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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Community The rest of the story about Dan Merrell father, by his Roger Merrell I deeply appreciate Barbara Pyles excellent article on my son, Dan Merrell, in the Janu- ary 11, 1995 Southern Utah story. When Dan was about 4 years old, our neighbor told us Dan climbed their pear tree, and picked some green pears and if? ' m. V?. cv' H. extension crank-u- y, ladder, p which would reach up to the dining table. When I had finished my third college degree and earned my vacation we first three-wee- k a planned camping trip West on our limited budget. Before leaving, I had tried for hours to start our old worn-o- ut two-burn- 08rb od Trim purchase toys, so Dan and I began making our own out of wooden crates from the grocer, and scraps from building projects. We cut cross sections from tree branches for wheels on the many cars and trucks we made. We fashioned a with a load of four cars. We made another trailer for the semi from a box that would hold Dans younger sister, who he hauled around the house for hours of entertainment. I never dreamed I was plantingthe seeds for him to be a truck driver (Dan actually drove a large semi truck picking up milk from the farmers, as one of his jobs working his way thru college as well as interstate bus driver for Ann Arbor First Methodist Church). Among other projects, we made a fire engine with a triple haul-a-wa- 'r 'f3m 6 WEDNESDAY JUNE 28, 1995 er plants. This is the mineral that izers never burn and if there is concerns itself with the manuone thing made available within facture of carbohydrates, some organic fertilizers it is the whether starches or sugars. The amount to be applied with natural trace elements plants also need. The three trace ele- each of these fertilizers is at the ments most commonly deficient rate of 1,000 per square feet. are iron, manganese and zinc. Blood Meal, nitrogen, Here are some symptoms of de- This is an expensive source of ficiency: Yellowing of the leaf nitrogen. I now use Soybean tissue with veins remaining meal which isnt as high in nigreen. Stunted growth. Pale trogen but less in cost and at the color be- same time supplies traces of green to yellow-re- d tween green veins on tomatos phosphorus and potash, apply Soft Rock Phosphate and beets. Using organic practices can help avoid these defi- phosphate contains 11 trace Greenminerals. Apply 10-2ciencies. This is a short list of organic sand. potash 7 plus 32 trace fertilizers and what they can do minerals in these fertilizers are to help the soil grow more just part of the reason for my healthy plants that resist stress, using them. Kelp meal, potash, disease and pests. Once again has many trace minerals. Apply 0 contains a broad array of Nitrogen is the main nutrient to need have consistently vitamins, minerals and soil conplants available. When there is too ditioning elements. I would like to see local busimuch or too little of it in the soil, productivity declines. Phospho- nesses stock a greater variety of rus is the next msgor nutrient natural gardening products. needed. Its essential for healthy They stock that which sells best, growth, strong roots, fruit de- thats what theyre in business velopment and greater resis- for. Right now, check out the tance to diseases. Potassium, one shelves. . . .chemicals versus of the three major nutrients is natural!! essential for developing strong Nitron Industries Inc. Its really true! Organic fertil- 10-2- 10-2- 0. 5. 5. 5-1- Coleman camp cook stove, with no luck. Giving up, I threw it in the trash. After several hours on errands, I came home to find but refused to spend money on a IN KANAB!!! that Dan, just seven years old, car so he could save money for After graduation from high had RETRIEVED it out of the college. So he MADE a motor school, Dan took a job as me- Dan Merrell as a 3 year old was proud of his wrecker with a His younger sister, Barbara was also pleased. wind-u- p crank. trash, reversed the burners, and scooter with that same lawn had the stove working per- mower motor and bike frame. It fectly AND ITSTILL WORKS had direct belt drive no clutch. FORTY YEARS LATER!!! He had to shut off the motor to When Dan was 12, he kept stop and push and hop on to bugging me to buy a neighbors start. News. Being his father, I cant threw them on the ground, along obsolete power reel lawn mover Dan, I said, that will never "resist revealing the rest of the with his boy. His father ex- with $10 of his which allowance, pass the police test because he 66People come to me for good rates... i they stay for my Good Neighbor service. QO . . cm ME. he had saved up. Within a week after I gave in, he had spread the forks of an old discarded bicycle and fastened them to the reel axle in place of the push handle, fashioning a power vehicle to pull a coaster wagon. At our annual Fall Church money-raisin- g Fair, Dan earned his share for the church taking kids for rides at a dime apiece!!! His first high school job was working at a gas station and repair shop about five miles away. He needed transportation, Now Showing at Kanab Theatre Lorin Tonks 310 S 100 E Kanab, UT plained that the pears would have to stay on the tree to get ripe. After a while, this father looked out and there Dan was up in the tree again. Hew came storming out, to punish him. Then he observed that Dan was hanging the pears back up in the tree, so they could ripen! Honesty and integrity was in evidence at a young age. When Dan was 3 years old, our family of five lived on a limited preachers salary of $2,000 a year, which left little money to ! State Farm Insurance Companies This Chief of Police came to our church parking lot and asked Dan to demonstrate how it worked. After several test stops and starts, he gave Dan his permit to drive the main roads to work. When Dan turned 16, my brother gave him an old CstsdPG d, (6-2- 8) Saturday through (7-- 1) Showtime 8 p.m. 29 W. Center Take a friend Xo the movies! ar Crosley motor, with one broken valve, which was unavailable to replace. As Dan was working on one of our parishioners farms, he spotted a stray tractor valve discarded on abam shelf. He took it to a small machine shop in town, and had him ing college. match it up with one of the other Now you know at least part of valves out of the Crosley. Our church Youth Fellowship the rest of the story. director had given Dan his old worn-oFord to tinker with. Dan picked up an Anglia (English compact Ford) front-enfrom the junk yard, attached it to the Ford rear end, installed the Crosley motor and drove this contraption thru high school AND YOU CAN STILL SEE IT PARKED IN HIS BACK YARD ut Wednesday Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. 250 lbs!! 4-ye- two-wee- 644-268- 3, Home Offices: Bkxwnington, Illinois ' has to drive it, and he weighs chanic at a local Oldsmobile dealership for a year to save more money before going on for his college degree. The dealer sent him to a weeks training for the new years models. Dan told me, at one point the trainer said, You guys remember how this mechanism was about fifteen years ago. Our 17 year old Dan said to me when he got home it made him chuckle to himself, because he would have been just two at that time. The dealer made him several excellent offers to buy an older car real cheap, but he refused, so he could save more money for college, until our old spare, rusted-ou- t car got wrecked. Dan took over this beat-u- p wreck, patched it, overhauled it, and drove it with his buddy to visit his California uncle during his k vacation before start- . |