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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1962
Page
12
Uintah High School presents six scholarship categories: academic, grants-in-aid, honors, honors at entrance, boards, and loans. Last year 34 cash awards totaling about 4,500 dollars reached Uintah graduates, about 26.8 percent of the class, with seven scholarships declined as students chose other universities.
A neighbor complains his wrist watch loses fifteen minutes daily. The repair department at Sprouse Jewelers restores the abused timepiece to near new condition and offers watch repairs to improve accuracy.
A 1858 Rambler station wagon and a school bus with passengers collided Friday at 6 46 am in Ashley. Damages estimated at 350 dollars. no injuries. Driver Helen Freestone 67 Ashley and James Hemstreet 5 Vernal in respective vehicles. Freestone cited for failure to yield. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper T M Helm investigated.
Twenty forest officers from Uintah, Duchesne and Daggett counties attend a Vernal training course this week. Led by administrator John Barr and regional officer Robert Morgan with entomologist Jerry Knoff, the program trains district and assistant rangers and other Ashley National Forest personnel.
National Woolgrowers Association delegates condemn tariff cuts and call for Congress to recommit to free trade principles. They urge federal policy shifts on water, grazing rights, meat inspection, and subsidies, while opposing import competition and production controls.
The Wildlife Bureau asks the Bureau of Land Management to include locatable minerals in a proposed 1704 acre withdrawal for the Quray National Wildlife Refuge. The lands, about 25 miles south of Vernal, would be withdrawn from acquisition under mining laws but mineral leasing would still apply. Public comments due by March 1 to BLM Salt Lake City Utah.
Dr G Dalley announced Friday that Derhomann and Crawford completed the new Forest Service warehouse at Fifth East and Second South costing 40503. It will store materials for the Supervisore Office and Vernal Ranger District with two fire cache rooms and two sign shop rooms employing four men in winter. Public invited to visit during weekdays.
A two vehicle crash Wednesday at 12 40 pm left one car in a canal in Maeser. Damages totaled 325 dollars with a 1858 Dodge Powerwagon driven by Doyle Keer Smith and a 1958 Mercury sedan driven by Maurice Warby Vernal. Trooper I M ffelm investigated.
The Vernal District Office announces winter development of several campgrounds north and south of Vernal. Area A1 expands recreation planning tied to the Flaming Gorge Dam project with hiking trails near sites like Brown's Park Clay Basin and Little Mole country. The area, famed as Brown's Park outlaw country, promises heightened tourist interest and historic attractions.
New road signs approved to replace the old black WU markers with a white beehive framed route number. Design led by J Edward Johnston James W Both and Jack L Noblett under highway department planning and traffic teams. Changeover to occur gradually over years says C Taylor Burton director.
Marine Pvt Rufus M Starr, ward of Mr and Mrs Paul iMeyes of Ft Duchesne, serves with the Third Marine Aircraft Wing at El Toro Air Station. Acticopters transports and jets from the wing support infantry of the First Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California.
Sather Jewelry Company of Roosevelt and Vernal buys a 5 percent store buying combine interest. A meeting of Western States jewelers at Mountain Shadows Resort Motel in Lentsdale Arizona on January 1 formed the cooperative. Attendees included Sather and his wife Bonne Lee of Roosevelt and HR Sather of Craig Colorado, representing Sather Jewelry companies of Utah Colorado and Wyoming. The move aims to provide multi million dollar cooperative buying power and savings for customers as offices for the world diamond market in Antwerp Belgium are planned.
A list of 30 names chosen as petit jurors for the first term of the Fourth Judicial District Court includes Marvin C. Bolton W Russell Todd Ballard Howard Williams Douglas B. Lawson Maesur J Ross Merrill Paul Ingram Arthur L Wilson Bonanza Larson I Caldwell Robert Williams May H Calder Russell Montgomery Charles Hudick Edward A Gee Carl Duff Swain Carl Searle Duane Paulson Apron Jolley Mildix T Jones Frank S I Judd Vernal Orville Swain Ty Rasmussen Lapolni Raymond Jenkins Wayne Batty Owen Powell Gilles Glen D Davidson Ivan Batty Claud Allred Ashley Maymund Stewart Woodrow Showinsen Richard Coltharp White Rocks.
Milton Searle of Ver Nor Sth Ward son of Carl and Mrs Searle has been called to serve in the Eastern Atlantic States mission. He will enter the mission home in Salt Lake City March 5 and depart March 12.
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