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Show miipwp Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 USE CLASSIFIED ADS READ COMMUNITY IN PYRAMID NEWS ITEMS FOR FAST RESULTS ON INSIDE PAGES Former Spring City man featured in story of man with same name Charles Richard Thompsen of Hannibal, Mo., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Thompsen of Spring City, was featured recently by the Quincy Herald-Whiof Quincy, 111., in a story of two men whose lives and names are almost identical. The other man in the story was Charles Thompson, a realtor, of Quincy, III. (His name is spelled with an o instead of the e of the Spring City Charles Thompsen, who is a pilot for Tower Loan Company and lives at Hannibal, Mo.) The following is taken from that article: g Their names are almost Lurry Srclys special education class Seely, Lance Graham, Carma Johnson, Coy Shelley. Ha Zufoll, Nannette Boudreauz, John Christensen, Stephen Richarl. Tim liannihaum was not present for picture. members, who created a primitive house exhibit, front row, Lyndi Varah, William Eilily, Donald Seely. Wade Emmett, Larry Special ed class completes project primitive house exhibit was shown at the Ml. Pleasant Elementary Tuesday by Mr. Larry Seelys Special Education Class, to the elementary grades and parents of the class. This exhibit was a resolute of two weeks study and work with materials such as mud, straw, grass and twigs which were used to build replicas of the primitive A homes. The class was divided into pairs each working on a different house . Post and Beam House, Pit Dwelling, Twig House, Adobe House, Lake Dwelling, and Clif Dwelling. . Brown B. Hugh . forum speaker Elder Hugh B. Brown, a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSainLs, will lie the speaker at the Snow The students took turns at the exhibit explaining the display they had made. They told how the house was built, the reasons for its structural shape, and its functional purpose and in what parts of the world these houses were located. With this project the class gained an appreciation of the methods used in building houses with only hand tools, and also a greater appreciation for their own homes. y College Institute Friday Forum on March 12 at noon. Elder Brown is a former Army officer, attorney, and college professor and oil company executive. He served as First Councelor lo the late President David O McKay. He became an Assistant to the Council of Twelve in 1953, and was named to the Council of Twelve in 1958. Niivy Apprentice I'fc. Lewis Rasmussen . . . going overseas going to Europe EC Lewis Rasmussen, son of and Mr Mrs Victor ,1. Rasmussen, is spending his nine days leave at the home of his patents m Euunlain Green Lewis received his basic Raining at Port Lewis, Washington Since January I he has been at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, taking Ins AIT (Advanced Individual Training) where he graduated as a Recovery Specialist PEC Rasmussen will report to March i:t 2 si the Replacement Unit, Port l)ix, New Jersey, loi over sea assignment duly ol twenty lour months in Gci many Allred promoted Glade ENEM Electrician's Allred, Male m the It S (dial d, has advanced to tnl Class Petty Ollicei (Emit) ai cm ding to word received by Ins pai frits. Mi and Mis Moms A II ed ol Enimlam Gi ecu Glade is in San Pedio, Cnliluima, and is eri)oymg Ins Coast r wor k I I1 got around a law forbidding the game called "ninepins" by adding a pin bowling as il is known today wiis invented Thus 1970 graduate of North Mount school planned 7 1943. The piloted by Charlie was ripped open and caught fire. 7 The Sanpete County Extension Service under the direction of Kay Willardson, Extension Home Economist, has scheduled a Wood Finishing School for the week of March 22 at the American Legion Hall in Manti. Helen Wamsley, Home Economist for Rich County, will conduct the class Monday and Tuesday. Class members will finish a project of their own choosing. There is still room for a few more members. If interested in this course write, call or visit Kay Willardson, Court House, Manti. Charlie received flak wounds as he parachuted from high altitude, delaying opening his chest parachute so that he would not be an easy target. One leg was fractured as he hit the ground. He was captured outside Munster and taken to a civilian hospital. Later he was transferred to an interrogation camp near Frankfort on the Main and then placed in Stalag Lull II at Sagan, Silesia, southeast the early summer of 1942. Also commissioned a second to lieutenant, he flew a Thorpe Abbotts Base in July, 1943, and was assigned to the 349th Squadron of the 100th. both Charlies Although arrived at the base in the same month, neither ever had occasion to meet the other. Charlie Thompsen was shot down on his very first mission the bombing of an aircraft factory at Regensburg, Aug. 17, 1943 He was serving as The pilot broke from formation near Nunrberg with the ships left wing in flames. The plane was attacked by three fighters, the tail was shot away, the top turret jammed and one engine burst into flames. The crew bailed out at 18,000 feet and the plane exploded in a big ball of flame before Charlie had his parachute opened. He fractured one leg when he hit the ground. Charlie Thompsen was captured and placed on exhibition at the city hall of a small town before receiving medical attention. Because the leg was not set properly he spent three months in a prison hospital before being sent to Stalag Luft II where Quincys Charlie Thompsen was already a prisoner. Both Charlies agree that perhaps the evacuation march of 10 000 prisoners from Stalag Luft 11 in extrememly cold and snowy weather was one of the worst of their experiences. The march was begun January 27, 1945, and continued for five days until a railhead was reached. Then the men were jammed into cattle cars and transported to a Nurnberg POW camp. Invading dress quarterly 8 t. American armies caused a second evacuation to still another camp near Munich, from which they were liberated April 29, 1945 by George Pattons 14th Armored Division. Charlie Thompsen remained in the Air Force after the war and rounded out 20 years of service, retiring with the rank of Major in August, 1962. Subsequently he flew in Idaho and in Omaha, Nev., and was in business in Fulton, Mo., before taking his present position. One of Thompsons sons was graduated from West Point last year and another has just entered West Point He has three other children. Moroni Stake quarterly conference will be held Saturday and Sunday, March 13 and 14 at the Moroni LDS chapel Elder David B. Haight, Assistant to the Council of the Twelve, will be the visiting general authority and principal speaker. Elder Haight was a prominent business and civic leader before he began his full time church work. He is a former mayor of Palo Alto. He was President of the Scottish Mission of the Church, and assistant to the President of Brigham Young University. His business activities included supervision of Montgomery Ward Company Midwestern Area of 165 retail stores. He was president of a retail hardware store in Palo Alto before moving to Utah. The first session of conference will be held at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 13 The Stake Presidency, High Council, Bishoprics, Stake and Ward clerks should be in attendance. The second session of conference will be held at 7:00 pm. f I CA - V'N Official presents range report Dr M J Trliea, Keophysi-ologis- t for the Range Science Department of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, attended the Society for Range Management national meeting held recently in Reno, Nevada. Dr. Trliea presented a report entitled: Defoliation Effects on the Carbohydrate Reserves of Utah's Desert Range Species. He is the husband of the former Gail Hansen of Mt. Pleasant, who accompanied him to the Reno convention. Dr. and Mrs. Trliea are spending this weekend in Mt. Pleasant visiting Mrs. Trlicas mother, Mrs. Dorothy Hansen. John Birch group meets Friday The John Birch Society will the night of March 12 (Friday) in the Mt. Pleasant Civic Center. Time is 8 oclock. A film, This Is the John Brich Society" will be shown. The public is invited to find out what the John Birch Society is and is hold a meeting not David . . . H. Haight visiting authority Thompsen Eveiyonc is invited lo join in the tun and festivities of the 21 li birthday anniversary ol Ml I leasanl, lo lie held Hus year on Salm day, March 27 Sponsored annually by the Ml Pleasant Pioneer llistniienl this Association, year's celebration pi onuses lobe one ol Hie best ever The hanqiif! w ill be held ill the Second Thud 1,1 S Ward Church tiegimnng at 12 noon, and will lie lollow ed by a piogram themed to Dear Hearts and Gentle which is People" being presented by descendants of one ol Ml Pleasants original pinncci s, the Peter Monsen Mogenscni lamily, with Mrs olive Pi delicti as general chan man Icteisnii Monsen was born in ( Den and with Ins wife, Svednslrup, Langeland, oi.ii k, in ltl.lt), Dm he Marie Christensen, and one year idd son, Christian Nielsen Mogensen, they let for I American in late IH55. Their voyage was not a pleasant one, as they encountered severe slonns, fire broke out in the vessel, and nearly fifty people died I rnm sickness that broke out, among the dead tie mg their baby boy They landed in America on March I, 1850, and went lo St. Louis where they worked licfore stalling their journey across the plains in June 1)15(1 They arrived in Sidl Lake City in Scplcmlicr 11150 In H5II he was called lo Sanpete County and they moved I to Eplu aim and then to Ml Pleasant tin following year 1H59). whole they lived ui the toil until it yy.is cnnsidcicd sale to build homes outside In 11103 be onleicd into polygamy and mat lied Ins second wile, Annie ( 'In islon.i ( In islensen In Maich, IH04 Peter was called lo go lo Cuclcvillc and colonize the area With Mades Madsen and Ins wile, they built cabins, planted giam Irotn winch they harvested ,()()() bushels ol wheal They threshed by trampling their oxen over it They took as much as they could haul m lii'ir wagons and' returned to Ml Pleasant ill November ol that same year Tbe immigrant who later occupied their cabin was killed by the Indians Peter Monsen served as a minute man during the Black I I Hawk War m IB05. Ile was a ward counselor lo Bishop Seely lor many years and was a ward teacher all his life. He was always a member of the ward choir and the happiest tune of Ins life was when he gathered his many children around him and they sang together the songs of Zioii. Ills second wife, Annie Chnslenn, died of chddlicd fever m limit two weeks after the Inrth of her thirteenth child The other mother Dorthea, then reared the motherless children along with her own. Executive and ward clerks, Melchizedek Priesthood Quorum presidencies, unit leaders, group leaders and secretaries, stake auxiliary superintendencies, presidencies and board members, ward Aaronic Councils, ward directors of teacher development, Ward Primary and MIA Inservice leaders, Ward Sunday School teacher trainers, Ward Relief Society education counselors. The general session of stake conference will be held Sunday, March 14 at 10:00 a m. All members of the church and visitors are invited to be in attendance. The music for this session will be furnished bv the Moroni East Ward Choir under the direction of Earldene Buchanan. Ralph S. Blackham, president ol Moroni Stake, will conduct these sessions of conference. Elder Haight will preside at all sessions of conference. Chir-stense- of president to resign at end BYU the Hannibal Charlie was 23 when he enlisted in the Air Force in of school year The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y chi Idren w ere oi lien's Slc.m, Sena, Joseph, Dorthea, James and Lena, with Christian and I'etei dying in childhood Annie's clnldien were Amelin, I Bishoprics, Secretaries Elliott Arnoldson will be the Special Education Classes. The speaker at the Mt. Pleasant talks will be highly informative Elementary School PTA election and parents are urged to learn meeting scheduled this evening what is being offered in this at 7 p.m. at the school. field. In connection with the There will be displayed during speakers and display planned the meeting special projects by for the meeting, officers who the Special Education Class. have been nominated to be voted Election of officers for the on w ill be elected at the meeting. next year in the Elementary Mr Arnoldson will be School PTA organization will speaking and explaining the take place. Voting to select one Special Education Classes that of the following listed will be are available in the school held: President- - Mrs. Earl Dean district and particularly in the Anderson, Mrs. Charles Bynum. For Mrs. Rodney Elementary School. Also on the program will be Anderson, Mrs. Bruce Harless. Larry Seely, Mrs Fern Jacobs, For secretary- - Mrs. Howard Den and Mrs Betty Dase who will Haring, Mrs. Russell Olsen. For explain the program of their treasurer- - Mrs. Rex Mrs. Gene Speakman. Berlin. Charles Saturday, March 13 at which the following ward and stake officers should be in attendance: Stake Presidency, High Council, Executive Secretary and Clerks, Elementary sets PTA meeting this evening Plans are being finalized for Pioneer Pay activities I Weatliri ( oiisxlel a ile cloudiness with a ill. ime ol some lain oi snow inlay and Saliuday in the nuitliwcsl n i ion ol the slide Mild lempeialuies with highs m the Till's and lows 25 lo 25 Howlers He is a Sanpete High School, Pleasant, Utah Pfc. Rasmussen I Navy Fireman Apprentice Greg J Hansen, son of Mr. and Mrs LeGrand (). Hansen of Spring City, was graduated from recruit training at the Naval Training Center, San Diego. Wood finishing identical. Their Air Force flying experiences during World War II were practically the same. They were members of the same bombing group, received identical injuries in parachute were jumps when their shot down, were prisoners in the same German POW camp in Poland and survived the Death March from one prison camp to another in snow and subzero weather. Yet Charlie Tompson of Quincy and Charlie Tompsen of Hannibal, never knew each other until a month or so ago when they met at Baldwin Field. Quincys Charlie Thompson, when he was 25, had been commissioned a lieutenant in the infantry, but about the time of the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor he applied for Air Force training. After graduating from Air Force schools with the rank of second Lieutenant, he flew a (Flying Fortress) to Thorpe Abbots Base in England, headquarters of the 100th Bombardment Group, in July, 1943. There he was assigned to the 351st squadron and was soon making bombing raids on Germany. He was shot down on his fifth mission, a raid on Munster, Germany, a rail center north of the Ruhr Valley, Oct. 10, Elder Davi Saints and the Hoard of Trustees of Brigham Young University Tuesday (March 9) announced the resignation of Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson as president ol B U and plans lo establish a new College of Law at BYU. The announcements were nude by President Harold B. Lee. tirsl counselor m the First Presidency ot the Church, to a capacity audience of students and l.ieully ol the University at a Devotional assembly in George Albert Smith Fieldhouse President Lee also announced the appointment of President Wilkinson to assume a major role in the establishment of the I Sophia, Annie, Josie, John Chiislio, Noiii, Peter, Olevia and Esther, with Peter, Tina and Mmy dying in childhood The oldest man and the oldest lady in attendance will receive special recognition at the piogram. and all attending ltd yea is ol ago and older will lie siccial guests ol the Association. More than two hundred invitations have been sent to nul-o- l town members of the Association and to those in town who are known lo have reached their noth birthday A siecial invitation is extended lo anyone else who is interested to join in the tun ol the day and relive some ol the experiences of yesteryear. Filly cents gives you a Idol line nicmliership in the Association which entitles you to a special invitation once you have reached the Golden Years. Members of the Assix'iotion are meeting Thursday night to complete final arrangements for Pioneer Day and Homecoming. They are: Grant Johansen, president; Harold P. Hansen, vice president, Olive Pritchett, secretary; J. Leo Seely, David Jorgensen, Rex llafon, Ray Jorgensen, J. I). Burns, Talula Nelson, Minnie Rutishauscr, Mary ('Inward, Esther Johannaii llafon and Alice llafon, hoard inomliors Chir-slense- V; John Rmiclilev, Pros! Idaho; Dianne Patterson. Ilelier City; and Richard II, islain, Lihraitn, rehearse a scene from 1 new College Snow Colleges "Fiddler on the Roof" opening tonight and continuing through Saturday on the Snow stage. 'Fiddler on the Roof' opens tonight at Snow Snow College Theater, which has also done Oklahoma," The Sound of Music" and other Broadway hits, will present Fiddler on the Roof," another award winning musical March 11, 12, and 13. "Fiddler" won the New Ymk Drama Critics Award for Best Musical and nine Tony awards II tells a story of Jewish oppression and exile m Canst Russia a story of folkways in a South Pacific," peasant village, laughter, sorrow, and the ever present menace that hangs like a dark cloud above the villagers. In addition to the dramatic narrative, a principal factor in the popularity of the musical has been its hit songs - songs like "Mat"Sunrise, Sunset," chmaker," and Miracle of Miracles." The dairyman Teyve, lead role, in the show, will be played by Richard llaslam, Ephraim, his wife Diana Guide, by Christiansen, Orem. Todd Compton, Provo, is the fiddler. I Teyve and Guide have five daughters - three of marriageable age. Much of the shows humor revolves around the efforts of Guide and the matchmaker to find husbands for them Prof. Joseph directing the W. Crane is "Fiddler." Erickson is musical director Miss De Wynne Carter is choreographer and Richard llaslam has had charge of staging. McLIoyd ot Law. It will lx named the J. Reuben Clark Jr College of Law in honor of the late counselor in the First Presidency of the Church, who was solicitor and Undersecretary ot the Department of Stale, U. S Ambassador lo Mexico, and a recogmed expert on international law. tenia inna law The new college, for which a new building will he constructed, is expected to enroll its first students in the fall of 1973. President Lee explained that 1 Dr. Wilkinson had sumhilted lus resignation in June of 1970. liefore the reorganization of the Church School System and the appointment of Dr. Neal Maxwell as commissioner. However, the resignation was not accepted until Tuesday at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees. Dr Wilkinson will continue as president of the University for the remainder of the school year and. in order lo orient his successor, imssihly until the end ol the fiscal year (Septomlier I). f |