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Show Probe Continues Info Sfronge Death Of Youth FBI Aids Local Officers; Funeral Is Held A probe into the mysterious hanging of Clark Oarum, 19-year-old Union High School post graduate grad-uate student, and popular vocalist, whose body was found hanging by the neck from a tree, Sunday, was still continuing today. Meanwhile Mean-while funeral services were held Wednesday at the Tridell ward chapel at 1 p.m. According to Pamp Harris, member mem-ber of the Ute Indian THbe police force, there still remains several unanswered details to be considered consider-ed before the case will be closed. An autopsy conducted Monday night found that death was caused by hanging. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local' officers from the Reservation and Uintah County sheriff's department are continuing the investigation. The youth was found Sunday morning near Whiterocks with his hands tied behind his back. The body was suspended low enough from the tree that the victim's: legs were bent and his knees were,-on were,-on the ground. Graduated from Unforr-Clark Unforr-Clark was a graduate of Union High School last spring, and was taking a few post-graduate classes again this year. He also was an LDS Seminary graduate. He had attended the Brigham Young University Uni-versity the past summer, and had announced plans to return to the "Y" for either the winter or spring quarter. He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints and had been living at Tridell for the past several, months where he had functioned in church work. Possessing a beautiful tenor voice, Clark had become extremely extreme-ly popular as a vocalist and had appeared in many musical programs, pro-grams, both in the church and in civic affairs. Born In Whiterocks He was born July 22, 1936 in Whiterocks, the son of Clark and Lulu Redcap Oarum. Survivors include his. father and step-mother, Whiterocks; his mother, moth-er, Mrs. Lulu Checora, Whiterocks; a brother and two sisters, Mrs. Alice Copperfield, Mrs. Lydia Wy-askit Wy-askit and Walter Oarum, all of Whiterocks, and one half-brother and half-sister, Angelia Checora and Stanford Checora, Whiterocks: Funeral services were conducted by Bishop Laren McKee of the Tridell ward, and speakers included in-cluded Clarence Rowley, Rex Curry and Forrest Goodrich. A faculty member of the BYU read a letter that had been composed by the students and faculty ulo-gizing ulo-gizing Clark. Burial was in the Tridell cemetery ceme-tery under the direction of the Olpin Morthuary of Roosevelt. |