Pioneer Day Activities in Vernal Set for July 24 Parade and Fireworks
Vernal plans a full Pioneer Day program on Monday July 24 with J Iaws and Ken Sowards leading Ashley and Uintah Stake efforts. Events begin with a 6 am salute and dynamite charge, a 9:30 am parade from Central School to Main Street to the stake tabernacle, floats from each ward, and prizes for top entries. Concessions, bazaar, youth races, dances, pony rides, and a 3 pm split into baseball games precede an old fashioned chuck wagon supper at 6 pm and fireworks at 8:18 pm at the fairgrounds followed by a dance.
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Basin Groups Seek Improved TV Reception in Uintah Basin
A joint meeting of Basin Groups from Meeker Rangely Uintah and Duchesne counties and local school districts set a plan to survey the area, appoint technicians, and submit recommendations for better TV reception. They discussed Salt Lake Channel 7 access via higher relays and noted fundraising for the Ashley Stake center and Uintah Stake building projects. The central committee, including stake leaders, will meet weekly at the stake center.
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Educational Channel
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Uintah Basin
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Uintah Stake
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Stake Auxifertee
Stake Center
Senate Approves Dinosaur Bill Excludes Hunting Tract
Utah senators backed the Dinosaur National Monument bill with boundary changes to shrink Colorado gains as Utah gains net acres. The House bill's disputed tract of 3290 acres was eliminated while language preserved future Echo Park Dam plans. Sen Frank Mora urged compensation for cattle and sheep grazing rights within the monument.
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Senate Public Works
Echo Perk Dam
Wallace F. Bennett
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Utah
Senate
Frank E . Mora
Dutah
Ben
Moss
Funeral for Milton Snow Gunshot Victim at Jensen Ward
Funeral services for Milton Miles Snow aged 20 were held at Jensen Ward chapel after his death Sunday from a self inflicted gunshot wound. The single 22 caliber shell was fired at his right temple while alone at Fritz Stewart residence. Survivors include parents Woodrow and unnamed mother, four brothers Ronald Ray Norman and Marioni, four sisters Carol Myra Negter and Evelyn Gladys, and grandfather Albert Snow.
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Milton Miles Snow
Jensen Ward Chapel
Bishopric
Jensen Cemetery
Mr Snow
Sheriff's Area
Woodrow Snow
Ronald
Ray
Norman
Marioni
Carol
Myra
Nfegter
Evelyn Gladys
Albert Snow
PSC Denies Moon Lake Plea Against Power Line Route
The Utah Public Service Commission refused Tuesday to rehear Moon Lake Electric Association’s challenge to an FSC order. The order allows Utah Power & Light Co to build a high power line to Vernal and to operate service from a line extending from the Carbon plant to Vernal Duches County.
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Utah Public Service Commission
FSC
Utah Power & Light Co
Vernal
Up&l
Ducheste County
Verma
Vernal Chamber Set Annual Meeting at Doe's Beach
The Vernal Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual installation meeting Wednesday at 8 pm at Dogs Beach. An earlier Tuesday meeting announced Dinosaur Day celebrations postponed due to helicopter damage. tentative new date July 7. Utah Chamber executives will visit Vernal and Gorge area. Ralph Edwards and Ker Sowards highlighted. New committee chairmen named: A DeMarr Dudley education, Ralph Rolfe governor, Arden Stewart recreation.
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Dog's Beach
Basilio
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Skillet
Utah Chamber of Commerce
Vernal
Flaming Gorge
Jocal
Ralph Edwards
Guent
Ker Sowards
San Francisco Chemical Co
A DeMarr Dudley
Ralph Rolfe
Arden Stewart
Ashley Stake LDS Conference This Weekend
Elder Antoine Revins of the First Council of Seventy will address Ashley Stake conference Saturday and Sunday with general sessions Sunday at 10 am and 2 pm in the stake tabernacle An MIA session is at 7 30 pm Special musical selections will be by Tri dell and Lapoint ward choirs Elder Walter Danele from Church headquarters will attend Also special sessions are set for Vernal 1st Ward chapel Saturday a welfare meeting at 6 30 pm for stake and ward welfare committees and a Priesthood leadership meeting at 8 pm Attendees include bishops Melchizedek priesthood quorum presidencies and secretaries group leaders high councilmen and ward program advisers
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First Council of Seventy
LDS Church
Ashley Stake
Stake Tabernacle
Tridell
Lapoint Ward
East Lake City
Walter Danele
General Welfare Committee
St Ward Chapel
Stake
Melchizedek
Three Vital Area Developments Enter Key Fall Phases
Three major Vernal area projects Flaming Gorge Vernal Project and phosphate plant move toward crucial stages this fall. Flaming Gorge Dam to pour first concrete in early September. Vernal Project embankment to finish before cold weather and feeder canal completion planned for winter. Phosphate mill near Vernal to be completed and in production by November. Crews advancing foundation grouting and spillway tunnel work. Stanaker Dam embankment set to reach 140 feet later with control house finish imminent. Phosphate rail in Brush Creek area using precast concrete construction speeding progress.
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Sea
Stanaker Draw
Western Knapp Engineering
Vernal
Green River
Areas of Reclamation
Damakta
Stanaker Dam
Utah Power and Light seeks bids for final power line leg
Utah Power and Light Co invites bids for the final leg of a 100 mile 138000 volt line to Uintah Basin. Crews under Jelco Inc work along Vernal to Lapoint with pole holes and 80 foot towers. The last section will connect Uintah Basin to Castle Gate and San Francisco power facilities, with a rough terrain build to meet an October 14 completion date.
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Uintsh Basin
Utah
Jelco, Inc
Vernal
Lapoint
San Francisco
Carbon Steam-Electric
Castle Gate
Up&l
Uintah District Outlines Pupils Admission Rules
Parents of children slated to begin school in September were reminded of admission requirements. Children five by August 31 enter automatically with birth certificate. those age five between September 1 and December 31 must apply, take the district aptitude test, and submit forms by July 1 1980. Applications are available at Uintah School District offices. Internal notice indicates testing schedule to follow.
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Uintah
South 1St West
Local Man Hurt In Hose Mishap Near Vernal
Allen Faulkner of Vernal was hospitalized after an air hose exploded while he drilled in an open field on Me Cook Ridge about 30 miles south of Vernal. He sustained head lacerations leg bruises and eye injuries and was flown to Uintah County Hospital where he was expected to be released soon.
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Allen Faulkner
Hilda Faulkner
Vernal
Cook Ridge
Uintah County Hospital
Uintah Power Refuses Stock Buy Offers in Roosevelt
Uintah Power and Light Co rejected bids to purchase Uintah stock at a stockholders meeting held Saturday in Roosevelt. Utah Power and Light offered a stock exchange of four Uintah shares for one Utah share, while Moon Lake offered 50 percent more on a cash basis. Uintah stock traded around 35 to 37 dollars per share.
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Uintah Power and Light Co
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Utah Power and Light Co
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Utah Power and Light
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Uintah
Summer Frost Destroys Crops Across Utah Valley
Unseasonable frost Tuesday caused heavy garden damage in Ashley Valley near Vernal and Weber County. At Vernal airport the temperature dropped to 33 F, rising to 38 F Wednesday. Tomatoes squash and some fruit were killed. Maryland? No. Early-morning highs are expected to climb, but many regions report ongoing crop losses. Northeastern Utah and Idaho face multimillion-dollar damages as several intermountain states post frost records.
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Ashley Valley
Vernal
Mercury
Utah
Salt Lake City
Weber County
Idaho
County Warns Residents Against Fly By Night Operators
Sheriff Norman J Fletcher and County Clerk Morris R Cook issued warnings after a fast moving septic tank cleaner duped a 65 year old widow. Two men in a truck offered to inspect her tank and demanded payment before completing the work, taking her welfare check and savings totaling 120 dollars. A licensed local contractor would charge 30 to 40 dollars for the job. Officials urge hiring only licensed operators and note a May 9 county ordinance on business licensing.
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Morris R Cook
New Warning
Cook
Uintah
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