| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME service write your Representative or Senator telling them thatwhat you think Every word uttered or written in defense of the village mail delivery will aid in keeping it His editorials of the 1920s frequently focussed on the system of state highways then being developed Obviously being onprincipal route was vital to the future of all Utah communities For many years Warner also used his front-page column Twixt Thee and Me for editorial comment bit of street-corner research provided material for this 1937 observation Incount of cars driven on Main Street betweenando clock Saturday night 87 passed through the business district and of these nine had only one headlight burning and 11 were withoutlighted tail lamp For your own safety and the protection ofthe fellow driver minute to check the lights for night driving will give you much added insurance and more nights of peaceful sleep Spurred by reawakened manufacturing largely the result of pre-World War II tension in Europe Americaeconomy began to improve later in the 1930s Commented the Press editor Duringperiod when nearly all thought has been turned toward attaining complete economic security through Washington it must not be forgotten that in the last analysis it is the initiative and common sense of the individual upon which the welfare of the nation finally depends This is as it should be indemocracy Elisha was charter secretary of the Spanish Fork Rotary club in 1921 and later belonged to Kiwanis and Lions clubs He wasChamber of Commerce officer in both Spanish Fork and Payson PoliticallyDemocrat he was elected to the State Legislature and State Senate but was narrowly defeated in the 1947 County Commission race Long before it became science Warner carried out straw polls in and around Spanish Fork from which the Press forecast with surprising accuracy how voters would mark their ballots firmly believe that ifstraw vote is carried out correctly and honestly it can predict with astonishing exact 647 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
