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The Cell Phone Era

Casey Wood

Different items tend to define eras: console stereos of the 1960’s, colored TVs of the 1970’s, boomboxes of the 1980’s, and game systems of the 1990’s. It is safe to say that we live in the cell phone era. A huge majority of the population has or wants to have a cell phone, and many find it hard to function without one.

There are many kinds of cell phones with different plans and models. There are pay-as-you-go plans, family plans, business plans, and personal plans. Models vary in hundreds of different ways. There are standard phones with little more than buttons and an address book, cell phones with MP3 players, cell phones with TV and videos, even to the point of a cell phone with a built in PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). You can do virtually anything technological with a cell phone and as time passes more and more features are being added.
The desired features of cell phones differ from person to person. Elderly people tend to prefer very simple cell phones with large buttons, young to middle-aged adults prefer phones that will keep them organized, teenagers prefer the coolest looking phones, and tech nerds like myself prefer phones that have enough mobile features that the only time we need to go home is to charge our phone.

The primary use for a cell phone differs between people as well. Adults use cell phones for calling each other and keeping in touch. Youth use cell phones almost solely for one purpose: text messaging. Youth text message almost continuously. It doesn’t matter what’s going on, they will be texting. They text in class, on dates, at movies, with family, while eating, and in a million other situations. Texting is the new talking, and for many, texting is easier than talking face to face. In short, texting is taking over the world.

Cell phones are the glue of society. They make planning things, discussing things, finding things, and keeping in touch easier. It is no longer necessary to be in your home or office to make a phone call or arrange a business deal. You can call anybody at any time no matter where you are or what you’re doing.

Cell phone providers offer special deals and opportunities with each cell phone. Certain deals provide free cell phones, others lowered prices on cell phones, and still others give free minutes. Some major providers include Alltel, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and AT&T Mobility.

There are cell phones for everybody, and the market is only expanding and will continue to expand as technology does. It is safe to assume that cell phones will be around for a long time, so if you’re not currently a cell phone owner, jump on the bandwagon and get with the game, because there’s nothing worse than being left behind in a society expanding with the growth of cellular telephones.

Swell Recipes

Orange Sweet Rolls Satisfy the Sweetest Tooth

Kathy Ockey

Helen Wilberg has had an interesting life and has influenced a great many people. Her parents were Cheney and Edria McNeil and she grew up in Orangeville. She married LaMar Wilberg, who passed away many years ago. Now living in Castle Dale, she is the proud mother of the renowned composer and now director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Mack Wilberg, and Julie Wilson, who is also a member of the choir.

Helen taught elementary school for many years in both Orangeville and Castle Dale and remembers many of the local citizens who were students of hers’. Helen’s recipe for Orange Sweet rolls came from one of her students. She was teaching third grade in Castle Dale and her class was making recipe books for their mothers for Mother’s Day. Clayton Cox was one of her students and his mother, Beth Cox, furnished this recipe for the rolls. Helen said her mother made these rolls for many years and gave most of them away to friends and neighbors but she never made them until her mother passed away. The Ockey family has often been the recipients of these rolls and can vouch for how delicious they are. She now makes them to show appreciation for her many friends and neighbors who help her and are so good to her.

Orange Sweet Rolls

Ingredients

1 cup scalded milk
½ sugar
½ Oil
1 ½ tsp salt
3 eggs
6 or 7 cups flour to make soft
2 tsps yeast dough

Put yeast in ½ cup water to soften. Beat eggs, add
milk, yeast, oil and add flour to make soft dough. Roll out dough and spread with melted butter, brown sugar and chopped nuts. Let raise to double in bulk. Bake at 350 until done. Glaze with orange flavored icing and sprinkle chopped nuts on top.
Helen’s secrets to making them great: Beat the
dough very thoroughly and then let the rolls raise until they are more than double.

My Ride

Ready for the Shows

James L. Davis

Bert and Mary Lou Bentley of Ferron bought their 1941 Dodge Power Wagon in 1975 for no other reason then they wanted a four wheel drive vehicle.

“We bought it from a guy in Helper,” Bert said. “He had two of them. I should have taken them both. It cost me $1,100.”

Some 32 years have passed and the old truck has been more than just transportation for the Bentley’s. When they purchased the Power Wagon it was stock gray and while it ran well and had no rust, it was pretty much a basic truck. When the truck started to show signs of rust where the running boards bolted to the fenders, Bert decided it was time to paint it and once he got started he didn’t stop until the old Dodge was a show truck.

Now a brilliant red, Bert’s mother redid the original upholstery in black and red diamond tuck. The original seats were later replaced with bucket seats out of a 1975 Dodge and the dash work was done by Leslie Danzer of Ferron.

Bert made the wheels himself and under the hood was a 1955 270 Hemi that still ran strong. With the truck now a showstopper, the Bentley’s took it on the road to one car show after another, bringing home their fair share of first and second place trophies along the way. With a top speed of not much above 50 mph, the Bentley’s said they haul the truck on a trailer if the show is too far away.

Today Bert has the truck in the garage as he prepares to drop a 1982 360 engine under the hood to replace the old engine that was finally showing signs of age.

Retired now, Bert works not only on the old Power Wagon, but is also modifying a 1975 Dodge truck and tinkering on a 1968 Coronet. He also finds himself helping out other people with their car projects on occasion.
Although the cold winter slowed down progress on the truck, Bert and Mary said they hope to have it
back on the road by the summer.

“Before the shows start,” Mary said.