Show Know Your Government This is the first of a series of articles by the Vernal Ex Ex- Ex Express press to acquaint the corn coin with its elected officials Victor Wilkins became Uin tab County's county commissioner following the November 8 r elections last full fall when lie he was to serve for four years This Ibis Is his first political experience although Mr Ir Wilkins notes that he has liis been heen an active aU all his life Active in ol busi business ness and religious life Vie Vic has been a long lifelong resident of the Uintah Basin Dasin HE IS the son Of bf George E B and Zina E tiles Miles Wilkins born bornI in Peoa Utah The Wilkins I Continued vu 8 I I Know Inow Your Continued from page 1 children were m many ny Vie Vic being one of four brothers and three sisters The family moved to Vernal In 1909 where Victor attended Central School then went on to graduate from Uintah high School lie He began his own family in 1922 when Merle Southam be came his bride In the Salt Lake Temple VICTOR ENTERED the bus bus- mess iness world In 1930 with his own trucking firm firm which today In- In Includes in eludes the Vernal Bus Dus lines purr pur chased in 1963 1903 Vies Vie's four fOUl sons Faron Wayne Clyde and Ed- Ed Edgar Ed gar now share the manage manage- management management ment and ownership of the bus bus- mess Iness I 1 like the trucking business and I especially like working with my four boys he said Were Wre a close family The Wilkins family today includes the four Cour sons and three daughters RELIGION HAS always been of fir first t Importance to Victor lie serves on the Uintah Stake Slake High Council and has held many other othel Stake Slake and andWard andWard Ward positions lIe He has served two missions for the church the first in to the Central 1 States Stales Mission and another in 1962 with his wife to the same area lie feels that this eastern Ilie Utah country has a great po po- po potential and his ties here go deep While a newcomer to politics VII Vic says he believes and practices tices personal involvement in them I believe he concluded ed that the Constitution of the United States Is divinely Inspired ed cd |