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Show Page hmr - Tlic Furcka Reporter T4MK.V - January 5. 19 First woman senator JkT'ftJC Martha "Mattie" Hughes was barely a toddler when her family bid 'farewell to their verdant Scottish homeland and began the long journey to a new. unfamiliar home in the Great Salt Like Basin of territorial Ctali as eon- sitown on a screen six stories verts to The Church ol Jesus Saints. The high and eighty leet wide. Bonnie Christ of Lilicr-da- y says "It was breathtaking!" arduous trek, first by ship and Wildlife seen were deer, elk on fool, concluded with a and hul fulo. The group also made final push across the Great Amer- a side trip to Kunalv lean Plans, where she would On the return trip from Neva- waicli helplessly as her younger da. the group stopped at Cove Fort for a guided tour of the histone site. Bonnie made the trip with Duane and Lois Thurgood; their sons. .Colin and wile Terri, and their son Jeff; Kicky, wife Betsy, and their son. Vadon. all 01 Syracuse. Ctah. Bonnie commented that they Ctah and the first woman state could see the el feel the (iovern-mein I ;.S. history. Shutdown had on ions, but Born July 1. 1857. in Llanthey were still able to six: the dudno. Wales. Martha Maria beauty of it all. Hughes spent her earliest I 'tali childhood in a limbered cave dug In town during the weekend, into a hillside overlooking fronhelping June anil Colccn tier Salt Like City. But by the celebrate their 35th Wedtime she was 15. she was ending Anniversary, were Larccl rolled in the University of DesMcNulty. Puyson: Jim McNulty eret (later the Cmversiiy ol and Kristie Brown. Salt Like Ctali). leaching elementary and working as a typeset- City: and Ycrn and Ix'slie Mcter lor the Deseret News! Alter Nulty. Fureka. mg a diploma in chemistry NO I K: Andy Anderson's obitu- m I87S. she set oil on another ary was faxed to Springs illv journey, this one to ihc east to and is to be printed in Hi study medicine. She received her week's edition of TheKuri-kdegiee as a doctor of medicine Irom the Cmvetsity ol Michigan KejMjrter. on her 23rd birthday Following a hrtcl stmt practiclie ing medicine m Canada, returned to the l;.S. and completed luriher diplomas in oratory and pharmacy, eventually lemmsmoking adds ing to Ctali where she married Cigarette years to your looks, but not your Angus M. Cannon, opened a life. A new study of over 1,000 successful practice, and launched men and women shows the risk a school for nurses. naming lor laeial wrinkling is two to Although die women ol Utah three times greater for smokers IT'intoi'v had cniovcd full voting than The damaging piivilcges since '870. Mattie effects generally don't show up involved herself in the lobby for until after age .V). Some icscurch-er- s Utah statehood as an equal suf- suggest smoking causes wrin- fiage state m the early l8K)s. kles by decreasing blood llow to When statehood was granted m the skin. 8Jb she campaigned for. and one of the state's first two senate seats, becoming the first woman stale senator in U.S. history . And the first to defeat her own husband at the polls! Within months of her election she had introduced bills (both ) training creating facilities for disabled children and angler is establishing a state board of For those expecting grandchilhealth. dren ot other guests Irom Owing much to her unique the law treats them si in mis as a woman senator from a the same as residents. Cntil non- state with full voting equality. resident children are 14. they Mattie quickly became something don't need a license and may of a celebrity in the national euteh half the regular bag limit. movement, employing suffrage For those young aficionados who her oratoneal training m testimocould never be content with half ny before Congress and at rallies a limn, they may buy an $18 nationwide. She would often license and eateli a lull limit of make that such disparity plain fish. Also new m ' is the new was a blemish on the national one-da- y fishing license tor resi- complexion, "but not for the dents. women of Utah." The cost will he $4. Utahns Martha Cannon Hughes license achieved a may also purchase a level of prestige and for SL This provides a savings achievement not common to her for the type generation, yet her own view of fisherman who can't justify buy- herself was as a commoner, ing the $18 license for the calenalheit an ambitious one. Responddar year. Any angler purchasing ing one lime to a reporter's a resident year-lon- g fishing li- praise for her many achievecense will also he required to buy ments. Mattie responded. "Alt. a $5 Habitat Authorization to Ihc first woman senator, I hadn't help improve habitat. thought of it in that light. Well. I 'm llciv arc i wo more I'liristmas parlies to repori! The Thu rsthiy Morning "Alley Cals" Bowling Iwaguc held their annual party on Thursday. December 21. The festivities were eomhmed with regularly scheduled league play atul included a fun exchange of gilts and a "planned" pollack lull let luneheon. Making the were Grace Berarrangements nini. president: and Darlene in Team Houck, secretary. the of planned potluek charge was the "Ding Bells" ..whose members are: Slierlin ( rill, Jackie HulT, Jose Alin Knglc and I.ynn I.arsen. Beverages were furnished by Duke's Lines Bowling ('enter. Last Juab SherifTs Patrol always hold their (hiistmas party between the holiday s. .this year December 2V. at the on l;airgrounds' Multi-Purpos- e Building. The evening's activities included a Social Hour, billowed by a scrumptious" prime rib Alter dinner. Sheriff dinner David Carter awarded service certificates to all the members ol the patrol, named the "Outstanding I'aiml Member of the $car" and swore m the new oflicets tor IWh. lopping oil the evening were drawings tor the huge array of door prizes.. so many that each Iverson present received at least three. (iucsts also "getting m on the fun". weie the three commissioners and spouses Bonnie Laird relumed home 'iflet spending tour days at .ions National Park and at Player's Island in Mesquite. Nevada One ol ihc highlights ol the trip was attending the ion ('un- ion Cinemax Theatre, showing "Treasure of the (iods" depicting the era trout the Annsui Indians to the curlv wester settlers. It was nt . Health notes 1 good news for 1 996 ci lJ. Mate. in l28. her beloved daugli-linall- y ter. Ghwcndolyii. surrendered to a lifetime struggle with lubcrculo- sis. a challenge which had driven Maine to the vice chairmanship of the National Congress on Tubcrculosis a lew years before. But the pain of losing one more to an adversity she could not relieve seemed to take much ol the remaining spark Ironi Mattie's life. Alter ycats of serving others, raising three children to adult-ti- l hood, lending to the stricken and unfortunate. Martha Maria Hug- Cannon. M.U.. died in Caii- forma from the ravages of colon ivnnial '. of Sialchoos, would like to give nitcniion to these special people during ihc year In doing a special column in the Reporter, us often as we can gel information for such. Please l,clP 111 Ins endeavor, by contrib-senalo- r umit: "short" stories to the soci-he- s Wl11 ' uscd 111 1,L' H'1 vilumn and also kept m die sl,cs research files Please send mlormaiion to Colccn McNulty. Box 218. Kure-ka- . I t. 84b28. Thank you! Watch lor our pioneer series! SMALL hold their quarterly meeting at I p.m. at urdav. Jan. 2(1. llJ the Provo City Library Mullipur-receipose room, 425 West Center, Provo. CT. Sat-sclio- ENGINE REPAIR v SERVICE or lurther information call Fiictury ( 'lara Goudyl SaiilaqiiiniXl) 3752. Jim Stringlcllovv (North Salt Lake) Authorized Service 27b. or Minima 8()I-2J2- Kvving (Orem) em- - el lines we tail to look at our own Pioneers right lieie in Tumi Die Tinin Historical Socictv Awareness Group of Ctali will l much PI,;ISIS ,s ,H;ng put on the pio- nvv'r w'ho settled the state. Soin- - Mc-Nul- tv Young fishermen get bv Brent Stettler Beginning in IWft. children under the age of 14 will not need a fishing license. In other words, anyone 13 years of age or you-ngmay fish I reel They may take half a bag limit. Generally, (hat means four trout, except on waters with special regulations. In I W5 . the fishing proclamation ruled that: I) Children five years of age or younger had to he accompanied by a licensed angler, 2) Any fish caught had to he counted as part of the licensed angler's bag limn, 3) Children, ages six through eleven, could fish without a license and take half a hag limn, and 4) A twelve-year-ol- d needed a license to fish. Those regulations no longer There is no longer apply m any stipulation for a youngster to he accompanied by a licensed angler and the license requirement has been delayed until the cancer at the age of 75. In a graveside tribute, one friend of many years said. "What a privilege to meet with such a will have to try to live up to my friend, a comrade, as Martha privilege." ('aniion." When she was nearly 70. Hughes mat tie moved to California for her own health. Although she considered it at length, she finally chose to forego the rigors of licensing as a physician in that . 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