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Show that Sam is taken care of. He will hide from strangers but talks reluctantly to his "folks" when they come. Every other day some of the ' Baum family trudges to the cabin with food and the bare necessities Sam wants. He re-. re-. fuses to build a fire hasn't had one all winter. There is plenty of fire wood all cut and ready but maybe that's just one of the idiosyncracies of being a hermit! her-mit! The Baums said they try to get Sam down to their house at least once a month for a bath. SAM SPORTS alongbeard-I alongbeard-I guess he's worn that for a good many years. Many Parkites remember re-member him and wonder if he's still around. Well, he is and Blaine told me what a remarkable remark-able memory the old gentleman has. He asks about people he used to know and talks about different places in the area-after area-after all, he's NOT young he was born in 1882! One thing about Sam he doesn't want anything; guess he's perfectly satisfied with his Bits & fiieces By Eleanor Bennett BLAINE BAUM stopped in at the Park Record office on Saturday Sat-urday morning to put an ad in the paper for his wife's newly opened Crowning Glory Beauty Salon on Main Street in Heber City. His dad, Bill Baum, was with him and we soon got to talking about other things than new beauty parlors. It seems that Sam Lawry, the famous hermit, is Bill's uncle. For those of you who've never heard about Sam, let me memories. He says he does NOT want a radio it makes him lonesome! It's wonderful the way the Baums take care of him; and from now on, every time I drive over to Heber, when I come to that section where the American flag is painted on the big rock high up, I'm going to think about Sam back there on the mountain in a little cabin, just "a-settin' "! tell you. AT THE TIME of the big fire in Park City in 1898, Tom Lawry ran a restaurant here. It was wiped out and Tom never rebuilt. re-built. He moved his family over toward Heber. Well, Sam is his son and he still owns property in that direction and he just stays there. Bill Baum and his brother, Tommy, and Bill's sons, Blaine and Phil, all take turns to see |