| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION tion and reporting of baseball the townprincipal sport until schoolboy athletics resulted from the new high school The Reportereditor publisher was in fact skilled trapshooter He became Utahchampion in both singles and doubles and achieved the singular honor of shooting in the Olympics representing the United States Combining straight-from-the-shoulder language withtouch of sarcasm wastrademark of the Reportereditorial columns Typical is one which appeared in 1914 following an ill-fated railroad trip in whichdelegation of Tintic area citizens had journeyed afar for Fourth of July fun Every year the Rio Grande Railway pulls downbig bale of coins from the Tintic people charged the editor and every year this line gives local people the most rotten service imagin able in exchange for their good money Huish went on to describe howheavily-loaded train of five coaches couldnmanage the grade approaching Eureka at night and stalled That the RR company didnhave an extra engine in Salt Lake is improbable the editorial satirized but then whatthe use of spending the companymoney so lavish After considerable delay Huish noted the train crew separated the cars leaving in the canyon two coaches with nearly 200 people aboard and taking the other three to Eureka After unloading they returned for the remainder of the train They didneven have the decency to tell people what they planned to do shouted the editorial so many families were separated for several hours Some day the people will get tired of such treatment and makestand for their rights The Reporter never lacked for advertising support indicating the editoraggressiveness in promoting Eureka and his equally-aggressive defense of his community was popular In the late 20Huish became interested in theatres which he felt would emerge as an even more popular enter tainment medium with the advent of talkies Because he felt strongly about it he turned over the Reporter on May 1932 to Carlos Rusty Rife whobeen his mechanical foreman 560 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
