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Show n DAVIS FEBRUARY 26, 1986 REFLEX-JOURNA- Page Whitesides: Ambition and achievement By DONETA GATHERUM On March 31, 1927, LAYTON the Weekly Reflex" published a prophetic article about a old Layton boy who raised a prizewinning Berkshire pig. The writer observed Jack Whitesides is a shy serious young lad... Ambition is goading Jack on... LOOKING back over the accomplishments made by Jack Whitesides since 1927, the newspaper article was most correct. This shy, serious but ambitious lad applied himself in many areas and achieved the stai is of a winner. Call me Jack." are usually the first words a person hears after they have been introduced to this secure man w ho now well-dresse- spends his time as Executive Director of the Layton Chamber of Commerce. The name fits. Jack could never be a "Mr. Whitesides" or a Sir." He is Jack." THIS LAYTON native grew up Layton Sugar FacHis ran the facility mother tory. that accommodated workers from the factory, mostly men. for 19 years. "Sometimes she made 100 pies in one day," Jack says of his mother's organizational and hard work habits. While attending Layton Elementary School. Jack helped out at the sugar factory as an extra hand during the beet campaigns. He says he is probably the only person alive who worked all 72 stations in the sugar factory from tending the water flue in downtown Layton to painting the smokestack, a job his mother didn't like. PRIORITIES shifted and when Jack was of high school age. he sold his pigs which he had shown all over the country and ventured out into other endeavors. Soon after his marriage to a Layton girl. Effie Simpson. Jack moved with his bride to Ogden. He cut meat forO.P. Skaggs for a short time and then started working for Robert H. Hinkley in his car as assistant parts manager. His salary was $7 a week. The year was 1933. After seven years. Jack left Hinkleys employment and his earnings were S300 a month. Although he never officially sold cars for Hinkleys, Jack says he did make one special "deal" he sold Hod Sanders, the potato chip king, his first used deal.-rshi- - truck. A JOB offer from Fred A. Carlson in Salt Lake was most appeal- ing. Jack stated working at this Pontiac-Cadilla- c dealership on a h basis. The agreetrial, ment was that if I wasnt worth $300 a month. I would leave. stayed until my retirement. I never had to ask fora raise. Mr. Carlson treated me like a son. Jack reflects. When Jack started selling cars, he began wearing a bow tie. For 43 years, this has been his trade- one-mont- up to Firtl quality anly No wcandt No irrogulort. Senior Gtnon DtMount answering center belong in we can bring our Call us Showroom to you. EOAIPGRY 300 Bolts of Material con-verte- in a hotel by the 1 CARPETING summer home on the site of the old Alexander Dawson pioneer home in 1952. The interesting house is designed after the pioneer home and rocks from the original house were used along with additional rocks from the nearby mountains. The home was built by Alex Dawson and Bill Firth. A rock mason from Salt Lake was hired to set the rocks in place using a trowling method. It seems natural that a person raised in Layton with continued interests in farming and local history would take up collecting. Jack is a great collector. His home and out buildings are filled with memoribil-l- a interest. of local and world-wid- e There is a collection of walking sticks from many countries next to farm implements gathered locally and mixed with aboriginie darts and blow guns. On Jack's fireplace are sets of bells near a shelf that houses a tea kettle and a coal oil container that are family heirlooms. Seed catalog posters and a d crank telephone that has been into a modern phone -- JACK ALSO farmed. His specialty was pigs and he took time and effort to produce prizewinners. Thirteen-yea- r old Jack Whitesides worked with hogs at the W.l. Layton farm. Asa reward. Mr. Layton gave him old Susie, a Berkshire, when she was a piglett. He raised her carefully and his efforts earned him the top prize in the Spring 1927 Salt Lake Stock Show. Suzie was one of nine pigs Jack ow ned at the age of 13. He seemed to be settling down to a career as a pig farmer. The Weekly Reflex" article stated, His goal is to be a stockjudge in a stock show. know a lot about hogs and quite a bit about cattle, he modestly confessed. But 1 guess Ill never know enough to be a stock judge. REMODELING SALE! 50 the Whitesides home. ONE OF the most noteworthy pieces in Jacks collection is a portchair that beable doctor-dentilonged to Dr. Sumner Gleason, the Kaysville physician who served as the Davis County School Doctor. e When Jack retired from to st 70 iniii off full-tim- employment with Fred A. Carl- NOW IN OUR 35th YEAR sons, he and his wife were living in the large condominium behind Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake. They spent more time in Layton and less time in Salt Lake until they finally decided to move back to Layton. C& JACKS retirement didn't last long. On Oct. , 1982, he started to work for the Layton Chamber of Commerce as the Executive Director. What started out as a part-tim- e 1 JACK WHITESIDES AT age playmates. mark. At one time. Jack owned bow ties. 157 ONE OF his prize possessions is a collection filled with many valuable and interesting objects in a polo stick owned by Fred A. Carlson. Jack learned quickly that he could sell cars. He also learned that through hard work and by observing the techniques of other salesmen. he could sell better. He advanced rapidly in the Carlson organization, working as salesmanager of the new and used cars. In addition. he sold more than 100 cars per year. FOR 33 years, there was a waiting list of people who wanted to work with Jack Whitesides at Carlsons. "1 had the reputation of not selling a bad car." Jack says proudly. 13, with one of his favorite ALTHOUGH bought the old Dawson homestead in Dawson Hollow from Jose Morgan. They built p ' Benson a Pontiac. Utah's Allen Freestone V So. USHwy. 89 Bountiful 295-552- 1 0 old boy who was ar profitically described as being ambitious is still being goaded on to achieve more. Stock judging isnt something Jack has achieved - yet. -- n BHESQM33 & 'i ISfcWwr- - 4igj liWiujjs Get $850 Honda air conditioning for $99. 4&t- "Il!liUtl '!! and Psychotherapy Children. Youth, and Family Therapy Marital Conciliation and Enrichment Psychological Evaluations Building Self Esteem Kerry W. Davis, L.C.S.W. Thomas E. Pritt, Ph. D. Austin M. Chiles, Ph.D. Elaine E. Staley, R.N.M.S. Remodel & Repair Water Heaters & Softeners Sessions Place 505 So. 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