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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY; UTAH,' - 'THURSDAY, ' APRIL 2, 1942 Oldest Resident Of Payson Dies At Age of 92 PAYSONJoseph I Townsend, 92, oldest resident of Payson, died Wednesday morning from Infirm . ities of age. He has, been living with his oldest daughter. Mrs. Amy Haynes. On Christmas, 1940. while in California for. the winter he suffered a stroke. The night before a group of 50 Hollywood L.D.S. singers, serenaded him, rendering many of his compositions composi-tions and presenting him a gift. He was brought back to Payson by Mrs. Haynes. He had been very active before that time. He was born in Canton, Bradford Brad-ford county, Pennsylvania, on August 9, 1849, and spent his boyhood boy-hood days on a farm. He attended school in Cleveland, Ohio; Girard, Kansas; and the University of Missouri Mis-souri where he studied science and languages. - At the age of 21, he was offered a professorship in the Agricultural college of Missouri, but poor health prevented his acceptance. Due to illness he came west, locating in Salt Lake City, August 8, 1872 Six months later he Joined the L.D.S. church. At the request of Brigham Young he came to Payson in 1873 to open a high school, the only one in Utah at that time, outside of Salt Lake City. He married Alta Marie Hancock, daughter of a prominent Payson pioneer family, in the Salt Lake Endowment house in 1875. Mrs. Townsend. well known Payson business woman died in 1926. Mr. Townsend engaged in the drug and mercantile business in Payson for over 15 years. He also taught penmanship in the Brigham Young Academy for two years and was a manual training instructor in the Salt Lake City high school. He filled a mission in the southern states. Later in his life, Mr. Townsend homesteaded a tract of land five miles up Payson canyon, which he cultivated and made into a summer sum-mer home called Townsend park. Hundreds of people enjoyed its beauty each year it Is now known as Maple Dell. Mr. Townsend was the author of scores of poems and songs, and for this he was best known. On October, 1940, he was honored by the L.D.S .Sunday school general board at the general conference in the tabernacle, along with Lula Greene Richards. They were the only two living authors of songs In the SundayJiooIBong. books. Many of the best and most widely sung songs of the Sunday school Were composed by Mr. Townsend. Of his 11 children, those now living are, Mrs. Amy Haynes ot Payson, Mrs. Marie Jordan of Las Vegas; N. M.; Bert Townsend of Hollywood, California; Jay Town-send Town-send of . Bouse, Arizona; Villers Townsend of Inglewood, Calif. The bodyq is at the Deseret Fifipind Pilots 'Flying Fools' Are Defenders of Bqtgan Mill ? ; Vy,y ' ;., 4 jiMt wHivpd from KTanlla. i this Dicture of a erouD of FlllDlno Dllots of the PhlliDDine Air Force, who aid ucn. outstanding work in defense of Manila. Captain Jesus A. VUlamor, second from right, was the first Filipino Fili-pino pilot to receive the Distinguished Service Cross, first to be such awarded. He was. decorated by aenetel Douglas A. MacArthur. Now, they're probably seeing service on Bataan, i News Highlights -from- Edgemont CAN'T KEEP GRANDMA IN HER CHAIR She's m Lively as Youngter Now her Backache is better Many sufferer reliev vrngvag backacba quickly, one ttwv discover that the real " of their troublo may be tired kidneys. The kidneys are Nature chief way of taking tak-ing the excess acids and waste out of the blood. They help most people pass about 3 pints a day. When disorder of kidney function permits poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nagging backache, rheumatic psins. leg pains, loss of pep and enrrrv, getting up fights, swelling, pnmncss under the eyes, neadacbes and distinees. Frequent or scanty psssages with smarting and burning some-tunes some-tunes shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, used successfully by miliums for over 0 ycara. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous poison-ous waste from your blood. Get Doui Pills. (Adv.) Mrs. Nellie Cunningham and son Howard of Sacramento, Calif, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. V. Wiscomb on Tuesday. Mrs. Robert Gordon is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs, Bertha Swenson and other rela tives at Lindon. Mrs. Jesse L. Smith is at the Utah Valley hospital for treat' ment after several days serious illness at the family home. Mr. and Mrs. Claude ( Myers of Craig, Colorado, visited with Mrs, Myers' bother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Meldrum on. Tuesday. They were returning from a trip to their ranch at Milford1. Morris Wiscombe underwent a major operation at the Utah Val ley hospital Wednesday morning, Reports from the family home are that his condition is good. Mrs. Don Watkins had her ton erils removed Wednesday morning, but is getting along nicely at the family home. Mrs. J. E. Pinegar spent Tues day at Spanish Fork. The P. T. A. organization of Lincoln high school wish to announce an-nounce that next Wednesday evening. eve-ning. April 7. President F. H. Harris Har-ris of the B. Y. U. will give an illustrated lecture on his trip to Persia. The music department of the high school will furnish special music and the entertainment will begin at 8 o'clock. All patrons of Lincoln are invited to attend. SURVEY MADE ON FATS. OILS WASHINGTON. April 2 0J.R) Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard Is making a survey of fats and oil-important ingredients in-gredients of soap at the request of WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson, it was learned today. After completing his study. Wickard will make recommendations recommenda-tions to Nelson on what, if any, action should be taken. SMALL PLANTS BILL APPROVED WASHINGTON, April 2 U.R) Senate Wednesday passed and sent to the house a bill providing for creation of a $100,000,000 smaller war plants corporation under the war production board to stimulate production of war materials in small business establishments. The vote on passage was announced an-nounced as 81 to 0. The new agency would be empowered em-powered to take war contracts and farm them out among small businesses and to make loans to small firms which need new money to take ipart in the war effort. An amendment sponsored by Sen. Francis T. Maloney, D., Conn., and adopted by the chamber, cham-ber, authorizes the corporation, to use small banks as fiscal agents. ine bin was drafted by the sen ate small business committee headed by Sen. James E. Murray, D., Mont. It ie designed to meet charges that war materials orders are. being concentrated In the Hands of ;a few larre firms, and that small businesses are being left out of the production drive. -Sh r Posture Parade ' Squad Announced Rickenbacker Hits Politics, Greed in ' Nation's War Effort . SALT LAKE CITY, April 2 U.W Col. Edward- V. Rickenbacker, in a short pause at the Salt Lake City airport, Teusday, eaid . that "American youths are being cru cified on- the altar of selfish greed, skullduggery, and politics." Rickenbacker. World War I air ace, paused in Salt Lake while on a tour of the nation's - army air corps training centers, t- Tn straight - from- the- shoulder talk Rickenbacker, now attached to the U. S. army air corps reserve, re-serve, said the nation's war effort ef-fort is anything but a money-making money-making spree. "That American bromide, 'Give us time' is the nuts," "he asserted. Rickenbaker has already visit ed nearly half of the nation's army air corps training centers. He said that America's warbirds of today have the same fire and spirit that the kids of 1917-18 had and if possible, more. i i At Fort Douglfcri Gsrmans to Hake iDasporate Did to f Cot Supply Line BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS United Pre Staff Correspondent .LONDON; April 2 (U JO Naval circles warned today that Germany Ger-many would make a desperate bid to shut off the Allied arctic supply line to Russia and indicated indicat-ed that British heavy fleet units were guarding the Norwegian coast from which big German ships . might leave to join the attack. It was intimated that the greatest naval battle of the war might be fought off the northwest north-west Norwegian coast if the 35,000 ton German ' battleship Tirpltz and other big German ships, based at Trondhelm, sought to break to the open sea. A spokesman admitted that Britain had been forced to increase in-crease escorts protecting convoys of American and British supplies to Russia in expectation of German Ger-man attacks. Informants said that with the lengthening days of spring and the approach of the great spring campaign on the Russian front fiercer and more effective attacks might be expected on the Allied convoys by Berman surface warships, war-ships, submarines and airplanes. "The Germans realize the importance im-portance of supplies for Russia and hence are outto prevent them from reaching either Murmansk or Archangel,1 a spokesman said. Murmansk and Archangel are the great Russian arctic ports. to which Allied supplies are flowing from the Atlantic. It la noted that in the first big Five Complete Flight Training Shops With Eyes On the Headlines Five flight students at the Provo airport have completed solo flights during the past few days, according to Merrill Christopher-son, Christopher-son, airport manager. ' They - are Dwayne Christensen of Fayette, and Dale Johnson of Provo, students in the B. Y. U. civil pilot"! training school; and Bob Sward and Ivan Madsen o'f Provo, and GJen Cook of Cedar Valley, students of Mr. Chris-topherson. Chris-topherson. German convoy attack 2uring the week-end, Germany used only small surface ships in addition to submarines and airplanes. But at any time, it was indicated, the Germans might try to put their big fleet units -into action. CHICAGO, April 2 UJ9 Mra. eyes on the headlines. . In a circuit court hearing' on. atttt frv umlrfiffi mftlnterw ance, her husband's counsel pro- duced bills forwarded to his client, Bi-foricic w. Reiss. 40. ice cream manufacturer. They showed that within two weeks she purchased. 10 slips for sto; is cans oi musn-rooms, musn-rooms, 72 cans of condensed milk Th uttomev. Frank B. '.Theed. who said his client reported Mrs. Geiss had 150 pounds or sugar on hand when - they separated on Dec. 23, showed bills for purchases purchas-es between Jan. 6 and Feb. 14 of 150 pounds more. . . Joyce in Charge EXCHANGE USES GIRLS SAN FRANCISCO. April 2 (U.R) The San Francisco stock exchange ex-change today began using girls clad in slacks and jackets, as markers on the sales board to replace re-place men who have joined the armed service. Mortuary and funeral plans are awaiting arrival of his children from out of the state. V r- r The Telephone Hour' tvlll be heard Starting Monday April 6th Tunc in any NOC Red Network Station M.- ssbbb. i s 0 wi II I PLEASANT GROVE High lighting preparations for Alpine school district field dav. to be held here this month, posture parade par-ade participants of the Pleasant Grove high school began practice Thursday. These girls will be hostesses to other posture parade entrants from Lincoln, American Fork and Lehi, states Miss Laura Banner. physical education' Instructor, in charge of this event. Chosen to lead the parade are Flora Hooley, Beverly Harris and Baroara Rasmussen. who carrv the national flag: Rettv Jean Thorne, Virgie Gillman and Jane Brown, school flag; Ruth Beck, Jeniel Cullimore and Diane Thorne, junior high school banner. Other girls who are to march are: Kathryn Olpin, Helen Winters, Win-ters, Colleen Matthews, Edna Hof-fines, Hof-fines, Anna Lou Rogers, Alta Mae King, Bliss Jarvis, Jean Baxter, Naomi Steele, Beverly Kooyman, Dawn Marie Adams, Joy Freeman, Free-man, Mary Lou Matthews, Louise Brimhall, Reba Hahn, Ireta Flanders, Flan-ders, Mildred Roundy, Marjorie Young, Margie Green. Vervene Monson, Shirlee West, Lucille HaUiday, Carol Christiansen, Joyce Fugal, Madge Hooley, Ruby Jeppson, Ola Fowlke, Marie Harper, Har-per, Marilyn Warnick, Ruth Brown, Edna Hooley, Mary Jane Green, Beth Radmall, Melba Kirk, Marcia Wadley, Mary Jane Green, Elolse Richards, Doris Peay, Dorothy Ann Nelson, Elaine Olpin, Ol-pin, Harriet West, Irene Warnick, Joyce Hooley, Barbara Jarman, Alene Rasmussen.. Betty Mae Simper, Dawna Mae Marrott, Marie Harper, Phyllis Pearson, Barbara Lynn West, Susan Winters, Evelyn Smith, Dawna Vee Foutln, Elaine Loader, Load-er, Earlene Loader, Mildred Roundy, Ora Jense, Beth Radmall, Alice Johnson, Dawn Etta Swenson, Swen-son, Maxine Atwood. Lora Dean Hudson. Dolares Nelson was named nam-ed as substitute. GUERILLAS ORGANIZE SUN VALLEY, Ida-, April 2 (U.O A task force to repel enemy attack at-tack on the : mountain airports; dams and defense installations has been organized here among men trained in horsemanship, skiing and dog sledding. The group has been named the Sun Valley Commandos and was made up of a group of 30. westerners west-erners pledged to perpetuate trfi Idaho tradition 'of duerilla 'fighting- ';:v . . . Oysters change sex from ' male to female, and from female ! to male. SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 (U.R) Maj. Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce today to-day became commanding general of the ninth .corps area at Fort Douglas, Utah. He succeeds Maj, Gen. Jay L. Benedict who will be transferred to another command, Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt commanding general of the west ern defense command and fourth army, in announclg Joyce's trans' fer, eaid he was selected because of his intimate knowledge. of the military situation existing in the western theater of operations and because of the quafities of leader ship he has demonstrated. Joyce has been commander of the ninth army corps at Fort Lewia. Wash., since Oct. 25, 1940 He is 62, and a native of New York. FARMER CALLS AMBULANCE COLUSA, Cal., OLE) When W C. 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