Show Man Manti ti Around The World V Va v a n. worker In tho the Manti Temple You You may rest assured father and j mother lost loat no time lu in visiting with Grandma Hanu Hance L v Home on leave until tho the is that sailor of or two months Burke Chapman Burko Burke has hns just ed boot hoot training at Farragut Food hero here may not taste so good but j It must be all right as he has put Dul on an n weight For you ladles whose whoso irons go on the blink Burko Burke reports ra rapports re- re ports a new wrinkle wrinkle wrinkle-ho he washes his clothes almost every evening I I folds Colds them to get the creases or orI I wrinkles and then roles them UD un tight This rolling Is down when I you rou have sea hags bags bags-at at boot trainIng train train- Ing ng and at sea sea sea-at at schools yo you I have haye lockers and your clothes I can Gan ln be pressed Burkes Burke's brother Tom Chapman who lives In Idaho Is also In the theNay Nay Navy Navy- Ho He has a wife and girls and Is doing boot training Qt at Farragut I V Manti wouldn't be ManU Manti with with- withOut conference out ut conference and l wouldn't be conference without th th-i choir Some of the boys may bo ho interested In knowing that la laR last Sunday was conference Elder John H. H Taylor of the First Council of or Seventy came from Salt Lake In Inspirational In- In talks were given by Elder Taylor President Leland K E Anderson President E. E T T. T Reid President Ruel E E. E Christensen r rL i iL I L. L Gurney Gurncy and Glen Rowe Th Tho Thu directed by Ellis E. E Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son was Just rust how old the choir Is we do donot donot donot not know But before they sang Gloria President Reid was asked to tell something about It He recalled recalled recalled re re- re- re electrified called that Gloria the audience when sang with orchestra orchestra orchestra or or- chestra accompaniment over 60 50 years jears ago People here here- had never Heard leard anything like It A A. C. C Smyth a cultured Englishman American American American Am Am- was then the director He was not nut only a great director but also a great composer He wrote music to such familiar songs as ZIon Stands with Hills surrounded surrounded surround surround- ed cd and others Mr Reid considers considers considers con con con- siders him Utah's greatest musician of that time Our choir now uses volumes he had bound containing u Works of Great Masters He greatly influenced such prominent Utah musicians as Anthon H. H Lund Lundi John J. J McClellen and Clair Glair Reid But Mr Smyth was not the first choir leader Even en before him Hans and Peter Wes father fath fath- er of the late N. N peter Peter Westen Westen- skow led the choir which sang hymns to violin accompaniment accompaniment- After Mr Smyth the choir was directed directed di dl- by George Brox Fred Fieldsted Fjeldsted Fjeldsted Fjeld- Fjeld sted and E E. E T. T R Reid id the latter for 12 years Under the leadership of Ellis E. E Johnson who has served in this capacity for 28 or 29 years the Hie choir has received statewide recognition Several years ago the organization sang at the General Conference in Salt Lake Lako City The present choir membership is 75 It It has been as high as Mr Reid Heid recalls how they had to drill sopranos to get sustained high notes in Gloria Now it seems no effort He concludes talent I is improving Years ago a leading high soprano was Esther Jens Jensen n mother of Mrs Mildred Jensen a leading soprano now |