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Show I . UttcCox I ttc I ' ) ' ' A s-- 's&xzi ,a-- Ty Gillins shows some sports awards to granddaughter, Julie. I came back to help Dad and finally bought the place. I remember Dad thought we were nuts when we bought our first tractor. He always used horsepower. He also loved racing horses. We had one named Chub that was a real favorite. Dad would work him all day, unhitch him from the harness and enter him in the race. He nearly always wonl" Ty and his wife Bernice have a son, Wayne, and a daughter, Susan, 12 grandchildren grand-children and 3 great-grandchildren. Ty has been President of the Minersville Dairy Association Asso-ciation for many years. The dairy has been in operation 30 years and was the first co-op dairy of it's kind in the state. Through the years Ty has continued to be active in sports, coaching church and civic team s and serving as Stake and Ward Athletic Director. Di-rector. At present he is a counselor coun-selor in the Minersville Ward Bishopric. Ty and Bernice look forward for-ward to doing some traveling, travel-ing, maybe some golfing, and especially enjoying the grandchildren. "I'm still a big sports fan and enjoy following fol-lowing the progress of the teams. And I'm proud that my son and grandsons have been able to participate in athletics, too. I still find a lot of excitement and enjoyment enjoy-ment in athletics and I guess 1 always will." Bernice, a schoolteacher for 37 years, shares a recipe reci-pe for a tasty treat. PINEAPPLE COOKIES 2 C flour 1 12 t. baking powder 14 t. soda 14 t. salt 34 C crushed pineapple (drained) 12 C shortening 1 C brown sugar 1 egg 1 t. vanilla Mix. Bake at 350 about 8-10 minutes. Every town has it's heroes. he-roes. Today, sports seems to be THE thing and everyone knows 'You've got to be a football hero to make a hit with a beautiful girl'. Seems that times haven't changed so much. Back in 1916 Minersville Min-ersville had a fine basketball basket-ball team, and from then on things just kept getting better. bet-ter. Finally in 1927 with a total school enrollment of 70 students, and only 1 5 boys over 9th grade level, Minersville Min-ersville hit it big! The team captained by Clarence (Ty) Gillins, with Newell Marshall, Marsh-all, Mort Davis, Arshell Hol-llngshead Hol-llngshead and other teammates, team-mates, (and Stan McKnlght as coach), won the chance to go to the State Tournament. They competed against 15 teams from all over the state and WONI "The final game was held at the old Deseret Gym," said Ty. "There were folks hanging from the rafters. LDS High was the favorite, but we could feel that the crowd was on our side. We led all the way. Defense was tougher then, you just didn't see the high scores they have today. Our final score was Minersville 22, LDS High 19." "That win entitled us to go to Chicago for the National Playoffs. The town really gave us a send-off. There was a big rally, bonfires, speeches, bands. It was a great experience. My dad came to see us off on the train and at the last minute decided to hop on and go with us. He was always our number num-ber one fan." "Basketball was my favorite, fa-vorite, though I participated in baseball, track, wrestling wrest-ling and boxing. I was on the basketball team at B.A.C. In Cedar for two years. We were State Champs both years. I made the All -State team and received a gold watch." Not one to desire the limelight, lime-light, Ty was always a team player and believed in good sportsmanship. "One of my coaches remarked to me that I had to be careful of what I did because so many youngsters young-sters looked up to me. That gave me a shock, and really kept me on my toes." "I've always loved sports," said Ty. "Of course, father saw to it that we had our work finished before be-fore we engaged in our leisure lei-sure activities. Once I was to play a baseball game at Adamsville, but when the team came to pick me up, I hadn't finished the chores. They all pitched in and helped help-ed me finish so I could go." Since 1932 I've been farming," farm-ing," said Ty. "None of my brothers wanted to farm, so |