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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1942
Page
6
Community updates from Tridell record a two furlong training camp and weekly home visits. Names mentioned include Ivan Morrill Mrs Nelsie Merkley LaRoy Morrill and Dar yell Gandriels with events in Provo Vernal and Roosevelt.
Names and places flood this Lapoint society column with visits, family ties, and travel notes. Mentions include Jensen visitors, Vernal residents Lola Christensen and E Pillsbury, plus multiple family gatherings with Rasmussen, Caldwell, Perry, and Nelson households. Encounters span Salt Lake, Bountiful, Park City, and New Castle with Alaska letters and port visits noted.
The message urges thrifty saving through War Bonds two sentence pledge. It emphasizes saving ten percent from every paycheck and frames War Bonds as a means to support the nation while building personal savings.
Willow Creek reports Mr and Mrs EB C Birchel visiting Glade Park Colorado with daughter Mrs Lorn Luster. Mr and Mrs Harry Brown left for Grand Junction. The Broome family visited Ver nal and returned via Lapoint with Beverly Bain to visit Russell. Squires family traveled to Verna. Price and son Bill visited Jane Cook and Abe Hatch. Bart Mourey of Los Angeles visited. Tube Squires was in Vernal on business. A large outsider crowd attended the dance on the 25th.
Daniel Jackling, a Missouri native born 1869, directed major copper ventures in Utah and helped scale low grade porphyry mining. He organized Utah Copper Company and oversaw open pit operations, influencing wartime copper supply. His work created a large enterprise employing about 4800 workers with a $10 million annual payroll. Myra Wardle and Wend Johnson were noted visitors in Salt Lake City.
Mrs Ezra Caldwell traveled through the ward en route to California from Maryland where she visited her son Vernon and family. Jolly Ha 4 H club mothers hosted a luncheon July 16 at Mrs Eugene Woodruff's home. The group enjoyed a lumber party in Ashley Canyon, swimming, picnics, and a sunrise breakfast. Other notes include Mrs Ed Hoeft's return from Ogden with daughter Mrs Rulon Chadwick and grandchildren, and Mrs Lee Murray aiding in Salt Lake City for medical care for her baby. Raymond Ciardiner named second counselor to Superintendent Ralph Match in Sunday School. Harold Erekson of Preva visiting the ward. he is a relative of Mr and Mrs Clinton Erekson, former residents.
A long list of visitors and arrivals from Salt Lake City, Roosevelt, Price, and San Jose fills Naples society notes. Mrs Gawin L Good rich returns from Los Angeles. multiple families including Gardiner, Merrell, Litster, and Handys visit or travel. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Robert Litster. Sunday ward events feature a Sacrament meeting led by Wh Priests with John Neilson among speakers.
Vergie Goodrich hosted a gathering where four delicious desserts were served to ten guests. The Gardiner family reunion is set for Tuesday in Humphries Park with Raymond Gardiner Edith Winn and Myrtle Collier on the committee. A put-luck inner will be served and transportation provided by Walter Collier. All-day outing starts at 10:00 a.m. in two weeks.
Charles H. Carter takes the assistant position in the Irrigation Department of the USAC and will complete his course this year. Vernal federal building work will begin soon. Annette Nichols runs the Bangley Hotel. A tennis court is being built at the courthouse. The band led by Professor W. H. Gurgener departs August 10 for a twenty day tour through Utah Idaho and Wyoming to Yellowstone Park and will advertise the Uintah Basin.
Lynn Hulse of Murray and uncle Sidney Pace with family visited this weekend. Alyn Smiths returned home Monday after a week with daughter Elmer Swett. Paul Watkins family of Park City spent the 24th here. Massey spoke at Sacrament meeting Sunday. Crystal Hall of Pocatello visiting uncle Ivan Atwood. Ralph and Ronald Winn visited Bruce Watkins in Park City Sunday. Floretta Clarkson returned from Meeker for medical care. Ivan Atwood led Sunday School roller skating party. Darrel Johnston family and Ashmore children visited Ogden on the 25th to see Johnston’s sister Jean Marshall. Doyle Morrison and family returned to Salt Lake after visiting Morrison parents. James Adams home on furlough. Seeley family called to Ogden for sister-in-law’s death.
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