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Show 'ti hwm m " 0 lwi 0$00' - Friday, May 29, 1981 - Volume 43 - Number Twenty-tw- Pras Association Salt L&ke According to officials of Stan- dard Oil Company, the Anschutz Ranch, east field, which stradles border east of the Coalville may be one of the most significant discoveries in North America in two decades. Amoco Production Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil, discovered and owns 60 percent of the field. Officials of the oil company made Utah-Wyomi- the announcement to security analysts in New York on April 1. Potential oil and gas reserves for Amoco's share of the field have been estimated at the energy equivalent of 800 million to 1.2 billion barrels of oil. These estimates have been confirmed by other industry sources. The field total estimate has been placed at 1.2 billion barrels of oil, more than 4 trillion cubic feet of gas and more than 500 million barrels of gas liquids. Howard Ritzma. Assistant Director of The Utah Geological and Mineral Survey and Chief of its Petroleum Section, says of the field, It's Utah's first giant oil field in the Thrust Belt. He estimates the field covers about 12 square miles. Present well data indicates that possibly 65 percent to 70 percent of the reserve lies in Utah. According to Ritzma, "If the energy equivalent of 600 million barrels of oil is produced in the Utah portion of this field, at 1981 prices, this will generate between 20 and 25 billion dollars of product. Utah's present 2 percent severance tax will generate 400 million to 12 billion dollars of tax income spread out over the life of the field, perhaps 35 to 40 years. Other economic benefits to the local and state economy from this discovery will be tremendous. Walker Bank in Coalville changes name By Betty Larsen Memorial Day, May 25, was observed throughout the South Summit area. The American Legion, Post 95, placed 120 flags on grave sites in Woodland, Francis, Kamas, Marion, Oakley, Stevens and Peoa Cemeteries. of the ceremonies were die Kamas Valley Lions Club and the Citizens Bank, Kamas Branch. Adjutant Alan Scates of . Walker Bank and Trust Company, which officially becomes First Interstate Bank of Utah on June 1, is the oldest fiihmcial institution in Utah. Founded in 1859. the bank was one of the first Kamas spearheaded the honors. Other members of Post 95 include Commander Doug Simpson, John Bigelow, Emmett McNeil, Ray Jones, Dick Wilde, Dan Wilde and Lin don Snyder, all from Kamas, and Wilby Atkinson of Oakley. The rites honor every American that has fought and been a veteran of a war. Much recognition is due this organization of men who hold patriotism and remembrance first and foremost. three established between the Missouri River and the Pacific Coast. Four young British immigrants, the Walker Brothers, began a mercantile business in an adobe and frame store in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, in 1852. Custom- - Mottier of 34 Mina lived in an era when you were either a child or an adult. The luxury of adolescence went un- recognized. At thirteen, she was capable of managing a ranch and dairy herd with the help of hired hands. Her education was expanded and she received training as a nurse. After her father recovered sufficiently to take the responsibility of the dairy and ranch, Mina went to work as a surgical nurse in the hospital. She had matured beyond her numerical years and at age fifteen was a young lady. She met a young lad. Jack Butler. They were married, he seventeen and she fifteen. She continued working as a nurse until the birth of their first child.. Her husband Jack worked in the mines in Colorado . for their livelihood. As time marched on another little girl and boy joined their family. Lyman, Jess and Midge. The beginning of this special family. Fate has a way of upsetting apple carts and peoples lives. disrupting Tragedy struck, a mine accident injured her husband Jack. As his health was impaired, they decided to buy some land and leave the mines. They would start a little dairy herd on the 40 acres they were able to secure. Mina recalls, That year we raised a big garden. We had ample produce to store for winter. Jack decided to build a root and fruit cellar. He was on horseback dragging logs in for it. The horse he was riding was an ornery old nag and if she got the chance would head for a tree to brush her rider off. Instead of watching where the horse was going, he was looking back to see where the log was trailing. The horse headed for the partially finished log structure and the back of his head hit a log. We took him to the hospital, but he died on the operating table. Mina, a young woman, was left a widow and mother of three children with forty acres of land to mete out a living from. These circumstances would stun the strongest individual but Mina would not give up. Although she was under pressure from relatives to relinguish her children to family members for help and care, she would not budge. They were her children, she was their mother and she would care for them. And care for them she did. As we read through the lines of Minas life, we find she was not afraid of work and met each challenge head-oShe kept her three children and cared for them. Time passed and Mina met another man, a man who would take her for his wife and share his life with hers. 1 knew his people real well," Mina remembers. They had a big farm in the same area as my parents but 1 had never met their son. One night the old folks stopped to visit, he was with them. The kids were all in bed asleep and 1 walked out to the car to talk to them. As they left, he asked, Who is that woman?'' His dad told him who I was." "I'm going to marry her. She is going to be my wife. Boldly he pronounced. His mother laughed, Why, you couldn't keep her in socks, much less take care of her." The next day he came back with his brother to visit me. And true to his prediction, we were n. married." Richard Gail Gerrard and Mina were married in Norman, Okla. Richard gathered his new little family together, and took them to his homestead. He owned a small ranch, having about 20 head of . were about five and six years old. His mother was sick and unable to care for them. They stayed with us until they went into the service as young men, Mina said. Turmoil in the world raged. World War 1 broke out. Richard Gerrard was called to serve his country. He answered the call, Mina once more was left with the full care and responsibility of their family. A family which had increased by three, Mina's three children, Richard's two little brothers and the first child of their marriage, which Mina was expecting. The little boys helped some on the farm, but they were in school. Mina handled most of the chores and did the milking. It was during this time Mina began to work in the fields gathering grain, vegetables. fruit and cotton to gain support for their children. in defending his country, a cannon exploded, leaving fragments of metal in Richard Gerrard's eye. The metal damaged his eye lid, causing the lid to droop. He carried this injury throughout his life time. The nickname One Eye" also stayed with him. Richard Gerrard returned home to his family. Mina was in the fields working. He hadn't let her know he was coming home. He crept up behind her and grabbed her in an embrace. She just about knocked him flat. Until she recognized it was him, her first impulse was to pound that masher into the nearest hole. The Gerrard family was ever increasing, not only their own, but the foster children and adopted children they were acquiring. Join us next week for a continuation of Minas story. SUMMIT REPORT COALVILLE CITY PUBLIC NOTICE Coalville City will hold their regular city council meeting in the Coalville City Hall on Monday. June at 7:30 p.m. The agenda will consist of discussions on the water, sewer, roads and other pertinent mutters to be brought before the council. 1 COALVILLE LADIES RIDING CLUB A Ladies Riding Club is being organized. Anyone interested, please come to the Coalville City Park on June 4 at 7 p.m. For more information, call NaVce Vernon. 4-- H POSSE Posse will meet Saturday, May 30 at the Coalville Arena, weather permitting, at 2 p.m. 4-- H 4-- H HORSE CLUB Horse Clinic June 9 at 10 a.m. at the Coalville There will be a Horse Scott from Spanish Fork, Park. McKendrick. City Specialist, will be there to give individual instruction. For more information, call NaVcc Vernon, 4-- H 4-- H 336-598- 2. BLOOD DRIVE COALVILLE A Red Cross Blood Drive will be held at the Stake House on June 12. 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Anyone 18 to 65 years of age is available. YOUTH CONFERENCE COALVILLE STAKE Youth Conference for the Coalville Stake for youth 14 and up will be held at Brigham Young University. June 1. 2 and 3. The various Wards will inform participants as to transportation, items needed to he taken along, time and places to gather. SOUTH SUMMIT BOARD OF EDUCATION ers soon began to entrust their gold dust and other valuables to the Walkers for safekeeping in the store's large iron safe. Banking continued under the Walker Brothers' name until 1885, when two of the four brothers, as partners, changed the bank's name to the Union National Bank of Salt Lake City. The bank weathered the depressions of 1872 and 1893. Then in January. 1903, the bank was incorporated under its old name. Walker Brothers Bankers. The Walkers acquired the Salt Lake City branch of Wells Fargo in 1905. Mina Gerrard aat 3M South City, Utah 14111 o Anschutz - an Oil Field Giant Rites Honor Veterans im Utah 487 Coalville, UT 84017 W ' m in The year 1911 marked substantial growth of Walker Broth ers; savings and departments were established. The regular meeting of the S.S.H.S. Board of Education is scheduled for June 11 at the board room of the South Summit Middle School at 7 p.m. Presentation of Budget Included in the agenda will be Adjustment for the fiscal year of 1980 and 1981. CLINIC SLATED FOR SMOKERS A four week clinic, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, starts at 7 p.m, June 2, at the North Summit Elementary School. Cost is $15 for registration. Participants will see films, receive literature and talk with others who want to quit smoking. or Frank Toole Please call or contact Pete Foust at 7 if you are interested. stop-smoki- ng 336-233- 5 336-559- SUMMIT COUNTY SHERIFF PATROL DEMOLITION DERBY A Demolition Derby, sponsored by the Summit County Sheriff Patrol, will be held Saturday. June 13 at 7 p.m. in the Coalville City Park. For more information, contact a patrol member. Prizes will be awarded. CHILDBIRTH CLASSES bank-by-ma- il To indicate its fast growing trust services, the banks name was changed to the Walker Bank and Trust Company in 1931. Further expansion came in 1951 with the inauguration of branch banking, enabling Walker Bank to extend services to other parts of Utah. Transamerica Corporation acquired majority interest in the bank in 1956. At that time, the bank had eight offices in six communities. Banking interests including Walker subsequently into a holding were spun-of- f company that came to be known as Western Bancorporation. In the years since joining Western Bancorporation. Walker Bank has grown until it now has 34 offices throughout the state and assets exceeding $750 million. On June 1. 1981 Board Chairman P.W. Wilke. Jr., will announce Walker Bank and Trust Company's new name: First Interstate Bank of Utah, as part of the largest name change and rcidentification program in American banking history. Walker's parent company. Western Bancorporation, will also Professional speakers, films, pamphlets, exercises, refreshments and more. Beginning Wednesday, June 3 for six weeks from 9 p.m. at Summit County Hospital. Open to all expectant mothers and fathers regardless of hospital preference. For information and Cost is $10 registration, call Summit County Hospital at per couple. 7-- 336-563- 1. Wilke listed several customer change its name on June to' First of First Interstate Banks: benefits More 900 than Interstate Bancorp. offices of its 21 banks are located Utah customers will be able to throughout the 1 western states. withdraw cash from savings and Each of these banks will be checking accounts at 500 automarenamed First Interstate Bank and tic teller machines throughout the western states. differentiated legally by a geoCustomers will soon to be graphic designator (city, county or mailed First Interstate Bancards state) added to the name. The new name represents no will be able to cash checks for as much as $200 at the 900 First change in management or ownerInterstate offices. 21 in The banks the ship. system will continue to operate autonoCorporate customers will see bank as representing the the mously. not just one section The network's offices are linked entire West of it. by an computer system With assets exceeding $32.1 that enables 5.000 tellers to the soon to be named First 6 million access billion, customer quickly Interstate Bancorp is the ninth accounts. With an individual customer authorization, a teller largest banking organization in can provide personal account America, serving 450 western information even when a customer communities, including the 21 is a thousand miles from home. largest metropolitan markets. 1 1 1 1 on-lin- e milk cows. We had been married about two months when we took our first foster children in. They were Richard's two little brothers. They As Told By Mina Gerrard Written by Carolyn Winters All Copyrights Reserved While the rest of ns are breathing a sigh of relief because school is out, the Summit Coonty Fcir Uuarit work' harder thaa ever, Cleon Hortin, Wendell Stembridge and Alvin Kichens, among others, me plam'i'ig u.g thius the future. Commlng up, winners in the Poster Contest. Don't Forget, nil register TODAk ers i ' y.i |