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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1936
Page
4
Te Vernal Express lists WILLIAM B WALLIS as editor and publisher with VAMESHi, WALLIS credited in the masthead. The item notes the newspaper leadership and ownership details from the historic issue.
Tridell sells his ranch on Little Water to Verne Hanson. His livestock and grazing permit were disposed of. The Indian allotments took all the water from the Whiterocks canal Friday. Twenty acres of land on Wm Searle’s farm were prepared and planted to sweet corn and beans. A storm damaged garden crops. Mrs. Forest Goodrich attended the Mutual conference in Salt Lake City.
Alma Mecham of Tirdell visited with his son Ferrell and Miss Ardith Cook to Provo Beach to see Merle and Beulah W Morrill. DeVere Ross expanded in turkey farming buying 800 poults from Manti hatchery and raising them with normal losses. Morby Stock Association cattle counted on Ashley National Forest grazing on June 10. Merkley from the Ninth Quorum of Seventy and E Joseph Winder attended Sunday School and spoke at Sacramento meeting here.
The Relief Society conference was held Sunday with Mrs Jesse Brough of the stake board attending. Melvin Jorgensen and wife plan to Detroit Monday to drive home a new car. John Jackson and Lowell Chivers visited Provo last week for work. Mrs Lowell Chivers and baby stayed with her parents, W P Ellsworth. Loura Thorne of Willow Creek visited Sunday. Volunteers are sought to help with the hay crop. Oliver Jorgensen and Raymond Stoddard attended a genealogical convention in Roosevelt Sunday. River pumps are running as water drops. Mrs Floyd Bryant and children are visiting Ogden with Mrs Bryant’s mother. Their daughter Artha broke and injured her shoulder and feet while there.
The American Legion Auxiliary met Wednesday afternoon at Mrs Margaret Witbeck’s home with Mrs Rowena Lambert and Miss Peat Shatter assisting. Officers elected for the year include President Anna Lewis first vice president Hattie P Johnson second vice president Jennie Felich secretary Grace Findley treasurer JTras White historian Pearl Shafe ter chaplain Margaret Witbeck sergeant at arms Leath Miller and executive committee Dorothy Mc Carrell Afton Stringham and Pear Johnston Delegates chosen for the state convention in Salt Lake at the last week of August included Chace Findley Maggie Hatch Rowena Lambert Afton Stringham Leath Miller Zora Milburn Lucille Young Pearl Johnston Jennie Feltch Lilly White Dorothy Mc Carrel Hanah Taylor Alternates named were Pearl Shafter Margaret Witbeck Anna Lewis Laverne Pope Geneva Lewis Bully Curry Leona York Lilly Macksy Maze Christensen Minnie Divis.
Community notices from Jensen and nearby areas record hospital updates including appendicitis surgeries at Bullock Clark hospital and births to Mrs Verne Bennion and Mrs Stella Stevens, plus ties to the Valley Hospital at Jensen. Marriage licenses announced for James Boren and Margaret Shaw and Ray Thomas with Erma Clayburn. Church services listed with sermon text from Matthew.
A political essay argues that a growing army of government workers depends on taxpayers and that rising costs burden every wage earner and household. The piece notes protests in Congress over taxes on essentials and cites statisticians estimating average government expenditures per family as evidence of rising fiscal strain.
Sher Davis, longtime Balb Lake plumber, relocates to Vernal and joins Uintah Gas to handle the Crane Company plumbing fixtures line under the NHA modernization program. Homes may be equipped with modern plumbing financed by the program.
Mr Davis states a loan term of three to five years and notes the Datis will specialize in sprinkling systems as part of their offerings.
Glade Colton son of Mr and Mrs Dan Colton capped four years at college with high honors at Brigham Young University earning a bachelor of arts degree He ranked among 22 top graduates of a class of 342 He won the Provo Rotary Club Gold Medal for an oratorical contest on international goodwill with the subject A Half a Brick or the German on the Mount He previously attended the University of Utah and Columbia University majoring in English with English as his minor
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