Our purpose in this editorial is to honor the centenarians of Central Utah – the folks who have reached the “ripe old age” of 100 – or better. We don’t know how many there are in this area. We’ll mention only two, both of whom celebrated birthdays this month. One is William Mills Hone of Pleasant Grove, a native of Benjamin, who marked his 104th birthday Nov. 4, having been bom in 1874. The other is Riosalia Huff Hone Peay of Lake Shore, a native of Upton, Summit County, who was 102 on Nov. 22, the day before Thanksgiving. She was born in 1876. Interestingly, Mrs. Peay is a sister-in-law of Mr. Hone, but the two are not “blood relatives.” Mr. Hone, a beekeeper much of his life and later a poultryman, fell the other day and broke a leg. He is now in the hospital. A man who has taken pride in his voting record, he cast his first ballot in 1895 and didn’t miss an election during an 81-year period. Quite a record, all right! Mrs. Peay, quite remarkably, still spends many hours quilting and reading newspapers and magazines. She walks without the assistance of a cane. More than a century is a long time to live. Let’s turn the calendar back 100 to 104 years and see what was going on when the centenarians of today were toddlers: – Ulysses S. Grant was serving as President when both Mr. Hone and Mrs. Peay were born. -Brigham Young was still the second president of the LDS Church. He died in 1877. -Alexander Graham Bell, father of the electric telephone, was making a great sensation with a display of his invention at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. (In Utah, Ogden built the first telephone line in 1879.) -Electric lighting wasn’t instituted in Utah until 1880. – Brigham Young Academy was founded in 1875, a year after Mr. .Hone’s birth. but Utah State University (formerly Utah State Agricultural College) didn’t come along until 1888. -The Union Pacific – Central Pacific golden spike ceremony and railroad linkup at Promontory was in 1869, only five years before Mr. Hone was born. It would be interesting to have a roll of centenarians in the counties of Utah, Juab, and Wasatch the Central Utah area served by The Herald. We invite next of kin to contact us with their names, and to keep us posted as others, now approaching 100 years, reach that milestone. We honor all such persons for their contribution and achievements in life, and take this opportimity to congratulate them and wish them well. Direct Line Congress, which at times seems to have some difficulty in getting the message from the public, should now have considerably less trouble in that respect with one segment of its constituents. A special system has been installed in the Senate Annex to facilitate communication between deaf citizens and Capitol Hill. Specially equipped teletypewriters in homes, schools and organizations serving the deaf make contact with the Senate terminal via ordinary telephone lines. When a light signals connection, a caller types out a message to be relayed from the communication room to the designated senator’s office. The teletypewriters and other system equipment have been donated by Westem Union, which along with AT&T, lTT and RCA among major private enterprises supports similar special services for the nation’s more than 400 thousand deaf citizens. These now include facilities for two-way communication for individuals, news and weather reports and catalog ordering via teletype.