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Show . :',_ ..' . 8 orne ", ":.:.: ::", .. .., '.,. f ' '.I . ., ' . . I .', . : ·50ris' started a house-building live in the house to guard .lhe business when the boys were old- spring. which came to be known .. ' . , . " ,. . .', : ~r,.. ,They called it , ,Harber,t son ,.as .Military Springs. he said. ~:,:~ -,~: ~ ::>~ ~ ~~Contractors. :an4 bu~.lt ;~m.hY , IIl. '196S . the surrouriding land From page 1 homes in South Weber and the ·:-:.w8$' des1gnated'·,a s the sight for . daneer•. ~YQU also always had to surrounding communities and in , the. Weber Basin Job Corps Cenbe ··on the -'ookout for snakC$. Morgan. ter, a federally funded training Mother used to iake her churn up In 1922 the family moved from .program for troubled youth. The to cool' in the spring in the day. the old rock house into Ogden. center has occupied the site ever Lots of times when we would go According to Mrs. Kendell's son since and once used the home as to .gel the ,churn. snakes would be Earl Kendell. the family was get- housing for several center direc-· wrapped ..around it.. , .sometimes .ting older, and they received an tors and ~mployees. " ratHers: One day when mother offer from Hill Air Force BaSe to .' Though th~ home's exterior is was picking raspbeqi~ . a , big rat- purchase the property that 'was" still well-preserved. little re~ains tier crawled,out from'un'derher... , too good to refuse. . of the original interior. Orilya She . wu :,rSo .. frightened ,she · 'Ke~dell said the military 'want": couple of the 12 pane windows dropped 'alltbe berries and ,ran , ed the property to use water from remain. and one original light fixhome:: fat~er went and hunted it a spring located there for a gun ture. and kill~di~ and said it sure was arsenal at Hill. : "At one time we tried to have a big one·... .. . .. . The house and surrounding the house designated as: a Job She describes how her mother land have been owned by the Corps Historical Archives Site," · worked ,hard raising the children .government ever since. The · said Barbara Aikens, office manana h~j)ing out on the farm. "We· . house was vacant for much of the ager at the center. alwanhad , a .big garden," , she ., time. but at one time it was used . "We wanted to renovate the inwioie~' 7J.ri.j~~ spr.ing it was ,~o, .:~$ a country Club and resort by· terior to its original state and use good t,,? ~~y~ ;all dle Y9ung pota7 " 9fficers at the base, says current .. ',it B:~ a, museum for ~emorabi1,a toes. some, the size of a walnut, Job ·Corps employee Kenneth for the Job Corps from its ineep- , YQung peas and ·corn, and all the Lang, whose wife is the daughter . tion to the present." things when they were fresh and ·of Earl Kendell. They contacted different govyoung. " . . , . Also during the war, different emment agencies. but received no Harbertson and his four oldest ~government employees would reply. · · ~ ·· :· ·, · |
