Kiwanis Installation Dinner-Dance A Festive Highlight
A Kiwanis holiday event at Hotel Vernal drew over 90 members, guests, and dignitaries including Governor Le Roy Olsen. The evening featured installation of Dwight Wetenkamp as president with new officers and directors, a welcome by Ken Cross, and a late night social with Bob Bath’s orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwan Fonth
Hotel Vernal
Kavweant Anns
Guiyts
le Roy J Olsen
Provo
June Vance
Cloct Wayne Myra
Marry
Mary Gifford
John A Woxee
Orson M Stevens
Prul Asay
Roosevelt Club
Joey Peterson
Ber Joe Puch
Patren Bruce
Ft 2B
Flenderson
Ted Mohr
Meagay
D D G Roberts
Kiwanis
Ken Cross
Dwayne Anderson
How Marrs
Alf Tassainer
Governor Olsen
Doight Wetenkamp
Calvin Johnson
Claude Bruce
Dwayne Anderson Paul Armstrong
Leroy Smith
Claudius Banks
George Millecam
Bruce Preece Returns Home After Two Year Mission
Bruce Preece son of the Earl B Preeces spent New Year's Eve in Salt Lake at a mission ary reunion. He attended a meeting there Sunday morning and arrived home in time for genealogical meetings at Vernal Ist Ward. He was accompanied by three companions Robert Critchlow James Moon and Don Latimer. They returned to Provo after a fireside at Carolyn Wallis home. Bruce in ROTC recently finished two years in the Western Canadian Mission serving as president of the Okanagan district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Preece
Earl B Preeces
Salt Lake
Vernalist Ward
Bruce
Robert Critchlow
Ogden
James Moon
Provo
Don Latimer
Salt Lake City
Carolyn Wallis
Preece
Byu Bruce
Okan- Unique
Formationsagan
Penticton
British Columbia
Uinta Basin
Canada
Untermann
Uintas
Utah
Unitas
Uinta
Darrow McCarthy's Visit Oakland Over Holidays
Mr and Mrs Darrow McCarthy spent the holiday season in Oakland visiting his parents, holding a Christmas reunion with siblings. They also saw George and Mrs Davis in Sacramento and spent New Year’s in Salt Lake City with Mr and Mrs I. J. Tanner. They report severe California road conditions and detours but reached home safely.
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Darrow McCarthy
Oakland
California
Mr. McCarthy
O ' McCarthy
Mr McCarthy
Sacramento
George Davises
McCarthy
Salt Lake City
Tanner
Hamne
Rock hobby grows into business for WWII veteran in Vernal
Maurice Henry, a World War II veteran and former Pacific theater combat engineer, turned a postwar rock hobby into a thriving Vernal Main Street store. He specializes in lapidary work, jewelry making, watch repairs, and silversmithing, displaying opal, bloodstone, amethyst, aquamarine, tiger's eye, and metechite alongside local agate and jasper specimens. Henry notes local sources like river sands and east of Steinaker, explains silica geology, and describes his polishing process using a three‑month tumbler routine, with family helping run operations.
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Maurice Henry
Thorne Studio
Vernal
Combat Engineers
Pacific
Weary
Mercur
Utah
T Henry
Henry
Australlia
India
Africa
Sieinaker
Jensen
Neary
County Road Improvements and Bridge Projects Details
County officials reported on road and bridge work including 453 miles improved at a cost of 34 350 and 13 bridges built costing 11 316 with notable spans on Ashley Creek Deep Creek and Horseshoe Bend The plan included 85 metal culverts and 10 wooden culverts while discussions explored a Vernal Brimh Creek link and Randlett bottom graveling for school bus service with local delegation seeking action.
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Don Wall
Massey
Davis
Basin
Frank Collier
Independence Bridge
Indian Beach Road
Ashley Creek
BH Stringham
Vernal
Brinh Creek
Art Tomlingen
Preston Searle
Randlett
Henrys phrase on sawing agate and polishing wheels
Mr Henry states that sawing a large agate can take up to ten minutes. His polishing wheels vary in grade, each finer than the last to yield a lasting polish and lustrous finish. He is often accompanied on geological trips by his wife Ruth and daughters Sharon 15, Andrea 4, and Glenna 15 months.
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Henry
Eis
Ruth
Sharon
Andrea
Glenna
Convent to be Dedicated Next Sun
Dedication services for the New Convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement will be held Sunday January 8 at the convent in Roosevelt. An open house will follow. Parishioners of St James, Vernal, Roosevalt, and friends are invited. The Franciscan Sisters have been working with Uintah Basin residents since last May and conduct preschool and daily religious instruction for parish children.
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Hoosevelt
Salt Lake City
St James
Tielars
Roose Valt
Rey Luise
Me Horbowe
Graymoor
York
Wassens Tb Howe
Sheulder
Wen
Uintah Basid Sinee
St Jamws
Ashley Co op Schedules Stockholders Meeting
Ashley Cooperative Mercantile Institution holds its annual stockholders meeting Wednesday January 18 at Uintah State Bank directors room. Three new directors will be elected and the financial report will be considered along with other business.
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Ashley Cooperative Mercantio Institution
Uintah State Bank
Birth announcements list New Year babies in 1956
Congratulatory birth notices for multiple families with newborns in late December 1955 and early January 1956. Names include Rex Cook, Jotin Shimmin, Foster D Rapeye, Garr Jones, Leo Lynn Smith, Arvol Anderson, and Robert Turner. Births cover girls and boys born December 30 through January 1, noting the first baby of 1956.
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Rex Cook
Jotin
Shimmin
Foster D Rapeye
Garr Jones
Leo Lynn Smith
Mex Arvol Anderson
Tobert Turner
County Officials Form 1956 Budget and Reorganization
Cal Jorgensen secures a packaged beer license at Pell ar Lake. Indian contracts Logan and Crow propose a county road project of 13 miles south of Ouray using this year’s $10,000 Indian funds. bid under advisement for lacking work specifications. Commissioners reorganize for 1956 with Grant Southam elected chairman. County assessor Charles A Tatch confirms deputy assessors: Merkley, Hardy, Stewart, Chandler, Randlett, Burgess, Palmer, Samuels, Edwards, Crumbo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cal Jorgensen
Pellar Lake
Logan and Crow
Indian Department
Ouray
Grant Southam
Armitar
Charles A Tatch
Joseph Merkley
Nathan C Hardy
T Hugh Stewart
William Chandler
Randlett
Hyrum Burgess
Clarence Palmer
Blaine Morrill
Blaine Lee
Wilda Samulels
Jomer P Edwards
Albert Crumbo
Roosevelt
Polio Discussion Planned Wed Health Forum
The first of three public meetings on polio prevention will be held Wednesday at 30 pm at Uinta High School in Vernal Utah. Health professionals will discuss Salk vaccination efforts, the Basin Medieval Association and school district sponsors host the series. The public may submit questions. identities remain confidential.
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Uinta High School
Xiants
Inth Basin Medieval Association
Qinfah County
Mie
Welcome 1956 At Stake Dance at Stake Center
More than 40 people welcomed the New Year at a gate New Year’s Eve dance sponsored by the Special Interest Group at the Stake Center. The hall was festively decorated. The Noor show featured a Ribbon Dance by M-Men and Gleaners. Rendelsbach’s orchestra provided music. A second dance with Rendelsbach’s music is planned for this Saturday. Young people of the community are invited. A Tennessee quote by Frnie Ford is included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stake Center
Noor
M-Men
Rendlesbach
Service Station Ousis Landmark On Main Street
Vernal clears landmark site on West Main Street to make way for four new Texaco service stations. Sixty year old trees near the William B Walls residence at 496 West Main are uprooted as Fran Felteh plans a Texaco service station and new Wallis home at 256 East Second North. Lori Jones handles Texas Oil Company distribution locally.
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Vernal
William B. Walls
West Main Street
Texaco
Stitian
Fran Felteh
Texas Oil Company
Felteh
Wallis
East Second North
Narvey Knight
Lori Jones
Texas Olio
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Ernest Untermann
Brandenburg
Germany
United States
Seven Seas
South Seas
Roxkies
East Africa
Brazil
Layton Art School
Milwaukee
Chicago Art Institute
William Heine
Gettysburg
Manila Bay
Chicago
Dyer
Texas Toillionaire
Sterling Sherwin
Thorne
AGATE
Ruths
Rock Hobby
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Ashley Co-op
Dorothy Gray
Utsh
Health Forum
Ike
Tennessee
Frnie Ford
Calder
Strieger
Wo Mal
Rome
Ralph Allred
Ousis
Almall
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