Show Senator Hopkin Undecided Is About Poli Politics a j Mrs Mra Vera Taggart Democratic State Senator and widow of the much loved Senator Lon Lou Hopkin was was in Morgan this week ek visiting her hr mother who h. h IsTer is Ter very Ill I D Interviewed briefly she said that she is not yet ready to announce an an whether or not she will bea be bea a Candidate a for re Further Fur ther they I she e said ehe has s no not Tat yet et decided whether or or riot bot j t to be a candidate i Of course I worked closely It with my husband In to pot pol tics through all aU our mar married led rife lite f she he said sald I 1 know a great many Pi people peo pIe in hi his circle But I dont don't knI know I just haven't decided 1 i iThe The Morgan native nathe WAS Id fine tribute in the fol following owl s a ory ry in hi The Salt Lake Tribune irry If she me does jU Just half as well eU as her lice husband hUband it will be i t oed od enough nough U for jur AU us ts us la tt is the he e come conse consensus us enough nough U for jur AU us ts us la tt is the he e come conse consensus us of citizen comment in Rich or gari gaa gan and Summit cou counties on rs ra V Vera yera era Taggart w Woodruff tt ff Gov George P tat nl has s lip ip- ip pointed Mrs Hopkin to the till lU ithe State senate t her I husband Alonzo F F. F Hopkin who died in December 1961 1861 I i If u Mrs hira Hopkin Il kin keeps keep h house housein in her Senate district as thoroughly thor thoroughly thOr as she does her Bear River Bear Rive ranch home she will be the joy of Utah's Legislature Her term expires in January 1963 and she's ahe's given no no thought yet ye to the possibility of being a candidate to succeed C herself herself Continued on Page Four VF VERA VEKA ItA Continued from Page re One No legislative session Is due cue under un der her appointment Dut But a ft special ape ape- cial one could give rive her rigor ngor experience ex ea f r Office Offices M Held Uld ld i Newly reflected elected vice chairman of the Rich County Democratic tlc Committee Mrs II Is La Immediate Im Ins- mediate modiste past lUt second vice chairman chairman chair chair- man of ot the Cow Belles Utah Cattlemen's Cattlemen Cat Cat- s Association auxiliary She also Is Ie active In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter Saints Legislatively she he foresees livestock live live- stock toc agriculture and education as main Interests Mrs has not held previous pre pre- political office but ut attended legislative sM sessions lons with her bel hus- hus band A Legislator 30 years Mr Hopkin Hop Hop- kin first represented five counties counties coun ties or Daggett and Wasatch besideS be- be sideS elder the present trio lie He was twice president of the Senate and twice twice- chairman of the Utah Legislative Leg Council Jle opposed ed Wallace Wal lace f Bennett Dennett for tor the US U.S. Senate Senate Sen ate in 1958 and was a convention convention convention conven conven- tion Candidate in 1960 for the gubernatorial nomination j j Local Resident neden Born 47 41 years ago at Morgan where she attended public schools Mrs Hopkin studIed home econ econ- economies economic at Weber College She She- was married Jan 16 1939 the Ule day after atter her birthday in the Salt Lake temple A local resident 23 years she has no desire to reside elsewhere Nor w would uld most women Her fine tine log house with front room fireplace fIreplace fireplace fire fIre- place and spacious fenced town lawn lawnis wn is ts backed by Crawford Mo Mountain and looks across greening meadows mea mea- doa dows to the river and a 8 rising range beyond Mr Hopkin at the time of his fate death had just completed a a. large equipment shop chop hop so so neatly done it appears to be a second residence He lIe came to the ranch upon the I accidental death in 1933 of his brother Mark Hopkin The ranch of the late J. J Vern Vera Hopkin brother to the late senator senator sena- sena tor or and Mark Hopkin is js marked by a cluster of white buildings within easy eight of Mrs Hopkins Hopkin's dwelling Mrs Hopkin i has a eon son John JohnT T T. T who is on year mission mis oils Ion sion in Germany |