National attention and oddities hit our area this week
Free national ads spotlight Flaming Gorge fame after Robert Bringhurst’s world class catch, while a Vernal dog pound photo in the National Enquirer stirs outcry over winter animal suffering. A local store finds stolen radios returned with a note, underscoring the tale of guilt and misplaced mercy.
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National Enquirer
America
Enquirer
Nation
Lannie Johnson
The
Humane Society of Utah
Utah Numane Society
Church Sells Vernal Hospital Block to Uintah County
Uintah County, Vernal City, and the LDS Church reach agreement to transfer the entire block now housing Vernal First-Fifth Ward Chapel and Uintah County Hospital. Sale price set at 85000 dollars. a new multichapel will be built two blocks north. the old chapel structure to be torn down.
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LDS Church
Uintah County
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Vernal City
Uintah
LBS Church
Vernal City awards pruning bid and reviews zoning changes
The Vernal City council approved Midwest Company's bid of 538.50 to prune 13 trees north of the new Indoor swimming pool. It also approved a public hearing to adopt an Agriculture A-1 holding zone and reviewed annexation plans from 500 East to 5000 East along U.S. Highway 40 with portions zoned C-2 1-1 and Av1. Rose Miller discussed Uintah Basin Association of Government efforts on youth alcoholism prevention and proposed a Runaways film purchase for the Roosevelt library at 95, to be budgeted next year.
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Vernal City
Rose Miller
Uintah Basin Association of Government
Roosevelt
Vernal Fire Department Responds to Three Blazes
Three fires were reported with the Vernal Volunteer Fire Department answering alarms. The latest fire occurred Monday at 11:20 a.m. at 2686 No. 500 East Lewis Freestone residence, burning a storehouse and boiler room with an estimated loss of 500 dollars to the frame structure and 2000 dollars to the contents. Earlier, a trailer house fire at Ron Slaugh’s home at 2 West 2nd North was extinguished on March 2. A February 25 grass fire at Jerry Larson residence, 128 West 5th, caused no damage.
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Lewis
Freestone
Ron Slaugh
West 2Nd North
Jerry Larson
West 5Th
Californian hooks 33 pound brown trout record at Flaming Gorge
Robert Bringhurst of LaVerne California caught a 33 pound 10 ounce German brown trout in Sheep Creek Bay Flaming Gorge. The fish weighed in Manila and post office scales confirmed the world record after a tense weighing sequence. The Bringhursts, firemen from Los Angeles County, had previously landed multiple browns and refined their tackle painting Rapala lures to resemble rainbow trout and trolling at 4 to 5 mph.
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Flaming Gorge
Robert Bringhurst
California
LaVerne
Calif
Sheep Creek Bay
Bringhurst
Charles Keefer
Keefer
Dutch John
Manila
Utah
Flaming Gorge Reservoir
Bob
Jim Bringhurst
Bringhurst Brothers
Los Angeles County Fire Department
Jim
Bringhursts
Joe
Slim
Hee
Ding
Sheep Creek
Oil shale project eyed near Meeker Colorado
Petroleum firms Ashland and Occidental seek Interior approval to develop 5100 acres on Colorado rangeland with plans to dig deep shafts next September and begin shale mining in 1979. If successful, daily shale oil production could reach 57 000 barrels by 1983 while Occidental pursues a less water intensive in situ method. Estimated cost per barrel ranges from 8 to 11 dollars versus 16 to 25 for conventional methods. Meeker townspeople and 2900 workers expected to swell the area's population by about 16000 as the project advances.
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Colorado
Ashland Ol, Inc
Occidental Oil Shale, Inc
Interior Department
Tember
Meeker
Colo
Occidental
Piceance Creek
Arrest solves five crimes in Vernal City
Vernal City Police Chief Jonathan Jones said a 9:30 p.m. burglary led to the arrest of John Glenn Sidwell 19 of 973 West 5th South and two juveniles, Clifford Westwood and Brad Timothy, on burglary and theft charges. They admitted stealing a car from Oilwell Perforators Co. and metals and radio from the airport, plus a gasoline theft. suspects were arraigned or referred to Juvenile Court.
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Vernal City
Jonathan Jones
Milick
Basin Flying Service
John Glenn Sidwell
West 5Th South
Clifford Lamont Westwood
Edwin Westwood
Brad Timothy
Kay Timothy
North 6Th
Sidwell
Lloyd Eaton
Jones
Oilwell Perforators Co
Workforce projections for Oc cidental Cb tract plan
The era projects an initial workforce of about 1 180 workers and a cost of roughly 980 units to reach a peak near 2 900 workers per year. In the following year a drop to about 3 600 workers is anticipated if Occidental advances the Cb tract development as planned.
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Operduay
Occidental
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Ofone
Vernal
Daniels and Edwards and Associates
Vernal Volunteer Fire Department
Jim Zumba
Hringhurst
By Jim Zumbe
Liyu
Occidental Oi
Ashland
C-bell
Ly Colorada
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