Welfare tightens focus as Indian families drain aid
The Uintah Welfare Commission discussed rising welfare rolls led by Indian families and children using their funds. Foster care numbers and public assistance totals exceeded 36 000 statewide with many in aid to families with dependent children. New services include marriage counseling, food classes, and expanded volunteer roles as board committees organize to address complex welfare issues.
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Welfare Department
Cook
Uintah Welfare
Agency For
Big Response To Smallpox Clinic Monday
County Wealth Dept. officials reported a strong turnout for the Monday smallpox clinic in the county building with 592 vaccinations, far exceeding the anticipated 100. A Tuesday Todd School clinic drew 71 people as officials noted increased public participation could spur more clinics for better immunity and fewer epidemics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Wealth Dept
Todd School
Welfare groups back rehabilitation effort in Uintah County
Community leaders, Utah State Welfare Division staff, and Uintah County Welfare Board members gathered to support total rehabilitation of welfare families. The meeting stressed community responsibility and cooperation across divisions of child welfare medical services and family services.
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Gunderson
Welfare Commission
Utah State Welfare Division of Family Services
Division of Child Welfare
Division of
Medical Services
Uintah County Welfare Board
State Welfare Commission
LaMar Andrus
Warold E. Blanck
Frank E. Dix
Uintah County Welfare Department
James E. Chapman
Hyrum C. Toone
Tom Freestone
Reva Pope
Conference Remarks Highlight Church Support and Mission Spirit
Robert Walker and Richard Walker spoke of family heritage and faith as the afternoon session of the conference continued. Leaders urged tithing, noting 6160 hours of religious training available by age 21, and emphasized support for missions to Indian people, while praising church heritage and communal prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Walker
Richard Walker
Packer
W. Monroe Iateh
God
Lloyd Goodrich
Osanna
Mozart
Ellis Worthon
J. Ross Merrell
Stake
America
A. Parley Bates
General Sunday School Board
Jie
Phanthie
Nyle G. Merkiely
Road Work and Local Notices Consolidate In Logan Meeting
Road work details on Elk Horn Loop Road into Whiterocks drainage cover 1.7 miles with 133000 cable yards of excavation 7000 of borrow and about 3000 feet of culvert pipe. Construction time 180 days. Bids open 2:30 p m December 28 at Forest Service contracting office in Logan Building Ogden. Plans available at Ashley National Forest Vernal office. James Hobson notes MIA aims to guide youth from gym to chapel and honor families. Events include organ numbers by Resh B Allen dedication to President David O McKay and messages from Elder Packer. several stake officers and committees named. Closing song Faith of Our Fathers. Attendance totals: morning 1092 afternoon 757.
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Forest Service
Logan Building
Ogden
Forest Supervisor
Ashley National Forest
Vernal
James Hobson
YMMIA
Resh B. Allen
David 0. McKay
Packer
Ile
Alta Williams
Lawrence Les
Arnold Baker
Aubra Hodgkinson
Robert Cook
Lowe Goodrich
Lynn Martinson
Council
Ezma G. Reynolds
Ruth G. Harrison
Stake
Carol May
Lester Ellsworth
William Richardson
Joseph J. Johnson
J. Rex Winder
Larry Learie
Chamber Seeks Input From New Legislators at Vernal Meeting
At the Vernal Chamber of Commerce gathering in the Hotel Vernal officials invited new state legislators to discuss proposed bills. Invitations go to State Sen. Leland Sewards and State Rep. Ashel Map as GENERAY HALL outlined topics including reapportionment, right to work, bonding, school issues, juvenile courts, sales tax and government immunity. Supt. Glen C. Oldroyd noted 15 new students moved into the district this week.
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Vernal Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Vernal
Leland Sewards
Ashel Map
Woting
Chamber
Generay Hall
National and State Affairs Committee
Uintah
Uall
Hall
Glen C. Oldroyd
Alvin G. Green
David W. Elias
Salt Lake City
Green
L. Y. Siddeway
Temp Reynolds
Lions Club
Delegates Elected as Cattlemen Representatives
A. Wight Dickinson, William Reed Taylor, L. Glenn Murray, Willis Stevens, and Floyd Lamb were elected cattlemen representatives. Names will be submitted to BLM State Director R. D. Nielsen for final Advisory Board appointments. Voting was tight with 40 percent of qualified voters casting ballots.
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Coleman
Cattlemen
A. Wight Dickinson
William Reed Taylor
L. Glenn Murray
Willis Stevens
Floyd Lamb
BLM
R. D. Nielson
Flnal Advisory Board
Frandsen
Visitors from Brigham Young University family group
Visiting over the Thanksgiving holiday with their mother Mrs H M Lundell were Mr and Mrs Callis Morrill students of Brigham Young University Mr and Mrs Bob Lundell and four children of Taylorsville Raymond Johnson from North Nollywood Calif and Wayne Lundell of Provo.
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H. M. Lundell
Callis Morrill
Brigham Young University
Bob Lundell
Taylorsville
Raymond Johnson
North Nollywood
Calif
Wayne Lundell
Provo
San Juan Urges New North–South Route Over Book Cliffs
San Juan Commission urged the State Road Commission to build a north south route over the Book Cliffs after the Indian Canyon road completion. Uintah County Commission shares the stance. Plans call for two miles of Byers Canyon road toward Denver and a 1965 two mile Straight Creek tunnel through the Continental Divide. A Job Corps youth ramp may be near Ft Duchesne. KSL radio will broadcast Vernal programs Dec 18 with local interviews and non commercial ads.
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San Juan
Denver
Straight Creek
Continental Divide
Job Corps
Ft. Duchesne
Supt. Schwartz
The
Indian Agency
KSL Radio
Hal Peterson
Starvation Dam to Back Duchesne Valley Irrigation Project
The Starvation Dam will be built on the Strawberry River about three miles upstream from Duchesne and 34 miles downstream from Strawberry Reservoir. Water from Starvation Reservoir will supply 26,000 acres of irrigated Duchesne River land and allow transmountain diversion to the Bonneville Basin without impacting existing rights.
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Reclamation
Bureau of Reclamation
Starvation Dam
Strawberry River
Duchesne
Strawberry Reservoir
Palmer B. DeLong
Central Utah
Starvation Reservoir
Duchesne River
Knight
Bonneville Basin
Clinton
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Amekee
Mr. Freestone
County Welfare Board
Newell L. Snow
Elk Horn Loop
Whiterocks
Faith
Our Fathers
Warren Mott
Town of
Duchese
Waere
Battont
Topusda
Gan Ees
Royal Garket
Orange Samoa
Ashton
Meat Dept
Mayonnaise Wesson
Vaure
Campbell's Tomato Soup
Hunt
Maxwell House
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