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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1941
Page
4
Band Boosters officers to be elected and unfinished business wrapped up at the gathering this Saturday at 2:30 in the Uintad State Bank building. All members urged to attend.
Sunday night Sacrament meeting featured speakers Don L McConkie Warren Jones and Ernest Johnson. Mr and Mrs Jones from Salt Lake City visited with daughter Mrs Leland Edwards. During the weekend they enjoyed a deer hunt. Miss Venna Preece departed Monday evening for Salt Lake City for new employment. Mr and Mrs Ralph Trabaugh were noted in the local notices.
Wayne Larsen district grazer and T K Ward supervisor for the Grazing Service Department of the Interior Dist No 8 announced Oct 28 that the Jensen scales installation was completed. Grazing Board Dist No 8 and Uintah County commissioners jointly cooperated in the project under a shed cover for weighing in inclement weather. The scales are the best Fairbanks.
Vernal civic and social clubs met in the Bank of Vernal directors room to organize assistance for Uintah Basin Hospital. About 22 members discussed providing articles such as eight stretcher trays and baby clothes and agreed each club will contribute items to improve hospital conditions.
The Ashley forest office adds four Uintah high school graduates Barbara Ashby Aston Mechum Karma Rae Richardson Marjoris Schanno to its staff under the NYA project. They perform stenographic work typing filing and office procedures training to broaden qualifications for government or private sector roles. Two girls work in the office at all times with eighty hours of work per month.
John Q Donnell, brother of the late Thomas W Donnell, attorney from Keensbury, visited Vernal with his nephew O Donnell. He planned to go to Los Angeles to pursue mining claims in California. He has spent most of his life running mines, mainly in Colorado, and regretted that urgent business kept him from staying several days in Vernal.
Orson Hall reported at 9:00 am Wednesday that snow covered Taylor Mountain with inches of accumulation and intermittent rain and snow in the prior 24 hours. He noted lower valley roads were nearly as bad as higher routes while driving cattle down from the camp and loading extra weight to prevent slipping on slick roads.
Word has been received that Fay Ricks a former Basin Hospital night nurse died October 8 in Aberdeen Washington. She worked at Basin Hospital for over a year and made many friends. She left Vernal on July 1 to nurse in Aberdeen where death occurred. cause not learned. Her mother from North Dakota was at her bedside.
A letter from Eldur Donald D Nok reports a Montana transfer from Havre to 1123 Bth Ave, Great Falls. He expresses appreciation for Vernal Friends and the Vernal Express weekly letters, noting military service and personal growth.
The Peoples and Citizens parties unveiled their slate for the Duchesne municipal election in November. Peoples ticket lists mayor Ches ter Lyman four year councilman Roy A Schoitian two year councilman IL Maxwill and incumbents Otto Johnsen Earl Jensen for treasurer Lotus Fisher and Hilday Johnston for recorder. Citizens slate names mayor Rulor J Larsen and councilman Porter GL Merrell.
Dr F G Eskelson who bought the Green Lakes resort and companions J Ploud Perry of Lapoint and Clair Brown of Vernal left Wednesday for the National Dada Ranch Association meeting to be held Friday October 92 at Sheridan Wyoming They plan to return to Vernal after the one day gathering Mr and Mrs Jacob Hullinger of Provo visited W S Hullinger who has been seriously ill Bernice Lybbert joined them from Provo
Vernal Utah girl Eliyn Elizabeth Whitbeck will hostess luncheons at Stephens College Columbia Missouri on November 6 7 and 8 for several hundred attending forum guests The American Woman and Her Responsibilities will be the forum theme with speakers from education industry labor journalism and leadership Also on the forum advisory committee are Mrs J Bordon Harriman Marshall Field II Thomas A Beck and John J Raskob The event reflects the college view that American democracy rests on women’s responsibilities and leadership plus a survey supporting this aim.
Alterra High faced BY High in Provo on Friday October 24. BY High opened with a touchdown, Alterra answered on a Tonegates to Neilson pass, then Wyasket scored. BY High pulled ahead with two more scores in the third, final 28 to 6.
Teo marriage licenses issued at the office of Elk County clerk October 27 Jacquemingt Enger Verna and Arnold David Taylor West Virginia October 20 Mary Alice Lee Wernst and Frank Patton Hamden Ohio.
Afton Carter, a sophomore at the University of Utah, was elected as first attendant to the Queen of Homecoming Days. The Alpha Chi Omega candidate stood out at final elections held Friday. she and the queen led the parade and football game, with her father and family attending the festivities.
The Second Ward held a Scout Hall costume party Friday night with bright outfits and decorations boosting merriment. Ruby Erickson and Verla Wilkins won original costumes as the Gold Dist Twins. second went to Arthur Manwaring as Father Tim with Mrs Marlon Thurman as a bat. The Explorer Party hosted a party Saturday evening at the Scout Building and announced a play Glamour in the Fo known for Tuesday Oct 26 under Dr and Mrs Marion Thurman. Cast includes Geneve Ashby Ruth Williems Venetta Schlatter Dan Price Homer Robertson P Ellingsford. Mrs Hattie Johnson organized an MIA Assembly program Tuesday on vocabulary with M Men and Gleaners. Fireside Chats by Vernal Ward, with Edith Williams hosting, reviewed Kabloona by Gontran De Poncins, followed by luncheon. Gleaner Girls met for camaraderie at Huby Erickson’s. songs by Lois Walker Edith Williams Mildred Bastian Kathleen Blair with a solo in Welcome Gleaners and A Perfect Day narration by Genevieve Bingham. dessert circulated to fourteen members.
Vernal First and Second wards install automatic coal stockers in chapels after gas shutoff. First ward began work and expects a Fitzgibbons steel boiler this weekend. Stocker Matic already installed in Second Ward chapel. Bishop Owen Slaugh says the ward will use the new heating system Sunday November 9.
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