Highway 40 Meet Plans Promotion Names Officers
A regional gathering at the Cospritt Hotel in Graig drew over a hundred leaders from Ducheene to Denver to push travel on America s Most Accessible Highway and organize the Denver-Salt Lake branch of the Highway 40 Association. They approved eye catching junction signs and proposed markers at Provo and Heber along Route 91 and at Idaho Springs where Routes 6 and 40 meet.
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Ducheene
Denver
Cospritt
Graig
Denver-Salt Lake
Highway 40
Provo
Heber
Idaho Springs
Colo
Wanted criminal blamed for Vernal burglaries
A rash of burglaries in the Vernal area followed the escape of Everett Rhinehart from officers returning him to Missouri from Oregon. Large searches Monday and Wednesday near Glines involved 35 high school boys with shotguns and National Guardsmen with submachine guns. The first break-in targeted Hy s home for a suede barbes, cash and food. A truck found abandoned with fuel drained suggested use by the fugitive. Candy and cigarettes vanished from the Starlite Drive-in. Despite extensive west Vernal searches by Highway Patrol, county officers, Vernal Roosevelt and surrounding towns with a bloodhound, only tracks, a campfire remains and shoe impressions were found. Officers think Rhinehart may have fled west toward Salt Lake City.
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Vernal
Everett Rhinehart
Missouri
Oregon
Glines
Slaugs Avatolen
Rhinehart
Salt Lake City
National Employ Them Physically Handicapped Week Proclaimed
Mayor Henderson proclaims October 7 to 13 1951 as National Employ Them Physically Handicapped Week in Vernal Utah urging employers churches and civic groups to provide employment. The proclamation aims to help handicapped workers become self supporting citizens and calls on the community to cooperate in observance.
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Vernal
Utah
Cc. H. Henderson
Speech Hearing Clinic Planned For November
A speech and hearing clinic is planned for the second week in November with cooperation from the University of Utah and the State Department of Health. Superintendent Harold M. Lundell says special attention will be given to children with speech and hearing defects and officials will advise parents on treatment methods. Enrollment at Bonanza school requires another teacher. Tadys Phillips, former nurse, will take duties at the building project with a heating unit planned for Avalon school, currently the district's only school without such a plant. Mrs Victor Katren of Vernal accompanies Mr. Lundell on this Denver business trip.
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University of Utah
State Department of Health
Harold M. Lundetl
Lundell
Bonanza
Tadys Phillips
Neucee
Avalon School
Avalon
Uintah Fires Show Increase Ahead of Fire Prevention Week
Uintah County reports nearly double the fires this year as Fire Prevention Week looms. The year 4950 saw 14 fires in Tintah County, 25 by now, with City 21 from last year and 24 to date in 1651. Causes include careless disposal of cigarettes and matches, faulty chimneys and furnaces, and flammable fluids.
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Uintah
Tec In
Tintah
City
Jeffries
United ‘States
County Water Users Elect New Officers
New officers were elected by Uintah County Water Users Association at a courthouse meeting. Lee Sewards became president with Clair Hawking as first vice president and Davis Morill as second vice president. Clair Acord secretary and Ralph Chew treasurer, with temporary directors named pending nominations from irrigation and canal companies.
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Uintah County Water Users Association
Tvere William St Wallace
Utah Water Users Association
Tom Jensen
Lee Sewards
Clair Hawking
Davis Morrill
Clair Acord
Ralph Chew
Arice Murray
Warren Richardson
Frank Ward
Marvin Smith
Ernest Johnson
J. Meagher
Leon Christensen
Mr. Wallace
Congress
Colorado River
Utah
Mr. Sowards
Utah Group
Salt Lake City
Wednes
Salt Lake Rotary Pledges Aid In Vernal Water Projects
Salt Lake Rotary Club president Bil Fisher pledged the group's help to the Vernal area water development program. He urged more Salt Lake visitors to see local resources and development potential, noting excursions to Roosevelt pool Red Washfield and the Elsinite operation. B H Stringham spoke on the value of Vernal area projects like Echo Park Dam and the Central Utah project, urging familiarity with pay dirt and local resources.
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Salt Lake
Hoosevelt Pool
Red Wash Eld
B. H. Stringham
Echo Park Dam
Central Utah
Civic clubs press state action on bad county roads
Associated Civic Clubs of Southern and Eastern Utah vote to send a delegation to the State Road Commission to demand immediate repairs on the Bonanza Tiddel-Gusher and Qurays Rand roads and Highway 40 in Vernal area. Officials note gravel surfaces have deteriorated, exposing soil, with heavy oil and gilsonite traffic from local fields stressing the routes. A Vernal Chamber of Commerce roads committee member discusses ongoing oil field activity and regional road needs.
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State Road Commission
Associated Civic Clubs
Utah
Aim
Vernal
Cheney
Vernal Chamber of Commerce
Cluby
Het
Cheney Wild
Extensive Conservation Plans Reported by Range Manager
Range manager Dale C. Naylor reports extensive conservation work by the Bureau of Land Management in District No. 8. He cites reduced fires and improved forage due to good weather, noting progress on soil moisture, check dams, and brush removal across Diamond Mountain areas. Uintah High School bands plan to attend Utah Stadium events with a performance before the Utah BYU game.
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Bureau of Land Wagement
Iteh
Dale C. . Naylor
Range Anager
Tueaday
Diamond Mountain Ares
Bureau and Livestock Owners
Vernal Sees Rise in Basin Oil and Construction Jobs
Vernal reports to the State Department unemployment office a sharp rise in oil field and technician jobs in the Uintah Basin. Business Week notes Vernal also attracted a surge of construction workers, signaling broad hiring gains in the area.
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Vernal
State Department
Amnloyment Security
Uintah
Business Week
Floyd R. Bingham Appointed New Sanitarian
Floyd R. Bingham has been appointed district sanitarian for Health District No. 5 covering Uintah Duchesne Wasatch Paget Summit counties with Vernal offices. He will oversee private and public water supplies sewerage disposal swimming pools insect and rodent control hotel tourist camps resorts restaurants and general community sanitation. Bingham, a Vernal native and Uintah High School graduate, will bring services closer to residents after previously working at the Provo office.
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Floyd Bingham
Nettie*o. Remington
Heath District No. 5
Vernal
Courthound
Uintah
Duchesne
Wasatch
Pagesttand
Summit
Couvnétas
Bingham
Provo
Vern
Uintah High School
Brigham, Young University
Clinois State
U of U Bureau Notes Uintah Oil Boom and Costs
The University of Utah Bureau of Economic and Business Research marks Oil Progress Week with findings on Utah oil. Since the first Tol Inc. discovery in 1948 Uintah County and surrounding areas have added four new fields Red Wash Roosevelt Boundary Buttes Duchesne and San Juan but not all counties show production. Six months totals reach 648,507 barrels with Ashley Valley leading at 509,029, Red Wash 4,391, Boundary Buttes 2,410, Roosevelt 118,767. Utah’s 1956 six month output rose 243 percent except in Ashley Valley and Boundary Buttes where activity is ongoing. A deep Uintah Basin wildcat drill cost about 715,000 dollars at 90 dollars per foot, based on seven wells 6,000 to 12,500 feet deep. An exploratory campaign employs about 130 hands with wages near 1,000 dollars in the first year. Refinery processing capacity across Utah’s five plants is noted.
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Bureau of Economic and Business Research
Universy of
Utah
Tol
Ptabieyan Valley
Tintat County
Red Wash
Roosevelt Pool
Uintah County
Duchesne
Duchesne County
Boundary Buttes
San Juan
Ashley Valley
Boundary ‘Buttes
Roosevelt
Ashley
Uintah Basin
Fires at Ashley Forest prompt preventive measures
Regional Forester C J Olsen urges a united campaign to prevent destructive fires after four blazes at Ashley Forest. The notice calls on residents to back suppression efforts to save lives and resources amid outdoor and home fire risks.
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Forest Service
C. J.olsen
Pheasant Hunters Get Three Bird Day Season Opens
Utahs Fish and Game Department today announced a three bird per day limit with a maximum of six for pheasant hunters. The season opens statewide except for Big County with identical regulations. Officials cited about 17 800 birds available this year and set quail season dates as well.
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Utah
Guantiea
Fishland Game Department
Emergency Toad Halts on Utah Highways Tonnage
Emergency toad limits on Highway 40 and other Utah routes may take effect due to the state’s sharply reduced steel allotment for road building and maintenance. Road Commissioner D. H. Whittenburg says actions may protect weak highway structures. Permits would loop 17 miles east of Lake City as a precaution while officials press Congress for an increased 1952 steel quota. Utah groups, including the Utah Automobile Association and Associated General, back the effort.
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Albert Clarence Boyle
Dinosaur National Monument
Jensen Ward
Salt Lake City
Doyle
Salt Lake
Utah
Colorado
D. H. Whittenburg
Road Commission
Lake City
Ste Brettenburg
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Victor Katren
S.L. Rotary Club
Hese
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Carl Staley
Sam Hatch
Tlyi Club
Bonanse Road
UHS
Utah Stadium
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University’s
Ares Lawrence Lee
Kiscott
LDS
Uintah Blake
Latt
Wesley E. Bowden
Napins
George Cecil Billings
Gilneas Ferrat Goodrich
Tridelly Oma Wardle
Jones
Charles Owen Bartett
Teldell
Clarence W. Palmer
Floyd R. Bingham
U of U.research Bureau
Ashley Forest
Lritien
Yang
Ty ‘Selective Service Board
Sear
Bia
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