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Show Thursday, October Editorial Fare 8, 1870 UINTAH BASIN STANDARD 10 MONTWE iCGEB ($ (Ippfflllffil A consolidation of the Roosevelt Standard and Uintah Basin Record mu HUtWeFO-- si PER nmjgriMmmi Association Second Class Fosters paid at Roosevelt, Utah It MOM - F. O. BOX 188 PUBLISHED THURSDAY AT ROOSEVELT, UTAH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER founded IMS - MOM The community Joins torether in sympathy for the Nielson family In the death of their mother, Mrs. Ella (Niels) Nielsen. The Nielsen family lived In Cedar-vie- w for a number of years where the children rrew up and attended school,.. Soma of the family hero for the services were Mr. and Mrs. Niels Nielsen and children from Salt Lake; Mrs. Corwin (Johma Mao) West and baby from Tsmpe, Aria.; Mr. and Mrs. John Nielsen from Phoenix, Arlz.; This rroup stayed and visited with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Crapo. Mr, and Mrs. Bill Blanchard were called to Provo Thursday due to the serious illness of her father, Bry Roberts. Verda brought back word of Mr. Roberts being transferred to the University hospital in Salt Lake tor tests and treatment. Mrs. Verda Reynolds returned home Sunday evening from Denver, where she zoo YEARS of freedom m OV970i was a crime Your 'Right To Know' Didn't Come Easily In This Country had apont aomo time with bar aon Howard D. and family. Mr. and Mra. Kant Andarton and children, Salt Lak apont tho weekend with the Reed Andertona, Mr, and Mra. Boyd Freaton accompanied Mr. and Mra. Roy Todd to the Silver Spur Ranch In Wyoming recently where they attended a Charolla Auction and aeveral other polnta of lntereet. Mra. Etta Mecham enjoyed vlaltora during the week when her alater, Irene Nickel and girl friend, Margaret Frank came from Salt Lake for aeveral daya. Mr. and Mra. Arvln Ballon attended general conference In Salt Lake over the weekend. Rhea and Ed Lewie and children from Orem Waited with Myron and Ruth Haslem the peat week. Mr. and Mra. George Thatcher motored to Lehl to attend Sacrament meeting Sunday evening for a nephew returning Monday they witnessed a missionary. Temple marriage Joining another nephew Leo Thatcher and bride In the Salt lake LDS Temple. Lyle Feen, Torrance, Calif., la Waiting here with his slater, Clara Bowden and family. Mrs. Fay Mecham received word this week of her uncle Johnny Keel being seriously 111 In the hospital In Salt Lake. Of Interest to the friends and neighbors of the Elmer Pope family that lived In this area for many years, Verland (Pete) Pope passed away, September 28 In Granger hospital of a heart ailment. Burial was Thursday In Elyaaln Gardens. Mrs. Relta Hamblin and daughter, Rleta Lynn Waited aon In law, Devere iftll QSAO I S tii I) n? NftWSPflPSr WEEK ' T" I School picture of a bulletin board done by the Duchesne Is .to promote staff. Its purpose High newspaper National Newspaper Week. Bench, patient In the Salt Lake hospital recently. Garden and Joyce Powell and children, Salt Lake spent the weekend with her sister, Barbara Hamblin and family. Eric Nelson left Tuesday for special classes In Provo for the State Road. Eric received a transfer from Duchesne County to Uintah County and will be working Vernal. By George Speers, New England Press Association Chairman, Department of Journalism, Northeastern University (First of a series) BOSTON, Muss. (XNW) -NewspajHr journalism began in this country just 28(1 years ago. But there were no celebra- He was summoned before the Colonial Governor and Council to explain why he had violated the Regulation of Printing and Licensing Act of 1662. Why, he was asked, didnt he first obtain a license before putting out the newspaper as required under the the lesson was learned alxrnt publishing newspapers without permission. It took 14 years before someone else was able to muster enough courage to try again. In 1704, Boston Postmaster John Campbell did try again, but he first made sure he had a lieense to publish. He published his safe but dull newspaper "by Authority" for the next 20 years. Another Bostonian in Auh gust of 1721 decided to a newspaper without a lieense. He tried it and he got away with it despite the Regulation of Printing and Licensing Act still very much on the hooks. His name was James Franklin, older brother of Benjamin Franklin. Brother Janies Franklin was most unlike younger brother Ben in temperament and personality. Ben had all the qualities necessary to get along very well with people. Throughout his life he was considered diplomatic and Itersonahle. James was an opposite. One thing James Franklin did possess, however, was a talent to publish a very interesting and readable newspaper. Right from the loginning his unlicensed newspaper. The New England Cour.mt, caught on. Everyone in Boston seemed to read it. The reputation of the uewsuer spread thnmghout the colonies. Why was lie allowed to print without a lieense? For one thing, the authorities were quick to recognize that the New England Cour-an- t was extremely jxipular. And who enjoys opposing popularity? For another thing the Cour-an- t tions, speeches, proclamations, or any sM.cia! occasions to mark the auspicious event. As a matter of fact when Act? PUHLICK OCCURRENCES BOTH FOREICN AND Harris, of course, really the nations first couldnt answer the question. He knew very well, however, newspaper, "hit the streets in the town of Boston on the that a lieense meant prior ap25, proval by the government of morning of there was considerable the contents and that meant 1690, apprehension and a feeling of a dull, uninteresting, publication. That foreboding. To he sure, the little four-ag-c is not what Harris had in newspaiMT was eagerly mind. The fact that Harris put out incepted by the loeal residents. As a matter of fact, an interesting newspaper that every copy was snatched up. was extremely jxipular, probThe demand far exceeded the ably saved him from a jail sentence. The law was violated, supply. And the little pajier curried of course, hut even the stem a wide variety of news stories Colonial authorities were never before produced in the loath to press too far against Colonics, There were stories the new popularity of editor ulxiut a smallpox epidemic in larris. Harris was not jailed. He Boston, a kidnapping of two children by Indians, a suicide was prevented from ever again in the American by a depressed old man, who His one issue of lost (ailonies. his wife, a big recently fire tluit destroyed 20 homes, PUB LICK OCCURRENCES a rciiort of the lulmr shortage was all the that the Governor and the difficulty of har- and Council would tolerate. In the proclamation issued vesting the cros, an account of skirmishes among the by the Governor and Council, French, Indians, and English the official position ulxiut troops, and even a story that publishing newspapers withshocked some concerning the out a license was made very amours of King XIV of France. clear in the following words: There was no doubt ulxiut The Governor and Council it, editor Benjamin Harris had having had the eruxul of the published an exciting little said amphlet, and finding that therein is contained IMltcr. of a very high nature: Hut the trouble was he had committed a crime hv pub- As also sundry doubtful ami lishing his newstaMT. And it uncertain rejiorts, do hereby was a serious crime at that. manifest and declare their It could mean a jail sentence. high resentment and disalThe law of that lime, as Ben lowance of said pamphlet, Harris knew very well, was and order that the same he that a license must lie obsuppressed and called in; tained before any printing strictly forbidding any pereschewed government was done, and most certainly son or Mrsons for the future news. Instead, the Couraiit if the printing contained puli-li- e to set forth anything in print concentrated, in the liegin-uiu- g without License first obtained information or information at least, on items ulxiut ulxml governmental activities. from liaise that are or shall witty and entertainBut Harris took a long In apNiinted by the Governing essas, poems, letters, and chance anil waited. I ie didnt ment to grant the same." criticisms of the established The Niiiit was made and church. have to wait very long. pul-lis- SrpU-nilx-- r 1 pul-lishi- QCK3EE CB20 1$ gQBi Mr. and Mrs. Everett Alexander, Calif., visited the Golden Winns the week. Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Rasmussen spent last week In Ogden Wslttng their children who live there and tended their daughter, Carol Bridges children while her husband and her were on a trip to California. Mr . and Mrs. Ervin Young visited her sister the Acel llaslems at Orem during the week and brought back fruit. INTERESTING FACTS BROUGHT TO YOU BY JAY GATES Did you know tlmt a brother nf a nmn who killed I In the t K. Hull nf Fame for Great American! Rnoth. a brother nf John Wilke Hnotli, who hnt Abraham I.lnrnln, I la the Amerlran Hnll nf Fame. F.ilwln Booth wa a great actor anil producer. Ironically, L'ncoln w.i hn In n theatre! Did you know that the Jnpnitcte rickshaw Those rarilnges pulled by s man In fionl which nre thought to be so tyn cally Japanese, were actually Invented by an Amerlran named Goble In 1867! Did you know that chewing gum wa not wild throughout America until 18711 when it wn first manufactured commercially h.v n man named Tlinnut Adam on Staten !land. New York. Ailam bad Hnt year Inok'ng around for a product that he could manufacture and become rich, lie hit on chewing gum nnd made a fortune. a f. R. President Edwin two-wheel- And, here's another laterestlag fart . . . Yon ran snvi new or used car now at G A L Chevrolet Bulcfc. Stop la tho prfeoo for yourorU. Well bo looking forward to talklag with yon. G. & L. CHEVROLET-BUIC- K QUALITY YOU CAN DEPEND ON!" 'SERVICE YOU CAN TRUST 1 Woosovolt. Utah Phono (Joy Gatos) 722-241- I 1 Sinee the church was the one power block that the Governor and Council feared, the governmental authorities were happy to have Franklin oppose the church as much as possible. The longer this went on, the more popular and powerful the New England Courant became. It wasn't until James Franklin decided to criticize governmental authorities (for laxity of law enforcement) did the Governor begin to object to Franklins unlicensed newspaicr. By now it was too late to invoke the Licensing Act. The authorities had to object on other grounds. The charge: sedition. Franklin was jailed for a month for the crime of sedition (criticizing the law enforcement policies of the Governor) hut the Courant survived. The New England Courant survived for 5V4 years und Janies was again tried for sedition. The punishment the second time prevented Franklin from owning or publish-on- g the newspaper unless it first lx censored by the authorities. Since he refused to do this he was not allowed to keep the newsaX'r. His way out of the dilemma was to put the newspaiier in brother Ben's name, which, of course, was Mrfeetly legal. As a fighting force The New England Courant was now finished. Benjamin Franklin soon left for Philadelphia to start a new career and James went to Rhode Island. But James Franklin and the Courant had won the war. Licensing of the press in the (ailonies as a viable, workable concept was done. No longer could authorities insist on a license or iermit to publish or print under the Regulation of Printing and Licensing Act. The shackle that had cons trolled the press since time in the mid 14(X)s. was finally broken, thanks to Janies Franklin. This space has, for the past several years, been purchased by Wanes Warehouse Grocery. Due to the fire Monday of this week, the ad has of necessity been cancelled for the present. join with the Community in expressing the hope that some means will be found to have Wane back in business in the near future. We Guteii-licrg'- Barrett of Dinosaur, Colo., were dinner guests at the Mr. and Mrs. George home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Rich during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Jarlus Lamb and 2 children Wslted In Heber with his sister, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Nielson and saw the new baby, they also were In Salt Lake and went to the coo. Lindell and Rendall Esplln and Ronald Mecham who are going to school In Provo visited their parents, the James Espllns and the Lee Mechams. The YWM1A was recently organized with Mary Lou Huber as president and counselors, Joyce Murdock and Elaine Rasmussen. The out going president was Vona Houle who moved to Roosevelt. Mr. and Mrs. George Allred took their daughter, Susan to Salt Lake. She Is going to the Henagers Business College this winter. Saundra Guthrie and baby of Ogden visited her mother, Mrs. Lillian Bigelow, Tuesday. Kayla Walker who is going to the Rex-buCollege In Idaho visited her parents, the Elroy Walkers and other relatives and friends the weekend. Taylor accompanied Duane Rlc-he- ns of Roosevelt to Salt Lake Thursday. Mrs. Dixie Hartle attended the funeral of Mrs. Lydia Gurr In Orem last week. Or via Swain has gone to Salt Lake where he has employment. Mr. and Mrs. Max Hartle and S children, Richfield are visiting their parents, the Kenneth Hartles and other relatives the weekend. AMOUNTS OF 500 OR MORE Interest paid every 3 months on Interest paid every 6 months on Savings Certificates of Deposit Subordinated Notes for 3 months for 1 year rg o for 2 years Interest starts day of deposit Rates are per annum Each depositor's account is insured to S20.000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Ml MV Fh torvrdy Ik ie rm 14 Ml ve Sum Be HeM se bnb for 2Vz years Interest starts aay of investment. 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