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Show Page MAKCII THE JOURNAL 12 (( DESCRIBES SCHOOLS IN GRANDMOTHER'S DAY , ),) MA Sugar Bowl of Davis County Just west of the town of is a giant sugar bowl Mrs. Nancy Johnson, Verdeland Park, who taught in Utah schools when they were tures, tells students of the Verdeland Park first grade how' it was in those days. Mrs. Nancy Nebeker Johnson is the class, as she recalls, the thought of the rough treatment her male predecessor had received, stirred misgivings in the back of her mind, and caused her to think with forboding upon the snowball treat- her name and she is 70 years of age. She carries her years gracefully, and it seems that she is old only in wisdom, and wealthy with an accumulation of years of experience, crammed with rich adven- ment. ture, and worthwhile achievements. One student, a big strapping Mrs. Johnson has a sparkle in of 18, soon stood out as a boy her eye, and when she talks she most source of trouble, Mrs. likely reveals a sharpness of mind and Johnson One day when he a retentiveness of memory you had failedsays,. to give sufficient heed would expect to find in a high to his lessons, I instructed him to school girl. remain after school. She recalls her experience as a When school was over for the school teacher in Piute county in the lad started to follow the 18S0. The school house was located day, other students out of the cabin, in what was then known as Box to find Mrs. Johnson blocking only Creek in Grass Valley, and was a the door. one room log cabin, with rough All the other students were wooden benches and tables for furand an niture, open fireplace as the standing around waiting to see only source of heat and light. She what would happen, recalls Mrs. went over there from Richfield, Se- Johnson. I looked him in the eye vier county, to serve as a substi- and firmly stated that the afterschool instructions were still in tute teacher for one year. force. There were 40 students in the It was a critical moment for Mrs. class, some of whom were older Johnson. I Mrs. The boy could have picked than was, Johnson recalls. her Mrs. Johnson was 10 at the time. up and set her aside with one hand. Instead he looked at her for At first, Mrs. Johnson relates, a moment and returned to his seat. Mrs. Johnson had a long talk with him, and thereafter he become a first class student. I found out that he had merely been a victim of misunderstanding, Mrs. Johnson states. All he required was a little friendliness and sympathy to straighten him out. Shortly after this, the boy was killed in a fall from a horse. All grades, from the first to the eighth, were taught by Mrs. Johnson in the school house. Each class would take turns receiving lessons on the front bench. Mrs. Johnson was born of pio she was a little hesitant about taking over the class. The previous teacher had been a man, and the kids, when properly irked had had a tendency to forcibly escort him through the door, deposit him into a snow bank, and thence to roll him up into a snowball. There was nothing compulsory . about schooling then. Those attending did so when and if they had the time, and if they were so in-- J dined. Sometimes second and third ; grade students were eighteen years j of age and fully grown. So when Mrs. Johnson took over j ; 4 1 I j : i ? i ? $ ( one-roo- m ENTRY COUPON one-roo- m log struc- neer parents in Richfield. Her mother crossed the plains with the second company in 1847, learned to speak the Indian language and became employed an an interpreter. Mrs. Johnson is quite fluent with the Ute language herself. She recalls some experiences she had with the Indians when she was a child. One that stands out in her mind is the time when her brother traded her to an Indian for a horse, as a practical joke. The difficulty arose when the Indian failed to treat the transaction as a joke. He came around, with terrifying solemnity, to lay claim to his property which, he pointed out, was Mrs. Johnson, under the terms of the agreement. It took a lot of fast talking to convince the Indian that it was all a joke. Mrs. Johnson tells of the Indian medicine man who wandered around plucking leaves off trees and tasting them to determine if they were suited for the medicine pot. When he had gathered a sizeable assortment of leaves, he would boil it into a brew, and proclaim it the panacea for all sorts of aches and pains. Mrs. Johnson says that her mother used it on several occasions when someone was ill, an dit really had a beneficial effect. Mrs. Johnson lived in Sevier county until she was 112 years old. During that time she played a great part in civic affairs, serving in nearly all of the county offices. She laughed off repeated urgings that she run for political office. From Sevier county, she moved to Provo and later to Harris. At the present time she makes her home in Verdeland Park at Layton. She is the mother of six children, four of whom are still living. Her husband, L. W. Johnson, was an accomplished artist, whose great skill is attested to by the paintings that now hang from the wall in Mrs. Johnsons home. He died in 1U30. At the present time, Mrs. Johnsons hobbies are crocheting and keeping scrapbooks. She is something of an artist herself, but says: I can create a better picture with a crochet needle than with a F PRIZE CONTEST Fleaao enter my name aa a contestant Name 0 aoo m Address Telephone.. Approved W....rin (Parent or Guardian) GOOD FOR 25,000 VOTES MERELY MILLIONAIRES . . . Hollis Powers Gale, Forest Dills, N. Y has fallen heir to $5 million estate of a spinster cousin, winning out over 173 other claimants. Gale and his wife say their good fortune will make no In their way of Mfe. dlf-ron-eo that serves the tables of a major portion of the United States. It is the Layton Sugar Company, which since being founded in 11)1." has been an important producer of basic a and sugar for the nation, element in the industrial fibre of Davis county. Here each year 75,000 to 1)0,000 tons of sugar beets are converted into an average of 20,000,000 pounds of sugar. In addition to this an average of 1, ."00, 000 pounds of syrup are produced each year. season The sugar campaign in the fall for the company starts when the sugar beet harvest is brought in. During the campaign, which usually runs until near New Years, approximately .00 people are employed in the factory. While the campaign is on approximately 7, ."00 tons of beets are processed each day. The Layton Sugar Factory is a source of tremendous benefits to Davis county, both from a commercial standpoint and from its contribution to a better way of life in the form of taxes for schools and public improvements. Annually the factory distributes $200,000 in wages and salaries, largely to Davis county people. Beet growing in Davis and Weber counties are paid n dola total of over a lars each year for their beet harvests. Highly skilled workers operate some of the most complex of modern machinery in the process of making and refining sugar at the Layton factory. The company itself is constantly probing and experimenting in a quest for better methods of production, both in the growing of beets in the fields, and the refining of sugar in the factory. It was the Layton Sugar Factory half-millio- , beets is as follows: The Uts first washed and sliced, juice withdrawn. The juice fied and then boiled in vacu pans until it begins to crystal The sugar crystals are rotated a high rate of speed in centrifu?' machines to throw off all liq and then conveyed to a rotaV drier. After that it is screened, tomatically weighed, and sacked. The Layton Sugar company founded in April, 1915. E. P. son and Jesse Knight were the 3 terprisers who presided over tr organization of the new and portant stride forward in Dav countrys industrial growth. At t: is! present time the company plant investment of around 000 and employs around :jou has peop; during the sugar campaign, 45 people the year around. Its pr ent officers are David 0. McKai president; J. William Knight, a vie president; James E. Ellison, president and manager; Wooley, Jr., B. Cooley, secretary-treasurer- vi Edwin C ;! assistant secretaij H. E. Ellison, and treasurer, perintendent. The manufacture of sugar w one of the first of Utah Industrie It had its start about two yea: st after the first pioneers, under tl leadership of Brigham Yourp made their way into the great Si Lake Valley. With the view of termining what industries the vi ley was best suited for, the leader of the foundling empire met in coi ference, and it was decided th soil conditions were favoraK adapted to the growing of sugr beets. Having thus resolved, u emissary, John Taylor, was di j patched to France to investigat the growing of beets and lea:! what he could about the manufr turing of sugar. Soon the Deseret Manufacturif Company was formed, and mar dt J that first installed and put into facturing equipment procuredtea use what is known as the Ion Ex- England was hauled by oxen the change process in sugar refine- from the Atlantic ports toindustr mon settlements. This Me ment. Prior to its installation by the Layton company in 1947, the Ion Exchange process had been used solely for the purification of water. The Layton factory is still the only factory successfully using the Ion Exchange method of purification in the sugar manufacturing process. The Ion Exchange process involves the use of synthetic resins in the sugar juices, which eliminates the solids, thus insuring a near 100 per cent pure sugar crystallization. Because of the Ion Exchange process, sugar produced at Layton has a higher degree of purity than any sugar, beet or cane, produced anywhere else in the world, a fact testified to by the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial' Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Ion Exchange process produces a greater yield of the purest sugar from a given quantity of sugar beets. Before installation of Ion Exchange 84 of the sugar beet made its way into the sugar bags; now, with Ion Exchange, 90.5 per cent of the beet becomes sugar. Before the Ion Exchange process, one ton of beets produced approximately 201 pounds of sugar; with the new process a ton of beets yields 297 pounds of sugar. The Layton Sugar factory receives requests from all over the world for information on the Ion Exchange process of manufacturing sugar. One of the most recent inquiries came from Stanford Uni versity. Experts in the sugar man ufacturing business, from far and near, have made personal visits to the factory to investigate this new process that produces the worlds non-sug- ar purest sugar. iimmi umww Lay-to- n Harold Ellison, superintendent of the Company, in describing the Ion Exchange process, stated: Theres not another sugar refining factory in existance that can touch us, so far as the purity of the product is concerned. Mr. Ellison was recently appoint ed a director of the national Sug ar Beet Technologists, and is also a director of the Sugar Beet De velopment Foundation. Stated simply and briefly, the process of making sugar from shipment, carried by 50 Santa wagons drawn by 200 oxen, arriv at its destination in 1852. The upon the first sugar mill in & west was built at what is m known as Sugarhouse, the suba of Salt Lake City. This first wj ture into what is now a major Ut and Davis county industry was des tined for failure. Lack of suitai equipment for purifying beet jul, spelled its doom In 1880 the first successful sugj factory was established at nwv? Since then the industry has progressively forward. At preset there are sixteen major sugar pr ducing factories in the state. Utah is now recognized as bei one of the largest sugar manuj turing states in the country. Layton Sugar Factory in DaJ county contributes yearly to If. states eminence in this field I productivity. , The factory at Layton is as m ern and progressive as any in state, and consequently, as any the nation or in the world, adopting the Ion Exchange proc( it pioneered a new process wr industry for the production finer grade of sugar, in gv& ! 01 quantity. .The Co-spons- or Journal Is of Race 'Teenager'from page 1.) (Continued wards are commensurate witn effort they display. An Invitation This is an invitation to ad read these columns, whether y; or old. We invite you to subso to The Reflex and The Journj you do not already do so 0 invite the boy or girl next or your own boy or girl to p cipate in this big spare time test. Your subscription given youthful contestant will me1 step up the ladder to the top the prize pile. Watch these for the photographs of the y people who are entering this test. Will your boy or girh ture appear in a future issue P8; 1 |