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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1942
Page
6
Community members hosted and attended multiple Christmas celebrations and New Year activities in Lapoint and nearby towns. Families including Swains, Mowreys, Harrisons, and Grahams joined dinners, games, and dances. A wedding of Arda Winn to Craig Caldwell was announced and celebrated with a dance, and a large Lapoint chapel reunion occurred with a chicken dinner, chicken shoot, and children's dance.
The Sunday school class of Mrs Eugene Woodruff enjoyed a New Years Day coast ing party at Naples. The group of boys and girls rode in Tom McKeachnie s truck to the coasting site and returned home for a hot lunch. Last Tuesday evening Mr and Mrs Asher Perry hosted at their home in honor of Mr and Mrs Archie Perry and in celebration of Charlies Perry s 83rd birthday.
Lake City residents shared holiday time with Mrs Myrtle Wrekson and Mr and Mrs Dan Crouse. Lennis Johnson left for Logan to register for the winter quarter at the USA. At the MIA service J D Jones Jr played trumpet with Betty Curtis on piano. Archie Johnson spoke with Willam Hoernttz, followed by a Fireside Chat at the Hoefeltz home and a book review of Escape by Mrs Ernest Johnson.
East Lake City and Manti residents attend funeral for Mrs Mary Hall while visiting Miss Beatrice Stringham. Coltons, Slaughs, and Ashbys mingle with neighbors in Climax Cole and Masser. Students Edith Ashby and Wayne Ashby return home for holidays before resuming studies at AC Logan and Weber College Ogden. Geneva Ashby enrolls at LDS Business College Salt Lake. David Hall and others await military duty. Chester Murray heads to BYU. An home explosion injures no one but causes damage.
Democrats gathered and served dinner to 47 members of the Hall and Stringham families Friday after the funeral services for May Hall.
Ashley Lee Ervin Dye remains in Basin Hospital after a pedestrian and bicycle accident with a broken rib. Neighbors celebrate Elaine Swett’s birthday with a surprise party and gifts. Fireside chat hosted by the Swetts featured talks by Wilma and George Swett. Josie spoke on missionary experiences in Europe. Red Cross canvassing continues this week. Leland Sowards and family returned from Salt Lake City for Christmas with Mrs Sowards’ parents. Dorothy Powell traveled to Salt Lake City for holidays with her parents. Claud Allred announces the birth of a baby girl on January 2. Erma Taylor and Hilda Williams of the stake board attended Sunday school. Conjoint conducted Sunday night with Edna Caldwell presiding. Warren Richardson and Ivan Perry were speakers. Betty Anderson played a saxophone solo. Hyrum Tooneeft and family traveled to Baltic Lake for temple work. Mary Underwood and daughter Colleen have returned to Kemmerer Wyoming. Shirley Sowards returned to Logan to resume studies. majoring in forestry.
Utah farm price figures released by W P Thomas of the Department of Agricultural Economics show gains for 1941 over 1940, with an all commodities index rising to 155 and various commodity subindexes listed. The report covers livestock, grain, dairy, and fruit prices, noting higher farm profits in 1941 than 1940 but lower than 1933 benchmarks in parts of the period.
The narrative sketches Inipicut, a Ute youth in 1880s Utah who defied both tribal and white society. Expelled from his tribe, he lived decades in the hills near White Rocks, surviving naked or in snow, reputed to outrun horses and boast of a violent past. He died in 1917, becoming a lynchpin of local legend and cautionary folklore about rugged individualism.
Utah teachers saw higher averages and more staff in the last school year per a report by J East on Parratt. Total teachers rose to 4120 from 4102, with average salary 133719 and principals and supervisors added to 4619 with 138747 average.
A fragmentary note hints at a romance between postal workers across regions including Virginia and Arkansas. The piece mentions a parson from Reno and Kissimmee, with a coal fuel expert warning of dwindling supplies and high prices. The text appears as noisy OCR with unclear dates or outcomes.
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