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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1945
Page
2
Public Welfare records show $10 369 paid in Uintah County for August 1945 to aid 14 722 households and 213 old age cases plus 35 families with dependent children. Miss Belle Angus notes decreases from July and describes allocations by category including aid to the blind and unemployable cases.
Prices set for mine delivery in western Colorado: lump ore at 655 per ton nut at 605 per ton and slack at 480 per ton. Delivered price to consumer is 1 higher than FOB.
Leota Mra. Calvin Jorgensen reports Roosevelt visitors Mrs Ralph Durfee and family spent the week with Marysvale relations. Clyde Miller and family from Marysvale arrived to stay with Mr and Mrs R V Miller. W B Stoddard and Bert Stoddard joined trips to Salt Lake City for conference. George Brough drove the mail truck during Mr Durfee’s absence. Vernal visitors Robert and Mrs Marshall spent Friday in town. Lela and Nina Jorgensen, studying in Vernal, spent the weekend with their mother.
Worried Uintah Basin residents linked OPA price actions to recent coal price hikes. Laura McKeachnie and Norma Gardiner note price stabilizations may ease the fuel shortage as miners in Uintah and nearby Ogden areas resume operations. Local families like the McKeachnies and Boyd visit with ties to Tonopah and Omaha seek wage parity with other industries amid county efforts.
A group of girls gathered at Mrs Ernest Johnson's home on Thursday afternoon for a surprise party. Refreshments were served and Mrs Johnson received a gift from the group. Mr and Mrs Ernest Johnson left for Rochester Minnesota for Mayo Clinic medical aid.
Jensen Zilpha Wellman reports relatives and friends visiting from Provo Cedaredge and Salt Lake City with Mrs James Quinn Mrs Stewart and Mr Brig ging and Tom on furlough enjoyed deer hunting in Colorado Frank Nicoll recently released from the army visited his sister Mrs George M Lewis Ray D Gardner arrived from San Diego for a short leave Ira S Gardner and Mrs Gardner hosted visits with their families Joseph Spudley and family spent days at Midvale visiting daughter Mrs Gerald Ross and her family Later Mrs Ira S Gardner returned from Ogden to be with niece Mrs Gladys Carney and others Charles L Murray left October to attend school Ora Curfew arrived from Salt Lake City for a brief visit
Residents and families gather for furloughs and visits as Dez Pitt and Ezra Merkley return home. Meetings feature Lester Bingham J Ross Merreld and Lawrence Fox with the Stake High Council and stake clerk. A dance honors the returning soldiers Wallace Moon and others.
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