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Show Times Newspaper, Millennium Edition Milestones of the Twentieth Century Wednesday Jan. 5, 2000 Page 3 ARTHUR VIVIAN WA' Orem Citizen of I he Gent usf U.S. Senator, Judge, Water Advocate, SCERA Visionary, Strawberry Grower BY CLYDE WEEKS, JR. Orem children who are told by their parents that they can grow up to be a Governor, a United States Senator, or even the President of the United States, have only to look to the life and career of Orem's Arthur Vivian Watkins to see the proof of that promise. Arthur V Watkins, Orem Citizen of the Twentieth Twen-tieth Century, filled his crowded, and rather lengthy, life with valuable, important and distinguished distin-guished service to his family, his friends, his community com-munity his state and his country. Son of Bishop John Watkins, who had pushed a hand-cart across the plains in the Martin Handcart Company, Arthur V Watkins was born December 18, 1886, in Midway, Utah. As a youth, he often went swimming in the Midway hot mineral min-eral springs and became an expert fisherman on the Provo River. At Brigham Young University for two years, he was a member of the team which own the State Basketball Championship. He taught school long enough to earn enough money to serve a mission in the New York LDS Mission. ATTENDED LAW SCHOOL After his mission, he remained in New York to attend at-tend law school, arranging to live in the Mission Home in exchange for performing custodial duties there. Much later, at 84 years of age, Watkins attended a class reunion at Columbia Law School, where he was honored as the school's most distinguished alumnus. alum-nus. While attending law school, Arthur Watkins met Andrea Rich, daughter of the New York Mission President, Ben E. Rich. They were married in 1913 and moved to Vernal, Utah, where he practiced law for two years. In 1915, Watkins was appointed Assistant Assis-tant Salt Lake County Attorney, and they moved to Centerville. Later, with Watkins suffering from ulcers, ul-cers, doctors advised him to try to earn his living with work less stressful than legal work. Moving his family to Lehi, Watkins became manager man-ager of a 600-acre sheep, grain and alfalfa ranch, Continued on page 4 HK2f I 1ft "'CPfi. N L-asr Hf . VV f. E K'C V": N EW SMACAZI N t an.. - -Jr. - i A 1 . ! j iiniimim iiii ii iiiiii iiim in n n " r Shown on the cover of TIME Magazine, October 4, 1954, during his distinguished career in the United States Senate is Senator Arthur V. Watkins, who was then serving as Chairman of the Select Committee, which reprimanded Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for his disreputable conduct in the Senate. It's not the... uuuuijiiisiiu uvj u iyj uuu It's the... I I mmr i .. 1 .1 If Lamest Screens Digital Sound Never R Rated Films rrt Balcony Stadium Seating Love Seats Cry Room Free Art Gallery a i nn m 1 AIa litis. iHI It. P. p" 1 an VIE 1 III yn1BiSl" ' r I 1ULJL L H -a " . J r-:- '1X7.7 - Show Times Calk r i i limn i pi iitfi rift r a . k ion I Liiiisyu advance f "k HOLIDAY TREAT FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY. ROBIN WILUAMS IS BRILLIANT. A MUST SEE!" Jim Ferguson, THE DISH NETWORK "SMART, FUNNY AND TOUCHING!" -Gwy ScKsndel, ABC-TV "A COMPLETE TRIUMPH! THE MOST MOVIE OF THE M!LLENNIUM! Y 1 Dovid Sheehon, CBS-TV 'AS One robot's l-', .. , 200 year journey , " . to become I ).. , . an ordinary man. iMQisMfcii Willi ii m-m y 1 |
