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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1954
Page
12
The National Safety Council notes Christmas weekend traffic deaths rose last year with 619 fatalities. December 24 is the peak danger day due to early darkness and poor visibility from weather and fogged windshields. The message urges extra caution and courtesy to reduce collisions.
Howard Delroy Andreasen 36 dies alongside siblings Arion 25 Conn LaMonte 29 and Joyce not named in final line in a road crash near Ontario Oregon on November 25. The Andreasen family from Salt Lake City and Vernal area includes June Manwaring Andreasen now in hospital with critical brain injuries.
Lawmakers expect a tempered fight over population based reapportionment after a split over the one senator per county plan. Big four counties and rural blocs resist extreme population weighting while Salt Lake and Utah County officials push for a compromise or alternative plans. Labor and city dwellers back proportional representation as talks continue.
Boneta Freestone and Zella Leo report Uintah Utah youths saw a musical version of the Old Maid with a thief character. The production was staged twice for junior and senior high students on December 3, featuring the Old Maid and her servant breaking into a liquor store.
Augusta Diets See, in Richmond Virginia, has printed over 3,000,000 copies of the Declaration of Independence. The distribution has been through Sertoma Clubs, the Elks in Boulder Colorado, Boy Scouts, and other organizations, often at personal loss.
The Vernal Field Archery Club held a Sunday rabbit hunt at Cockieburr Flat with sixteen archers and fifteen rabbits. Max McLean and Lorin Hacking led the field with three rabbits each while most participants enjoyed the outdoors and recreation over meat.
The column urges expanded and better library space at the old Central School building in Vernal. It argues crowded shelves hinder reading, notes the value of wide reading for independent thinking, and recounts a Florida Everglades camp book-donation tale to illustrate reading’s transformative impact.
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