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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1945
Page
5
Residents and guests gathered for a May society gathering with remarks by Mrs Bag or Calder. The event featured Miss Maria Tiel, Miss Velda, and Sybil, plus Mrs Pearce, Mr Pontha Calder, and special guests Mrs Howard Calder and Lewis Abegglen. Lunch served to thirteen members concluding the season.
Mrs Ward White hosted the Thalia Club at her home with tulip decorations and a lunch for 11 members and a guest. The 4H Salt Shakers met at Donna Lundell’s home where leaders for the coming season were named: Miss Lundell, Lucy Calder, Donna Winward, Liame Wilkins, and Doris Karren. A business meeting preceded afternoon games.
In Vernal Utah and nearby towns several men and their families are noted for military service and reunion plans. Genieve Lewis travels to Denver to meet her fiancé while Dallas Workman returns on leave. Howard Mendenhall and Richard Ufford update on naval duties, and Joy Davis graduates with her family nearby. Marriages, relocations, and postwar assignments are detailed among local service members and relatives in this wartime community roundup.
Vernal Central School PTA elected officers for the new year at the first meeting. Winners include Mrs Don S Hacking as president and Mr Martin I Campbell as first vice president. John Stagg is second vice president, Miss Helen Banks secretary, and Mrs Charles R Henderson will serve as director. Students bought 5589 dollars in stamps and war bonds and received a Treasury citation for buying a jeep for the Army during the sixthi war loan drive.
Uintah County Daughters of the Utah Pioneers plan a large gold star memorial on the west wall of Vernal City Office with photos and ranks of local World War I service members. The group asks relatives or informants to contact Mrs C P Lewis Mrs Lowell Bad y Katie Horrocks or the DUP captain. casualties listed include Dee Gail Alexander Aaron, Damela Leland Von Gardner, Norman T Johnson, and several others.
Dale Naylor district graxier says an inter district grazing advisory boards meeting will be held in Vernal Saturday at 10 am. Representatives from most eastern Utah districts will attend to discuss grazing blems and related issues.
Pastel chenille bedspreads and striped polo shirts draw shoppers at Ashtons with bedspreads at 99 dollars and polo shirts on sale. Penneys features white sheer blouses and eyelet hats around 2.88 to 2.98, while Vernal Drug promotes Tanzall sun lotion and baby sets at 50 cents. CESearle offers baby blankets and sheer blouses, plus two toned children's jackets and serving aprons.
Robert Aycock was thrown from a wagon when the team bolted on Sides. Frightened by wind and a sheet of newspaper in their faces. He was conveyed to Uintah County Hospital for treatment of bruises and shock.
Funeral services for Pomillie A H Anderson 78 were held Wednesday at Lapoint chapel with Bishop George Rttacking presiding and the Lapoint choir performing. Speakers included Arlie Johnson and others, with interment at Fairview Cemetery. Anderson, born November 4, 1866 in Coalville Utah, married Alma Gilbert Anderson in 1885 and was a longtime Relief Society and genealogical worker in multiple communities before moving to Lapoint in 1926.
Prominent farmer Lawrence Caldwell urged improved highway access from Lapoint to Vernal. He argued a proposed postwar paved road from Gusher would shorten distances, claiming Vernal pushes residents toward Roosevelt and would set Lapoint’s travel at about 27 miles versus 17 miles currently.
A hearing debated forest and grazing policy on Indian lands as a white livestock man faced a $1200 fine for 1200 sheep crossing a 40 acre Dry barren plot. Julius Murray urged intertribal cooperation, while critics warned the new redistribution aims would jeopardize small operators.
A garbled OCR fragment lists scattered names, places, and terms without coherent events. It mentions Emerson, Kel, Station, and a few vague references to people, locations, and actions amid a jumble of letters and partial phrases. No clear date, event, or outcome emerges.
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