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Show Saturday, December 16, 2000 The Park Record A -2 3 - Vanished! A mystery solved after 42 years by Robert A. Johnson St. George, Utah The year was 1932 and the Great Depression was still on. I was in the fourth grade at the Jefferson School in Park City. Utah. We were known as the "upper-enders." Everyone below the bottom of Main Street were known as the "lower-enders." I had lost my father two years before from "miner's consumption" consump-tion" so my mother and three sisters sis-ters and I had to struggle to get by. There was a boy in my class. Junior Heitzman. whose father was superintendent of the Silver King Mine. Junior invited me and another boy to spend the night at his home at the mine for his birthday. I was very excited, so after school I ran home to tell my mother. My mother was from the old country. She was born in Finland, but her language was Swedish so she was what was called a "Swede-Finn." I always considered consid-ered her to be quite religious, but w hen I told her my news she said, J C , you dont have any pajamas and they are fancy people." I didnl come up with any pajamas so my mother said I could use my older sister's. I was naturally reluctant to do that, but i knew, in order to be able to go. I had to follow her suggestion. I put my sister's pajamas in a sack and w as on my w ay. The Silver King Mine was three miles up to the top of King Canyon so we boarded the company com-pany truck to ride to their home. Junior's mother had a nice chicken chick-en dinner prepared and, for the first time in my life. I had pie ala mode for dessert. That night when we went to bed, the three of us slept in the "boys room." As It turned out. we all slept in our shorts so I didn't did-n't have to worry about wearing my sister's pajamas after all. The next morning when we awoke we had hot cakes, bacon and eggs. Log Cabin syrup and strawberry jam regular boys' favorites. After breakfast, Mrs. Heitzman took each of us separately sepa-rately into her study and closed the door. I remember her exact words. "Now Robert, that was a very funny joke taking Ellen Martinson's false teeth." She was their housekeeper and had spent the night. I was frightened and replied. "Mrs. Heitzman. I didn't take her teeth." She replied. "Now come on. It's a very senous matter." Again I replied. "No, honest. I didnl take her teeth." "All right." she said, "You may go, but dont mention it to the other boys or talk about it." I never did. We had a nice dav as it was a Saturday and no school. Junior, as we all called him. was named after his father, Mearle. His father gave him permission to get out the baseball equipment which was used by a team sponsored spon-sored by the mine. We took the equipment and played on a flat area by the large cement mixing tanks. We had the big bats, a catcher's mitt, mask and chest protectors, balls and other mitts, we had it all. We were caught up in the fun of the day and soon forgot all about the false teeth. At least I forgot about them for many years. I graduated from Park Hieh in 1940. World War II came along and I joined the Marine Corps and did my duty in the South Pacific in the invasion of Bougainville in the Solomons, Guam, the Marianas and Iwo Jima. volcano islands. When I was discharged. I came home to Park City and married my high school sweetheart. sweet-heart. Margaret Tessman. and we started our family. I graduated from the Salt Lake Barber College under the G.I. Bill and served my apprenticeship for my license in Park City at Tom's Barber Shop. When the mines cut back on personnel, a lot of miners left the city. I went to work for the Park City School Distnct and had my barber shop in my home and cut hair in the evenines and on Saturdays for 25 years Park City started to flourish again so my wife and I purchased a building at 40 Main Street and had a barber shop in the front and living quarters in the rear. One Saturday I was cutting hair and had a couple of local fellows waiting. As barber shop conversations conver-sations go, one fellow said, "Bob, do you remember the Heitzman house at the Silver King Mine?" I said I did. He replied. "The other day w e were tearing down the back part of the house which was up against the mountain and vou cant guess w hat we found " My mind flashed back all those years and I pointed my barber shears at him (a barber's trait) and said. "Yes I can! You found a pair of false teeth and I know whose they were Mrs. Ellen Martinson's." The fellows in the shop were dumfounded so I told them the story. The fellow who found the teeth said, "I'll be damned!" Seems a pack rat had probably come into her bedroom during the night and took her false teeth off the night stand and stashed them in the wall in the back of the house. The workers also found bottle caps, fruit jar rings, silverware and mattress cotton. So after 42 vears the mystery of Ellen's false teeth was wived. What a coincidence for me to hear that conversation that dav. Make the career change you'll never regret. Get jour Real Estate license right here in Park City! Rotating classes VOU ON STKRT ANY TWE Classes available 6 dajs a week Contact: Karen Oans k-refCardIe?rn:.cni Call: 435-MM289 I SOMff-7355 Tis the feasting season: Approach it with reason The American Heart Association has a meaningful holiday tip: Approach the season with reason. Simplify your celebrations to eliminate stress and modify your menus to eliminate high-fat temptations. tempta-tions. A little extra common sense this tune of year can make your celebrations cel-ebrations more pleasant and make you more pleasant, too. Try to avoid stress. Everybody feels stress at different times, in different dif-ferent amounts and with different reactions. Stress is the bodily or mental tension that results from a person s response to physical, chemical chem-ical or emotional factors. Stress can be phyqeal as well as mental. Stress may be a contributory factor fac-tor to a person devebping heart disease. dis-ease. The American Heart Association offers these suggestkms for dealing with stress during the holidays: Take a serious look at the demands vou are placing on vour-sclf. vour-sclf. Donl be unrealistic in your expectations for family gatherings. People don change just for the holidays, hol-idays, and some of the same everyday every-day problems will still be there. 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