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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1949
Page
2
In December 1034, Gerald Myers awaits letters from home while in a combat zone near Geneva France. He frets over the fate of his wife and daughter as shells fall and fear overrides his sense of safety, showing how the human mind shifts concern to loved ones despite ongoing danger.
The Utah Farm Bureau announces its annual state convention set for November 26 to 30 at the Newhouse hotel in Salt Lake City with executive secretary Frank G. Shelley stating details and speaker plans including R. E. Short of Brinkley Arkansas, as a principal speaker and vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
National Apple Week highlights Utah apples as superb fresh and stored values. The USAC home economics division promotes Utah apples with Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce backing. Civics clubs receive reminders, urging restaurants and hotels to feature apples.
The Lyceum program featured Dan Collier as assistant to Loring Campbell who kept students guessing with tricks. Teachers and students endured playful shocks, a snake dance, and a pep rally with songs led by cheerleaders and a pep band. Uintah won 24 to 4 as Utes celebrated Coan Woodbury. Skate night at the Corral brought couples together, and plans for Arsenic and Old Lace premieres drew campus curiosity. A band trip to East Lake was noted for Joan DeJournette and Joanne Showalter.
An old roof leak often worsens with patching says the National Bureau of Standards. Replacing roofing with asphalt shingles offers better durability and fire resistance, NFPA notes, as many cities ban flimsy, flammable mixes in building codes.
Guild members met at the home of Mrs. Charles Halstead on Monday October 17. Eleven members and two guests attended. Mrs Tom Turner won the Clarket basket. The next meeting is set for October 24 at the Bus Johnson residence.
The Utah fish and game department announced nine new posted bunting areas for the 1940 pheasant season bringing total units to 29. Some Utah County areas consolidated so the payable permit will cover 25 units. New units include Uintah Handlett Cache Benson ward Newton Elder Perry Davis Clinton Utah Leland Sevier Redmond Venice.
Utah beekeeping figures show 49 000 colonies on July 1 down from 52 000 a year earlier. National total reaches 5 742 000. The report also notes poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s birth in Portland Maine in 1807. Landowners approve larger hunting areas with 500 permits for the Randlett region chaired by Elbert Chandler.
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