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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, DECEMBER, 1972 8 Be it ever so humble... END OF THE ROAD BOB FOR "TWO-CAR" by Ken Donoghue This March a man died in Wendover. He was a drifter. He had come to Wendover in 1967, liked the weather and stayed. His name was Theodor Heist but he asked people to call him Bob. All who had anything to do with Theodor say that he was a good worker. The one person who knew him best was Floyd Eaton, better known as Deputy Dump, the Wendover Goethe. Floyd told me that Theodor had been born in Germany about sixty years ago. According to Eaton, Theodor had led a For three years Theodor " Bob shade of a rusting Chevrolet, Heist watched the world from a makeshift back porch and slept in the straight life at one lime. Theodor had been a butcher and owner of a packing house. He had also been married, but he and his wife had split up and, explained Eaton, the wife took everything. An overwhelming wish to consume vast quantities of cheap Wine wine gripped Theodor. turned his blood to sugar, Eaton Deputy confided to me a theory that will astound Dr. Edward ilerschgold, a y of Utah Medical Center and that was hematologist what did him in. Richard Dixon, a Wendover enterpreneur, had once hired Theodore to help him put some rooms under his house. Mr. Dixon paid Theodor well for his tni-versit- work, after which the German began the final alcoholic fugue of his life. Chester Chet" Ilowletl, the ) J.P. and coroner on Wendover's Nevada side, said that when he saw the corpse Theodor Heist had been gone from the earth four or five days. Howlett, disregarding Floyd's blood diagnosis, said that the cause of death was acute alcoholism. Theodor had, in his own way. (non-medical- into-suga- HI bt r achieved the dream of most two Americans. He owned cars. In fact, he lived in them. On the edge of the Wendover trash dump he had set up house in two abandoned cars. One he fixed up as his bedroom and winter parlor; the other he used as a storeroom. Outside the bedroocar he had set up a m-parlor healing unit that he had fashioned out of a oil drum. It warmed the cars interior in the winter. fifty-gallo- Spring and summer he placed the bedroom-parlo- r car. It was on this couch this spring that he died. Before Theodors body could be taken to Elko, Nevada the Wendover has no cemetery police had to kill his dog Taco." The dog would not let anyone approach his master's body. What sau-Theodor Heist from an unmarked paupers grave was one of two documents he had always kept with him: his social security card (the American Meldeette!) and a discharge from the Army of the Lnilod States. a couch outside - d t'nited States governbumd Theodor "Bob" So the ment Heist with full military honors, in partial repayment for his service to them. ft Si. x straight days on the salt Pats can do strange things to a person. Hut just a spoonful of SIT in vour soft drink , and things go better for young " speed week orfthan. " FOR SALE OLD UNIVERSITY OF UTAH YEARBOOKS TOURING INQUIRE LAURA SHAND 226 So. 12 East. Salt Lake City 84102. Utali GoC NORDIC SKI SPECIALISTS hEXEEL i5o ( SILlTISEin 'iEratL 'SlfiJftUEEE? (tlfm Urns nm? to.llji jT Glims ' TiT.I Finns' TT7 riT'Tl 1 3&5S3 FREE CLINICS FOR BEGINNING AND ADVANCED CROSS COUNTRY TECHNIQUE DAILY & WEEKEND RENTALS 779 east 3rd south corner of 8th E. & 3rdS. Have you seen this man? |