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Show nyrrr Biking About ELIZABETH HANSON I am going to end my last Biking About with a tribute to the Larsens and Joneses, the kindest bosses any news scrounger ever had. They called me editor lor a year and live months though I never did a thing In the office but hand In my tortured copy lor poor Kathryn to decipher. She never murmured, yet she certainly had the right. Hour alter hour she sat at the justowriter typing every word that went Into the paper, doing a little editing when necessary, m between times she jumpted up to answer the phone or wait on customers. Kathryn handled subscriptions as well as taking her turn every other week, rain or shine or blizzard, taking the paper over the hill lor publishing. Ann had the tough job ol gathering the advertising throughout Carbon and Emery counties. The size ol the paper depends on the amount ol advertising. Sometimes there were tears In her eyes because ol refusals. Ann ran Kathryns work through a machine called a flexowrlter which ground out the columns. She kept the books, sent the billings, and took her turn on the paper express to and from Spanish Fork. Both girls know how to handle four wheel drive. Kimble and Pete pasted upthe columns build the ads, make the headlines and shot the pictures before shooting the entire page with their large three thousand dollar camera. The resulting negative was taken upstate lor burning on a plate, thus forming the pattern for the printing. The offset process Is far more simple than the hot type Kimble learned as an apprentice, under Clarln Ashby. Kimble started to work for Clarln Ashby as a printers devil in 1959. We were starving to death. I had a wile and a baby. The pay was one dollar an hour. He worked one year as a printers devil, two more as an apprentice printer. The printing was the complex hot type which had to be hand t. He built ads Wher ou built an ad in from 1960 on. those days, you had leaned pages. All the pictures were leaded. Each page weighed a hundred lbs. When Clarln Ashby left Castle Dale In 1965, he leased the Emery County Progress Leader to Kimble Larsen. With the help of Fae Thomas, Carol Burdick and Ray Hasslnger, Kimble ran the paper until Dec. 1969. The Doug Wrights leased the paper until July 1, 1972, when the two family operation took over. and Riding to work together, Pete Kimble talked each other Into buying the paper. Their wives were Included, naturally. "We were told we had to do it. We couldnt even get fired, even if we pulled the boner of the year, explains Ann. All through the 7 5years of the Progress the editors have been yearning for a boom In Emery County. Now the boom has arrived, Pete and Kimble are bowing out. The boom Is to blame. The boom Is driving Pete and me out. We either had to get more expensive equipment and go all out on the paper or quit the mine. While it Is nice to own a business, meeting deadlines, having people yeU at you, Is not so nice. ( Yeah, every Thursday morning we take the phone off the hook Injects Pete.) "We are not particularly glad to getoutofthenewpapier business. We just couldnt handle it any longer, said Kimble. Yesterday, Kathryn drove to Spanish Fork for the printing of the final issue of the papier under the Larsen - Jones auspices. The families, as usual, stamped, sorted, bundled and bagged the papers for the five o'clock deadline. The new management had already moved In. The torch has to be kept aflame. Now, the Larsens and Joneses take their place In history for bearing weU the torch of the Heart of Castle Country. Just how good a job they did in comparison to Issues dating back to 1900, I could not fully appreciate until I met the editors through their newsprint, much of It faded and hard to read. I used a half day ploughing through 75 years of Progresses at the Castle Dale Library. The library bought them for $200 when Ray Williams closed out. Since then Librarian Caroline Bott keeps the stacks of bound papers on the shelves about ten feet high. Issues from 1910 until the present time are filed. The reason the old progresses used to be so fat is spielled ready print. Pages and pages of world news, serials, jokes, features, comic strips and features were purchased from the syndicate, the Western Newspaper Union. The Progress stayed thick until Inflation hit the syndicate in 1952 and its operations were suspended. Since then the paper has been diet thin, but local fresh news than the canned variety. The thin paper began In 1952 during Ray Williams reign. In the early 1900s (Haines) the print is small and hard to read, pictures few and details not spared. Haines vividly pictured a young woman, 21, smitten with epileptic fits to the point of being dec1 ared Insane and committed to the insane asylum as though there would never again be hope for her. Electric Bitters are advertised as a medicine to prevent suicide, for fifty cents at the Castle Dale store. This gem was taken from the April 8, A big quilting party at Bishop Robertsons In orangevUle saw some quilting done, large quantities of refreshments consumed, much gossip passed about and the bishop able for chores this morning. Wow, would we ever hear the screams if we published items like that. Another out described how Dockor Fisk pulled and Mrs. George Westover's decayed ulcerated teeth. Another bit taken from a related how column correspondents Marlon Albertson of Emery had a bad eye as a result of being hit with the butt of a wheat bundle, hauling hay. In David williams Kindgom of Emery was printed a prophecy written by Vilate M. Howard August 17, 1912. ( Williams was 22 years old when he became editor) "There is very little coal land now In Emery which has not passed into the hands of capitalists. While we know these mines will be developed and the means of building up the county, we will nevertheless have to pay high prices for coal. m 1915 how to kill a hog was a front page story. A brace of horse thelves run down and Ottesens coal mine opening hit the front page. Also WE WANT YOUR HIDE- -- 12 cents a lb. UP&L paid $10,145 in taxes In 1939. m 1940 invitations were Issued to come uptothe lion hunters camp at joe's Valley for a sample of savory Uon mear, good as veal. m September 10, 1940, fires destroyed the Brasher Hotel In Huntington. Damage estimates to 22 room frame building was $20,000, Mrs. Rueben Brasher lost 2000 qts. of canned fruit. Telephone service was disrupted for two days. The central telephone office and equipment was located In the hotel. Two hundred residents of Elmo and Victor met to restrain the Emery County Board of Education from discontinuing Elmo school In 1940. Ray WUllams used two Inch headlines announcing San rafael Seen as Mighty Oil Reservoir, Rich Uranium ore Found at 1905 Issue: Etnevy County Rafael, Uranium Boom Near Green River, Ore Markets, Coal Boost Assured In Center of County. The headlines peppied up the paper in an ear when little news was breaking and the county needed a rise. Williams edita orial and hobby features displayed superior brand of journalism, only not San paid and aU is lovely. Editor Gets The headlines read Trounced Wilberg gets fine. They certainly came right to the point in those days. ( July 23, 1910) I was touched by the appealing birth announcement printed on the front page of Clarln Ashbys papier. It told about the arrival of a new papoose, their fourth. Also, that being editor, he could piut news anywhere he chose and he chose the front page for the blessed event announcement. ( m days past such front page announcements were common) Clarln ran a neat uncluttered looking paper, not sparing the newsprint. He used mug shots of LaRae Jones, North Emery High correspondent and De Ann Humphrey, south Emery Correspondent. He held regular seminars for the correspondents and conducted regular subscription drives as most of the editors did except Ray Williams. Doug Wrigiht, who leased the papier from ly December 72, gained a measure of fame from his column Your Doggone-WrlghAlso for features on county school teachers. For a time he published a papier thicker than usual but magazine ts. size. remember lean, boyish Kimble and curly headed virile Pete pasting up our paper and making it fit. I remember at election time when attwoa.m.KimblestUl awaited election returns from Emery and Cleveland to be sure the news was accurate. He had about 4 hours sleep before reporting to the mine. Now that the long predicted boom time has arrived with resulting housing, sewer and water, law enforcement, fire protection, and social problems, In every town, a more dramatic type of news is being printed and pictured upon the pages of the official newspaper of Emery County. Emery County, land of dinosaurs and Indians, desperadoes and pioneers, the mountains and deserts, farms and mines, pioneer posterity and new strains arriving I to work the mines and build the power plants, Is finally being both blessed and cursed by the very Industry predicted In 1890 newpapering. All this blend of past and present is a bright scene for newspapering. m the Castle Dale library is a copy er History of Emery County Progress-Leadand its predecessors written by Bruce L. Olsen, Orangeville native now teaching communications at BYU. The book written as a master's thesis covers newpapiering in Emery County from the late 80's to 1965. Read it. It is marvelous. Bruce merits the highest praise and appreciation for his service to Emery Co. County Progress- - Leader Emery publishers Kimble Larsen and Pete Jones announced today the sale of the Emery County Progress to Carbon county publisher Robert Finney and associates. Under the new ownership the progress will retain its name and Emery County emphasis, but will be enlarged and revitalized. The first issue under the new FM PERRON EMFPY MOORE El MO LAURENCE Number 5 will be published Thursday management Feb. 6, 1975. Rosann Davis of Orangeville has been named editor of the papier. Miss Davis Is a native of Emery County and a graduate of Weber state College where she obtained a degree m political science and journalism. At Weber she was a member of WSC Signpost staff and the LDSSA Focus staff. Elizabeth Hansen, former editor of the papier, will remain as social news editor and correspondent. Connie Dzuik of Castle Dale will work as typesetter and office assistant. Mailing will be handled by David Larsen, also of Castle Dale. Finney is publisher and general and manager of the Price Helper Journal. His associates In the newspaper business are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cribb of Camarillo, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wright of Manteca, Calif .; and Clifford cox of Glasgow, Mont. The group also own newspapiers in California and Montana. Kimble Larsen leased the Progress In 1965 and then he and Pete Jones bought it in 1972. With help from their wives, the men have published the papier, but since both are coal miners, they havebeen desirous of relieving themselves of the burden of meeting a weekly newspaper schedule. The history of the Progress and its predecessors Is rooted in the beginning of this century. On sept. 1, 1900. the first issue of the Emery County Progress was jirinted in Price by R. w. and John had Crockett. The Crockett Brothers purchased the print mg plant of the Emery Countv Record from A.E. Jamieson. Mr. Jamieson began the paper in 1899 and went cut of t uslness in less than a year. seven Tie i. rocketts printed only bsue before selling out to llorrance 1 aim , who boosted Lmery County continuously in the paper. David williams, a sprlngvUle native, bouglt the paper in 1911 and ran it for the next 17 years. He tried to get the farmers to grow sugar beets and build a He Processing factory in the county. boosted the salina Cut off, Joes Valley Dam, water works systems, improved schools and electrification of the towns. A brother and sister team from Ohio, Marshall and Enid Roberts, bought the Progress In 1928. Mr. Roberts died in 1933 and his sister managed the papier for two y ears before selling it to Arthur and Jess Saunders of Missouri. It is said Mr. saunders loved three tilings dearly; his wife, the Progress and the cigar always tucked in the comer of his mouth. Castle Dale took the Saunders to its heart and the Saunders reciprocated. Both are buried in the city cemetery. m January 1944 the Saunders leased the newspapier to Harold Grayston of who in turn leased the Salt Lake City, paper after seven months to Mai Brown. He kepit the papier only until 1945 when he sold it to Ray Williams, a school teacher and the first native editor in the history of the V. Xv.fMf', A! t x Members of Ferron Irrigation Co. lay pipe in North Ditch. San Rafael SCD is a sponsor of Ferron Watershed project. I -- Si newspaper. Clarln Ashby of Duchesne County bought the papier in 1956. He also published the Green River Leader and consolidated the two in 1963. Thus the Emery became the Emery County Progress County M: Progress Leader. Kimble Larsen worked with Mr. Ashby on the Progress from 1959 until Ashby left Castle Dale in 1965. 3r - War New editor has irresistable scoop - beauty and brains The girl who always read the newspaper first thing has become the youngest editor in the history of her home county papier. admits lovely "Oh, Im excited, Roseann, 21 years old, "I've always wanted to work on the Progress since I was a little girl. Now that her desire has been fulfilled, she has set the goal for the all the Emery County Progress-Leade- r; news that is news, written accurately, clearly and fairly. and Roseanns diversified talents pleasing personality fit the image as a career woman in communications. She has completed requirements for a major in political science and double minors in history and communications at Weber state College. Intensely interested in world government, she plans in time to return for graduate study, building a thesis about world government. On the local level ideas for editorials boil in her fertile mind. Rosann Davis, bom Oct. 11, 1952 to Leland and Cleo Fail Davis of Orangeville has three brothers, Paul, an engineer; Max, a miner; and teenage Frederick, (Ricky). The much adored only girl in the family has always been an excellent and active student throughout school days at Orangeville Elementary, South Emery Junior school and Emery High school. At she was reporter for the Thespian Club, in plays ( did a convincing drunken lady scene) in debate and student body historian. She claims she usually wrote school articles no one else would do. A top notch secretary, Rosann worked part time for Principal Kinder. During her senior year she served as scribe for Patriarch Hal Cox. After high school graduation in 1970, Rosann attended sno College for a year. The snow CoUege forensic team of which she was a member reached semi-fina- ls in the extemporaneous division of the National speech Contest. When her father died suddenly of a heart attack March 1, 1973, Rosann returned home to be of comfort to her family and take a quarter of schooling at the College of Eastern Utah. Later she returned to Weber state. Outdoor enthusiast Editor Davis digs fishing, camping and ice skating. A skilled seamstress, she is finding out that sewing and writing do not mesh well, she has opted for writing. Watch for Rosann. Camera in hand, she is apt to pop up anywhere the newsing High ECHS is promising. r" New office hours wUl be 8;30 a.m. to 5;30 p.m. Monday through Friday. ROSEANN DAVIS Art class An art class will be taught at Lmery County High school as partof the community school Iirogram already underway. Tne class will be taught by Jean Curtis of Orangeville every V ednesday night at 7 p.m. in the ECHS school library. There is a $10 fee for the class. Elder Patterson to go Gold and Green Ball on mission Elder David 1 rlk Patterson of Castle Dale has been called to serve a mission in Melbourne Australia. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Vilen P. Patterson and has four brottiers, Scott, Brian, Craig and Todd and three sisters, Brenda, Julie and Lisa. Y X A, .is. Elder David Erik Patterson Water rushes from completed Millsite Dam. san Rafael SCD was a sponsor and promotor of Ferron Watershed project. Conservation has grown in lmery Thirty six years have passed since the movement came to Conservation Emery County. It began with the organization of the Huntington river, and south Emery soil Conservation District. In 1959 they were merged to form the san Rafael Soil Conservation District. During their many years they have been an active force in promoting sound conservation practices throughout the county. The conservation movement has grown from a few farmers who were concerned about wind and water erosion on their farms, to Include almost everyone being concerned about the conservation of ourtotal environment. During the past year the San Rafael SCD has given assistance to individuals, groups and units of governments onawide variety of conservation work, ranging from an inventory of the recreation sites in the County, to help with saline spots on city Soil during 1974 include the following men; Paul Crawford, chairman; Hugh Behling, Vice chairman, Merlin Geary, secretary; Rex Bunderson, member; Kent stilson, member; Ellis Wild, member; Lynn Guymon, member. Listed below are some of the activities of the Soil Conservation District during the past year. The SCD has been actively supporting a Resource conservation A Development project for the southeastern Utah planning unit. This is a self-heprogram that helps rural areas to better their way of life through government helpand their own efforts. This project is well into the planning stages, and st',,1d become a reality within the next few years. The san Rafael SCD is a sponsor of the Muddy creek A Ferron watershed projects. The muddy creek watershed project came a little closer to reality this year as preliminary planning and environmental assessments were done on the project. The SCD was involved in several meetings during the year regarding the preliminary work on the Muddy. The Ferron watershed project continues to progress according to schedule. This year 648 feet of pipe was put in the North ditch, and the King ditch was piut in a pipieline. The distlict, assisted by the SCS, made a recreation inventory of the county during the early part of a naztonal effort to locate aU pirivately owned recreation enterprises In each county nationwide. Recreation needs for each county were also lp deadlines m order to facUitate more efficient production of the Progress a new deadline schedule has been adopted to become effective Immediately. Social News Friday, 5 p.m. Correspondents News Monday, 9 a.m. General News Monday, 12 noon Legal notices Monday, 12 noon Display advertising Monday, 12 noon Want ads Monday, 5 p.m. ' 1srririii';ii' lots. District officers "WeU Done. Next, a spieclal thanks to our town correspxindents, past and present, for their contributions from their respective towns and hope you continue on with the new publishers. And also to Dorr Hanson, Greg Chapman, Elayne Hedin, Lois Patterson, Jean Rhodes, Fae Thomas, Lucy Nielsen, and others, "Many Thanks. To our wives, Kathryn and Anne, a special, special, "Thanks for without them there would be no weekly paper. We ask the readers and businessmen to support the new owner because the paper wUl stUl be Your Emery County Paper and we know it wUl be Improved considerably under the ownership of Bob Finney. to you, our readers, who keep the paper And "Thanks alive with your subscriptions and who say, by subscribing, I want a County paper. all-gi- NTINCTON lmery County Progress lender changes hands This issue wUl be the last Progress being printed by the present publishers, Pete Jones and Kimble Larsen and it gives us an opportunity to tell some pieo pie where to go! First of all we would like to tell Elizabeth Hanson, the Progress Editor, to go straight on furnishing the paper with the outstanding writing that she has furnished in the past. Many, many readers have told us of the enjoyment she has brought to them in the articles she has written. Mrs. Hanson is an outstanding woman, not only in writing for us, but also in her community and we wish her well in whatever she chooses to do and we say "Thanks Elizabeth for a job, The Cleveland ward Gold and Green Ball will be held on Feb. 1, 1975. in the Cleveland school gymnasium. The theme for the dance is "Love Me For a Reason and Easy Street Is the orchestra. The dance will start at 8;30 p.m. and the floorshow wiU be presented at 10;00 p.m. rl The floowshow will consist of an dance, a coupile dance, and presentation of the theme song. The dances are under the direction of Julie smith and Mr, and Mrs. Lamond Gardner. Fveryone is invited to attend. I castle Country Thursday January 30, 1975 Volumn 76 PJlany ThcmEcs New of L ANT) Rf ER GREEN 1 OTl E At E ORANwEV ILLt 1 testify. I wasnt too impressed with the papier pxit out by the brother and sisters, Roberts team. Editor Jesse Moffitt headlind a new story Involving himself and Carl Wilberg. Wilberg objected to a story listing family troubles as the reasons he has resigned as president of the Castle Dale Town Board, without warning, Wilberg struck Moffitt, who was unloading a press at the time. They scuffled for a few moments. "We landed on our back with the other fellow too close for comfort, Moffitt wrote in the papier. "Friendly hands stoppied the tussle at this point and we gathered ourselves up somewhat worse for hard usage. We swore out a complaint and at the trail Wednesday Mr. Wilberg drew a fine of $20. This, of course, he mr Heart HI enough. The flavor of each editor Is evident in those copies of by gone Progresses. Just from looking at them I could tell the Saunders led out with the best early paper and never relaxed their quality. The Saunders were Christian Scientists who related well with the Emery County Mormons. They fostered the Lions Club in Castle Dale, boosted the academy and never did leave Castle Dale as their obits of A ( He was bom in California and received his early education in Santa Cruz. lnl9C8 and he went to Samoa with his family spient three and a half years there. He graduated from cedar City High school. He attended college at southern Utah state where he majored In electronics. He is now working at American Coal co. February 8 is the date he enters the mission home and he leaves for Australia on February 12. & listed. During the year the SCD updated their long range program of work. This program lists the piroblems within the county and ways that they can be solvea over thenxt several years. Several members of the district have been engaged in the trial plantings of new of grasses. These include varieties Brome grass, Orchard grass and Fescue. Under the program new varieties of grass and other plants are compared to established varieties for palatability, regrowth, and other characteristics. Over the years many new varieties of plants have been developed, through this program. The soli survey of the county countinues to receive wide use. This Is a valuable tool for anyone Involved with the soli, from contractors to farmers. The local SCS office has a limitiKl number of these on hand, and will help with any needed inter pretation. Bill Jones of Ferron was named as the outstanding farmer for the district for the past year. He was honored, and received a plaque at the Utah Association of soil Conservation Districts annual convention in St. George. At this conention the SCD was also honored for outstanding work In conservation. During the year the SCD received 6077 hours of assistance from the soil Conservation service. This Included 3,096 hours within the Ferron andMuddy creek watersheds, 200 hours on snow surveys, and 3,000 hours on other conservation work. There are presently 587 opie rating units within the san Rafael SCD. Of these, 355 are coopierators with the district and 346 have conservation plans on their farms. During the year 248 individuals, 16 groups and 6 units of government received assistance from the soil Conservation service. District board members spient oer 2,000 the hours of donated time to further conservation work. Some of the cons rvation work done during the past year include; 2,150 feet of irrigation pipieline, 1,100 feet of canal lining, one sprinkler system, 25,000 feet for of fencing, 6,700 feet of pipeline stockwater, 98 acres of land drained, and 3,800 acres of propierly used pasture. Dur'ng the year Gerald Jorgensen who has been the District Conservationist for several years with the SCS was transferred to Provo, and Lyle Reynolds came from Coalville to take his place. The San Rafael soil Conservation Dist. realizes that there are many problems within the district yet to be solved. ith the coming industrialization of the county challenges must be met regardmg the use of water, and water and air pollution. While not directly connected to conservation, predators are also a problem, as are noxious weeds. The district hopies to continue to be an active some in conservation and to meet the problems of the future with the knowledge that they can be solved. P.T.A. The Executive committee of the Emery County High School PTA met Monday to finalize plans for an upcoming meeting for the general public. This meeting will be held on Wed. Feb. 19 at 7;30 p.m. There seems to be a lack of communiand cation between parents, teachers, students in our area. This break- - down in communicatons causes many problems at the school such as excessive absenteeism, much of which is "stuffing., poor discipline, and less preparedness, all of which lead to a lack of understanding, and a lower quality of education. Is this due to students lack of effort, teachers lack effort, or parents lack of effort? Perhaps a combination of all three. Are you interested in your childs future' Are you interested in the quality of education he is receiving or accepting. Do you care whether or not the teachers feel right about the way their teaching is received? What causes this lack of communication? What can be done to resolve the problem? Come out on Feb. 19 at 7;30 p.m. and help with some solutions. |