Twenty Years Ago in Vernal Utah Oil Wells and Local News
January 6 1928 notes the Ashley Valley test well No 3 near Vernal reached 1805 feet with gas bearing sand. officials sworn in. Rotary Club addressed oil prospects in Uintah Basin. winter drilling continued. births marriages and deaths listed. Vernal Lions Club protests freight rates. public schools closed for scarlet fever. January 27 update forecasts 3 million cubic feet gas at 1655 feet and air service plans via Vernal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashley Valley
Midwest Out and Exploration Company
Utah OW Refining Co
Vernal
Rice C. Cooper
E.R. Lovewell
Leota
Vern Olsen
Sarah Hardy
Hiram A. Richardson
Frances Harrison
Delbert Horrocks
Lapoint
Jennie Scott
Ivan Jacobsen
Alice Roberta
I. Merkley
Alice Havana Roberts
Henry Wallinger
Vernal Lions Club
State
Public Utilities Commission
Uinah Baatn
Midwest Exploration Company
Duchesne
Rangely
Theodore Johnson
Uintah County
John Powell
Jack Burns
Gusher
Harden Nelson
Watson
John Simper
Mra
Elwatt Merrell
Ephia Evans
George Foster
Athley Valley
Ganda
Ashby Valley
State Road Commission
Salt Lake City
Tommy Thompson
Salt Lake
Denver
Great Falls
Mont
Martin Fletcher
Ralph Tyler
Dragon
George Rhoades
Guy Samuels
Alva Gardiner
William
Farrar
Vet Representative to Visit Vernal February 13
Veterans Administration officials will visit Vernal Friday February 13 to assist and advise county veterans. The team will be at the Central School Building from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. LD. Young will be contact representative.
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LD. Young
Veterans Administration
Vernal
Wintoh County
New Septem Raspberry Named for Season Bearing
A new raspberry cultivar named Septem has been developed in New York state experiments. The variety is described as bearing a second crop in early autumn and includes a summer yield as well. The program notes the name reflects its autumn fruiting trait.
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York State
Ste
Lions Hear of Telephone Expansion
Lions hear a Vernal club report on Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co expansion worth about 16 000 for an exchange rebuild 20 000 for a new switchboard and 30 000 for toll equipment. Five long distance circuits to Salt Lake City now exist and phones rose from 1944 257 to 1947 901 with 1235 total at end 1947 and 1300 then. A count shows 1425 local calls and 238 long distance calls daily as four operators work busy hours.
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Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co
Vernal
Vernal /Lions Club
O M. Boswell
Hotel Vernal
Moswell
Exchange
Salt Lake City
Boswell
Vernal Masons Attend Salt Lake Convention
Officers of Ashley Lodge U D Vernal attended the 78th annual session of the Ute Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons in Salt Lake City. Azer Johnson master Clyde Johnson secretary and Donald R Barr warden were present on Monday and Tuesday.
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Ashley Lodge
U. D. Vernal
Grand Lodge Free and Receed Masons
Salt Lake City
Azer Johnson
Clyde Johnson
Donald R. Barr
Fred Weeks Opens Store on East Main Street
Fred Weeks has opened a neighborhood grocery three to four miles east of Vernal on Highway 40. The store named Fred's East Side Market offers a full line of groceries, fresh fruits and vegetables. Mr Weeks invites the public to visit and become acquainted. Mr and Mrs Richard Jensen returned from a four week trip to California visiting relatives in Gardena and Redondo Beach. They saw the Rose Parade in Pasadena and the Rose Bowl game on TV. California temperatures reached 88 degrees during their week away before returning to Vernal last Monday.
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Armry Millecam
Fred W Smith
Interal Lions Organization
Utah Lions Clubs
Salt Lake City
Alvin B. Weeks
Briant H Stringham
Rulon S. Wacking
George P. Roth
Dr. Tyrell R Sevar
Ortan L. Johnson
Francis B Felteh
Fred Weeks
Vernal
Highway 40
Fred
East Side
Mr. Weeks
Richard Jensen
California
Hayden Church
Gardena
Clit
Kenneth Westover
Redondo Beach
Pasadena
Jensen
Los Angeles
Rose Bowl
Winter Sun to Power New Type of Solar Houses
A panel of 42 U S architects, commissioned by Libbey Owens Ford Glass, designs 49 solar house plans for states and DC in a book Your Solar House by George Fred Keck. Solar homes face south, use thermally insulating walls and windows, with overhangs for summer shade, enabling year round living with daylight and landscape integration.
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Toledo
Libbey-Owene-Ford Glaga Company
District of Columbia
George Fred Keck
Chicago
Archi‘tat
Angelew
Harwell Ho Harrie
Immortal Animal Argantens Through Cell Division
Scientists argue that the Argantens, a tiny one celled protozoan, may be immortal as death is avoided by the division of the individual into two. The concept of immortality emerges from cellular replication.
Shale Plant Report Set For February 5 Session
A special session at the Synver convention on February 5 will review oil shale processing with E. D. Gardrer of the U S Bureau of Mines and others. The talk covers Rifle and DeBeque plants, past and potential yields, and the costs of shale oil versus natural petroleum amid fluctuating prices and new methods.
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Wall
Colorado
DeBeque
Index Oil Co
East Texas
Oklahoma
FT D Brown
Grand Junction
Cole
Best Brown
Utah
Pilot's Worried Dad Invents Safe Tank
Henry W Lorenz of Bayside New York describes a non explosive fuel tank for bomber aircraft aimed at preventing catastrophic explosions after his son died in a crash. He says the synthetic rubber tank collapses like an accordion when empty and remains airtight to avoid fumes and moisture in high altitude refueling.
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New York
Torr
Henry W Lorenz
Bayside
Lorenz
Loreenz
St. John's Church Fund Drive Opens in Vernal
L V Shire of Shire Motor Co leads a fund drive for St. John's Catholic Church in Vernal to fund a new chapel. He donates a $2,500 Kaiser sedan to be awarded to a contributor after the drive ends in April. Shire expects many volunteers to solicit funds and urges broad public support.
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L. V Shire
Shire Motor Co
St. John’s Catholic Church
Vernal
Shire
Poet Laureate Title Grant In 14th Century England
The Met notes the title of Poet Laureate was assumed by Chaucer in 1389 after he received an annual grant of wine, marking the start of the royal honor's formal stipend.
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Laurese
Chaucer
Alcohol Education Committee Formed In Uintah County
Uintah County forms an Alcohol Education Committee with Eskelson as chair. Members include Francis Felich Rev Joseph H Warner Jr Mrs C B Yates Mrs Loyd Shimmin Maryey Knight and Robert F Livsey. Glenn Hatch aids the group which will direct guidance to those needing help via the State Committee or Alcoholics Anonymous. The panel plans speaker programs for religious groups and schools. Judge Heya Beck Bosone previously issued a related action last Saturday.
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D. F. G. Eskelson
Uintah
Francis Felich
Joseph H. Warner, Jr
C. B Yates
Loyd Shimmin
Maryey Knight
Robert F. Livsey
Glenn Hatch
State Committee On
Alcoholics Anonymous
Heya Beck Bosone
Utah alcohol education group forms local committee
The Utah State Committee for Education on Alcoholism director spoke at a Vernal public meeting at the First Ward Chapel to pave the way for a local committee. Present were Thomas Kearns, Vern Whitney, Frank White, George Buckley, Hugh Tuttle and others who praised Alcoholics Anonymous work and urged a Yale plan based education on alcoholism as a disease and public health issue.
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Utah State Commiitee For Education
Vernal First Ward
Vernal
Thomas Kearns
Vern Whitney
Frank White
George Buckley
Hugh Tuttle
Alcahellex Anonymous
Yale University
Prohibition Party Nominee Emerges in 1871 Lancaster
Prohibition Party figure James Black of Lancaster Pennsylvania proposed forming the party in 1871 and naming the first nominee for U.S. president. The event marks early efforts to organize a national third party with a habition goal and a presidential candidate.
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Prohibition Party
James Black
Lancaster
Pee
Nameia
United States
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