Uintah County Announces 6.5 Million PWA Project List
Uintah County releases 6.5 million dollars in public works administration projects for Vernal City. Projects include waterworks upgrades 13 000 and extension 45 000, city office building and library 25 000, asphalt sidewalks 23 000 feet 318 000, golf course and recreational grounds 32 000, Boy Scout building 10 000, native asphalt paving 30 000, airport and hangars 5 000, Vernal drains 15 000, sewer system completion 25 000, irrigation ditch lining 4 000.
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PWA
Planning Board Engineer Outlines Utah Project Plan
Uintah County hearing details state wide drive to spend nearly five billion on public works. Paul R Arentz advocates reservoir and irrigation projects to boost tourism and permanent infrastructure, with February 19 deadline for requisitions and emphasis on lasting materials.
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Utah
State Planning Board
Paul R Arentz
Vernal
Arentz
Uintah
Utah Senate Passes Tax Bills as Lawmakers Push Liquor Legislation
Fifth week of the twenty first Utah Legislature shows senate passage of income and corporate tax measures with exemptions and scaled rates. House consideration of liquor control legislation moves forward amid contentious offset provisions reaching compromises.
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Us&spa Service
Senate
Utah
Uintah County FERA Projects Hire 357 Workers
Uintah county FERA projects provide 357 jobs across the county mainly on road building and improvements. Crews operate 24 hours per week with counts ranging from 25 to 110 workers at sites such as Jensen Sunshine dugway Glnes Naples Tricell Ouray Valley Kneale and the Vernal sewer system. County plans to replace FERA with PWA projects aim to preserve jobs into spring and fall 1935.
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FERA
Vern Shimmin
Jensen
Sunshine
Glnes
Ashley Central Canal
Naples
Powell
U.S 40
Tricell
Vernal
Billy Farrar
Tricel
Whiterocks
Avalon
Ouray Valley
Todd Dugway
Kneale Highway
Toch
Kneale
County Planning Board
PWA
FLRA
US 40
Moon Lake
Uintah Basin
Leon H Carroll Dies in Salt Lake Hospital
Leon Rosamond Hardy Carroll wife of DeVere Carroll from Vernal died after an appendicitis operation at LD 8 hospital Salt Lake on Wednesday afternoon. Funeral services set for Saturday at 1 pm in Vernal First Ward chapel under bishopric. She was born June 19 1905 in Vernal daughter of Albert A and Clara Griffin Hardy and survived by her husband son Bert Lloyd five, parents in Manila two sisters Wilda Brimhall Gallup and Alberta Hardy Manila and brother Glenn Hardy Manila.
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DeVere Carroll
Sterling Transportation Company
LD 8
Salt Leake
Carroll
Salt Lake
Weldon KH
Bullock
Cenie
Vernal
Albert A
Clara Griffin Hardy
Uintah High School
DeVere Car-roll
Bert Lloyd
Manila
Wilda
Bully' Brimhall
Gallup
New Mexico
Alberta Yfardy
Glenn Hardy
Hardy
Ashley National Forest
Lewis Allen
Jensen Ward Homecoming Set for February 27
Jensen Ward and former Jensenites are invited to a homecoming on Wednesday evening February 27 starting at 6 PM with a picnic supper. Uintah High School will host activities led by Principal L G Noble. Music spans Old time dancing 9 10 PM Alma N Timothy and Sons Nevas Bang Campbells Band 11 PM to midnight Winns Six Aces from midnight to 1 AM.
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Jensen
Jensen Ward
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Winns Six Aces
Campaign to Build American Legion Home in Vernal
The active campaign to finance a home for American Legion Witbeck Post No 11 and Legion Auxiliary in Vernal has begun. About 2500 tickets are ready for sale for the big event on April 8. The article outlines plans by the Legion and Auxiliary to secure a permanent local home.
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Witbeck Post No 11
Legion Auxiliary
Vernal
Plana of the
Legion and Auxiliary
Dr J L Lewis Succumbs to Heart Attack in Vernal
Dr J L Lewis 48 an optometrist of Provo and former Vernalite died Thursday morning after a heart attack. He had been visiting his jewelry shop with his father W W Lewis and was reportedly in good health prior to the collapse. Born December 8 1886 in Bennington Idaho he studied at USAC Logan Chicago School of Optometry and married twice producing two children Earl and Barbara and a grandson. Survived by his widow three sons a daughter and four siblings, funeral at the Congregational church conducted by Rev George E Guild under Masonic auspices.
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Provo
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Bear Lake County
Idaho
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Julia Tidwell Lewis
Usac Logan
Chicago School of Optometry
Jennie Gurr
Vernal
Earl & Son
Bradley Watson
Florence C Larson
Salt Lake City
Barbara
Jimmy
W W Thesis J
Pike
Car
Lewis
Richfield
Woolgrowers Hold Annual Meet Here
Ash ley Woolgrowers association held its annual meeting at the county courthouse on Saturday. They urged designating several roads as secondary state highways and abolishing the White river toll bridge to save travel costs to the north and south. Board members were elected and the group endorsed a National Wool-growers plan to charge 210 cents per wool bag to fund advertising.
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Court House
Halfway Hollow
Carey-Thompson
Jensen-Watson
Henry H Blood
Uintah County
Vernal Lions Club
White River
County Commission
Asheley Bennion
Wallace Siddoway
W N Preas
Adair Tyzack
B I Stringham
Joseph F Hacking
Harola
Watson
FFRA
Tto
Utah
Snake Johns
Rangely Road
Glenn Lamgbert
Forest Tanger
Forest
George Mil Alexander Dies After Salt Lake Hospital Stay
George Mil Alexander age 22, manager of the Uintah Basin stage line, died Sunday in Salt Lake after injuries from a gasoline explosion at his home. He had been moved to a Salt Lake hospital with his bride, father, brother, and sister at his side, and his death sent Vernal and the Uintah Basin into mourning. The Vernal youth was part of the local Gaub Gang of nine and a standout athlete at Vernal High School and USAC, with a noted basketball and football career and a heroic spirit in his community.
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Salt Lake
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T G Alexander
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Doris Calder
Weldon K Bullock
Georges
Heber City
Wilson Duke
Thire
Harold BE. Bietkle
Louis Roberts
Howard Calder
Harold Key
Carlos Roberty
Don Richardson
Ilton Duke
Dallas Hatch
George Alexander
UHS
USAC
Fort Collins
Frazier to Show Roosevelt Movies of Dangerous Colorado Trip
Dr Russell G Frazier a Bingham physician and surgeon and Colorado river trip survivor will present motion pictures of the dangerous Colorado trip to President Roosevelt next Tuesday at the White House. The films shown across Utah Idaho and Wyoming depict wrecked boats and loss of provisions as the crew faced cataract canyons.
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Russell G Frazier
Bingham
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Lark
East Lake City
Union Pacific System
Los Angeles
Fahrni
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Royce Kowry
Bus Hatch
Fragier
Salt Lake
Dr Frazier
Utah Liquor Question In Legislature War Over By the Bottle
Utah lawmakers face a decisive week as to liquor by the bottle or by the drink with state stores favored by many while private hotel and restaurant sales face stiff opposition. House Bill 41, amended, assigns control to a three member commission under governor appointment. A last minute anti snooping provision restricts public disclosure of state store purchase records and other changes shape the battle. The drive to place liquor measures last on the agenda continues.
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