LORIN CECIL TONKS Lorin Cecil Tonks was bom 22 Jury 1934, to Cecil Tonks and Harriett Ellen Fenner in Round Valley, Utah, at home. He was the second of two children. During his early childhood, his father developed an allergy to hay dust when the cattle were fed in the winter time, so the family often went to Arizona in the winter. Lorin began kindergarten in Mesa, Arizona. Upon moving back to Utah, Lorin's father decided togive up farming. He moved his family to Morgan into the home just east of the old blacksmith shop on Commercial Street near the lower underpass (247 North 500 East). The family lived at the above address until Lorin was a junior in high school. Then they moved in with their grandfather Tonks in North Morgan (66 South 200 East). While Lorin lived in North Morgan, the beginning of a number of changes took place. Morgan farmers used to grow many acres of sugar beets and the beet dump was directly across the street from Lorin's grandfather's home. Lorin would watch and assist at times with the dumping of hundreds of truck loads of beets, watching as a conveyer belt elevated them into the waiting railroad cars to be shipped to a factory to be processed into sugar. Today all evidence ofthe beet dump has disappeared and not a single sugar beet is grown in the Valley. Also, Lorin remembers when the farmers would grow acres of peas, and the Del Monte Company had a large processing plant in a large rock warehouse across the street from Clark's Feed. These facilities, in their prime, processed the famous Del Monte "Spring Garden" peas and the famous "Spring Garden" sauerkraut. During the rush time ofthe pea harvest, the boys Lorin ran with would often con the drivers of the wagons loaded with peas to throw them a pitchfork full of peas. Says Lorin, "We would almost founder on newpeas."Often it took a couple of days to recuperate from the feast. Lorin grew up working for the farmers who produced these cash crops. "It was a way to earn spending money. I was pleased to have a job where I could work eight to ten hours each day in the hot sun for twenty-five cents an hour so that I could buy some of the things I wanted. This enabled me to purchase, among other things, a show ticket for ten cents and a large ice cream cone for a nickel," says Lorin. Today the tedious, back-breaking jobs of farming are about a thing ofthe past. The cash crops of peas or cabbage are not grown in Morgan and the Del Monte plant has moved from Morgan to Idaho.