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Show L 1 JP7 t Ui j T K7T i w. Serving East )uab County June day, June 12, at the county courthouse. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and all Republicans in the county are invited, says Neal Menlove, county chairman. Delegates to the state convention will be selected and those attending will work on a county Republican constitution. County convention delegates from East Juab County, as selected at recent mass meetings are: first district Betty Paxman, George Paxman, Ida Brough, Arnold Brough, JoAnn Summers, Dave Summers, Nita Park, and Russell M. Bender. Russell Nephi second district Griffiths, Jane Jepson, Carla Nephi Ogden, Alice Belliston, Wes Jepson, Glenn Greenhalgh, Miles Ogden, Lynn Brough, Diane Brough, and Lucille Carter. Max Nephi third district Orme, Natalie Orme, Betty Motes, Ella Howard, Lynn Wright, Kenna Lee Winn, and Janet Wright. Nephi fourth district Gary Tolboe, Katherine Snow, Nancy Champlin, Claude Lomax, Evelyn Lomax, Leon Winter, Cary Peterson, Renee Peterson, Don Eyre Sr., and Kirk Wright. Levan district by Vance P. Gibson The days of steam engines and clicking telegraph instruments are now gone, but they live on in the heart of Norman Mackey of Nephi. Mackey served the railroad industry for 43 years as a Gaylord Swim, Golden Mangelson, Don Vierkant, Marion Wankier, and Vern Mangelson. telegrapher and railroad agent, 41 of those years with the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Born in 1903 in Mountain Fork, Arkansas, he was the youngest of four children. He entered Pecks School of Telegraphy in Topeka, Kansas around 1927. It was under Old man Peck's" Mona district Bryce Lynn, Sarah Neilsen, Calvin Neilsen, Glen Gooch, Milton Neilsen, Betty Ellertson, and Emily Jones. Nephi revenue sharing meeting is Wednesday night daughter's A public meeting to discuss Nephi Citys use of revenue sharing funds has been set for next Wednesday, June 11. The meeting will be held at the city hall at 5 p.m. According to Faye Greenhalgh, the city recorder, the city proposes to use the funds for the purchase of the old Juab High School vocational building, which they will remodel for use as city One class in each age group will be held each week. Girls in grades one through three will be taught on Mondays, beginning June 9. Fourth through sixth graders will meet on Wednesdays, beginning June 11. Girls in grades seven through nine will be taught on Fridays, beginning June 13. All classes will begin at 9 a.m. on the old JHS football field. Participants must sign up before June 13. tion may call Judy Jensen at or Nadine Nielson at 4. JHS, JMS summer band will start Monday morning Both middle school and high school summer band will start next Monday, June 9, 1980, according to Kay Bassett, director. High schools band students in grades 9 through 12 will meet at the new high school band room at 6:30 a.m. The girls will learn basic high step and military marching, hand actions, and different styles of guiding. Those attending may pay $1.50 e each week or a charge of one-tim- $9. The groups will march in the Ute Stampede parade. Those wishing more informa Seventh and eighth grade band students will meet at the band room at 8 a.m. on Monday. Beginning band students may make special arrangements for tutoring from Bassett. Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 4, 1980 for Read William Smith, 61, who died Saturday, May 31, 1980 at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. Smith was born April 1, 1919 in Nephi to Walter K. and Emily Belliston Smith. He married Rhea Black April 26, 1948. The marriage was later solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple. Smith was a member of the LDS Church. At the time of his death he was an assistant clerk for the Nephi Sixth LDS Ward. He had been an employee of NRP, Inc. for 30 years. He served in active combat duty during World The pool will be open from 1 to 9 p.m. each day except Sunday. Those under 12 years old will pay 50 cents. Those 12 years of age and older will pay 75 cents. Family plans are being sold at $20 a month. Party rates are $20 per hour. of works. The telegraphers had to keep track of where the trains were at any given moment. The railroad men would then relay that infor- - Diane Wilkey, Tammie Epperson, and Tonna Liddiard. Bender, Three area residents graduate from Utah State University Three received May 31 of Utah former Nephi residents bachelors degrees at the commencement exercises bake sale, dinner, auction Saturday Steven W. Sperry is The Nephi Sixth LDS Ward will hold a bake sale, dinner, and Roast beef will be served at the dinner, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tentative prices have been set at $2 a plate for adults, $1 a plate for those under 12, or $6 per family. Those attending should bring their own dishes. An auction, featuring a professional auctioneer, will be held following the dinner. Dam trip Tuesday The Nephi Second LDS Ward MIA will hold a boating party at Yuba Dam next Tuesday, June 10. Those attending should meet at the church at 5:15 p.m. with condintributions for the ner, says Bishop Joseph White. The ward will furnish the drink and cookies. pot-luc- k i V J railroad the Sixth ward will hold Second Ward MIA will make Yuba Read W. Smith HU telegrapher, Mackey says. Most rail lines are not like highways. On highways, one lane of traffic goes one direction, the other lane of traffic goes the other direction. If you had all rail traffic going one direction all the time, says Mackey, there wouldnt be any problem, but thats not how it K. Bowles, whose degree is from p.m. brothers, James W. Smith, concern the college of humanities, arts, and social sciences. Desk Nephi. was at Vine Bluff a Vista, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City, to Caliente, Nevada. In 1949, he went to work at the Nephi office of the railroad, where he served as telegrapher and freight agent. Days in the railroad stations were not easy, says Mackey. Phones were ringing, the telegraph was clicking, and things were very busy. You almost had to be able to do two things at once, says Mackey, who says he knew one telegrapher who could talk on the phone and copy train orders at the same time. Mackey says man adapts to what he has to do. Train orders were the first attendants are Diane Life guards are Clayton Sampson, Debbie Prisbrey, Margaret Brown, and Russ J. Bender. sisters, Addie S. Howard and Margaret S. Heckle, both of Burial n went to work for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1929. He worked at railway stations all up and down the line in the railroads Provo subdivision, from Buie State University. According to the USU news service, they are Marrian Boswell Wood, who graduated with a degree in education; William Bradley Vickers, who received a degree in engineering; and Layne auction this Saturday, June 7. All will be held at the ward church at 351 North First West. The bake sale will begin at 5:30 War II. Survivors are his wife, of Nephi, and six children Claudia S. Stilson, Michael R. Smith, Gary E. Smith, Wayne K. Smith, Tamara A. Smith, and Judy Smith, all of Nephi. Also surviving are five grandsons; three Joseph L. Smith, and Paul L. Smith, all of Nephi; and two The Nephi City swimming pool is scheduled to open this Monday, June 9, says Russ J. Bender, manager. 623-176- 4 Cemetery in Nephi. i;v, ffJ 1980 should open Monday Interested persons may call the for furhigh school at ther information. Funeral held Wednesday for Read W. Smith i .CO 55UT.I Nice Place to Live! Swimming pool 623-159- 9 623-050- tutelage that those elusive dits and dahs of the American Morse code started to make sense in the young mans brain. While the other guys left after school to go dancing, I stayed at the school to practice the Morse code, Mackey says. The main telegraph line from the railroad came right into the school, and you could hear everything that was going on all up and down the line, the former UP agent said. Mackey was soon a good telegrapher, and he was sent to Valley Falls, Kansas to serve as an apprentice on the Santa Fe railroad telegraph line. Following his apprenticeship at Valley Falls, Mackey was sent to Dodge City, Kansas. He then JHS ProVita will sponsor marching clinics The Juab High School ProVita will sponsor a marching clinic, beginning next week. ' T Speed, accuracy were goals of Norman Mackey, former UP telegrapher GOP will hold county convention June 12 Juab County Republicans will hold their convention next Thurs- 5, A 'I J t Westminster Col- lege business grad A 1971 graduate of Juab High School was one of nearly 265 seniors to graduate from Westminster College in Salt Lake City on Saturday, May 24, 1980. Steven W. Sperry, the son of William and Beth Sperry of Nephi, was awarded a bachelor of science degree in business administration and economics. Sperry works as an officer on the Nephi City police force. Tim McPherson graduates from UTC Provo-Ore- m Missing from last weeks list of Utah Technical College graduates was that of Tim McPherson of Nephi. McPherson earned a certificate of completion in business machine repair at the Provo and Orem Institution. His grade-point-avera- was 3.8. Tim is married to the former Sherrie Ross of Nephi. They have four children. Nephis Norman Mackey holds red signalmans lantern he used in his career with the Union Pacific Railroad. To the left, on the desk, is a an old telegraph relay, and to the right is a Vibroplex telegraph key. mation to the dispatcher, who local rubber products manufacwould send back the train orders turer, in those days Thermoid. If directions for the trains. The those orders were inaccurate and orders would list what sidings to the plant made up fan belts or whatever to the wrong specificapull off on, when to start, when to stop, etc., to keep the tions, the Western Union could be rail traffic moving. sued, Mackey said. As is very apparent, the train The telegrapher studied orders had to be copied accurately typewriting at LDS Business Colif the railroad was to run lege in Salt Lake City, and used a smoothly, and Mackey took pride typewriter to copy the in being accurate. I can send and of the telegraph inwords receive the code at strument. As with all good the per minute, telegraphers, he didnt copy a lethow fast not but ter at a time, but the words and its you says, can send or receive, but how acsentences just flowed into his curate you are! head, much as if someone were The Nephi Union Pacific speaking to him. He always copied the code Railroad office also served the town with Western Union about a line behind the telegraph instrument. It wasnt any good, telegraph service, and Mackeys he said, to copy directly from the accuracy also paid off in service to the Western Union. Many line because youd anticipate times he would send long press what was going to be said, and dispatches to the Salt Lake sometimes youd be wrong, Mackey said. newspapers from local corand those dispatchrespondents, Technology soon began to bring es had to be accurate. He also change to business, and the and railroad sent intricate copied industry was no excep- Please turn to page two manufacturing orders for the two-wa- y "click-click-clic- 1 k I 25-3- 0 Bible church plans special speaker June 12-1- 5 Rev. Ira Ransom of Brigham City will speak at special meetings of the Community Bible Church of Nephi next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The meeting Thursday night will be at the Nephi Elementary School. Friday and Saturday meetings will be at the Levan Courthouse. All the meetings will begin at 7 p.m., says Pastor Dennis Whitworth. Ransoms message on Thursday will be How Trustworthy is the Bible? Friday evenings message will be How to Get More Out of Your Bible Reading." Ransom will give Guidelines for Understanding Your Bible" at Saturday ses- sions. The Brigham City clergyman will also speak at a special Father's Day church service at 1 1 a.m. on Sunday, June 15 at the Nephi Elementary School. Lee iuiworlh will provide V r special music for all the meetings. Ransom has been establishing independent Bible churches in Utah since 1956. The public is invited to attend all the meetings, Whitworth says. Four area residents file for Juab School District board seats Four persons have filed for seats on the Juab School District Board of Education, according to the Juab County Clerks office. Bryce M. Lynn and Karen R. Newton have filed to represent precinct No. 1; Dona McPherson has filed for the precinct No. 2 seat; and Jerry A. Bosh has filed to represent the third district. Lynn, McPherson, and Bosh are incumbents. The deadline for school board filings is June 25. f i I v |