THE OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER 7A OGDEN, UTAH, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1956 Decides to Start Saving for Old Age; He’s Only 106 Now ANAHEIM, Calif. (UP) - Peter V. Ortiz has opened a bank account to “start saving for my old age.” He is 106 years old. Ortiz, who was born in Lampazoa, Mexico, April 2, 1850, does his own cooking, and in spite of the fact that he is losing his eyesight due to cataracts, his house and yard are neat as a pin. He crossed over into Texas as a toddler at a time when the Texas-Mexico border shifted so often it was difficult to know in which country you were living. At the time of his birth, Zachary Taylor was president, the Civil War was brewing and the Mexican War had just ended. The Republican Party was born when he was 6. Ortiz taught himself to read and write English and Spanish while he held a job as a sheepherder in Texas. He worked in a roundhouse for the Santa Fe Railway in New Mexico, played piano and accordion with a dance orchestra and worked as a cook’s helper in a Bisbee, Ariz., restaurant. He even was adopted into an Indian tribe in Wagon Mound, N.M. Ortiz came to California in 1907 and opened a restaurant at Pomona and later owned a lunch wagon at Newport Beach. He took a job at an Anaheim orange packing plant and retired from his position as picking foreman at the age of 92. Ortiz bought his small vine-covered frame house after the depression of the 1920s that swept away most of his life savings which he had invested in an orange grove. He married Josephine in 1902 at Bisbee. Though she was crippled in a fall, she continues to do needlework in her wheelchair. The first presidential ballot cast by Ortiz was for William McKinley after he took out his citizenship papers. He has no comment to make on his long life except that he always has tried to be honest - Enjo Arro The Mod Enjoy delig dri O AR except when he married Josephine. “I gave my age as 10 years younger. I didn’t want her to know how old I was,” he said. FINE MANURE! $2oo for ½ -ton Pickup or Trailer Load WESTERN LIVESTOCK CO. South of Wilson Lane on Highway 84 Open 7 Days a Week