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Show r ySPS . , " ' ' - 1 . ' . v y '. ,s ' , - -- i " x , . .,.,,..1, i , i , 'J- ' ', - !i i m Sunday Herald Community Happenings In Central Utah By MILDRED B. HALL Relative i in Provo have been advised that Mrs. Rachel Simmons Reese, a former resident, now of Saerafento, Calif., left tour Friday for a month-lonof the South Seas. Mrs. Reese said that she had joined an or ganized tour and would be visit ing, Papette, Tahiti, Pago Pago, in Samoa, points in Australia, five cities on the north and 3 Oratory Finalists south islands of New Zealand and Fiji. The group would be sightseeing at many points of interest and scenic beauty ing the tour, Mrs. Ree.se said. and family, of Orem, Including their daughter. Pennie, who is home for the weekend from of Southern Utah at Cedar Cilv, were among boost- ers attending the football game. 0,1 between Urem nd Skyline, a "'K1' S(l,Ho1 wmi-final event for the state A division, held at High-so- n land "'8h Schoul ln Sillt Lnke Mrs. Ruby R. Nelson. Provo, has returned to her home after vacationing the past three weeks in California. Mrs. Nel- has been visiting her daughter and husband, Mr. aiul l Mrs. Marion J. Olsen and her Mrs. Ernest Harding, Provo. granddaughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Russell, all; was hostess Fridav afternoon ufft Mr. 8Sand! to members of the Friendly . . Mrs. Phillip Olsen in Lynwood;An,s,a uu wnu UKVl lu q u l a emoroiucry. and with her sister, Mrs. Mable pursuing Baird and friends at Long The group is instructed by Mrs. "' JXJ 7ZT . 1 Will Speak Beach. Mr. Finalists in the annual Heber J. Grant Oratory Contest will present speeches on subjects Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 10 a.m. In the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse. Lyle Shamo, Hurricane; Steve Gulbransen. Wilmette, 111.; and Noland Dennett, Indio, Calif., were selected from a field of 50 entrants to vie for top hon ors in tne contest. Mr. Shamo a junior speech major will discuss "Life is Too Short. Eternity is Too Long." Mr. Gulbrandscn a junior economics major, will raise the question, "Can any Good Come WORKERS ARE SHOWN unloading 1! wagon loads of sugar beets at the Payson Sugar out of Nazareth?" and Mr. Factory in the top photo, taken about 1914. In the bottom picture, the Payson Sugar FacDennett, a freshman majoring in speech and dramatic arts, tory can be seen with a wagon load of sugar beets beaded for the facility. (Photos courtesy of Dave Huish) will speak on "A Challenge to Our Traditions." A representative of the late LDS President Heber J. Grant's family will present the winner with an autographed triple combination of Church scriptures. The Grant Oratory contest was initiated by T. Earl Pardoe at the request of President Grant KATHRYN D. GROESBECK beet seed $1.80 per shift in the begin By previously the sugar to encourage LDS youth to deFor anyone who happens to for a crop that was planted at ning; but, of course, there were velop oral speaking skills. be nostalgic about the early Church Farm south of Salt Lake no labor unions during this early period. y days in Utah, City. The company still had to go 50 Significant is the story of there is some excellent readwith more the miles factory, not just that of Dr. every machinery ing material in the "Utah Historical Quarterly," Spring, 1966, to Provo, where it had been de- the parent Lehi plant. From a as well as in THE GREAT BAS- cided to erect the factory be- cupping obtained from Keith of the excellent facilities J. Wallentine, director of public IN KINGDOM. Leonard J. Ar- cause o for power. relations, Sugar Co., lington, professor of economics at Utah State University, is the Because of financial difficul- comes a summary of the his ties after the company had suc- tory ot the Payson factory, author. ceeded only in producing some basically just dates and Dr. Gary L. Peterson, assist a clear This material gives statistics. inedible ant professor of speech at Brig molasses, Brigham picture of the problems that Young took over the property, has "When the Strawberry Valley ham Youne University, Mormons the faced were by off the creditors, and un- Keciamation official reprebeen paid was com appointed Project early in their history in Utah as der a public works program pleted in 1913 U and I had hopes sentative from Utah to the Na they experimented to learn erected a factory in what is tnat the irrigated acreage would tional Office of the Committee whether or not sugar beet cul- now Suear House He was con be to on Discussion and Debate. expanded sufficiently ture was practicable in Utah. vinced that could be made justify the erection of an addi sugar The committee is a part of acThe material also includes from the bet. tional factory. E. H. Dyer and the National University Extencounts of the attempts made to Poor Start This is a per n constructed the Co., sion Association. process sugar before the Lehi But the history of the sugar Payson o manent appointment and Dr. for factory strike first achieved its factory industry from then on in Utah Sugar in 1913. The original cost Peterson will travel yearly to of sugar. It tells how, following until the was S600.000. The capacity was the national conference. Part that accomplishment, other fac- brought about accomplishments by the Lehi sug- enlarged to 650 tons in 1915 and of the committee's responsibil in and in Utah tories sprang up ar factory is a history of con- to 850 tons by 1925. ity is to choose each year the other states as well, the Lehi tinuing with disappointments topic for discussion and debate Small District used method being processing financhemical, mechanical, the ' ki all. Because of the location of for high schools throughout cial, administrative not the United Stales. least of them. The only real several factories in the region Factory No More Director of the committee, was the (e.g. Lehi and Spanish Fork) Charles A. Lehi the factory thing accomplished Though Leistner, announced and of the failure of the Straw stands out preeminently, not proof that sugar beets could be the appointment and praised to Valley berry Project expand onlv among the early sugarbeet produced in Utah. Dr. Peterson for his profession1830 efforts were made the irrigated acreage as much By but of Utah, factories al attitude in working with high BUgar the did as anticipated, to found the sugar-ma- k factory also among the early ones of anew not nave a large district to school forensics. industry in Utah, leading America, its days have endea ing draw from.' During the first Before joining the BYU facas have those of the factories to the construction of the Lehi Dr. Peterson was year of operation (1913), 209 ulty in 1966, in Springville, Spanish Fork, factory and the success, after of Wash-o- n 1,473 acres and partment at University farmers planted many heartbreaks and trials and Payson in Utah County. the of the staff Speech tons harvested of sugar 16,553 that finally The Mormons, believing as and tribulations, A native of Ogden, he beets. The factory produced about the first of destrike brought be should that they the B.S. degree at Unireceived they did hundred-pound 66,790 bags of own re- sugar on Oct. 15, 1891, with their Utah and the M.A. of upon pendent sugar. The beet harvest in- versity sources for sugar, began the cheers filling the air at the creased to 48,026 tons in 1914. and Ph.D. degrees at Ohio Lehi factory, men convinced at sugar beet culture in Utah in last that of operation for University. to sugar could be made The peak year a company 1851, organizing the Payson factoiy was 1915, Utah from in beets. purchase seeds from France when 154,431 bags of sugar were and factory machinery from Factory Officials In that year the main Louis Agassiz, American sciproduced. Liverpool. Though the thrill of accomp- 52 days without stop. entist, led an expedition up the ran nsnmem was felt by many, engine Hard Journey The factory did not oper- Amazon in 1865, ln search of ping. fish. be said probably none felt it more keen ate in 1922, and could Something production ly than did Edward F. Dyer, inferior the about quality of dwindled in 1923 and 1924. The Clarence A. the seeds that were sold, but superintendent; was closed permanent assistant superinten factory Granger, to cannot alone words begin in and dismantled in ly and Guy Dyer, describe the journey made by &M; Hugh Dyer 1940. The machinery was disGOT A W. Ingalls, master M. foremen; the machinery to Utah. That tributed to various U and I mechanic; Hubert Dyer, chemfactories and the warehouse journey is a major enterprise ist; James H. Gardner, THING sugar was sold to the Utah in itself. Poultry boiler; and George Austin, field Association. During 12 years of With hardships and financial superintendent, men of the fac worries multifold, the agents tory during its first season of operation the factory extracted CALL 375-105- 9 125,145,000 pounds of sugar." for the early company finally success. AND Offshoot of the Lehi factory, succeeded in reaching New OrThough the early years of o leans from Liverpool after a 1891 to 1898 found the Lehi fac- the Sugar Co., that 29 factories in built or seven weeks' voyage only to be tory grouping for a way to turn time in acquired the irrigated West, has met by an unanticipated heavy the syrup to sugar, from 1899, duty being imposed upon its when the first strike of sugar manufactured more than 160 arrival, much to the financial came, until 1919 the company million bags since the Lehi first began production in embarrassment of the agents. was ! establishing new factories factory 1891. The Mormon Church absorbed in Idaho and Washington Utah, it posAs Brigham Young once said, this obligation, making SEE ME DO MY THING and assisting other companies sible for the company to pro- to establish factories. "There is not the least doubt Then, ceed up the Mississippi River that we can make sugar from CALL 375-105- 9 during the years 1920 to 1939, bv boat, to St. Louis, and then the 1ii factory gradually fell the beet." Unfortunately he was not on .hand to see that done. the Missouri to the outfitting into a period of decline to be point in Kansas. From there the replaced by larger and more agents started across the plains, modern factories. Lehi factory being forced to buy a.t great was eventually dismantled, THANKSGIVING and CHRISTMAS expense 40 gieat Santa Fc some of the machinery being hunfour prairie schooners and moved on to Toppenish, WashAirline Reservations Must Be Booked Earlyl dred head of cattle to make the ington. even scouring journey possible, Work a Problem Many flight arc booked solid now . , . before they the countryside An Important factor in confor the holidays. needed for could find what they nection with the industry was the westward juorney to Utah. the manner in which farmers DESERET TRAVEL has BLOCK spact to: Arrived In Six and laborers whs knew little Bo!m Somehow, again with the help about $30.82 including tax machinery were taught of the Church, the agents and to 74.55 including tax Sotl factories, working manage their valued cargo arrived in Phoenix during each season two 56.70 including tax after Nov. 1852, 10, Salt Lake wasn't high, about Francisco San leav- shifts, Pay 69.30 since months including tav nine nearly Los Angeles 60.22 including tax ing Liverpool, having sent on St. Louis 126.00 including tcx Early Days of the Sugar Industry In Utah Filled With Problems Verla nd Mn. Russell Hansen . 1 Webster. Navy Seaman Recruits Kirk D. Smilh, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith R. Smith, and Eric J. Long, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Long, and Jeffrey M. Bullock. 18. son of Gene C. Bullock, all of Orem, are undergoing nine weeks of basic training at the Naval Training Center ln San Diego, Calif. M. Peterson, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Peterson, Provo, has been assigned as a communications center specialist in Headquarters Company. 8th Logistical Command at Camp Darby, Livorno, Italy. Parents, family niemhr- - and friends were at the Salt Lake Airport on Saturg Mrs. Lloyd Iveri of Edgemont with her daughters, Mrs. l Kennedy, Mrs. Gerald K. Young and Mrs. Jerry Jensen, Provo. were in Ogden on Friday evening attending an " shower given for another daughter, Mrs. Kent Stutz, who also formerly lived in Provo. Ver-np- "event-to-come- Army Specialist Four John to sec Miss Susan Stum off on her journey to Hong Kong, where she will assume her nt day missionary duties. Miss Stum is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stum of Provo. Do you have a news briel or personal item for this column. Call Mildred Hall or 373-856- 3 OPEN EVERY MONDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS UNTIL 9 THIS WEEK ONLY! YOT SMI $P JBL Peterson 1913-194- 0, Appointed Utah Delegate 500-to- Utah-Idah- n. I'VE - Pll Tell You Where You Can See It Utah-Idah- Mass.-Rich- -ard CAMBRIDGE, Strickler, a Harvard junior, Yale Universl hailing ity's decision to admit women: Girls add something." arch-riva- "... FILE CABINET special $29.95 Utah Office Supply I. 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