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Show tW'9 Feature SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY MARCH 4, 1998 A great man named George Washington Farwell " known in all of the surrounding The Union was prohibited from By Charlene Hill Born February 22, 1908, one communities near Windsor, considering age, so George of five children, George grew up They wired every farm and home worked till the age of 76, when in a happy Christian home on a in the area. They wired the first he retired again. He had climbed farm near Windsor, Wisconsin, church in the area to have elec- - on scaffolds and labored with filled with love and surrounded tricity. Later, in the 40s they with music. His father, a violin- ist, worked as a telegraph cp- erator for the railroad. His mother was a school teacher, homemaker, an organizer for suffrage and temper- ance movements, and directed and acted in many drama plays, His parents regularly sang on the nations first radio station, WHA, from the University of Madison. The whole family sang and formed a band. George played the violin and the clarinet. When George was eight years old, he drove the pony cart to Madison, about 12 miles away, for his violin lessons. He and his whole family later sang and played in an orchestra and for dances. George graduated from DeForest High School in 1926. .George was always rigging up formed the Farwell Electric Company, Sales and Service. George and Coyt had the first TVs, freezers, and automatic washers and driers in their munities. Their homes were of-ten filled in the evenings with neighbors anxious to get their first glimpse of TV from the one station available to Madison from Milwaukee (with a large antenna). But this helped to sell TVs and other modern appli- ances. A fire destroyed the company store about 1950. After com- pletely rebuilding and restock- ing the store, a gas furnace ex- ploded in the apartment above the store but this time the fire was more disastrous because not only had they lost everything again, but now the insurance had something especially things expired and they found that would make work easier, themselves deeply in debt with He was quite young when he mortgages. built a device with a turnstile At the age of 42, it was true to that was pulled by a donkey to Georges character when he separate the cream from the squared his shoulders and milk, wash clothes, and grind stated, Im not dead yet, I can feed for the livestock. Probably start over. Neither family de- no one had ever heard of an bankruptcy nor collected electric keyboard before, but to a dime, from welfare, George run the player piano without went to work as a mamtenapce anyone in the parlor, he used a supervisor for a defense plant at motor from a vacuum cleaner so Baraboo, WI where he invented xt whieeSo to the piano. Back in the 50s had anyone ever heard of an electric hot dog cooker? George amused everyone when he con- copper wire to large nails to electrocute the hot dogs in a few seconds. That was before the microwave. ' George and his brother, Coyt, were among the first to become ham radio operators while they were young teenagers They, built their own harii radio out of an oatmeal box wound with cop- per wire. Success was sweet they first contacted a ham radio operator in Gainsville, Texas in the mid 20s. Later George had more sophis-pump equipment, and had the highest amateur radio license available. He had postcards from all over the world plastering the walls and ceiling of his radio room from other HAMs he had contacted. During World War II he taught radio to servicemen at Truax Army Air Field in Madi- son. Sending and receiving code became so much a part of him that once while working the night shift he had fallen asleep and when he awoke, he found that he had correctly typed a whole message from Morse code the rate of20 words per minute (max. code speed) while he slept! George and Coyt were well corn-wome- Ediths sis- ter, Catherine, married Georges brother, Coyt, and the two couples shared their lives in close n. harmony, with similar aims and values throughout their lives. (After the partnership ceased, Coyt formed a swimming pool company in Cottage Grove near Madison, where most of his chil- dren are still employed and Farwell Pools, Inc. is the larg- est pool company in the area. After working at the defense plant for several years and other positions closer to home, George and Edith decided to move to Phoenix for Ediths health in 1963. George was employed by Fiberboard, and later, Tally In- - dustries. At age 65, he was required to retire from Tally, due to com- pany policy. Shortly after that, Edith had a massive coronary and they needed money to pay medical bills and obtain insur- ance after the fact. George then went to work at the Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant through the Electrical Workers Union, he was nearly 80). After George retired from the Union, he and Edith built a four bedroom home near Flagstaff. In 1991 they joined their daughter and in Kanab. They have remodeled their large home, now known as the Hummingbird Haven which includes a rental, George declares that most of the success in his life has to be credited to his precious, faithful wife who has stood by him, en- couraged him and helped him son-Wiscons- in-la- w e msm r Anyone who knew Edith and George back when Edith had her coronary will remember that George gave his all in caring for her and nursing her back to health. In these past few years, the table has turned and it is Edith givingherall to help George in his physical trials. Their deep love for each other jmd their fam- ily is readily apparent! Edith and George Farwell celebrated their 67th anniversary on January George just turned 90 on February 22. 1. George celebrated his 90th obligations. We all congratulate birthday on February 22, 1998. you, George, in living a success-dare- d Like his namesake, he has stood ful and wonderful life, for strength of moral character, Have a very happy birthday fam'his You deserve to know that YOU commitment tohis Lord, ily, his country arid his financial ARE LOVED! An American. Patriot j s bookshelf before it did. And that was so. there was somethingwrong with By Howard Roberts Jr., M.D. The following are comments Somehow, immensely brave their plan. Later, he was an exby Margaret Thatcher, former people got information in and to cellent debater, and he gave d the resistant press. They were what we call freedom of wor-heroPrime Minister of Great As more information went ship, freedom of speech, which ain, in an interview with Joe Cannon on February 5, 1996, at in, cultural groups began to come opened up the Supreme Soviet the Carlyle Hotel, New York out and see a totally different to the television camera so that City, reprinted from Utah Busi- - world. Cultural groups came to we could see what was going on. ness, March 1996. your country and mine. About And the whole atmosphere The collapse of the Communist half of them were with the KGB. changed. I dont think people empire was brought about by the But the KGB couldnt stop their were any longer persecuted for utter falseness of the creed. The people from seeing a different having a Bible. It was fortuitous Communist idea was not the creed world.... that coming up was the 1,000th And then, of course, we had year of the Russian Orthodox of the ordinary people. Never. It Mr. Gorbachev. It was a different Church. So that also, perhaps, was the creed of the pseudo-in-whe- n tellectuals, of the arrogant generation. He spent two or three had some influence. s, He didnt give them economic saying: We days in Canada, where he saw a I are so marvelous, so bright, that different world. Then asked him freedom, but he did give perwe can take away, deprive every-ticate- d to come over to Britain with Mrs. sonal and political freedoms. I one else ofall powers. Take away Gorbachev, and he was with us dont think he knew how to give freedom of worship, take away six days. He came into Parlia- - enterprise freedom, or didnt freedom of speech, take away ment, he went into the shops and know how to take the initiative, freedom to find a job so that we, houses and everything. I think And, of course, they had no the self appointed arrogant few, he saw a different world. people taking responsibility. He had been involved heavily So the system did collapse. In can plan everything. There was no rule of law. There in agriculture. He saw some of 1989 the Berlin Wall came down, was no way of finding out what our farmland near winter and Then, when Mr. Gorbachev was had happened to the peoples began to talk about agriculture, down in his holiday home in rights. The only rule was the He said, Do you realize that in Crimea, there was a counter-cou- p Brit-necte- s. pseudo-intellectual- dictate of the Communist Party, Russia, something between a This is the most arrogant, pseudo- sixth and a third of the farm intellectual creed. It came not produce never gets to market? It from the people, but from the either disappears, or we havent got proper storage in the coun- hu-at tiyside, or when it gets to town, Those of us familiar with would it its just not in good condition. man nature thought That was the first time I had end in collapse, but that it would heard a Communist admit for the time terrible be a people pseudo-intellectual- s, i sf X ns received the $1 as previously agreed upon for any invention. George married Edith Carpen- ter on January 1, 1931. They just observed their 67th anni- versary. They have five chil- dren; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildre- J 18 - to undo the freedoms that he had given. And that collapsed. Then, he went in and debated with the Supreme Soviet and was seen on television. Those were vibrant, livelydebates. He was doing well, But then, all of a sudden, the Soviet Union collapsed and oth-evers wanted their liberties. er |