Guide to Efficient Water Use Amid Drought Looms in Uintah Basin
A Soil Conservation Service report warns drought will cut water supplies next summer in Daggett County Uintah Basin. It provides actionable tips to conserve irrigation water including planning by supply prospects, ditch maintenance, cross-canal pairing with neighbors, diverting waste water, and prioritizing crops like hay and pasture. Advice covers measuring soil moisture, applying water only where needed, using moisture probes, and consulting local agents for water holding capacity and crop needs.
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Uintah Basin
Daggett County
Soil Conservation Service
Uinta Mountains
Technic Lan
Solla
Todd School Students Describe Pets Projects and Pulleys
In Mrs Fites room a prairie dog is cared for after Tommy Collins caught it and broke its leg. Students discuss science fair projects including dams, volcanoes, oil rigs and electromagnets. Sixth graders explain pulleys lifting heavy loads and a hay stacker rig used to load hay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Collins
Mr. Evans
Merritt Bolton
American Legion Auxiliary Nitbeck Unit 11 Meets
The regular meeting of American Legion Auxiliary Nitbeck Unit No 11 was held at Georgia Couture's home on March 8 with ten members present. Plans were made to attend a Salt Lake City meeting where the National President will visit the Utah Department. Mrs Eve Ashton spoke on the Women’s Forum on National Security attended in Washington DC. A salad luncheon was served by Mrs Couture and Mrs Juana Banks. The next meeting is set for April 12 at 7:30 pm at Mrs Marva Hacking’s home.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Nitbeck
Georgia Couture
Twx
Plana
Salt Lake City
Department of Utah
Eve Ashton
Women's Forum
National Security
Washington, D. C
Couture
Juana Banks
Marva Hacking
Vernal Lady Lions Meet at 7 11 Cafe
The Vernal Lady Lions held a regular meeting at the 7-11 Cafe on Wednesday. St Patrick's Day and springtime were featured with Mrs Vera Gee chairing the table decorations. Irish songs were performed by Mae Jorgensen and Ath Adams with accompanists Mable Stagg and Adams's wife. A string quartet of Eleanor Marsh Nelson Marsh Kathy Cundick and Glen Landon performed after dinner. Brief sketches of composers were given by Glen Landon and Kathy Cundick.
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Lions
St. Patrick's
Vera Gee
Mae Jorgensen
Mable Stagg
Ath Adams
Eleanor
Nelson Marshall
Kathy Cundick
Glen Landon
Mune
Hayden Jusie Blayden
Mozart
Farm guidance on irrigation and land use practices
The excerpt outlines soil and water management advice including weed control on ditch banks, maintaining high fertility where irrigation water is available, careful fertilizer application when male labor is limited, rough plowing, and prioritizing irrigation water for the most productive land.
Social Studies Highlights Materials and Tape Recording
Students in Room 25 at Central School presented on materials like rubber fur plastic nylon and rayon and learned how cloth is woven and how rayon is made from milk. They shared reports from books and brought samples to class. Kathy Lyon led tape recording practice to assess articulation and expression.
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David Mathews
Shawn Schertzer
Kathy Lyon
Central School
German escape tale from postwar Germany to Canada
Mrs Koonz recalls fleeing German held territory after World War II. At seventeen she endured Russian hospital care for wounded soldiers. She escaped with others using torn sheets, crossed into West Germany, evaded patrols, and was aided by U S soldiers who sheltered her with a kind family. She later reunited with her mother and brother in Munich before moving to Canada. She is now married to a U S man working in oil fields.
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Mrs Koonz
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Koonz
West Germany
U.S
U. S
Canada
Munich
Springtime in Mia Taylor's Third and Fourth Grade Room
Lapoint School students describe spring coming to Mia Taylor's classroom. The Friendly Old Mill houses wintering animals and now welcomes new life as pussy kittens appear on the willow tree. Windows show potted plants and spring flowers. The class plants clover seeds with Irish potatoes and starts an early vegetable garden.
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Mia
Taylor
Fifth and Sixth Grades Build Great Lake Sawmill Model
Fifth and sixth graders Jackie Hackford Johnnie Reber and Sherwood Cuchara built a working scale model of the Great Lake Sawmill at Lapoint powered by small electric motors and a water wheel. The project, the largest in Um 'ah Basin, toured the Lapoint School a month ago and will be shown at the winter high school's science fair in March.
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Jackie Hackford
Johnnie Reber
Sherwood Cuchara
Great Lake
Lapoint
Um‘ah
Wintahigh
Reed Hartle
Laynes Lamb
Gene Bigelow
Mithey
Michigan
Losder
Alr
Terry Ome
Alan Walkers
Fragmentary note on fishing and meat provision in fall
Fragmentary OCR notes describe water power around mitts and meat for people. The text is garbled and lacks clear events, dates, or participants, but suggests a seasonal activity or resource provisioning related to fall.
Naples School Third Grade Play and Class Pet Experiments
Readable fragments recount a Naples school unit with a third grade play titled The Colded Plate featuring Dale Price as the father and Ellen Pope as the witch. Other performers include Gordon Merrell and Caray Goodrich among others. The report notes science activities with pets, such as hamsters, goldfish, ants, mold on bread, and cotton from Missouri. Observations cover plant evaporation experiments and planting seeds as they await growth.
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Dale Price
Ellen Pope
Gordon Merrell
Caray ‘Goodrich
Lowell Thompson
Wade Olsen
David Hoycott
Brian Taylor
Debra Serrano
Linda Temples
Dawnette Goodrich
Vivian Pope
Whiterocks Class Sends Get Well Card To Rossie McKee
Fourth grade at Mrs. Smith’s room writes a card to wish Rossie McKee a speedy recovery. A health chart tracks cleanliness and school readiness with color coded stickers indicating progress. Red means not clean, yellow halfway, green all good.
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Rossie McKee
Smith
Ivery
Kindergarten News and Growing Seeds Lesson
The students describe watching water cycle stages from snow to water to steam and back, then plan to plant seeds and observe growth. They enjoy dancing, games, coloring, cutting, and pasting as part of kindergarten activities.
Fourth Grade Council Winners Named at Meeting
At the Student Council meeting Roelle and Halph were chosen for Student Council. A prize will be awarded to the tag that includes every person in the four year book. We are trying to win the prize.
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Tersi Watran
Roelle and
Halph
Francke Completes Basic Pilot Training at Pensacola
NAVCAD Francke son of Dr and Mrs J M Francke Vernal will finish the basic flight phase at Pensacola Florida next week completing basic training aboard the USS Antetam carrier training ship. He has completed T34 and T23 phases and will proceed to Corpus Christi for jet training and then receive Wings of Gold and a commission as Ensign in the U S Navy Reserve with future duty in the Mediterranean and the Pacific. He has also served in the Naval Air Training Command Choir, traveling nationally and appearing on major TV shows.
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Naval Aviation Caner
Francke
Mra
J. M. Francke
Vernal
Pensacola
Florends
Navcad
Naval Air Basie Training Command
Cartier
Ron
Antetam
Navy
Ame
Milton Berle
Steve Allen
Pride of the Blue and Gold
Chicago
Minneapolis
Kansas City
New Orleans
Mobile
Jacksonville
Waite
Navcad Francke
U.5. Navy Reserve
Pacific
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Todd School
Clay Simmons
Emma Jean Bingham
Elliott Saunders
Ulgish Magh
Tam
Patrick Wyasked
BN Houston
American Legion‘ Auxiliary
Lady Lions Meeting
Pepa On
Smitty Spruell
Loyn Stevens
David Montgomery
Beaulah Trujillo
Tom Oaks
Cheryl Murray
Bobbie Hatch
LaRita Haws
Philip Washburn
Joe Ballard
Mrs. Koons
Reefager
Maureen Massey
Sheryl Murray
Mr. Cube
Reet
Lapoint School
Fage and Parenthood
Claudis Henderson
Janice Hacking
Greg Schhasfermeyer
Gwen Abeggien
Glenn Downard
Mis
Billy McClure
Gad Sandra Brough
Naples School
Third Ghade
Peta Arid
Mra. Krueger
Aaa
Whiterocks
Pee Francke
Vernal Ave
Quabin Dealership
Woodland Homes, Inc
Warvare
PanAbede, Inc
Apt Woodland Homes, Inc
Sal Lake City
Utah
Hunter
Choice Estate
Ashley Ward
Lepolot
South Vernal
Ashton Wey
Bill Slaugh
Slaugh Real Estate and Insurance
State Farm Mutual
Hha
Farmington
Wwe
Buquerque Ly
Albuquerque
Frontier
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