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Show In Our Town... GEO. H. CARSTENSEN In the past few weeks, we have commented mostly on men who were not natives of Utah. This week we have a man who not only is a native-born Utahn, but also has spent enough time outside the state to give him perspective. He is here because he loves it, and because he believes in the future of his home' state. We have too many hopefuls who praise the beauty and "onliness" of our mountain land only because they have never been farther away than a two-bit phone call. Astrologically speaking, George is an Aries child, born in Salt Lake City on April 18, 1903. He graduated from the University of Utah, majoring in civil engineering. engineer-ing. While his sheepskin was still unshorn, he branched out as police reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune. Trib-une. Police reporting, however, gives a man very little time to get acquainted with his own wife and George certainly was married by now. So, goodby Tribune and hollo Reno, where he worked for a time on the Reno Gazette, etc., until the depression, during which George had many worm's-eye views of the seamy side of life. All of which maketh a full man, spiritually. Brushing lightly over this per- hiod, we find them back in Salt Lake for a year with the Deseret News. At this point in his life, George decided to stop fighting his better inclinations and went into automotive engineering, which had always been his hobby. He S is a stubborn cuss, and this field gives full play to all his ability and inventiveness. As local manager man-ager of Koepscl & Love, he fulfills ful-fills one of the most important functions in our community. From our own experience, fishing fish-ing is the only thing that will pry George away from his never-ending never-ending building and re-building of engines and keeping of equipment rolling long after it should have been consigned to the scrap heap. |