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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
3
A historic tribute to the family farmer as the nation’s backbone. The piece celebrates the farmer who works land and livestock with family support, pioneering in new lands, founding communities, schools, and churches, and sustaining national industry and identity through hardship and time. It emphasizes the farmer’s central role across eras and the diverse modern farm types.
The text presents garbled OCR about a strike, wartime policies, and a statement attributed to the head of the United Mine Workers. It mentions public welfare, government necneres, and a May 4 news report noting the strike leader’s pull with patriots, suggesting a wartime labor dispute and loyalty pressure.
National price ceilings for meat fats coffee stamps and shoes extend to Utah and western states. New rules loosen farm activity while tightening farm machinery rationing and overseas mail. Farmers may keep meat raised on their farms and transfer it within households without points, reverse stamps adjust, and buyers must secure certificates before purchases.
Fragmented readable text shows a wartime ration context with an individual charged for attempting to buy a larger ration and a demand for return of a ration hook. A Michigan factory worker story mentions a pay door and coercive remarks about buying gas and bending rules. The OCR yields unclear, competing fragments.
Notice of a tax sale on May 3 at 10 oclock am for parcels listed by names including James P Catlin Ottawa TfL and many Utah landowners. The sale covers Lots 4 and 5, various sections in Randlette, Moffat Townsite, Roosevelt, Vernal, Myton, and Fort Duchesne areas, with acres and parcel descriptions, under liens for taxes interest and costs. First publication date May 9 1943, with subsequent notices through May 20 1943.
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