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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1942
Page
3
The Basin's express shipments routed via Price delay days, while Salt Lake service is daily. Businesses suffer loss and embarrassment as consignments sit in Price. Call for change to ensure quicker routing and public service commission consideration.
The piece argues against raising existing taxes or imposing new ones without thorough analysis and criticizes using Social Security payroll taxes for general funding. Senator Vandenburg condemns targeting Social Security for other deficits, urging straight war and defense taxes and swift spending cuts to finance defense, framing fiscal policy as essential to wartime effort.
Mrs Abner Swain and son Darrell depart Lapoint for East Lake City for medical care. Several Vernal visitors come to Lapoint including C K Bath and Elmo Harty. The MIA performs a one act play directed by Mrs Aujeen Huilinger. A baby girl arrives to Mr and Mrs Dean Cox, care at Price. Local band mothers sponsor a children’s dance with refreshments and a night dance drawing a large crowd. Sunday school stake officers from Vernal attend services. Missing in action is a son reported by family of Pearis and Hardy takes his wife to Vernal for medical care.
James Harvey is building a new home on the corner above Jake Workman's. Eiliston Murray and Miss Carrie Jensen were married on Wednesday. The contract for the new school buildings at the junction of the Uintah and Duchesne Rivers was given to Geabolt. The Upper Burns Beach Irrigation Co. are pushing work. They are bringing the ditch along the cave at the Brush Creek. The war with Chul was only pence.
Weekly News Analysis notes after censorship restrictions were loosened that U S forces destroyed four military air bases and two villages, sank at least six ships including a liner, damaged eight more, and downed 38 Japanese aircraft. General MacArthur’s mobile artillery halted Japanese attempts to land on Luzon as divisions totaling around 100,000 were identified in front-line strength. The piece also covers price control debates in the Senate, LaGuardia resignation, and OCD leadership changes.
Senate agriculture panel backed a bill to stop Secretary Wickard from using surpluses to curb prices. If passed, it would ban action to hold wheat, cotton, and corn prices down unless they rose 10 percent above parity. The move aims to shift policy away from broad price suppression to livestock incentives.
James B. Landis former head of the SEC and Harvard Law dean assumes civilian defense leadership, replacing LaGuardia who will focus on New York City defense. Critics target OCD health, entertainment and social uplift programs amid amendments banning public entertainment spending.
Washington reports all silk processors must sell their entire stocks of silk within 48 hours or face commandeering. Congress was told the scrap silk shortage stems from heavy shipments to Japan before the war declaration.
In New York the 63,000-ton Normandie now Lafayette lies 40 feet down and 12 feet deep in mud at her dock. A $20,000,000 salvage job for the U.S. Navy is underway as 2,200 workers convert the ship from peacetime to wartime use. a welder’s torch sparked a fire that quickly raged out of control.
In Singapore strategy reports, the waterpincers tactic used by Japanese forces in Malaya drives defenders from the Malay peninsula toward Singapore. General Yamashita earns top awards for breaking British lines, achieving island tests of battle and cutting routes like the Burma road while protecting Japan’s rear.
FBI conducted intensified raids along the Pacific coast netting alleged spies and traitors. In Monterey and Salinas a former Tokyo police chief and a high official were identified among detainees. three Buddhist priests at a Monterey county temple were questioned. A bootlegger with a police record and a dealer were seized with a truckload of ammunition and weapons. across 45 raids, 60 845 rounds were recovered. Talks on tea panic lead to new agency setup for tea rationing and sugar prosecutions rise as a store manager is fined for illicit sales.
Dutch leaders warn of a massive Japanese pincers against Java while forces land on Celebes. Axis reports claim Tokyo seeks Java oil and East Indies surrender, but Dutch reply that no proposals will be entertained. Scorched earth policy continues as guerrilla actions slow Japanese gains and a New Zealand arrival signals a U.S. supply base setup.
The article notes Gene Merkley, ex-Tridel, wed Feb 6 in Mesa Arizona Temple with his mother Mrs Nellie Merkley present. It mentions his California employment, Ed Simmons helping with school lunches, and various locals from East Lake City and Vernal visiting or preparing training camps. Other named individuals include Hermand Woolley, Oran Morrill, E Merkley, Sybert Smith, Nate Reed, Horace Berkman, Warren Richardson, and J Headér amid a community notice of recent movements and social events.
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