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Show y yn nnniiriy Tnjr i.nyr y ry yrijgiT Up and Ikmn f lip Street jialt akf Genealogical Institute Grows With Interest By Robert H. Woody Tribune Business Editor "In all of us there is a hunger, m a to know our rrow deep, -- heritage to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in hfe, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness and the most disquieting ,meliness. " Alex Haley, author of "Roots" Now, more and more people are probing their own roots in a repeat of Mr. Haley's adventure to his past. For the Insti-K- i !';5 tute of Family . Research the search be Inc., will probably mean a million dollars in business in 1978 double its 1977 volume shortly thereafter flooded with 23,00(1 queries Why the interest in ones roots? Mr. Zolman, how headquarterered in Beverely Hills to tap the southern California market, observes: Here is America that has everything it wants. But it moves, marries and divorces frequently. Its acquisitions are of plastic. It laughs But it is unhappy. There has to be something more. Something more may be defining in terms of ones place in time parents, grandparents, Typically, most of the research preparation is sought bv White Anglo-Saxo- n Protestants, says Mr. McMullin. African Indian and Other cultures have family traditions, but Asian records are more oral than written. Documentation of lineage has been far easier in Western countries where there has been a strong federal governChurch of ment, or a strong church England, Lutheran or Roman Catholic which have maintained records. Research director of the Institute is e petroleum Larry Piatt, 39, a geologist from Oklahoma City, who has found striking analogies between exploring for human ancestors and exploring earth formations. Most of the research is now done at the excellent, and famed gnnealogoliral library of the Mormon Church. Once the research is done, the information is placed on computer by for ty picaLly one mans the Institute family tree will have branches that, lace into and join those of another. For example, a random sample of 106 Americans indicated a third will find one-tim- among them, one or more points of ancestral contacts as recently as the 18th Century. The Institute charges $10 to $12 an hour for its services. Several hours and hundreds of dollars of research may provide very little in terms of volume depending upon the quantity and quality of records. A few hours and a few hundred dollars may provide a treasure trove of family history. To First Immigrant The person spends between $500 to $l.ono, says Mr. McMullin. and typiral-lwants to track the family tree either to the first immigrant, or the 7th generation. Those pressing for the seventh generation, he said, were probably impressed by the fact that Alex Haley had o press to the 7th generation to discover y r "Kunte Kinte the young African who was captured and sold into slavery in the American colonies. css Several have spent as much as $10,060 for research that provides the family which translated from pedigree the French, means pigeon foot" and family group Such will be bound in book form and eg, may include copies of letters handwritten petitions by a Civil War and tintypes of veteran for pension the ancestor. One family bas spent $23,000 for the preparation of several volumes of history. The search for the past is not always a certain, says Mr. Piatt. Bastardy Recorded Bastardy is sometimes recorded but Column 1 See Page l, Mine- - leader. Corporate Control Battles Up v. By Martin Merzer Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Corporate takeovers, the hottest game in town last summer and fall, are heating up again And one of the new attempted takeovers erupted into bittempss this past week. We're going to beat them and were going to beat them as badly as they deserve, predicted T. Roland Berner, Corp , chairman of Curtiss-Wrigh- t which is attempting to gain control of Kennecott Copper Corp . a firm with three times the annual sales volume of Curtiss-W- mott Cos, acquisition of Babcock & Kennecotts purchase of Carborundum Corp. Winter seemed to cool the passion for takeovers, but the action has returned with the onset of spring. Wilcox Co. and standard commuter vehicles pickups the Deer m this part of the world Lodge Valley was filling up with the luminous light of an early spring morning. It was shift change time at the huge Cooper smelter that perches above this town of 10,000 in western Montana, and a pipefitter in a leather jacket was taking a last puff on his cigar. "This town," he said bluntly, "is sick right now. Anaconda is a classic company town It even bears the name of the giant copper company that chose this spot in What happened in 1977 was totally! 1883 to build the smelter that would process the ore mined in Butte, 25 miles unexpected and unplanned In came-Alea himself for with away. And as a company town, it eats request Haley the preparation of a family "roots" and breathes copper. book for television personality Johnny Sick From Carson. Environmentalists point out that In just 48 hours working round the Anaconda also eats and breathes the f lock the institute had . arsenic and sulphur dioxide produced put out the book which Mr Haley I m large quantities by the smelter But presented as surprise to Mr. Carson on for local people, pollution is the price l The Tonight Show. they are willing to pay for prosperity j And right now, they are sick not from 500 Man Hours but from underThe book had taken 500 man hours in production. researrh and preparation for a total i The smelter now employs only 1.181 cost of $5,000. workers, down from its peak of more Mr McMullin, who rarely watches than 4.000, and the entire operation will television despaired of the high costs, close down for two months starting and reckoned that no more than 200 Hay 1. This cutback comes on the heels queries would he forthcoming by the of the decision last December to shut televising of Haley's presentation to down a small processing plant that Carson employed more than 200 others. To his amazement, the Institute was (Because the volatile copper market . Under-Productio- n n Ti Vv tas't smi UKt oka ius yJV w Ken inu um u t hm 1MU. IH0T(N. 11N6TMU tnci. wmut 4.MUl 972-176- 5 40 W. Only to Ml Lake-Famil- Anaconda Now a Sick Town As Copper Price Stays Down By Steven V. Roberts New York Times News Writer As the parking ANACONDA, Mont. lot was filling up with campers and affects several Western states and foreign countries, the problems reflected here in Anaconda have assumed national and even international dimensions. Back in Washington, proposals have been made to stockpile additional copper, to put a tariff on foreign imports, and to halt loans to developing countries that produce the metal. Core Issue's Simple The core issue is simple the world has too much copper. As a result, the price has been pushed down to about 60 cents a pound, or about 5 to 10 cents lower than it costs to mine copper in the United States, according to Harry McKeman, personnel director at the smelter here. The smelter receives only 45 percent of its feed ore concentrate from Anaconda Co. mines in Butte, and must get the rest from other domestic producers, but as the price has dropped so has the supply In this isolated region, there are no other industries to absorb that sort of blow. Standing on a street corner outside the Park Cafe in downtown Anaconda, State Sen. Sandy Mehrtens said "Our kids have a hell of a time. They go off to college and come back looking for work, and they just cant get it " SCOTCH WHISKY HOLDERS LABORATORIES. INC. providing moin$ooncq ond NHS cfit'ob'-colbroticrt service to var of Ctrontc tot quipmnt. Ajtrotpoco. vrtnal, gonorol !rronie. cbomiitry. dtn-modicof. ond induitriol televijion conUom ootloblo TrjrtJ&l to Rostered U S to purchase wish Gram and Blended n CSKS lymg t Mr. laboratories swjciejns IMIBOINCY J7MM2 lt IUuMi. tM Iat 25 Itevnginr. Av, N . So L l I Curtiss-Wrigis seeking proxies from other stockholders, and promises that if it gains voting rights for at least 50 percent of Kennecotts stock, it will dump the current board of directors and elect its own slate of 17 directors. John lUiskalian, Hotel, all red brick and inlaid wood, stood tall and solid at the main intersection of town. But the capitol went to Helena instead, and Dalys building, with its glistening gold dome, is only a county courthouse today. The hotel, although listed as a national historical site, was foreclosed on this year, for back taxes, sold to speculators who then removed bars and marble fireits place. Today it stands like an unburied corpse," as Jean Boley of the local radio station put it, a relic of an era when the restless energies of Americans were still pushing outward and creating a new industrial empire from the rich ores of the Western mountains. hand-carve- Berner, who is orchestrating the proxy fight, claimed that Kennecotts current management is incompetent and has made numerous and costly mistakes including, ironically, that purchase of Carborundum. Refuse Direct Comment Kennecott officials so far have refused direct comment on Berner's charges, but they have mailed to ..stockholders a letter defending their Column 1 See Page Our view just one more reason Prowswoods Willow Creek Meadows offers more than just the best buy in the valley we also offer the best view of the Wasatch Mountains you'll ever see, Come look a! of building our homes based on innovations and our view. . Burglars pried open an equipment box on Norman K. 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The Marcus Daly TEST EQUIPMENT stock ot Malt, Scotch nrhisky Scotland Fair prices and prompt payment astor tree or call sured Writ APPRAISAL of your holding MiOfldi Bnr?)U 0 f Stanford t, to college and come back looking for work, and they just can't get it." Instrumant Repol $ Colibrotion quol'y bid for control of The Curtiss-Wrigh- t Kennecott is one of the more interesting corporate fights to develop in recent primarily an years. Curtiss-Wrighaircraft components manufacturer based in Wood Ridge, N j., owns about 9.9 percent of Kennecotts stock. K 'Our kids have a hell of a time , says an Anaconda , Mont., man. 'They go off MAY WE HELP YOU? STABRO Why are takeover attempts so attractive that they increased by 30 percent last year? Its simple, said Alfred Rappaport, a merger analyst at Northwestern University. No Profit Lag If you buy an existing business, thfes no lag between the investment an(! reaping the fruits, he said. y the Carson roots, business at the Salt based Institute of Research soared. After Roots author Alex Haley presented TVs Johnny Carson with a geuealogical accounting of research publication. I right. Last summer and fall saw a variety J. Ray McDer- t Using borrowed money. Mr. IVtcMul-lu- i set up the and his company as a records publishing, firm. But by 1973, it was obvious there was a market for doing the research. There were at the time a few mom and pop research operations in the country. But the quality and credibility of the research was sometimes suspect! Indeed, one commercial researcher had a reputation for contriving prestigious but ficticious lineages for client s The stress of changing from publication to research was a bit too much for who later turned the three to other enterprise. j But to David L. Zolman, 30, now executive vice president, a 1972 Brigham Young University sociology and philosophy graduate, the concept of marketing fit his own instincts and style Broke Even The company broke even in 1974. In 1975, it showed its first net. ' of takeovers, including Mr. McMullin, now 30, y returned LDS missionary and a theater design major at the University of Utah, reasoned there could be a formal it, Page 8 Section B of Encourage Research The church leader told Mr. McMullin that while only the church did,, indeed, encourage genealogical research that many of the membership did not, pursue 1978 April 9, $479,000, mon arked-Finance Sunday Morning, B-l- which was more than double the 1976 figure. Bascially, the Institute fullfills that whether its a need for finding roots function of psychic urgings or a religi-- J ous mandate. t The institute is now headquartered in i downtown Salt Lake City in a building i overlooking the Temple grounds of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y I Saints. Appropriate Location It is an appropriate location. For it has been the Mormon Church, of all institutions, strongest in the advocacy of genealogical search for ancestors. Ancestors so found are given through a living proxy, ordinances of the a step which Baptism for the Dead provides opportunity for spirit of the deceased to continue to progress, according to church doctrine. The Institute was founded by Phil L. McMullin and three others in 1971 following a conversation with a Mor- -M- 3--G INTERMOUNTAIN 931 11 INSTRUMENT, 1496 MAJOR STREET SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84115 964-87- INC. 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