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Show Vo FEATURES kimt CLASSIFIEDS TV GUIDE tins sMbM lull's at Btif Uu. it if wvei bitif Stti tiit Just mint ne f foj iggtiiiot .b en k V o or C L '. M !h :rfftfc t ate :j Hostin fice resident r V,. .. r1-- Jiimik J l Iff, lml1ffflkra:iiMi"al President Vice Gerald Ford n mi holds a brief ""Hfaf-- press conference on man '4)nMnwlMlltM,'' - the steps of the Jim home in T'emonton Brown Secret while I It t -- s Z Service stays close by J,, Tremonton Family Prepares For A Three Day Stay 4? "IF SOMEONE VICE GO ALL TOLD ME PRESIDENT TO PIECES Gloria Hrown is a typical housewife in not so typical way While other housewives are worrying what to feed their husbands for supper, she's currently worrying what she ll feed the Vice President of the United States when he pays a three day visit to the Brown's home June Mrs. Brown is the wife of Thiokol Corp. executive Jim Brown of Tremonton. The couple have been friends of the Ford's for several years, getting acquainted on the ski slopes of Colorado, an event they enjoy yearly at Christ- mas time. TIIK VICE PKKSIOF.XT. his wife Betty, and possibly a daughter, will spend three days at the Brown's home in Tremonton as part of a scheduled speaking engagement at Utah State University where the Vice President will address the graduating glass. The Vice President will arrive at the Brown's home Friday afternoon after a gruelling day including three speaking engagements in the western states. I know how tired he'll be," Mrs. Brown said at her home this week. "We want to have it real relaxed." The Brown's have entertained Rep. Gerald Ford before but now he's Vice President, a big step up. "So, IT HASN'T bothered me too mu-having him come," Mrs. Brown says "We have gone to extra care... simply because he's the Vice Presh ident." "We've done things we weren't gong to do for five more years," she adds, such as putting in new windows GOING OR HUMPHREY ...HERE AS by Curtis WAS I ALONE WE ENTERTAIN TO AG NEW I REFERE WOULD TO HIM JERRY." Starr and redoing parts of the house. It was last fall when the representative soon to be vice president made a brief visit to the home while in Utah to visit his son. a student at Utah State University. "WE HAD ONLY 24 hours to prepare for that visit." Mrs. Brown recalls. The Browns fed 65 people at a Sunday dinner including newsmen and secret service personnel. "That bothered him so much." she says of the Vice President. "He didn't know we had prepared so he wanted to eat out." She said the new Vice President is extremely conscious of the burden his office places on the people around him. "He's never told anyone no." she said. If someone wanted to speak with 'him about a problem he always made time. That has been a concern of the secret service people assigned to protect him. entertain Vice President Humphrey or Agnew I would go all to pieces." she says. Here alone we refer to him the Vice President as Jerry." she said. But in public "to show him respect" we call him Mr. Vice President " The children have been instructed to be careful how they address i Young Christopher. 8. luis ited all of his friends over to have autographs signed Told by his lather that the family hoped to keep things peaceful for the vice president asked how many friends were coming, young inv Christopher think I've got up." offered: 15 "I or 20 lined him too Having a Vice President of the United States visit your home is bound to have an effect on the kids. too. Jennifer, one of the Brown's daughters is in a dilema too "She really can't make up her mind whether she should go to Lagoon June 8 'Thiokol I)a or whether she should ride In I.ogan with the secret ser vice." her mother said The kids are "so iniprev sed" u ith the secret sen ice. she added stalled new indow s. but no bullet proof glass Mrs limuii laughed 'hristopher reccnth had a mishap that he's not too happ about either kids don't like the teasing they get at school either, she said. One ot the kids recently came homo 'ham in their room in pre paration lor the visit. Chris-'ophe- r did just that including IOI II TO The concerned because W ASH eer an eight by ton color photograph he received with the Vice l'l esidents's signature shortk alter he took ottice. ln triends had convinced him the Brown's had to inM.ill "bullet proof glass in all the windows The had in The oting lad held straighten them-were service men who came to inspect the home prior to the visit decided to look" she recalled with chagrin. The Browns think of their visitors more as the Fords-o- ld friends who they've ben accustomed to calling by their first names. "If somebody told me I was going to secret AFTF.K IMS arrival Friday, the Vice President will be guest of honor at a THAT'S ONE OF the reasons, she will hire a woman to help out during the visit "I d hate to be in the middle of the dishes when they 're ready to go." Of course, everything has to be checked out. Secret thing they couldn't find a place for was to go down the basement stairs. lA'C'K would have it, "that's the first place the In addition to the ice President and his family the Ford's will also play host to a throng ol secret servicemen who are ev or present "They honestly try to stav out of the way." she said "They're so polite and so ihco But then one and mam concern is Mr Ford instance a secret service man might open the door tor the vice president and fail to hold it open for his wile "That bothers their boy so much." she said Entertaining a vice president is no responsibility for the housewife who's always late either. Mrs Brown said. "When they Mhe secret service say they're ready to go. they mean it. and if you're not ready, you're left behind." up, the kids-fi- ve told that any- AS loves French toast." she said And every Sunday morning he loves wattles, fresh strawberry jam and whipped cream So that's what he'll get "Lunch. I'm still thinking about ." she said "Sometimes Mrs Ford uets left behind." she said For That initial visit had its lighter moments, she recalled. When the family finally learned Mr. Ford was coming, each of the children were instructed to help clean the house. With little time to ot the picture under a bathroom tacet '1 he water stamoii photograph is still a pried possession "Oh. he's upset about it because his is the " Mrs brown only one ruined said She is saving the photo to show the Vice President servicemen have already e, ..fc'V i'-Jr- 4 M. and Mrs. Jim Brown, The Vice President and his son. lack A chat -- tor a moment X: checked out the home and the neighborhood once as well as the hired help P'tring the last visit, family members had to wear pins giv en them by the secret service before they could get out of the house, she said. Like many housewives, Mrs. Brown is left with the responsibility of what to feed the Vice President. "He r reception given by Tremonton businessman Jay Dee Harris and his wife and Vr. and Mrs Jim Stone, general manager of Thio-kol'Wasatch Division west ot Brigham ("it v. one-hou- s The Brown's will then host private dinner at home for the Vice President with a few close friends as guests. Saturday morning the Vice President will travel to USU lor the graduation. His wife may also do the honors of cutting the ribbon at the opening ot a new women's cultural center at USU. That afternoon we "don't want to put too many things on him." Mrs. Brown said. "But we want to take him out riding because he likes to ride." The Browns own a farm in the Promontory area. a Sunday, the N ice President-wil- l visit with the President of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City and will then travel to Hill Field to catch a flight Mrs. Until his arrival. Brown w ill have to struggle with those annoyances that everyone such as to wear to the reception and whether a cutting board she ordered will arrive on time. Oh yes, there's also the problem of the family's pet lamb who recently got loose and devoured three well-kerose bushes. plague what dress |