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Show Buisness Profile iwmm mmi v wmiw 4f f 1 W wf r ' iii nwit.ii i mi Km I V. ' ' I ' ' ' "s. - .- ; .1 f ' : 'A . . . . . Warren S. Ottley By Gwen Barney Warren S. Ottley is the genial owner - manager of Ottley's Paint Pot at 2157 Highland Drive. His father, Sidney J. Ottley, started this business in 1933. - Warren worked in the store the very first day that it opened, and he has been connected with the paint industry ever since. In 1938 Warren Ottley went on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to New Zealand. He came home in 1940 just in time to be drafted. Once under the finger of Uncle Sam he was assigned to the signal corps and then sent to officers training train-ing school where he received his commission. Lieutenant Ottley trained radio and radar personnel. He was transferred to the Air Force and now holds the rank of major in the Air Force Reserve. His base of operations is at Fort Douglas Doug-las where he keeps in training for emergency. After the war Mr. Ottley and his wife Elizabeth opened a paint store of their own in Murray. Then in 1950 he and his father merged their businesses bus-inesses into a corporation with family members holding all of the stock. Warren Ottley managed both stores. A year after this merger the senior Ottley was called as the president of the New Zealand Mission where he too had labored as a young man. Before he left he sold his interest in the Paint Pot to his son Warren. Warren in turn sold the Murray store to his brother Wayne. Last year Warren Ottley opened the Holiday Shop in conjunction with the Paint Pot. This space was previously used for wallpaper and draperies drap-eries which still are handled here, but now toys, greeting cards, gifts and games, etc. have been added. The Paint Pot is a distributor distri-butor for Colorizer Paints. It wa3 the very first dealer of this high quality product. Glass is also featured and sold throughout the valley with other Ottley merchandise. Warren Ottley is one of twelve members of the board of directors for the Retail Paint and Wallpaper Distributors Distribu-tors of America. He represents the intermountain region. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and has served on various committees for the group. At Brigham Young University and the University of Utah he studied business administration. He has been superintendent of the Sunday School and MIA in both ward and stake, ha3 served in a bishopric and as a member of a stake high council. coun-cil. In fact, he has served in all of the different organizations of the LDS Church except the Primary and the Relief Society, but he admits he even worked in them while he was a missionary mis-sionary in New Zealand. This island country down in the Pacific has been very important in the life of Warren Ottley from the time he was a boy and heard the stories of his father until he went there himself. When a temple was built in New Zealand he decided de-cided that it was necessary, one way or another, to get back down there for the dedication. dedi-cation. He had labored much of the time in the city of Auckland Auck-land which is relatively close to the temple location. The trip for Warren and Elizabeth was the highlight ' of their lives, even though they had to leave children "Bub" and Barbara at home. It was the dream of many years, and the realization, he insists, was better than the anticipation. He served on the committee which had arranged a special tour. Rex Dahlberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Dahlberg, 3085 So. 2300 E., has received his assignment for overseas duty. He will leave soon for Hawaii.where he will remain for 18 months. He has been " in training in Camp Roberts, California. The Junior Gleaners of the Rosecrest Ward had a party on June 25. It began at the ward with a get-to-gether with the Junior M-Men with singing, games and dancing. Afterwards, the girls went to Deone Leavitt's, 2430 Lamb-ourne Lamb-ourne Ave., for moonlight swimming and a slumber party on the back; yard lawn. Leader Lead-er of the affair was Betty Conrad, Con-rad, 3194 So, 2700 E. |