New Vernal Country Club Rises With 70000 Budget
Construction on Vernal's new Country Club proceeds with main contract granted to Grant Jansen Construction Co. of Altamont and all subcontracts to local firms. Completion aimed for January 1, with inside work continuing through winter. Golf course progresses with four greens and fairways done and sprinkling systems. nine greens planned. Total investment near 200000 with clubhouse costs included.
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Vernal
Russ Kier
Grant Jansen
Construction Co
Altamont
Aghel
Palmer Roofing
Tullis Electric
Leland Stevenson
Wansen
Alvin Kay
Tentative Plans Lined Up for Xmas Activities
The Vernal Chamber of Commerce retail merchants committee approved festive plans for Christmas. Santa Claus is slated to arrive at the Vernal airport on Saturday December 1. Free movie screenings are planned on December 3 and 15 with two showings each day at 10 am and 2 pm. Tickets will be sold later at Vernal stores for children under 12. The committee approved a $350 contribution to Vernal Jr. Chamber to help with marshalling and candy. Lynne King chairs the committee.
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Sinty Claus
Vernal
Chamber of Commerce Retail Merchants Committee
Vernal Jeycees
Santa Claus
Lynne King
Coms ‘Mittee
Course Employs Four In House Pros At Club
The Course currently hires four full time personnel to maintain the greens and oversee course operations during the golfing season. Continued on page 5.
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Jeuse
The
Greens
Uintah Stake LDS Conference Set for Nov 24 25
Stake President Frank Walker announced Uintah Stake will hold a two day LDS conference Saturday and Sunday November 24 and 25 with visiting speaker Arthur aycock Salt Lake City Divisional Missionary Coordinator for eastern Utah. A Saturday night meeting and stake center sessions are planned along with priesthood leadership and clerks meetings and a special missionary gathering in the evening.
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Uintah Stake Lds
Frank BR. Walker
Arthur
Aycock
Salt Lake City
Astern Utah
Inga
Quarry Road project eyed by Chamber amid plan to Route
The Vernal Chamber discusses building Quarry Road from Visitors Center to Blue Mountain, with A Clack Stratton noting construction may not start until 1965 after rights of way are secured. Rights of way involve Douglas Chew ranch and Mr Chow, who has agreed to release them. Passenger cars reach Vernal from Dutch John via Little Hole as river runs low. Management seminar in Vernal yields good reports. Uintah Water Conservation District notes Dry Fork Project engineering held up by water rights disputes, a compromise to be presented to stockholders. Cart Creek bridge opening discussed by road committee.
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Dinosaur National Monument
Visitors Center
Blue Mt
Tais
Veronal Chamber of Commerce
A. Clack Stratton
National Park Service
Stratton
Douglas Chew Ranch
Chow
Vernal
Dutch John
Little Hole
Siddoway
Uintah
Water Conservation District
Distele
Ashley Valley
Dry Fork
Iron Moshy Irrigation Co
Soil Conservation Service
Cart Crevie Bridge
Stake religious meetings scheduled with leaders and reports
Officers plus stake presidency and auxiliaries, Sunday sessions at 10 4 p.m. and 2 p.m. in the stake tabernacle. A MIA conference at 7 20 p.m. Sunday in the stake center. Special musical program by Vernal ward choirs. Lyle Southam and Ashel Evang, recently returned from missions, will report during Sunday sessions.
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Stake Mission
Stake Tabersnade
Stake Center
Lyle Southam
Western
Canada
Ashel Evang
Central States
Truck Convoy Delivers Big Transformers to Vernal Substation
A heavy truck convoy arrives in Vernal around 10 am with two large transformers for Moon Lake Electric’s Vernal substation. The units connect to the Upper Colorado River Storage Project to reduce 138,000 volts to usable levels for Uintah Basin distribution. One transformer and a 63,000-volt oil circuit breaker will be unloaded, with a second day move planned to Rangely, Colorado.
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Vernal
Colorado River
Bureau of Reclamation
Project Dawa
Uintah
Moon Lake Elec
Tric
U.S. 49
Rangely
Colo
Mike Silicon
Moon Lake Electric Assn
I Ne
Educational TV survey underway for Utah channel prospects
An engineering survey in Utah aims to gauge reception of a University of Utah educational channel with results due in 30 days. Leaders from schools, the Chamber of Commerce, and government discussed statewide access, funding, and cooperative efforts across Uintah and Duchesne counties, plus the role of educational TV in schools.
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University of Utah
Tocal
J. C. Aws
S. Marell McKee
County Commission
Ray E. Spendlove
Chamber of Commerce Education Committee
Brighton
State Dept. of Public Instruction
Ford Foundation
Supt. Laws
Uintah
Duchesnet
educa+tional television
Prince
Supt
Haws
Region 4
McKee
Spendiive
Ogden
BYU
Utah
Brighter
Funeral for Mrs Eve Ashton in Vernal Saturday
Mrs Eve Ashton 63 dies at home on West 4th South Vernal. Funeral services set for Saturday at 1 p m at the stake center with Bishop Ben W Lindsay of Vernal 2nd Ward presiding. Burial in Vernal City Memorial Park. Visitation at Vernal Mortuary Friday evening and Saturday morning. Ashton a nationally known civic and educational leader who spoke nationwide and led the American Legion Auxiliary since 1933.
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Trae
Vernal 1962 permits top $1 million
Vernal City issued building permits totaling 1,202,475 for 1962 through October’s end. Included were 72 new homes and 39 remodeling projects plus seven new commercial buildings. The peak month was April with 351,000 in permits. October saw 14 new homes and four remodeling jobs totaling 202,000.
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Vernal City
Claudius A. Banks
Schools to Schedule C D Attack Drill in Uintah District
Absenteeism looms as a major issue at Ashley Valley Junior High with 4,825 total absences for the first nine weeks. Uintah School District plans its first full scale Civil Defense exercise in November, with students sent home or kept at school under alert or attack conditions. District funds lost from absences exceed 1400 dollars, and the district foresees a need for coordinated emergency drills amid ongoing international tensions.
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Puting Wo
Ashley Valley
Uintah Schior
Uintah
Alate Gands
J. C. Tnt
PTA
Civil Defense
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Rene
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Uintah Stake
Chamber
Quarry Road
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