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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1960
Page
1
AIL members of the Retail Merchants will close on Independence Day July 4 as reported by the Vernal Chamber of Commerce. Drug stores ferries stalls and some neighborhood groceries will remain open part of the day.
Clifton Southam, seven, son of Mr and Mrs Niles Southam of Naples, suffered a cut below the lip when he fell from a tree near his home. At 2:30 pm he was taken to the doctor’s office and received treatment for the wound.
Moon Lake Electric Association in Vernal was notified that its request for a 473000 loan from the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington DC was approved. Marlon Ross, a Moon Lake resident, arranged the loan to finance new power lines and expand capacity for existing and future customers in Brown's Park Daggett County Utah Moffat County Colorado Strawberry Dryant Fork Wasatch County Utah Jensen and Rangely Colorado.
About 30 Indians calling themselves True Utes entered the US Bureau of Indian Affairs tribal office at Fort Duchesne Monday and took control, forcing workers to leave. Agency Supt Martin M. Zollar said officials will not respond to the revolt. The group opposes council spending and the $7 million Indian land settlement.
Elder Walter Dansie of the LDS General Welfare Committee told Ashley Stake conference that the church welfare program, though tax exempt, returns about 96 percent of its production to welfare work. He noted 80,000 acres held for welfare projects and 36,000 per year aided last year at a cost of five million dollars, with thirty million spent over a decade.
In Roosevelt a single funeral service was held for the Hanson family of three who perished in a fiery crash Friday when their cement mixer collided with a car one mile west of town. Keith Manson, Joan Alexander Hanson, and three-year-old Debra Lynch Hanson died. Bernard McKinley of Fort Duchesne survived with injuries. Witnesses described the child escaping the burning wreckage before dying en route to Salt Lake.
Thieves broke a window and entered the Ashley Farmers Coop service station east of Vernal Monday morning. An envelope with 35 dollars was left on the counter, forgotten by employees. The break-in was noted at 6 am and the sheriff was notified around 7 am.
Utah Oil and Gas Commission and State Land Board will meet in Vernal on Thursday July 7 led by Governor Clyde. The delegation includes four commissioners Vee Watch Panquitch Walter Menn Brigham City Edward Clyde Salt Lake City Cecil Tompson Moab Supt E Allen Bateman staff Frank Allen Cleon Feight Gale Prince Bob Schmitt and others. The luncheon speaker will be Commissioner Edward Clyde. Afterward the group will tour oil fields and state lands in eastern Utah.
A first pour of over one million cubic yards of concrete is planned for Flaming Gorge Dam in early September. Project leaders say completion could occur by 1968 with the seismograph and recorder house active. High sensitivity instruments at Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon monitor earth movements for design and safety.
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