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Show Adventurer-Writer Relates True Tales Of American West Orem-Geneva Times- -Wednesday, May 7, 1986 "MVES Takes State 4-A Drama! By Jeanne Thayne They say everyone has a book to write. Charles Alma Wilson, government govern-ment trapper, hunter and adventurer, had two books dogging him for years but he nearly waited too logn to get them on paper. Wilson will be 85 this October. Those two books, both important and fascinating pieces of American history have been beautifully lithographen in hard back and are now available locally. What took him so long? "Just lazy, I guess," Wilson said while visiting the Forest Wampler family in Orem last week. Actually, it wasn't laziness or the lack of motivation. It was the lack of a collaborator. Wilson found one in his cousin, Trilby Northcott Redding, a former legal secretary in the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney William T. Thurman's office in Salt Lake City. Tribly also has been in Orem this past month recuperating at the Wampler home from surgery. When Wilson became depressed following his wife's massive stroke in December, 1979, a stroke that rendered her completely mentally and physically incapacitated and confined to a nursing home, it was Trilby that encouraged Wilson to take this time to write his books. She not only offered encouragement, she backed it up with an offer to do all the typing. She did - a task that took several years - beginning when they both were living in Camarillo, California, and ending in Story, Wyoming, their home country, and near the setting for the books. In addition to the memories of high adventures and life-threatening , experiences spanning more than half a century, Wilson had noted, diaries and documents backing almost everything. The first book written by Wilson is "The Return of the White Indian," a sequel to an earlier book written by his father, Elijay Nicholas Wilson in the early 1900's, titled "The White Indian Boy or Uncle Nick Among the -Shoshones." That book was widely read here and abroad. It is the story of Wilson's father who ran away while a young boy to live with a fierce tribe of Shoshone Indians in western Wyoming. Wilson has compiled all editions of his father's book and published it dually with his sequal, giving readers a double treat. "Writing the books is a response to the many calls and letters asking what finally happened to Uncle Nick," says Charley. When Nick Wilson returned to his home as a 1986 marks the first year Mountain Moun-tain View High School has been a school member of the 4-A Utah State Drama Competition. In this first year--the Mountain View High School Drama Department under the direction direc-tion of Charles Lynn Frost has captured cap-tured the First Place Sweepstakes Trophy. With a score of 79 points the Bruin Team took the championship honors at the University of Utah on April 25 and 26. Mountain View was followed by Alta High School in second se-cond place with a score of 75 points, and West Jordan High School in third place with a score of 73 points. Cottonwood Cotton-wood High and Woodscross High School tied for fourth with 71 points. This victory is the third consecutive con-secutive State Drama" Title Mountain View has taken, having taken the 3-A Championships in 1984 and 1985. Members of the Mountain View Team are as follows: Markus Anderson, Ander-son, Jed Knudsen, Karl Savage, Sean Oviatt, Daren Butler, Mark Lyons, Jared Skousen, Celia Patten, David Mason, Kelly Spencer, Darlene Fox, Janette Jensen, Matthew Siufanua, Camille McKendrick, Julianne Brown, Gloria Watts, Andrea Loper, Kerri Quist, Susan Johnson, Debbie Hawley, Val Rowley and Michelle Morris. The state winners were honored in an assembly for the Mountain View Studentbody where they were all named members of the M.V.H.S. NUMBER ONE CLUB of 1986. Markus Andersonwas also name Best Supporting Actor in the 4-A Tournament Tourna-ment for his performance in the competitive com-petitive One-Act Play "LONE STAR.", The Mountain View Drama Department now begins preparations for the June presentation of " A FUNNY FUN-NY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM" at the International Inter-national Thespian Conference at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. They are one of five productions being be-ing presented on the Mainstage Evening Even-ing Catagory from across the United States. To save room in lunch boxes, use empty pill-boxes with snap-on tops for items such as sugar, salt and pepper. ;7 NECK PAIN? BACK PAIN? HEADACHES? young man, afterjuving-arnong the exciting story of "Charley's war with a snosnones, ne married ana rearea a family, and blazed the first road over the Teton Pass settling first on the east side of what is known as Jackson Hole County, then later moving back over the great Yam-Pa-Pa to the base of the Tetons, settling the little town of Wilson - named after himself. ' That's where Charles Wilson grew up. "As the White Indian Boy's son, I have written and continued his many life stories of friends, families and settlers. It is our history of the American West of which we were a part.'.' The cover jacket describes the book as a story of the days when wild Indian tribes still freely roamed the .mountains and plains - a true Charles Alma Wilson, author, and Tribly Northcott Redding, Red-ding, collaborator, pose with recently published books while visiting in Orem. account of excitement and adventure that will appeal to adults as well as young people. It is a story of courage and challenges and excitement. Wilson's second book accounts for the 12 years Charley was a hunter and trapper for the U.S. government in southwestern Wyoming where it was his responsibility to prevent - or stop - predation on livestock. It carries a passionate and powerful message about the horrors of thalium, cyanide and the poison known as "1080" used by the government to stop the predators. "There still are places Qut there where even the grass won't grow," says Wilson. "There's places where there's no living thing, not even a bird." The book leaves no doubt about Wilson's indignation with man's own short-sighted disregard and abuse of his environment. Even more, the book tells the IVIE CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC 682 North 500 West Provo, Utah 84601 375-2420 Pay To New Patient $ -J 00.00 THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND .00 CENTS This check valid toward the following: $10.00 Off X-RAYS; $50.00 Oft Spinal Examination; $40.00 Off Recommended Recommend-ed Treatment. ABSOLUTELY NO OBLIGATION WITH THIS OFFER.' : '.. Offer good with recommended course of care only. Offer void where insurance pays 100 of claim. Most Insurance In-surance Programs Cover Chiropractic Treatment. . white wolf that nearly became his undoing as a professional hunter and trapper. Charley learned "to never, ever work on circumstantial evidence!" But it was his experience with a beautiful, black mustang stallion that almost cost him his life. Alone on the desert floor of the Great Divide Basin, Charley tells Of a f rigid night struggling with his own fears, knowing that death was close. These two books have barely scratched the surface of Charley Wilson's great adventures. "He has 18 years of daily diaries,1' says Trilby. She wants him to get started on those. "Those stories ought to be told," she says. Charley's willing but it better not take him another 30 years to think about it. Seminar Will Help Small Businesses Avoid Bankruptcy With a tremendous increase in Utah County's bankruptcy rate in the past five years, a new center at Brigham Young University is offering counsel in an attempt to save small businesses in Utah. The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) offers to help local business through seminars and private consultations. More information informa-tion can be obtained by calling 3784022. -An explanation for part of the bankruptcy increase is a "ripple effect" ef-fect" beginning with the situation at Geneva Steel. Chris Meek, a faculty advisor to the center, says Geneva's problems deflate the economy. One of the major problems in the upcoming years will be helping Utah County become independent of Geneva if the plant does, in fact, halt all production in four years. "First, you've got employees working for standard industry union wages with good benefits. Such conditions con-ditions are going to be hard to replace and there won't be jobs available to accommodate them," Meek says. . It is possible, and is the hope of the BYU center, for the county to get back up on its feet after such a loss if the planning stages begin now. Meek says small businesses could help replace the jobs lost. 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