Scouting's Busiest Decade Opened In 1950 With Membership Upswing
The article surveys Scouting's peak decade beginning 1950, noting a large membership rise and major events. It also reports a separate motel theft case in Vernal Utah where three individuals Dill Gene Lee Patricia K Pahlan and Harold Miston pleaded guilty to stealing towels and a blanket from Antlers Motel. The motel owner and city attorney Claus ton L Simmons commented on false registration and police actions, with fines issued and a note on broader Scouting history including national jamborees and activities through 1959.
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Justice Court
Dill Gene Lee
Tulsa
Okla
Patricia K Pahlan
Harold €. Miston
Milwaukee
Jocal
Clauston L. Simmons
Trinidad
Colo
Earl J. Freeman
Lee
FQI
Simmons
Vernal Express
Jossen
Geout‘ing
Boy Scouts of America
Truman
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania
United States
Boy Scouts
Arm of Liberty
Bniberty
Freedoms Foundation
Liberty Bell
Irvine Ranch
Los Angeles
California
Eisenhower
New York
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Liberty
Niagara-on the-Lake
Ontario
Canada
Sutton Park
Birmingham
England
Lord Baden Powell
Gilwell
Gether
Elk harvest results released by Utah Fish and Game 1959
The Utah State Department of Fish and Game released final elk harvest figures for 1959. Of 2163 permit holders, 1213 elk were taken for a 56 percent success rate across 14 herd units, compared with 1075 animals from 2018 era permits and a 53 percent success. Bulls cows and calves totaled 638 457 118 harvested from 1212 animals. Illegal elk kills numbered 139 during the deer season, about eleven percent of the elk harvest, with likely higher unreported losses.
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Utah
State Department of Fish and Game
Utah Board of Big Game Control
Dear River
Tole
Rock
Ogden Tres Palegal KU
Tiny Earl Semingsen Leads Dinosaur Scouting Effort
Earl M Semingsen new Dinosaur National Monument superintendent known as Tiny calls for new friends to visit Verna. In 1958 a youth Explorers program started after Michigan and Boy Scouts research. Johnston Museum opens in 1960 as a Scouting history showcase funded by Gale Johnston. In 1959 325 Scouts attended the World Jamboree in the Philippines as membership nears five million.
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Dinosaur
Earl Semingsen
Earl M. Semingsen
Dinosaur National Monument
Tiny
National Park Service
Verna
Institute of Social Research
University of Michigan
Research Service
Boy Scouts of America
Johnston Historical Museum
St National
Gale F. Johnston
St Louis
Missouri
Philippines
Biographical Sketch of Supt Semingsen’s Park Service Career
Flora and Diane are mentioned as family. The article traces Supt Semingsen from Cripple Creek to Fort Collins and Yellowstone Park in 1930, then the Coast Guard during World War II, becoming chief park ranger of Everglades National Park in Florida in 1947. He later served under Dan Beard and was transferred to Wind Cave in 1951. He attended college in Helena, Montana, and worked in the Treasury procurement division there in 1935-36.
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Earl M. Semingsen
Dinosaur National Monument
Vernal Express
Ballent
Oscar Dick
Semingsen
Wind Cave National Park
South Dakota
Dinosaur
Jens M. Lombard
Flora
Diane
Cripple 14
Donald
Creek
Cole
Colorado State University
Yellowstone Park
Fort Collins
Coast Guard
Everglades National Park
Florida
Dan Beard
Vernal
Beard
Washington
Wind Cave
Helena
Mont
Treasury Dept
Uintah County Firms Rise 4 Percent in 1960
January 1960 reports show 190 manufactur ers wholesale and retail businesses in Uintah County, up from 183 in January 1959. District manager D E Smith of Dun & Bradstreet notes the total includes firms seeking grand commercial credit and excludes some service and professional trades.
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Uintah County
D E Smith
Salt Lake Pice
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
New Homes Lead Utah County Construction Surge in 1959
Uintah County built 18 new homes valued at 420 000 marking a strong year for residential activity in Utah per University Bureau of Economic and Business Research. Statewide nonresidential work fell 13 percent to 529 million while Uintah County dropped 66 percent to 65 000. total Uintah construction valued at 514 600 with several nonresidential projects including a 100 000 motel.
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Utah
Bureau of Economic and Business Research
University of Utah
Uintah County
Iiewise
University Bureau
Sta Mina
Influenza and strep cases rise in Uintah County
Six influenza and four strep infections were reported in Uintah County for the week ending January 15. The Utah State Department of Health provided the numbers, highlighting flu activity in the region.
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Uintah County
Utah
Assembly of God Plans New Chapel in Internal City
Pastor Elmer Ridgway said work will start on the Assembly of God chapel at 4th North and Sth West as weather allows. A two acre tract bought from Clayton Simmons will host a 78 by 30 foot building costing 15000 dollars including a parsonage. A second unit will later form an L shaped structure. A separate chapel is under construction in Hoosevelt west of Union High School led by Pastor John Miller.
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Assembly of God
4Th North
Sth West
Elmer Ridgway
Ridgway
Clayton Simmons
Hoosevelt
Union High School
John Miller
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Game Dept
Dupont
Ashley Farmers Co-Op
Huskies
Ragulac & Slims
Sies
Julie Washburn
Fred V. Washburn
Daryl Chase
Utah State University
Miss Washburn
USA
CVS
Jonnie
Vernal Furniture & Appliance
Vernal Ave
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