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 \,.
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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