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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-09-04, Page 2Happily Married To Six Wives! A man is living with six wives to -day, in modern Seit Lake City. It sounds ineredible, for the Mormon Church abolished plural Marriage in 1890, orthadex Mormons •are dead against it, and since 1935 "unlawful en- habitation" with plural \wives lies been a severely punishable. felony. - Yet US. author Sainunl W. Taylor has visited tate man and met his six wives, living in stip- ulate aparhuenls in a big old house en the city's decayed west side. "MaeRoy Byers," who wdrks in real estate, is not his real. name. 't'nylor has had- to veil nanu's and other details, to save hit" from prison, in re. latiug his auto, rug story: "I Have six "You teali"e that 1 stn platt- ing my life in your hands?" By- ers said lief ere sho\yiug him •rotnd. 11' '1'ccylor himself Hadn't been the Mormon: eon of a father who also had six wives! in the days..when it was deem- ed the right. thing -to de, and wl'inen a book. on tiresubject, Byers • would never have taken him into his, t:'nfidm:to. The wives • he met in the 'houses weir: Globi I tall, hand- N1.17110, \ltal flu seeioet Amy, petite, e'•t.,rnllne leaitlt, slender, twee, efmtle. And ;n the ear - ref c •'1, e, feeit:lte tt ng:• Beeley, Ifeeetinfl. \• alt auliere hair, 1, v, `w i r'c', V,'t'ttllyine the nt . .d 't\r,.5,5stcrs s a t.:. ethe il, \ t s FM en,e. broody, efel 'l'o ctaU.r.•., irir, tn.r , ;e3 I:\ el c, iu ,t,tat - illie sea.'. e revor = itch 11 tial ' tazto. during the past eaaa\ ,e ' lee:,':\\c.t eT,,er t^tt. Pe.eree the,. he had ,. traeted a''7'7'' weal a reel. ' 101ail a .. , r. 1,07') c `e^' t e 1,c, -amp one and les relents is .e..1 tx,rtly ce ,ieal '. h the 11 1Ce"• ..4 ?i OC. ge t, e to ', tai. .,l tee gree, r".c°V..ad it 1.. \ I1• :eel' outraged ..,, ,?. theft 31t:v i .eet lit` ,1.1 at a e° :per lea She shard Ys n'n' i d that she 'ren:$ be the eels, c'fnof. wives. A.r •„',1'e that s i ..,'' ate me :.. fee s,S \,. ie... --e, {4.:;i'_ i`: \\'."t ,.t♦'. .nils .\ . e : , kl :; l` •r ',1' t{ 0:11- • 1::1li c,'11p.. tr.te.l'tut contrived to ruin thein under the pretence of safety; emergency or her health, For a time she Oven took to drinking, though liquor and smoking are forbid- den by Morison custom. "The problem of plural mar- riage," Taylor observes, "is not to get along with your husband but the other wives,” and the complexity of their relations makes an absorbing part or the story. "Each one is sure she is the favourite," Byers told him. "Though heaven help the man who plays favourites: Byers' wooing of his wires was not always as smooth -run- ning as in the ease of Gorda, Amy Kane, and others who had. been brought up in. the Funda- mentalist belief, His fourth wife, rowelled Becky, whom he mar- ried in 19.10, was Wilma Larsen, beautiful, eultured heiress daughter of a rich businesatl'ian with a showplace home, Your ears and riding stables: e, Wilma first went to Byers for enlightenment on "tate Principle" bee:utse she had become inter- ested in it. Roy asked, was she disposed to enter it and starry hint if he approached her father with n proposal?? She said: "You'd better not, Bey. He'd shoot you." Roy duly did so. 10 be met with the threat, "You try mix- ing tna- daughter ni that filthy rocs and Til blow your guts crt!" When Wilma did eventually- helve ventually.cave hone to marry hien, Roy hard to leave town for a time because T .rsev and \\ ilma's brothers s n ere all gunning for him. All fc,ur 037.621' l wives rebelled whole et fourteen, t n ilii rolup- ttle'u; '.nmey -i ,o1 dt Sibyl joined her sister lel. •#a .-, to become b'}'ssieth wife. The other wives only relented when 'n s e e'a1 :ng ,o their h .elilit\ offered ed to lotwv and te- teen zo• tier,t,y, Then they l ite.<na ed her to stay: 1';tire) '.marrage. with all its eirainee and eeononne problems which often tried Byers to the limit of eederanee, is not with- out t i\lma hours. When he de- eided that Faith, w'.to was muni- rat, s inti have e piano. Croda and Amy ordered Pianos too, withemt eonsultine il.'.11 and in the end he had to buy six pi- an ,,, Have Six Wives" is an amazing story peeked Willi 1111117'11c st' Money, Money! Y:'u could huy a eetuple of drinks for a panni of gold duet diming the Klondike and Cali- fornia goldrushes. Bar owners cleen pieleed their assistants .e- (a'reime to t,.., Kee of their tiime lig. r. r•;,neener awl lcie- \". rt, et a,.,'tta,, ., , 011.1 y•011.1, ON A LIME - Thi" " cedar of the donee is symbolized in < -,aph in which the perpe efui chs - t .' .:,t et the eIoneee's bode h is/steels t•he il1u<io1 of movement. 1, 1 a p;,ze ler le's/roil fee:emir Foekas, lie calls it The Surgery Triumphs From. Illinois and Georgia last month came case histories 05 surgery's 'triumph over one of nature's malign quirks that was once invariably fatal,: then Per- manently crippling, The anom- aly: a baby, healthy -looking at birth, may prove to have no gul- let (esophagus) to carry food 'frons mouth to stomech. Somer. times there is a short, dead-end stretch, of gullet at both top and, bottom, but the middle section. is missing. Often there is an opening between the defective gullet and the windpipe, so ,khat air goes into the stomach and food into the lungs. Exactinci- dence of these defects is un- known: the best estimate is once in every 5,000 births. Until the turn of the century, such Infants always died. Then came Operations to allow feed- tog' (usually by tube) through the abdominal wall into the stomach. Many victims struggled along 501' years with these make- shifts. About 20 years ago sur- geons got bolder, devised several Operations to supply a missing stretch of gullet by stitching a piece of the child's gut in its p-1 a c e. Appallingly complex, these techniques often needed a Scrim ofoperation$ spread over a period of years, They could be done only in major medical centers. For some types of eases the operations have new been sim- plified, and they are being done in more and more hospitals, OUT AGAIN — eeee, \csee', at.. ,, -. •F e' erne ince t"(' cyan ln-rakiaott '# wo_dee 2'•: ' .lr. of arte;sea e;: wee • taken to St tee E in Atlanta, wile a liatn .\, Beeline: found t .,,. : e had a shirt aful' cf gullet ex - feuding ,'ne-thil'd the "01110 length down from his throat, then itoihing•. 11r, Hopkins led tine einem out thronSIS a hole in the acre, ar 'Tommy i oit'd get rid of saliva. For feeding, ho ran a tithe into ttie stonuaclt. This worked well for six year:, until Tommy was old enough to undergo the o1'e11ati0tt. T110t1 T?r. Iiit?,kius pushed the pSllct- slump Pack into place, stretched piece o',' Tocnreees la1'gc 1',",v'l np . tolee 11n'Oat t.' :meet ASC steatliee i1;e.11 together. M tate 'e'i':' enc. this raw ce, was 1,1111423 to the ei miaeit. The email ',towel WAS joined to the retr,,.. e'f the lerge how&. Tommy's revamped digestive hart worked fine. H:s one pro - lent learning le ese a knife, fork and epoo tit. --Front TI;ti) '9 '•l".11s 'wondered where all the Smiths came front until carne 10 the city." "Ther what happened?" "1 saw 51517' 'Smith Mdeu" faeluting Company'." THE MOSCOW LINE -With the Faris fashion openings in full swing, Russia conies up with Its own show of home-grown styles In the state-run department store GUM. The evening gowns above are somewhat dated by Western style standards. Table Talks By Jane Andrews BLUEBERRY MUFFINS lies cups flour t•a cup 2 teaspoonssugar baking powder ?a teaspoon salt 1 egg, beaten i cup butter, melted le cup milk 1 cup fresh blueberries Sift together dry ingredients. Blend egg, melted butter and milk, add to dry ingredients and stir gust until the ingredients are blended, Feld in the blue- berries. 1:11 greased nnutlin cup 1e full. Bake in moderately hot oven. 400', for 20 0 _5 minutes. • .. @ HAWAIIAN HAM LOAF 11e lbs. ground smoked hate ?a lb. ground pork 1 cup rolled oats (quick, or old fashioned, uncooked) 2 beaten eggs 1 cup pineapple juice 1 tsp. dry mustard 1 i tsp. ground cloves Pack the meat mixture in a loaf pan, garnish with pineapple slices and bake in a slow oven C325 -F.1 114 hours, e x 4 PINE BARK STEW 1 cup chopped onions 2 tablespoons bacon drippings or salad oil 1 eau (1 Ib. 12 ounces) tomatoes cup tomato ketchup 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt lite to 14 Isp. pepper bay leaves 1 pound perch, haddock or pike, est int`o bite -size pieces . ¢ .c ni : A4e es s .d next 5 10$ 0r:5: - eart:rna- e:ee Sim-neer st :t: ..... 1 1152: • rte• .;ve • c..?f 4 _z6 - I?43�a:;`•: GCil'L.ASH E....- 17.11lateen an:eL �rL re: to e _ .nitre .•5.1115 r 11;Tt,t,,r f S " r;; ar.r:;e - 0111 1 f't:.T. ;.Seri- ,: .r'.' nD ,s14)'1 '4'4'11 1C4` "771.4"477.7 T. :Teepee/1e n:;- Tt1:4MAeTO crEr.sE Le...1:1,EffI le cup butt.er 4 tnhlespoour Hotta 1 teaspoon e1._Tt t.s teaspoon pepper 1_: asp. Woreesteneeriee caret 2 caps termite juice t eup grated sharp percer•eee cheese Melt 1 Ir2C-e45.. 1,:Plec t'a t ei , c ,1. ot.,::1 Si : .. ... tmat0 ?Tee ,tete;)'. Er lust 11111; '1;c sr ring 7,'$11,,,'11111i\'. Celle ('1t 1e.._, rr emcee 5. 4 5erveacs. 1411eee , , rn w`, 1 5 111,* 1'o#h 11111( a:ni w,1k Geod. too' CORN R.EL,TSII le rue dived green pepper reps canned 'whale ]ierilel coral, drained 1'e rule diced celery 14 clip hired onion -11 tablespoons vinegar (1), hit or r?(5075 3 tablespoons salad oil 11 teaspoon. salt 31 teaspoondry tuustard. 1 teaspoon sugar Dash pepper Combine green pepper. Coady, ('115011, and corn. Add ot.lter in- gredk'nts and unix well. Chill ata refrigerator- several hours be for putting into pint jar. • * R If you like catchup on your patio hamburgers and hot dogs, here is a homemade one that you're bound to like, CATCHY CATCHUP 1 can tomato soup lee cup cider vinegar 1a or le cup sugar (according to taste) 1 tablespoon finely cut onion 1 tablespoon finely cut celery (or 14 teaspoon celery seed) 6 whole cloves 1 stick cinnamon 3 incites long Bring almost to boil. Let stand to cool, Bottle. Kept His Eye Right On His Desk The trouble with Abdu, the Arab clerk, was that he would keep putting his glass eye On his desk while he worked. Besides being very disconcert- ing for his colleagues it was also bad for the glass eye, because it lolled off the desk one day — and broke, Mournfully, Abdu went to see Michael Sheldon Cheyney, an American who was working with him at the Dhahran office of an Aramco oil construction firm In Saudi Arabia: Cheyney had just arrived from the States and Abdu, who had worked there, asked him if he would mail en order for a new glass eye to a New York firm. He'd pay him five dollars, he said. • "Five dollars — no," said Cheyney. "In New York you co :dnt gel a box to carry it in for five dollars." • "What for it be mere?" Abdul demanded. "In Bahrein, I ear. 'rest _i e're. made in India, for ter leo :7 •donah `a cry1n" c ... a:d. why don't get it there..nen"" 1 7`.03•: e, Cent a :ei:- • the at= . eye, rf 5 ed alter s rind reer _ packed it and exclaimed: "Whas- sa matter, you crazy? This id left eye, not the right!" So Cheyney returned it by air- mail, and two weeks later the replacement arrived, with bills for an additional $14. It was several tines brighter and browner than its mate, but Abdul paid only what he said. Cheyney paid the rest because, well, Abdu was Abclu and ex- pected to be helped in return for keeping a "fatherly" real eye on Cheyney. The best New York glass eYes proved highly perishable, ,5o re- placements became a major sup- ply item around the office, says Cheyney in a graphic account of his experiences, "Big Oilman from Arabia". Evan when he was transferred to another of- fice he seldom" went on holiday without a sketch of Abdu's eye. One one trip he even carried a sample, and found that, if placed under the lad of a suit- ' case, it had a useful deterrent effect on rustomit inspectors! Others, their sympathy arous- ed by the wily Arab, also took over the eye -supply business, and Cheyney gathered that Abdu's taste in orbs was becoming more exacting, His colleagues sent for or brought him brown, blue,. grey, green eyes, but Abdu was seldom satisfied. Finally, a resourceful secre- tary, visiting the makers while on holiday, picked a specially - made blood -shot one for Abdu. It was the hit of the century. treasured for best fennel wear. Abdu was quite a character, even apart from his glass eye adventures. For one thing, he was ambitious, After poring over U.S. catalogues of kerosene - operated brooders, feeders, in- cubators and other devices, he decided ane clay to go in for mechanized poultry -raising in a big way, It was nearly three years be- fore Cheyney saw him again, The Aramco camp paper had published a story of a promising new poultry industry, with a big picture of Abclu squatting in a chicken -run and surrounded by baby chicks, In his brightest turban and bloodshot eye, he came to the editorial offices for a few hund- red free copies and found Cheyney. "Hello, Abdu," said Cheyney, "How's the chicken business?" • "Oh, iss okay." Abdu shrugged modestly. 'I got new partner, big new place, many chicken>, Every week I bring eggs to Dharan, sell to houses — fresh egg, not stink like frozen. Pretty soon I bring t'ousand, maybe," "Don't you worry, Mr- Mike," Abdu concluded. 'Be big busi- ness some day. You want eggs? I bring you." He did bring them, and they tasted strongly of garlic. Evi- • oentiy, he was feeding his table scraps to the chickens, which produced eggs with the season- ing he so liked. Later, Cheyney, who gives a first-rate account of life in the ci1 industry, heard that the thicken industry had died, the partner had pulled out, and Abdu had sadly moved back to :own with a few salvaged hens, his radio and long-suffering wife, to make a precarious living ening ice-cream to the kids, He was a pioneer -. born 30 years too soon. MORE M s 7afEKY vd MEt:—lou WOMEN -100 RICN TMC WEAKER SCX?--\',tomes I ove n 105\ 0r vcciC10111 titnllt rate than sten in all age groups. One big ,calm is ilio mart's role in society.. He des the rlsItleer \vatic. NH even21 21': c' hey start to wall., avid e'fter They f'i't?re, orate 4454 los dap in 5 cd, debts. And in the tutee 1,0‘14 1, 55,1(('(5 tse'45,1. k b11 a 1'e•Nr eta the rime lellIer1, men still one tsi 44' alis mole= ("Ht. lhau 'Vome.11. -