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Newspaper

Vernal Express

Location

Vernal, Utah, United States of America

Date

Mar 22, 1934

Page

3

Alterra High School Junior Prom and Athletics Roundup

Alterra High School reports a successful March 16 Junior Prom with 150 couples from AHS RHS and Alterra plus attendees from area communities. Girls basketball, track and field, and baseball plans are outlined as teams build experience, with steady faculty support and new equipment funded by the school board.

Alterra High AHS RHS Duane Knoble Max Seeley Clarence Allred Crystal Alfred Ruth Brighton Maxine Seeley Helen Durfee Jesse Hullinger Board of Education

District School News LAPOINT SCHOOL Bulletin Highlights

Ninth graders prepare autobiographies due April sixteenth. Velma Hullinger and Vern Swain recover from surgery. Sybil Mowery and Vern Swain back soon after tonsil removals. School lunches end in three weeks. cold sandwiches only. Be Grateful poem featured. Leroy Andersen’s class enjoyed Hansel and Gretel. Orbie Newmeyer notes first grade news and traffic poster project. Orin Simper and Howard Taylor injured. hospitalized after car accident. Changes in cooks as Mrs Simper travels. Studying forests and wildlife. Iduana Workman reports third and fourth grade notes.

Orin Simper Howard Taylor Simper Salt Lake Orin Iduana Workman

Davis School Hosts Surprise Party For Miss Richard

Third and fourth graders enjoyed a party with sandwiches cake and cookies after a program. Ray Colton spoke Tuesday about Canada detailing Champlain La Salle forests furs mills and rayon factories, plus Canadian stockyards and papers for books and newspapers.

Leota School Prepares for Final FPTA Meeting

Leota School plans the program for the next FPTA on April 6 and states this will be the association’s last meeting. They cite wind damage to a west side coop and note school lunches will be discontinued in three weeks. Archery appears as a main activity this week.

Leota School

Ballard School Fourth Grade Postoffice Farm In Class

The fourth grade builds a town like setting with a post office bank and store. Miss Angus reads Joseph the Ruler while Miss Stringham runs letters and stamps at the post office window. Third and fourth grades craft a Dutch farm with windmills and fences as Easter decorations go up.

Duchesne Preparations For Friday Ball Game With Fort Duchesne

March 14 report by Dorothy Betts notes Bula Nelson is sick with a cold. The group received a new ball end pat and is pleased. They plan to play ball with Fort Duchesne on Friday.

Audubon Bird Club Organizes Activities in Primary Room

The club organized in the primary room and sent for pins pictures and leaflets. Third and fourth grades create Utah journals with subjects like shoprootsing mining scenery and paste images while writing about them. A spelling contest pitted lower against upper grades with Velma Cloward and Bernice Murphy notable participants.

Utah Besdes Velma Cloward Bernice Murphy Bernice

Central School Windmills and Windswept Lessons

In Holland and Canada topics plus maps and questions fill the fifth and sixth grade reports. Students note windy days by March 12 and plan an Easter hike to the power plant. Indoor baseball remains a favorite activity as grades study geography and craft windmill pictures.

Central School Holland Douglas Merkley Plannes Lees Farm Bureau Edith Duncan

Third Fourth and Fifth Grades Musical for Weekly Readers

The third fourth and fifth grades performed a musical program last Wednesday evening with Miss LaMar Steinaker on piano. The event raised funds for our Weekly Readers and featured letters from Admiral Byrd in Little America. Students drew pictures and worked on a spring project, each Grade 1 assigning a part to complete the presentation.

Ashley

Death of Glenn Adams Father and Community Grief

The community mourns Glenn Adams son of Mr and Mrs Arza Adams who died Wednesday night at Vernal. Funeral services were held Sunday at Maeser. a large crowd attended. The Adams family had been living at the Government coal mine this winter and expect to return home soon.

Glenn Adams Arza Adams Vernal Maerer Adams Government Maeser Senzel Adams Salt Lake

Local Visitors and Postponed Dance After Tragic Death

Fort John Watkins visits with his father Frank Abplanalp as Mr and Mrs Hyrum Slaugh and Mr and Mrs Edgar Taylor and Mr and Mrs Henry Slaugh of Bevis call on the Abplanalp family. A planned dance last Friday night was postponed due to the death of little Glenn Adams.

John Watkins Frank Hyrum Slaugh Davis Edgar Taylor Henry Slaugh Also Bevis Glenn Adams

Ward Conference Previews Engage Stake Members And Events

Sunday morning ward conference featured talks by Bishop John G Eaton and others with songs, remarks by Don L McConkie, and readings including The Lost Word. Attendees included stake presidency members H C Calder, Archie Johnson, Charles A Hardy, and others.

Stake John G Eaton Don L MaConkle I Sander Kenneth Barker Richard Wooodrull Socn Meda Walker Archie Johnson Mary Sander Uel Hunting Flmer Bell High Cornet Calder Hugh W Colen Charles A Hardy Harold & W Hullinger Don L McConkie Stella Stevens Ward Calder Archie Johnson Vel Hunting Lawrence Wardle Martin W Curtis Eldred Johnson Mary Duke Hanna Bob Moon Ward Mao F P Fisher Fisher Myrtle Erekson Tridell Davis Ward Melvin Burke Henderson Charles Batty Clinton Erekson Ernest Johnson Stephen Perry Lowell Wardle Ivan Perry Tom McKeachnie Archie Perry Frank Carroll Orfa Johnson Alta Wardie Delila McCurdy

Ward News Moves And Visits In Ashley Area

Davis and Atwood families move back to Ashley home. Kari Johnson visits from Los Angeles. Miss Marie Watkins returns from East Lake. Sumper son Orin improves in LDS Hospital. Irvin Sumper moves to Thomas Mobbins place on Ashley Creek. Warren Bouthorpe visits from Salt Lake. Marion Moon relocates to Jensen. Plain Sister play draws large ward audience under Glines. Charlies Murray visits Ashley parents. Lige Jackson and Anna Jackson go to Salt Lake for business. Contractors begin brickwork on chapel.

Joseph Atwood Ashley Our Ware Kari Johnson Los Angeles Marie Watkins East Lake Anred Sumper Salts Lake Orin LDS Hospital Irvin Simper Thomas Mobbins Ashley Creek Warren Bouthorpe Salt Lake Walter Sinper Marion Moon Jensen Glines Ward Charlies Murray Lige Jackson Anna Jackson

Ouray Visitors Inspect Bridge Work and Pictograph Study

Mrs Paul H M Henderson and Mr Henderson visited Ouray on March 12 with others to review the bridge construction overseen by an unnamed supervisor. Attendees included Bert Smith, Dave Ecceley, Lloyd Taylor, Bert Lusty, and Lamar Davis. Lows Bumgartner of the U and Geological Survey from Salt Lake discussed pictographs in the Vernal district and Nine Mile Canyon, proposing desert varnish aging to date pictures. Sterling Transportation delivered 110 sacks of cement to the Ouray bridge site on Sunday.

Paul H M Henderson Henderson Bert Smith Dave Ecceley Lloyd Taylor Bert Lusty Lamar Davis Bumgartner U & Geological Survey Salt Lake Guray Mr Reagay Nine Mile Canyon Sterling Transportation Company Ouray Bridge

Gilsonite deliveries and social notes from Ouray area

The report lists contracts and production notes including 2300 sacks to be delivered soon and Sterling Transportation receiving 16 to 18 tons daily from Raven gilsonite mine. Moone mines yield about twenty tons monthly while Weldon Burson and family visited Ouray bridge site. A fire incident at Al Mile ranch near RandletL involved a boy striking a match and extinguished with minor damage.

Sterling Transportation Company Moone Weldon Burson Fort Duchesne Ouray Bridge Ouray Gilbert Wile Upper Hill Cleek Broome Dava Seeley Bil Woodard Timothy Roosevelt

Couple from Vernal married in Vernal visit Rangely

Attorney and Mrs John EB Wits Meeker stopped in Rangely on the way to California via Vernal and Salt Lake. Thoras Cook and wife Pearl Merrill, formerly of Vernal, visited Rangely while en route and noted their Vernal wedding announced in their home paper.

Miike Fe Ofa John EB Wits Meeker California Vernal Salt Lake Thoras Cook Rangely Cook Miss Pearl Merrill Hi Southam Utah

Vernal visitors recall Arc anniversary in classroom

A stream of schoolteachers and pupils recall the anniversary of Joan of Arc as they discuss home of the most loved girl in France. A boy quips dats easy while a pupil's father is noted as a private in the army.

Jear of Arc France Mademotrelle Armentieres

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