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Show May LaVor, Marguerite Taylor EPHRAIM LaVor and Marguerite Taylor will mark four major milestones in their lives when they celebrate their 69th wedding anniversary on May 2. Not only will the prominent Ephraim couple observe 69 years a together, remarkable achievement, but LaVor will also mark 73 continuous years in the g profession, a career he began as a young man of 16. In addition, April 1 marked his 70th year as a member of the sheep sheep-shearin- shearers union. LaVor takes pride in still being able to shear sheep even though he is now 89 years old. However, he is willing to let the younger men take over and takes pride in teaching prospective shearers in the art and equipment of shearing sheep. During those 73 year, LaVor has accumulated several records and has sheared as many as 272 sheep in a nine-hoday. He claims to have shorn over a half million sheep in his lifetime, a record that earned him recognition in the Guiness Book of World Records. At age 75 he was still able to shear 100 head of sheep in an r day. Together, the couple have reached still another milestone. At ages 89 and 87, LaVor and Marguerite still hold active barber licenses, making them the oldest practicing barbers in Ephraim and perhaps in the state. They have been licensed for 64 eight-hou- Ephraim's Beautification program for three years. An active member of the LDS Church he served as president of Ephraims North Ward YMMIA. He is now a High Priest in the Ephraim 2nd LDS Ward. On National television A subject of numerous articles, he was also featured on CBS news, years. Began in 1921 a The 1985 1. love story 75-ye- ar civic organizations serving as president of the American Legion Auxiliary, President of the Ephraim Literary Club, historian of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and PTA president. She also served as Primary president, counselor in the Young Womans Mutual Improvement Relief Association, Society seceretary and spent 40 years as a member of the Mosiah Chorus. She was one of the first women in Utah to kill a deer. seven decades. where he was interviewed by New York correspondent Charles Kuralt, when he was 76 and still actively shearing sheep. Six years later, during his 80th year, he was honored by Utah Governor Scott Matheson with the Governors Craftsman Award. Marguerite also was active After 69 years of marriage LaVor continue to enjoy their lives together. We were lovers in our eighth grade school play, we were lovers through high school. We have cried together and for a better understanding we argue the point. May we always be together." LIBRARY CORNER BY Bonnie Mellor PLEASAN- T- The library invites you to come and browse through our several publications, among them: New Shelter, Mother Earth News, Popular Science, Organic Gardening, Better Homes and Gardens, Utah Cattlemen, U.S. News, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. These magazines may be checked out for two weeks except for the current issue. You will also find The Pyramid with our collection going back to 1912. This dated collection is for use only but would be most helpful for genealogy and community history buffs. We would be happy to assist you in doing research. Two popular publications for the young reader are Wee Wisdom and National Geographic World. We would like to encourage you to bring in all over due books. The library board has granted a grace period till June 1, 1985 after which there will be a five cent per day fine for each over due book. Library hours are 12:00 to 5:30 Monday to Friday. In 1948 the couple sold their beauty business and left Utah, but they returned and for 10 years between 1950 and 1960 operated The Bonanza Freeze, a dairy queen. The Taylors have appeared on two television shows, appearing as the oldest couple on Lets Make a Deal in 1976 and a year on Lawrence Welks Show. The Taylors have four children, Donald, Zane, Margene and Norma. They have 16 grandchildren and 18 and Marguerite l.uVor and Marguerite Taylor will celebrate their 69th wedding anniversary May 2. Marguerite noted her 87th birthday, April 20. LaVor turned 89 Feb. 27. Professors to present papers at Y LaVors decision to Shear people came in 1921 when after nearly 10 years of shearing sheep and working in sugar factories in Moroni and Gunnison he entered Meallers Barber College in Salt Lake City and passed the state bar exam. In 1922 LaVor opened his own in shop, "The Palace Barbershop Chamber hears Work together for county betterment Ephraim. Three years later he joined force with Marguerite, years his wife of nine to form LaMarguerites Beauty Shop where both practiced. The Taylor love story sparked when they were in the sixth grade. Both LaVor and Marguerite attended the same schools, but didnt really notice each other until the fourth grade when they were photographed standing together in the class picture. Marguerite was a good student and was chosen Valedictorian of her eighth grade class. She and LaVor enjoyed participating with other sixth graders in playing favorite games like tag, and pomp pomp pullaway. Later they enjoyed school dances. Excellent dancers Marguerite remembers LaVor as an excellent dancer, and she would smile at him to get him to ask her to dance. Years later, after they were married, dancing continued to be important in their lives. So much so Although at 89 LaVor Taylor does more teaching the art of shearing sheep than actually shearing, he can still handle the job. He is pictured shearing sheep with the Anderson Shearing outfit shearing in the Moroni area April ll. Taylor taught the Anderson's their skills about ten years ago. they managed the Dreamland Dance Hall and went on to win numerous dance contests. But the romance would wait to fully bloom until after their eighth grade year when they were cast as lovers in the eighth grade play. Their first real date was after the play when LaVor took Marguerite home. The couple exchanged love letters and attended the theatre. LaVor shined shoes to get a few cents to afford admission to the theatre and bags of candy to treat Marguerite. Following high school Marguerite attended graduated Snow with a College teachers two terms as Ephraim cer- City Coun- cilman. He is a charter member of the Ephraim Lions Club and Volunteer Fire Department and has participated in other civic activities including board member of South Sanpete Boy Scouts, board member of the corporation for Snow College, served on Ephraim Citys Library Board, was Ephraim Citys Float Chairman for July 4 parade and served as chairman of non-prof- it MANTI Uniting and working together for the betterment of the entire county was the theme of a county workshop held April 25. Sponsored by the Manti Chamber of Commerce, the meeting was held for all chambers in the county according to Gene Beal Manti Chamber president. Beal explained that new business helped all Sanpete communities and he hoped the cities could work together to help everyone. It doesnt matter where the business is located, he said. If we gain a business the whole area benefits and if we lose one the whole area loses. One of the Manti Chambers suggestions was to establish a county-wid- e Economic Development Committee, give it a name, and then hire one paid director who is interested in business as well as the good of the county to represent the county at state levels. The plan will be presented to the county commission at the next meeting, he said. Beal explained that Manti had appointed a city committee chairman and that each city would have its own committee chairman to work on the committee. We would also like to try to create a network county-widthat would act independent of the county-citcommittee to work with the chambers of commerce he said. Unless we voice an opinion, we don't have an opinion, Beal said. Government is supposed to be operated by the people and we have the best talents in the whole state scattered throughout the county. We would like to sponsor quarterly workshops and seminars to reeducate the businessmen in the area also, he said. It would be a effort and should be the very best return for their money.1.'' Beal cited(, examples where this type of cooperative effort was paying off. In Millard County both Delta and Fillmore are benefiting because they are working together. e y county-coordinate- Michael EPHRAI- M- Dr. Kowalski and Dr. Gary Parnell , both Snow College professors will deliver papers during the spring meeting of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, May 3 at Brigham Young University. Dr. Kowalskis paper, which will be presented to the American literature section, is entitled, Domestic Fiction and Mid-19tCentury Literature, and deals with the definition of the popular romance novel. Dr. Parnells paper, The Effect of Art, will focus on the problem of using art as a promoter of ideas and moral concepts, and will be presented to the art section. d h Friday forum RPHRAIM Larry Andersen, head basketball coach at Snow College, will be the speaker at Friday Forum on May 3. The title of his talk will be, Little Prayers That Count. A former coach at North Sanpete High School, Coach Andersen has also coached at Preston, Idaho; Lander, Wyoming; and at Wayne County High School. Save on our TOP QUALITY TIRES during our AY DAY SPECIALS May 1st thru May 11th8:00 am to 5:30 pm and tificate. She attended the University of Utah in 1915 and took summer classes to earn more credits. Her romance with LaVor picked up again when he took a break from shearing sheep to travel to Salt Lake City. Married in 1916 The couple enjoyed swimming in the Great Salt Lake and riding street cars around the city. The romance flowered and the couple were married on May 2, 1916 in the Manti Temple. Taylor served as president of the Sheep Shearers Union of North America for 12 years, and served Three MT. Operate dairy queen LaVor Taylor and his fourth grade sweetheart, Marguerite Stevens, probably had no idea their romance would span over Page Pyramid The Sanpete County Road Department recently installed a new bridge on the Milburn Hill Road. County crews have since covered over the bridge and added guard rails. The new bridge replaces a old structure built by the WPA which was severely damagd by spring flooding two KREEIMOUNJING: CO-O- P years ago. WEATHER MARK Dennis Mower named Duchesne superintendent DUCHESNE A former Oak Creek man, Dennis A. Mower, 47, has been appointed superintendent of the Duchesne School District. The appointment was made by the school board and Mower will succeed Lowell Caldwell to the post. Mower attended Fairview schools and graduated from North Sanpete High School. He has a bachelor and masters degrees in administrative scholastic training from Brigham Young University. He has served as the assistant superintendent for the past six year. 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