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Show THE FOLLOWING IS AN INTERVIEW WITH M. H. KERR, DIRECTOR, TAX COMMISSION, CONDUCTED BY MITCH HADDAD AT THE STATE CAPITOL BUILDING, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ON AUGUST 4, 1970. MH: Okay, Mr. Kerr, the first thing I'd like to know is a little bit about yourself please. MK: Well, I was born in Salt Lake City, and when I was four years old, my parents and family moved to Payson which is sixty miles south, and that's where I went to high school. Then I attended the Brigham Young University at Provo. I didn't go to work for the state government to begin with; I worked in private industry. I started out working as office manager for a garage and then I came to Salt Lake, and this was in 1941, and went to work for Bens and Arms Company in their production facility here during the Second World War. And I went to work there as a clerk in a purchasing department, was later promoted to purchase order auditor, and then a buyer. From there I went to work for a short time with the Army Services Depot at Ogden as civilian in charge of procurement for the engineers supplies section. I came back to Salt Lake, and I won't hit all of the places I worked. I went to work for the--this was still in wartime--I went to work for the state of Utah as cashier for the State Land Board. I worked there for a year and a half, and then accepted a job for the M. H. King Company in Burley, Idaho as off ice manager for that company. |
