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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
1
Fragmentary text mentions Echo Canyon action and Beata Theea Claus care of the Express. Includes scattered notes about checking seats, reading levers, and tatters in Tinta eau. Contains incomplete lines and uncertain references.
Meeting of the National Wool Growers Association to be held at Hotel Utah on January 20 with sessions on January 30. Board of directors to meet January 38 with James A Hooper as secretary. tentative program set. executive committee to select directors and officers for 1949.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions entities like Abe Murdock and Uintah Basin, with scattered phrases about clubs, commissions, and petitions. The legible items are insufficient to define a coherent news event or clear outcome.
A Vernal Lions board meeting led by J. D. O. Jones discussed preliminary plans for a power site and phosphate development in Uintah County. The hearing emphasized proposed developments, funding, and project timelines with a focus on public input and regulatory steps.
Salt Lake Masonic temple hosted a banquet as Clyde S Johnson Verrial and Thomas Glaw Atlants received major honors. Imperial potentate of the Mystical Shrine presided, congratulating the seventy eighth reunion class and presenting the fifty second degree. Harald A Linke Garfield was named class president and Dr J Russell Wherritt of Salt Lake City elected class secretary.
Logan reports new state forestry rules regulate Christmas tree sales and culling. The program requires trees to bear tags certifying compliance with conservation standards, with local clerks or county officials issuing the tags, and U S Forest Service personnel assisting in enforcement.
Farm Bureau secretary Claude R Wickard and John H Dankhead are among speakers at the twenty third annual American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Chicago Edward A O Neal president of the federation is pictured above.
At Camp San Luis Obispo on November 2, Company A 116th Engineers under Captain Theodore R Johnson examined bridge construction methods used by South American and African tribes. The test compared the engineers one inch moss rope approach with twisted vines used by tribesmen to support bridges, as part of an experimental study led by Colonel William F Weller of the 115th Engineers regiment at Batty Lake City. Continued on Fare Four.
In precinct No 7 of Titan School District Abe Ve T Rine leads with 239 votes cast. Arthur Wiscout is incumbent with 69, Rey G Labring 52. The newly elected school board member has taught in the district and owns a farm in Bar Riera Dome area.
Yuletide street decorations planned by the Vernal Chamber of Commerce for Bururdsy evening include elaborate exhibits and a Santa Claus program. The event, directed by Milton Jund and with support from local groups, features a box for children to drop letters to Santa and a procession ending at the Main theaters. Mayor Joy Etringham and other officials will participate as Santa Claus visits and musical selections are performed by local bands and ensembles.
The Comet Motor Express announces reduced truck rates for direct Vernal shipments from eastern points. The line manager says 15 to 17 ton loads travel via routes including Morey Mercantile in Denver and Carlond, with various goods like fenned goog and cheese under shipping plans.
Citizens of Jensen Beck gather for a mass meeting led by Clair R Hop kink director of the Farm Administration to discuss a culinary water supply for the community. Possible sources include artesian well drilling or a line from the water flow near abandoned gas wells west of Ashley Creek. Mr and Mrs Pierre Morgen of the mnoh were Vernal visitors Monday afternoon.
A large Kansas and Colorado US 40 Highway Association delegation arrived in Vernal on Thursday noon from Craig, Colorado. Utah Highway 40 Association president Henderson welcomed them at a luncheon. D. M. Hunt announced a $15,000 ad campaign including folders, booklets, and white buffalo emblems to promote Highway 40 across Utah Colorado and Kansas. The group’s itinerary listed stops in Limon, Hot Sulphur Springs, Craig, Verona, Heber, St Jake City, Roosevelt, Steamboat Springs, and Vernal, with many officials from each state in attendance.
President Roosevelt proposed a near 300 million dollar three year wage agreement for railroad workers as a nationwide strike loomed. Brotherhoods pressed a 20 percent demand, with a 10 percent temporary rise rejected by a fact finding board led by Dean Wayne L. Borse, while carriers floated an emergency wage plan similar to Canada’s.
Fox From Verne is shown at the Michigan Ontario Fur Show in Grand Rapids, finishing third behind a grand champion silver fox. The owner, J Perron Hacking, did not attend. WA Crandquist of Salt Lake City exhibited the fox. Hacking has received offers to sell the animal to major fox fur farms in Canada and the United States.
A fragmentary notice details a weekend stage production featuring Miss Dees Heber and Miss Dees Greenhalgh leading a large cast. The review notes the ensemble includes Betty and Melvin Hodgkinson, Carma Tas, Dai a Davi Be Lee, Lertie Thorne, Tallieesta Oliaries Tai Dep, and a band with Davis and Merit Hodgkinson.
Blayne Morrill and ten other outstanding FGA members were awarded medals at a ceremony in the Newhowls Hotel Tyory Room Salts Lake. President Wate Holbrook presented the honors amid Farm Bureau officials and state director Mark Niskols.
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