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Show tiMMl 4 Tuesday May 28, 2002 Staff c o I u hi a t Personal journalism memories return By KEN LARSON Sun Advocate publisher In the newspaper business you never know what to expect when the phone rings. Often its someone with a news tip or a carrier missed the delivery of a newspaper to a house. This brought back many memories for me because my first job as at the middle school there before the family moved west to Califor- stories. nia. Her sister still lives in this area. She was particularly excited about the editorial because it brought back memories' of her selling poppies as a member of the H dub on the comer near the Bonnie Sometimes it's a complaint and there are times when people just want information. This past week I had the most 4-- delightful conversation with a woman form California that used to live in the area. At first she just wanted to thank me for the editorial I wrote a few Theatre in Helper. It was one of those tkxis that could have lasted forever as we talked about growing up and memorizing poetry in school and life in small communities. weeks ago about poppies and to let me know that In Handers Fields, was also one of her favorite poems. We chatted about the American page, she said. Jeannine grew up in Kenilworth, attending her elementary school years there before her family moved jo Spring Glen. She spent four years didnt dawn on me how much I was enjoying the visit until Jeannine mentioned that she had been a corIt Le- gion Auxiliary selling poppies and the respondent for the Helper Journal back in the mid 1940s. With excitement still in her voice she talked about her first job at 12 years old poem I referred to "We Shall Not Sleep, which was John McCrae's first poem about the poppy fields of Flanders, France. and how she walked into the newspaper office and was hired to write the news for Spring Glen. She recalls getting five cents an inch for her stories and remembers all the The woman was Jeannine Meiller Lewis of Alhambra, Calif, (northeast of Los Angeles) and she said that she faithfully reads the Sun Advocates web page every Tuesday and Thursday. love your new, improved web a reporter back in 1976 for the Phillips County News in Malta, Mont entailed some of the same types of One of the assignments I had each Monday morning was to call at least zu people in me community to find out who they visited over the motored weekend, where they who the was to, guest speaker at church or what awards their children may have received the previous week. As a young reporter in my 20s I dreaded those calls. They seem to take forever and many of the people I had to call would go on and on, to and tell me visit simply wanting about all their adventures. The only time I got in trouble with the morning I forwas my publisher to call most the got newsworthy women in town, who had never been missed for over 20 years. I had foiled to call her for her weekly update. You can be sure I never forgot her again, in fact her name was moved to the top of my call list news that she gathered each week; news that we never see in today's Jeannine, on the other hand, as 12 year old loved the enthusiastic an calls and felt as though she was con- newspapers. nected to the entire Spring Glen community through her weekly column. I remember that one call led to another, then another and I loved that they kept me so busy, she said as we chatted, adding, they printed anything and everything that I observed or reported. Jeannine said that with so many nationalities in Spring Glen she got such a different and exciting look at a community with many cultures. If anyone has a copy of one of her old columns from either 1945 or 1946 would love to find a copy and send it to her. 1 I I remember that first newspaper worked at and some of the rural communities we covered, such as Forks, Loring, Saco, Dodson, all smaller towns and communities just south of the Canadian border in Central Montana. Sometimes I still think of myself as a kid just starting out in the newspaper business, until I look at the receding hairline. But as I age I love looking at the past and atthewayweuseto put newspapers together and remember those days with a lot of pride. Phone calls like the one from V J Jeannine Lewis make all of the toss pleasant ones so worth while. I can't imagine doing any ottwr job. DRUGS Information gathered as a result of the TIPS form remains strictly confidential Caibon Metro Drug Tisk Force acts on Stall editorial States find that 'Staff reporter Remember the old fairy tale has re meir mittens, ano tney oegan to cry. It seems that it is that way with mittens or in our case a Mitt. People cried when he left Utah to go back to Massachusetts where the beating him than any candidate in history, and held a news conference. At that point he said he was home and was there to stay. Despite his apparent huge success in Utah and with the Olympics, he hardly even mentioned us, except to call the Beehive State, out there. Republican party was also crying because they needed him to shore up their beleaguered party in the Bay State. Despite the fact that they alGOP governor, We are certainly used to being called things like that Jane Swift, many in the party fait he would So he dropped off the local radar screens until last week when to and behold he showed up bac here in be much more electable than she would be. Of course speculation ran ram- pant when Romney was selected to ran the Olympics that he would remain in Utah and eventually run for political office here, probably the governors job when it was vacated by friend Mike Leavitt The rumor goes that Leavitt is in line to ran for senator when Orrin Hatch retires. A third state, or kitten as we can call ft, also entered into the picture $s well. Romney was bom in Michthe son of the famous George igan, who was not only called the Romney Lee lacocca of his day for saving American Motors Corporation in 1957, but went on to capture three terms as governor of the Wolverine State. Republicans in that state would like to see the return of a home grown Romney to their land in the middle of Great Lakes country. So all three kittens were crying the end of March because at least : lived full time and had business connections for over 30 years, where he took on Ted Kennedy in the 1994 for the senate and came closer to mit- tens? ' Three little kittens, they lost ready had a the two of them would lose their Mitt. ft was then that Romney returned home to Massachusetts, where he By RICHARD SHAW about the kittens who lost their if good old Utah. This time looking for money.. Apparently the money in Massa- . chusetts is not good enough to support his campaign so he got his friends to set up a couple of fund raisers for him. The first was a $5000 a couple luncheon (for that price I hope they had some great appetizers) that was ran for him by John Huntsman. It ap- Mitt fits Now, people can spend their money any way they want; thats their business. But this is a state that is presently in a huge financial crisis according to our governor and those in the legislature. And I also know in the realm of things, $250,000 is not a lot of money, when we are looking at deficits in multiples of. millions of dollars. But tell that to the guys who got laid off at CEU last month because of the shortfall. Tell that, to the thousands of teachers who will have more kids in their classrooms next year because of the lack of funds. Tell that to state programs that win have to be cut to the point where some seniors wont receive the ben- efits they need to just survive. Now I understand the relevancy of having powerful friends in high places. But the governor of Massachusetts has leu power over anything that happens in Utah than any under secretary of the under secretary of any department in the U.S. government So whats the point? Is it just .that these contributors have such a pears a little over 30 people showed strong friendship with Mitt that they up for that event at the Huntsman - want to help? Or is there more here Chemical world headquarters. than meets the eye when ft comes That evening he was set to (fine to where Mitt is headed in the fuwith Leavitt and about 100 close ture? friends at a dinner which went for It has often been reported that $500 a plate at the Union Pacific Railroad Station in downtown Salt' Lake. - According to reports he garnered about a quarter of miBkxi dollars in the one day in Salt Lake. Money for him to run for the governor of was brought to Utah from Pennsylvania inihe early 1970s to defeat then Democratic Senator Frank Moss. Technically that was not true. Hatch didnt move to Utah just before the 1976 election when Orin Hatch I L. jlnfnntnfl IImmos moss, ne naa ooennm raomaiea seven years, having moved a law TURNINAPUSHER all submittals. I 4 J 1 I wear it Name of suspected drug dealer :i Nickname: i I j practice to Utah after growing up in Pennsylvania. And he did have Utah ties, somewhat like Romney. Actually, he had ties to Carbon County. His parents 4 I I I LajI naa met in ntawama wnen may ware young and were later married in the midwest I Diug(s) being dealt: Price: j Amount: I List any other suspected illegal activities: 1 May we contact you7 YES NO I I Ifyes, then how: by mail or by phone. Rom- ney did a good job running the Olympics although one jxrTice officer near Snow Basin said he wasn't very polite whbn he decided to take over traffic direction on the second day of the events there however. cant 1 Location of dealing doesnt win? He apparently stil owns a home in Utah, and just like Hillary Clinton could switch states at the Mink of an eye guess you 1 Method of dealing: in case he I License Associates ofDealer governor of Massachusetts right now, one has to ask if there is a back up play on the drawing board to run for something here. There is no question that I I I Color Year - Mitt's ties go back to his father and the prominent Romney family here in Utah. Even though he is running for just I Motor Vehicle: Make. When 1 I If we may contact you by mail, what is your address? I I Mail completed forms to: UPS, Carbon Metro Drue Thsk Force, 91 East 100 North, Pirice, UT 84501. do everything . right I I .1 All I can say is that there is more . than meets the eye going on here, and I worry that it is the typical meet behind closed doors kind of politics that have been going on since one party started to dominate the political scene in Utah during the .1970's. In the end, the kittens in the fairy tale got their mittens back, subsequently soiled them, had them Sun Advocate washed and then got some pie. They also smefled a mouse dose try. Maybe we should be smelling little larger rodent a The voice of Carbon County since 1892 ADMPflfiTlAIIQM Publisher Ken Laison - Address: 845 East Main, Price, Utah. . Telephone: (435) 637-073- 2. 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