Show Blind Brothers Stand High in inV inVernal Vernal V emal Trade Trad I I Bill and Ike Newton Bu BuildUp d Up Leather Manufacturing Manufacturing I ing Plant I Despite spite Physical Physical i cal Handicaps Products Product Shipped to Remote Parts or Of the World I I Sir Isaac Newton m in standard dictionaries and encyclopedias carries car car- carries car car- ries a line like English h philo- philo I I I I I I I i l 1 I I I sopher and and rn il ilm m ti a an n 1642 1727 1642 1727 In the Who s oS Who of Vernal it runs entirely different And the Sir Isaac Nev Newton ton known person person- personally personally personally ally by the population of the Uin- Uin Uintah Uin-j Uin tah Basin has hns a history and life lIle I stor story which makes that fa world name sparkle Ie even more Christened Sir Isaac his I at Silver Sliver Reef Washington County Utah sixty-odd sixty years ago I the Englishman s lived in Cedar City Provo and Heber City before coming to Vernal In 1902 It was as a long and picturesque trail whIch led him from cne one end of oC the I estate state to the other through hung hung- hunger hunger hunger er hard work ork and disappointments and chose end finds him a as Ver- Ver Vernal Vernal Ver-nals Ver nal s blind poet and Inventor Along with Uh his broil brot er Bm Bill also blind and one of Vernal s most successful business business- businessmen businessmen business I men Ike Ike as Sir Isaac is called by associates has grown n up sith Uhl one of the largest Industries of its kind in the nation Newton Bros BrosCo BrosCo Co These two started from scratch just three thirty-three years ears ago and to to- to today day supply goods goads to Job Jobbers job job- jobbers bers hers as IlS far south as Honduras to Canada on the north and to the tOI I on the east and west vast New New- Newton Newton ton Bros Eros is now no the west S largest I manufacturer of many t types of leather goods and horse s accessories A splendid tribute to the courage of these Vernal yea yeo- I Imen men yeo men Walk into Nc Newton ton Bros today Continued on page p five c Blind Brothers Stand High in Vernal s Trade Continued Continued from page Onel one Sou ou 11 be confused with TUh the variety of activities Wes which are going on ont t band hand saw sa screams as workmen fa fashion native nati lumber into saddle saddletree tree members Craf Craftsmen men cane carve and anda anda a assemble 1 the parts Nearby raw h de is being prepared from the b r rh rI rI I h t I 18 E E ETON TON TO hi eb es brought in by local stock toek I min n and workmen are busy cover coser- covering ing the saddle trees with ith the tough tiros ins In front a master craftsman Charles Feierabend Is putting the f 1 nl fishing touches to a custom sad sad- saddle sad saddle dle for Cor a wealthy stockman in Idaho or elsewhere I Upstairs a dozen girls laugh and talk alk as ac they weave and decorate andI I I ro 0 ton and mohair fa famous for quality the nation over O I produced en Een the cincha rings are 1 produced ed at the Newton ton plant Craftsmen in ill front with razor razor-I razor razor- r arp tools carefully fashion cow eo I bo bo boots chaps harnesses lati- lati pops lati I goes and bridles Others produce I lie HI handiwork decorations for fas- fas fas drous buyers bu ers They 11 make rost rosta a thIng at Newtons New Dt PI te the consta constant n t growth groth gro th of e business and premises the theo thet t o rev three three- year three ear old nucleus for leather establishment still reo re- re o 1 airs ains a big part of the firm and been the case for 0 over er a score sears ears Vernal people I think hink of and Bill as makers of fine I bo boy boots toots It was VIas Bill who ho having ha from the State School the Blind came to Vernal and ne Ike himself up as i a cobbler X ned him and kept the records d books of the then-modest then bu- bu buess P bu-P s ess S In III 1905 the bu business expand to absorb a nearby names harness shop I d steady growth ha characterized r firm ever eer e er since It was as not until 1930 that ne Ikes s is s gat g ue g-ue e a him trouble at which me TIC heT he T was as forced to gh give e up his office Nice ce work orl and turn to the more mental cincha weaving and ring making It was vas during If le following m mouths months that Ike call call- t o upon his inventive im e genius and and constructed labor sav labor sa Yg g devices ices which are sun still used r e I A t N M E EWTON T m In n the manufacture of stirrups cinches saddle trees and cincha rings Since then he has made pla pIa rs i of inventions In for gold reclaiming I I I equipment a screw driven washing machine an adjustable stovepipe stove pipe pipea a power press hay and wool l and nd v with Ith B a smile on his lips lip he hell 11 tell you that he s w on all n a perpetual p motion machine In 1935 Ike turned his spare pare mo- mo moments moments mo moments ments to the writing of 01 poetry This fill fall you 11 31 see his At Ch lat mas mas Time appearing in an antho- antho ns Oil rj railed Christmas Lyrics to tc toI tobe I Ibe be published by Deacon Publications ons oils of Ne New York In two 0 years Ike has written over OHr poems and und 90 songs They treat almost every ery sub sub- subject sub subject I The Tho Th B sin claims many mans interesting Interest interest- interesting Interesting ing human interest stories The Th famous men bad-men of the Green Oreen riv- riv river cai yv the traditional l Indian chieftains and the early trappers trap and explorers of this region still claim dalm the attention of historIans but when hen It comes to real Vernal heroes s we e nominate the Ne Newton oll brothers Bill BUl and Ike I |