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Show U.S. Needs The Mexican Workers And They Need More Of Our Dollars c G CS C rr X--V rn I g- By tom msxmtmo SALT LAKE CITY rr je G G C ; Ki C C K. HISTORY REMEMBERS By DONETA GATHERUM - An article in LAYTON last weeks paper announced the John H. Layton home at 683 W. Gentile, Layton was just placed on the National . Historical Register. The article described the home in il and told a brief history of John II. and Hannah Layton, the original owners of this very dc-ta- impressive house. FRANKIE Josephine Uyton Dickson was born in The barn and graneries are captured in thi photograph taken 47 years ago at the John H. Layton farm. vegetable and generous serving of lamb. pork, poultry or choice beef. The meal was top-pe- d off with cream pulTi, pie, cake and delicious homemade ice cream. ture located west of the en- dwelling. dowed with a generous amount of musical talent. The family had acquired an assortment of important section of the North American people the problem stems like a direct threat to security." HUT OVER! LOWS into beliefs that social problems have increased due to Mexican "influx and created an "economic burden for the American taxpayer." He said the situation is per- IN THE earlier times just west of the rock cellar, the Uyton family boasted a flowing well capable of supplying culinary water and also drinking water for the flocks and herds. Neighbors came with barrels on skids to get drinking w ater from this well. When the town piped spring water to the homes the well fell into disuse. The two hundred plus acres of the Layton farmland is located in a half a dozen plots this home just shortly after the building was completed. She is one of two children born to John II. and Hannah Layton who are stiU living. The memories of Josie Dick- adjacent to the homestead. son growing up in Layton at Josie inherited a choice buildthe turn of the century are ing lot near the homestead and 28 acres or the Layton estate. beautifully preserved in a journal of her life written by her EXTENDING from the husband, Elburn Dickson. The following article is taken from homestead to the street an onlooker can still see a flawthis journal. less cement sidewalk with the THE NEW year in 1898 was name Layton etched at the end. Paralleling this walk was a just 12 days old when the hedge. Another twelfth child of John H. and Hannah Maria Phillips Layton hedge skirted the eastern edge was bom in the Newly built of nearly a quarter acre lawn. home. The regularity of the The lawn itself was further labor pains had given time to adorned by four native eversummon the midwife, Emma greens. two spruce and two Sargent Nicholls, who arrived long needled pines. One of those dreaded east winds upin time to officiate at the derooted two of the trees. livery. Lombardy popular trees The baby was named Frankie Josephine. She was bom on were branded by the Gentiles the same day that the last living as designating Mormon counmember of her four grandpa- try. The Layton homestead rents, Hannah Phillips, had boasted a long row of these trees boardering the northern died. perimeter of a four acre pas- JOSIE'S mother was IN THE beginning the nurture of these populars required the planters to both carry and haul water for all those years before water from the Davis and Weber canals was avail- records of the best vintages and the family spent many evenings listening to Caruso, McCormick, Gallicurchi, Cho-- . pin and Emma Lucy Gates. Near the phonograph stood able. The pasture sporting its native grown grass served ;; a Story and Clark piano. Josie numerous horses, sheep and still has the piano and phono-grapfor more than 75 years. It Grandma, Lottie, cattle was plowed up in 1964. Leona, Josie and Norma all The Layton family was 2 played the piano with a skill among the first in town to own - rarely seen. an automobile. Their first car THE HOME boasted an was a Hudson and their second a Hudson Super Six with jump attractive picket fence. Josie was about 15 when seats. the the on to house Adjacent she thrilled at being able to - south was a utility room equip- ped with a coal stove, a drive this luxurious car. ' half ton flour range a cream bin, THE TELEPHONE was separator and a machine. The base- - another luxury she enjoyed. 2 washing The Layton family telephone ment of this room housed a number was 28R4. In her heat that circulated steam day you turned a crank to get to all twelve rooms. This was central (the telephone operthe first such heating plant in ator). When she responded .. stalled in any home in Layton. you gave her the number CLOSE BY this utility room which she in turn rang. With a was a thick stonewalled cellar, half a dozen neighbors on the were sure to same line partly underground, a most have eaves you droppers listening ideal place for the storage of in. This made your business farm produce and vegetables. The south wall was shelved everybodys business. Groups of young people and was laden with a variety of bottled fruits and pickles. A made use of the pasture as headquarters for a variety of sturdy pole spanned the buildgames. On some of the hot ing to which was hung several summer days some of the home cured hams and shoulders and in cool weather a half Kaysville cousins would come over to visit Aunt Annie. or quarter of choice beef. had not They, together with Josie, Josies family only would dress in knee and ankle the reputation of being welllength dresses and would waldoers and thrifty but of setting low and splash around in the one of the best tables in town. irrigation ditch out front. big The meals always contained a IN JOSIES youth she fell in rich variety of garden fresh h. hand-operat- fur-na- ceived as a problem when 0 ployed Anglos failed. Citing statistics refuting PERSONAL MEMORIES The John II. Layton home, recently listed with the National Register of Historic Places, is shown just after a snowstorm in 1905. love with baseball and the rougher sports. She did have one special love and that was ice skating. Her favorite rink was in the south end of the cow pasture and east of the tithing yard, now filled for the houses on Ronald Avenue. At age five Josie followed her brother Harold and Clyde Bone into the barn for explorations. The 25 foot hay stacked to the rafters challenged her curiosity. By means of crude steps carved in the hay by her brother Ed with a hay knife, she inched her way to the top. Her explorations were cut short by a slip and then a tum- ble to the bottom. The impact not only knocked her breath out but left her unconscious for a scarry two hours. HER LIFE was only spared by the luck of landing on a padding of loose hay. With no real doctor available the family had to settle for an army orderly by the name of Ingram. His lack of training resulted in a faulty set bone on her right leg. Days later after going through the torture of transportation by buggy for 15 miles with her leg on a flat board , Dr. Rich of Ogden rebroke the leg. After weeks in a cumbersome cast, the tiny girl had the plaster removed. Dr. Rich used her fathers sharp pocketknife to rip off the cast and in so doing cut a bone deep gash, a foot long, into the patients leg. AT THE age of 9 Josie persuaded brother Harold to let her change from tame old Chub on the second hay rake to the lead rake with a scarry mare. Minutes after the the lines from her grasp. The loose lines dangling under foot instigated a runaway. The mare missed the gate on the west side of the field, veered to the right and picked up speed as it ran to the northern extremity of the field only to be halted by the fence. As a youth Josie attended school at the nearest of seven schools in Layton. Like many other students at Layton Elementary she gives Elijah King high marks as a gifted teacher. IN HER day this school had but three rooms, one upstairs and two downstairs. She esti- mates that the number of pupils attending was 40 or 50. There was an outdoor privy and drinking water was self served from a bucket with a dipper hanging from the wall. At the ringing of the bell pupils lined up like soldiers outside the front door and marched in to a stirring march played generally by a student. Josie often played the march music. In the fall of 1913 Josie attended Central High School at Kaysville. For lack of room some of the students were quartered in the city hall next to the jail. The main group were schooled in the old academy building located in the northwest part of town. THE YEARBOOK was called the Purple and White. It showed pictures of the six faculty members with their identity. The next page displayed the photos of the studentbody officers which consisted of a president, a first vice president, a second vice president, a debating coach, a secretary and treasurer and an athletic change, Joseis mare with a brisk switch of the tail whipped manager. Three of the six officers including the president were girls. The Domestic arts teacher pursued her pet project, namely , to design and make uniform dresses for the girls and suits for the boys and faculty. The dress goods for the girls was a light serge with black serge for the faculty and navy blue serge for the boys. The project never got olf the ground. SINCE THIS idea of high schools for Davis County was still in its infancy, Central High School in the year 1913-1- 4 accmodated only freshmen, sophomores and juniors. In 1914-1- 5 the Purple and While changed to Reunion Set LAYTON THOSE attending should bring their own food, history roots and fun. For additional information contact 4 or Verna Hill Jim Hill 295-547- 455-469- np and learning begins... 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The levels of unemployment arc far higher there, Dr. Chac said, those levels are cerv ddliculi to obtain" and ate often ot a more "technical level th.o 'x'Yrv weight -- 1975. noting that "without doubt, 101 e 10 per package oo said they did not have any children in public schools and more than 94 ercent said they did not use welfare or medical The Kilfoyle family reunion will be held August 14 at 12 noon at the I.O. Stoker Park in Syracuse, 1125 W. 1600 S. Where babysitting ends 400 Yd. Some Levi Gold m two-third- The UAms Reg. s while more than had a ponon withheld for Social Security benefits. MORE THAN percent counselor. (Designer Instruction Manual claims Mexicans place a heavy drain on American social service agencies, he said of 433 interviewed in one study taxes had been withheld for nearly 75 percent of the workers Davis. The students attended a light brick building which is still part of Davis High School. A similar building had been erected in Bountiful and bore the name South Davis High School. Three hundred seventy-one students attended high schools in Davis County this year. Of these 280 went to the Central High School. Forty-seve- n were from Layton, dmg Kilfovle Family THEN HE pointed to what he called a definite difference" between those immigrants and Mexicans that of permanency of stay, further quoting Irom unnamed studies he indicated 71 percent remained in this country four months or less before their first trip" back to Mexico and only II percent worked more than a year before that first trip. "Docs the American eco- documented workers. I dare say. was a necessity of the North American work force." 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Dr. Chac said, adding that in San Diego similar failure resulted after efforts to retain unem- IOR HIE Mexican moments over Italians. Poles, and the Japaneve, "The Mexican worker generally performs tasks the Americans wont do. The nature of Angeles. IN EFFORTS to recapture jobs held by illegal aliens an attempt w as made to fill vacan- uotk. It no secret the North Amercian economy i in b id chape but it not short term lepair that will coned U." the piolcssnr said dicating similar eompl tint have been lodged "at different nomy require Mexican labor? he asked. "If sou cor. the work, salary and by the American because of its (often) temporary nature" were substantiated by two programs conducted in Sun Diego and Los Make your own... 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