Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-08 | Page 17 | Election Projectionist Recalls Seven Presidential Races

Election Projectionist Pro Recalls Seven Presidential Races r rV V V 4 i ft 44 E. E A. A BOB WORTHEN Puts uh slide in stereopticon machine ma ma- chine Very few of the hundreds of Salt Lakers who stood through the late Tuesday night and early Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- da day morning hours viewing the results results re re- re- re suIts of or the election on the huge stereopticon screen fastened to the Kearns building realized the length of service of the operator or the history behind the machine Itself For E. E A. A Bob Worthen 1765 East East- operator it was his seventh seventh sev sev- presidential election showing the results of ot the race as fast as as' as they were received in t tIe the e Tribune- Tribune Telegram information bureau Mr Worthen a stocky kindly man with a half smile continually creasing his genial countenance is a motion picture projector operator operator operator op op- op- op at the Capitol theater 46 W. W 2nd South and as he puts it has been in the business s since ce 1907 His seventh presidential election showing for the Tribune-Telegram Tribune ended at 1 15 a. a m. m Wednesday with Deweys Dewey's acknowledgment of defeat and all in all he put separate bulletins through the machine ma ma- chine He added that his most exciting presidential l election was the Wilson Hughes-Wilson race in 1916 when Mr Hughes and myself each went to bed thinking Mr Hughes had won won won- the election only to to be disappointed upon arising the next morning V The machine itself is the old- old type projector which was used in theaters to show slides such as Agatha escaping from the clutches of or the villain while white some sleepy musician played accompanying accompany accompany- ing inK melodies on a pump organ