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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1948
Page
7
The Uintah school paper reports on a vibrant youth conference with 400 students attending two evenings of talks and activities. Highlights include etiquette quizzes, a film dance, a powerfully cheering Alterra student body, and praise for volunteers who cleaned the Home Economics department.
A Thursday night reception wrapped up the two evening UHS Youth Forum at Uintah High School. Madge Campbell won the $64 question on how the conference affects students, while Emily Post etiquette volumes and teen manners were highlighted through a display and demonstrations by Phil Colton, Anne West, Connie Lundell, and Clair Rosa Hopkins.
The river commission discussed legal and engineering issues, with subcommittees to study projects near Vernal. They stressed respecting Indian water rights and Colorado's share of the 7,500,000 acre feet obligation, as delegates from Vernal led the large delegation.
Philadelphia report shows rising one cent demand amid price shifts and taxes. Supt. Edwin H. Dressel notes the Mint has ample copper, citing 230,000,000 pennies minted in 1946 and 07,786,000 in vaults, with 901,685,000 pennies coined in 1946 and 17,800,000 in ten months of 1947, indicating large surplus still held.
Vonda Lee Fletcher, a senior, won the annual Woolley extempore speaking contest at United High School. Second place went to Joan Caldwell and third to Wayne Lundell for talks on the United Nations and related topics.
Uintah High School students will hear David E Starry present West Indian Witchcraft with illustrations and tales of Caribbean peoples customs and life. Starry is acclaimed as an informative entertaining lecturer.
Alterra High presents an all student assembly at Uintah High Friday afternoon featuring multiple acts and solos. Participants include Eric Stella Colleeni Rasmussen Joan Nebeker Bonnie Kump Twilla Simmons Shir ey Huber with numbers Polish Dance Serenade Dance Ballerina Dance Peggy Day Marion Rasmussen Maxine Nyberg Maxine Kitchen Lela Mooseman Margie Robb Norma Hatch Barbara Tussin Noble Clark Lynn Haslem Ona Bartlett Carol McConkle Shirley Huber Melds Rasmussen Isola Morrill Della Mae Arnold Dale Patterson Byron Worricks and more performing solos duets and choruses with titles like The Best Things in Life Are Free Home On The Range You Made Me Love You and April Showers.
Uintah High School home living classes study nursing under Mrs Ruth Cooper and Mrs Helen Taylor for about twelve weeks starting January 12. The instructors alternate days with Taylor in period four and Cooper in period six. Mildred Botsford prepares and leads the next day’s discussion for the nurses. The course covers bed patient care, mobilized patients, and how to administer meds.
Funeral services for John W. Bascom 79 former Vernal resident who died in Santa Monica California will be held Friday noon at the Vernal First Ward chapel under Bishop Ross Merrell. Bascom died from causes incident to age he had two marriages and eight children surviving with a brother Kimball Bascom and an adopted sister Nelile Stanley Burial will be in Vernal Memorial Park under Swain Funeral Home direction.
In Windom and oriental designs, carnations appear freely as border accents. The bloom is described as a symbol of wisdom, reflecting cultural associations with the flower in decorative art.
South Dakota farmers increased yields and savings by adopting research results. Gains include oats from newer varieties, seed use reductions and higher meat output, improved feeding for cattle sheep and swine, and better poultry breeding feeding and management. Total impact cited as $80,552,000.
Mrs Cooper and Mrs Taylor demonstrate how to inform the physician inform the diet of the sick person and care of the new born baby. The class then practices the methods, with films aiding discussions. The sessions cover mental, emotional, and physical health from birth to adulthood.
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