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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1948
Page
16
Utah announces June 12 opening at 5:00 a.m. for all lower elevation streams lakes and reservoirs except Uinta high lakes. Strawberry Reservoir Fish Lake and Deer Creek Reservoir open the same day with seven inch minimum size, seven pound bag or one fish daily, 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. hours, and license sales indicate strong turnout.
The Bureau of Mines shown at Rifle Colorado that large scale mechanized mining of oil shale is feasible. Wilburn C Schroeder testified to the House Appropriations Committee that a major Rifle mine targets forty to fifty tons per man per day this year with rooms sixty by hundred feet opened safely and shale beds seventy feet thick yielding about thirty gallons of oil per ton. An electric shovel loads 300 tons per hour and multiple drills operate on trucks underground.
A legendary tale claims an Indian discovered the famed Potosi silver mines by accident, shaping the local mining lore and the region’s early Spanish colonial mythos.
Utah State Agricultural College will host the Driver Education and Traffic Safety Institute June 7 to 25. Harold R. Danford, national safety educator, will teach alongside USAC officials. The program aims to equip high school teachers with up to date driver education methods and reduce youth crash rates as emphasized by Prof. Brance. Local and state agencies including the American Automobile Association and Utah departments support the event.
Expansion of the Elk Springs field in Moffat county unfolds after Continental Oil Company's fourth well at Elk Springs tested 270 barrels in 21 hours. The find may become the field's best producer. discovery dated 1946 with two of the first three wells yielding oil and one dry hole.
A note explains how thick paint causes running and sagging as it dries. It cites overcoating and poor brushing as causes and mentions a 1853 success of James Olver with a chilled plow in South Bend Indiana.
Washington June 2 The National Education Association reports education inequality shaped war manpower. Wealthier states paid for deficiencies via higher quotas, while twelve states overrepresented in service and twelve underrepresented. The study links high education spending to larger shares in service and notes regional wealth gaps drove unequal burdens. It cites 1,150,522 fathers inducted nationwide and urges federal aid to equalize educational opportunity as national defense.
The Glen McCarthy Productions seeks 4-H Club girls aged 11 to 13 for a feature in The Green Promise. Four girls from all extension divisions will be flown to Hollywood for screen tests with chaperone, all expenses paid. Entries must include blanks and photos sent by June 20 to the local Home Demonstration Agent office in Vernal.
The report by the Committee on Education and Labor must be reported to the House to complete enactment of federal aid in the Eightieth Congress. The note emphasizes the committee’s role in advancing funding measures through legislative steps.
A Scottish history from 1340 notes large numbers of black Galloway cattle raised in Scotland.
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