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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1936
Page
4
Local newspaper item lists residents visiting Vernal on Monday August 31 and several families relocating for schooling. Names include Meadows Hatchs Squier Thorne and others with brief travel notes and autumn residence plans.
John Norman Dragon arrived in town on September 2 to attend Meeker High School for his senior year. D. Dotson and St J. Kester, part of a Colorado highway planning survey, set up temporary headquarters at Hangely to assess the condition of all public roads and estimate improvement costs. The project is expected to take about two years to complete. W. K. Stirnird of Meeker traveled to Vernal for help.
Raymond Pitcairn argues that censorship endangers liberty, citing European dictatorships and Napoleon. He asserts America must protect free speech and a free press as essential to national resilience. He praises editors as shock troops of liberty and urges public support.
Names of residents and visitors appear amid notices of illness family visits and work crews. Abram dated returns from Vernal while Laura Heard and others travel to Denver. two hundred men toil on road projects. families relocate to Calsson and Elk Springs as Caterpillar work continues and local activity ebbs.
Jensen school opens with A C McKinnon Ogden as principal and Ida V Skuar Idaho Falls teaching grades two and three. Iva D Banjes Vernal leads kindergarten temporarily while Bernard Stewart drives the Jensen bus.
Mr and Mrs Earl Goodrich announce the arrival of a baby girl on September 9. Mrs Jack Howard underwent a major operation on September 2. Mr and Mrs Lawrence Paton announce the arrival of a baby boy on September 6. The Valley Hospital heating plant is being remodeled and the hospital is air conditioned. Mr and Mrs F P G Eskylson have moved to the L H Allan home. The little girl of Ben Mandrag on suffered a fractured arm from a fall.
The government head stresses water storage as key to drought relief and economic recovery. He cites Boulder Dam's Lake Mead holding 9,000,000 acre feet, released for irrigation to Palo Verde Imperial North Gila Parker and Yuma districts. Other projects show varying supply levels but overall sufficiency due to reservoirs.
The article records local events including church program listings with names like Oral Rasmussen Eileen Caldwell and Albert Wotton, reorganized MIA leadership, and Young Women and Men presidents. It notes school openings with teachers Harvey W Wagher Roy Morrill and classes, buses transporting children, and town updates on residents' activities and a dancing class in Roosevelt. Local visitors and births are mentioned, along with a medical note on Lynn Huber’s tonsil and adenoid removal.
Omitted last week Andrew and Hussey Stones and Frank and Bob Darlington have moved to drive trucks for EA. Gar T Gner with an ongoing road contract in eastern Colorado and Mr Moonahan doing road work from Utah to Massachusetts.
Miss Ruth Woodruff of Provo visited at the Charles Pearce home Saturday evening. Faculty members including Jacout N Lubbert and Israel Heston plus Misses Orfa Johnson Mary Lipkins Ada Stevens and Lareng Simperng made plans for a successful school year. Abby Joint MIA met Sunday with a reading The Chambered Nautilus by Lola Nash and vocalizing by the Duvall sisters. The fall MIA social is planned for Tuesday September 18. George Nemstilk and Owen Haws families visited Provo and Mand Temple during the week. Donald Bascom left for Price to seek work. Miss Hennah Richards teaches in Avaton again this year. Leo Merril injured his foot shopping on Brush Creek mountain and uses crutches. Miss Stevens Parawon and Mr Heston Kanab board with K I Goodrich while teaching. Ruth Goodrich teaches in Central school. Albert Duke Salt Lake City and Duke families from Weber visited J M Martins. Calder and son Mac of Bountiful spent a week with Mrs Calder’s parents. Stella Richards returned from Northwestern States Mission. Earl Goodrich and family, formerly of Naples, announce a baby daughter born September 9.
Reva Gillman, 14, underwent an appendicitis operation on September 2. Mrs. Everett Massey was taken home after an operation. Mrs. Witham Workman, seriously ill, is improving at a local hospital. Mrs. F. M. Babcock has returned to Steam Boat Springs, Colorado. Wensilectomy procedures improved for three Oscar M. Lymn children and two Maeser children on September 1 and 4, with Hugh and Paul Hullinger on September 4. Herbert Snyder was injured Monday while working on a highway about nine miles south of Verne.
The Community Church announces services at ten o'clock and a Sunday worship at eleven. Sunday School meets at ten o'clock with classes resuming after summer pause. Music is planned for next Sunday by a group from the camp.
About 15 members of the Jonathan Oldham Duke family attended the annual reunion in Naples. The opening meeting Sunday evening at the Almira Morrison residence was presided over by Ralph Meldrum Provo. The program featured musical numbers and reports, followed by refreshments. Monday morning session continued activities.
Mr Meldrum reelected president for the year and A R Duke reinstalled as secretary. The Duke reunion marked its forty first annual gathering with attendees from Utah and nearby states including Provo Heber City Springville Salt Lake City and Monticello among others. The meeting set Midway as next year’s site for August 14 and 15 shifting from Labor Day.
Jacob Luckton aged 58 died seven miles west of Duchesne when a truck veered off a road and hurled him against the cab. The driver and another youth were lightly injured. Luckton, born in Western Russia in 1878, moved to America in 1905 and later lived in Vernal after marrying Lue Ruttman.
The Luckton family longtime hides and felts seller moved through Roose velt and Denver before returning to Vermil, leaving widow and children Mrs Yetto Gagon Kawatha Isadore Luckton Denver Cole Mrs Bather Perrar Vernal Rosiz and Aaron Luckton Denver. Under Swaini Punerm Home direction the body was taken to Evans and Early mortuary Salt Lake City. Funeral services held at the Orthodox Jewish Synagogue and burial in the Jewish cemetery.
Funeral services for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jenkins were held at the home of William Mott in Vernal on Sunday. The Maeser ward bishopric directed the service with Bishop Lester Bingham presiding and remarks by Bishop John Hall. Fragments note hymns Sometime We’ll Understand and Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam and that the infant was laid to rest in Vernal cemetery with grave dedication by William Mott.
State Health Head urges caution as sheep and cattle move to winter ranges this month. Dr J L Jones warns bedding of herds near streams can contaminate municipal water supplies with animal wastes though no disease risk is noted. About 100000 sheep will move from eastern mountains toward Salt Lake areas via Parleys and Emigration routes.
Dr Jones and the State Board of Health ask sheep and cattle men to move herds away from streams during bedding at night and to spread movements across Utah from October 15 to November 1. The board thanks citizens for cooperation to reduce proximity to water sources. The federal land bank loaned Utah farmers 5,840,200 on first mortgages and 9,814,000 on second mortgaged funds.
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