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Show Tabernacle Choir Holds Interest For Townspeople Springville has a special interest in-terest and pride in the accomplishments accom-plishments of the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir which returned return-ed Wednesday morning from a tour of the eastern states and Canada. Director Richard P. Condie is a native of this city and attended schools here as did his wife, the former Blanch Mendenhall. Members of the choir also include two Springville people, Mrs. Lynn Walker (Nedra Whitney) daughter of Mrs. Fern Whitney and Scott Thorn, now of Salt Lake, a son of Mrs. A. G. Thorn of Springville. Spring-ville. The choir received an overwhelming over-whelming welcome and a won- derful ovation wherever they went, members reported. In some places their visit turned to a reunion as friends or relatives rela-tives met after the concerts. Byron Wardle of Springville, employed in New York wrote that he had his ticket for the concert there months before and that he believed the huge crowd applauded a full twenty minutes after the concert. |