Orson Clark-11/23/81 - Pg 29

people.

Interviewer: Over what?

Orson Clark: Over the court house. That existed for quite a number of years.

Interviewer: Do you remember anything about how the church divided the people between the Democrat and Republican Party in Farmington?

Orson Clark: No. There didn't seem to be much difference.

Interviewer: Politics were never very important.

Orson Clark: No.

Interviewer: I know that in some areas in Salt Lake City, all the Mormon families on one side of the street were Republicans and the families on the other side of the street were Democrats. The bishop said, "You're Democrats, you're Republicans."

Orson Clark: We never had anything like that. You didn't know whether your neighbor was a Democrat or a Republican.

Lucille Clark: They just went to vote.

Interviewer: Was there much reading material in your home, when you were growing up?

Orson Clark: We always had lots of it.

Interviewer: What kind would you have?

Orson Clark: There were good church works, of course. Good books written by leading people.

Interviewer: Did your family subscribe to many newspapers?

Orson Clark: Oh, yes. They always subscribed to the Deseret News.

Interviewer: What about the Tribune?

Orson Clark: No, my folks didn't. Not very often.

Interviewer: Were there any other newspapers that you found in your homes at the time?

Orson Clark: County papers.

Interviewer: Clipper and some of those? That's interesting that