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Show REFLEX LEADER SEPTEMBER 23, 1982 JOURNAL BULLETIN Melted Coins Last Memory Of Ingrids Childhood By U AMU 1 1 NO - KAYSVILLC The only memento that Ingrid Clikeman huv of her childhood m Nor ay in a email pile of melted conn, fused by the heal from lire Marled by incendiary bombs. HIK MhTAl. eouvcmr is a prim reminder of the destine non caused in her home city of Kristiansund, huili on three is lands, uhen the (iermans in saded Norway in 1940 during World War II. Wehadn1 had a warm 125 years," Mrs. (Iikeman said. "Wc didn'l know that anyone would come in and bomb us. My sister and I were slaying with relatives on anoiher island. My parents (Johan and Asirid Koksva.ig) had relumed home on Sunday, and the German bombs fell on Monday. Uc could sec that Ihe whole city was burning. M I'AKKMS and other members of our family were rescued fiom ihe island by boats. hen were were able to go haek, finally . wc found that everything we had was destroyed." the fused coins had been her childhood savings. UOODhN BAKRACKS soldier ho stopped her in the street couldn't do any thing about it." ALTHOl Gil MRS. Cl.kc-manever saw Hitler, her older sivter w as a passenger on the same boat that took the infamous dictator up the coast of Norway, and described the incident to her family, "My sister had made the trip to the island of Andoya, w hitn was owned by my unde, n Mrs. Clikeman said. .She had gone there to help our aunt, who had broken her arm. Our aunt was the mother of nine boys and couldn't run her household without help. My father would never have allowed my sister to go, if he had known that Hitler would boat." .OKMH.IVVj SURE be on the same not allowed to have radios, which were picked up in a house-to-hous- e canvass. Members of the Home Guard hid their radios and were able to learn what was going on in the world. One good thing about the war that Mrs. Clikeman remembers was that children didn't develop cavities in their teeth. They had no sugar or white flour, ncry few vegetables and little fruit. She believes the main reason their teeth were good was that they ate "black bread,' made from whole grams. I I'SFI) TO do my friend's math for her, and she would repay me by giving me a carrot or two," she said, " I heir family grew a few vegetables." Mrs, Clikeman emigrated to the United States in 1956. She met her husband. John, a Clearfield chiropractor, after she came to Havre, Montana to live with an aunt and uncle. She later became an American eiticn. SHE AM) HER husband went to Norway on their hon eymoon, and she took their children, John and Jennifer, back to Norway a few years ago to meet their relatives. "Wc had always heard about how big everything was in America," she said. People described oranges bigger lhan your head and highw ay s a mile wide. America is the greatest, and everyone wants to come here. My relatives in Norway would like lo be here too." childhood days in MRS. CTIKFMtN seldom talks about the war years, Her tile now is much more peaceful. She helps her husband at his office, gardens, cooks, keeps her home and sometimes finds an hour or so to do oil painting. She has studied under several instructors and has sold some of her pictures. One paining she did of an old sailor occupies a prominent spot in her husband' otlicc. Perhaps it is a reminder of her OMRIOOkH) The next tunc you feel father. -- Wall Street Journal. were built to house ihe families. The LARGE CAPACITY CELEBRATE Our WASHER Now Only 1 HEAVY DUTY Year DRYER ANNIVERSARY SALE $3i9 DELUXE WASHER Only Come in and enter our FREE drawing for a Sony Walkman or a Sony 3.7 "Stadium for One" T.V. Heavy duly transmission 3 WashRmse Temp. 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