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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1955
Page
1
Dinosaur National Monument logged a record August with 21 788 visitors, beating July by 774. Year to date totals reached 60 553, up ten percent from last year. Visitors hailed from all states and a wide range of foreign countries, led by Californians at 13 percent and Utahns at 10 percent.
Capacity crowds are anticipated Sunday for the general sessions of Usaiah Stake quarterly conference in the tabernacle. Prominent LDS officials Sterling W. Sit and Alfred W. Uhran will attend. The program includes welfare meetings, stake presidency clerks sessions, and a Sunday seminary dedication with a MIA program to follow in the tabernacle.
Plans drawn up for grass roots education meetings to be held Friday at 8 p m in Ul igh School auditorium to discuss the public education system. Communities attending include Vernal Maeser Naples Jensen and Bonanza with similar meetings set for Tridel Wardh chapel Lapoint Triddell Whiterocks Alterra Fort Duchesne and Randlett areas. Public discussion groups will give citizens a chance to speak.
Vernal Fire Department fought two fires Monday after alarms at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. A faulty wiring issue at Mrs. Jim Fisher’s residence in Glines caused attic smoke and was extinguished with minimal damage. A trash fire in an incinerator behind the Mobile Gas station on Highway 40 spread to ground debris but was controlled quickly, with wind risk toward gasoline tanks.
Morris R. Cook was named the new bishop of the Naples Ward at a Sunday meeting. Former first counselor Mar is B. Cook and Asael Haws were sustained as first counselor and likely second counselor respectively. Linus V Openshaw remains ward clerk. Stake President Archie Johnson presided, praising the former bishop and reading a First Presidency letter offering guidance to the new bishopric.
Two trespassed near Ashley Whationer Forest last weekend, blamed on lightning. A Saturday blaze four miles west of Moon Lake burned about 15 acres under Ranger Bill Wolf, with patrols ongoing. A second outbreak three miles east in Long Park consumed a quarter acre, contained by Al Dahlgren and Dale Carroll. Four forest crewmembers recently returned from Portland to reinforce Moon Lake operations.
Prizes will enliven the annual Kids Day program planned for Saturday September 24. Axel Holmes of Heber will present a trained dogs exhibition and bicycles and tricycles will be awarded. Festivities directed by Al Tassainer, chairman of the Boys and Girls Club.
After the first week the Ainish District enrollment runs 71 students below last year, with a total of 3,087 this year versus 3,159 previously. Three new schools opened, Ashley Valley Junior High moved into the old high school, and two special schools were added at Hui Creek and Willow Creek.
Senator Arthur V. Watkins spoke in Vernal urging unity to advance the Upper Colorado River Project. He warned Echo Park would be targeted for a dam, noted Governor Johnson's cautious backing, and cited President Eisenhower’s State of the Union mention along with a $760 million price tag and a $167 million Echo Park dam cut. The audience included Provo and Vernal chamber members, broadcast on KVEL, with wide local backing for the plan.
Natural gas pipeline work progressed 25 miles south of the Green River crossing with right of way cleared. Nine miles of pipe laid, ten miles of ditch cut, six miles welded and ready for painting, three miles already doped. A barge supported the first section.
Cliff Greenhaugh, State Upland Game Bird Director, spoke at Vernal Red and Guy Club about next year’s chukar season and new bird species. He discussed planting wild turkeys in outlying areas and closed with a hunting dogs film that impressed the 6 sportsmen present.
A fragmented report notes crossing at Linwoold Utah shipped to Houston for another job. The Little Mole bridge peer removal leaves all operations on this side of the river, signaling a shift in use and site access.
About 1801 mixed-blood members of the Ute tribe in the Fort Duchesne area will receive 200 dollars per person from the United States government. A tribal meeting, led by manager Rex O Curry, approved the payment after a vote of 135 to in favor. The act requires the mixed-bloods to vote on accepting or keeping the money in the group fund.
Ranger Glen A Lambe says Big Fork Leidy timber access road is well underway with three miles cleared by bulldozer. Heavy timber lines the route planned for controlled burning after weather allows. Expected yield 80 million board feet of lodgepole pine and spruce.
A W Shepherd manager of the Vernal hotel was chosen president of the Utah Nevada Hotel Association at the closing session of its three day Elko Nevada convention last weekend Four resolutions were adopted unanimously by delegates urging Congress to pass highway funding by a two cent fuels tax oppose removing exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act for retail and service industries seek equal tax freedom for hotels and private restaurants and press for abolishing excise taxes Further details continue on page eight.
Moon Lake Electric Association discussed relocating its general headquarters from Altamont to Vernal at a Saturday meeting held in Altamont High School. The REA recommendation cites Vernal’s central location and facilities to attract competent staff, based on a survey a month prior.
Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. considers placing its 162 million dollar transmission line headquarters in Salt Lake City. Chairman Fish says 350 to 400 people could be employed there permanently, with Northwest Constructors already running a Salt Lake construction HQ. The firm seeks wholesale gas sales to Mountain Fuel Supply and expands oil and gas lease activity in the Intermountain area as the San Juan Basin development continues. About 1000 miles of the 1400 mile line are being laid with ten spreads of crews of around 200 men each working along the route.
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