Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-10-01 | Page 9 | Utah Paper Carriers to Receive Acclaim

y -t ' ) v : . ' Carrier, Bos Meet Governor Dtsroaslag National Newspaper Boy day with Gov. i i. Bracken Lea are R. ML Ellis, left, circulation manager. The Salt Lake Tribune-Salt Lake Telegram Tele-gram and Telegram carrier John Stanaei, IS. i : : : r. Newspaper Boy Day Utah Paper Carriers To Receive Acclaim Utah's newspaper carriers, hundreds hun-dreds strong, will receive the Official Offi-cial acclaim of their state and nation next Saturday during observance ob-servance of National Newspaper Boy day. Gov. J. Bracken Lee Saturday paid tribute to the carriers and after conferring with R. M. Ellis, Utah chairman of the observance, signed sn official proclamation designating Oct I as "Newspaper Boy day." Mr. Ellis, circulation manager of The Salt Lake Tribune and Salt Lake Telegram, was appointed appoint-ed Utah chairman by the Inter-1 national Circulation Managers Assn. and will be In direct charge of all Utah activities honoring the carriers. During the proclamation ceremonies cere-monies Gov. Lee met with John Stansel, 13, Belt Lake Telegram carrier boy and son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stansel, 1340 Michigan; I ave. The youth told the governor that during the two years he has served as a Telegram carrier ha has saved 1200 toward his college education and his eventual goal as an aircraft engineer. "Not only that" he added, "being "be-ing a carrier boy has helped me In lots of other ways . . . I'm the pitcher on the neighborhood baseball base-ball team and throwing the papers every day keepa my arm In fine shape." Young Stansel last spring wss named the Telegram's most efficient effi-cient and courteous carrier salesman. sales-man. In his proclamation Gov. Lee praised the training and experience gained by newspaper carriers as factors In preparing them for future fu-ture citizenship. "The future of our country largely la dependent on the character char-acter of our youth," he noted. Newspaper boys are constantly nerforminr a service which too often Is taken for granted and I urge all of the citizens of this state to join with the rest of the nation In extending to one and all newspaper news-paper boys that recognition, honor and acclaim to which they all are entitled." : I