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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1948
Page
11
Readable notes describe funeral service mockery for a student, Donna Jean Jones leaving Avant High to finish junior year, and cheerleader changes. It covers youth convention plans with talks on future careers, manners, personality, and self knowledge. Also notes fashion trends, upcoming weddings, and campus gossip at Uintah High.
Kingsley Congregational church plans a Sunday 11 am worship service and ballot vote on a proposed merger with the Evangelical and Reformed church. Rev Joseph H. Netned announces two questions: approval of the merger and whether the merged church will continue as part of the United Church of Christ.
Members of St Pauls Parish gather for the annual meeting as Dr H W Marrs reports on church school growth and outlines action plans for the year. Treasurer Tes Neal presents six months finances while Rev Cab Je emphasizes church influence in the community and scout units helping juvenile issues.
VA reports only 0.4 per cent of 4,807,000 enrolled veterans have exhausted their education benefits under the OT Bill of Rights. About 1,800,000 veterans quit training early, and 123,000 disabled veterans in the rehabilitation act have suspended training or been declared rehabilitated.
Funeral services for Mrs Ella Emith Burton age 35 who died during childbirth at Uintah County Hospital were held at the Lapoint Ward Chapel with Bishop L J Walker presiding. Speakers included Joy Marsillit Huber and Bishop Walker. musical numbers featured several soloists. Burial followed at Lapoint Cemetery with Alburt Norton dedicating the grave. Mrs Burton is survived by her husband seven children and two sons in law and two sisters.
Cub Scouts aged nine to eleven not in any club are invited to the Witbeck American Legion Pack final organization meeting at Legion Home on Saturday from 4:00 pm. Cubmaster Joseph H Varner announced the event, with Glen Adams as committee chairman. Parents must accompany attending boys. registration will be completed and a Cub Scout Circus is planned as part of Boy Scout week.
In Brooklyn a notable opening is marked with a grand ceremony on May 11, 1562. Details are sparse but the event signals a new venture or building launch attracting local interest.
Clive M. Coupe, 18, first Uintah County boy to die in service, at Norfolk Virginia from cerebomeningitis. John Dyer plans a $35,000 40 room hotel in spring. City council raises the water superintendent salary to $100 monthly. Draft board denies bribes allegation of soldiers gaining de ferment. New $15,000 Second Ward Chapel underway. A wave of petty thefts sweeps Vernal. Clothing stores report retail sales. Vernal registers 50 to 60 degrees with no snow all winter as robins and bluebirds return. Forest Ranger A Hardy notes only 16 inches of snow in the mountains. Marriages listed: Rosa Slaugh and Robert Cook, Magdalene Zummerman and Eugene Hanson.
Mrs Thorne dies after long life of teaching and homemaking in Vernal region. She married George E Thorne in 1890 at Bellwood Nebraska and moved through Ashley and Dry Fork before settling near Vernal. Survived by husband four sons six grandchildren and one great grandchild. She taught at multiple area schools and started the first Sunday School in the locality.
Rev Joseph H. Varner Jr. will lead Sundays 11am worship at Kingsbury Community Church. From Baye to Man is the seroson subject chosen to honor Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from Cat regational or similar denominations expected to attend.
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