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Show ALL DUNN by Roy Dunn HOWDY FOLKS . . . I'll be darned if there ain't an awful lot of contention, hate, greed, suspicion, bigotry, and general discontent that we have to live with these days. Sometimes we wonder if there is any good left in this old world, and where it will all end. In chaos? Some say it will, so why try to maintain a semblance of the civilization we once knew? Some say, "I will throw caution to the wind and get on the bandwagon. I shall practice prac-tice hate for anyone who does not comb his hair the way I do, or for the color of his skin, or for any reason whereby he does not conform to my way of thinking, for all is lost and there is no good left worth fighting for." And this writer says, "Not so, all is not lost!" I mention this for it was brought to mind by an overnight over-night guest we had last week. Our guest was Clarence Honn, of Roseburg, Oregon, who is Audrey's sister's husband hus-band and who with his wife, Leota, own and operate a dry cleaning business in Roseburg, and have now, for about twenty years. He didn't have Leota with him, but had left her home to take care of the plant, while he went on this business trip. Sorry Sor-ry she wasn't with him for we would have liked to have seen her too. Besides, she's better looldng than he. Let's see, where was I? Oh yes, I started to tell you what happened to Clarence, and prove there's a lot of good left in people. It was about three or four years ago that a truck, loaded with nitrate, exploded in downtown down-town Roseburg. You may remember re-member reading about it. Several people were killed, many more injured, and many buildings were damaged, if not wrecked. The "Honn New Method Cleaners" building was heavily damaged and they were put out of business for quite some time, maybe three or four weeks. That is, they would have been out of business until they got their plant in operation, if it hadn't been for those dry cleaners over in Eugene, about seventy miles over the mountain. moun-tain. The dry cleaners in that area ar-ea don't have an association they have formed, nor were they obligated in any other way to do what they did. They just did it. The cleaners in Eugene, took turns, day by day, to send a truck to Roseburg and pick up Honn's business. They took it to their plants in Eugene and finished it beautifully, returned re-turned it to Roseburg and took off for Eugene again with a ioad of dirty clothes all for free no charge whatever to the Honn plant. How'ja like that? And how about what happened hap-pened just last December 31, light here in Utah County? This friend of mine who is Alfred Sidwell and lives with his family in Provo, is a cement ce-ment finisher by trade and a hard worker. Anyone who is not a hard worker, is not a cement ce-ment finisher. This I know. Alfred loves the outdoors, the mountains and such, and to supplement his income, he hunts lions and has done for years. He captures these lions alive and sells them to some dude ranch operator who comes up from Texas. Construction work being seasonal, sea-sonal, this helps Alfred to provide pro-vide for his family during the winter months. Just after last Christmas, Alfred was on the trail of a lion with his dogs and was skirting the edge of a cliff |
