Buck Pasture Project Faces Delays in WPA Review
The Buck Pasture irrigation project in Ashley Valley awaits final approval from the WPA’s project control division in Washington. Local leaders warn that without supplemental water supply the valley may lose many farms while engineers and residents push for action. Calls grow to seek gubernatorial or legislative intervention to expedite the review and start construction in spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bnelk
T le Project Control Division
WPA
Washington
D. C
Ashley Valley
County Commission
Lions Club
Ashley Reservoir
Immi Endenvor
Shoud
Sdonj
Persistent Ads Remain Vital in Community Life
In Columbia a visitor, Floyd Shoemaker of the state historical society, noted that advertising persists as a community practice even among prominent figures. A phone question about the 1916 vice presidential candidate under Hughes stumped both Shoemaker and a library clerk, who finally found the name in an obscure blue book. The six months of widespread national discussion lingered in public memory due to persistent naming and curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nation Times
Miaghe
Columbia
Floyd Shoemaker
The
State Historical Society
Tughes
Shoemaker
United States
Ifolden
Progress
Prospects for a Farmer Life for Loy
An economist at the University of Wisconsin, Dr Baker, hopes his five year old son Loy will become a farmer. He argues farming offers better food during hardship, stronger health, greater property accumulation, job satisfaction, family well being, and a boost to national welfare, urging other parents to consider farm life as a foundational national business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Wisconsin
OR. Baker
Loy
Uie
Chilren
Many New Buildings Constructed in Utah During Past Year
Utah construction surged in 1936 with over 1200 new homes estimated for the state and 392 in Salt Lake City. FHA director F D Richards says skilled builders are in demand as industry recovery accelerates. Remodeling and institutional projects likely total millions. about 3500 loans exceed four million dollars insured by FHA and other agencies.
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Utah
Salt Lake City
FHA
F. D. Richards
Richards
Salt Lake
President's broad reform plan to reorganize federal government
President proposes major overhaul of federal structure aimed at efficiency and modernization. Plans consolidate boards and agencies into 12 cabinet departments, rename interior to Conservation, extend civil service, create a national resources board for planning, and add six executive assistants. Opposition argues savings are limited without cutting functions, while private sources say much detail remains with the president.
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Ashington
Congress
Roosevelt
Social Welfare
Public Works
Interior Department
Conservation
Comptroller-General
Ofice
National Resources Board
Budget Bureau
Thirty Years Ago in the Valley Memoir and Local Updates
Reports from Ashley Valley recount road work to break through to the saw mill amid heavy snows on Taylor Mountain. Ed Samuels returns from Salt Lake City and notes lush lawns in Ton, while two inches of Genytiful snow blankets Ashley Valley with subzero mornings. Multiple local business moves and social notes, including a bow dance at the Opera House and license to wed for Wa Cooper and Mary Stills, are reported alongside farm ads and ranch movements in Brown's Park and nearby areas.
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D. Allen
Ed Samuels
Salt Lake City
Samuuels
Gecorge Bartlett
Tylor
Jas. McVaughtan
Alhandra
Consolidated Implement Co .Fas
Moffat
Opera House
Wes
Cooper
Mary Stills
Merrill Ward
Ashley
Valley
Charles Crouse
A. G
Ashley Valley
Mr. Crouse
Brown's Park
Ithat
D. Voltton & Co
Mountain Dell Day Fork News Snippet
John Adams, recently operated on, is improving. Miss Sidney Ross spent the weekend at Lapoint with relatives. Mr and Mrs Deck Cole of Lancaster California visit here with Mr and Mrs Daniel Adams and other relatives. Derzel Adaras, who
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain Dell Day Fork
Tenteae
John Adams
Sidney Ross
Lapoint
Deck Cole
Lancaster
Calif
Daniel Adams
Derzel Adaras
Norris Honored by Agriculture in Idaho Story
Norris honored by Agriculture has been employed in Idaho accompanied them. Mr. and Mrs. Lemar Thacker are remodeling their house. Mrs. Ning Adams has been under the doctor's care the past week suffering with an abscess. The snow plow came up from Vernal Tuesday to clear the road. Jenny Beck is quite ill this week with the flu.
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Idaho
Lemar Thacker
Ning Adams
Jenny Beck
Relief Society Social and Local Updates In Vernal Area
Tuesday evening report notes Lora DeLas Searle badly scalded in hot water with aid summoned from Vernal. Relief Society held annual social with program and dinner for twenty two. Quilting party at Mrs Roxie Taylor, dinner served. Several residents visit Vernal and nearby towns. snow clearing on state roads ongoing. bus service around Deep Creek school resumed after storm.
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Lora
DeLas Searle
Vernal
Relief Society
Song
Mirtle Reynolds
Bell Labrum
Elizabeth Nebeker
Myrtle Golding
Iva Caldwell
Roxie Taylor
My Life in the Uintah Frontiers and a Serious Accident
The narrator recounts crossing Daniels Creek and the Duchesne River, noting snow on Uintah mountains. A fall in fall 1878 leads to a severe accident cutting Amber in Main canyon. He slips on a steep slide, is knocked unconscious, suffers a dislocated left shoulder, paralysis on the left side, and a hemorrhage. His family evacuates him by buggy to camp, a slow recovery follows, doctors are far away, and lifelong consequences linger.
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Daniels Creek
Duchesne
Uintah Range
R. C. Camp
Alfred Ford
Main Canyon
Ime
Matt
Father
Alf
Alf Tan
William Wall
Martha
Provo
Missionaries and local marriages noted in Tridell area
Missionaries from Tridell Clyde E Merkley and Bruce Harvey visited. Mr Limdell assigned to Lapoint ward for the year. Tarey ofl spoke in Sacrament meeting. Relatives report Iola Ross and Howard Whitehead of Los Angeles wed on New Year’s Day, as did Martin Jarrell, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Clyde Jarrell. Miss Opal Foster teaches at Fort Duchesne school.
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Tridell
Clyde E. Merkley
Bruce Harvey
Limdell
Lapoint
High Council
Tarey Ofl
Iola Ross
Howard Whitehead
Los Angeles
Martin Jarrell
Birs
Clyde Jarrell
Opal Foster
Fort Duchesne School
Local Ward Notes and Family Moves across Dry Fork
Illness hits Davis seman ate eb eet Bishop Alfred Simper and Lea, with Glen Chivers aiding at Acel Chivers Dry Fork home. Relief Society membership day observed on Tuesday. Ward men work at Vernal City asphalt plant. Nue Holmes 4 drives a new pickup. Stake Sunday School officers present were Ernest M. Johnson and Eunice Johnson. Accel Chivers and family move into N. J. Meagher’s former Dry Fork house. Janes Ellifrine family learns of daughter Alta Hammaker’s death in Grand Junction Colorado. Time’s clock hands will not slow the fight.
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Alfred Simper
Lea
Glen Chivers
Acel
Dry Fork
Relief Society
Vernal City
Nue Holmes
Stake
Ernest M. Johnson
Eunice ‘Johnson
Accel Chivers
N. J. ‘Meagher
Fred Slaugh
Janes Ellifrine
Alta E. Hammaker
Grand Junction
Calo
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Ane
Vernal Express
William Wh. Wallis
James MM. Wallis
Cliss Mader
Uintah County
Montez Creek
Quld
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Senate Committee On Reorganization
Norris
Agriculture
Nebraska
George W. Norris
E. A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federaton
Honattria Norris
Lincoln
Neb
Rabe
OUR Pioneers
Davis Seman
Hammermill Bond
Merchants' and School
Alexander Confectionery
Owen Wall, Mana
Sterling Transportation CO
Uintah Basin
Eastern Utah Transportation Company
Price
Beach Way
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