Read all about it. Do Minorities get special job status? What really caused America to enter World War One? Who was Mary Pickford anyway? Where in America is Clear Lake? Which is worse-Drug or Oil Cartels? Remember when tens of thousand people fled San Francisco? Here are some papers I collected from places I visited or worked. Different papers and other media think and describe things differently, so all folks should use their own discernment and knowledge. Perhaps only "The Shadow" knows!
I gave up watching any news on TV more than 45 years ago. Back then, I was working with a variety of police operations when the TV reporters had access to the radios we spoke on. Often time those reporters were on the scene of a special operation and interfered with the work. The head people tried to explain the situation, but the media found ways to leak it, and often fouled things up or reported only the things their bosses or editors wanted to show. It was a double edge sword, as often times if police wanted to nab a bad guy, they had to co-operate with the TV news or papers to get the public's help. But not for me. I didn't want to read or see something that was totally false or even misleading. I do remember the time when the best newspaper in the USA was one called the GRIT. I think it went out of business a long time ago. Apparently folks, like the Tabloid Junk that started in the British Isles, then spread here. Anywho, we have a few papers from 40 years ago, as I had the compulsion to save a paper from every State or Country I had visited during 42 years of traveling the globe. I now find more pleasure reading the good old stuff, then use them to start by wood burning stove.
We are uncertain of the exact year this was, but as my mother was the Class of 28, I know it was close to that year, but could have been a couple years before, or even the Class of 29. Perhaps the reader or future discoveries on my part will find out. We do know that the original Nephi High was on Track Street at a block and half East where the Nephi Town Square Park is now located. That building was built prior to 1900, as was a school known as the North School was near the Nephi Pioneer Park, and the South School was near First East and 5th South. The one on Track Street became know as the Central School, but the local School Board was forced to make the top floor of that grade school the "First" rural High School in Utah, and being the Third High School in the State. Now adays, school officials don't feel the pressure from the public as much as they did in by gone days. When scores of students and their parents demanded education beyond the compulsory 7th grade, it was made into a High School. As more students and families moved to Nephi and to all of East Juab County, a new building was completed on Main Street and the named was changed to Juab High School, and two buses were used to bring kids in from Doc Steel's home on the North, and from Mills and Levan on the South. Later, school officials demanded a bigger school and so was one built Eastward and 7th North. On that issue, School officials and politicians didn't take heed to the citizens or the fact that the old Juab High was fit as a fiddle, and my father was taught his masonry skills from the builder who "guaranteed this building will last a hundred years", and it did, as it is now known as the "County Complex", and many of us now recognize how wrong or "complex" some of the unknowns have their way above the folks hat voted them in. Anywho, these are the graduates, and grandchildren of the graduates may, just may... recognize a few folks in their younger days. I for one, recognized Principle George A. Sperry, as his sisters and brothers lived across the street from me, and George was the guy you had to prove your worth to get a Merit Badge for "Home Repairs", which may no longer be on the list to earn an Eagle Scout anymore.
In our "weekend" of learning during earth life, we often change because of age, or because of circumstances, we don't have the ability to remain as is. Some change comes when we hear, see or read about something that helps to adapt. For me, change of direction comes, when I "feel" it inside. Such was the case today. My intent was to go to the Post Office, then to hell with a diet, and get my favorite full Ham and Eggs at a local eatery. For some odd reason, my vehicle went the long way home from the Postmaster. I drove by the old Fourth Ward LDS Church in Nephi, and in front was the Anderson Funeral Home Horseless Carriage. I pulled in and thought for a moment, then recall hearing that Wes Cole had passed away. Although I was not dressed in the proper attire, I "felt" that Wes Cole wouldn't give a dam hoot what I wore. I removed my hat and entered, talking to Mike Anderson and Brace Carroll, who was riding shotgun, but like Barney Fife, I knew that neither of those Funeral Directors needed to carry a bullet. I asked for a program and Brace fetched one. I couldn't help but stare into the face of Wes, and recall his genuine smile of decades before. He was the son of his father, and both had that warm, acceptable smile that came directly from their heart. I was their paperboy of long ago, and each month that I was supposed to collect the fee of $1.60, I felt guilt to ask father Frank for it. Their small abode was on the southeast of Nephi, and their was 13 kids to share that cottage, but I recall the feeling it was a home full of love and devotion. I didn't stay for the funeral, but the gathering was small. I did "feel" inclined to go to the Nephi Cemetery, where the earthly remains of Wes would be lowered. I felt so aware of the presence of early Mormon Pioneers afloat, I had to do some research. Sure enough, the Cole family were directed to help build Juab County, with a Cole establishing a Chicken ranch....yup at Chicken Creek, Utah which is now Levan. Then another Cole was second in command of the Nephi Post Office when the best high school in Utah was operating at full steam on Main Street. Wes became another one of my "Silent Hero's", much like Y.A. Tittle in 1963 playing professional football; John Stockton playing professional basketball; Jesse Owens winning Gold Metals in the 1936 Olympics, defying Hitler's hate and how about short Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier of World War Two. As I was preparing to depart the Church, I greeted a guy that was coming in. It was Bishop Mike Bowring, a local football coach and humble hero to many kids. On to breakfast, and seated at Lisa's Country Kitchen, below the photo of Gordon Kelson, who helped Juab High take the State Basketball Championships years ago. Well done Wes. I will put you in my personal Hall of Famous Hero's who are not the loud and obnoxious, but get the job done.
