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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1958
Page
12
Mr and Mrs Max G Abbott departed Vernal Wednesday to move to Chicago. Abbott, former superintendent of schools, has accepted a staff associate post at the University of Chicago. The Abbottss sold their residence and belongings as they began the relocation.
4H members from Uintah County showcased 454 items across foods clothing home improvement gardening bee keeping and forestry at the Community House August 21 22 Top dress revue winners were Sandra Uacking and Elaine Jenkins of Maeser They will represent the county at the State Fair Other dress revue entrants include Carol Lee Bennion Sally Swain Mella Weeks Peggy Robinson Juanita Busch Rosanie Henderson Avene Kawa Lynette Lundell Kathy Cundick Fay Jones Sharon Hadlock and Mary Louise Bath Demonstrations covered cottage cheese main salad beekeeping and breakfast orange prep with guidance by club leaders and agents Plans for educational films on cancer and heart diseases were announced with show dates in Rangely Vernal and Naples along with brief notes on a trip by Mrs Ron E Harrison to Europe.
The Vernal Express notes three first milestone birthdays for local children Julie Dawn Murray, Lory Peterson, and Grade II Slaugh with family details and birthdates August 28 and 29. Thorne Studios offers free baby portraits, with appointment requests during the week prior to the birthday.
Senior Girl Scouts spent two days at Iron Springs facing hail rain and soggy trails. They set up camps learned tent pitching and fire making, faced a trespassing sign and a rain soaked plan, share songs by the fire and thank leaders including Rhoda Rollinson Reed Mitchell and Max Keech for guiding and aiding the trip.
About 75 boys, parents and friends gathered at Merkley Park for a Pony League celebration. Teams Artesia Rangery Firemen Cubs Red Legs Braves, coached by Murano Dellaye Smith Caldwell Henline Bath Cramer, played games after a hamburger fry corn roast and watermelon. Recreation committee supervised. This week ends the play-off.
Funeral services for Maude Beeler Searle Steinaker 76 of Manila will be held Saturday at 2 pm in Manila Ward chapel. She died Wednesday at 825 am in Vernal rest home. Burial will be in Manila cemetery. She was born April 0 1882 in Vernal and married William Searle in 1901 then Joseph Steinaker in 1904. Survived by husband, two sons William Searle Steinaker and Elbert Steinaker, four grandchildren, one sister Mrs Patricia Ann Johnson of Salt Lake City.
Special agents arrested James Abner Murray of Prattsville Arkansas on an indictment dated September 29 1933. Murray is charged with stealing a Minneapolis automobile and transporting it to Williston North Dakota. He will be arraigned in Salt Lake City before Commissioner E M Garnett.
A jumble of classified lines from Vernal Utah and surrounding area includes a Ford sale ad and job note, a public notice for a Gusher Welfare Association meeting to discuss nonprofit status, rental offers, a 1955 trailer sale, a baby birth announcement for Mr and Mrs Paul L Diehl in Seattle with Mary Alice Calder as the mother, and grandparents Leo Calder of Vernal. The advert texts reference phone numbers and local locations, noting a city and date context in 1938 and later.
Mr and Mrs Stewart Ashton hosted Ashton Red Sox Little League players after noon Sunday. The boys enjoyed hamburgers and fries, games, prize drawings, and a show. Coach Tassainer and his wife attended with the team. players listed include Jimmy Siddeway, Stoward Busch, Gary Tassanier, George Hodgkinson, Dennis Caton, Dennis Montgomery, Leon Kidd, Leon Roberts, Keith Murray, Keith Hodgkinson, Bobby Martin, Jimmy Reese and Chuck Cramer.
A near fatal endurance test at Vernal pool left 20 year old Gerald Walker unconscious from oxygen shortage. His brothers Treese and Steven saved him by freeing his tongue and issuing first aid before hospital care. Arch Dam Constructors begin preliminary Flaming Gorge diversion tunnel work with Coker overseeing activity. A temporary Greendale road will be upgraded to service the site as the Green River water diversion proceeds.
Merkley family members gathered at Merkley Park on August 23 for their annual reunion. A noon dinner preceded a program and business meeting. Roland Merkley was elected president with Irma M Chew as vice president and Irma C Merkle y as secretary. Approximately 175 attendees from Salt Lake City and Dodge City joined in.
Sealed bids will be received until September 26 at the realty office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Ft Duchesne Utah for the sale of farming and to farm pasture leases. Details available from the Superintendent Uintah and Ouray Agency Ft Duchesne Utah.
St Peter explains a building with bars on the windows is the fall where all Texans want to go home, while guiding a new arrival through heaven. The exchange highlights playful regional humor about Texans seeking departure.
The Utah State Fund Commission received 53 bids on four Uintah County road projects. Total bids total $1,873,200 with the largest project on U S 40 from Fort Duchesne east to U-209. W. W. Clyde and Co Springville led the bids for the BY mile segment at 596 773.
Dr and Mrs Herbert Wiese and Jeffery gon left Sunday for Cedar Rapids after a month with Mrs Lola Porter's Vernal home Mrs Wiese's mother.
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