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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1948
Page
7
The annual waterfowl shoot starts Friday October 29 with a five duck limit and two Canada geese per day. Public marshes are available. hunting hours and new plug regulations are noted. Local notices report community travel and recent obituaries and visits as residents prepare for hunting season.
Mr. and Mrs. Laren Ross welcomed their son Val back from Salt Lake City before his LDS mission to Western Canada. The Ross family hosted visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Duane Caldwell and the Kitchen and Merckley households. The Relief Society reorganized with Mrs. J L Kitchen as president and Mrs GC Merkley as first counselor. A male swan is called a cob, a female is a pen and a young is a cygnet.
The report lists numerous Salt Lake City and Utah residents visiting relatives in Pleasant Grove Springville Provo Craig and Vernal for deer hunting and family gatherings. Irey Forakis and Fay Horrocks wed in Oct with relatives in attendance. Additional visits from the Jenkins and Preece families are noted along with other weekend social rounds.
Governor Dewey argues that government has not created anything in electricity and credits private utilities for pioneering the industry. He asserts that private enterprise developed central station power, long distance transmission, and farm electrification before federal agencies existed, and that socialized plants reflect private initiative rather than government creation.
The speaker highlights a private enterprise led revolution in agriculture and energy, noting it supplies over 80 percent of all electricity and shapes employment and wages while criticizing subsidies as insignificant beside private progress.
Ralston Purina Co names a Vernal dealer for Purina chows farm supplies and sanitation products. Opening day restrictions on waterfowl season at Bear River refuge show hunter totals dropping from 2680 birds in 1946 to 160 in 1947. The historic Checkerboard line was noted this week.
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