Vernal Plans To Fete 500 Lions in June
Vernal organizers expect over five hundred Lions from Utah and Idaho to attend a three day June convention in Vernal. J C Anderson chairs the committee and outlines elaborate entertainments including outings at Green River resort, a canyon view, a dance, and a Dinosaur National Monument display.
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Vernal
Uteh
Idaho
J C Anderson
Fligh Spata
Serate Green
Wintah Mountains
Fit Canyon
Green River
Dinonur National Monument
Dinosaur Quarry
Bollt Mountain
Atere
Utah
Con Wiltor
Gun Club Names Committees For the 1939 Season
The Gun Club announces committees for the 1939 season. Officers and directors appoint a work group to plan site policies and preservation efforts, including bird habitat, hunting restrictions, and law enforcement coordination. Members listed include F V Hamypto, John Jorgensen, Sewell Mousey, and James Morr. Further details continue on page five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anc
Charles Palmer
Cylon Findley
Shirley
F VW
Hamypto
Robers
John Jorgensen
Sewell Mousey
Millecam
Wallue Garter
Teo Thorne
At ‘Taylor
Notin Lo
Ein Af National Forest
Clen Lambert
James Morr Thos
Bingham
Perron Uacking
Ernest Caldwell
Dick Marshes
Coopersia
Henry B Millecam Schalaan
Clark
Jerite
Pei Sherely
Elevan
Aten En Trevis
Clark Newell
Somme Rowe
Morris Stans
George Richens
Francis Feltch
Jury Fails to Agree in Phil Van Case
After 1044 hours of deliberation the jury could not agree in the Phil Van case. The panel was discharged by Judge Turner at 1 30 am after being sworn the previous Friday afternoon. Several jurors named include Abner Swain Henry Herriot Milton Hacking Ida May Nickol and others. The court adjourned to Duchesne for unfinished matters and a divorce action for Neva B McNeill and Dan P McNeil was settled out of court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner
Bere
Abner Swain
Henry Herriot
Milton Hacking
Ida May Nickol W E Gada
Lyon Richens Heipner Abbott
Robert Cool
Duchesne
Neva B McNeill
Dan PF McNeil
Roosevelt Junior College bill cleared by Senate and House
Last week legislators focused on pending measures. Senator Billings opposed SB 2 on natural gas tax and supported SB 190 to modify direct primary law. A bill to authorize a Roosevelt purifier college passed both chambers without appropriation. SB 292 proposed rerouting Highway 134 in Duchesne County. Representatives Larsen and Curry supported the Aquor local option bill and opposed a higher mine tax. both were largely absent or voting on several measures.
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Senate
House
Cfth
G . Billings
S&s
Roosevelt
Duchesne County
Rulon
Larsen
M W Curry
Aquor
Curry
Highway 40 Club Leaders Attend Steamboat Springs Meet
Karren, president of the Utah Highway 40 club, and W S Henderson, secretary treasurer, attended the Colorado Highway 40 club annual meeting in Steamboat Springs as honored guests. They spoke at a business meeting and banquet while representatives from Denver and western cities praised the new highway and expected heavy spring and summer travel. Colorado towns along the route are raising funds for advertising, and the Utah club plans a similar meeting soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karren
Utah Highway 40 Club
W S Henderson
Steamboat Springs
Colo
Denver
Utah
Colorado
Utah Highway 4 Club
Willam Ellsworth Pioneer Dies at 78 in Leota From Ouray area obituary
Willam Fine Ellsworth 78 a pioneer of the Ouray Valley Leota community died Friday after a lingering illness. Services were held Sunday at the Teplat 20 Swant chapel with Bishop I S Fksin presiding. Interment followed at Leota cemetery. Ellsworth born in Franklin Idaho married Matilda Ann Goslind and moved to Leota in 1912 where he engaged in community affairs and canal projects. Surviving are his widow and eleven children including Luther Swett Ray Lester John Ellsworth Mrs Leslie Barney Dock Burnt Fork Wye Birs John Jackson Mrs Ray Barney and Princis Ellsworth of Leota.
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Willam Fine Ellsworth
Duray Valley
Teplat
I S Fksin
Avalon Ward
Jesse Brough
Bishop Lawrence Wall
Leota
Swann
Ellsworth
Franklin Idaho
Matilda Ann Goslind
Uintah Basins Cagers Reach State Tourney After Round Robin
Uintah High basketball teams dominated a Round Robin tournament at the local gym, with Roosevelt taking second and earning a state meet bid from Region Five. Kenneth Sowards led scoring with 35 points across 25 games, while LeGrande Hadlock Nery and others posted strong totals. Coaches, referees, and staff praised sportsmanship and crowd management through the event.
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Ulntah High
Roblin
Fighting Utes
Roosevelt
Rangers
North Emery
Utes
Uintah
Ulitans
Huntington
Uintad
San Juan
Meves
Uiited
North
Roosevelt I
Vernal
Huntington Group
San Juans
Dintah
Roosevelts
Kenneth Sowards
LeGrande Hadlock Nery
Charles Murray
Joe Milbhurn
Jay Freestone
Messure
Ken Workman
Murray
Husky
Ouffle
L Hadlock
Frank W Wright
Thos B Bingham
Preston
Hale Scheuller
Howard
Cardil
H M. Gundell
Masons Initiate Vernalite De John H Clark
Basin Lodge No 20 F and AM held a special meeting at Mylon Free on February 27 initiating Vernalite De John H Clark as an Entered Apprentice.
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John H Clark
Basin Large No
Mylon
Calder Brothers win prize at Utah cheese exhibit
Calder Brothers cheese plant at Altonah won a silver medal at a Utah dairy exhibit held at Logan. Western Creamery of Salt Lake City and Southern Utah Dairy of Parowan received bronze. The event, sponsored by Utah State Agricultural College, highlights local production with Calder employing 43 workers and distributing dairy products to the Los Angeles market and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dairy Manufacturers Training
Logan
Calder Brothers Company
Western Creamery
Salt Lake City
Utah
Parowan
Utah State Agricultural College
Delbert Shiner
Calder Brothers
Altonah
David H Calder
Edward Aycock
Bud Powell
Los Angeles
Vernut
Bertholt Pass
Colorado
Daniels
Strawberry Valley
Uintah Basin
Verna
Rowevelt
Ducks Fed in Ashley Valley by State Game Department
The State fish and game department under Deputy Game Warden Flord Noel feeds migratory ducks in Ashley Valley. Over 1500 ducks have been kept alive with feed for two months. about two tons of feed distributed in several feeding areas. Large numbers of pheasants also fed during severe winter weather. ducks are fed every other day along water canals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Fish and Game
Flord Noel
Basin Pioneer Family Celebrates Five Generations
Five generations of William Gnymoh Caldwell met for the first time Saturday at the home of Mrs J H Koch in Salt Lake City. Mr Caldwell aged 84 and his wife 83 anticipate their sixty fourth wedding anniversary on March 73. They are parents of eight children, 45 grandchildren, 69 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. The couple helped pioneer Uintah county in the early 1880s and have visited Mrs Koch, their daughter, over the past week at her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Gnymoh Caldwell
Mis J H Koch
Jin
Salt, Lake City
Caldwell
Acting Custodian Honored By National Research Council Union
Dr A Boyle Jr acting custodian and project superintendent at Dinosaur National Monument is elected to membership in the American Geophysical Union of the National Research Council Washington D C His career spans geodesy seismology meteorology volcanology and hydrology He is invited to the seventh triennial assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Washington DC in September 1030 His biography appears in the American Men of Science directory and Whos Who in Engineering with fellowships in several scientific societies
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A . Boyle Jr
Dinosaur National Monument
American Geophysical Union
National Research Council
Washington D
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
Washington DC
Bayle
America
Otter Exhibitor Displays Captive-Bred Pets At Show
HomerMinn man exhibits otters bred raised and trained in captivity at the National Sportsmen's Show in New York Feb 18 to 28. A photo shows one otter perched beside a prize dachshund, offering a frog to attract attention.
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Emu Elers
Homer
Minn
New York
Labrum 66 Dies After Surgery In Vernal
Thomas Joseph Labrum age 66 died early Thursday in a Vernal hospital after a recent operation. He was born July 18 1873 at Gandy to Thos George and Marie Golf Labrum. Funeral services will be held Saturday in the Lapoint ward chapel under Bishop Jerry Harrison with interment in Roosevelt cemetery.
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Thomas Joseph Labrum
Ba Point
Mr .Labrium
Gandy
Thos George and
Marie Golf Labrum
Lapoint Ward
Jerry Harrison
Roosevelt Cemetery
First Ward M Men Lose To Spanish Fork in Sanes
The First Ward M Men basketball team lost the opening game of the AIL church tournament at Spanish Park, 31 to 37 against Spanish Fork. Players listed include Paul Stringham Sam Markey Kenneth Davis Brent Jones Weldon Fox Chad Noel and George Stauch. Nyall Andreason directed the class.
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Vernal
Spanish Park
Spanish Fork
Paul Stringham
Sam Markey
Kenneth Davis
Brent Jones
Weldon Fox
Chad Noel
George Stauch
Nyall Andreason
Band Boosters to Present Every Woman at First Ward Friday
Band Boosters sponsor a reading of Every Woman by Mrs Sander at the Vernal Fire station chapel on Friday March 10 with a reread on request. They also announce a show titled Gunge Din at the Vogue Theatre on March 3 starring Cary Grant Doigies Fairbanks Jr and Victor McLagten.
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First Ward
Vernal Firet Wart Chapel
Sander
Vogue Theatre
Cary Grant Doigies Fairbanks Jr
Victor McLagten
20th Birthday Party of Legion in Salt Lake
Witbeck Post No 11 members receive invitations from Department Commander Wiesley to attend the American Legion Twentieth Birthday event in Salt Lake City. The Newhouse Hotel hosts all day activities March 15 with a banquet in three dining rooms featuring Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war, as guest.
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Witbeck
O A Wiesley
American Legion
Newhouse Hotel
Salt Lake
State Department
Wesly Kingsley E Clawson
Louis Johnson
Washington DC
The
Legion
National Defense Power Committee
River Project Bill Passes in Senate and House
A long article outlines a river and aqueduct plan across the Colorado River Basin with proposed dams, tunnels, and reservoirs. It details cost, routes from Strawberry River Canyon to Span ish Fork and thistle, potential power generation, and irrigation benefits across Utah and California, with governance and construction notes.
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Senate
House
Siasbo
Bestia Ratades
Thistle Nepll
Fairview
Split Mountain
Serond
Spit Mountain
Ulnlah Basin
Strawberry River Canyon
Spansh Fork River
Shrawberry Reservoir
Diamond Fork
Siageerry Reserevoir
Wasatch Range
Berta
Utah
Sterling
First Amateur Night At Uintah High Opens Season
A large crowd attended Uintah High School auditorium as the first Amateur Night program of the season unfolded. JO Anderson PL Cowan and JR Douglass of the Vernal Lions Club sponsored the event promising this year’s shows will be the best yet with twenty acts and a finals move to East Lake City for the Search for Talent program.
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Uintah High School
JO Anderson
Cowan
JR Douglass
Vernal Lions Club
Jentertainment
East Lake City
Big Dam Project Near Kremmling Employs 300 Men
Frank Daughtery of Steamboat Springs installs plumbing for housing buildings on the Green Mountain dam site along the Blue River southwest of Kremmling. The reclamation project will provide compensating water for the eastern slope. About 300 workers are employed in construction camps under the federal reclamation bureau.
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Frank Daughtery
Steamboat Springs
Green Mountain Dam
Blue River
Kremmling
Bureau of Reclamation
Colorado
Big Thompson
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Green Mountain
Paulist Fathers Preach at Cathedral in Salt Lake City
Rev Maurice Fitzgerald and Rev Robert J Murphy two Paulist Fathers of Vernal visiting Salt Lake City preach admission and novena at the Cathedral of the Madeline. The Nine Days of Grace feature special prayers with discourses on Christ as the fire and holiness of the Son. One will broadcast the work over KSE.
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Maurice Fitzgerald
Robert J Murphy
Vernal
Salt Lake City
The
Madeline
Galt Lake
Fitzgerald and
Murphy
Christ
KSE
Traffic Drive Set In Vernal By Jr. Chamber
Vernal junior chamber of commerce plans a traffic safety campaign including re marking all streets and installing a traffic signal at the main intersection in the business district. Don Showalter chairs the enforcement committee with Thos B Bingham and Claudius A Banks. Mark Code heads the advertising plan with the Vernal Lions Club cooperation for a summer campaign. The winter sports committee notes that in March Utah skier Alf Eingen will assist in laying out ski slopes on Taylor Mountain.
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Alf Eingen
Utah
Vernal
Taylor Mountain
Snow Insures Plentiful Water for 1939 Irrigation Season
State Engineer T B Humphreys reports February data from 38 weather stations and 18 cooperators show snowpack the greatest in state history. Reservoirs store ample water for irrigation with overall storage around normal to 40 percent above in some areas and below in others across the southwest to northeast, affecting irrigation prospects in Garfield Wayne San Juan Piute Sevier Daggett Tuchesne and Utah counties.
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Weather Bureau
Coop
Habe
Garfield
Wayne
San Juan
Piute
Sevier
Daggett Tuchesne
Abutah Counties
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Green Rive Wye
Gun Club
Phil van
Ouray Valley
Game Department
Ashley Valley
National Research Council Union
Otter
Thomas J Labrum
Ward M
Senes
George Rodealakis
Lapoint
Roteslakis
Derk
Littis
U.H.S
Paulst
Vernal Iby Jr. Chamber
Uinish Basin
Tech Ins
Niipherys
Tiictipal
Morrmx
Uist
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