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Show P14 TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH CENTENNIAL January28, 1996 NewCentury: Defense Industry Burgeons Withtheelection of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as president of the United States. two Utahns wereappointedto high office in the federal government. Ivy Baker Priest was named U.S. treasurer and Ezra Taft Benson was namedsecretary of agriculture Both appointees served from 1953 @ FromPrevious Page Arches was declared a national monument, as was Hovenweep Prehistoric Indian Ruins. Bryce Canyon Timpanogos Cave, Cedar Breaks and Capitol Reef soon followed An eraof land-speed records began onthe Bonneville Salt Flats in the mid-1920s with Ab Jenkins setting 24-hour endurance marks and a clutch of speedrecords established by namessuch as Sir Mal- gn Campbell, George Eyston, John Cobb, Tommy jompson, Athol Graham, Craig Breedlove, Art Ar{hs, GaryGabelich and StanBarrett Thesedaredevils etched not only their own names in thehistory books, but Bonneville’s famous speedway as well “_KSL radio beganbroadcasting in 1921. In the late 1920s. Utahnative Philo Farnsworth was working on 4 scientific invention that would earnhimthetitle of the father oftelevision. William Posey. chief of a small tribe of Paiutes that roamed southeastern Utah at the turn of the century, was mortally woundedin 1923 by a posse in the Comb Wash regionof San Juan County. Old Posey was the last “hostile” Indian killed in the United States Heavy industry came in 1926 when ColumbiaSteel Corp. first operatedits blast furnaceat the new plant m Ironton, Utah County. Smelting, thestate’s single most important industry, geared for increased pro ductionin the years immediately preceding the start of World War II By 1940. construction was under way on Wendover Air Baseand Hill Field, which in time would become Hill Air Force Base, Utah's largest employ- er. Utah General Depot and Remington Small Arms plant construction soon followed. In the months after the Japaneseattack on Pearl Harbor, work was begun on Kearns Army Base, Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele Ordnance Depot, Deseret Chemical Depot, Bushnell General Hospital (which wouldin postwar Utah become the Intermountain Indian School), Clearfield Naval Supply Depot. Topaz War Relocation Center and the GenevaSteel Works (later to be purchased byU.S. Steel Corp.) Fort Douglas was named headquarters for the Ninth Service Command, and Utah Oil Refinery ex panded to meet the war effort. In succeeding years, defense industries burgeoned with the addition of Thiokol and Hercules and reclamation projects including Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorgeandthe Central Utah Water projects. In this time, many GIs and war workers became enamoredof the state as a place to live and rear families. They stayed on after Japan's surrender. and a majority of these newresidents located in Tooele Countyand along the Wasatch Front, boosting Utah's population more than 138,000 during this period It was a tremendous time for homebuilders and subdivisions. It also w to 1961 Thegreater AnethOil field was discovered in 1956 and mineral extraction fromthe brinesof the Great e dawn of the atomic age, and heavy emphasis wasplaced on the development of nuclear energy: that in turn sawthe astonishing uranium boomin southern Utah, the growth of uraniummining in the region and theattendant frenzy Salt Lake brought about a large new industrial pro- file to the lake And on the darker side, two airliners collided in flight over the Grand Canyon, killing 128 passengers and crewin 1956. For its newspaper coverage under thepressureof deadline, TheSalt Lake Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize. Six years later, the Deseret News wonasimilar award for its coverage of the murder of Jeanette Sullivan, 41, and the kidnapping of her daughter, Denise, 15, at Dead Horse Point Utah cameinto its ownas a travel hub whenits municipal air terminal became theSalt Lake City International Airport in 1968. And ironically, Utah. knownas the crossroads of the West with the completion at Promontory Summit ofthefirst transcontinental railroad in May 1869, experienced a steady declinein passenger service because of automobiles and airlines. Congress’ creation of Amtrak in 1970 wasof little help, and by the late 1990s passenger railroading in Utah, as well as the nation, seemed headed for extinction Medicine and medical research began making great strides in Utah in the 1960s. WillemJ. Kolff who developed the first artificial kidney using parts of a washing machine and sausageskins in his native Hollandin 1944 while it under German occupation, immigrated to the United States after the war andjoined the University of Utah faculty in 1967 He brought with himresearch onanartificial heart At the university, Kolff surrounded himself with students and colleagues whosharedhis interest inartificial organs. including Robert Jarvik and William DeVries, who wereinstrumental in the first perma- nent humanimplant of an artificial heart in Barney Clark at University Hospital Dec. 2, 1982 Kolff at 84 is still actively engagedin artificial- organ researchandhas received major awards in his field. He was named one of the “100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century” byLife magazine Utah's laboratory of dreams in the 1990s did pro- ducea nightmare calledcoldfusion. 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