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Show Page 4 South Salt Lake News Thursday, May 15, 1969 to Roles in Cast Well-Fitte- d The cast that will carry out the of the famed Golden at Driving Ceremony Spike Promontory has been preserving this historic tradition for more than a generation. , will be under The the general direction of Marie Thorne Jeppson of Brigham City who, with Bernice Gibbs Anderson of Corlnne, wrote the original script for the colorful show. The 1969 script has been expanded in consultation with numerous authorities on railroading, Including Andrew Ketterson Jr., staff historian for the National Park Service at the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Tom Carlin of Salt Lake Citys Theater 138 has also been active in preparing for the and, with T. Wayne Johnson, will do the narration from off- Re-Enactm- ent ent ent stage. Manager for the production is L. D. Wilde, whose grandfather, William Henry Toone, worked In the Weber Canyon sandstone quarries while the Union Pacific grade was being cut out of the rugged terrain a century ago. The Good Old Days Driving the Golden Spike Mr. Wilde, will also play the . T. C. Durant, famed Union Pacific vice president, dur- role of Dr ing next weekends presentations. Others In the cast and their roles: Edgar Mills, John Stewart; Rev. a roaring fire In the fireplace so seven the clock that by place would be at least habit- -. able. Thirty five miles an hour was dern fast for a locomotive even at full steam. People who couldnt afford the train either rode a slow stage coach ( or a slower horse) or else they walked to wherever they needed reading this article. At the time that the five (thats right, five) spikes were driven, things certainly cost less. A loaf of bread could be picked up for a nickel or less, a n d a full meal cost approximately twenty five cents (unless you went In for all the side trlmmlns). You could sleep In a smelly stable for next to nothing, and a modest room In a hotel didnt cost much more. Of course there wasnt John Todd, Alf L. Freeman; Dr. W . H. Harkness, Richard Felt; Comm. F. A. Trlttle, Claude Bar- ker; Gov. A. P. K. S afford, Herbert Adamson; Gov. Leland Stanford, Sam Gordon; Gen. Grenville Dodge, Glen S. Nelson; L. W. Coe, Merlin Balls; J. H. Stro- - prise) expected a fair days work out of his hired men. further more, he could fire anybody who didnt measure up without having to worry about being run out of business by Union No. 469 of the of Stableworkers. Brotherhood Central heating and air condididn't exist for the tioning common man ( If at all), and If the weather were patlcularlycold someone had to wake up at 3 or In the morning and start a 4 by Larry Yurth We never had It so good. And on this centennial anniversary of the wedding of the rails at Promontory Point, anyone who longs for the good old days may change his mind when he finishes The old Steamer to go. A trip from Ogden to Salt Lake City by horseback usually took a full day or more. Today an automobile traveling south from Ogden can reach Utahs major metropolis in tirty or five minutes. Only twelve forty minutes separate a jet plane In from the Salt Lake AirOgden Commercial port. jets are haul- brldge, Frederick Huchel; S. B. months. During the summer, from Memorial Day through Labor Day, a professional cast will take over the dally beginning at noon each day at the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Reed, Gus Burbank; W. N. Schilling, Heber J. Sessions; W. H. Nottlnghame, Vaughn Nielsen; J. W. Haines, Arnel Moyes, and William Sherman, Vern Poulter. The cast has been practicing at least once a week for several programs that regulate unfair business practices, and maintain efforts like the War on Poverty. Head Start, Social Security, Medicare, the Model Cities experiments, and a host of other efforts to Improve each persons ability to develop and come closer to his potential. . Optomlstlc Almost everyon of moderate means In the U.S. can watch television In air conditioned comfort , enjoy Inside plumbing (hot and cold water) central heating, and electricity and Its almost Incredible number of applications. Here In the West police forces operate (tomalntaln order and protect us, despite what skeptics say), that didnt exist at all one hundred years ago. The laissez-fair- e policy of has given way to government projections of pro- gress likely to occur within the thirty one years Indicate a rate of progress roughly three times what It was ten years ago. Anyone who still protest that he the good ole days longs for may really have only one justification - - In the year 1869, no one had heard of atomic warfare, Vietnext nam, or Communism. ing more than two hundred people apiece across and between the at speeds close to continents six hundred miles per hour or more, and even larger, faster are now being tested. planes any plumbing in the room so youd have to take a hire everytime dirt found its way In undesirable quantities to your skin. The beds tended to settle dramatically In the middle, and sometimes clean sheets were hard to come by. And talking about expense, things may not have cost much, but hese were also the days when fifty cents a day was a pretty fair wage for eight hours of back breaking stump pulling or cow herding. 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