Youth Forest Planting Set By Uintah Basin Groups
About 100 youths from the Uintah Basin will plant 2000 tiny pine trees in Dry Fork Canyon near Vernal. The event Saturday includes a luncheon at 1 PM and a dedicatory service where the Youth Forest will be turned over to the Forest Service. Remarks by James Jacobs and Dessie Brown are planned, with the dedicatory address by a regional official.
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Uintah Basin
Federated Women's Clubs
Utah Federation of Women's Clubs
Forest Service
Dry Fork Canyon
James Jacobs
Dessie Brown
UFWC
Salem Man, 33, In Auto Crash Listed Critical
A 31 year old Salem Utah man remained on the critical list after an auto crash Monday near Jensen bridge. Gordon C Orton, 33, was driving a 1950 Chevrolet pickup west on US 40 when the vehicle skidded off the gravel shoulder on a curve, rolled, and the driver was pinned beneath the wreckage at the scene. He was taken to the county hospital for treatment.
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Salem
Utah
Jensen Bridge
Gordon C. Orton
Pres Smith to Address Uintah Stake Conference Sessions
President Joseph Fielding Smith of the LDS Church will address Uintah Stake quarterly conference sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Stake president Frank Q Walker outlined meetings at the stake center with a 620 pm Saturday Priesthood and spouses session, 10 am and 2 pm Sunday general sessions in the tabernacle. Four new organs will be temporarily installed for Sunday. Sir Howard Powell of the highway patrol faces a reckless driving charge.
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Joseph Fielding Smith
Council of Twelve Apostles
LDS Church
Uintah Stake
Frank Q Walker
Stake Center
Tabernacle
Walker
Surfaced Road to Damsite Assured and Bridge Work Plan
Utah expects completion of a surfaced highway from Vernal to Fleming Gorge Damsite this year. Tilis L Armstrong, state highways director, announced bids open May 27 for two and a half miles of approach road costing about 250000. An extension toward the dam site and a temporary Green River crossing will be arranged with the contractor. the temporary work remains until flooding after the dam’s completion.
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Utah
Vernal
Fleming Gorge
Tilis L Armstrong
Ighways
Inda
Greendale Junction
Green Iver
Dutch John Flat
Armstrong
Bull
Bureau of Reclamation
Flaming Gorge
Greendale
Dunaton
Rinally
Ashley National Forest
Pony Express Covers Start for Vernal Race Meet
Pony Express messages to Vernal from Green River arrive this week. Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Mounted Posse will make the 123 mile ride between the towns on June 13, highlighting Vernal’s three day race meet. Mail to Pony Express Box 992 Green River must include return postage and a dime for handling and transport.
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Pony Express
Green River
Jfnoe
Sweetwater County
Wyo
Sheriffa Mounted Posse
Jfo
Cavera
Green Silver Wyo
Trans Mountain Transportation
Pony Express Mall
Air Mall
Oilman Finds Indian's Body Near Vernal
An oil worker found the severely beaten body of an Indian man named Edgar Greenstick Wednesday morning at 9:30 am in Brennan Bottoms near Gulf Oil's No 2 well, 26 miles from Vernal. Sheriff Snyder said the victim was alive after 5 pm Tuesday.
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Brennan Bottoms
Gulf Oil
Vernal
US 40
Ouray
Edgar Greenstick
R E Adams
Maeser
M Snyder
Bureau of Reclamation Offices Move to Flaming Gorge Unit
Bureau of Reclamation officials begin transferring from First Security Bank Digs to new Flaming Gorge townsite. The administration and supply divisions move. office engineering to follow. Headquarters will be at the damsite in Linwood Utah until a post office is set up early in September. Walton notes staff may be cramped in transit homes until housing blocks are finished between June 15 and July 1.
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Bureau of Reclamation
First Security Bank
Tlaming Gorge
Jean Walton
Supply Ait Personne
Bureau
Flaming Gorge Unit
Linwood
Utah
Walton
Man Held for Questioning After Death in Provo
Neale Sacnakent, about 45, is being held for questioning. The victim's body will be sent to a Provo pathologist to determine the cause of death.
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Neale Sacnakent
Provo
Uintah Basin Junior Livestock Show forecast bigger and better
Uintah Basin hosts seven races at a Saturday meet starting 2 pm with a highlight race among Hing, Black Beauty, and Blossom Dag. Other events include a colt milk race, a donkey race, a potato relay, stake races, and a Shetland pony race as the season opener before the June 12 14 miniature rodeo.
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Fairgrounds
Hing
Roy Showeller
Black Beauty
Lawrence Allen
Blossom Dag
Orvel Hullinger
Iorse Lovers 41 Club
Jr Horse Lovers 411 Club
Leland McNell
Basin High Schools Prepare for Graduation Programs Next Week
Uintah Basin high schools race through final preparations for commencement with Uintah High School holding a Sunday 3 pm baccalaureate in the auditorium led by Dr Joseph N Symons from BYU on the theme The Fire of a New Dawn. The 35th annual ceremony follows on Thursday at 2 pm and 6 pm for 107 graduates and four guests per rite with elaborate preludes processions and narrators for each class year and a choral and instrumental program ending with diplomas by President A Don Batty.
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Uintah Basin
Uintah and
Union High School
Uintah High School
Joseph N Symons
Brigsham Young University
Melba Sargent
Ann Wat- King
Marion Weist
Diane Busch
Elinor Labrum
Aaron Hansen
Sandra Hacking
Sharon Preece
Carolyn Banks
Sylvia Snow
Kaye Kenney
Dereen Burke
Jo Dean Anderson
Carolyn Sullivan
JoAnne Olsen
Claudine Newfroe
Judy Smith
Ryan Dudley
Billy McCarrell
Marlon Welst
Choraleers Plan iConcert May 24 At Uintah High
Uintah Choraleers announce a choral concert set for Saturday May 24 in the Uintah High School auditorium. The group of 15 singers, residents of the Verna area, meets Mondays from 1:15 pm to 10:30 pm to rehearse diverse music and support local cultural effort.
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Uintah High School
Agron Hansen
Uintah Choraleers
Mc Munson
Verna
Uintah Basin
Shooting Case Goes to Probation for Ferre Colton
In justice court Tuesday Mrs Naom Colton waived preliminary hearing after being charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to harm her husband Ferre Colton. The case arose from a domestic dispute and a shooting at the couple’s home last Wednesday evening. Colton pleaded guilty and the matter was referred to the State Board of Adult Probation and Parole. She was released on no bond and headed to Powder Springs, Wyoming with her parents. Colton was released from the hospital Monday after intoxication arrest earlier Tuesday.
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Justice Court
Naom Colton
Ferre Colton
Colton
State Board of Adult Probation and Parole
Withoy
Ball
Powder Springs
Wyo
Dinosaur Center Opens Near Jensen in Dinosaur NM
D Day in Vernal marks the opening of a $310000 visitor center seven days a week from 7 45 to 8 50 pm during the tourist season. The center features a futuristic design, a main exhibit of dinosaur bones in high relief, and displays labeled for self guided tours. National Park Service staff greet visitors and Dinosaur Nature Association offers pamphlets and merchandise.
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Vernal
Jensen
Dinosaur National Monument
Uintah Basin
Utah
Colorado
Aeason
National Park Service
Dinosaur Nature Association
Dwight Hamilton
Geddals
Theodore E Witte
Wm Hi. Clemons
Atalf
Marriage license records for Farnsworth and Johnson couples
A record reports two marriage licenses issued in May. LaMar Farnsworth, 24, of Gusher, and Kay Johnson, 17, of Vernal, received licenses on May 12. Marl Martin, 21, of Grand Valley, Colorado, and Jeanette Tolini, 18, of Newcastle, Colorado, received licenses on May 14.
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LaMar Farnsworth
Gusher
Kay Johnson
Vernal
Marl Martin
Grand Valley
Colo
Jeanette Tolini
Newcastle
Tributes Paid May Ruple 99 Oldest Utah Native
Obituary notes May Coon Ruple age 99 long time Utah native died Saturday at home of age related causes in Sugar House. Funeral services led by Ostr op J Arbery Jolley at Vernal First Ward chapel with prayers by Clehop Martin and music by Mable Stagg and quartet. Ruple was daughter of Adam and Diario Lewis Coon and last of Utah’s historic pioneers.
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May Ruple
Utah
Mra May Coon Ruple
Ti Aim
Vernal First Ward
Ostrop
Arbery Jolley
Aira Ruple
Sugar House
Adam and
Diario
Clehop Martin W Curtis
Mable Stagg
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
Leland Sowards
Warren Jones
Wilma Davidson
Mary Cook
Jobless Ratio In Basin Area Remains Static
The unemployment ratio in Ufotah Basin has remained steady for two weeks through May 3. Spencer C. Melner of Vernal Employment Security notes 10.4 percent jobless of the basin’s labor force, roughly double a year ago. Construction on Flaming Gorge Dam and the Vernal Unit underpins the economy as bids for the Flaming Gorge project open June 10. Utah reports nearly 500,000 job offers in the state, though below prior weeks and a year earlier, with layoffs down from April 20 and about 300 more than last year at the same point. About 500 unemployed noted continued on page 6.
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Ufotah
Utah
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