Vernal Bantam Team Girds for Playoff in Salt Lake City
Vernal Bantam Basketball continues momentum as all six Vernal league teams reach a playoff run. The Hawks, undefeated 6-0, meet Salt Lake Skyline winner in Salt Lake City while other local squads prepare at Ashley Valley Jr High for a charity game supporting Utah Society for Crippled Children. The event includes a daylong LDS stake conference and multiple youth activities.
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Vernal Bantam
Salt Lake City
Hawks
Salt Lake
Salt Ake City
Utah National Guard
Ashton Broz Co
Ralph Ashton
Gene Nay Hall
Ashley Valley Jr High School
Utah Society For Crippled Children
Vernal Unities
Nanks
Rams
Vernal Drug Co
Kings Basin Marine
Frank Wright
Porter Phillips
Dinon
Superior Tire and Ross Construction Co
Kenneth, Sewards
Dan Oaks
Knata
Rexall Drug
Vernal Junior Chamber of Commerce
Asa Johnston
Max Woolley
Vernal Chamber Plans March 15 Election and Meeting
The Vernal Chamber of Commerce announced its annual meeting and election for March 15. Officers include Glade M Sowards as chairman of the nominating committee and a full board update with Bruce Christian replacing Delbert Tirown. The group also discussed travel show displays, community service drives, and funding for a youth center. The Agricultural tour is set for March 8, led by Bid Merkley.
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Vernal Chamber of Commerce
Vernal
Glade M Sowards
JC Haws
Buell Iennett
Lyman Merkley
Arden
Stewart
G T Parkinson
Lynne King
Harold Richardson
Don Showalter
Orville Swain
Bruce Christian
Delbert G Tirown
Don Mulecam
Los Angeles
Dinosaur Land Advertising, Inc
Stuart W Oldrich
Misrellancoun
Chamber
Merkley
Cold Wave Crops Vernal Sets Freezing Mark
Vernal awoke to 17 below zero with Jensen registering 22 below as one of the chilliest spells in years. Snow fell an inch in lower elevations, winds created drifts on county roads, but most vehicles cleared. Week precipitation at 0.05 inch. highs ranged 25 to 32 as Alaska posted 39.
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Vernal
Jensen
Ashley Valley
Alaska
Naples Ashley Power Line Upgrade to Three Phase Service
Beginning the week of February 22 Moon Lake will convert the Naples Ashley line to full three phase and replace small conductors with larger ones to improve service. A portable generator will be used to reduce outages while work proceeds with daily short outages during generator swap and restoration from the permanent source.
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Moon Lake
Naples-Ashley
Indian Canyon Highway Bid Set For March
Bids will be sought in March for the first stretch of the Indian Canyon road from the Duchesne end a five mile link between Uintah Basin and main arteries. The approx 140000 dollar contract will be state funded with cooperation from Uintah Basin cities and counties. A second 5 mile end from Castle Gate in Carbon County will be advertised in April for about 300000 dollars, with state road officials meeting county leaders to discuss the project. The new road is expected to boost the basin economy and affect Duchesne businesses and rental housing.
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Indian Canyon
Duchesne
Uinish Basin
Utah State Road Commission
Uintah Basin
Castle Gate
Carbon County
State Road Department
County
R A Gillis
Jim West
E J Wilson
Vernal Area Big Dollar Days Opens Friday
Vernal's Big Dollar Days runs Friday Saturday and Monday with extra special buys on all needs. Cilp the ads for shopping lists. A free children's matinee will be held Saturday at the Vogue theater. Tickets available at local stores. Dour Days is sponsored by Vernal Chamber of Commerce merchants committee.
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Vernal
Vernal Express
Cilp
Vogue Theater
Retail Merchants Committee of
Vernal Chamber of
Vernal Rod and Gun Club
Vernal City
Stan King
Dale Jensen
Larson Caldwell
Angus Slaugh
Bob Williams
Conley Aldridge
Tex Sweatfield
Davis
Naples
Douglin Morrell
Jerry Kloeppel
Ashley
Louie Freestone
Jr Glines
Marie Turner
Emer Heniloe
Maeser
Don Turner
Lorin Hacking
D C, Roberts
Roland Merkley
Warren G Merkley
Red Wash Bonenza
RL Mason
Bb Griggs, Jr
J M Woast
Merle Chamberlain
Randlett Leota
Earl Moore
Albert Harris
Arena
Lapoint
Tridel
Whiterocks
Jensen
Dept. of Fish and Game
Marlon Moore Born in Casper Hospital in Wyoming
Marlon Pete Moore son of Mrs Leafy Moore of Jil Casper Wyoming was born in a Casper hospital. Mr Moore and family recently moved from Vernal where they had been residents for months.
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Marlon
Pete) Moore
Leafy Moore
Casper, Wyoming
Mr Moore
Flaming Gorge Dam nears 21 percent, concrete work starts
Flaming Gorge Dam in Utah is 21 percent complete as the $32 million unit of the Colorado River Storage Project advances. Concrete pouring is slated to begin in June with tower cranes and two cableways planned, a batching plant under construction, and a 480 foot arch dam rising 1,180 feet long. The reservoir will back up nine miles, and a 27 foot roadway will link Dutch John and Vernal across the crest.
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Flaming Gorge
Colorado
Temendous
Keyways
Henry's Fork
Dutch John
Woolgrowers Meet Opens Saturday In Vernal Utah
The annual Ashley Uintah Woolgrowers Association meeting at Hotel Vernal will feature grazing and import threats to the industry. Morning sessions include Forest Service and BLM reports. officers to be elected. a banquet and dance to close. Notables include Welby Aagard Rex Morgan and Alden K Barton.
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Ashley Uintah
Woolgrowers Association
Hotel Vernal
Forest Service
Bureau of Land Management
Utah State Fish and Game Dept
Wi F Farnsworth
Andrew McConkie
The
Rex Morgan
ILM
Owen W Morrin
Utah Fish and Wildlife Dept
Alden K Barton
Ashley Stake Yearly Party Slated Monday
Ashley LDS Stake marks its third anniversary with a Monday evening event at 7 30 pm in the stake center featuring vocal and instrumental music readings and games. Primary members will sell homemade candy to support the new stake center fund with leadership from Stake Sunday School, 97th Quorum of Seventy, MIA, Relief Society and others. Herold E Davis is general chairman.
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McConkie
Relief Society
Ashley Lds Stake
Stake Center
Fund For the New
Stake
Herold E Davis
Officials and Directors Named in Meeting Record
Dent, and directors Rulon Hacking, Harold E Davis, Lynn Maber and W A Banks, and Ken Stringham, secretary.
Plans outlined for promoting Vernal area attractions
Dinosaur Land Advertising Inc discussed plans to promote Vernal area tourism at its annual meeting held at Hotel Vernal. Kay Ikins of a Salt Lake ad agency, Earl Semington of Dinosaur National Monument, and Andrew McConkie of Ashley National Forest spoke on recreational development and billboard strategies along U S. The group noted colored slides shown to Wasatch Front cities and cited high weekend motel occupancy from Salt Lake, Provo, and Logan regions.
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Vernal
Dinosaur Land Advertising, Inc
Kay Iitchens
Salt Lake
Agenc
Earl Semington
Dinosaur National Monument
Andrew McConkie
Ashley National Forest
U. S
Micheng
Wasatch Front
Salt Lake Provo- Logan
Junior and Senior Division Basketball Start Monday
Junior High hosts junior and senior division basketball starting Monday at Ashley Valley Jr High. Five games jam schedule. 5 p.m. Neola vs Vernal 4th leads off, followed by Vernal vs Duchesne winner, then Vernal 2nd vs Tabiona/Alta winner, and 30 pm staff reflect. Senior games begin around 4:00 pm with Vernal Sr and Roosevelt 4th in action.
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Ashley Valley Jr .High School
Shirley Prica
Neola
Vernal
Vernal Sthva
Duchesne Stake
Tablona
Alta
Ee Renee
Tabiona
Altamont Gate Lapoint
Roosevelt
Vernal Srn
Tt Remctiloiet
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Dick Toss
Gary Goodrich
Lynn Pack
Hicky Goats
Mike Ashton
Stoward Tusch
Hack Raw
Gane Rey Mall
Nalph Ashion
Ronnie Pederson
Kan Price
Norman Powell
Jim Heexo
Dale Lee
Neldon Oaks
Jack Collett
Steve Tate
LDS
Uintah Stake
Bruce McConkle
First Council of Seventy
A Lewis Figgrexr
General Church Welfare Committee
Elggren
Stake Tabernacle
Stake Relief Society
Indian Canyon Highway
Basin Area
Ead Taylor
Sid So
O. J. Darnett
Variety Store
Tite
Glenn Dartlett
Manila
Ted Thomas
Bryce
Uiel
Actress
Flaming Gorges Dam
Bureau of Reclamation
B. Slote
Woolgrowers
Ashley Stake
Dinosaur Land Advertising Inc
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