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Show Lions l.iOl1h liOl1h . ( Club : Iuh ElectsOfficers ElectsOfficers Elects ElectsOfficers Officers for forComing forComing Coming Year YearNcw N New Ncw l . W OUICl officers . rs for the com1ng coming com1ngYl comingyear commjytar Yl year fir were Wl.Tl WlTl . . elected e\'ctld e 'ctld ctld elccttd \ ( ' by the Ver Vernal Vernal Vernal nal Lions Club at a luncheor luncheon luncheonheld luncheonheld held at the Central Cl.ntral Clntral . Schoo School SchoolbUlldmg Schoolbuilding building bUlldmg Wednesday WldnesddY evening of oflast oflast o : last weekJune wll.kJune week wll.k wllk . June Ba Bastian < ; ttan recently return returned returned returned ed from Europe after escaping lsCap10g lsCap10gfrom escapingfrom from from a G German .rman rman < . prison camp and andVel andUel anc Uel Vel Hunting who was on boarc board boarda a supply ship off oIf Okinawa Okmawa when when1t whenit wherit 1t it was bombed by a Jap suclc1de sucicide suclc1deplane sucicideplane sucicidplane ( plane were guest speakersThe speakersThe speakers speakersThe The Lions w were .re re < . held spell spellbound spellbound spellbound bound as the young paratrooper paratroopertold paratroopertold paratroopeltold told of his capture impnson imprison impnsonment imprisonment imprisonment ment and two unsuccessful unsuccpssful at attempts attempts attempts tempts to escape ebldpl . He told of oftravellmg oftravelling oltravelling travellmg travelling in 10 frigid frIg1d box cars to toprison toprison tprison ( prison with wlth living IIv1l1g and dead deadpnsoners deadprisoners deacprisoners pnsoners prisoners in 10 n the thL uncomfortablp uncomfortable uncomfortablpand uncomfortableand uncomfortabhand and filthy car cars . He was forced forcedto forcedto forcecto to stand barefooted barl.footed barlfooted bartfooted . in snow for forone forone foione one and a half hdlf hours while whlle whileGerman 1 i 1German iGerman German trooper troopLr twisted lWlsted histhumbs hIS hISthumbs hi ; thumbs with w1th a pair of pmchlr pinchers pinchersattempting pincher'attempting pincherattempting ' > ' attempting to . extract l.xtract lxtract lnforma informa lnformation information information tion on the movement mOVl.ment mOVlment . of troops troopsHIs troopsHis troopsHis HIs escape escapl . was a .compllshui compllshui accomplished accomplishedwhen aecomplishecwhen < . .compllshuiwhl.n whl.n whln when . he hl . and his companions companlOns hie Iud hid - - for lot several hours in a " dugout dugoutGerman inGerman in inGerman German territory while thf the thfYanks theYanks iYanks Yanks swept the Jerries from trom the thea thearea iarea a area a areaMr Mr ar Hunting . , , an enKineer engineer engineerthe in inthe inthe " the Maritime lierv serv gery geryce Fe ' : ce , , jjaN bald td his hisVictory hisVictory Victory 8 s .P P jp . had eached iseached tlkt tlktiawa ki kiAVI tl iawa AVI lU bud budwas ) was attacked by Jap lap Japplanes lapplanes planes and sunli sunk when oft off otishoi shore shoreHe shoreHe e He was VlWJ standing on the opposite oppositeside opp03 appo ite iteside ' side of the ship from where thebomb the thebomb t ie bomb struck He waited for forlifeboat a alifeboat alifeboat lifeboat and after clearing the theship theship t ship was finally picked up and andtaken andtaken a ; taken to a hospital shipTwo ship " . Two . solos were sung by Mrs MrsMargaret MrsMargaret M - Margaret Caldwell accompani accompanied accompaniedby ) by Mrs R L Livsey Llvsey LlvseySecretary LivseySecretary Secretary R n L Livsey Llvsey an announced anflounced cnounced nounced flounced a list of 14 100-per 100 per lOO-per lOO - - cent centattendance centattendance cc nt attendance members President G P Roth Rothawards presen n IG-7eat IG 7eat 1areafi 1areafiawards - ' awards to Ii'ranC IiranC F'fanc Ffanc ' ' * ' Fel Felt ; and AI- AI Al- Al AIvin Alvin - vin E Weeksesld W leks ' } e ld nt Rath Roth Rathw Rothwas w was s prese presen = a Ive lvez ) : " liQ liott as an anaward anaward award for far securing five new newmembers newmembers members membersNew New officers afficers were electedas elected a as asfollows . follows lollaws William WilUam B Wallis Wa111a ' , , . president presi resl resldent dent , Robert Rabert S Livsey Llvsey first vicepresIdent vicepresident vice presIdent . , Charles R Henderson lenderson . , second secand vice president Rulon RulonHacking.t RulonHacking Hacking.t Hackingt Hacking.tthird Hacking . , third vice president E ELeland ELeland Leiand Leland l Bennion tsennion ennion secretary , . Rich Richard Richand ard and D Rust , , , talltwister thiltwister t.iiltwister tiiltwister . C RJeffries RJeffries R RJeftries Jeftries Jeffries lion tamer Harold M MLundell MLundell Lundell , , cholster choister Harold ReaJIer Realer ReaJIerand Realerand and C Laurence Fox directors , Stan King is the hold over direc direr direrfor director torVice forVice tor for Vice President C R Hapkmsconducted Hopkinsconducted Hopkins Hapkms conducted the meeting |