Show WAY BACK WHEN One of the editors editor's New Years Year's resolutions was to start a column in which he quipped on this and that and peeked into the files for fora or ora a look into Manti in past years Well We'll call can the from the past Way Back When and will feel Ceel free to make comparisons with today's life whenever the articles seem fit for such A Year Ago 1949 Perry Christensen son of Mrs 1 Cleo O. O Christensen cracked up his plane while flying back to Colorado Colorado Colorado Color Color- ado after alter spending the holidays in Manti and Ephraim Perry was caught in a fog and landed crash-landed in Salina canyon No injury to Perry but it didn't do the plane any good The South Sanpete School District District District Dis Dis- was passing out ballots to children to let their parents vote on whether to serve margarine or butter in school lunches The Manti City budget was published published published pub pub- and listed at for forthe forthe forthe the the- a yeas ye ar rffie llie budget f fis is Looking in the ads of a year ago we find that shortening was wasa a Special at for a pound 3 tin Look at the ads today for fora a comparison on that one Five Years Ago 1945 Thirty-four Thirty Sanpete men were listed as a new crop of draftees Six of the men entering the service were from Manti War news was given much space in the Messenger Messen Messen- ger in those days as more and more men were called from local families Merle l Peterson son of Mr and Mrs Parley Peterson wrote from a hospital in France to tell that he had been wounded in the leg while serving with the 3rd Arm Army Alcied Christensen had just returned to duty after spending a leave eave in Manti ManU Grath his folks Mr and nd Mrs Ferd Christensen He had just returned from 32 months in inic inthe inthe the ic Aleutians Max Bradley son of Mr and Mrs George Bradley of Sterling was vas home on furlough after being away way for 3 years most of the time in Hawaii Dan Keller son of Mr and Mrs Clark Keller wrote from England to o tell of a leave in London Dan was vas serving as gunner on bombers and nd was getting his missions in inight right ight regularly Ten Years Ago 1910 The Wronged Mothers Mother's Redemption Redemption tion ion or The Plight of Poor Nell NeU an time old-time play got a big hand from rom as lS it was presented in n the Manti ManU Theatre The play featured an Manti all cast and was directed by Thomas Mack Parry A page front-page cartoon in the Messenger Messenger Mes Mes- ten years ago featured congress congress congress con con- gress as a lumberjack with his ax in a forest of giant giante trees The trees were labeled Taxation Problem National Defense Farm Relief Work Relief National Debt Third Term Issue and International Relations It seems that several of these Trees have grown some in the last ten years The cartoon ten years ago was la labeled labeled labeled la- la Lumberjacks Nightmare as the lumberman congress puzzled which Tree to tackle first Twenty Years A Ago o 1930 The Denver and Rio Grande Motor Motor Mo Mo- tor Way began making regular trips from Salt Lake City to Marysvale Continued on Page 4 WAY YAY BACK WHEN I Continued from Page 1 and the passenger train service from Manti ManU and South was halted It was expected that the bus would later arrange to take care of the theU U U. S. S Mails from Manti to Marysvale Marys- Marys vale The Linck Truck company was vas given a contract to haul the thC mails for six months The Sanpete County Commissioners Commission Commission- ers took action to arrange a budget calling for a total outlay of One item was Old Age Pension calling for That one has hns grown eh ch what The Manti Motor now Nells Nell's Motor employees took time out for fora a rabbit hunt pitting the office men against the Shop workers in ina a shooting contest against the hare The office men killed 37 31 and the shop workers knocked off 24 Wilford Wilford Wilford Wil- Wil ford Anderson topped the office I Imen men with 11 rabbits and M Mayo lYo Sorensen killed 6 6 for or the shop men Levi Hanson Hansen also also of the shop killed six for second high on his group and Clark Keller got 9 0 for second place among the office workers In the ads ads' twenty years ago F. F S. S Carpenter then Carpenter anal ami Bracken listed Ladles Ladies Patent and Kid Leather Slippers from to Mens Men's oxfords in gunmetal or patent leather were just Incidentally the Messenger sold for per year twenty years ago Its It's only now so dont don't blame this paper for or any part of the in inflation inflation inflation in- in we now have r |