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UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION that are solicited first Every time there's a solicitation of funds for any of the 'national' causes, the merchants are hit first and probably hardest. Every time you spend your money outside of Nephi, you're just pushing Nephi's economy down a little more. Nephi merchants hire Nephi people, pay others for services, etc. Nephi merchants are supporting the schools, the city and county through taxation. "Let's BUY IN NEPHI (his caps) when you want to buy. If you can't find it in Nephi, the majority of the merchants have outlets where they can obtain it for you - then IF all local possibilities are exhausted, that's a different story." Nephi's newspaper expressed its viewpoints through editorials for many years before the advent of Roy's personal column, REGularly Speaking. Once its readership was established, however, it became the voice of the Times-News and thereafter editorials were rare occurrences. When used, they generally appeared on page one in support of important community projects or in criticism of matters to which the T-N objected. On July 18, 1935, Roy was married to Emma Zoe Powell, a native of Raymond, Alberta, Canada whose father had moved his family to Nephi in 1925 to accept a position as City Electrician. Their four children are Shirley Birrell, a Brigham Young University graduate who teaches in Fountain Green and resides in Ephraim; Allan R. and Vance P. Gibson, co-publishers of the Times-News, and Daryl R. Gibson, also a 'Y' grad, who is production manager of the Daily Universe, BYU's campus newspaper, and lives in Springville. They also made a home for two foster daughters through the Indian Placement Program, Lula Largo, who earned a BYU degree, and Ethelyn Charlie. Both now reside in Provo. Roy and Zoe were grandparents to 18. Money and jobs remained in short supply through most of the '30s and only the 1939 outbreak of World War II in Europe began to revive America's economy through military manufacturing. As 1941 came to an end, though, the United States, too, was swept into the conflict. Seeing the opportunity offered by construction of a steel mill at Geneva, Abe purchased the 534 |
