Daniel Hansen Ludlow Stories (and a few by Hannah Luene Leifson Ludlow) told to Carolyn Ludlow Sweeny 2007 Allegory of Zenos In 1968 Dan was in Israel with a BYU group and paid a Hebrew specialist, Mordechai Kamrat, to translate the allegory of Zenos into Hebrew. During the Passover season Dan arranged for the girls to live in the homes of Jewish people so they could have the experience of seeing the Passover. The boys traveled throughout Israel and visited the various kibbutzim and gave copies of the Allegory of Zenos to the kibbutzim libraries and also took one to the linguistics specialist at Hebrew University, Jonathan Shunary. The Hebrew University was closed for the Passover so they left a copy under Jonathan Shunary’s door. Dan had a note on it “If you’re interested in getting more information on this contact Dan Ludlow at the Ritz Hotel”. So Jonathan Shunary contacted Dan and came over to visit. Mr. Shunary said “Whoever wrote that allegory was thinking in the Hebrew language. The idioms and thinking were in the Hebrew language.” Mr. Shunary and his mother flew over to Utah with Dan & Luene once because he wanted to visit Utah. They had a stop over in Iceland. Michelle was with Dan & Luene and during the stop over in Iceland wanted a little cheese round and they bought her one. Michelle was sitting by Mrs. Shunary on the plane. Michelle told Luene later, “Mrs. Shunary stole my cheese”. Luene said, “Oh, she did not, don’t say anything about it, it will embarrass her.” The next week they had a reception with Mr. Shunary and his mother. Mrs. Shunary said, “I am sorry I took your daughter’s cheese. I bought some too, and when I saw it in the seat pocket on the airplane, I thought it was mine and I took it; but when I got home mine was in my purse.” Mr. Shunary was interested in the church and BYU and the Church employed him to translate the Doctrine & Covenants and other documents in Hebrew. He taught Hebrew at BYU for several years. His mother was a very strict orthodox Jew and made him promise not to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hawaii Duplex Dan would have liked to have stayed and lived in Hawaii longer. He was working on buying a duplex in Laie. He and Mr. Smith (Whitney Smith’s son) were going to buy a duplex together. Dan was arranging his financing with Zions Real Estate and Mr. Smith was arranging money with his parents. They got the money and went to buy it and the sellers told them that they had already sold it (to some other faculty members). NY Apartment When they were living in New York Dan wanted to take Luene to a NY Yankees game and Luene didn’t want to go because she didn’t want to be gone from the kids that long. When they came home from the game and had about 5 blocks from the subway to walk to their place there were several fire trucks that came racing down the street. The fire trucks all went up to 121st street and turned and so Dan and Luene hurried to see if they went to Bancroft Hall where their apartment was. Sure enough, all the fire trucks were there. Sister Hill, the only other member of the church who lived in Bancroft Hall, was ironing some clothes and she (or her sister) had left the iron on and it smoked and set off the alarm. They didn’t go to any more Yankee games. The kids would throw things down out of the 8th floor window and try to hit people on the sidewalk below. The children went to a training school right across from Columbia University. One day a week they would go swimming. Diane would always complain that she had a stomach ache on that day. As soon as she would leave school then she would feel better. By the end of the year she enjoyed swimming day and when she had the mumps it was the only day of the week that she wanted to go to school. Huishes Sterling and Thera Huishes were in Indiana and they were going over to Europe. Dan was the gospel doctrine teacher and his Book of Mormon was all tattered and the Huishes gave Dan his first triple combination. Brother Huish was in languages and was in the military and was sent overseas. Sister Huish and the children stopped in New York and were exposed to the chicken pox or mumps and they had to stay in New York longer before going overseas. Grandma LeBaron’s NY Visit Grandma LeBaron came to visit Luene and Dan when they lived in New York and they took her to Washington DC and to many church history sites. Grandpa LeBaron said that she talked about that trip often and how much she enjoyed it. Grand Canyon 7 Mile Hole When the Ludlows and Zollingers hiked down the 7 mile hole at Grand Canyon they planned to stay overnight and so they took a bag of potatoes to eat with the fish that they caught. The rangers were really worried when they started hiking down. They said “you aren’t taking these kids (Carolyn Ludlow & Mark Zollinger) with you”, but Mark and Carolyn were hiking back up and complaining that everyone else was so slow, so the adults gave them the fish and potatoes to carry back up and they still hiked faster than anyone else. Fishing Dan didn’t fish as a child. His first time fishing was after he was teaching at Utah State. He was younger than most of his students the first year he taught because many of them had served in the war for three years. Some of his students were from Idaho and invited him to come up fishing (David Dance, Harold Dance and Ray Forman). Dan and Luene took Vic and Sandra up camping and went fishing up in Idaho for three days. They bought a three-day fishing pass. Swimming The cities of Benjamin and Springville had swimming pools, but not Spanish Fork. Luene never learned how to swim, but Dan used to swim at Arrowhead in Benjamin. He wanted his children to learn to swim so when they stayed in hotels for Education Week he would throw money at the bottom of the pool and have the children dive to retrieve the money and then they could keep the money. The family didn’t really go on family vacations; Education Week trips and the yearly trips to Michigan for 18 years were their vacations. California Dan sold New York Life Insurance (NYLIC) when he graduated from college because the doctors told him he had to get out of the classroom because of his heart. He had a heart murmur. He had been student body president for two years, and Sterling Sill who was the agency manager for NYLIC for all of Utah tried to get him to sell life insurance. Thorpe B. Isaacson was the agency director for Lincoln Life insurance and head of the board of trustees of Utah State and he tried to get Dan to sell for them. Dan signed the contract with NYLIC and immediately went to California. Dave Dance and Ray Forman bought policies from Dan, and they both decided to sell for NYLIC, Ray in Boise and Dave in Seattle. They became top salesmen and Dave became director of an agency and a regional representative. Ray only stayed with NYLIC for a while and was offered a job with Mutual of NY (MONY) and he moved to southern California. Harold stayed in Logan and set up a mortgage company and sold insurance. They all did very very well, but Dave did best. Dan and Luene bought a new home in Ceres, California. It was Luene’s favorite home. It was a small two bedroom house, new with all new furnishings. Wayne & Leona Hansen were living in Ceres then. Teaching at Utah State Dan taught at Utah State for five years and he was getting high evaluations from students but he didn’t have a Master’s Degree and he was being paid the maximum amount for his education. The President of USAC (Utah State Agricultural College) then was Franklin S. Harris (a fellow Benjaminite) and Dan went in and told him that he wasn’t going to sign a contract for the next year because he wasn’t getting enough pay. The President said he had the largest salary without a Master’s Degree. Dan said, but you’re only paying me one salary and I am teaching each class three times. I go through and prepare the lesson before hand and then I teach it; then afterwards I think of how I should have taught it. I’m teaching it in my mind three times and only being paid once. President Harris replied “I know what your problem is, you come from a farming background and you ought to get some purebred livestock to get you out of the classroom and not spend so much time in it.” It is then that Dan started raising purebred Duroc pigs. Raising Pigs Dan raised pigs instead of calves because it takes a long time to build up a large number of cattle. Pigs have large litters after 6 months, so they multiply fast. (60 pigs in 3 years vs. 3 calves). He wanted the best pigs he could get in the country. He wanted Duroc Jersey pigs because he read they were the best. He got acquainted with all the bloodlines. The major breeders were in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. The most popular boar in the country was Velvet Ace who was sold for $4,000 at 6 months old. He wrote to the field man of Duroc Jersey Association and told him if there were gilts that were from Velvet Ace, he was authorized to pay up to $300. Dan got a telegram saying he had bought a gilt of Velvet Ace and her name was Miss Trend. Dan then contacted the owner of the grand champion boar in Illinois. He had Miss Trend shipped to Illinois, had her bred to the boar and had her shipped to Utah. Dan was on the high council and was teaching at Utah State and most critical week of the year is the third week of March because they were on a quarter system and getting all their papers in; it was also ward conferences in the stake. It was then when Miss Trend was to give birth. Dan had her out in a chicken coop. It was very cold. You don’t put her in a pen with walls around because if the big mother lays down on the babies they are squashed. He had it set up so the babies couldn’t be smashed against a wall. He had a heat lamp. Sows don’t lick the piglets and they are very wet when born and if it is really cold the piglets can freeze. Dan came home from a ward conference and he was very sick and when he got home Miss Trend was in labor. He came in and told Luene that Miss Trend was in labor, but he had to get some sleep; he asked her to get him up in two hours. Luene tried and tried to wake him up, but he wouldn’t rouse. When he got up it was daylight and as he went out to the chicken coop he stumbled over seven dead pigs on the way to the coop. He had a gunny sack and from nose to tail they were longer than the gunny sack. There were four piglets still alive (three gilts and one boar). Miss Trend was a beautiful looking animal, but her little boars sold very well at the state fair because they looked a lot like her, (she was a little bit masculine like). He showed the offspring of Miss Trend in the state fair. In the state fair a breeder shows them according to ages (yearling, junior yearling, etc.) The same person can only get two awards in the same class; so he always took first and second and would have to take the third entry out. The boar was never defeated. Two strange things happened because of that. There was no other Duroc boar that was of the same quality. He called his boar Utah Velvet Ace. Dan bred him back to his sisters and his mother. Line breeding accentuates both the good and bad. He had one gilt he called Pride because he had never seen a gilt as beautiful as she was. She looked like her grandfather, Velvet Ace. There were others in that same litter that were born without hoofs (because of the line breeding). At 6 months when Pride was old enough to breed Dan thinks she had a brain tumor. She would walk in the pen around and around in a circle and kept her head turned. He never did show her or get any pigs from her. In the meantime Utah Velvet Ace was sweeping everything. Wayne Hansen wanted to buy him and take him to California. Breeders in Idaho and Utah would send their sows to breed to Utah Velvet Ace. Dan would either charge them or be allowed to take the pick of the litter. You only want to breed the sow once when she is fertile and then you take the boar away and put him in another pen. Utah Velvet Ace didn’t like being separated from the sows and Dan would have to beat him with a cane to separate him. He could only have tusks about 1 ½ inches long to show. Dan had a shield that he would use to protect him during the separation. There was a man from Idaho that brought his sow to breed to Utah Velvet Ace. Dan had moved from Providence to North Logan and in order to keep the pigs in the pens you’d have to have a lot of strong poles for a pen to keep them in. Dan went down to Hill Air Force Base and bought some things they would use to build airfields. They didn’t have time to build airfields so they’d build an artificial one and the airfields were built out of these 4 feet by 12 feet metal pieces and were hooked together. They could level the ground and it would handle the big planes. That’s what Dan bought to use for his pig pens. Dan went out early one morning before teaching at Utah State to have the sow bred to Utah Velvet Ace. When Dan went to get the boar back in his pen, Utah Velvet Ace put his nose underneath the edge of the shield and flipped it out. All Dan had was a cane to protect himself. The shield hurt Dan’s wrist when it flipped and then Utah Velvet Ace got Dan’s knee with his tusks and mouth and Dan's leg was completely turned around. Dan lunged for the fence and after he went over the fence his belt got caught on the hook of the fence. He then went unconscious. The owner of the sow came and found Dan unconscious and brought him into the house. As Dan was recovering he decided to sell Utah Velvet Ace. Dan was on crutches for several months and he thought that his life was more valuable than the boar’s life. When Dan showed Utah Velvet Ace at the state fair he was gone during the day to teach at Utah State. One day, Ray Hillam (the ag teacher for Neal Maxwell) decided to show people from California the boar during the day while Dan was gone teaching. He got in the pen and rapped the boar to get him up. The boar turned his head and ripped Mr. Hillam’s leg up to the knee. Dan had some top baby pigs and he contacted the 4H clubs and offered them the pigs and then 4 years after he came back from Indiana he would have the choice of two of the pigs. Dan never did get back to Utah State. Jesse Zollinger got all of Dan’s equipment and Dan never did get anything from any of the other 10 or so boys, but Jesse gave Dan a few hundred dollars for the feeders, etc. Dan moved to Provo and started teaching at BYU and never got back into the pig business. Selling Life Insurance in California When he was in California to sell insurance Dan didn’t know anyone, so it was hard to sell insurance. He went to the library in Modesto and looked at the newspaper (Modesto Bee) for a year previous and read the social page about the marriages. It would give the addresses of those being married. Dan thought since they were married a year ago they were likely to be starting to have their families and would be interested in insurance. Golden Driggs, the director of agencies for Stockton, California came down because Dan had sold more than anyone in the agency and wanted to know what he was doing. They wanted him to come to San Francisco for a week and take a week off. Luene & Dan had never had a honeymoon so they left Vic and Sandra with Wayne and Leona and they went to San Francisco and went to the zoo, etc. They missed the kids so much and wanted Wayne & Leona to bring the kids up to San Francisco. When Dan went back to Ceres he found that he couldn’t sell during the daytime, but could after 5 at night when the husbands were home. Dan was teaching elder’s quorum and he would really prepare. He would research what the different prophets had taught about the different topics. He kept thinking about how good it would be in the church if we had one book which would include what prophets had said about different topics. He didn’t have the library books, conference talks, etc. available in California, so they sold their dream home and moved to Utah so he could work on the book. He did research at BYU and Utah State. The dean of the college said they were looking for English faculty members because the GI bill was paying for all the returned soldiers to go to college and they needed teachers. So Dan decided to take the offer to teach at USAC. That’s when they moved down in the Olsen place, on the island. There is something he hasn’t told anyone. Dan said, “I had a strong testimony of tithing. We had $1,000 I had earned in California and felt I needed to pay it in tithing even though we didn’t owe it.” They didn’t have the money to maintain the Olsen place and didn’t have money to buy furniture because they had given it to the church. Afton Bradford and her boys came to visit and she was sweeping the floor and hit the card table leg and all the dishes fell on the floor. They had a turtle they couldn’t find and it got down in the furnace grill. Dan and Luene went to church there and Dan was on the high council and Luene went to church by herself; and when she went to church the first Sunday and the man next to her had an epileptic seizure. She was expecting Diane. One Mother’s Day Vic went to Sunday School by himself and didn’t get a flower for Luene (Luene had had her new baby and Dan was gone on the high council). Vic went in Sister Olsen’s place and picked her flowers and brought them home. Luene could see that they had been pulled out of the ground and Vic confessed that he had picked them out of Sister Olsen’s garden because he didn’t get one from church. Luene said he shouldn’t have done it. Vic said, “But Sister Olsen wasn’t there.” Luene said, it doesn’t matter, Heavenly Father wouldn’t want you to do that. Vic then said, “But Heavenly Father wasn’t there either”. Sandra was going to the parade on the fourth of July and they had just re-tarred the road and she got tar all over her dress. Luene put her in the tub and told her to stay there. Dan went to a tire shop to get the kerosene to get the tar off of her. They never did make it to the parade. When they did research on Latter-day Prophets Speak at BYU Dan and Luene stayed at Luene’s folks for a few weeks. It was December when they moved back to Utah and they forgot to put antifreeze in the car and the pipes for the car heater burst. They went to BYU and they had volumes and magazines in a room that wasn’t heated because of the war. Luene and Dan would go all bundled up and the library personnel wouldn’t allow them to bring in a typewriter. They would put them in the treasury room. You could take a pencil and paper and they would ask when you wanted to be let out. There was no bathroom, etc. and Luene would write in shorthand. After it was done, President McKay wanted three copies of it, so they had to buy a typewriter from Hill Air Force Base. They had a typewriter that looked like new but the return carriage didn’t work. It was $15. Someone told Dan what was wrong with it and it was easily fixed. They had to have two carbon copies and Luene would have to type the keys extra hard and if she made a mistake she would have to correct it on all three pages. Luene’s hands were so stiff after three weeks that she couldn’t type and they had made a commitment to President McKay and so they worked around the clock 24 hours taking turns typing, watching the kids and sleeping. Dan could only type with two fingers but he was very accurate. President McKay was a member in the First Presidency in 1947 and Dan and Luene didn’t have money but Dan wanted a pair of new shoes, so he bought a cheap new pair (they only lasted about a week). When he met with President McKay the church was celebrating the centennial of coming into the valley and President McKay was chairman of the Centennial Committee. He asked Dan, “Brother Ludlow, what are we going to talk about today, Centennial affairs or Church affairs?” He had two desks, one for centennial materials and one for church materials and so they sat at the church materials desk. President McKay said, “This is something the church needs; I wish every missionary had one.” His only suggestion was that there was way too much material there. There was material for 1,000 pages. President McKay suggested that if Dan could reduce the material by about 2/3 they could take it, if it was accepted by the reading committee of the church. Dan had to reduce it and it was very difficult. If Dan did a new edition of Latter Day Prophets Speak and added material from President McKay to the present Dan thinks it would sell. He has material on that. Stories of the cars When Dan was raising sheep in high school he was pretty well off so he bought a 1937 Chevrolet. He was the only student in high school that had a car. He drove it because he lived in Benjamin but he was on the debate team, student council, etc. and he would have to stay after school and couldn’t ride the bus. When they were married they had the car. When they thought he would be in the military or when they moved to Logan they sold the car to Gene & Donna. So when Dan didn’t get in the military he started working at Geneva Steel as a hod carrier in Blast Furnace #2. They had to have big bricks with holes in them to keep the walls from melting. He worked with a fellow who had a ’34 Chevrolet and Dan and Luene didn’t have a car so Dan bought it from him (he was going in the military). They were in the Williams apartment which was right by a hamburger/soda shop. Dan took the car to have the oil changed on it before they went up to school. They got up the next morning, packed up Vic who was still a baby, and started for Logan. By the time they got to Springville Dan could tell something was wrong, but he didn’t think it was the oil. The further they went, the more difficulty they had with the car. The man who changed the oil, (a buddy from high school), had forgotten to put oil in the car. Dan didn’t want to get him in trouble. He put oil in the car and kept driving toward Logan. There was a place next to the highway and a lady was there who helped Luene and Vic (who needed his bottle warmed). They kept going and by Brigham City there was Bushnell Hospital where they would bring injured from the war. They picked up a military man hitchhiker to take him to Bushnell Hospital and the man told them not to stop, that he was afraid about the car, so he jumped out of the car at low speed. The car broke down in Brigham City so they had to stop and spend the night in the hotel. In the morning it would go for a while but didn’t have much power. They had all the things in the car that they were going to move to Logan. They went to Honeyville and talked to a farmer and he said he was going into Logan and he would take a chain and pull them in. He pulled them in to 690 E. 7th No. and he pulled them up to the side of the house and then the car rolled into the driveway and it sat there for 4 years. It was during the war and cars were hard to come by and people wanted to buy it, but Dan wouldn’t sell it for he knew something was wrong with it and he couldn’t afford to have it fixed. For four years they didn’t have a car. After 4 years a car salesman kept wanting to buy the car and Dan didn’t want to sell it because he didn’t know what was wrong with it. The car salesman offered, you sell it to me and I’ll fix it and be responsible for it. Dan sold it to him and doesn’t think the car salesman ever spoke to him again. Dan was sure the pistons had gotten so hot that they were warped. When Dan started selling life insurance he needed a car. Ken McBee, his trainer, drove a big Buick and told Dan he should have a big nice car and Dan bought Ken McBee’s big Buick and drove it to California. At Dan’s graduation both their parents came up for the graduation. They went up to the Idaho border because Luene had never been out of state. Dan’s parents were in the front of the car with him and Luene’s parents were in the back with her. At first Dan just drove the front part of the car over the border and then backed up. They did go over the border. Grandpa Leifson wanted to do firecrackers because they were allowed in Idaho, but not Utah, so he did. The problem with the Buick was that it had very bad gas mileage (Dan said you’d have to turn it off when you filled up the car or you couldn’t keep up). It lasted a few years. Their next car was a new Studebaker. When Dan was teaching at Utah State a student, Vern Eyre, wanted to go to dental school so he went to Kansas City for dental school. In 1951 after Dan had taught for about 3 years they finally had enough money to buy a new car. Dan wrote Vern to say that he understood they had a Ford factory in Kansas City so Dan and Luene would take the bus at Christmas time and buy a new car. They went in the bus to get the new car and when they met with Vern (Vern was going to buy it before they got there), Vern confessed that he had a friend that sold Studebakers and bought it instead of a Ford. The Studebaker was very small and Dan was very disappointed. It had a hill holder. In Logan there are lots of hills and with a stick shift you had to be really careful. The ’51 Studebaker’s big deal was the hill holder. The president of the United States was Harry Truman and he lived in Independence, Missouri and he was there for Christmas, so Dan and Luene went out and drove around to see where he lived. They drove around and there was secret service. They drove around several times and the secret service stopped them and asked what they were doing. Kansas City had lots of hills and they drove it around and the hill holder worked beautifully. They drove all the way back to Utah and went in to have it checked in Logan at the Studebaker garage and they asked how come their hood latch is unlocked? Dan said, “What do you mean?” You have to pull this latch so you can get your hood up—Dan thought it was the hill holder. Dan had been pulling the hood latch thinking it was the hill holder, but the hill holder was automatic. Dan was the faculty advisor to the student council at Utah State. He suggested that they have a day set aside where they could invite the high school students in. They could show the potential agricultural students the pig barns, etc. Those that were interested in music could see pianos. Iowa State had something like that VEISHA (vocation, education, science). Dan took the student body president elect and two other students, and drove to Iowa and stayed on campus for VEISHA. There was a big parade and they had a big Santa Claus with the reindeer and a big float and it was funny to have a Christmas float, but on the side of it, it said “I just had to come back for VEISHA.” They got in the Studebaker and headed back to Utah. They traveled during the night because they didn’t have money to stay in a hotel. Traveling in Wyoming in the middle of the night the car suddenly died and wouldn’t move. Dan tried several things and had to warn cars to go around because they couldn’t move it. When it was light enough Dan got underneath to see if anything was wrong. Dan could see that there was something that was supposed to be connected that had come apart. As he connected them the car began to move and he was afraid he was going to get run over. It was a Sunday morning and they didn’t have money for a garage so they drove in to Logan. It was the hill holder that had disconnected. They drove the Studebaker to Indiana and New York. Driving from Provo to Indiana in the Studebaker they had a little trailer and Grandma Leifson had loaded them with a lot of bottled fruit. Dan was already in Indiana and Jack, Luene’s brother, was driving with her. They came to Berthoud Pass, near Denver, and they couldn’t make it up over the pass. A big semi hooked a chain on them and pulled them up on top. They had way too big of a load in the trailer. Going through Kansas City and the hills and, when they came down, the tongue on the trailer broke and the trailer hit the back of the car, and it had a big dent. They made it to Indiana. After a year in Indiana Dan got a scholarship to Columbia so they went to New York and took the trailer with them and they didn’t have a place to store the trailer. There was a dentist member of the church that lived on Staten Island and offered to let them store the trailer at his place. Although Dan and Luene were poor students financially, they were the only members of the church in the ward with a car. They had to park the car on the street and they’d have to go down in the middle of the night each night to move the car to the other side of the street. They lived right across the street from Columbia University. Since they had a car, they got a call from their Bishop saying there was a family moving out from Utah to Columbia University (the Art Wiscombe family) and he and his family had an accident on the Pennsylvania turnpike. Dan went to pick up the family from the accident. After that year Dan and Luene had to go back to Indiana so they had to go get the trailer. Dan got it from Staten Island to 121st, a very busy street and the hill holder went out. Dan asked the man from the deli to call Luene and had her direct traffic while he got under the car and fixed the hill holder. When Dan and Luene moved out to North Logan they moved out to a place where Sister Israelson had lived and she still had a family living there so Dan and Luene lived with the Parkers in the home for a week or two until their house was finished. Dan and Luene went to Indiana and New York and got a letter from the Parkers saying they were coming to a convention in Philadelphia. “We’d like to come to New York to see you.” Luene drew them a map and sent it to them telling them how to get there. When they arrived Dan asked if they had found the place okay. Did the map work okay? But they had left the map in North Logan, Utah. Luene and Dan’s phone was through Columbia University and so they weren’t in the New York City directory and the Parkers couldn’t call. Luene and Dan said maybe 7 people in New York City knew where they lived. The Parkers went by Columbia University and saw a man going into a big apartment building and stopped and asked him, “Do you know where Dan Ludlow lives?” “Yes, go down to 121st and turn right and they are in the tall building.” They didn’t think it was strange at all that he would know where the Ludlows lived. (The man they asked was Art Wiscombe). A couple of years later after Dan and Luene went to Indiana University again and then they came out to BYU, they figured they could afford a car. This time they were going to get a station wagon. They decided to go to Louisville, Kentucky to buy the station wagon and they found a brown and beige station wagon that they really liked, just what they wanted, and so they agreed with the automobile agent what they would give for the Studebaker and Dan and Luene would buy the station wagon. They had to be back in Bloomington that night and they went to get into the station wagon and it wouldn’t start. It was brand new, but even the mechanics couldn’t get it going. Dan said, “Forget it, give me the Studebaker back,” but they had already sold it to a used car agent. “We have another station wagon just like it but it is blue. It is $250 more because it has extra things, but we’ll give it to you for the same price.” Dan and Luene told Miss Carolyn Guss about it and she thought the blue one was better and they had gotten a good deal. Coming out to Provo in the new blue station wagon something happened to the station wagon and Dan and Luene took it into the garage and they could fix the dent in the back but Dan and Luene couldn’t wait for it to be painted. The next morning Luene’s brother (Allen) had noticed the new car with the primer in the back and knew they had been in an accident. He let Luene’s parents know about the car and they called all worried. Dan drove back and forth from California for several years across the desert and there was one place where he was driving all night and it was dark and driving into town and whammo, bang, all of a sudden the car stopped. (That was when Dan went without Luene). He was almost to a service station (within 100 yards), but the service station was closed. When the service station attendant arrived he discovered the distributor cap had broken. He was able to just fix it right there. Another time Dan and Luene were going to the LA area for an Education Week program. They pulled into Barstow, California. Diane was married. Dan had Doyle buy a can of radiator cleaner. Dan didn’t flush the cleaner out and he had to get another radiator and they had to stay there a day longer. One time Dan and Luene were going up to Canada for Education Week and they had a big trailer behind them. Dan had been dead tired from final exams and had Luene drive for a while. She came down a hill and the trailer hitch came apart and the trailer rolled over and over. There were some men working on the road and they came right down and asked if there was anyone in the trailer. No one was. They had to go into Montana and get the insurance money and get another trailer. They arrived at their destination at one o’clock and Dan’s talk was at two o’clock. Hawaii Station wagon: Before the family moved to Hawaii Dan was at a BYU baseball game in Provo and someone came up and said there was a long distance call for him and that the person wanted him to call back right away. The call was from Stephen Covey who had been in Hawaii and was coming back to the mainland. He was wondering if Dan wanted to buy his station wagon, which he did. When living in Provo and driving to Salt Lake, Dan wanted a small car. Carolyn had learned on a Vega in driver’s education. Dan bought a Vega. Walt Bowen and Dan were going over the Sierras and, going over a hill, it overheated. They finally got into California and it was the fault of the Vega but they had to have the motor shipped in. They had to get a rental car and go in for the Education Week. They called Diane & Doyle and they came in another car. Dan guesses he was chincy on cars. He didn’t believe in buying big expensive cars or even new cars. He would go to correlation meetings every Sunday and when he needed another car he would check the newspaper up there for used cars. He bought one foreign car from the newspaper. Anton K. Romney had driven him up, so Anton took Dan by to buy the little French car, Renault. Dan let Diane take it and she wrecked it. The best car Dan and Luene probably every bought was from President Hinckley’s sister, Carol Hinckley Cannon, a Buick. Dan wishes he had pictures of all the cars. Luene’s stroke in Indiana (as told by Luene) While living in Indiana, Dan left to go to Utah to work on his doctoral dissertation. Before Dan left there was a baptism for Wilf Crafton’s daughter Sandra and Sandra Ludlow. During the baptismal service Luene felt something funny, a pain, up the back of her head. Dan went to Utah the day after the baptism. Four days after Dan left for Utah, Luene was back in Indiana and she was getting ready for Primary that evening. Luene passed out and Eva Stubbs came upstairs to have her kids go to primary with Luene and Luene told Eva the missionaries were using her car and she was going with one of the other members there, and so Eva’s husband came to see how Luene was and another fellow, Brother Lowe, came to see her. They were all there waiting for the doctor to come. Eva went downstairs and called the doctor and her husband came up and so as Luene recalls there were five men there, the two missionaries, Brother Lowe, Brother Stubbs and the man she was going with to primary. Nina Gayle came down and took the kids. Luene went to the hospital and they put her in a room with three other women and she couldn’t breathe, and she just felt like she was going to be gone and she couldn’t talk. They had tubes in her mouth, and she knew the doctor was there and Eva Stubbs and someone else with her and were talking to the doctor and seeing where Dan was so the doctor could call him to come home. Luene didn’t want him to do that but she couldn’t say anything. She was praying that she could get some help. She was surprised that they came and took her down to a room and a lady that was on the hospital board was in that room and she didn’t allow any flowers or anything in that room. Luene kept waiting to see if the lady would smoke and she didn’t. Luene was so glad. Dan came back and Luene was at the hospital for ten days. Luene was pregnant with Carolyn at the time and was worried about Carolyn being born and being all right. This was also the time when Dan was making a call and deciding whether to go to Utah State or BYU to teach. Luene knew he had the kids and then he took care of her. The one thing he made was gravy one night and it didn’t turn out all right and he didn’t tell her what he had done wrong, so they didn’t have gravy after that. Dan finished his dissertation and took care of Luene too. They put her on a plane to come home, and Dan had the station wagon and trailer and everything that he brought to Utah. They arranged for a home at 534 E. 7th North in Provo. Dan’s mother and Luene’s mother helped move Luene in and then Dan came with the kids. They settled in there. Luene talked about when Dan called to talk to Dr. Wilkinson. Dan had decided to go down to the phone company across from the church in Bloomington to call and tell Dr. Wilkinson that we’d accept the call to come to BYU, and when Dan went to leave it was raining heavily and he was parked across the street at the church. He slipped and his bad knee went out on him and he was anxious to hurry home and tell Luene what he decided and then he went in the church to get his knee back in place. There was a car parked in front of the church and its driver watched Dan pull himself up the railing that they had there and hobble inside the church where he got his knee back in place. Then he came running down and saw the fellow in the car with a surprised look on his face that Dan was better. Dan always regretted that he didn’t tell him that we believed in healing. Then Dan hurried home and told Luene about his decision. Luene got feeling better by the time she had Carolyn. When Dan came out to Utah with the kids, Dan stopped at Nauvoo on the way and let the kids go there to the church history sites. Luene remembers when they arrived in Utah, that all the kids’ hair needed to be combed. Juren Victor Leifson & Mary Amelia Bradford Leifson (as told by Luene) Mary Leifson was so upset when Glen died, so she and (her husband) Vic went down to California to be with her friend Susan White. Vic had been with Susan’s husband in the service and he took Mary down to California to help her get away from the baby (Glen) that died. They had decided to end up staying there and live in California and then Vic got a terse message from Uncle Leo to come home because his father had died. Luene has the telegram in her scrapbook. So Vic & Mary came back to Utah; thus Luene was born there, rather than California. Mary thought it was so funny that they had to pay a nickel for a glass of ice water at a restaurant down in California. The family all lived in a home in Spanish Fork. There were ten of them in a two bedroom home. Freda and Luene slept in one bed, Ted, Thor and Allen slept in another bed in the same room. In the other room the folks slept in a bed, and Vic made a big baby bed that Jack & Elaine slept in and June and Afton slept in a couch in that room and Mark was in a buggy. They had a couch in the living room. They had an orchard there. Also they had a screened porch where they had the washer. They had a cellar that went downstairs on the porch to have their milk and fruit and had a garden and had cows in back of the orchard behind and a pig and some chickens. The garage was on the east side of the house and the coal shed. There was a space in between and the boys got some leftover lumber and they made a hutch there and they had a couch underneath. They had enough to have a ceiling over most of the couch. They had people come to pay a penny to watch the play that they would put on and the ceiling caved in and landed on the couch below. They had Beth, Floy & Jane who also lived with them when Aunt Eliza died (Mary’s sister). The baby Eliza Gean, who lived when Eliza died, stayed with Grandma and was raised by Grandma Bradford. They had the three of them until Uncle Vic Whiting remarried and then he came and got them and Mary was upset. Vic served a mission during that time too and Ted was just a little boy and he got up on the table and washed the windows after mother had washed them. They were dirty and she offered to call Vic and have him take Ted on the mission. Ted was always getting into mischief. Jane and Luene would hide in the coal shed and eat coal (Jane did especially). Freda and Beth and Floy would tease them. When they had apples, Luene got so sick one time eating the apples that were too green to eat and had nightmares and she was in bed in on the couch in the living room. Luene had wanted a Shirley Temple doll for her last doll for years. She got one for Christmas that last year. The doctor said she should have sugar cane candy to eat. She didn’t like to eat it because she thought it was medicine. Luene got up to brush her teeth and her mother put her back to bed on the couch in the living room. Luene didn’t even care about her doll until she got better. Sandra has the Shirley Temple doll. She inherited it, being the oldest girl. Freda had an Icelandic doll that Vic had inherited when his sister died. Aunt Dot also had an Icelandic doll. Aunt Dots’ daughter, Joan, inherited her doll. Vic Leifson just had his truck and so Luene never learned to drive a car. Mary didn’t drive and so they’d take the little red wagon down town to get groceries and to shop. Luene never seemed to get anything new. She inherited Freda’s things. One was a coat and when they’d go down to school the kids let Luene lead the way up the East bank of Spanish Fork there so she could break the wind with the coat. They didn’t have a thick coat like she had. Luene remembers when the neighbor (who was a cousin of hers across the street from them) told her that there wasn’t a Santa Claus. Luene was so surprised. Luene can still remember standing by the iron fence that they had and looking over at their house when the neighbor told her. She told Luene to pretend she was asleep on Christmas Eve. Luene got up on the little red desk by her bed and looked through the transom window and sure enough Mary and Vic put out the things for Christmas. Luene remembers they had a belt from the four corners of the living room that was out of art paper. They had a big bell that hung from the loops over the table in the dining room that they had. They had a radio that was unique. Vic and Mr. Shippee were the only ones that had crystal radios, the first two radios in Spanish Fork. Vic had it in the corner of the living room so that he could hear it and no one else could. He could hear it with the tubes. At conference time people would come from all over Spanish Fork to listen to general conference. They would have the door open and people out there. The kids were out playing and Luene remembers a fellow telling them to be quiet because the conference was started and they were having the prayer for general conference. They had a big swing between the two big trees that were on the west side of the house and the kids would play on it, and then on the east side of the house in one of the trees there by the irrigation ditch the boys built a hut up in the tree. They didn’t have that many things that they played. Out across the street there was a light and they would play games there with the neighbor kids. In the summertime up two blocks from them Vic had a peach orchard where they later built two duplexes and Thor built his home. The trucks would come from California to buy the peaches the family picked. They would put stocking on their arms to keep the peach fuzz from bothering them, but Luene can still feel the peach fuzz whenever she thinks of peaches. There was a big tree in front that blew down a few years ago and Luene gave a copy of that picture to Thor. It was right by their home. The children would climb up in that tree and eat their lunch and get out of the sun and take a break when they were picking peaches. They always had plenty of peaches that Mary would put under their beds in the bedroom to ripen. Then they had apples from the orchard at home. That was Luene’s growing-up years. It wasn’t until 6 months before Luene married Dan that they built the new home at 263 East Center Street in Spanish Fork. Freda got married a month before Luene did, but Dan and Luene had planned their wedding first. Freda went down to Wendover for Bill’s graduation and they decided to get married before he went overseas. Dan and Luene got married in the Salt Lake Temple on June 10, 1942. It was late in the day for the wedding (about 3:20 p.m.) because there were so many weddings that day. Stephen L. Richards is the one that married Dan and Luene and then they went on a tour of the temple. They went in Dan’s car to the temple and then the folks and his parents went in another car. They were trying to avoid these Benjamin kids that were trying to separate them as they came home from the temple. On the way home they had a blow out tire in Springville but they went from there to the folks’ home to get away from the kids that were trying to separate them. They ran into the folks’ home and the boys just about pulled Dan out of the bedroom window. Dan and Luene had a wedding reception in the church just east of the folks’ home and then they stayed at a hotel in Springville the first night. Clyde and Eliza got Dan and hid him in a field and these others were trying to trick Luene. Luene trusted Clyde and Eliza because he was the best man at the wedding and he got Luene and Dan and took them to the place in Springville. They stayed at Gene and Donna’s place one night after the reception. Then the next weekend they went up to Logan. They lived in a home there on the other side of the campus in the basement apartment. Dan had been working up there in the summer in Logan and then staying at Amachers, and then he bought the home just two blocks away from them. Luene’s stroke May 2007 (as told by Luene) On Sunday, May 6, 2007 Luene was at church in St. George and their meetings were so that they had Relief Society and Priesthood first, then Sunday School and then sacrament meeting. Luene bore her testimony in Relief Society and she sat down and then Dan came late to Sunday School class. It seemed like Luene was having trouble thinking and that; but she didn’t say anything. When they were leaving the class Mr. Bain, the one that is buying their trailer, talked to Luene and Dan was going to the restroom and Luene finished talking to Mr. Bain and then she went out in the hallway and Dan went the other way to the restroom. Luene met Brother Neve who is in the stake presidency and was in their ward and he was asking Luene about where she was going and she had trouble talking to him and answering what she was supposed to say. Somebody else came up and was talking to Brother Neve so Luene went on into the chapel for sacrament meeting. She had a tithing envelope to give to the bishop. She told Dan to take it to him and he waited until after the meeting. Luene just didn’t feel right during church. Then Dan went up and gave the envelope to the bishop after church and Luene went out to the car. Dan helped her, she couldn’t walk right and then he couldn’t get her in the car, but she got in and they went back home and Luene changed her dress and lay down for a while and then Dan insisted in taking her to the InstaCare there. They went there and they sent her right around to the hospital. They did all these tests (electrocardiogram, etc.). They were there until they closed the facility. The next day they had her come back again and she had an MRI of the body. Then they let her go home and then it was two days later when Vic came and Vic & Dan gave Luene a blessing. They didn’t come up to Provo until Saturday. She went to Dr. Woodmansee on Monday the 14th. Home health care center people started coming on the 18th. Margarine/butter There used to be laws against coloring margarine, so you could easily tell it from butter. Once Dan but some coloring in some margarine and changed butter and margarine wrappers and Zollingers couldn’t tell which was which. James Jens Hansen Dan’s family: Polygamous Grandpa (James Jens Hansen) who left his wives peacefully resting and having a picnic in the shade under the big pine trees at the Provo cemetery, except his first wife who he took with him to the Provo court on charges of polygamy. They rode on the hay rack and it was a hot and dusty day. The judge called his name and said, “I understand you’d been married 13 times, is that right?” He said “yes”. “Who is this person?” “She is my first wife.” “Where are your other twelve wives?” “Out in the cemetery resting peacefully.” “Case dismissed.” (Later when his journal was translated this didn’t happen quite this way.) Luene & Dan’s first date (as told by Luene) Dan knew Luene’s brother Ted because he was the student manager of the track team and Dan was on the track team. Dan ran the 440 and the mile. He was a member of the championship relay team for the state one year. Dan didn’t really like running the mile. One time he was so tired running the mile that he fell down and had cinders embedded in his knee. He thought he was going to die. Dan remembers the day that Roger Bannister ran the mile in under 4 minutes. He was with a bunch of people from church (including Darrell Stubbs and Royce Flandro) at McCormick’s Creek State Park in Indiana. They were all playing softball and that was the day that they heard that Roger Bannister ran the mile in under 4 minutes. Luene and Ted were in stake conference this one Sunday night and they saw the Salem boys in the back seat and Dan was there. Dan and the Salem boys were in another stake in Benjamin. Ted and Luene hurried home to get Barbara Nielsen home. She had gone out with Dan and so she thought he was calling for her and when Luene got home Mother Leifson said there was a strange fellow that had come for Luene. It was Dan. He came back and wanted Luene to go with him down to practice for the world history debate. Dan and Luene went down and he gave her some pepper gum. Luene said she should have known then better than to monkey around with him. They went to a movie, but first they went down to his place. When he found out she had never milked a cow he wanted her to milk a cow. They gave up after about a half a cup and went to a movie. That is what started it. Sandra In California Sandra was eating everything at the state fair and got trench mouth. Sandra was lost for two hours in Logan. Valene Fuhriman who found Sandra said “Sandra we have been looking all over for you.” She said, “You didn’t look down here.” When they lived in the home on the island Sandra took off down the street by the store. Grandma & Grandpa Bradford Luene remembers going to her Grandma & Grandpa Bradford’s home often to take them dinner. Spanish Fork High School Friends The Spanish Fork yearbook for 1942 had a rising sun, (which was also the symbol of Japan during the war). Luene’s good friend, Elizabeth Taylor, was the editor of the yearbook. Luene’s other LLP (Life long Pals) were: Barbara Nielsen, Daisy Dean Daniels, Elsa Romane McKell, Romagene Johnson and Mary Helen McKell. Others called them the little liver pills. About 10 of the students in their class married classmates. There were about 250 in their graduating class. They graduated right around war time and they wanted to get married before the men went into the service. Newspaper Crossword Puzzles Luene and Dan both liked to do the crossword puzzles in the newspaper, but Luene usually beat him to it. One day when they were living in Hawaii Luene had spent the day at the temple. When she came home she went to do the puzzle in the paper and Dan had already done it. She was almost in tears, so Dan doesn’t do the puzzles any more and leaves them for Luene to do. Melvin Ludlow Melvin Ludlow was seminary class president in high school and a third “cousin” was that age – Jim Hand Ludlow. Jim’s mother was a cousin rather than him. The cousins were in plays, debate, orchestra, etc. Distinctions in High School Dan was on the sophomore council. Luene was in shorthand and was the star pupil. Her teacher was really sad that she was getting married because she wanted Luene to take the state exam where you were tested for 120 words a minute and not many people could do that. Luene passed the test anyway. Dan’s prayers for the dying Three instances where Dan prayed for someone who was in bad health and their families were willing to let them die and they died right away: 3. Retta Ludlow Brown was in the hospital in Provo and all of her family were gathered there and sang songs and asked Dan Ludlow to say a prayer that she could be released from this life if it was God’s will. Bill McKell was also in the hospital and Dan and Luene went up to visit Bill and about a half hour later they came back down to visit Retta’s family again and the room was empty except for a woman cleaning up the room. She told Dan that right after he offered the prayer that Retta had died and her body had already been picked up by the mortician and they were preparing the room for another patient. 2. A man, Staker Olsen, who had gone on some trips with Dan and Luene (was in Mark Smith’s parents’ ward in Salt Lake). Brother Olsen’s wife didn’t go on trips with them because of her poor health. She was in a care center. He would visit his wife every day and took such good care of her. She didn’t recognize him. One day he went to the Manti Temple. He stopped by Luene’s & Dan’s Provo home on his way home from Manti and asked Dan to say a prayer that if it was God’s will that it was okay with them for her to be taken at this time. Dan did offer such a prayer and Sister Olsen died within two days. 1. June Wilson was in Dan and Luene’s Provo ward. Dan thought she was a widow. She loved Luene and she loved Dan’s gospel doctrine class. June now lives in St. George. One Thursday evening during a Relief Society meeting when Luene was gone June called. June’s daughter lived with her. June told Dan about her husband who was one of the first patients in the Eastlawn Care Center. She visited him regularly and he didn’t know who she was. She wanted to know if it would be all right to pray for him to die. Dan said he didn’t think it would be right, but that it might be all right to pray and explain that we understand the plan of progression and that death is part of the plan and there is life after death and we would all be taken at some time, we can work over there. He wasn’t able to work here in his condition and that if it wasn’t contrary to the plan of our Heavenly Father that they would feel all right for him to be taken at this time. If it was His will and He decided to do it that they would feel all right about it. Then June asked if Dan would be willing to say the prayer. Dan told her that she ought to use Stake President Todd who was in the ward. June had called him and he was out of town. Dan then suggested that she should call her home teacher and she said she had done that and he didn’t feel good about doing that himself unless there was somebody else. So Dan & the home teacher, June & her daughter went to the Care Center and Dan said the prayer. Brother Wilson died that night. Talented Cousins Dan had several cousins who were great singers, very smart and talented. Roland Hand, son of Pearl Ludlow Hand, was a baritone. He was killed in the war in a training exercise in California. His mother, Pearl, woke up in the middle of the night and went to her sister’s (Della Ludlow Tippets), and woke her up and said that something was wrong with Roland. The sister said, “No, I have sons who are over in the battle and we ought to worry about them, don’t worry about Roland. He is in California, he’s not in battle.” Pearl got a telegram that next day that Roland had died in a night time training exercise. Elden and Walter Richardson, sons of Hazel Ludlow Richardson, were also baritones. They were known all over the state for their voices. Walter sang for the St. Louis opera company. Dan had two cousins who were two years older than him, Melvin and Kenneth. Melvin was the son of Ed, and Kenneth was the son of Francis. Retta and Alta’s memories of their brother Daniel Ludlow Retta and Alta were sisters of Dan’s father, Daniel Ludlow. Alta is still alive (12/2007) and lives with her daughter Ann in Spanish Fork. Retta Ludlow Brown had three daughters: Earla, Lana and Jeanine. Earla fell away from the church. Jeanine married Alan Morgan and they live over by 13th ward in Provo. Lana is the one who is interested in genealogy. Lana has a niece (daughter of Jeanine) who is living with her now. She has a wheelchair and a handicapped van that she drives. She lives in Provo. Lana is living in Retta’s home and lived there with her mother until her mother died. Alta and Retta have different memories about their older brother, Daniel. One claims it was a truck that was hit by the train and the other says it was a bus. In St. George Dan & Luene saw an exhibition of school buses and the buses were actually trucks with benches in them. They say that Daniel Ludlow was a great baseball player and he achieved a triple play. He played on the town team. Farm Bureau used to have teams, Daniel Ludlow’s son, Daniel H. Ludlow pitched for a Farm Bureau team. Luene went to watch him at one of his games and he was very nervous. Daniel Ludlow Sr. was a big sportsman and liked hunting (ducks, pheasants). The Ludlows had a big sheep ranch down on Utah Lake and they owned quite a bit of property along the shore line of Utah Lake so they used to harvest ice along the edge of the lake. They had an ice business. They got out on Utah Lake and had a big saw and cut the ice and they had a big pit and put sawdust in there and they would have ice in the summer before there was refrigeration. They would sell ice. By the time Daniel H. Ludlow was old enough for people to tell him about his father, his father had been dead for quite a while. Retta and especially Alta used to always kiss him on the lips and they said he looked so much like his Dad. If he didn’t have red hair by the time he was 18 they were going to use paint and paint it. Daniel Ludlow had sandy red hair. Mel’s father had red hair and Mel and his sons have red hair. The other brothers and their children don’t have red hair. Luene Ludlow’s dad also had red hair. Mel Ludlow’s memory of Daniel Ludlow (as told my Mel Ludlow) Mel Ludlow’s earliest childhood memory was of when Daniel Ludlow Sr. died and having his father lift him up to see Daniel in his casket (Mel had just turned two). Lincoln Sheep Dan and his friend Harry Crandell from Michigan were the only two in the US raising Lincoln sheep. The Ludlow ancestors in England raised Lincoln sheep. They are raised primarily for wool, not meat. Stories of healings 1.Wilf Crafton’s neighbors had a little boy that was playing mumble peg (flip a knife off your finger and try to land it sticking up in the ground). The knife blade flipped into his eye and cut his eye and severed the eyeball. The doctor wanted to remove the eye and give him an artificial eye and said that there was absolutely no chance of him to be able to see with that eye and he wanted to remove it because he was worried about infection. The boy’s mother came from a Pentecostal background and believed in faith healings. Her husband was in a mental institution in Kentucky. She called Wilf Crafton because she knew he also believed in faith healings. Wilf didn’t feel like he could do the blessing so he called Dan. Dan met with the mother and asked if she believed in Christ and if she believed in faith healing. The doctor was very upset that she had asked others to give the boy a blessing. The doctor was very opposed to it and felt the best chance for the boy’s life to be spared was to give him an artificial eye. The doctor talked to Dan about that. The mother made the decision to disregard the doctor and have Dan give her son a blessing. In the blessing Dan clearly told the boy that not only would he be made well but he would be able to see and see as well out of that eye as he could out of the other eye. That was a very weakening experience spiritually. Dan had to sit right down to regain his strength. There was cigarette smoke in the hospital and it was evening and he hadn’t had any dinner and felt very weak. Right away the boy was able to see out of the eye. The boy and his mother a few Sundays later came to church. The boy came a couple of times later without his mother and then they stopped coming. She said she didn’t continue coming because she was a Pentecostal and her mother was a strong Pentecostal and her mother on her death bed made her promise that she would never leave the Pentecostal church. 2.Dan had several remarkable things happen with students over in Israel with healings, etc., but Dan has felt that he should not share those experiences for fear that people would think that he was taking that power unto himself. It was by the power of the priesthood, not by his power. 3.Chet Zollinger was the bishop of the ward in Providence and they were building a new church and putting up the steeple. He fell down off the steeple onto the concrete and severely injured his back. Dan was in Provo at the time and Mary called and asked him to come and administer to Chet. Dan was just getting ready to leave for a trip to Minneapolis for a Know Your Religion talk. She begged him to come to Logan first before he left for the airport. He went to Logan. Mary was there with Chet and Dan gave him a blessing. Chet said later that he felt like he was in a deep bit of pain and going in and out of consciousness and didn’t know what was going on and finally he became conscious of the fact that he was hearing something. Then he could hear Dan’s voice and he heard him tell him that he was going to get well. Dan didn’t remember if he told him that he would walk again, but did promise that he would get well. The doctors said that he would never walk again. Later he did get well but he never got the warmth back in his feet. He wore socks to bed and had a condo built so that it had heat in the floor (which was revolutionary at the time). He had to take lots of pills. Chet went on a trip to Israel with Dan and Luene and then Chet & Mary went on a mission to Israel. When Dan went to Australia, Chet went to the brethren and asked if he could go to Australia to be a missionary with Dan. The brethren were reluctant to send him there with Dan. Chet liked that it was warm (at that time the coldest it had ever been in Perth was 42 degrees). He was called on a mission, but it was to Hawaii. When they came back they moved to Desert Hot Springs because of the hot springs. Chet had Dan come down to California for Know Your Religion and Chet had a family home evening group in the neighborhood and asked Dan to come and speak for the family home evening group Monday night. That is why Dan and Luene moved down to Desert Hot Springs, because that got them interested. Dan felt better in the lower altitude, liked the hot springs and wanted to grow a lot of citrus fruits. It was when Dan overdid on packing the sand around the trees and had a heart attack that Chet was able to administer to Dan and help him. Cloyd Christensen was another friend from Logan and he also wanted to move to Desert Hot Springs. Cloyd was in forest service work, bureau of land management. Cloyd moved to Spanish Fork to be with land management there. Then he moved to Provo and was in 13th Ward in Provo. When Cloyd found out that Chet and Dan felt so much better in Desert Hot Springs he hinted that he would like to come down but couldn’t afford it. Dan suggested that they come and live with them in their double wide trailer and they could share the expenses. They shared it and Cloyd was in charge of the finances and let Dan know what his half was. They split the price on everything (bed, refrigerator, television, etc.) Cloyd and Leone were both twins and Cloyd’s twin sister died so he came up to Provo for the funeral and he was getting pale, weak and trembly when he came to Desert Hot Springs, but after a few weeks he did so much better. After the funeral Cloyd’s family felt that he should stay up in Utah. It was time to get another refrigerator for the Desert Hot Springs house and Dan and Luene went to get a Maytag refrigerator that they really liked and they called Cloyd and talked to him about it and he said to go ahead and do what they ought to do. The fridge was wider than the door of the trailer, but by taking off the screen door and hinges they could get it in. Dan was helping and they had it half way in and then the telephone rang and they wanted Dan to come to the phone and he resented leaving at that time, but the message on the phone was that Cloyd had died. Dan believes Cloyd would have lived longer if he had been in Desert Hot Springs. After they sold the Desert Hot Springs place they settled things with Leone and she felt good about the settlement. After Dan and Luene sold the place in Desert Hot Springs they used their share and bought a place in St. George. St. George was only half as far as Desert Hot Springs but wasn’t nearly as low in altitude. St. George 2700 ft., Provo 4000 ft. Desert Hot Springs 700ft. 4.Jacob Fuhriman was from Providence. Dan served in the bishopric in Providence and then was called to the high council. Jake took his place and Cloyd was also put in the bishopric. Fuhriman and Zollingers are old time Providence names (Theurer and Alder). All the church leadership positions were from those families before Dan was called in the bishopric. Dan and Luene bought the old Alder place and the Alders lived on the other end of the lot. Jake Fuhriman was a long time temple officiator. He had a farm and ran dairy cattle. He had a similar accident as Gene Hansen. Jake was injured in an accident out on the farm. He was drug by a horse and the horse was going around and around in circles. A neighbor in another field saw the horse running around and around and around. The neighbor went over and found Jake and he was almost dead. They had Dan come and administer to him. Like Chet, Jake was going in and out of consciousness and he heard Dan’s voice. In the blessing, Dan promised him that he would get better, and he did. Two pocket knife stories 1. Two uncles (Wayne & Gene) and Dan were spreading manure. They would usually all help load the manure on the truck and then one person would drive the manure spreader to the field. Dan was helping to load the truck with manure, as he was too young to drive. Ed & Lloyd Ashby were neighbors that were a bit younger than Dan. Wayne had a pocket knife that the young boys envied. Wayne tricked the boys by putting a big tub over a manure pile and told the three children (Dan, Ed & Lloyd), “I’ll put my pocket knife under the tub and then count to three and lift up the tub and whoever gets the pocket knife gets to keep it.” Wayne whispered to Dan not to try for it. The boys all closed their eyes so they couldn’t see where the pocket knife was placed. When Wayne pulled the tub up, Lloyd & Ed dove in and got cow manure all over them. When they went home their mother, Marge Ashby, came over all upset; but Wayne, Gene and Dan were out in the field spreading manure. 2. When Dan lived in Genola with his mother and stepfather, Ray & Wilma LeBaron, the children went to school in Goshen which was 12 miles from Genola; so the bus would come out and take them in and pick up other students on the way to Goshen. There were only two houses north of them on Utah Lake, the Davis family and the Elton family. The bus would start at the Eltons and the Davis’ and then it would pick up Dan. The LeBarons had a big garden and had melons. The way you would tell if the melon was ripe was to cut a “v” plug out and if it wasn’t ripe you would put the plug back in. One day when Dan went down to get a melon from the patch he saw a pocket knife and recognized that it was Louie Elton’s. They next time Dan saw Louie he said “Here’s your pocket knife.” Louie colored up because he knew where he had lost the knife, and he knew that Dan knew as well. Academic Robes Dan was against wearing doctoral robes and refused to be dean and attend graduations because of it. The second time Pres. Wilkinson wanted Dan to be dean he said he would have an assistant dean that would do the graduation assignments and that Dan would only need to serve for three years until Pres. Wilkinson left. Dan agreed on those conditions. He later regretted leaving the deanship when Pres. Wilkinson left because Dallin H. Oaks was the next president of BYU and Dan is very impressed with Elder Oaks. He would have liked to have been a dean under President Oaks. Dan thinks that Elder Oaks has the best administration skills of all the general authorities and thinks he will be in the First Presidency some day. Dan did end up having to wear doctoral robes one time when he was given the honorary doctorate from BYU. Youthful Pranks One Halloween when Dan was about nine he was with some of his cousins, and kids his age (including Marvin & Thelo Tippets) out doing some pranks. Luke Stewart was the local piano tuner and he seemed a little bit strange. The boys decided to tip over Luke Stewart’s outhouse. They were trying to be very quiet. They had decided that on the count of 3 they would tip over the outhouse. They were all surprised that when the person counting said 2, someone in the outhouse screamed; but before it registered in their minds, it was too late as they had already started to push. Thelo was pushing hard and when the outhouse went over Thelo fell into the pit. The rest of boys ran away, but Marvin convinced them that they needed to go back and help get his brother out. In 1932 Clinton Hawkins had a buggy that he kept in a buggy shed. In those days buggies could be easily disassembled by taking off the wheels and they weren’t very heavy. Dan and some other boys decided to disassemble Clint’s buggy and then reassembling it on his roof. Clint caught them and had them come down and reassemble it. After they reassembled it Clinton invited them into the house. They popped some popcorn and listened to the radio. That is the first time that Dan remembers listening to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The popcorn they popped was some that Clint had grown. They would twist the corn kernels off the cob and put it into a pan with some oil and cook it on the stove.