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Show MEMORIES OF BUS NO. 7 Woman Trekker Writes Notes Of Events With SUP Caravan By Annie V. Jensen Making history for a week with a group of congenial people peo-ple on an important treck is indeed worth while, and when those folks are choice it is priceless, price-less, just like spending one week in Heaven on earth. So it was with bus number 7 of the S. U. P. trek over the Mormon Battalion trail. Each bus was equipped with a big can of punch and dispenser, dispen-ser, but ours didn't work too good, and before we really got it to work it tipped over and was lost on the highway. Unlike the original group, we had it pleasant: plenty to eat, and made the trip there and back in less than a week. As we traveled in comfort we wondered wonder-ed how the battalion endured the long journey and its hardships. hard-ships. Our bus was the best on the trek and how could it be otherwise oth-erwise with Horace Sorensen as captain? Song Composed Very early on our trip, Ethel Sorensen composed words to a song and we took on the name of "Spizerinktums." When Governor Gov-ernor Lee and President Smith and other dignitaries met us at Knott's Berry Farm we were asked to sing our song to start the program out. We also sang it at the Barbeque at Yuma, Arizona. After the barbeque things were just a little dull and bus No. 1 was still held up on the desert The Spizerinktums Spizerink-tums slipped away and put their suitcases in the cabins and came back to the program. As we drove up everyone ran up to meet us, thinking we were on bus No. 1. (We heard there (Continued on page J) (Continued from page 1) were so many brass buttons on bus No. 1 that it broke down.) At the program we stood very close to a beautiful, well-dressed, well-dressed, stately Indian woman. She seemed to be very proud of the Indian band when it played. We found out her husband hus-band was head of it, and she also had a son in it, so our interest in-terest grew intense for that band. When they announced they were short of instruments, we immediately sent Lorenzo Summerhays with our donation for bus seven and challenged the other buses to do better, which they did, and in short order over $200 was handed over for instruments. Sculptor Speaks At the Temple in-Mesa we heard our talented Avard Fairbanks Fair-banks explain in detail the paintings he had done on those walls. Avard had other oppor-I oppor-I tunities on the trek, such as i explaining architectural construction con-struction of the San Louis Rey Mission (between Ssh Diego and Los Angeles), that being a real historical landmark, for it was there the Battalion first sighted the Pacific ocean. Avard sculptured a small bronze statue stat-ue holding in its hand gold from several states to bind them together. Governor Lee presented it to Governor Warren War-ren at Los Angeles. President Smith at that time made a wonderful won-derful speech. We Spizerinktums used only first names, and if by accident we deviated we were fined. So strong a bond of friendships were tied and such good impressions im-pressions were made on each other that we never can forget and don't want to. |