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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1955
Page
13
Ordinance 355 grants Lorin Laughlin and successors the right to lay install and operate a gas transmission and distribution system in Vernal Utah for 20 years. Provisions require nonexclusive rights, street restoration, proper depths, inspections, and payments to the city. Affects mains pipes and equipment with conditions on grades and city improvements.
Ordinance No 4 55 grants Greeley Gas Company rights to construct install maintain and operate a gas transmission and distribution system within Vernal Utah including mains pipes conduits services and appliances across streets alleys and public places for heating and other uses. The city reserves rights to require relocation and non exclusivity and sets depths and conditions for laying mains while outlining service area boundaries and deposits for meters and rules for property protection and loss prevention.
Marvin F Smith of Vernal Utah was named to membership in the American Hereford Association with headquarters in Kansas City Missouri. The association roster lists 126 Hereford breeders added in March 1955 and serves more than 80,000 breeders nationwide. Last year the group issued over five lifetime memberships per day and recorded 552,554 purebred calves, the second highest yearly total.
The 1955 ordinance grants Greeley G. Company a 30 year gas distribution franchise in Vernal Utah. It requires meter removal on termination, sets annual payments equal to 1 percent of gross gas revenues from local residential and commercial users, and requires PSC certificate by December 31 1955 or proof of imminent establishment. Mayor Clair Hales signs.
The Utah Department of Fish and Game prints on all licenses that they do not authorize trespass on private property without permission. Misuse of private lands leads to closures for license holders. Director J Perry Egan urges seekers to ask permission before accessing lands or waters, posted or not, to protect recreational areas.
Notice to creditors requests claims by July 27 1955 with vouchers to Col ton and Hammond Vernal Utah. Notice to water users seeks extension of time from May 28 1955 to May 28 1953 to change diversions of 5 sec ft from Ashley Creek and Ashley Spring for domestic municipal use. A protest hearing is set for July 22 1955 with State Engineer in Salt Lake City.
A lamp shade school directed by Leah H Gardner from Utah State Agricultural College extension service trained fifteen women last week at the Utah Field House of Natural History. Each student made a lamp and will relay the instructions to their home groups. Attendees included Mary L Hatch Edna Anderson Elmira Roberts Allee Snow Estella Pack Sylvia B Richens Flors FE Winn Jennie Feltch LaVelle Jones Billie Clements Erma Calder Eloise Turner Lois Henline and Mary Lois Reichert.
D Ray Moss of Salt Lake City Utah filed State Engineer Application No 26905 to appropriate 2.5 sections of water from Montez Creek, divert to Dry Gulch Utah River in Uintah County. Water will be pumped 40 feet and conveyed 1320 feet to irrigate 220 acres. Protests with reasons must be sworn and filed by July with the State Engineer at 403 State Capitol East Lake City Utah.
George W. Clyde director of the Utah Water and Power Board asks the State Engineer for an extension from May 11, 1955 to May 11, 1960 to file Proof of Appropriation for Application No. 11143. The plan covers 15 sec ft and 180 acre feet from four unnamed springs a draw and Hacking Lake in Daggett and Uintah counties to irrigate 6000 acres. $3,000.60 has been spent on construction. estimated additional $4,090.60 is needed to complete the project and put the water to beneficial use. The request, with reasons, must be filed with the State Engineer by 10:00 a.m.
Seventy-nine boys and girls join 4-H clubs in Uintah County Utah. The meeting at the courthouse organized about thirteen new clubs for youths over ten years old. Jessie Eller, home demonstration agent, will assist interested entrants.
National Safety Council launches a nationwide summer campaign to eliminate hazards from discarded refrigerators after four child deaths this year. With schools and safety groups, the effort urges removal of doors, securing or destroying cabinets, and sharing educational data sheets and posters to local PTA units and safety bodies.
Golf pro Bobby Jones, hired by a department store for lessons, is approached by two women. He asks one if she wants to learn. She replies, claiming her friend wants instruction instead. The fragment ends with an unclear remark about the student’s name or date.
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