Ray Nash Named Assistant D A Tuesday in Provo
Ray B Nash, 40, Vernal, was sworn in as assistant district attorney for the Fourth Judicial District by Judge Joseph E Nelson in Provo. Nash attended LDS Business College and the University of Utah, served five years in the Army legal branch, and is a member of state and Uintah County bar associations. He and wife Maral Wixem have four sons and will live in Vernal, where he has practiced law for seven years.
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Ray B Nash
Jude Joseph E Nelson
Provo Horn
Bountiful
Salt Lake Temple
Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints
Mark
Teefay la Mar
Daje
Verfal
Nash
Utah
Uintah County
Utah State Bar Assn
Vernal Golf Club Sets Official Opening Sunday
Vernal golf club will hold its Official Opening Sunday with a mixed Scotch foursome. Prizes will be awarded to winners. Contests will include a hole in one and putting. Greens and lawns committees and volunteers have cleaned and fixed the course for the opening. The clubhouse has been remodeled and the new patio should be finished in time.
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Vernal Golf Club
Second Ward Rites Laud Sarah Rudge Tuesday in Vernal
Funeral services were held Tuesday at noon in Vernal second ward chapel for Sarah Low Ise Rudge born August 22 1964 in Compando Somersetshire England to Kitty Gak ledge and William Austin. She married William Rudge Feb 14 1887 in Ystrad Wales and they immigrated to the United States in 1897. Burial was in Maeser Fairview cemetery.
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Vernal Second Ward
Sarah Low
Ise Rudge
Vernal
Rudge
Vernal Hospital
Frank Walker
Maeser Fairview
Mrs. Rudge
Compando
Somersetshire
England
Kitty Gakledge
William Austin
William Rudge
Ystrad
Wales
United States
Brigham City
Associated Civic Clubs Endorse Loop Road in Dinosaur Monument
The Associated Civic clubs of Southern and Eastern Utah met in Vernal and endorsed a loop road from Dinosaur National Monument museum to Echo Park and Split Mountain. A second resolution supported roads to Glen Canyon dam site from Utah side. The group directed the road committee to study a timber road from Fredonia Arizona to Hurricane Utah linking with US 91 and to request a State Road Commission survey on Highway 33 through Indian Canyon to Duchesne. The reguative committee was authorized to push recreational and camp ground improvements on national forests. Walter M. Iorne of Utah Mining Assn noted 20 mineral specimens from the Colorado River area exhibited for senators and congressmen.
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Dinosaur National Monument Museum
Echo Park
Split Mountain
Associated Civic Clubs
Utah
Vernal
Forest Service
Fish and Game Commission
Utah Mining, Assn
Noyal T. Harvard
Glen Canyon Dam
Fredonia
Ariz
Hurricane
U.S. 91
State Road Commission
Indian Canyon
Duchesne
Walter M. Iorne
Utah Mining Agga
Colorado River
Range Head Visits Ben S Markholin in Uintah Basin
Range official Range Head visits Ben S Markholin a nine conservationist with the stile office WW Salt Lake to inspect work with conservation personnel in the Uintah Basin this week.
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Ben S Markholin
Salt Lake
Bureau of Want
Mt Vernal
Uintah Basin
Dream Now Reality For Colorado River Project Plans
Marley Neelay spoke at Steincker Tyzock reservoir site about a construction start forecast "one year from today" with water rights clarifications. The meeting, sponsored by Associated Civic Clubs, drew a small crowd as Neelay outlined basin compacts from 1922 and 1949, noting progress toward water developments benefiting the region.
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Stemaker Ail Tyzook
Dintall Tigh School
Marley Neelay
Te Burson
Reclamation
Neelay Vison
Colorado River Basin
Associated Civic Clubs of
Southern
Utah
B. H. Stringham
Board of Directors
Neeley
Steincker and Tyzack
Ute Tribe Elects New Full-Blood Committee Members
Large turnout among 13680 full-blood Utes elected 24-year-old Thomas Appah and Wallace Tabbee to join Ouray and McCook on the Uintah and Ouray Tribal Business Council. Sworn in by John Crow, the new leaders join the council as retiring mixed-blood members step down.
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Uintah and
Ouray Reservation
Thomas C Appah
Jivrvey
John C. Crow
Ouray
Ouray McCook
Jason Cuch
Uintah
Counci
Lorena Jorg
Sarah Hackford
Oron Curry
Brigham Young University
Thomas Appah
Teibat Council
Berlin
Germany
Harvey Natchees
Marine Corps
Russell Cucdag
Vernal Lions Club Elects Officers For 1956 57 Year
Vernal Lions Club gathered at the Hotel Vernal electing Orland L. Johnson president for 1956 57 alongside Arden Jolley first vice president Royal Henderson third vice president Warren Mott tall twister Lakell Anderson fon tanter I C Thorne chorus organist Max Abbott organist and directors V L Nielsen Frank Wright. Members approved 2850 for Merkley Park improvements including swings monkey bars a sprinkler system and caretaker services. May was set as work night at Merkley Park with members to attend equipped with shovels and cleaning gear. Diane Busch region winner gave a speech on the Constitution. Horolid Renate reported on a Utah Power and Light Show presentation.
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V.L. Nielsen
Frank Wright
Lions
Merkley Park
May
Mersey Park
Diane Busch
Amenean Legion
Constitution of the United Tes
Horolid Renate
Utah Power and Light Co
City Seeks Cleanup of Vacant Lots Amid Fires
Vernal City mayor the council and the fire department urged property owners Wednesday to clear vacant lots to reduce fire risk. Officials cited dry weather and weed buildup. if owners do not act, the city will assign staff to clean the lots and bill the owners.
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Vernal City
Fire Department
Moon Lake Electric Wins Gilsonite Co Contract
Moon Lake Electric Association has been awarded the contract to supply all electrical power for the American Gilsonite Company's existing facilities and new Bonanza operations. Moon Lake will build a 69 KV transmission line from Rangely, Colorado to the Bonanza site and install a 3,750 KVA stepdown substation near the new plant. The cooperative serves the Stangely area and much of the system's transmission facilities from Rangely.
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Moon Lake Electric Association
American Gilsonite Company
Bonanza
Moon Lake
Rangely
Colorado
American Gilsonita Company
Moon Lake Electric
Azsacisflan
Stangely
National Park Service Seeks Survey of Dinosaur Road
The National Parks Service asked the Bureau of Public Roads to survey southern access routes to Dinosaur National Monument. Acting NPS Director Scoven told Sen Arthur Watkins that several Highway 40 links will be studied in spring and summer, focusing on construction economics land acquisition and park road development prerequisites. Stockmen in Utah and Colorado protest a proposed recess route for potentially splitting grazing lands north of the monument.
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Colorado River
Uintah County
Dinosaur National Monument
Vernal City
General Petroleum Corp
Mobulgas
West Main
Texaco
J . Anderson
Seven Eleven
East Main
Sterling Rasmussen
King’s Sports Shop
Jou LaBeau
National Parks Service
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
Arthur W. Watking
Utahdis
Scay
Utah
Colorado
Vernal Visit By DeMille Family From Salt Lake City
Mr and Mrs Fenton DeMille and their son of Salt Lake City stayed in Vernal for the past two months. Mr DeMille is employed by the telephone company.
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Fenton DeMille
Salt Lake City
DeMille
Telephone Company
Information Panel Completed for Scenic Overlook
The west Ashley Valley overlook will gain a table top information panel in a tile shelter. It will show a valley panorama and points of interest to orient visitors and provide area information. Prepared by Mr and Mrs Ernest Untermatin with civic and business tourist groups. Original sponsors were Wiley Ballum and Henry Millecam Sr. Photos by Erland Preece Halph Preece. Lions club Woodey Searle chaired the project committee and aided construction and maintenance.
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Ashley Valley
Ernest Untermatin
Tollout Point
Wiley Balluum
Henry Millecam Sr
Erland Preece
Halph Preece
Henry Millacam, Sr
Ernayt Untermann
Wiley Baucum
Woodey Searle
Vernal Chamber Hearings On Flaming Gorge Dam Plans
At a Wednesday Vernal Chamber meeting a report on a Salt Lake City session with E. O. Larson noted that Flaming Gorge dam work would run concurrently with Den Canyon dam. Transmission system funding totals 153 million dollars and major power companies will buy most generated power. Utah Power and Light backed the project, influencing federal support. A Dinosaur National Monument debate arose with Sen. Bennett and Rep. Dawson to be discussed in Salt Lake City.
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Vernal Chamber of Commerce
Salt Lake City
E. 0
Larson
U.S Bureau of Heclémastion
Vernal
Flaming Gorge
den Canyon
Power Pro
Utah Power and Light Co
Chamber
Salt Lake Hurley
Sen
Bennett
Rep
Dawson
Park
Monument I & Park
Industrial Planning Committee
Bureau Details $8 Million Initial Project Plan
Commissioner Wilbur A. Dexheimer announced last weekend the administration requests 38 million to start construction in the Colorado River basin. The release discloses 5,224,700 for Glen Canyon Dam and 1,300,009 for Flaming Gorge, with the rest allocated to other sections in early planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Reclamation
Wilbur A. Dexheimer
Woshington
Colorado
Commission
Glen Canyon
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Federal Construction
Ray Nash
D. A
Provo
Sarah Rudge
John Jorgensen
Aew
Hudge
Dinosaur Monument
Parley Neeley
Bureau of Reclamation
Tech High School
L. ¥. Siddoway
Vernal Chamber
O. L. Johnson
Ernest Untermann
Fieldhouse
Curt Dudley
Uintrd
Clyde Conover
Emery County
Me. Nesley
Ao Apie Associated Civic Clubs
C. McShane
Richfield
Royal H
Harvard
Lon
My. Stringhar
Willia Oldroyd
Lyman
Tom Jensen
Salt Laie
Tell River Project
Lees Ferry
Vernal Lions Club
Moon Lake Elec
Gilsonite Co
Nat’l Park Service
Dinosaur
Tewart Age
Dinosaur’ Lotus
Ctaly
National Association
Colo-rada
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