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Show Mapleton man saves pennies for hospital In February of 1951 A. E. "Lon" Cox and his wife Norma were discussing the' Pe n n y Drive for the Primary Children's Child-ren's Hospital and Norma suggested sug-gested that they save all the pennies that they received in change from any purchase and place them in a gallon jug with the idea of giving it to the Primary Hospital when it was filled. So, they set out the jug and went to work- Mrs. Cox didn't live to see it filled as she passed away Christmas Eve, 1960, but this month Lon reached the cap at the top of the jar. Mr. Cox says, "We didn't have any children of our own, and this is one reason for our interest in saving Primary hospital hos-pital pennies. Very few pennies the city ever got out of us. We saved them for the hospital. hospi-tal. We were surely penny pinchers." There are pennies in the jug from 26 states and five Providences Provi-dences of Canada. The penny jug weighs 41 pounds and contained 6,167 pennies gathered in twelve long years. On January 17, Lon Cox presented pre-sented his jug of pennies to the Primary Children's Hospital. Hospi-tal. Accompanying him on the trip to Salt Lake City were members of the Mapleton Ward Primary Presidency, Mrs. Golda Murry, Mrs. Ronella Taylor, and Mrs. Cleola Evans. Presentation Pres-entation was made to the patients pa-tients of the hospital represented represent-ed by little twin brothers Brent and Bryan. |