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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1942
Page
3
National Wool Growers Association urged using funds for immediate war needs and predator control by limiting government activities. The annual convention called for curtailing nonessential programs to advance economy and war aims, saying do first things first and address domestics after the war.
The Utah governor denounces southern and eastern counties for knocking peers while their regions lose population to northern Utah and California. He cites 23,000 unemployed locally against 35,000 slated for defense industry jobs and urges a cooperative push to lure new industry to the underserved areas. The Salt Lake Tribune summary notes his critique of state and Salt Lake interests.
Utah writers and explorers recount the bison story from plains and mountains. Trappers report buffalo in northern Utah after 1824, with severe winters in 1830 31 decimating herds. early pioneers find buffalo scarce by 1847 and extinct in mountains decades later. Smithsonian studies in the 1880s fail to prove a distinct mountain bison, deeming plains and mountain forms biologically identical.
Leota Wetter Stas Cahin Jorgenson and Mary Young visited Roosevelt on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Harry Aumiller and son Lawrence visited Vernal and Jensen on Saturday. Bishop and Mrs Austin Wardle attended the President's Ball in Vernal Friday. Mr and Mrs Parney Miller and Mr and Mrs Clell Miller were in Roosevelt Saturday.
Utah projects approved for Federal Works Agency funds include Josh County irrigation works near Levan with ditching pipe and sidewalks along Levan streets and Highway 91, plus Ogden storm sewer extensions. Other items cover Price control bill progress, Roosevelt on ABDA theater, anti monopoly efforts, civilian rail travel surveys, canned goods allotment for wartime needs, and WPA shift for war-dislocated workers.
Federal guidelines for men and boys wear limit two trouser styles, ditch patch pockets and cuffs, shorten coats by an inch, and cap length for overcoats at about 46 inches. Civilian radio and phonograph production faces a 40 percent cut for 60 days. Anticipated savings include copper, aluminum, nickel, and steel as large radio manufacturers shift to total war production.
On January 30 a President's Birthday dance was held in the recreation hall at Gonanis with Eugene Bundquist in charge of arrangements.
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