Show utahan dies twice but bu is still counted among the living very much mach so JA A G NORD FOUST 8 SER VIS O 0 r TELLS OF READING HIS OWN ORr obituaries MARIES A 0 nord super supervisor of the wa satch national forest has had a rare experience he lus has read bl his ow own ob auary in the newspaper newspapers at two different din erent times ho lie has gone mark twain one better because twice he haa said the report of my death was somewhat exaggerate cL nold the h e first ume time was when mr nord W was 18 a ranger in the teton section of idaho back in 1918 1916 A rumor went out from the depths ot of the forest that barger nord had bee been n shot in the back by a poacher and the rumor spread until it was acce accepted rAed as a fact act and recorded in newspaper newspapers all over the in section after the dead man had come to life he met an uncle on the station platform in batse and the good relative know whether to run from the awful presence of a ghost CT or embrace a resurrected be inc mr horde nords next experience was early in january 1918 when the world war as raging he ile was with his company at new york ready to board the transport ru I 1 tor for france then rhen spinal meningitis broke out tn in the ranks and the men w were ere detained for inoculation so r nother company aa was sent in its place everyone knows what happened to the lt was torpedoed by a submarine and sank sarik with i ren en losing their lives again mr nord ord was reported as dead and 01 f 0 1 11 A AG 0 NORD again he was to chuckle over his own obituary TO get at the beginning of the story mr nord was bom born on february 19 1893 near R aby idaho he ie received his education in the schools of spokane wash fremont county idaho and the 1113 business college at idaho falls ator tur leaving school he engaged in farming stock growing and until 1913 when he entered the forest service as a guard on the national forest in 1818 1910 he sas as appointed assistant ranger in the porcupine district of the where here he experienced considerable difficulty with trespassers and poachers it sas as during this time that he was re ported shot in december of that thai year he was made ranger in charge of the victory district and continued tn in this alignment assignment until tur fur loathed for military duty in wo 0 to ber 1817 1917 in december he enlisted in the company compy engineers and ailed sailed lor for france on january 29 1918 as a sergeant upon arriving in france his corn pany was divided into four organizations lual and mr nord was I 1 aced in charge of the moulin En engelbert telbert detachment tach ment to develon an operation in the forest of vin anes fievre after the armistice was signed mr nord was W sent to another part pan of fievre to engineer the initiation of a new forc forestry stry operation with a battalion of service troops in r september 1919 mr nord reentered the forest service as a ranger on the Tar ghee hec and in 1923 took charge of the construction of the greys river riser road in star valley wyoming he ile was later made assistant supervisor of the wyoming forest crest with headquarters at kern kem in may 1923 1925 he was promoted to supervisor of the ashley national forest with headquarters at vernal where he renit remained tried until last december I 1 when he as made of the wasatch forest and mm moved ed to salt lake tribune |