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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1954
Page
3
The Voth annual Ogden Love stock Show runs November 12 to 17 with five auction days for purebred Hereford cattle and Aberdeen Angus, breeding sheep, fat hogs, and feeder cattle. Morey awards total 32900.00, with college judging, ring side contests, a Quarter Horse Show and a Chinchilla show as additional attractions.
Brigham Young University has set registration for the 1954-55 school year for September 24 to 26. Regular classwork for the autumn quarter begins soon after. The university enrolled more than 9,000 resident students last year. Orientation and placement tests for first-time students are scheduled for September 21 to 23, with those students reporting September 20 for assignment.
Uintah County reports seven cases for the period, with one cancer. The tally includes diseases such as measles polio pertussis whooping cough and others. State and local officials note totals and perils across communities.
A proposal circulates for the Roosevelt oil pool unit in Uintah County. Several participants have signed the instrument, awaiting approval by the United States Geological Survey. The pool, discovered in 1949, yields crude oil from Green River shale at depths between 9 200 and 10 000 feet, with the Ute Tribal No. 1 well still the largest producer in the field.
County Agricultural Agent Ro Acord notes census data showing family size farms still dominate, producing nearly three quarters of farm output after decades of mechanization. The 1950 census split 54 million farms into commercial and noncommercial, with family scale firms comprising most commercial farms and about 70 percent of total product value.
Air Force to reopen Parks Air Force Base near Pleasanton California as the nation s newest basic training center for recruits from eight western states. Enlistees begin arriving September 7 for an eleven week program before assignment to permanent Air Force units or technical schools. Set Gene L Stevens will interview interested locals at the Vernal Post Office on September 13 and 14.
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