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Show BILL: Yeah, I was baptized a Mormon. I don't tell many p opl that. You 11 hav t erase it off of there. I certainly don't want anybody to know. e that s one thing my father did do. He said, if you want your children to be raised Mormon, let them b rai ed Mormon. But there was a lot of friction. JAS: Yeah. BILL: So that's probably where the resentment for the Mormon Church came from, is the friction that was caused in the family, from what I've learned, and just from the way they were treated in Denver, my family. That's where I was born, and there was a Ward there. They called it a mission, then. JAS: I didn't know that. BILL: There was a lot of rich, influential people, and some of them were very wealthy. Like I say, we were so poor we couldn't pay heed, but we were always clean. Everybody else got along with them. I didn't. I never got along good. I got in a fist fight with, not the Bishop there. It was later when I got in a fist fight with the Bishop and the two counselors. It was the scoutmaster I got in the fight with. Well, my brother Harold was seventeen. He had a car. He'd been a good Boy Scout. He was a good kid. We called him Baddy, and the Scout Master one night at the scout meeting was talking about "that Harold Pastore; you can hear his car on one comer, and he's not going to church, and he's probably running around with girls." And here I'm sitting there. I said, "You know, that's my brother you're talking about!" He said something to me, and I said something back, and he slapped me. Boy, I took him apart! I'd been fighting for quite a while then, and I took him apart. 101 |
