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Show Thursday, January 5, 2006 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Page 7 Inside ... Art Briefs 11 Obituaries 11 Police Beat 10 CELEBRATIONS, OBITUARIES, LEGAL NOTICES AND MORE Celebrations Flying through turbulent weather Editor's note: This is the fifth story in a series about Ray Mutheny, a Lindon resident. The typical typi-cal route of heavy bombers from the U.S. to England during WW-U was from Bangor, Maine, to Gander, Newfoundland; then to Greenland and Iceland; and finally to Ireland or Scotland. Then it was on to an assigned airfield in eastern England, from which missions flew to the continent. It was a very dangerous flight, complicated by the distance, bud weather, and even occasional false veterans radio signals from German submarines. Sometimes the crews on the bombers endangered themselves, as Matheny explains. Li Is'" J yU I Brianne Hamilton Sister Brianne Hamilton, daughter daugh-ter of Randy and Kelly Hamilton of Alpine, Utah, has recently returned from serving in the Ecuador Quito IDS Mission. She spoke in a sacrament service , Sunday, January 1, 2005 in the Alpine Al-pine 6th Ward, 901 E Village Way, Alpine. Burch, 80th The Burch family would like to announce the 80th birthday of their father Stanley Burch, January 3, 2006. He has been a quiet, gentle supportive influence in our lives. His kindness to others has been constant and without fanfare. His steady perseverance has brought him many successes in life. His love of horses has brought him experiences experi-ences with community service as well as appearances in several movies. mov-ies. We are grateful for the example he has given as, in the every day living of his life. We honor and love him with all of our hearts! Stan doesn't like it much for people peo-ple to make a fuss, and if you bring a gift he won't open it. So if you see him, just look into his blue eyes and wish him a Happy Birthday. Celebrations Wedding, anniversary, missionary mis-sionary and other announcements announce-ments must be turned into the paper by Monday at 2 p.m. of the week you would like the notice to be printed. Call 756-7669 756-7669 for details. Classified ads CALL 756-7669 TO PLACE ONE TODAY 'May your dome 9e b(essed(ry good fortune this ifotiday Season, . and may you and your (ovedones enjoy . alltfie comforts of a very merry and joyous season. We reaffy appreciate your business andiaok forward to serving you again, soon. ('71 W II A. V Ryan Fehlberg Elder Ryan James Fehlberg, son of Rondo and Mary Fehlberg of Orem, has returned frftm the New Zealand Auckland Mission of the LDS Church. He will speak in the Cascade Ward, 481 E. Center, Orem, on Sunday, January 8,2006 at 9:00 a.m. Mayoh, Harris Douglas and Rebecca Mayoh are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Holly to Michael Harris, son of Evan and Cynthia Harris of American Fork on Friday, Fri-day, December 9, 2005 in the Mt. ' Timpanogos LDS Temple. A reception will be held in their honor on Friday, January 6, 2006 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the American Fork Twenty Sixth ward LDS Chapel located at 975 North 60 East in American Fork. All friends and family are invited to attend. Michael is a graduate of American Ameri-can Fork High School. He served a full-time mission for the LDS church in the Philippines Bacolod Mission. Holly attended Wasatch High School in Heber and graduated. She also graduated from the Utah College of Massage Therapy and is now a Licensed Massage Therapist. Both Holly and Mike.own and operate their Massage company Healing Perfection Therapy. Utah County News www.heraldextra.com r r I Br .. -A efore we left Syra-j Syra-j j I case, N.Y., the two J S pilots were up all f-N night, drinking. The J J next morning, just after we took off on our first leg on our way overseas, over-seas, the pilots got out of their seats, went back into the bomb bay and went to sleep. Though I was just an enlisted man, the flight engineer, I had to fly the , airplane. But I loved it! Out of Bangor a ways, I got the pilots up. The pilot wanted to land somewhere near Penobscot Pe-nobscot County, Maine, for reasons he didn't tell us. He left the engines running, got out, went into the terminal, then ran back. I guess he met a friend and got a package. Men would smuggle anything they could into the airplane. Bangor was snowy, icy, and muddy a miserable place. There we were issued emergency emer-gency kits' the tropical kind: fishing gear, mosquito netting, D-bars, matches, cigarettes, etc. Then we flew on to Gander, Gan-der, Newfoundland, where we would spend the last night in "familiar country" one of the last places where the crew would have access to lots of liquor. Again, the pilot and co-pilot were hung over when they got in the plane. As we took off, the weather was bad. Pretty soon the pilot got up and said to me, "Matheny, fly this SOB to Greenland." "Yes, Sir," I said. The pilots again went back into the bomb bay to Red Cross chapter: We can help with NORTH COUNTY STAFF Whether preparing for a blackout or a major earthquake, earth-quake, all Utah residents should own a 72-hour kit complete com-plete with enough food and water for each member of their household for three day Garr Judd, executive director of the Mountain Valley Chapter, said. And the Red Cross can help. "Not only does our chapter sell 72-hour kits at a price that most families will be able to af f A O fJTIFfo :.o V fcil if K i u. m$ m aft -WtP Po ok Ray Matheny is the crewmember in the back row, upper left. sleep. This was not an easy leg 1,000 miles over the ocean, and I was scared to death. I invited Nevells, another crewman, crew-man, to sit in the co-pilot seat. It might have been a routine flight, but then the weather closed in. We got a fix on the radio beam out of Greenland, but then the wings started icing up. Fortunately, I had learned from my uncle, a pilot for Western Airlines, how to operate the de-icer boots. The boots have three tubes, which alternately inflate and deflate. You had to wait until some ice formed, then turn the boots on. If you inflated right away, the ice would build up anyway. I decided to fly over the storm, so we went up to 17,000 feet, but I couldn't get out of the storm. We had to give the ford, but we are also equipped with information on everything from how to purify water, to how to escape from a house fire," Judd said. Local government and civic leaders have long been urging citizens to prepare themselves and their families for disaster. Preparedness is a civic responsibility respon-sibility that each family needs to fulfill, said Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security. Secu-rity. "For those people who say; 3 wvw. heraldextra.comyellowpages J January Clearance Sale 'IS '. I 3 Ready to Fabrics Gfttware . . y a i And much morcm Open Zlonday - Saturday &t 9;O0 &xa Located at 128 H. 100 E. Lchi, UT crew walk-on oxygen bottles at that altitude. Finally, I went down to about 500 feet, and the ice began to melt. Greenland finally came into sight, but we had missed by a short distance the fjord where Base B-31 was located, because of the overcast. So we were sweating it out. We'd been told to watch for a wrecked ship, lying at the mouth of the fjord, and suddenly, there it was. As we made our approach, I saw crashed airplanes all around in the cirque, planes that hadn't made it a C-47, B-17's, B-24's. We stayed at the base three or four days until the weather lifted, then took off, in a spiral climb at 500 feet a minute. The ice cap consists of about 6,000 feet of ice on top of the rock, and our map showed peaks 'Well, I can take care of myself no matter what, I don't have to prepare,' there is an altruistic element to the extent that they are a burden on government govern-ment services that takes away from what's available to help those who can't help themselves," them-selves," Chertoff said. "That preparedness is a matter of civic virtue." Items in a starter 72-hour kit should include water, food, hand and body warmers, blankets, blan-kets, light sticks, flashlight I.I.IJJMJ Tuesday January 3rd Saturday January 24th Wear .... of "unknown altitude." Now I'm the one telling the pilots how to handle the icing on the airplane. We went up to 27,000 feet (though there was no need for that altitude), then came down out of the overcast. over-cast. When we looked back, we could see the east coast of Greenland. The winds had blown us back over the sea. The ice disappeared, and we flew on to Reykjavik, Iceland, where we stayed two or three days. But the weather closed in on us as we were sitting on the runway to take off. The pilot said, "I'm going to make an instrument takeoff" this despite the fact that this was probably his first. He opened the throttle, and off we went that was the name of the game. The weather became the most turbulent I had ever experienced, ex-perienced, and all the crew got airsick except me. We finally landed in North Ireland, then later lat-er flew to our base in England. These excerpts from local veterans are courtesy of the Orem Heritage Committee. Complete stories'of the veteruns will eventually be put on the Orem City Web site, wiviv.orem.org. Readers aware of any veteruns who have written about their military service are asked to arrange to have these archives in the Veterans History Project, Library of Congress. Phone Don Norton (225-H050) on how to do this. 72-hour kits with extra batteries, whistle, first aid kit, hygiene items, extra clothing, copies of important impor-tant paperwork, radio, cash and prescriptions and other necessary medications. The Mountain Valley Chapter Chap-ter has a goal of making preparedness pre-paredness easy, convenient and accessible to all. For preparedness information informa-tion visit the store at 865 North Freedom Boulevard, 373-8580, or go online at httpmountain-valley.redcross.org. httpmountain-valley.redcross.org. l.'.l I . I I .. . . (&01K76G-9201 356-1444 '::ip; rw lT i 71 m I WIW.GREATDEALSFURNITURE.COM r i r mi i ii ii i ' COPY 450 W. Center St. Provo |