Yampa River Expedition Near End Complete Western River Trip
Dr Russell G Pratter of Bingham and companions finished a seven day river expedition from Lily Park Colorado through Yampa canyon. They used rubber bottom boats averaging 25 miles daily over 150 miles with ideal water conditions. They reported rare wildlife sightings and gathered Indian relics while prospecting along Jackson Draw Haredin Hole and Jones's Hole.
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Yampa
Lily Park
Colo
Jackson Draw
Haredin Hole
Charlie Mandel
Jones's Hole
Hot
J. F. Broaddus
Utah
Henry B. Milbeam
Vernal Drug Company
Charles Kelly
Harold Mililer
Deseret News
Salt Lake City
Vernal Boys Return From Scout Jamboree
Three Vernal youths from Troop 233 and led by Carl Searle returned from the International Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington after a nine day Utah contingent trip. Louis Siddoway Paul Stringham and Clayton Findlay travelled by special train via Moffet tunnel Denver Chicago Detroit Niagara Rochester Palmyra to view landmarks and meet leaders including President Roosevelt and lawmakers during camp life and sightseeing across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernal
Washington
Louis John Siddoway
J. Tu. Siddoway
Paul Stringham
B. H. Stringham
Clayton Findlay
Grace Findlay
Utah
Carl Searle
Utah National Parks Council
Provo
Moffet Tunnel
Denver
Chicago
Detroit
Niagara
Rochester
Palmyra
New York
Cubs
Ford Motor Company
Kodak
Hill Cumorah
Sacred Grove
Smyth Farm
Ailstor
Hudson
Albany
Empire State, Building
Radio City
Madison Square Garden
Coney Island
Jack Dempsey
Potomac Tidal
Lincoln Memorial
Washingon Monument
Capitol Building
Roose
West
Former County Agent Takes Alaska Post
Vernal residents bid farewell to E Peterson and family as they move to Fairbanks where Peterson accepts a government post as superintendent of the experiment station. He leaves a wide circle of friends after long service as Uintah county agent and organizer of local clubs.
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Vernal
E. Peterson
Fairbanks
Alaska
Peterson
Uintah County
Vernal Ideas Club
UBIC
Ins
Mfr
Duchesne County
Lytha
Elabeth
Vernal CCC Beats Local Nine 19 to 1 in Baseball Classic
Vernal CCC hammered the Vernal town team 19 to 1 in Sunday baseball action. Keylor pitched for COG, supported by fielding errors from Vernal, as the visitors opened with four runs in the first inning and added runs in the fourth and ninth. Williamson allowed few earned runs as Vernal faded after a brief two inning stretch.
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Shakespeare
Vernal
Vernal CCC
Keylor
Conservation Boys
Williamson
Page Four
Tire Repair Shop Opens in Vernal at 215 West Main
Vernal welcomes F C Pennington who opened a tire repair shop at 215 West Main, bringing rubber welding expertise from Lafayette Colorado. He serves as exclusive agent of U K Rubber Welding Co, offering permanent reconditioning of tires and tubes with the latest equipment and the rubber weld method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.C. Pennington
West
Main
Pennington
Vernal
LaFayette
Colorado
U. K. Rubber Welding Co
Hoe
Gun Club Riot Set For Iron Springs Saturday
Saturday will be a red letter day for Vernal Gun club members as president Hugh W Colton announces a day of events at Iron Springs with trap shooting, fly casting, softball and a speaker Newell B Cook state game commissioner. DeVere Carroll chairs the riot and a fish hatchery talks to improve local fishing along Brush Creek or Ashley Creek.
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Vernal Gun Club
Hugh W. Colton
Crows
Newell B. Cook
DeVere Carroll
Brush Creek
Ashley Creek
Game
J. S. Neiheisel
Thomas Karren
J. &. Milburn
D. Ry
Barr
O . A. Ross
Nite Smith
P. L. Cowan
Franki Siddoway
J. O. Anderson
Glen Lambert
June Hacking
Hampton
Ted
Johnson
J. Wayland Mattsson
Don
Showalter
D ' F. Lambert
J. W. Mattison
Floyd Noel
Frank Wright
Henry Schaefermeyer
Lee Sowards
B. Newell
Dr. Wallace
Calder
Wallis
O O F Installs Officers Tuesday Night
Gary Swain and Leo Wilde were initiated as members of the local I O O F unit at Tuesday’s weekly meeting. District Deputy Grand Master Ben Kelly officiated the installation naming Jack Douglass noble grand Paul Cowan vice grand Don Barr recording secretary Francis Feltch treasurer and Tom Karren financial secretary. The local group with 45 members served refreshments. Bettye Carson and Lois Dodds have returned home after visiting Mt Harris Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Swain
Leo Wilde
I. O. Oo
Mr. Wilde
Ouray
Mr. Swain
Ben Kelly
Jensen
Jack Douglass
Paul Cowan
Don Barr
Francis Feltch
Tom Karren
Funeral Rites For M E Oaks Held at 1st Ward
Funeral services for Martin Edwin Oaks age 60 were held in Vernal Utah at the 1st Ward chapel with ward bishopric members officiating. Speakers Ernest Eaton and H Walter Woolley spoke of his love of nature and pioneer home life. Interment followed at Fairview cemetery with pallbearers named.
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M. FE. Oaks
Vernal Ust Ward Chapel
Ward
Warren Richardson
J. Williarm Workman
Charles P. Pax
Ashley Bartlett
Clark Newell
W. B. Wallis
Arthur Manwarring
Mae Jorgensen
May Cauoer
Glen Lambert
Jorgensen
John Slagg
Calder
Jesus
Mildred Derry
Ernest Eatons
H. Walter Woolley
Mr. Woolley
Oaks
Mr. Oaks
Fairview
Swath Funeral Home
Fuller Remington
Gam Swain
Veley Hatch
Carl Swain
Razor Blade Fight Among Dinosaur Workers At Local Cafe
Victor Peterson, a Dino Saur monument employee, received thirty six stitches after a morning brawl at a local cafe. John F. Huggins, Petersons roommates and rival, used a broken razor blade in the fight and is jailed awaiting arraignment. Petersons son seen on Vernal streets. injuries not expected to be serious unless complications arise. Marshal Lafe Richardson notes Huggins was intoxicated. fight sparked by a fit of anger. County vows prosecution.
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Victor Peterson
John F. Hugginys
Iso
Monksment
Petersson
Peterson
Marshal Lafe Richardson
Huggins
Iquor
Vernal Radio To Pay Prizes Over Four Thousand Dollars
Vernal's annual rodeo slated for September 8 10 11 will award over four thousand dollars in prizes. A six thousand dollar business supports the event with an automobile as a top prize. The rodeo includes bucking horse contest bull dogging roping steer riding and horse races. The committee met at the bank building to set budgets and plans and to purchase a public address system for the three day event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Douglass
Alvin Weeks
John Weaver
Ralph Watson
Paul Lymon
John Jorgenssen
Tee Bennion
Seeley
Otis Weeks
Wilson Murray
Thomas Karren
H. L. Cald Jgwell
J. C. Anderson
Trout Planting Drive Aimed At Mountain Streams
Deputy Game Warden Floyd reports Noel has planted 23 000 legal sized trout in the last ten days and expects totals to reach 75 000 soon. Noel focuses on mountain streams Carter creek Drusn creek Ashley Creek Cart Creek and others where about 90 percent of planted legal fish are returned to anglers. Pingerlings see about 50 percent laterCaught and fry about one inch reach up to 99 percent survival. The Utah game department spends more money on fish than it takes in from fishing.
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Floyd
Noel
Drusn Creek
Carter Creek
Ashley Creek
Cart Creek
Utah Game Department
Flood Wrecks Lapoint Bridges and Destroys Farm Property
A cloud burst hit Deep Creek valley north east of Lapoint washing away bridges and farms five miles south near De Los Beatles and James Shavanaux. A twelve year old girl escaped to the attic as three feet of floodwater filled the Shavanaux home. livestock and granaries swept away, crops ruined, and the Meads flood destroyed the government flume.
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Lapoint
Dees Creek
Clarice Burton
Lapoirt
Shavanaux
Shava Naux
Searles
Bennett Residents Petition For Local School Reopening
A Bennett area delegation urged the Uintah School board to restore a Bennett school citing frostbite from long bus rides, rough roads, and three week delays. They proposed a two teacher Bennett school for local students while noting high school transit would stay unchanged. The board discussed that last winter was abnormal and a revised bus service might fix the problem.
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Bennett and
Uintah
Bennett
van Hamaker
Mia
Roy Carne
Alva Rust
Hayden
Ray Reader
LeRoy Taylor
HL G. West
Andrew Vernon
E. D. Lewis
Driver E. Smith
Ballard
Ben~nett
Whiterocks
Golf Becomes Popular Sport At New Course In Vernal
Vernal locals Bobby Joneses Walter Hagens and Henry Cottons take a break with beers and polished putters as Green Acres, Utah’s easternmost course, draws growing interest. J B Nethelsel, course manager, plans to expand the local club’s facilities and modernize the course to attract daily participation, aiming to revive competitive golf within weeks. Located one and a half miles north of Vernal on the Mantleh highway.
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Bobby Joneses
Walter Hagens
Henry Cottons
Vernal
Green Acres
Utah
J. 8
Nethelsel
Vernal-Lapoiyt Highway
Edo
Mantlihfehway
Pioneer Day Roundup to Honor Utah Pioneers at Vernel
A Uintah Basin Pioneer Day roundup will be held at Vernel on the Twenty fourth of July. Original Utah and Ashley Valley pioneers will be guests and form a real old time camp with fiddles and banjos. The event, sponsored by the Utah stake MIA, aims to depict pioneer life and celebrate the first immigrant settlers into the Salt Lake Valley ninety years ago. Attendees are urged to arrive in ox carts wagons buckboards and buggies. Barbecued mutton will be served free as part of a community project.
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Uintah Basin
Utah
Vernel
Preece Meadow
Ashley Valley
Ultah
MIA
Salt Lake Valley
iMutton
Willl Bea
Work Begins on $20,000 LDS Local Seminary
Vernal starts a $20,000 local seminary with Allston of Salt Lake as general contractor. Fred Wells of Salt Lake will supervise. Local labor, gravel, lumber, and interior brick to be used through Uintah stake and nearby wards. pressed brick for exterior from elsewhere. Seminary aims for fall completion to serve ancient and modern church history and other religious courses. Building south of Uintah High School, designed by Leonard L. Neilson, a Salt Lake architect who has planned several seminary buildings.
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Vernal
Ld.s
Allston
Salt Lake
Fred Wells
Uintah Stake
Theodore Johnson
Uintah High School
Leonard L. Neilson
United Prosperity Plan Active in Ashley Valley
The United Prosperity plan promotes old age pensions funded by prosperity bonds with a two cent tax and forced circulation. It reports twenty six local businesses and about one hundred members in Vernal area, with a board of governors led by C. P. Lewis and Larra Sannes. The plan aims to aid elderly, crippled, widowed and blind members while boosting local commerce through high velocity money circulation.
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United Pros
Perity Plan
Grawity Wimemera
Vernal
Law Board of Governors
C. P. Lewis
Larra Sannes
Melva Roberts
L. ©. Thorne
K. H. Woodard
J. 0. Snow
Lynn Reynolds
J. W. Dastian
Wm. Kauistanauz
J. Wm. Workman
Wm Mott
Brngat Eaton
Yale
Gosi'times
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Fairbankas
CCC
Iron Springs Sat
Bettye Carson
C. H. Schneiermeyer
Lois Dodds
Mt. Harris
M.E. Oaks
1Lst Ward
Vernal Radio
Amelia Earhart
Guiea
Australia
Gaelaw
Suulu
Pacific Ocean
Howland Island
Aviatrix Fe
Oakland
Calif
Tnser
Fred Noonan
Ila Snd
Deep Creek
Bennett People Petition Board For Old School
LDS
United Prosperity Plan
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