Show fini Mini sketches ff tJ f maxi max living GREAVES EA VES iG of today's high hightS hights tS is ts too irown good Do Douch much uch fun as we Since all to be relative Improbably probably cannot today's Rave have ave the same Ml t with music not with cars It cars ars The Model rHE car of the FEd Ed rd Lee Strout Ite to e have said it itcan tan can scene for for 1927 when Is S built It was J tr- tr 1 had wrought And It was patently the sort of thing that could only happen once Mechanically uncanny It was like nothing that had ever come to the world before The Strout White essay FAREWELL MY LOVELY will bring tears and laughter to every person in America over fifty years of ot age who had the personal experience of at living and struggling with and driving the Model T T. T Let me mention a few tew of the wondrous things my generation did with the Model T between 1923 and about 1930 or 31 When I was a junior and senior at Ephraim High School mem- mem shallow and the Model T didn't weigh much A few of at the boys grabbed the car by the fender or r by various protuberances lifted the wheel above the Ice and shoved the car ahead to solid Ice Some of us probably got our feet wet Another time or of July 1925 probably five or six or seven of us piled Into one of ot the Model Ts T's and went to Moroni for the dance In the theold theold theold old pavillion on main street As we were approaching the dance hall hail we were stopped by some young men whose Model T had left the road and become stuck in the barrow pit It couldn't pull back on to the road All of us took hold of some part of the car lifted it up and literally carried It back backon on to the road Most of Ephraim's old timers will remember Eldon Christensen a giant of a man with great strength perhaps as strong as Abraham Lincoln perhaps stronger During August August August Aug Aug- and September of 1925 Iwas I Iwas Iwas was helping my brother Reuel with a pipe-line pipe construction jobin job jobin jobin in southwestern Wyoming Eldon El Eldon Eldon El- El don was one of the workers One day Rue and I climbed into his Model T ton half pickup pickup pick pick- up truck and drove about five miles over the sage-brush sage hills to Inspect some of the pipe pipe- laying While there we picked up Eldon and started back to camp In the meantime there had been a brief cloudburst which had caused a few little washouts in low places of ot the dirt road we had to travel When we came to one of them at the bottom of a small ravine ravine ra ra- ra vine we got stuck The front wheels made it across the little puddle but the back wheels kept spinning in the mud All three of us got out of the carand car carand carand and studied the situation Rug Ru was an engineer and was trying trying trying try try- ing to figure out some way of engineering the car out of the mud but Eldon had a simpler and more effective plan He said Rue you get back inthe in inthe inthe the car and Ill I'll see what I Ican Ican Ican can do Before we could question him he put his arms under the truck-bed truck lifted the entire rear end of the car completely out of ot the mud and water and shoved it slightly up-hill up far enough ahead for Cor the car to rest on solid ground If the story seems a little improbable let me relate another an another another an- an other one about E El I 1 d dons don's o ns n's strength There was a time when the building immediately north of ot the Roger Greaves home was used for storage of one thing or another One day probably in the twenties a truckload of ot cement was being carried into the building Eldon was one of the work crew The other workers would pickup pick pickup pickup up one sack about 80 pounds I believe and carry It Into the building Eldon would carry two sacks one under each arm During the there was wasa a mound-like mound bridge over the creek east of the tor former mer Al Albert Albert Albert Al- Al bert Thompson home on First East a half-block half north of theold the theold theold old white school building that stood corner catty-corner on First East and First South As school- school kids we called It The White no matter how much we loved it Several of us would pile Into one of ot the Model Ts T's and take a run at the bridge at perhaps 20 or 25 miles per hour As we reached the crest of the mound the car would take off oft and sail through the theair theair theair air without touching the ground for a foot or two or three I suppose we didn't think about the danger of ot blowing out a tire and having a wreck Yet anyone who ever drove one of at those ancient cars knows how weak the tires were how easy It was to have a blow Providence must have smiled on us for tor Ido I Ido Ido do not recall that anyone was ever hurt playing this foolhardy game My generation did other foolhardy foolhardy foolhardy fool fool- hardy things with the old cars just as today's generation does foolhardy things with modern cars I will mention some of theold the theold theold old capers in sketch numb number r two |