GM offers 194000 Better Highways contest in Vernal
Community relations head Chris McKinlay reports strong local interest in the General Motors Better Highways contest. Entrants need not be highway experts, as essays will be judged on ideas, not literary merit, with a March 1 deadline and $194,000 in regional and national awards. Local GM dealers provide entry details.
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Vernal
General Motors
Chris McKinlay
General Me
McKinlay
Uintah
United States
District of Columbia
GUSHER Dahlberg Sons Spend Christmas Holidays at Home
Dahlberg family members and relatives gathered for Christmas. Loma Dahlberg, recently injured in Japan, is convalescing in Oakland and will return to California with siblings and relatives in January. Several families and friends from Gusher and nearby communities join the holiday observance in Utah and surrounding areas.
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Gusher Dahlberg Sons
Stalla Underwood
Loma
Harry Dahlberg
Vonnie Dahlberg
Oakland
Japan
California
Navy
Clinton Dahlberg
George Arnold
Inas Hackford
Elinor
Salt Lake City
Helen Macfarland
Roosevelt
Hyrum Domgaard
Leonard Farmsworth
Linn
Naoma Jacobs
Shirley Kay
Keith Clark
Gusher
Gene Farmsworth
Lloyd Smuin
Bonanza
Albert Semkens
Provo
Elmer Giggey
Boulder City
Colp
Giggey
William Ferguson
Fravo
Robina Ferguson
Livestock Show Association to Meet at Court House
The Dr Livestock Show Association will hold a meeting at the Court House at 7 30 p m on January 1. President Don Wall says the purpose is to discuss the 1953 show and set committees in motion. Committee chairmen will be announced later subject to their acceptance and some changes are expected.
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Dr. Livestock Show Association
Court House
Don Wall
Oil Field Service Geeks Party in Uintah Basin
More than five hundred guests attended the first annual Oil Field Service Geeks Party in Vernal at Hotel Vernal. The event featured a buffet dinner and dancing from 9 p.m. to early morning, praised as the largest of its kind in Vernal. Committee chairs included Clyde Carpenter and Paul Cranfill, with numerous sponsoring oil service firms listed among attendees.
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Oil Feld Service Companies
Uintah Basin
Ing
Vernal
Clyde Carpenter
Johnston Testers, Inc
Paul Cranfill
Halliburton Ol Well Cementing Co
Charles Billby
McCullough Oil Tool
L. R
Rat) Fedriz
Hughes Tool Co
St. Stanton Transport Co
Local Notables and Army Assignment Mentioned in Report
The piece notes Texas companies and several named firms, mentions Mr and Mrs Hollingworth spending Christmas in Holladay Utah with relatives, and reports Deb D Timothy son of Earl and Mrs Timothy joining the Army. Timothy serves in Company D 56th Amphibious Tank and Tractor Battalion at Camp McGill in Japan, arriving in the Far East recently after enlisting February 1932.
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Mr. Grgham Hollingworth
Holladay, Utah
Mr. Iollingeworth
Benjamin V. Hollingworth
Camp McGill
Japan
Deb D. Timothy
Earl Timothy
Rt. 1
Moosevelt
Army
Far East
Timothy
Hoe
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Thayrel Cook
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Thomas BD. Dee Hospital
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Jensen School
Larry AuMiller
Carla Ann
AuMiller
Harry AuMiller
Cecil Conner
Maybell
Cale
Mrs Conner
Harold Coole
Salt Lake
John Gross
Frank MacKnight
Necesar
Crawford MacKnight
Artesia
MacKnight
Neldon Eaton
Craig
Bob Smuin
Josie Morris
Lewis Littleton
Alberta
Gale
Ouray
Dave Bicknell
Carlyle Parrish
Douglas Chew
Nile Ainge
Alfred Ainge
Relief Society
Ward House
Amelia Ainge
Rose Robinson
Sarah Peterson
Mia
Ralph Chew
Fred Slangy
Charles Ainge
Island Park
Durin
Don Wal
Pty
Santa Claus
Milo Snow
Clearfield
Donald
Duchesne
Milo
Albert Snow
Newell Snow
Meeker
DeWayne Merriman
Tommy Morgan
School of Mines
Golden
Colorado
Jerre Morgan
Jones
Mies
Pads Mork
Wmehael Lesborn
Mock
Hughla Stewart
Hugh Btewart
Erma Goodrie
Bloyd Gitrean
Livestock Show Assn
Christensen Lijamand Products Co
BS and B Tank Co
Chicago
Preumatic
Hughes ‘Tool Co
Continental Supply
Western Oil Co
Johnston Testers
L.T. Peyston
Mud
Harold
Utah
Colorado Gas Co
Janes Trucking Co
Magcobar
Halliburton
Continental OG Co
Searle's Gas and Appliance Co
Ashton Brothers
Delbert
Safeway
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DOE
Elberta
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