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Show GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over By Dick Morrison A BUSY MAN 'f ak? o.ny of the lively books giv-. giv-. ing thu history of the automobile industry, and take any of the stories of the early Mormon families fam-ilies in the west. Combine the two, and you'll. come up w.th something very much like Tom Mahoney's book, The Story of George Romney. It is a biography of one of the moat colorful figures in American life today, of 275 pages, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, at $4.00. Any number of Utah people could match the story of the Romney family fa-mily in their own family histories. To go back just one hundred years, to 18G2, Miles Park Romney married mar-ried Hannah Hood Hill, a Canadian girl, who, like him, had made the journey from Nauvoo to Salt Lake as a child. Five years later he became be-came one of the "never more than 3 of the Mormon men who embraced em-braced plural marriage". The Rom-neys Rom-neys had helped colonize St Georg. j When Congress outlawed polyg-; amy in 1885, Miles Park Romney,1 three of his wives and their children child-ren were living in St. Johns, Ariz.' He was a contractor and builder, i had a contract for hauling mail and was editor nd publisher of the Orion Era, a local weekly news-, paper. Overnight he was reduced from the leading citizen of the community to a hounded and hunted hunt-ed man. He and other Mormon pol-lygamists pol-lygamists went to Mexico. i In Mexico, Helaman Pratt, head of a Mormon mission in Mexico City, and a friend of President Por-firio Por-firio Diaz, persuaded the latter to allow the Mormons to establish colonies there. Diaz was happy to have the colonists as a buffer a-gainst a-gainst the Apache Indians. It was there, in the settlement of Colonia Dublan, that George Wilcken Romney was born on July 8, 1907, the fourth son of Gaskell Romney and his wife, the former Anna Amelia Pratt. Gaskell, a son of Miles Park Romney, had gone to Mexico in 1886 with his mother and some of her other children. He was then 14. Later on, he built "a handsome hand-some two-story red brick house, the most substantial in Colonia Dublan", to house his growing fa-1 mily. Revolution and violent political poli-tical troubles in Mexico finally led to the exodus of the Mormons, many of whom finally found their way back to Utah. Before becoming the head of A-merican A-merican Motors, George Wilcken Romney served, as an office assistant assist-ant to former Senator David I. Walsh, of Massachusetts; as an employee em-ployee of the Aluminum Co. of A-merica, A-merica, and as manager of the Detroit De-troit office of the Automobile Man- THESE WOMEN ! By d'Alessio Millard County Chronicle jjFjj ACRYLIC J MAKES INTERIOR DECORATING EASY Doing your home over is not only economicol, but fun, with UNICO Ac-cent Paint. Read these features and you'll know why. 36 DECORATOR COLORS S" AY TO APPLY S. VwBY ROLLER OR BRUSH S ORIIS IN AN HOUR WITHOUT LAP OR . BRUSH MARKS , SINOLI COAT USUALLY S VsCOVtRS ANY BURPACS " " NO PAINTY ODOR CAN BS ICRUBMOV "C; WITH NO DAMAOS TO PINISII BONUS OFFER! An all-purpose 8-quart plastic plas-tic pail for just 25c with the purchase of a gallon of paint this month only. SEE YOUH . . . Branch Mgr. REX WOOD Intorniouiitaiii Farmers Ass'n uafcturers Association, the AMA. He also served a Mormon mission. I Author Mahoney includes a num-' ber of amusing human interest stories Ln his account of Romney's life. One recounts how Senator Walsh, a Democrat, obligingly inserted in-serted provisions for tariff protec-t protec-t on of many items demanded by his New England constituents into the Smoot-Hawiey tariff bill, then turned around and voted against the whole bill. Another tells how Romney's boss in ALCOA agreed to give him two weeks for a honeymoon, honey-moon, provided he would keep r ght on selling aluminum where-ever where-ever he went. It should be noted at this point, that George married Lenore LaFount, after a chase which led from Washington to Hollywood, Hol-lywood, where Miss LaFount went to embark on a movie career. It was, of course, when he became be-came boss of American Motors, that George Romney became a national na-tional figure. This was a big job, and his success at handling It made his name known far and wide, and won the respect of countless people, peo-ple, including competitors and adversaries. ad-versaries. There is no such thing as a small automobile manufacturing manufact-uring company. Making cars is a big business in anybody's language. In the industry there are only big companies, and bigger ones. Amer.can Motors, the company which came into being as the re sult of a merger of the Nash-Kelvi-nator and Hudson companies, had inherited a tradition as old and respected as any in the industry. Tom Mahoney goes into this history at length. I found this part of his book as interesting as I had earlier found Malcolm W. Bingay's book, Detroit Is My Home Town. I guess everybody likes the stories of big-business big-business adventures of the pioneers of the car industry. There may have been an element of luck In the success of the Rambler Ram-bler car. After all, other companies had tried to "feel out" the public with smaller cars during the postwar post-war boom, and had got their fingers fing-ers burned. Right after the war, it was well known that both Ford and Chevrolet had plans for new smaller cars with which to meet the post-war demand. When it developed de-veloped that the public was bent on going all-out in the other direction, dir-ection, for bigness and power, they abandoned these plans. The Dodge company tried putting out a smaller small-er model about that time, with sad results. So it appears that the public was not ready for smaller cars until they had had their fling with big ones. But whatever the explanation, the fact remains that by the time the public began to look more favorably on the "compact" "com-pact" car once more, and the big three had left that field wide open by moving up and out of it, the Rambler car moved in and scored a great success. George Romney got the credit, and he deserved it. too, even if there was an element of luck in it. When he took control of American Motors, he tightened up the whole organ zation, closed inefficient manufacturing units, built up employee and dealer moralein mor-alein general he set the house in order. One interesting sidelight is the story of Louis Wolfson's part in the matter. Wolfson is a Wall Street adventurer who likes to buy- control con-trol of run-down companies and either rejuvenate them or liquidate them. Very often, it is possible to buy control when the price of a company's stock is less than its assets in liquidation, if one has the millions to do it, of course. I He had some such idea in mind I about the time Romney took ' charge of American Motors. For a' time, it appeared that the two were ' reconciled to Romney's idea of rejuvenating re-juvenating the company. Wolfson, however, must have changed his mina, Decause ne "went short on the stock. This proved to be a great mistake, because the Rambler was just taking hold with the public, and Wall Street was bidding the price of the stock up. Whereas Wolfson might have taken a two million profit out his stock, it cost him so much to "cover" the short that this was reduced to only about one m llion. But the real payoff was that, had he simply kept his stock, he might have made some forty million out of it! This is one man who learned that it didn't pay to sell George Romney short. Well, the easy days are over for Amer can Motors. The company is now established as an important unit in the industry. But the easy sales of 1958 and 1959 are past. The big three have blanketed the field with cars of all sizes, and A. M. is doing rather well simply to hold .ts gains. One of Romney's early jobs in public service was as head of a committee to help save Detroit schools from financial disaster. It was in Dec, 1956, that the pres. of the Board of Education of Detroit, De-troit, Wm. D. Merrifield and others called at the American 'Motors building to ask Romney to head a citizens committee to advise the board and win public support for the necessary program. He said, "You couldn't have come to me at a worse time. American Motors needs to start making some mon- v" f Arrifili4 enM "Vnii nin the AMA. You have worked with diverse groups. We are so sure that you are the man we need that we don't care how busy you are. We want a busy man". "You couldn't have found a busier one", replied George. But after giving giv-ing the matter "prayerful consideration", consider-ation", as was his habit, he accepted. ac-cepted. George Romney is, indeed, a busy man, and he always has been. And if he ever gets to be governor of Michigan, and, perhaps. President, Cli fid i their way to Richfield. Parley Overson and Lita Cheel, of i Leamington were dinner guests at ' . l . T I.. A L. . C..n.. i K m The occas on was to celebrate Mrs. j "M Cheel's birthday. The Oversons re- Emery E. Peterson, of Salt Lake ceived word today that their sister City and formerly of Delta, is an- Thursday, March 8. 1962 nouneing the marriage ot his daughter, Miss Mary Peterson, to Donald Curtis Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. W Hard C. Clark, of Salt Lake City. 'ihoir marriage was performed lanilla Moulton in Provo had a fall and broke her arm. Margaret Bradfield of Leaming-.uii Leaming-.uii a:id Lawrence, myself and ag:uer LaWrene went to Las . okus Friday. The occasion was to .e.obraie mother Bradfield's 69th Saturday, March 3. at Elkc Nev oid Jay Bradfield's 24th birthdays, by Bishop L. H. Roseoe. .iieir birthdays are the 28th of Feb. They will make their home in and the 1st of March and we have Salt Lake City. celebrated them every year. So, .iiis year, we decided to go to Las egas. It was beautiful down there, i he temperature was 62". The iawns are green, the elm trees are joining out in leaf and the daffo-Jils daffo-Jils and tulips are blooming. Jay took us for a ride Saturday afternoon. after-noon. : We left the busy city and .hove for miles through Joshua ..actus. The cacti are all in. bud. .ext month they will be beautiful with 4arge white blossoms. Soon we were going higher into the .nountains and we found ourselves at Mount Charleston. Giant pine trees were everywhere and there was lots of snow. It was piled two and three feet high along the high m Fine Arts Club Is Fiitertaiiietl The Fine Arts Club was entertained enter-tained Monday evening, Feb. 26, at d nner and a program at the home of Mrs. Care Stephenson. Mrs. Stephenson and Mrs. Deona Black woie hostesses. 1 he prugram was an interesting review of "Twenty-Seventh Wife", oy Irving Wallace, given by Mrs. Maxme Bishop. Mrs. Estelle Gardner Gard-ner was program chairman. Club members present were Estelle Es-telle Gardner, Lenore Gardner, Evelyn Eve-lyn Robison, Orvetta Nickle, Harriet El ason, Mary Wood, Alta Ashby, Melba Jacobson and Mary Wright. Guests were Maxine Bishop, Loa Black and Helen Hersleff. It Happened In Washington By Mrs. Wallace F. Bennett "I just cleaned out the car's glove compartment, dear . . . Look what I found in it of all things! LAURA BHADFIE1D Young men think of wine, women winning the game. They also play-and play-and song; Older men think of ed Oak City with the score 23-13 Metrical, the same old gal and In favor of Lynndyl. Tonight they Mitch Miller! Congratulations to Karen Ashby. She was chosen "Teen of the Week," last week at Delta High. Mrs. Delbert George went to Salt Lake last week for a medical check-up. Her doctor says she Is doing just fine. Mrs. Sarah Ann Wiley and Lanny are visiting relatives in Provo and Orem. Mrs. Katherine Jones and Tam-nia Tam-nia Jones went to Salt Lake last week. Tommy and Vauna Lue Great-house Great-house Walker and children spent the weekend with Vauna Lue's parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Greathouse. The Walkers were on their way to SanDiego. Don Greathouse, who is employed at Hill Field was also home. John and Joan Johnson Niewin-skl Niewin-skl and daughter, Debra spent the weekend with Joan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curt Johnson. Our scouts and cub scouts played ball last week with ; Leamington played the return game with Lea mington with Leamington winning, 29-17. Kathyf Etaugh, eight-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean E-taugh E-taugh was baptized and confirmed a member of the church Sunday. Their new baby girl was also blessed bless-ed and given the name of Mlchele. The confirmation and blessing was given by their father. Dean. Junior Baird from Richfield brot his wife Enla, son Larry, and new baby daughter, Debra Lynn, over to spend two weeks with Enla's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Wil Though 1592,279 persons rode way. Large groups of people were or walked to the top of the Wash having picnics in the snow and LETTERS . . . ington Monument last year, and children were romping and having though Washington's birthday was trreat time Now the snow didn't ceieoraiea in me iraaiuonai iimii- look too good to us, we've seen so ner y reading of a eulogy to much of it here, yet the fact that Washington by Major General Uly- just 45 minute drive from the city ses s- Grant at the Washington to Mt. Charleston with all Its snow Monument , and by the reading of was amazing. Saturday night we nis farewell address on the floor of all met to Jay's home to celebrate the Senate by Sen. Randolph, the the birthdays and there were Milt most spectacular observance of and LaVaun Peters and son, Roy; February 22nd in the Nation's Ca- Betty and Judd White and child- P'tal centered around the Washing- ren; Lean and Lula Peters and lu" Di"uay aiea mui mn.c children; Pete and Mavis McFee Place in a11 the stores in the area.i and children. Altogether this was On February 21, The Evening! a Dear Mr. Riding: Congratulations for the awards recently presented to you by the Utah State Press Association. Whenever I have an opportunity, I like to read the weekly papers from the State, and I have been very much Impressed with the steady improvement during recent years. These awards, in my opinion, were very well deserved, and I commend you and the staff of the MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE for the fine job you are doing. - Good luck to you during the coming com-ing year. If I can ever be of assistance assis-tance to you in any way, please let me know. Sincerely, Wallace F. Bennett A lumber store offered a power 26 members of the family. A de- Star, Washington's oldest and lar i.uuui umner was servea lo ail oy gesi evening newspaper, pruuuiy mower for 22 cents though' with Rose La Vaun, Betty and Lula. Af- printed a paper containing 164 cherry.tree honesty," it advertised ter dinner the evening was spent 1 pages, the largest week-day edition , that lt WM actuaU ,n t sad citmi n rr cAnffe ,nH nl n in n it mnto.nl avur nnhti.haH in tha IIKl.i'aflp hie-1 . . " I--.... IK1 O ..!. ! . ,1 A t , MIOl,e instruments. There were 3 guitars. a violin, mandolin and harmonica. We really have our own orchestra when we get together. Many tape recordings were made which we enjoyed playing and listening to. It was a wonderful weekend. We came home Sunday by train. Reed Skeem, from Oasis, spent the weekend with Don Bradfield. Mrs. Jane Williams, of Leaming ton, took real sick, Saturday nite. kins. Linda WUKlns was also nome She called her riauphtr r.rnn from Salt Lake over the weekend. Bennett, of Tooele. Grace took her Mr. and Mrs. Louis Overson and mother back to Tooele, Sunday, so grandson Chriss went to Nephi Sat- She could take care of her and be urday to the doctor and to shop, by a doctor. While in Nephi they also visited The children are all looking for- a cousin, mr, anu --virs. veni mur- ward to their 2-day spring vaca- ris. Mrs. Overson's mother and fa ther, Mr, and Mrs. Orson Crouch, of Provo, called there so they visited with them for awhile. Mrs. Crouch is feeling fine now. They were on he'll be a whale of a lot busier. Thanks to Dr. Melvin Lyman for suggesting this book. POLITICAL TALK The Romney candidacy for Governor Gov-ernor and President is not to be dismissed lightly. He is popular, competent, and honest. Eisenhower is said to be "extremely warm in his praise of George Romney", for one th'ng. And Michigan professional profes-sional politicians have all but despaired des-paired of finding a candidate to beat him. They attribute to him a quality of "naive innocence" inno-cence" in politics which they don't know how to beat. On Jan. 5, the Wall Street Journal ran a lead item it-em by Alan L. Otten, which quoted a member of the incumbent Governor's Gov-ernor's staff as saying, "If the e-lection e-lection were today, Romney would sweep the state". Though the Journal doesn't back candidates, but only principles, the article could be taken as a favorable favor-able one. And while Romney, tho' a "big business" man, holds the respect of many labor leaders, the ultra conservative Republicans are dubious about him. Yet, as the article states, "there are some signs of conservative softening in the face of the argument that Romney can win". Well, the Wall Street Journal can be put down as "moderate" in its political views. On the really conservative con-servative side, we have Human Events, which seems to view with d state the prospect of Romney for President. Calling him the "Compact "Com-pact Candidate", Human Events says: "Two months ago, Human Events predicted that, as a result of Goldwater's moving Into first place among possible GOP candidates candi-dates in '64, the liberals would soon seek to develop a dark horse who was distinctly not a conservative. It has happened. Last week, the Modern Republican New York Herald Her-ald Tribune ran a big feature entitled en-titled 'Man from Michigan' Does this mean the Trib has ditched ditch-ed Rocky and chosen as the Modern Mod-ern Republican '64 candidate George Romney?" . Human Events, of course, has eyes only for Goldwater. But a-mong a-mong such Republicans as are not yet ready to take a stand of "Gold- water or nobody", Romney rates pretty high. The religious angle appears. The nation has just elected a Catholic president by a plurality of just under un-der 50 of the popular votes. How would a Mormon rate? The Kennedy forces successfully put over the notion that it was bigotry to vote against Kennedy for religious reasons, but not to thus vote for him. Excuse me from trying to resolve the Implications of that. Just let me think about it. W.U voters ignore the matter of religious affiliation? Will million of Protestants prefer a Mormon to a Catholic? Will the 40,000,000 Catholics st ck together politically? As to what kind of a President Romney would make consider this: when he took charge of A-merican A-merican Motors, the company was somewhat disorganized. Inefficient, and piling up large deficits. He gave it better organization, made it efficient, and created surplusses Now, just what does that sug gest? 3 generations choose Maytag AM Hon. Hope it warms up a little Delta High basketball team goes to state; hope they win all their games. Next week call me and tell me what you have been doing, who your company was and where you have been. Your friends and relatives rela-tives like to read about you. Happy birthday to Kim Jones. Leta Cheel, Rodger Overson, Elec-tra Elec-tra Anderson, Ray Anderson. Mar ia Christensen, Ruth Nielson, and Shelby Overson. Mrs. Eleanor Nielson had a birth- ury i uie paper, a large pan ui , B 7:30 feal d b t for bargain-packed sales that would take place on the morrow. Instead of observing February 22nd as a holiday, the merchants in the Washington area put on their biggest big-gest and most spectacular sales of the year on that day. The bargain hunters got a very early start. Some hardy young shoppers found the bus schedules too late for them. They walked to town before the buses started to running, arriving on the streets soon after dawn, window shopping for best bargains. Some stood outside out-side stores all night. They were lined up outside the stores by 5:00 a.m. I Some of the bargain "come-ons" were 99 cent typewriters, 47 cent used TV sets and "10 cars that George Washington slept In $19 j day party on the 28th of Feb., for, her husband, Clead and Earl Great- house. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Nielson, Mr. and . Mrs. Earl Greathouse, Mr. and Mrs. ' Reed Nielson, Margie Greathouse, ' and Clead and Eleanor and child-ren. child-ren. They all had a nice time. Refreshments Re-freshments were served. I running regularly. Shoppers' spirits were not dampened by the cold and the fog. As the fog cleared in the early afternoon, hundreds of thousands of them made their way to every possible shopping area in both downtown Washington and the suburbs. su-burbs. 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