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Show : ' -V- K 3ABvltB- The last fortnight of February marked the passing of three intimate inti-mate friends and boyhood companions. com-panions. All in their late sixties, the three passed away without special premonition. Jesse Walker, Junius Hayes, and Lawrence Walker, have lived the good life. Active in educational, education-al, church, civic, and agricultural pursuits, these men have left their impact on the communities in which they lived, and the people with whom they have associated. The resultant effect has been all to the good. Early in life the Spark of educational educ-ational ambition was kindled in the breast of each. All three attended at-tended and graduated from the University of Utah, at a time when such an accomplishment was the exception rather than the rule. No one knows why the urge for self-betterment self-betterment comes to some. In these three instances the stimulation stimulat-ion evidently was not for financial gain. Neither has amassed much in the way of this worlds goods; but the services rendered to humanity in their comparatively short lives has been of inestimable value. As this column has mentioned men-tioned before, "It is not what we have; but what we do with what we have, that is important". In these days of doubt and frustration, when the lives of the Hiss's, the Rosenberg's, the Cost-ello's, Cost-ello's, and the Lebran's are brought continually to "mind; the accomplishments of these three stalwarts stand as a bulwark against the wiles of the traitors and the threats of the subversives. The shock to the families of Jesse, June, and Lawrence has been sharp and acute, but time will assuage the grief and heal the wounds of their sudden passing. To their children and loved ones will come solace and a sense of solemn pride, in the contemplation contemplat-ion of the lives and the works of these three men. To their friends and associates, the recollection recoll-ection of the accomplishments of each will serve as an incentive to continued service in the causes they loved. May God bless their sacred memories. So long 'til Friday. |