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UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION 1962 to the State Senate seat his son, LaVaun, was vacating. DeMar Teuscher, widely-read political editor of the Deseret News, observed sons had often sought to follow their fathers in politics, but this was the first of what he termed 'Follow the Son' efforts. The race was close, but Dr. G. Stanford Rees of Gunnison captured the Senate post. Roscoe was an in-demand public speaker and his calendar was invariably filled with engagements for patriotic, devotional and civic talks. Among the more significant achievements in which the Enterprise played a leadership role was tunneling through East Mountain to bring additional irrigation water to the Ephraim area. It was a theory Ross Cox propounded at every opportunity and a project on which he reported minute details of construction progress. The paper, was, in 1954, an enthusiastic editorial supporter of a project linking construction of an indoor swimming pool and recreation center with a diesel generating plant for the municipal system. Its series of explanatory stories and editorials favoring the plan, which voters subsequently endorsed, earned for the Enterprise the coveted Community Service Award jointly sponsored by Utah State University and the Utah State Press Association. In July, 1939, his Church put to its use Cox's knowledge of the missionary program by calling him to preside over the Honolulu-based Hawaiian mission. There, while his homeland was divided by controversy over its potential involvement in another European conflict, he aired his opinions in the Star-Bulletin and also used his journalistic skills to create a widely-read mission publication. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7,1941, found the Cox family living in the near vicinity. Not until mid-1942 did they return to Ephraim and resume publishing the Enterprise. While he and his family were gone, the paper was published by A. N. (Andy) Rytting, who later would own the Tremonton Leader. Ross's ongoing pet project was Snow College. He rec- 470 |
