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Show The Payson Chronicle, August 16, 1989, Page 2 Bus Spencer Continued from Page 1 He began working as an institutional cook at the County Infirmary between Springville and Provo. Baking twenty loaves of bread each morning and preparing enough food for 55 to 85 people taught him a great deal about cooking. He also worked a year at Provo Bakery before he and his brother Harold opened a potato chip factory in Provo. "We called them Spencers Vitamized Potato Chips," he says, "because we left part of the peel on them, and thats where all the vitamins are. They were really fine potato chips and it wasnt long before we had half the business in Scottish Festival Days Set for 25-2- 6 August There will be a gathering of the clans this year at the sixth annual The acPayson Scottish Festival Days to be held August tivities will take place in the shady atmosphere of the park and will feature different aspects of clans, Scottish tradition, and heritage. Clans planning to attend this years celebration include Gunn, McClellan, McNab, MacKay, MacLeod, MacLachlin, MacLaren, and Graham, with many others expected. If a Scottish family name is not found in a direct clan, such as Gunn, then it may be "sept" (linking to the main branch). Many different "sept" names may be associated with a single clan. This close association may have been the result of small families seeking the protection of a more powerful clan. In some cases, families served a specified function for their chief. A Scottish clan chief called his members together for scheduling period meetings or "gatherings" of their followers and family members. First they would consider and select those most fitted for leadership in peace or in war. The second reason for gathering was to evolve and enhance clan identity by giving members an opportunity to meet, share news, or plan military strategy-a- ll accomplished while . thpy sang, danced, played their traditional pipes. This strengthened loyalty and morale. The clan system began with a need for personal safety and protection from encroachment. The nature and topography of their homeland, with its many mountains, river valleys, glens, islands, and rugged sea coast, divided the population into little communities. Thus, each district became a more or less autonomous state, headed by a chief, always a dominant personality and a leader of men. Each clan has its own identifying "tartan" or pattern by which its members could be recognized. They each had their own war cry or slogan, its badge or heather, pine, or other plant, and its own distinctive pipe music. Each clan also had a particular meeting place where members assembled at the summons of its chief. Because of intense clan solidarity, members rarely married outsiders, hence clansmen were usually bound to one another by ties of blood as well as ties of common interest. While these double ties strengthened individual clans, it also tended to advance rivalry with other similar clan units and feuds and rival clan clashes were common. But, in spite of inter-cla- n enmity, whenever the land of Scotland was threatened, regional animosity was put aside and the clans united in defense of their mutual homeland. The history of Scottish dignity and forthrightness is exemplified in the Indian Mutiny in 1857. General Sir Colin Campbell was sent from Britain to relieve Lucknow. Two thousand Sepoys held a fortress which wave after wave of punjabi soldiers stormed, only to be slaughtered. Finally, there came the command, "Bring forrit the tartan!" The 93rd Highlanders breached the fortress (and won six Victoria Crosses doing it). Even then the word "tartan" signified the Scottish Highlands and, in fact, everything good about Scotland. This project is jointly sponsored by a grant from the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. 25-2- 6. t Conditioning, which he later sold to Dick Moore and is now Moore Sheet Metal: In 19 6p the Spencers bought the buildold ing at 67 North Main, and for three years they ran both the furniture and the heating business. Utah and Sanpete Counties. Those potato chips were as good as anything thats ever been on the market because of the way we processed them and cut them so thin." But he was also working -two jobs and when the cost of potatoes and cooking oil went up, he sold his interest to his brother. Then he and Maxine opened the Dinerette, which they would run for about five years, from 1936 through 1940, at a time when you dinner or 55 could buy a cents and a hamburger for a dime. After selling that business, Bus went to work for Smiths Brothers Heating and Air Conditioning, located just across the street of the Dinerette, where the old Chronicle office was before it burned down a few years ago. He learned the heating and air conditioning business well, and went to California for a while, working for East Bay Sheet Metal Company. After his return, he began working for Fuller Company, which was helping build Geneva Steel Plant. Upon the finishing of the plant, he was hired by Geneva to work in central maintenance at the sheet metal shop. By 1941, he and Maxine had bought the. old Simmons farm on West Utah Avenue and began remodeling their home there. By 1947, he had gone into the heating and air conditioning for himself, starting Spencers Heating and Air The Payson Chronicle South Main Payson, Utah 12 465-92- 21 PublisherEditor Michael Olson Office Manager Jennifer Olson Dixon-Taylor-Russ- ell By 1968, Bus had become bishop of West Ward after serving in several bishoprics prior to that. Since then hes served fifteen . years in stake high council positions. In 1950 he served as President of the Payson Chamber of Commerce and also played prominent roles in the local Kiwanis Club and the Junior Chamber of Commerce, winning a Distinguished Service Award from the Junior Chamber one year. Somewhere amid all the different kinds of work Bus has done, he also worked, fittingly enough for the Onion Days Grand Marshall, in the onion fields of some of the biggest onion producers in Payson history: Charlie Cl o ward and Charlie Gale. He weeded them, thinned them, and topped them. "They were sweet Spanish onions," he recalls, "the big yellow ones." With all the community, business, and church activity, Bus and Maxine also found time to raise four children: Claudine Benson of Spanish Fork, Stan Spencer of Payson, Blaine Spencer of Orem, and Marcene Warren of Draper. The Payson Chronicle (UPS 424-16- 0) is published each Wednesday at 12 South Main, Payson, Utah. Second class postage is paid at Payson Post Office 84651 and entered as second class mail. Postmaster, send address changes to Payson Chronicle, 12 South Main, Payson, Utah 84651. The Huish Theatre Now Playing Peter Pan at 7pm and 9pm Adults and Students $3.00 Children 11 and under $1.00 Senior Citizens $2.00 |
