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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1938
Page
4
A long list of residents and visitors mark Christmas holidays across Vernal and surrounding areas. Local couples travel to Pleasant Grove and Provo. several staff from Calders Beauty Parlor and hotels visit Salt Lake City and Eugene. university students from BYU and the University of Idaho spend holidays with family. Junior officials and planning board members prepare for 1939 activities while medical staff and workers resume posts after holidays.
Moneger Community Day drew a large crowd at the ward school grounds with a morning chicken and meat shed meal. Relief Society served dinner to over 160 people, while the Primary officers hosted a children's dance and sold refreshments. A big holiday dance closed the event and Leo Hacking won a bicycle donated by Verdin Johnson.
Anthony Cannon director of the LDG Institute at Flagstaff Aria received a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the 194th convocation of the University of Chicago. Born January 6 1906 in Ogden he is the son of George M and Ellen Cannon. He attended the University of Utah earned an AB, served missions in Mexico, led Church Education seminaries in Grantsville and Vernal, taught at Kaysville Seminary, and in 1933 left the department to study in Chicago where in July he was named director of the new Institute of Flagstart.
Utah Power and Light activated a 125 kilowatt natural gas auxiliary generating unit last Thursday in Ashley Valley. The combined hydro plants at Ashley Canyon and a natural gas unit now reach a top capacity of 580 kilowatts, improving emergency supply for local electrical service.
A hunting party from Meeker and Ouray districts bagged two pumas in the Feekelift area, securing a live young cub and a film of the hunt. The group, including J Harold Reader, J E Jones, F W Mun, H S Tracy, Vern Caldwell, and Floyd Bryant, traveled 29 miles north in rough country, reaching the site at dawn, and bagged one cub and a mature female cougar after tracking with dogs. The hunt produced motion pictures and the party returned to the Alber Timer ranch headquarters near Ouray.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of Uintah State Bank will be held in the bank hall at 2 p m on January 3, 1939. H W Woolley secretary.
The Ver dal Hefco Association will hold its annual meeting in the directors room of the Bank of Vernal on January 16, 1939, at 7 30 pm. The president and secretary will present the annual report, and officers will be elected. any other business may come before the meeting. Douglas, president, Dee J4.
A notice outlines delinquent assessments on stock parcels of a company with a court and official process. It states that unpaid amounts plus costs will be published for sale at the office in Vernal Utah on November 1, 1938, with penalties, postponements, and legal actions noted by the Board of Directors. A subsequent discourse discusses municipal finances and public notices, stressing accountability, accuracy, and the role of newspapers in funding and communicating public affairs.
A 1939 approved project outlines oiling of US Highway 40 in Colorado from Kren milling to Ribbit Fars pass with a four mile stretch through Byvis canyon. The plan covers the highway between Denver and Utah line, pending report in St Steamboat Springs Pilot.
A uranium company seeks abandonment of a proposed Uinta railway project with to be held in Grand Junction during the week of January 0th. Officials in Garfield and Mesa counties reported the hearing plan, with the application for abandonment filed months earlier by the Uintah railroad company operating between Mack Cole and Watson Cat reads in the Sentinel June 1.
A fragmented report notes fines totaling 750 dollars in a local justice court case with arrests and charges listed. The text mentions individuals linked to a highway incident and a later obituary fragment referencing William and Benjamin of Price, a prominent cattleman who never married.
A statement by Aller F Sattar of the state directory notes that in Oklahoma the number of people over 65 receiving assistance stands at about 45 per 1000, or roughly eleven percent of that age group, per the emergency council.
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