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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1943
Page
11
Local families from Roosevelt and surrounding areas welcome relatives for Christmas. Daughters and sons of Stringham, Burke, Colton, and McConkie families visit parents in Roosevelt and Salt Lake City. Some travel from Camp Amarilla, Camp Beal, and Duchesne for holiday gatherings.
Last Tuesday in Prim ary a Christmas program was held with a dance and games. Presents of popcorn and peanuts were given to each child. MTA hosted events at the ward chapel last Wednesday. Several residents announced home purchases and moves, including the Erekson and Perry households. Families and relatives spent holidays with and near Vernal, Utah, with travel to New York and Salt Lake City noted for some.
A conference of USDA officials urged states and counties to adopt a dairy improvement plan. Utah has long run similar projects including dairy herd improvement, disease testing, and modern farm buildings. Key goals include higher milk production, better feed strategies, rest periods for cows, selective culling, market sale of wholesome whole milk, and breeding for superior herd replacements.
War Production Board rules limit civilian wool use after November actions. Exemptions exist for domestic wool clips, but finer alpaca and carpet wool remain banned. Wool stockpile nears 800 million pounds, keeping production machinery ready for future needs and protecting supply amid global shipping threats.
Fragmentary notes recount Christmastide visits in Vernal among the Broome, Thorne, and Meadow families. Mentions Mr Broome recovering from four operations, Stewart on furlough with the SeaBees in Rhode Island then Mississippi, Bilmer Meadows on leave with Salt Lake relatives, and Willow Creek pauses before a baby’s return. Entry notes army service beginning in 1942.
The annual stockholders meeting of Uintah State Bank will be held Tuesday January 4 at 8 pm. Grant West, Secretary. Card of thanks from the family of Scharlotte Winn expresses appreciation for kindness, flowers, speakers, music, cars, and sympathy during their bereavement.
A terse weather note reports a brief cold snap with temperatures ranging from a high near 63 on Saturday to a low of 8 on Wednesday. The week shows readings of 32 and 5 on Sunday, 32 and 3 on Monday, 27 and 5 below on Tuesday, and 8 as a below zero low midweek, per observer A T Johnson.
Christmas Eve arrivals and family visits mark the Naples scene with Ferrel Massey from Camp Abbott, Lt Frank Goodrich home on furlough, and Sgt Edwin Merrell returning from Hawaii for officers training. The Monarch Divine Cantata at Naples chapel, directed by Earl Goodrich, featured solos by Orla Goodrich and Nellie Richens, while a Primary program and Christmas pageant entertained residents.
Wallace Southam Elders Quorum spoke as did Wendell Nash and Fer el Massey. Mr Lovell Simmons left Tuesday night for Denver to meet her husband on active Navy duty and they will spend a short time there before returning home. Earl Rasmussen, a cook in the Maritime Service, spent a week furlough here, returning Sunday, accompanied to Salt Lake City by his sister Mary. Miss Monnette Myers returned to Eugene, Oregon after a brief stay with her grandfather David L Richards. The theatre was open and veterans were noted on East Broadway. Mr and Mrs William Weeks of Sunnyside spent Christmas here. Weeks, a foreman carpenter, returned to work Tuesday. his father A A Weeks also visited and is recovering from a recent operation.
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