Show is receiving the article about lloyd and dorothy cennett bennett recalls to my mind the afternoon two or three years ago maybe more when mr air gennett bennett came into our office and subscribed to the paper ile he told me he had just returned from sand point idaho lalio It and he had come home to sell his tarm farm and move his family to that aera ills his enthusiasm mean much to me as I 1 thought lie he was leaving the most beautiful valley in the world but atter after meeting a couple ot of newspaper men roni froni that area I 1 can understand lloyds enthusiasm 0 our are ken woods ot of priest river and lew of st marles we met ken at an idaho press meeting it in boise a couple of 0 years ago and h have ave known lew since 1949 1919 both are from rom iowa flat iowa our interest in the two men Is probably because we feel that we are kindred spirits in that all ot of us have deserted bigger and no doubt better paying businesses for the peace and quite of 0 a beautiful valley iley surrounded by mountains 0 0 0 it was over a an early very early breakfast in boise last january that ken told us how he had been associated with his father in a newspaper in iowa and had decided that it if ever lie he was to make a break and do the thing he wanted most to do it would have to be soon and so he and his family took the bull by the horns and stalled out in a station wagon looking tor for a newspaper alch would meet the proper specifications in addition to the regular layout of 0 presses and other shop equipment there had to be lakes fishing streams and lots of 0 hunting and according to ken he found it in ill priest river elver ile he told us of 0 the day when they drove into priest river how bow he visited the local newspaper plant and had to peek la in the window because the owner was out fishing and itow low he marveled that anyone could make a living in that shop but he said after dewing the pend pena oreille im fill not sure whether it is a lake or liver or both lie he decided he would like to try to make a 11 living in that newspaper plant and he be asked his wife to talce take a chance with him that was several years ago and to hear him tell ot of this country you know that th it the chance hao hag been the biggest thing in his life 0 0 we first knew lew when lie he came to utah wl with th other neaera in ill 1919 even then he was looking tor for a mountain and after traveling the country over lie he found I 1 his mountain in st marles ile he I 1 Is as enthusiastic as ken woods |