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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1948
Page
6
The United High School Bund Mothers Association launches a campaign to raise around $2,000 for new band uniforms. Vernon Junior Chamber of Commerce has donated a thousand dollars and local theatres will host profit shows to bolster the effort.
Funeral services for Clarence Tl Magie a veteran field engineer from Los Angeles will be held Friday at the Hosedale Cemetery. Born August 16 1893 in Fremont Ohio he graduated from the University of Missouri and served in World War I. He was associated with Connell Central Company and the Texas Oil Cane and was the Mountain area distributor for Vernon Tool Uintah County and Rangely districts. Surviving is his wife who resides in Los Angeles.
Fragmentary note claims last year cigarette sales totaled 351 billion units. It asserts consumption across men women and children with a claim of seven cigarettes daily per person, though wording is unclear and figures appear estimates.
Geologists report about 400 active volcanoes worldwide with eruptions ranging from minor to significant. Most lie along the Pacific ring of fire including the Andes Aleutians Kamchatka and fragments near Japan Philippines New Guinea and Hawaii.
Loreelay Pope addresses students and staff at Uintah High School about hunting and fishing regulations. The event featured musical performances by Janet Tham, Genieve Parkin, and Monza Higgs and included notes on wildlife projects and state funding for enforcement.
An exchange assembly from Diatah High Beneal was presented at Alterra High School on Friday. Performers included Rea and Joan Caldwell, Dawna Mal, and a piano duet by Wallis and Rev oe trading. Thad Stringham was master of ceremonies with Lorraine Pope and Marya Batty in the cast. Cheerleaders Beverly Fisher and Donna Jean Jones led the Allerra student body in the school song to close the program.
An article traces basketball origins to Dr James A. Naismith while at the MCA in Springfield Mart. It notes the Draygen Katie never played until January 2, 1992 and marks it as the birthday of basketball. Dr Noblemouth Jeter is cited as becoming a professor at the University of Kansas.
A garbled report cites 4 820 people in Uintah county in 1947 excluding domestic staff and seals, including 1 800 agricultural workers and 155 county jobs. It also mentions Salchow, rainbow trout habitats along the Pacific coast and a claim about transit travel of 8 000 miles per minute, with scattered, unclear details.
Ulmee Camp Daughters of Ulah met at Ray Gardiner home last week to discuss the new county history book and plan sale of the remaining thousand volumes. Mrs Roy Simper assisted as hostess with officers Mae Katherine Horrocks Merle Oaks and Mary Anna Moretson present. A tray junction was served.
Texas station reports eight million dollars in value from a recently developed root disease analysis for sorghum. Commercial rose growers in Tyler area raise over six thousand dollars by using copper dust for black root control. Ten million rose plants were treated per station procedures.
Fragmented OCR text notes a wreck of a vessel named Malaw near Havi with attempts to remove it. It mentions local figures and a barbershop context but lacking clear dates or outcomes. The readable parts indicate a maritime incident and recovery efforts ongoing.
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