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Show ...... . - - . A L. A. (BERT) WYNAUGHT. lows, Masons, Order of Eastern Star, Rebekahs. They keep me busy." I asked If he liked to fish, as so many in this area are avid fishermen. "I like to fish, but I never have had good luck at it. I remember as a child of 8 or 9, a friend and I would go down to the frozen lake, cut holes In the Ice and fish. He'd pull out 4 or 5 nice 8 -inch trout, but I considered myself lucky If I even got one!" Bert mentioned that he'd thought of planting a little garden out back. "I remember remem-ber one garden we had. Our harvest consisted of about three carrots, some marble -sized potatoes and some muskmelons that climbed a cottonwood stump and had a nice crop In spite of me. Guess my green thumb is about as lucky for me as my fishing!" One of Mr. Wynaught's favorite fa-vorite activities is visiting with sick friends and neighbors neigh-bors at the hospital each Sunday Sun-day or any other day of the week, for that matter. When he hears that someone is under the weather, he tries to make it a point to stop by for a visit. They say, "there's no friend like an old friend", but I find that new friends bring an added bonus a little spice to make each day more pleasant and enjoyable. See you next week! '0. 0 rvYHI w Of- p M (I 5 I j by CAROL S. LEMON fcl'jft First order of business this wek is for me to apologize apolo-gize for a GOOF on my part. A couple of weeks ago we talked with Ruth Davis about sprouting various types of seeds. I wrote that the ratio wjs a cup of seed - beans, etc., to a quart jar. I hope none of you tried sprouting i cup of alfalfa seeds -you'd have had enough for the entire en-tire valley! For the smaller seeds, Ruth says two TABLESPOONS are plenty. Well, we live and learn! Today's spotlight Is on a entleman who was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, lived In Boston, Colorado, Nevada and California and ended up here In Milford. L. A. (Bert) Wynaught came to Utah forking on the railroad -which was then called the Sa Pedro-Los Angeles-and Salt Lake Line. He recalls that In his early railroading days everything was tents -teat houses, stores, offices, even his blacksmith shop is a tent. "When I first came to Mil-tird Mil-tird it was a pretty snappy tma. I believe it was larger fa - probably about 1800 $ple. A lot depended on railroad. Once 45 families fam-ilies moved away after i slut -down." "There was no hospital ta, but there were two doc -When Dr. Parrish f . came, he built the first little hospital. It was a godsend for the townspeople." "A short time later the new school on the hill was built. The soil there would not grow a thing. Dr. Parrish was also a member of the Lions Club. He just could not tolerate a school without grass, so folks came with teams from all over, hauling in new topsoil until the school was complete with a lush, green 'outdoor carpet'." Later Mr. Wynaught acquired ac-quired a trucking routh which took in Milford, Beaver, Parowan, and Cedar City hauling just about everything and anything merchandise merchan-dise for stores, supplies for farmers and ranchers, grain, hay, livestock always al-ways finding a ready market for his load. In 1929 he took over an oil distributorship and built the first service station in Milford. Mil-ford. He was Mayor of Milford in 1939-40. During his term of office the new library was built. "The old one was really in sad shape," he said. Also during his term the race track was built. Until then, the horse races had to be held up and down Main Street. "Do you have any hobbles?" hob-bles?" I asked. "I enjoy my club and lodge work being a member of the Odd Fel- -T |