| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION he was known far beyond his town and county He was in many ways typical country editor And yet in others he was quite atypical for though his zeal for Ephraim Utah was almost limitless he was well-travelled quite conversant with the world that existed outside Sanpete County and well understood its problems His by-line appeared because circumstance so-dictated in columns of such widely-separated newspapers as the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune its namesake in Salt Lake City and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Roscoe Cleon Cox published the Ephraim Enterprise for 35 years and nine months aside fromthree-year span when he was out of the country in the service of his church first He was the in the paperhistory to edit it longer thandecade and it was he who wove it permanently into the fabric of the community After heleft the publisherchair then-Mayor Vertis Neilsen paid him inadvertent but nonetheless sincere tribute Confronted withpotentially divisive problem of much importance to Ephraimcitizenry he said sure wish Ross was still here because he could make things happen and draw our city together First and foremost Roscoe was an editorialist possessed of persuasive skill with words good judgement and common sense unswerving intensity of purpose and relentless persistence Few causes which drew his support failed to reach maturity none of them died for lack of an enthusiastic proponent Following his retirement fellow newsman praised Things he has worked and fought for are now an accepted way of life in Ephraim and Sanpete County His constant struggle for improvement of his surroundings was in that order -first Ephraim then Sanpete which was the 466 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
