Show Boys Build Bud 1 Summer Tower Retreat i j li w a E I r I y w h kp r 0 aAd or v vor v 6 N b yh v 6 9 1 1 p dr M ru a dr r y H TWO BOYS and anda a dream made this tower a reality The youths Alan and Ted Mecham designed built and paid for the structure by themselves It makes a cool private retreat during summer days and nights Staff photo A tree tower every youths youth's vision of hal happiness is more than a vision for far Alan Sweat Ifield field and Ted T-d Mecham two I Vernal elect architects who ha have ve built buill a tower on stilts in inthe inthe the hack back yard of the thc Sweat Sweat- field fied home at South 2nd West Alan is the year old son of Mr and Mrs E A Tex Ted Js is the year 16 old son of ofIr Mr Ir and Mrs 1 Dean Meacham DeanI I yI KJ i ORIGINAL ORIGIN plans for a Cot tree house were ham ham- hampered pored by in the available trees The two imaginative youths drew up blue blueprints prints for the tower using foot 20 poles set three feet deep deel in the ground as sup sup- supports ports Using money from paper rout rout- routes I es and dishwashing dish bing jobs the two bought material and built builta a 12 x 12 foot room with a ing- ing r catwalk tw lk atop the four poles The project begun In the spring of last year was ready for use that summer serving as an outdoor bedroom for the builders THEY SOON outgrew the small room however and reo re- re remodeled modeled it this spring A 6 x 6 foot main room with a desk cabinet and a built in counter was in installed along with a hall hall- hallway way and a bedroom with bunks and a porch The cabins cabin's exterior is finished except for painting along with most of the interior Work is still being done on oe the hallway at present THE MAIN room will even even- eventually be wired for a hot plate for cooking The boys plan pian to have com coin privacy and to prevent invaders the ac ac- ac access cess ladder can be pulled up through the catwalk hatch LEE HARTONG son of Mr II and Mrs Allan L Hartong for for- former mer residents of Vernal helped launch the project Ill He moved from Vernal with his parents before the tower was completed ed cd The work has been done by lire Ule boys alone Now while hile oth oth- other er boys just yearn for a sane sanc- sanctuary of peace and solitude Mr lIr and Mr Moe- Moe ham can enjoy the sound of crickets and meadow larks from twenty feet liP up and enjoy the summer breezes blowing across the catwalk of their summer retreat t |