WE ARE ABOUT HALF WAY BETWEEN MOTHERS AND FATHERS DAY,

THE FIVE NEPHI JONES KIDS ARE HALF WAY BETWEEN FATHER AND MOTHERS DAY, SO WE THOUGHT WE WOULD CELEBRATE THE WEDDNIG DAY OF TWO GREAT PARENTS WHO TAUGHT FIVE RENEGADES THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING WORK FUN; LOVING AND RESPECTING EACH OTHER; RESPECT; PRAYING AND HELPING OTHERS, INCLUDING STRANGERS; OLDER AND LONELY PEOPLE AND I WILL NEVER EVER FORGET BOTH PARENTS SAYING HOW CRITICAL IT WAS TO ALWAYS VOTE FOR THE BEST PERSON RUNING FOR ANY POLICTICAL OFFICE AND AS FAR AS I KNOW WE DID, INCLUDING THE DIFFICULTY I HAD BEING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, WHICH REQUIRED A LOT OF HEADACHES TO DO, BUT DID AS OUR GOOD FOLKS ASKED. NOW THAT ALL OF US "CHILDREN" ARE OVER SEVENTY AND HAVE KIDS AND THREE OF THOSE KIDS HAVE A TRUCK LOAD OF GRANDCHIDREN AND GREAT GRANDKIDS, WE CAN TELL OUR GUARDIAN ANGELS WE DID THE BEST WE COULD AND THEY ARE NOW ON THEIR OWN, BUT PROUD OF WHAT WE TRIED TO DO. THIS IS AN OLD VALENTINE CARD THAT HAS THE SAME MEANING AS WHEN IT WAS PREPARED AND WRITTEN BY KENT JONES IN 1956 AND ADDRESSED ON THE BACK TO "FATHER AND MOTHER" FROM KENT JONES BUT THE REAL LOVE WAS FELT BY WESTON, HAL, KENT, GARY AND JAYNETTE BACK THEN AS WELL AS EVEN MORE TODAY.                                                                           

                                                                       

                                    

IT'S TWO MONTHS AWAY, BUT TIME TO PREPARE FOR UTE STAMPEDE

 WHEN THE JONES KIDS OF NEPHI-THE ONLY THING THAT WAS CONSTANT ON OUR MINDS WAS THE JULY EVENT OF THE GREATEST RODEO IN AMERICA. WE KNEW THEY HAD BIG TIME RODEO'S AT THE COW PALACE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND AT YANKEE STADIUM, BUT NOT AS GOOD AS IN RURAL NEPHI, UTAH. EVERY MORNING, I HAVE MY COFFEE AND KEEP TRACK OF THE GREAT WRIGHT BOYS OF BEAVER COUNTY, AS THEY ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO JUAB COUNTY TO CLAIM THEM. YEARS AGO, IT WAS THE THREE FULLMER BROTHERS OF WEST JORDAN, WITH GENE FULLMER BEING THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD IN MIDDLE WEIGHT, AND I BECAME GREAT FRIENDS WITH HIM AND DROVE HIM TO OGDEN TO SPEAK AT A LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE. GENE PUT ON SOME WEIGHT AND HIS NOSE WAS AS FLAT AS A WALL, BUT STILL WAS TOUGH AS NAILS TILL HE DEPARTED WHEN HIT DEADLY WITH DEMENTIA. NOW WE GET TO FOLLOW SEVERAL UTAH COWBOYS WHO ARE NOW KICKIING THE BUTTS OF THE TEXAS BOYS. THE RODEO SEASON IS SLOW RIGHT NOW, AS THEY ARE AT THE RANCH IN MILFORD HELPING THEIR SISTERS WITH THE RANCH WORK AS THE GALS KNOW HOW TO BRAND AND DOCTOR THE CATTLE BETTER THAN THE BOYS. RIGHT NOW STETSON WRIGHT IS THE ALL ROUND CHAMPION IN LEAD AND FIRST PLACE AS THE SADDLE BRONC, BUT BROTHER RUSTY WRIGHT IS IN SECOND IN THE WORLD AND THEY ARE BOTH TOUGH, BUT HELP EACH OTHER AS WELL AS THE OTHER WRIGHT BOYS OF RYDER, STATLER; SPENCER; JESSE,JAKE AND THEIR TEACHER ICODY AND . THEIR ARE MANY OTHER UTAH BOYS FIGHTING TO STAY IN THE TOP FIFTEEN THAT GO ON TO VEGAS FOR THE FINALS, WITH JOSH FROST TAKING FIRST PLACE IN BULL RIDING IN TEXAS. AND NOW ADAYS, THE VEGAS STRIP FANS GOT USED TO THE JONES BOYS WEARING THEIR COWBOY HATS AND LIKE IT! WHEN THE BLACKHAWK ENCAMPMENT SLOWED DOWN IN 1951, THAT WAS WHEN DR. P. L JONES WAS THE MAYOR AND HE GRAPPED OTHER GUYS TO PUT THE UTE STANPEDE TOGETHER, BUT WE DON'T GET MANY OF THE AMERICAN NATIVES TO JOIN US AS THEY ARE  DECLINING. FIRST RODEO COMMITTE WERE COPS OF E.C. SHERWOOD; JACK BROUGH, THEN RAY JACKSON; A JUDGE AND A DOCTOR, SO THEY KNEW HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE "VOLUNTEER". FLORENCE CHAPMAN WAS THE QUEEN OF BOTH THE BLACKHAWK ENCAMPMENT AND THE UTE STAMPEDE AND DR. J.C. SORENSON BROUGHT IN THE STOCK UNTIL OUR GREAT HERO-COTTON ROSSER TOOK OVER AND WE STILL LOVE HIM AND ANNOUNCER CHUCK PARKINSON. THEY NOW GET TO RIDE  "SPIRITUAL STEEDS". BUT FOR NOW LONG LIVE ALL THE GREAT COWBOYS OF UTAH AND IT IS NOW A FOUR DAY EVENT. I FLUNKED MATH AT JUAB HIGH, BUT IF YOU ADD UP WHAT THE WRIGHT BROTHERS HAVE EARNED SO FAR THIS SEASON, THEY HAVE GOT ABOUT A HALF MILLION DOLLARS SO FAR, AND IT AINT EVEN SUMMER TIME, BUT THEIR GREAT WIVES CAN HOLD THEIR MONEY TO PUT UP HAY FOR THE CATTLE. FIRST PHOTO IS OF COTTON ROSSER THEN SOME OF THERIGHT WRIGHTS. OTHER UTAH COWBOYS ARE MASON CLEMENTS; HAYES WEIGHT; DEAN THOMPS0N (injured);COOPER BENNETT; COOPER JAMES; TYLER BINGHAM; CASH ROBB AND SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE WRIGHTS TEACHERS-CODY AND BILL WRIGHT AND THEIR MEDICAL DIRECTOR-EVELYN(MOM TOO)-AND SHAREE, MOM OF RUSTY, RYDER, STETSON AND STATLER, WHO JUST MAY GET SO CONFUSED, SHE JUST MAY SAY "HEY YOU" LIKE MY FOLKS DID WITH FOUR SONS ABOUT 10 MONTHS APART!

                                                                                      

WAS IT PROPER TO SLAVE TRADE ON BLACKBOY HILL AT WHITE LADIES STREET

I LIVED IN ENGLAND FOR ABOUT 6 MONTHS, THEN WENT ON TO THE LAND OF WALES TO DO RESEARCH ON MY MOTHER'S HARRIS KIN WHICH CAME TO AMERICA TO JOIN THE MORMON CHURCH IN 1855. AS I WALKED AROUND, I DECIDED TO PUT SOME MONEY IN ONE OF THE LARGEST BANKS IN THE BRITISH ISLES. IT WAS CALLED MIDLAND BANK AND I DEPOSITED 5 DOLLARS AND THREE CENTS, THEN WHEN I DEPARTED, I THOUGHT I WOULD WITHDRAW THE MONEY, AND TAKE MY TEN DOLLARS OF "SHILLINGS", BUT KEPT THE ACCOUNT BOOK WITH ME. I ASKED SOMEONE WHY THE BANK WAS LOCATED ON "BLACK BOY HILL" AND I  WAS DIRECTED DOWN TO WHITE LADIES STREET FOR ALL MY QUESTONS. A POLICE TYPE GUARD WAS POSTED THERE AND I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE HUNDREDS OF PRISONER TYPE CELLS WERE  FOR. IT WAS A QUESTION THAT HE DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR, BUT FINALLY GAVE IN. THERE WAS A WATER WAY NEAR BY AND HE INFORMED ME THAT IS WHERE THEY BROUGHT ALL THE BLACK SLAVES FROM AFRICA TO BE SOLD IN AMERICA AS (FREE) SLAVES! THERE WERE HUNDERDS OF CELLS FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, BUT HADN'T BEEN USED FOR A HUNDRED YEARS, IT WAS A PITIFUL SIGHT, AND IT WAS CALLED WHITE LADIES STREET, BECAUSE THE BUYERS WERE WOMEN WEARING ALL WHITE AND THE SLAVES WERE KEPT BY THE BUYER AND IN MOST CASES SHE WOULD USUALLY SPLIT THE FAMILY UP IF SHE OR HUSBAND DIDN'T APPROVE OF THEM. ABE LINCOLN FREED THE SLAVES, BUT IT TOOK A HUNDRED MORE YEARS BEFORE THE MIDLAND BANK WENT BROKE, WHO HELPED THE SLAVE OWNERS. I QUICKLY ASSUMED THAT ALL HISTORY BOOKS (LIKE MOST POLICIANS) NEGLECT TO TELL THE TRUTH; THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!

WE LISTED STUDENTS GRADUATING FROM JUAB SEMINARY OF 1931

Years ago, those who completed Nephi/Juab High School in 1928 had the option of  attending more Seminary classes during the 1931 school year. That new school was built more than a hundred years ago, and the builder who taught my father-Alma Jones about plaster and brick building made the guarantee the building would last a Century, and we are way past that now. The School Board voted to tear that building down as it was too old and not big enough for the Junior and High School kids,so they disregarded common sense and built a new one at the top of 7th North, with the local folks thought it was stupid because of the expense and most students walked to school. But the school folks said they were loaded with money and could afford it, and just (increase the taxes, like they do now)! As my mother was the only Secretary to the Superintendent and school Board, she later told us kids it was " a stretched fib" but that was during an era we didn't call Cancer by that name, but only the "C word" and Mom didn't want to call it a blatant lie! Our mother graduated in 1928 with James H.McCune writing the words to the School song and gave permission to change the word "Nephi" to Juab High School. Any of the students that had already graduated from High School had the option of continuing Seminary classes if they wished and many did. The Seminary Building was located in a two story brick building located left of the UCCC building and South of the Nephi Western Credit Union. Students of Nephi High School would take high school classes, then dash across Highway 91 for Seminary. A few years ago I became friends with Supt. Robbins and liked and respected him. I loved history as he did, and his major was History. I told him in 1965, we only had 2 buses with 100 kids in our class, and asked why he had more than 20 with only double the students. When he responded with having a lot of the " special kids" I told him in my time, each of us students took turns helping each of those students, and we respected them and cared deeply for them. Oh well, such is Politics. Now  the reason I am typing this. With my sisters help, we have tried to put the names of the 1931 Seminary graduates and all came up with a Declaration with their signature as to who had kept the promise to get married in an  LDS Temple with a simple yes or no. Don't call any of the No's Heathens as their are trainloads of great couples that didn't make it there, one reason is folks like LaVon Harris didn't marry Alma Jones til he got back from the World War Two Era. So there!! We hope you can read some of the names and smile as you just may know them. 

THIS IS IRIS HEMENWAY, ONCE OF DETROIT, THEN FLED THE RIOTS FOR UTAH

Iris was a single mother of three girls, which she raised right, as a great mother. Because of my Brain Fog, which was a result-not because of the Chinese Virus, but due to the "One shot Vaccine".  As a Nephi City Official, we were forced or "pushed into taking the Vaccine "to protect the citizens. That big push was made by the "Health" official of the Six County Government" that controlled funding from the Federal Government for the smaller government officials in south Central Utah. As I sat through that meeting of long ago, I got the impression from the Health official that us local folks didn't have enough sense to judge for ourselves, but to take the word of a lone Health official in DC, and not those of us who grew up with "good horse sense". Nevertheless, our Nephi City Attorney later informed us that if we didn't go along with that directive, which included the Utah Government, and other Political Elected and Selected Leaders, we could all be held liable for not following "healthy" advice. I had one of those internal "Guardian Angel" inclinations not to take the shot, as it was pure poison invented to kill us all in these the last days, so I held off. It could have been a push from those beyond who often veered me away from evil, as I remember one family lady said the best way to get rid of a cold or flu was to open a bedroom window or my father who always say "go outside and feed the horse" and the stroll up and back from the barn must have gave me the fresh air I needed as my cold or gut ache seemed to magically disappear. I held off getting the Vaccine until I was asked to go to the local Hospital to pick up a friend who just got over the "Chinese Flu". I was told that the Hospital staff had security at the door to forbid entry without showing that I had the Vaccine. I then listened to others who said the shot was invented by a Doctor from America, who went to China to have it made there, then convince free world leaders to take it to help with the downfall of America. Well, I decided to drive up North and take my chances, at a big box store, then returned and got the friend out of the back door, but I was surrounded by two tough nurses, and two Security guys I respected. I got my friend out and went home to work outside and pull weeds. My internal thoughts were right, I tripped over the hose and fell three times on the cement drive way. Each time I fell, I lost a lot blood and had a severe headache. I knew it was a Subdural Hematoma, and to get inside and stay awake when the sun came up and called my near by sister and she wondered what all the blood was from and I gave her a medical description. The ambulance came and off we went to my second home in an emergency room. Although I was partially dead, I could hear the phone call, and the U of U. told the E.R. Doc to ask what Vaccine Shot I had taken. When I heard the brain Doc say that, he said get your helicopter ready as that sounds like we are getting Victim #5. But 2 Doctors worked on me, as well as a most Excellent Nurse who knew what I was going through, and helped guide the Doc's to drain the brain blood. That is the long story or foundation for the gal in the photo. Before the above story, I had worked as a Law Enforcement Officer in Utah, then in the Criminal Justice System, and asked to be a Correspondence Constituent for the Governor's Office. I wasn't overly trained in legal rules but was a Constitutional Wanna-be and that got be hired through and worked with four different Utah Governors, with only one who liked me. The others thought I was being too honest in my letters back to other Governors or Legal-Bengal's. They thought I had "too much" good horse sense but the elected folks signed the letters. With one of the Governors many appointed people, and he had appointed a woman who was the daughter of Iris Hemenway, as noted above. Iris was 20 years older than me and a short, white haired woman who was full of vim, vigor and vitality, and a gal who had worked as the Warden of the Woman's Prison at the Draper, Utah State Prison, who had enormous love in her heart, but prisoners would move when she cracked a whip and gave an order. We became friends and secretly asked for advice, and I freely gave. With clearance from bosses, I asked her I if she would take on a new role as the Drug Court Judge for the 2nd District Court, and she readily accepted as long as I stayed as her Boss, which was granted. She was perfect for the position and treated those convicts as human beings, but after she would give them a break, and they violated the condition, they were chained up and sent up the creek without a paddle. We became close friends and when I turned 60 and she was 80, we learned to play piano duets together while her granddaughter (Lily) got a headache listening. The daughters of Iris loaned me the piano until Lily picks it up. She lovingly calls me Grandpa, and I have lost her phone # and those of Jennifer and Jean. If you know their whereabouts, please send them a note before I too join Iris Hemenway, whose Hero is George Patton. Photo is of me and Iris at Governors Ball.

THE MARRIAGE OF a G. I. AND A GAL FROM JAPAN CHOSE TO LIVE IN NEPHI, UTAH

Today we tell a true story of love binding forever. I have traveled many countries, liken unto each of my siblings, and although my travels have been to the Pacific Rim of China; Viet Nam and Cambodia (until shots were fired", but never been to the Empire of the Myriad Islands, the Land-of-the-Dragon Fly, Japan. I hear tell that Japan has a wealth of sunshine, of flower-blooms, of bird songs, and a land of beauty in their people, trees, sea breezes, butterflies, exotic birds, moonlight and starlight and hundreds of years of dynasties filled with verses to fall in love of the written and seen beauties. But we will start at the beginning of the togetherness of Carl Calderwood and Sekiyo Saito Calderwood who once upon a time lived and loved in Nephi, Utah nearly fifty years ago, and we recently found the notes of their life written by my mother-LaVon Harris Jones, who made it a point to welcome new people in town. They lived in a half-home, which was common when we feared a bomb hitting us from Russia. That was at 175 West 5th North, and as I recall their was another one like that up the street where Steve Jenkins lived-a friend of my brother and where I passed the Daily Herald as a kid. When my mother met with the Calderwood family they had a daughter-Julie who was educated and loved fishing, gardening and raising Chrysanthemum's-the flower of Japan. Carl Calderwood was born in 1926, in Provo, Utah, while Sekiyo was born in 1932 in Miyageken, Japan. Carl attended Provo High, then joined the U.S. Coast Guard; World War Two, then trained in Alamea, California aboard the USS Pascao. During the Korean War, he was in the U.S. Navy, putting aircraft carriers in commission while in Tacoma, Washington. He was then transferred to the Merchant Marine on U.S.N.S General Patrick in Oakland, California on his way to Wake Island, then Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, then back to the USA. Indications are, he was under fire in all too many frightening experiences, as most Veterans have been for the past several wars. However, Carl's heart found a different comfort when he found with Sekiyo in Yokosuka, and although it was love at first sight, the Japanese custom of getting hitched is different than Americans getting hitched quick. Before they could make plans, Carl was transferred back to a war we called Viet Nam, on the U.S. N. S. Gordon. Carl and Sekiyo met up after many letters, and they knew it was a forever match and not a weekend frolic.(writers term, not my mother). The parents of Sekiyo were dead, so she had to get permission for their marriage from her older brothers. The oldest brother said yes; the second brother said "No, he is our enemy". Now it is the third brother's turn and asked her if she is sure she is making the right decision and she exclaimed "Hi, Hi", which means Yes, Yes! Since Carl had fifteen minutes before his ship was leaving, they ran to the American Consul in Tokyo and were married on July 3rd, and then again at the LDS Ward offices in Japan. Carl got back to Provo until his wife obtained Japan's strict rules of departing and they soon became a couple and daughter Julee was born on April 14, 1969, at St. Marks Hospital and little Julee felt she was in heaven, as she had Chad Winn as her 5th grade teacher and double proud Chad was also their LDS Bishop and great neighbors. In talking to Chad, he said the basement only house was built by Bill Russell when he lived to the east of that dwelling. Wherever they are now, my guess is their happiness blossoms like pink petals in Japan.

I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE, BUT I THINK IT'S TIME TO BRAKE FOR A BREAK

 It is time to brake for a break. Regards of age, read and weep or giggle. Humor is always needed.

1. I started with nothing......and still have most of it.

2. When did my wild oats turn to prunes and Bran?

3. I finally got my head together, but my body is falling apart.

4. Funny, I used to think I was funny and now I don't remember being absent minded.

5. All reports are in. Life is now officially unfair. Do the best you can.

6. If all is not lost, where is it? A lost sock is a good glove in the snow.

7. It is a heck of alot easier to get old that it is to get wiser!

8.  If at first you don't succeed, try not to look too astonished.

9.  The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging!

10.I tried to get a life once, but they were out of stock.

11. I went to Snow College to be a Stand-Up Comedian. Now I am a Lay-Down Comedian.

12. It was all so different before everything changed.

13. Some days you are the dog; some days you are the fire hydrant

14. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

15. A day without sunshine is like a day in Seattle.

16. Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accident's in the back seat cause kids.

17. If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees.

18. Never knock on Deaths door, Ring the doorbell and run. He hates that.

19. Please lead me into Temptation. I can find the way myself.

20. When you are holding the good cards, why does everyone want to play chess?

21. If you drive I-15 in Utah, their are only two type of drivers...the fast and the dead.

22. As a kid, all my toys were unbreakable. Now they are useful to break other toys.

23. At Juab High, I could roll down the cement stairs. Now I wonder why I have brain damage.

24. If you are living on the edge, make sure you're wearing a seatbelt.

25. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

26. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one dies.