Utah Parks Concessions Deal Ties Zion Bryce and Grand Canyon
Announcement reports a 20 year contract between the National Park Service and Union Pacific Rail Road Co to operate concessions in Zion National Park Bryce Canyon Grand Canyon North Rim and Gedar Breaks Monument with Utah Parks Co as the operator. Investment is about 5 million with plans for large scale renovations and expansion. Utah film promotion and NATO attendance noted along with local hobby mining ventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Park Service
Uniort Pacific Railroad Co
Zion National Park
Bryce Can
National Park
North Fm
Grand Canyon National Park
Forest Service
Gedar Breaks National Monument
Utah Parks Co
Salt Lake
Utah
States of the Union
Edward L. Thorndike
Columbia University
Massachusetts
Thorndike
America
Castle Dale
Dr Kay Probes Giant Tracks From Pennsylvania Find
Dr J Leroy Kay curator at Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh leads a museum party to inspect giant prehistoric tracks found in Pennsylvania. The group visited last Sunday to study the mysterious footprints. Early reports suggest the creature predates dinosaurs by about 150 million years.
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J. Leroy Kay
Carnegie Museum
Pittsburg
Uintah Basin
Pennsylvania
Dr. Kay
Uintah High School Play Sets Two December Showings
Uintah high school will present the comedy We Shook The Family Tree on December 9 and 10. The cast includes Hildegarde played by Nannette Markuson and her kinsmen Bob Caldwell and Jimmy Case as brothers. Parents Dolson and Anderson appear as permissive figures, while Ellie Mae Luck and Jim Calder portray rivals and admirers in a light, entertaining production guided by Madge Campbell and Inez Cooper.
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Uintah High School
Hildegarde
Nannette Markuson
Freddy
Bob
Max Caldwell
Jimmy
Garret Case
Dolson
Nola Batty
Stanley Anderson
Ellie Mae
Phillis Luck
Jim
Mary Alice Calder
Sally
Bonnie Adamson
Dale Openshaw
Rita Curtis
UHS
Vernal
Madge Campbell
Inez Cooper
Spanish Fork Hereford Sale Offers 50 Bulls and 15 Females
Spanish Fork to hold the Hereford sale on December 9 featuring about 50 head of bulls and 15 females graded by the Utah extension service as grade B or better. The offering, consigned by 21 leading Utah Hereford breeders, is described as outstanding with most bulls graded B Plus, marking a decade of improvement.
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Utah Extension Service
Spanish Fork
Vearl A. Peterson
Utah
Marden Broadbent
George Henderson
Extension Livestock
Tallest Structure Empire State Building Crowned in 102 Stories
The Empire State Building in New York City rises to 102 stories reaching 1,250 feet. It houses 67 elevators and spans seven miles of elevator shafts, marking it as the world’s tallest structure.
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Empire State Building
New York City
Polar air mass and cold front description
An air mass formed over land and polar regions moves into the United States. The resulting weather reports describe the arrival as a cold front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Seeraviy
Wool Growers Annual Convention Set in Utah
The forty second annual Utah Woolgrowers Association convention will be January 25 and 26 at Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City. An earlier directors dinner is planned for January 24, with a Utah Wool Marketing Association meeting featuring C J Fawcett of Boston as speaker on marketing the 1949 wool clip. The event will focus on animal agriculture and lamb and wool marketing. Over 1000 woolgrowers and spouses are expected.
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Utah
Department of ‘Publicity
United States
National Association of Travel Officials
Rulon 5S
Howells
Miami Beach
Land of the Crimson Cliffs
Valley of Triumph
NATO
Salt Lake City
West Coast
Rangely
Salt Lake
Standard OH Company
North Salt Lake
Pip
Utah Woolgrowers Assn
Hotel Utah
James A. Hooper
Utah! Wool Marketing Assn
C. J. Fawcett
Boston
Mass
National Wool Marketing Corp
Woolgrowers’ Convention
Hooper
Clyde
Heber City
Douglas Clerk
Cedar City
Gun Lock Innovations End Flintlock Era in 1897 Forsyth
In 1897 revolutionary Forsyth gun locks made powder and steel unnecessary for firing, signaling the end of the flintlock era. The development marked a major shift in firearm technology and its practical use.
Rites Held for Falden A. Banson at Roosevelt LDS Chapel
Funeral services for Falden A. Banson of Gusher were conducted Saturday at 12 30 pm at the Roosevelt LDS chapel with American Legion and Bishop Hollis Hullinger in charge. He was killed in action in Maglitz Germany December 17 1944 as a radio operator and waist gunner on a B 24 bomber named Flying Finger. Survived by parents a brother LaMar C Banson Salt Lake City two sisters Ha Mell en Salt Lake City and Verly Atwood Vernal a grandmother Mrs Bernard Banson. Services under Dillman Funeral Home Roosevelt.
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Falden A. Banson
Gusher
Roosevelt Lds Chapel
The
American Legion
Hollis Hullinger
Banson
Maglitz
Germany
LaMar C. Banson
Salt Lake City
Ha Mellen
Verly Atwood
Vernal
Bernard Banson
Junction
Dillman Funeral Home
Roosevelt
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Ben
A. H. Child & Son
Springville, Utah
Joe Marsh
Bud Swanson
United States Brewers Foundation
Texaco Sky Chief
Marsak
Floor Mars
Ad Sky Chief
Montgomery
Texaco
Fifth East
Main Vernal
Wool Growers
Santa Claus
Calder
Vernal, Utah
RAND
Buick
Vernal Motor Sales
South Vernal Ave
Vernal, Utak
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