Uintah District Notes 135 School Census Gain in 1950
Uintah county shows a 135 increase in students from the 1940 to 1950 census. The 1950 figures place Uintah at 3.1 percent of total population. Duchesne dropped 71 in the same period. Population shifts and birth rates are detailed, with Utah’s 1947 birth rate cited at 33.8 per 1000.
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Uintah
Uintah County
Aix’ le
Bret White Cots
Wintsh
Duchesne
Duchesne Coun
Heauses
Ase
Van
Dors
Com
New Aus
Utal
Utah
New Mexico
Jaycees Attend State Master School in Salt Lake City
Local Utah Jaycees led by Ken Sowardsyn president and Glenn Cooper secretary treasurer attended a master orientation school in Salt Lake City with about 90 members from across the state. The program covered four standard forms for the organization and featured instructors Easton Bown and Dave Whitesides. Cooper and Mrs Sowards accompanied the Utah delegates.
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Ken~ Sowardsyn
Utah
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Glenn H. Cooper
Vernal Jaycee
Harold Duke
Rodney Ross
Salt Lake City
Sowards
Cooper
Easton Bown
Dave Whitesides
Postmaster Urges House and Street Numbers for Mail
Vernal acting postmaster Frank G. Slaugh urges residents to include full house and street numbers on all addresses. With Christmas rush and new carriers, delays occur when numbers are missing or the city name alone is used. He warns incorrect addressing slows mail and states most letter carriers know local homes, but new staff may not.
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Frank G. Slaugh
Vernal
Mr. Slaugh
Nal
Utah
Mrz Blaugh
McKee Buys Registered Holstein Bull in Utah
Loren R. McKee of Tridell has acquired a registered Holstein Friesian bull from Roy C. Thain's herd in Smithfield Utah. The Holstein-Friesian Association of America has officially recorded the change of ownership for the animal.
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Loren R. McKee
Tridell
Roy C. Thain
Smithfield
Utah
America
Bennett Presses Against Brannan Plan For Agriculture
Wallace Bennett of Salt Lake City, Republican candidate for the U S Senate, rejects the Brannan farm plan and any federal control of agriculture. He urges farmers and stock raisers to help craft a plan restoring free markets without wrecking agriculture while criticizing the Fair Deal administration for socializing sectors like health and education. He warns incumbents will toe the party line if re-elected and calls for tariff reforms and a probe of farm subsidies in the West.
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Brannan
Wallace Bennett
Salt Lake
Utah
Bennett
U.S
Netarlfs
Vernal Masons Host Basin Lodge Picnic at Big Park
About 70 Vernal residents attended the annual gathering of Vernal Ash ley Masonic Lodge No. 21 as guests of Roosevelt Basin Masonic Lodge No. 20 at Big Park in Windah Canyon. The event featured a picnic and various games for entertainment.
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Vernal Masons
Basin Lodge
Funeral Held for Pioneer Mail Operator Abe Harris
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Duchesne LDS Stake house for Abe Glenn Harris 75 who died August 6 at his Duchesne home of a heart attack. Harris a retired truck driver carried U S mail from Craig Colorado to Vernal then from Price to Vernal for ten years. He married Ruth Jacoby in 1898 and later remarried. survivors include his widow one son and two daughters from first wife four sons and five daughters from second marriage as well as many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Burial followed in Duchesne cemetery.
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Duchesne
LDS
Abe Glenn Harris
Duchesne Resi
Harris
U. 8
Craig
Colo
Vernal
Price
Ing Jacoby
Vera
Bhe
Ruth Price
Balt Lake
Cligeorte
William Harris
Rose Graham
Della Hatch
Salt Lake City
Glenda Harris
Long Beach
Calif
Barbara Casey
San Angelo
Tex
Clinton
Billy
Doyle
Anadee
Shirley
Kathleen Har
Duchesnes
Algter
Gun Club Names Riot Committee and Plans for Booman Riot
The Vernal Gun Club at its regular meeting on Monday elected committee members to organize the annual Booman Riot and outing. Others discussed fish planting on Little Brush Creek Poison Creek Old Mill setting near East ark reserves, and a land grant for fish rearing ponds in McKee Draw. Earl Freeman was named chairman to study boat racing on Oaks Park reservoir disturbing both fish and shermen.
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Booman
Charles T. Freem
Pika
McKee Draw
Dam Site Defense Prompts Cent Post in Utah Field Notes
A rugged excerpt presents debates on dam site geology and plant life, citing Bernard De Voto and John Untermann. It discusses ancient civilizations, vegetation, and dinosaur beds near the dams, with mentions of quarrying in the region and the potential historic value of canyon formations.
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Utah
Bernard DeVoto
Untermann
Oyr
Pation
Mr. Untermann
Weld
Hese
Roseresairs
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Uintah State Bank
Vernal, Utah
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Alyn Wares Graph Delivery
Uintah Central
Creamery
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Quincy
Acme
Thev Anders
Chanopodium
Edie
Korea
Elvilia
Firestone
Searle’s Saving Center
Woodey B
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