Hank Price- our 1st Mayor

Danger!

 Did you know that in 1942 Henry, Mary and their 4 yr old Trudy Price were in Hawaii? Hank was driving his car and was attacked by airborne machine guns. He drove like the wind and got away safely. Did you see the bullet ridden car when they brought it back to Granger?

Here is some info about the community minded Hank Price:

He married Mary Parr in Granger, Utah on August 5, 1937. Early in their marriage World War II broke out ; Price was at Pearl Harbor with the Army when the Japanese attacked December 7, 1941. He was sent to serve in the European Theater, where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge and received a Purple Heart for an injury sustained during a run-in with a tank.

After the war, Price served as a deputy post commander at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City, retiring in 1973. After traveling a while, he returned to his beloved Granger, where he was elected Justice of the Peace in 1974. Price was active in community affairs in the unincorporated part of Salt Lake County known as Granger-Hunter. He served as chair of the Granger-Hunter Community Council, president of the Granger Lions Club, and was an active member of the Eagles, Elks and Moose clubs as well as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and other professional organizations.
Price was sworn in as the mayor of Utah's newest city on July 1, 1980 by Judge David K. Winder. His inaugural remarks focused on the looming dis-incorporation vote. "Don't give the City up. Don't give it to the (County) bureaucrats," he plead. "Give us an opportunity to fail or succeed." Because Zions Bank refused to issue a letter of credit to the new city until the dis-incorporation vote was resolved, Mayor Price and City Commissioners Jerry Wagstaff and Renee Mackay bought gas for the police cars that first week. "When the tanks run dry," Price said of the 15 police cruisers, "it will be my turn. And after they run dry again, Mrs. Mackay will take her turn."

On July 8 the disincorporation vote failed, with 6,542 for disincorporation and 9,239 against dissolving the new city. Price pulled out his trademark victory cigar and waved it as he talked. "If we wouldn't have gone ahead on July 1," said Price, "we would have lost. We showed the guts and determination to make it work. And it paid off."[10]
Defeat for reelection
West Valley City's form of government at incorporation was composed of three commissioners: Mayor Hank Price, Renee Mackay, and Jerald Wagstaff
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