| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION college students During those years Royjournalistic ambitions were nurtured on the school newspaper the Grizzly staff member asfreshman he became its associate editor whenjunior and the editor assenior That experience was augmented by working as printerdevil at the Cache Valley Herald one of two papers that on August 1931 would join to create the present-day Herald-Journal Members of the Class of 1930 graduated atbleak time to launchcareer What was undeniably the worst economic recession in the nationhistory was beginning to make itself felt The stock market had crashed on Black Friday October 29 1929 American business and industry gradually staggered tonear-halt and the job market dropped to unparalleled lows Nevertheless Roy added pressroom work to his skills at the Herald and managed to survive payroll reductions until accepting his brotheroffer at Nephi There not unlike many people on weekly newspapers he became bothprinter andwriter on October 21 1931 At the time Roy joined it the T-Nflag was augmented byline of type reading What Nephi grows or makes makes Nephi grow Most issues were eight pages half of them boiler plate -pre-printed sheets purchased from Western Newspaper Union bearingvariety of feature stories comic strips and syndicated columns among which were scattered advertisements that for the most part trumpeted the virtues of various patent medicines Movies playing the Venice Thea tre featured Lewis Stone later Judge Hardy in numerous films starring Mickey Rooney Helen Hays whose career would amazingly span more than sixty years into the 1990s and Robert Young televisionDr Welby three decades later Western fans thrilled to William Boyd whoone day be better known as Hopalong Cassidy bus ticket from Nephi to Los Angeles could be pur chased for 10 but few had 10 Three loaves of bread sold atlocal bakery forthin dime Per-pound prices for some cuts of lamb were only five cents pot roast cost nine cents and butter 25 cents Whenproject to gravel 11 miles of Highway 91 between Chicken Creek and the Millard County line was 532 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
