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Show - I. ' . r I - 'I iri Cc1 "' !.V tit it; OKAr.'BER PREXY JHHOSELYNKIRK Bailey, Bountiful ;3er of Commerce :A has been mistaken - ,onel Harman and gets ; an children, asking if : an speak to Santa i tj i THINK it's because I safletently," he said in knit that was unmis-British. unmis-British. He admitted fiLsnhite hair and mus-k mus-k don't hurt his Colonel fa-Santa Claus image, .j Mr. Bailey's hair i little longer, he hard a neighbor boy I Mother, I didn't know M Harman went to our Ft" Mr. Bailey ob-t: ob-t: that, though he nappe nap-pe id t wearing a white 'Hi It hadn't noticed the iis was so remarkable. y I BAILEY admitted he 'l jliyed Santa for his iiiiidren, but said he -jrpnsed when several ::tn called his wife 3 at home and asked if mid speak to Santa. Bailey took their Mr. Bailey.says he.- , - '.'wheh it's closer I -i t is says the United :-Ken a Santa Claus ' i fie first came to the States in 1952, but went home again because he and his family missed England. They came again in 1957 and stayed. HE FIRST bought the land to build his tool grinding business in North Salt Lake in 1964. Twelve years later he owns the land, building, trucks and large pieces of equipment needed for the work. Mr. Bailey says, "We've proved that if you come here and use some initiative and hard work, America is still the land of opportunity." Mr. Bailey's business- Universal Grinding- is a specialty shop that employs nine people besides his son Paul and himself. MR. BAILEY learned his trade in England where he worked seven years on an engineering apprenticeship before he came to the United States. He finished high school at 14 and then worked at his apprenticeship for 3 cents an hour while learning his trade. Mr. Bailey said he worked .. for $1.50 a day and went to " school at high'ts to learn math. He believes there is too much stress on higher education in the United States and not enough on the trades. "There are very few tradesmen out of work," he, says. MR. BAILEY took a chance on one boy who had dropped out of school, but was "pretty good with his hands." The boy now runs a long hydraulic shaft and makes precision tools. Ken Bailey, current president of the Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce, gets called many names. One of the favorites is Santa Claus. On his three trips back to England, Mr. Bailey says his English friends tell him "he speaks American now." But he likes American speech patterns because "Americans never drop their h's." MRS. BAILEY says she doesn't miss a thing about England and wouldn't live in Buchingham Palace if she had a chance. But she does like English food and makes pork pies, Yorkshire pudding with roast beef and shepherd's pie. Homemade tea cakes and scones are also her specialty. She called Mr. Bailey a "jack of all trades" and snowed off the large bedroom, dining room and conservatory he had added to their house. "You can accomplish ac-complish anything if you want to get in and work," Mr. Bailey said. |