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Show . The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/NATION Fo STATE ot tae STATE COUNTIES MAKING NEWS Tuesday, January 22, 2002 Some Say War Is Not the Answer on MLK Day US.celebrates legacy amid rumblings from civil rights activists BY DAHLEEN GLANTON CHICAGO TRIBUNE ATLANTA — Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was celebrated across the country Monday, in typical fashion: i fiery ecumen- Contact at aaaae CACHE will be getting into.” who Conference with King. “The has the responsi- tion signed by President Bush. But beneath the surface of this year’s tribute to King, a man who devoted his life to nonviolent social change, there was a rumbling of discontent among civilrights activists who believe the war in was barely a mention of the war on terrorism. However, Coretta Scott King, the civilrights leader's widow, as well as former U.N. Ambassador King, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, preached the phil of non-violence as a way of life. And many of his supporters said those words are as relevant today as they were when King spoke out against the Vietnam War in the 1960s, drawing the ire of President Lyndon Johnson as well as many prominent AfricanAmericans. Ata televised fireside chat with civil-rights ieaders in Atlanta in September, Coretta King, an acknowledged said: “I shudder to think ofthe prospect of war, an endless cycle of war is what we had attacked us. We are protecting our own shores now.” In Boston, King’s eldest daughter, Yolanda, told 1,500 people atthe city’s largest annual MLK Memorial Breakfast, that Sept. 11 had erased racial differences — for now. “Skin color was covered by the ash of burning towers,”she said. “Perhaps the best response to this tragedy is not to go back to normal.” S. Ogden Mayor Realizes Dream the Cache County Jail on $100,000 bail. BY LEO TYSON DIRR Photos by Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE mented immigrant charged with crimes atits jail until their cases are resolved. SheriffBud Cox told the OGDEN — George Garwood is living Martin Luther King dr.’s dream. Atarally inremembrance of the slain civil rights leader on the day that bears his name, Garwood i the audience that King dreamed that one day skin color would be irrelevant. “I, too, have a dream,” Garwood said Monday at the Ogden Amphitheater. And beblack mayor in the November election, “my dream has become a reality.” But the progress blacks and other minorities have made toward equality since King’s assassination in 1968 is not enough, Garwood said.“I hope and pray that we will all continue that fight for civil rights for ali Americans,” he said. wi kicked off Weber State University’s African-American Em- John H. Jackson,left, the NAACP's national director of education, spoke in Sait Lake City on Monday. Fred Peake,right, was given the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. award. NAACP Celebrates the 2002 Dr. Martin King Jr. Civil Rights Award Fred Peake, operations director ofthe Boys & Girls Clubs of MLKDay Murray and Midvale, who is a member ofthe Juvenile Justice Board ive ittee. The Rosa Parks 2002 Award @ Continued from B-1 Roots, spoke briefly at the luncheoin, getting ing smiles from the audience with a story about his father. “In myfather’s house, there was picture of a turtle on top ofa fence post. Myfather said to remember that when you see a turtle on top ofa fence post, you can be sure it had some help i getting there.” Tri-State (Utah, Idaho, Nevada) Conference President Edward Lewis was chairman and emcee for this year’s event called, “Together We Stand.” for the National Merit Scholarship Association, Gray received her education doctorate from the University ofUtah in 2001. West High School student and basketball player Tamika Hardy was presented with a $1,000 scholarship from Utah Jazz owner Larry H.Miller. Whatever babened to Bill & Janet Gibson? 1945 was the yearBill Gibson married his beautiful bride Janet Gerber. They met in Salt Lake City during the war when Janet invited the discharged soldier to attend a Sunday Schoolclass she was teaching. A graduate of West High,Bill spent three and a half years on AdakIsland in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. “In 1942, | was drafted into the U.S. Army Signal Corps. | supervised the Aircraft Warning or | radar system. We were watching the movements of Japanese aircraft. The Japanese had invaded Kiska and established an airbase there in the Aleutians.” Bill picked up Japanese bombers, as they were enroute to bomb Dutch Harbor. Reporting theflights to the 11th Air Force, U. S. fighter planes were sent out to Tetaliate. “Adak Island measures 10 miles by 5 miles and was barren oftrees or shrubs. It was cold and miserable. We lived in camouflaged tents. One night Whole House Special! we intercepted a Japanese patrol that landed cn our island. We set out in the dark to investigate. We came upon the Japanese and hand to hand combat occurred. it was like landing in a beehive.” Janet was studying anesthesiology when she met Bill. As an anesthetist, she workedin the delivery rooms for most of the major hospitals in Salt LakeCity. Today she is immersed in genealogy work.Bill studied watchmaking and jewelry zepair and operated his own shop nearthe entrance to the University of Utah. The Gibsons have four children and “a bunch of wonderful grandchildren”. 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