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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1934
Page
4
The Vernal Express announces William E Wallis as publisher with Edifon Wames as another listed name. The paper notes second class mailing and subscription rates, pledges independence in politics, and promotes a bigger Uintah County in Utah.
The youngest troop in the Basin completed a successful encampment at Big Park. Members received the President Roosevelt award for 1933, with leaders and patrol chiefs listed, including Norton, Foster, Jarvis Foster, Lisenbee, Harrison, Morrison, Norton, Wilson, Kay Jarrell, Rasmussen, Hansen, Wardel, Williams, Wellman, Reader, Gardiner, Lundquist, Stewart, Murray, Tratch, Welland, Reader, Wellman, Young, Ashton, Ry, Stringham, Lunegel, and others. The troop was led by the committee with Stew art in charge and celebrated a long-standing victory of the UBIC trophy in past years.
Mrs Margaret Wilkins and daughter Olga spent days in Balt Lake Jas with missionaries Arthur Wiscombs and Madge Jacobs at the Sacrament meet. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Fred Bearden on Tuesday July 17. Mrs Mabel Alfred recovered from illness after visiting Mrs Thomas Buckralter in Uintah canyon. About two hundred people received second typhoid injections at the hospital Friday under Dr Saunders and nurse Mrs Murphy. Miss Bell Angus visited Vernal for business with accompanist Mrs Angus.
Mr and Mrs Carl Van derford helped stage a community play. Much credit goes to George Wartlet, missing in action, for developing dramatics in this ward.
Regional notes recount Lola Hall’s improvement at home with parents Tom and Lapoint residence while husband trucks cattle to Salt Lake and Ogden. Visits from Davis and Vernal residents, Queensland? locals gather for hospital news, travels to Salt Lake, Boulder Dam trip, and a broken leg in Holy Cross hospital. A civil service course purveyor faces indictment in Iowa amid job appointment slowdowns.
Se ate FT DUCHESNE se ate FT DUCHESNE. J Golden Kimball and wife of Batt Lake City visit friends Chiulmers Cranch a nephew of Ross Crandall. Miss Bertosh the government nurse gifts to relatives. Hoy Scouts return from work in the mountains with a cart of tanana. L W Page in Warlington DC. UBIC Matin Curtis funeral service, axe accident. Dr Mock sewed. Carlson family to Yellowstone Park. Miss Mae Verholts back from Duchesne. Miss Helen Seeley with Miriam Ifslop and Evelyn Ashton in Uintah Canyon. Indian boys baseball with Roosevelt. UBIO committee meeting July 23.
A fragmented historical article warns about civil service schools and a public concern over discipline. It references a teacher, a pupil, and a tense exchange about shoes and behavior, with brief dialogue fragments and local context. The piece conveys a sense of confusion and unease about schooling and authority.
Funeral services were held at the Haller Witbeck home on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o clock under Bishop Pontha Calder. The infant Norma Witbeck, born July 13, succumbing to a heart collapse the day before, was laid to rest in Verna cemetery. Speakers included Archie Johnson and Driver E Smith with Mrs Lucille Calder performing solos. Beaux Arts club members assisted as escorts. interment dedicated by Fuller Remington. Surviving parents Mr and Mrs Fuller Witbeck, a brother Dick, sister Llane, and grandparents Mr and Mrs W Benn and Mrs Elizabeth Witbeck.
Government officials in Salt Lake agree on prices under the federal agricultural adjustment program for sheep and goats. A tentative $2 per head for ewes and $140 per head for Anpora goats will be paired with two checks and a 50-50 split between growers and holders of slaughtered sheep, subject to approval by Secretary Henry A Wallace. The plan aims to aid growers with poor animals and bars use of funds for diseased stock.
Firestone promotes Century Progress tires with massive flat tread and heavy shoulders. Prices start unusually low at 73 for first grade tires, with a complete set and Firestone Triple Guarantee covering performance, defects, hazards, and commercial service terms.
A long list of social happenings from Vernal covers birthday celebrations for Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Prioli Fatale, a bridal shower for Mrs Dick Jolson, Bee Hive and Girl Scout activities, O G M club gathering, and various summer outings. Attendees include Massey, Calders, Dillman, Stone, Cook, Waller, and many others with meals, games, and gifts noted.
A Western Pine association meeting in Roosevelt discussed timber code operations, hauling prices, labor hours, and minimum wage. A county committee led by A Goodrich J A Cheney and A Theo Johnson will arbitrate debt issues to prevent foreclosures, aiding debtors and creditors without court action.
Otto Stoker has been released from his missionary service for the LDS church in Texas and will return home this week. He completed his assigned duties and plans to resume ordinary life upon arrival.
The Fan Debt Adjustment Committee applied by the Guerno to aid farmers in distress are fully organized and functioning in Uintah.
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