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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1949
Page
4
In the Seed Old Days notes a New Year wedding at John N. Davis home uniting Elfred Augusta Davis and Ralph Bryson. Also reported are local births, marriages, and office oaths, along with railway and telephony ownership changes, club formations, and early 1910s community events in Vernal and Ashley Valley.
The article traces modern Olympics from its 1896 revival marking the 1st Olympiad, to the 3rd Berlin games that were canceled by World War I. It notes the 12th Games planned for Tokyo shifted to Helsinki and then canceled again due to war, with multiple relocations during conflict.
A famed author, Mark Twain, declined a $500 offer from inventor Alexander Graham Bell who proposed a shakeup product deal. Twain’s past bad luck with similar ventures influenced his decision, and Bell’s identity emerged later.
Ballard Ebes Bredies reports on community linker events as Orlan Cook travels to Idaho for work. Ruby visits Orem on Monday while Mrs. Ruby, mother of John Gardner, lived in Alterra for years. The Butchers relocate from Wyoming to Hard, and Glen Broderick visits Salt Lake City from New Years. Bishop Wiscomb and Erald Wiscomb mark holidays with BYU ties. A Roosevelt stake and high council hosted a New Year party at Alterra seminary after a funeral. Eric Stella returns to duty in San Diego. Glen Molypeux visits from Salt Lake City during Christmas. Buzz Larsen, Cecil Jenkins, Jack Allred, Ward Seeley, Dusyne Kroble and others are noted in various family and ward activities.
Utah winter wheat planting on December 1 was the lowest since 1936 amid a drought early in the fall. Snowfall could improve conditions. Utah plans 284000 harvest acres with a 16 bushel yield and about 4544000 bushels. Nationally, December 1 seeding reached 61370000 acres with an estimated 965000000 bushels for 1949.
Denver magazine highlights Kearns as Utah's fenced ghost town of 1200 acres near Salt Lake City with paved roads, a buried water system for up to 70,000 people, and a $3 million replacement cost. War Assets decision reverses. townsite offered for sale for housing project. Includes Christmas guest lists and local society notes from Utah towns.
The reader asks if they must pay for features that don’t fit their farm and whether the policy can be tailored to their needs. The note from Main St. Phase 92 in Vernal implies seeking guidance on adjusting coverage to exclude unwanted features while maintaining protection.
The winning bidder advances an 18 million dollar improvement program to build 500 homes in the first year at prices from 7000 to 8500 dollars.Plans call for one two and three bedroom houses as 2500 homes or more are projected on the former army camp site of Kearns, Utah, now converted to peacetime use.
Tridell residents attend a wedding dance for Mr and Mrs James Harvey. Tridell home missionaries visited Vernal for a Sunday meeting and Miss Ella Rae Wilson visited John Wilson family. Mrs Newell McKee returned home from the hospital after a Thursday shower.
A welcome home party in the Ballard LDS ward chapel honored Keith Todd and Mark Angus, recently returned missionaries. Todd served in the Texas Louisiana mission and Angus in California. The event included talks by Minnie Angus and Fannie Todd, a dance, and music by the Alterra orchestra directed by Parley Rawlings. Both are returning to school.
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