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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1930
Page
3
Prom committee tightens plans for March social event at Umtah High School. Chairman Carl Roberts and Coral Eston oversee meetings on decorations with a pirate theme and formal details. Only paired students admitted. junior high excluded. Further announcements promised as plans finalize.
Agricultural notes urge farmers to buy and raise early hatched chicks by March 1 to exploit peak fall and winter egg prices. Early hatchlings reach laying by September, cutting costs and boosting profits three to five times over late hatchings, according to experimental stations and leading hatcheries.
Debating Seasu at Uintah High School kicks off its debut season with a junior varsity effort. Tryouts were held February 19 and mumps affected attendance. eight students tried out, four were selected, two more added later. The team includes Howard Ceider LaMfar Cook Letha Hur Come Po Marcel Young Louis Fic. Roosevelt last spring saw Uintah win about half its debates, and the current squad aims to match or surpass that showing with speeches in progress.
Uintah staff plans a competition entry for a national journalism contest held by a Denver based fraternity. They aim to submit three consecutive issue numbers and rely on headlines editorial polish and news value to win recognition for the school paper.
Uintah Basin Railroad League petitions to intervene in the D & RGW rail purchase case before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The group, representing Uintah and Duchesne counties including Vernal and Roosevelt, urges a rail route through the Uintah Basin to spur economic growth and connect to a broader transcontinental network. Local leaders stress unity, funding, and expert legal help to push for a through line and opening markets for livestock and farming.
The departmental play Do the Dead Stay Dead travels from Uintah County to Heber for Friday and Saturday performances. It marks the first time the cast leaves the county for a reproduction, aiming to bolster cast experience and Uintah's reputation. Isabell Hislop has returned to Nevada, replaced by Afton Hinghem as the tea?eakeep cast change noted.
In The Vernal Express want ads connect buyers and sellers. Your message reaches about 2,000 readers in their homes, read in leisure time when decisions are made.
An appeal highlights low costs for want ads with average charges described as just a few cents per issue. Readers are urged to call 24 to place and have their copy correctly worded and published.
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