest personnel from five ranger districts of the Ashley Forest met at Vernal forest headquarters with regional officials from Ogden to assess forest needs and plan future work. Delegates included Bernard A Anderson C Olsen J Wayland Mattison and Joseph N Hassell focusing on watershed protection fire control timber management input control ranges recreation and road and trail maintenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashley National Forest
Ashi Forest
Forest
Vernal
Ogden
Bernard A Anderson
C Olsen
J Wayland Mattison
Joseph N Hassel
Bian
Women's Club Calls for City Study of Vernal Library
Members of Vernal's Senior Current Topics club urged city officials to study Uintah County Library to boost patronage. President Mrs Ivon Murdock reported at the Uintah Basin district Utani Federation of Women clubs semi annual convention that the club began library support before 1908 and funded it through donations and fundraisers. The group favors improving surrounding conditions to attract patrons but does not seek moving the library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toplc
Vernal
Uintan County
Ivon Murdock
Uintah Basin District ‘Utani Federation of Women ’ Clubs
Mra Murdock
Italy
Presen
Uintah Deer Census Count In Uintas Details
Deer census reports 4947 deer on the Uintah mountains north of Vernal from an air count by Jack Turner of Basin Flying Service. The survey covers Island Park to Diamond Mountain toward Wyoming, west to Linwood, and Brush Creek faces. It was a state fish and game department and forest service grazing service project. The population is considered about normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uintah Mountains
Vernal
Jack Turner
Basin Flying Service
Island Park
Diamond Mountain
Wyoming Line
Linwood
Brush Creek Mountain
State Fish and Game Department
Forest Service
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Tojo
Eugene D. Williams
Los Angeles
General Tojo
Japan
Army Medical Corps
East Main Vernal
Utah
Vernal Employment Agency
East Main
O. M. Hulligger
Mgr
Morri
Ashley Forest
Women’s Club
PEP 88-Vico
Regal Vico
Qsaber
Allen Trerohhen Gaeling Moser
Y Refiring Company
Ford
Showalter Motor Company
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