UP and L May Purchase Uintah Power Stock
Uintah Power and Light stockholders meet Saturday to consider Utah Power and Light Company proposal to buy the utility. Kenneth Aycock, their manager, says other bids may come from interested power companies. Utah Power and Light was granted permission to build a 2 240 000 high tension line from Castle Gate in Carbon County into the Uintah Basin and has a contract to supply power for a new phosphate development north of Vernal by San Francisco Chemical Corp.
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Uintah Power and Light Company
Utah Power and Light Company
Baain
Kenneth Aycock
Utah Power and Light
Permisser
Public Service Commission of Utah
Castle Gate
Carbon County
Uintah Basin
Utah
Vernal
San Francisco Chemical Corp
Dr RK Murri Opens Dentist Office in Vernal
Dr RK Murri formerly of Salt Lake City has opened a dentist’s office at 83 West Main Vernal above King’s Basin Marine De Murri. He graduated from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1858 and previously practiced in Salt Lake City for two years.
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de R K Murri
Salt Lake City
West Main
Vernal
King’s Basin
Marine de Murri
University of Minnesota At
Minneapolis
Henderson Eyes Detroit Oil Meeting
C R Henderson of Vernal, Utah, chairman of the Utah State Land Board and Oil and Gas Commission, travels to Detroit, Michigan to represent Governor Clyde at an Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission meeting. Henderson will report on Utah oil and gas conservation practices and serve as cochairman for the committee on equality of oil production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C N Henderson
Vernal
Utah State Land, Board and
Oi] and Gas Commission
Detroit
Michigan
Interstate Ol and Gas Compact
Ienderson
George D Clyde
Interstate Commission
Utah
Compact Commission
George Docking
Kansas
Appointment to Dental Service Society for a year
During that time he was appointed to the Dental Service Society for a year doing dental work for children Dr Murri's wife, Oneta.
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Dental Service Society
Murri
Oneta
Flaming Gorge Dam cement pours to begin in July
The Flaming Gorge Dam project on the Upper Colorado River Storage Project will start concrete pours next month. The $29 million project aims for a July 1963 dam completion and a 1964 power plant start. about 400 workers now and up to 650 at peak.
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Flaming Gorge
Bureau of Reclamation
Colorado River
Devil's Slide
Morgan County
Jean R. Walton
Crete
Walton
LDS Authorities To Visit Ashley Stake Sessions
Visiting officers of the LDS Church will attend Ashley Stake conference on Saturday and Sunday June 25 and 26. Elder Antoine Ivina, from the First Council of Severity, and Elder Walter Danale, from the General Welfare Committee, will speak. Special Saturday night sessions will be in Vernal 1st Ward, with a welfare meeting at 8 pm for stake and ward committees and bishoprics.
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LDS Church
Ashley
Antoine Kr, Ivina
Flest Council of Severity
Walter Danale
Lider Ivin Aived
Colonia Juarez
Mexico
Hawaii
Hen
Danste
Abernacle
Vernal
Utah booster TV stations gain FCC licensing support
Washington reports the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee ordered favorable reporting on a bill to authorize the Federal Communications Commission to license television booster stations. Sen Frank E Moss announced via telegram that about 80 percent of Utah counties are already using booster television, underscoring broad local adoption and the bill's potential impact.
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Washington
Louse Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committe
Federal Communications Commission
Frank E. Moss
Vernal Express
Utah
Time Capsule in Dinosaur Park Will Highlight Ceremony
Uintah County officials discuss equalization of taxes at weekly meeting. They decline to sell land near Housa Reservoir. A Dinosaur Day ceremony in Dinosaur Park west of Vernal will bury a time capsule with a copy of the new movie Dinosaurs. The event runs 8 to 4 pm with a film showing 5 to 7 pm and a reception for visiting newsmen.
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Dinosaur Park
Uintah
Dinosaurland Park
Vernal
Ver ‘Nal Chamber of Commerce
Dinousaurs
Jack Harris
Amateur Rodeo at Vernal Fairgrounds Next Weekend
Vernal Roping Club sponsors the annual amateur rodeo at the county fairgrounds Friday and Saturday June 24 and 35 starting at 7 30 pm each night. Officers Don M Walker president Richard Peterson vice president and Glendon Hanberg secretary announce top attractions including bronc riding bareback riding team roping calf roping bull riding wild cow milking and a wild horse race.
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Vernal Roping Club
Don M Walker
Richard Peterson
Glendon Hanberg
Stanaker Dam Road Graded
A 0.48 mile stretch of Stanaker Dam Road on the Vernal Manila highway is 78 percent complete per Utah Road Conditions May-June issue. The road has been graded and drained with traffic to be maintained, while other local protests note 79 miles of the Vernal Manila highway cut off to Flaming Gorge Dam. 80 percent complete with the bridge open and sections described as rough in spots on US 40.86 miles from St Duchesne junction to W-209 with 35 percent completion for structure and resurfacing and minor traffic interference. Additionally 124 107 miles of the Blue Bell to Altamont road show 54 percent completion with minor rattic interference.
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Stanaker Dam
Utah
Information and Education Division
Utah State Department of Highways
Flaming Gorge Dam
St. Duchesne Junction
W-209
Bluebell
Altamont Road
Phone Cables Planned For Naples Maeser
Harold Anderson, manager of Mt States Telephone in Vernal, announced new cables for Naples and Maeser to relieve party-line congestion and expand private lines. Naples line installation is underway and due this week. Maeser line completion is planned for November. Dial-system conversion date moved from November 1961 to May 1982.
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Naples
Maeser
Harold Anderson
Mt States Telephone Company
Leave Fawns Urge Wardens Leave Fawns Alone
Local conservation officers advise the public to leave fawns alone after birth. Do not touch or move them as does stay hidden for three weeks and may return to the fawn. Interfering can cause more harm, despite the fawns’ cute appearance.
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Eave Tawnhl
Canne
Uintah Districts Budget Hearing Set for June 30
The Uintah School District Board will hold its budget hearing on Thursday June 30 to adopt the 1960 61 budget. Supt J C Thaws invites all residents to attend and notes plans for preliminary drawings of a new junior high near Todd Elementary.
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Alatah
Supt
J C
Todd
Uintah
Joe Reidhead
Brigham Young University
William Edwards
Alterra
Vernal National Guard unit winds up summer camp
A Utah National Guard unit from Vernal closes its two week summer camp near Farmington Canyon. Company A of the 115th Engineer Battalion cleans a dirt road to the radar site, repair work aided by Army equipment, bivouac stays at 9,000 feet, meals and KP duties described, unit command by Cap Marshall Nelson, Maj Gen Max E Rich notes this road work is a key defense mission.
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Dale Soderquist
Co. A
Vernal
Francis Peak
National Guard
Francis Peak Madar
Farmington Canyon
Company A
115Th Engineer
Utah National Guard
Max E Rich
Utah
Cap Marshall Nelson
Wasatch Mountains
Rich
Eny
Bakery Demolished for Parking Lot Extension
The former Vernal City Bakery on South Vernal Avenue was gutted by fire and torn down early this week by Ashton Bros. Co. The owners plan to extend Ashton’s parking lot on the site.
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Vernal ‘City
South Vernal Avenue
Ashton Bros. Co
Ashton’s
Road to Farmington Canyon Center Key Target of Closure
Gen Rich stresses importance of keeping the Francis Peak radar center road open and in good condition. The facility sits 9,560 feet atop Farmington Canyon and the Friday to Sunday window is tied to access.
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Farmington Canyon
Gen Rich
Collision Topples Truck injuring ten Sunday
A Sunday morning crash at South East and South North injured ten people when a 1955 Chevrolet pickup driven by Carl Gibson collided with a 1951 Plymouth sedan driven by Donald Trujillo. Gibson failed to yield, the pickup overturned, and the injured were taken to the hospital. Names include Gibson family members and others from Vernal and Riverton. Damage totaled about $1,000. Carlson cited.
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Main Street
4Th West
Azer Johnson
Deloy Mervin Slaugh
Johnson
Slaugh
Highway Patrol
Slaugh Auto
Blaugh
Liceniae Wi le
M. Yelm
Sth North
Sth East
Carl Gibson
Sth
Donald Trujillo
Gerry Gibson
Vernal
Ora Gibson
Janper Gibson
George Gibson
Linda Ann Gibson
Riverton
Carla Kim Gibson
Kevin D. Gibson
Lois Petereson
Calvin Peterson
Sandy
Cathy Gibson
Ronald D. Gibson
Gibson
Trujillo
Harold Powell
Utah
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Eppiemben
Up&l
Uintah Power
RK. Murri
C. R. Henderson
Green River
Antoine R. Ivins
Bulletin
FCC
Lcense
Boy Scouts
Cae Pus
Orion
Uinta
Ulita
Uinta Park
Uinta Canyon
James E Bacon
Order of the Arrow
Glén E. Mohiman
Duchesne Stake
Rev . W. Olbrich
Vernal Congregational Church
Moxa
Father Petlingrin
Roosevelt Catholic Church
der Nay
B. Spendlove
Bruce Christian
T. R. Seager
Vernon C Young
Paul Stringham
Tenman
James Droltinger
Tyrrell Seager
Roy Caldwell
Owen Sullivan
Keith Ro Mooper Jr
Darrell Murray
John Allred
Robert Goodrich
John Gotfredson
Carl Larson
Dry Gulch
Bowman Archery Association
High Uinta
Vernal National Guard
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