Water Report Ready On Dry Fork Project
A plan to develop a summer water supply from Ashley Creek in Dry Fork was prepared by Utah Water and Power and submitted to the SCS for economic feasibility. The preliminary study outlines a 15 mile steel pipeline, five high altitude reservoirs, and a yield of 12 100 acre feet at about 110 dollars per acre foot, totaling around 12 million dollars, with potential federal cost sharing under Public Law 568.
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Ashley Creek
Tn Dry Fork
Utah Water & Power
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Im Hi
Conservation Service
State Capitol
Water and Power Board
SCS
Bron
Peterest
Kindergarten Registration Set Next Week
Uintah School District officials announced 1961 62 kindergarten registration set for May 1 through 4. Scheduled sessions include Bonanza May 1 10 am Jensen May 1 2 pm Mae set May 2 10 am White rocks May 3 10 am Todd May 3 2 pm Central May 4 10 am Naples May 4 2 pm Parents of children five years old between September 1 and December 31 will receive invitations from school principals with details.
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Uintah
Behool
Bonanza
Jensen
Maeset
White Rocks
Todd
Central
Naples
Parente
Utah Wyoming Seek Five Million Five Hundred Fifty Eight Thousand Bridge
Utah and Wyoming highway delegates met in Las Vegas to urge their congressional delegations to authorize construction of a five million five hundred fifty eight thousand dollar dam bridge over Flaming Gorge reservoir. C Taylor Burton said twenty delegates attended and the decision to build on a route north of the Green River was approved by resolution of both states.
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Utah
Wyoming Highways Department
Las Vegas
Flaming Gorge
C. Taylor Burton
Sai
Burton
Green River
Two Men Hurt As School Bus Rolls Near Vernal
A Uintah School District bus rolled 144 times after brake checks at 80 mph on US 40 two miles west of Vernal. Driver Harold Merrell and passenger Floyd Workman were injured. Workman held overnight with a ruptured spleen at Uintah County Hospital.
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Vernal
Floyd E Work
Uintah
Workman
Uintah County Hospital
Harold Merrell
Utah Highway Patrol
Offeer St
Howard Powell
Merrell
US 40
County to Join 1961 Civil Defense Alert
Uintah County will participate with Utah and the nation in Operation Alert 1961 to test Civil Defense readiness. Civil Defense Director Mons Dean C. Rowland says the local plan includes measuring how long to send students home from school and solving a radio logic issue as stations nationwide join Conelrad on Friday at 2 pm.
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Uintah County
Utah
Dean C. Rowland
Civil Defense
Utah Highway Patrol
Rowland
Merchants Plan Many Bargains For Shoppers
Vernal area groups plan a Clean Up Paint Up Fix Up Week with Vernal Chamber of Commerce merchants promoting sales. The Vernal Express will run an extra edition and Dutch John residents will receive free copies. Jaycees led by Lorin Hunt organize activities, tree planting, and city property improvements while Vernal City offers a on call garbage pickup and discusses new dump sites near Diamond Mountain. County officials consider new dumps in Davis and northwest Maeser as roads to dumps improve. May 16 proclaimed Clean Up Paint Up Fix Up and Plant Up Week.
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Vernal
Vernal Chamber of Commerce
Vernal Express
the Express
Dutch John
Vernal Jaycees
Lorin Hunt
Jaycee Clean
Jaycee
Othera
Church
Vernal City
Diamond Mountain Road
County Commission
Chatman
Harold McKee
Davis
Maeser
Lapoint
McKee
L. A Miracle
Pupil Personnel Directors Set Confab Here May 4 6
The Utah Association of Pupil Personnel Directors holds its annual workshop in Vernal May 4 to 6. About 45 visitors are expected as groups discuss pupil records and uniform dropout reporting. Friday features tours to the Bonanza gilsonite mine and Red Wash oilfield, with a dinner at the Hotel Vernal and speakers Dr Norman Watking and Wilburn Ball.
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Utah Association of Pupil Personnel Directors
Ita
H Reese Anderson
Ainish
Ira Anderson
Bonanza Gilsonite
Red Wash
Dinosaur National Monument
Vernal
Norman Watking
Wilburn Ball
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Anderson
Snow measurements at Kings Cabin exceed prior year
Soil Conservation Service records show the upper Kings Cabin course had 21 inches of snow with 7 inches of water, far above last year's 1.4 inches. The lower course had 18 inches of snow and 4 inches of water, up from last year's 1 inch. Fifteen year averages are 45 inches water lower and 63 upper. The courses lie in Kane Hollow between Bullionville and Dyer ridge, split by East Park road.
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Joe-Thomes H. Gery
Ashley Forest
Kings Cabin
Soil Conservation Service
Feigi Aia
Kane Hollow
Bullionville
Dyer Ridge
East Park Road
City names Ralph Olson pool director as recreation chief
Ralph Olson was named municipal swimming pool director and Marland Stagg as recreation director at a city county recreation committee meeting. Olson had served in the post last year and Nelson Marshall was authorized to proceed with park improvements including backstops bleachers and infield base stripping at the city county park. The committee also authorized inviting bids for a park lawn mower. The bid invitation appears in legal notices on Page 14.
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Ralph Olson
Marland Staggag
Ree
Nelson Marshall
Aviation Agency Sees Needs at Vernal Airport
The FAA urged Congress to build 465 new airports and upgrade 2,834 existing ones over the next five years. In Utah, Vernal could see land acquisition, runway extension, and fighting improvements for general aviation airports. NE Halaby noted the plan does not bind local or federal agencies to funding or action.
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Vernal
Congress
Federal Aviation Agency
Utah
Verna
FAA
NE. Halaby
Parking Meter Times Change for City Enforcement
Beginning Monday parking meter times will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and continue until October. From October 1 to May 1 hours are 11 a.m. to 5 30 p.m. Exceptions are Sundays or holidays when parking is free.
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Defense Instruction and Information
Asseas
Varna
Chamber
Vernal Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Dinosaurland Advertising Inc
Dinosaur Park Promotion Group
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Balt Lake
Dinosaurland Advertising Group
Barclay Gardner
Vernal Employment Office
Cliff Bush
Small Business Administration
SBA
Upper
Colorado River 21 Counties Committee
Salt Lake City
Siddoway
Wee & Kings
Olson
Aviation Agency
U.S
Canada
J.C. Haws
Howell Lee Cannon
State Dept of Education
Frances Lenox
State Association
Brannen
Howard V. McArthur
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