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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1958
Page
4
The author urges readers to build or buy now if they need a home with children and space. He favors two family duplexes as a hedge against rising costs, stresses land value growth, and warns against excessive depreciation in new houses. Transportation and proximity to transit or shopping are advised.
The Red Wash Homemakers Club elected new officers at the recreation hall with Mrs Carol McLean as president, Ben McKnight as vice president, and Flonnie Coy as secretary. The first meeting is set for October 6 at 4:00 pm, with members bringing a Christmas gift idea and a cookie recipe to exchange. Community updates include military leave for Airman Apprentice James E. Goast from San Diego, hunting trips on Diamond Mountain, visits among local families, piano lessons, a birthday party for Nathan Jones, and various trips to Ogden and Grand Junction for schooling and gatherings.
Pfc Leslie D Wilkerson, 18, son of Mr and Mrs David M Wilkerson of Roosevelt Utah, joined the 24th Infantry Division in annual combat efficiency tests in Munich. He arrived overseas last November as a rifleman in Company A of the division’s 21st Infantry. A former Cypress High School student in Salt Lake City, he entered the Army in May 1957 and trained at Fort Carson Colorado.
The Maoser School in the 1st Ward held a community fair with displays of vegetables fruits baked goods art work and needle crafts. Children entered petal contests rode horses demonstrated riding training and a front lawn program featured grades and a lunch for attendees. The event connected with local families and sharable activities across the ward.
A Sunday chicken dinner honored the Lark Jenking family, recently moved from Spanish Fork to Vernal. Attendees included Pete Jenkins Alicia Jentina David Jenking and numerous relatives and friends from nearby families. Several local trips to Salt Lake City for the State Fair and Ice Follies were noted, along with visits among Jenkins, Horrocks, Neumeyer, and Woolley families.
Errol Merkley and Rondal McKee received calls to fulfill missions and will depart in October. The ward held a special meeting with Mrs Ivan Morrill and others as MI A Drive party celebrated ERA campaign success and hall of fame eligibility. Other notes include births, travels to Logan and Salt Lake City for family events and LDS mission departures, with prize winners also announced.
A compiled ledger of drilling activity including Wasatch test locations near Cottonwood Wash and Willow Creek, Uintah County gusher sites, Green River Wasatch tests, Red Wash lines, and Mariman Ranch spudding. Records note spud dates, casing sizes, depths, test fluids, and unit areas such as Southmain Canyon and Rim Rock.
Flora Harvey of Salt Lake City visited her parents Mr and Mrs W K Harvey over the weekend. Miss Harvey is employed as a public health nurse. Sherlene Harvey left Sunday for Salt Lake to visit her sister Flora. The W K Harvey family had a turkey dinner Sunday at the Morlan Harvey home in Fort Duchesne for Bill and Morlan’s birthdays. Mr and Mrs Davis Morrill became grandparents Saturday with the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Kent Scholes of Roosevelt.
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