Show jrP s. s l lI I t t j A ABy r By BERT BOYACK s k x r 7 M 1 1 t a THIS WEEK E. E L. L DRUE I OLMAN manager of Safeway tore Five Points I Shopping enter i r E E. E L. L Holman has been active the business world since the ge of five when his mother t a weekly newspaper f for r hi him n. n He often made g his s deliveries by horseback I other times with a dog and sleigh or even on foot HE WAS BORN an Identical twin In Fountain Green Utah The Holman family was In the sheep business Druel Drue was active in the family fam- fam ily Hy business and says I have always been so grateful for the opportunIty to live as a boy In inthe the mountains herd sheep ride horses and to learn to take the responsibility that goes with being left alone for days with a livestock outfit I I HIS GRANDFATHER bought him and his twin boxing gloves When they were only knee mee high highto to a grasshopper We fought a everywhere possible and our pay was the nickels and dimes D thrown Into the ring he said Mr Holman had his next 1 business adventure at the age of 15 when he went to work In 1 j Ely Nev for his uncle who Owned o three O. O P. P Skaggs grocery gro- gro cery stores In the Nevada area 1 I 1 WORKED for the three months school vacation It was a ai along long way back to F o 0 u n t a I n i Green so I never returned I worked my way through school by working before and alter after school he added In 1938 he and his er decided to enter the food industry Industry In- In as their vocation 17 WE VE PICKED the finest companY company com com- pany he stated and went on to say ay one that would offer the nh greatest opportunity And I have worked for Inc since that time except for fora a period during world war II Drue volunteered for service Ice with the US U.S. marine corps I and served in the South Pacific on Okinawa and spent six months in northern China IN CHINA WE disarmed the Japanese and repatriated them to fa Japan When I think of shopping shopping shop shop- ping for food in China compared to our beautiful clean well well- stocked super mar markets k t s in America I think we should thank God for just the opportunity to live in this country It Is not a pretty sight to see people starving starving ing and freezing to death He has felt it a privilege to live in many cities in our area as a manager of Safe Safeway way stores some of these Include Ely Nev Cedar City Provo Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish Fork Magna Price I Roosevelt Roose- Roose velt Twin F Falls and Pocatello o Ida and now Bountiful HIS WIFE IS the former Catherine Catherine Cath- Cath erine Twitchell They we were r e married in Provo and have three e sons s ns Craig a senior and Dennis a junior at Bountiful High and Gary a fifth grader at Bountiful Elementary The family enjoys living I and of course Drue loves the food business In every city found many wonderful people He added added add add- ed I 1 also find you get out of your community just what you put Into It Therefore he has been active in many community service clubs such as the Junior Junior Jun- Jun Chamber of Commerce the Lions Club Kiwanis he served as president of the TwIn Falls Kiwanis Chamber of Commerce Commerce Com Com- merce Boy Scouts and was chairman of a Co Community m m ty Chest HIS HOBBY HOBB Y IS an Intense interest interest in- in terest In horses He Is past president of the Frontier Riding Club and was a member of the Ule Bannock County Mounted Sheriffs Sheriff's Sheriffs Sheriff's Sher- Sher iffs iff's Posse Now you will often otten find me meat meat at the barn just outside of Mag- Mag na There is always a lot of activity when my brothers and andI I congregate to look at a newborn newborn new new- born colt build a corral or go goI for a horseback ride he commented com com- I IN CONCLUSION Mr Holman HolI Hol- Hol man gave us the following statement statement state state- I ment in regards to the businessman business business- man and the business future The food business Is highly competitive which makes it a challenge It opens up a great future for qualified people It requires more education than ever before but like all things worth the effort It Is also re- re warding Sill r I r I |