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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1951
Page
16
The Office of Price Stabilization announces ceilings for standard Type N anti freeze sold to retailers, jobbers, and wholesalers. New retail prices cap at 1.95 dollars per gallon in quantities of a gallon or more and 0.50 dollars per quart for smaller quantities, with prior gallon prices listed as 1.00 dollars for Type S and 1.00 dollars for Type SC and 3.75 dollars for Type P.
Uintah Basin reports odd crude from Roosevelt Pool Red Wash and Duchesne Pool with high paraffin giving pour points around 90 to 100 F. Duchesne oil nearly white while others nearly black due to paraffin. gasoline content and lubricating potential noted. Carter Oil leads in solving issues with natural gas heated storage and a Christmas Tree valve system guiding production to Galt Lake Refining.
A motorist paid four years of saved dimes quarters and half-dollars totaling 1005 to a dealer to purchase a used truck. It took four hours to count the coins and complete the sale.
About 600 delegates from Utah and Idaho closed their Kiwanis district convention in Sun Valley Idaho with Ira A Huggins of Ogden elected district governor succeeding Dr Joseph W Marshall of Twin Falls Utah Idaho division lieutenant governors were Earl H Steele Nephi Warwick C Lamoreaux Salt Lake City and Elmer H Brown Roy from Idaho division posts went to Marshall Keyes Idaho Falls Dick Blauer Burley and A S Gilbert Capilite City Boise Claude Hellman Kiwanis International president announced Ear l Q Marsing of Nampa will chair the national committee on agriculture and conservation Leroy Folsen Provo was named a member of the international committee on inter club relations E J Condon Sears Roebuck Chicago warned that politics at all levels is sordid during the address
Glen McConkie builds a growing livestock herd after returning from a Spring Creek Ranch Dispersion Sale in Logan with a registered Holstein heifer for 750. He is active in FFA and 4-H, entered the grand champion lamb at the Ainish Basin Livestock Show, and previously held the 1950 dairy cow champion title. His current stock includes sheep and three registered Herefords, purchased to fuel club projects and a foundation for future raisers.
The Chicago executive condemned the era of the easy buck and cited scandals across political circles. He said misconduct touches all regions and soils the fingers of the executive while tarnishing the soul of the drunken degenerate who buys votes. He decried moral value decay and wasteful government from local to national levels and criticized spending tendencies. He added that, in the ugly picture, the one consolation is that we are not getting all the government we are paying for.
The Vernal Knife and Fork Club opens its new season with guest speaker John Morley author lecturer and former foreign correspondent Morley recently returned from a world tour covering events in England Germany Italy the Levant India China and Japan His up to date lecture will discuss current world hotspots while touching on his wartime role directing military intelligence and his observations from the travels that shaped his reporting
A fragment notes paying four dollars for grass seed, an unclear amount to sow it, and that once it germinates it is cut off. The speaker expresses self-directed humor and acknowledgment of their actions.
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