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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1955
Page
7
Uintah County Chapter promotes Teens Against Polio to channel energy into helpful activity. The program aims to curb juvenile delinquency by giving youth meaningful tasks, earning trust, and providing enjoyable experiences while supporting the March of Dimes.
The piece explains that modern gasolines include a significant tax component as part of the pump price. Service stations display the tax included per gallon to show customers they are buying not just fuel but also government revenue. It argues that consumers are paying for tax along with fuel in every purchase, regardless of brand.
Green River chamber officials say recent road projects in Sweetwater County Wyoming will spur tourism. Completion of Highway 197 to the Utah line south of Green River and continued work on the McKinnon Burnfork route support Jackson Lake and Uinta Mountain tourism. North of Rock Springs the Yellowstone park route is being rebuilt to 14 Mile Hill to serve new tourist development, with paving and forest highway work expanding access to Palisades Park Hickerson Park Birch creek and Red Canyon areas.
A poem from Nan Johnson of St George Utah pleads for federal water projects to irrigate arid western lands. It argues for dam and canal expansion, comparing irrigation to a war effort and urging hydrographic development to revive ranches, mills, and local economies. The piece notes the line about water in the Congressional Record and is submitted by Mrs J W I Bastian.
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