‘MIDVALE. ne UPI)—Dr, : oe Barker, 77 # € | ber Academy “a collision trailer mn ie (now a uh Weber fo: of his car truck here. Mr. .Barker, J ames former head of We-| y E and Coloh 2) a ‘semi- | a native of Mucha | | ‘Ogtlen was professor emeritus of | languages at Brigham Young! | University and former head of |the department of languages at the University of Utah. He also had held several high positions in the LDS Church. The mishap occurred at ‘goth | South and State as Barker was driving south alone. | TOLL NOW 62 Barker’s death, plus that of a Mona ‘raised man earlier | in the day, Utah’s 1958 traffic death “| toll to 62, compared with 72 in a similar period last year. Highway Patrol officers said Barker’s vehicle apparently swerved into the oncoming lane of traffic as a car in front of him slowed down. Barker’s car collided ‘head-on | with the truck driven by Chester. Stephenson. Stephenson was not injured, and his truck was only slightly damaged. Barker’s car was demolished. Barker had served as president | of the Argentine and French mis‘sions of the. Latter-day Saints | | Church. He was born July 27, 1880, in| North Ogden, a son of Henry and | Margaret Staley Barker. He. attended Weber County. schools and ‘| Was graduated from the University of Utah in 1901. After an LDS mission in Switzerland, he returned and taught in Ogden High School from 1904 until 1906. After serving at Weber Acad- emy, he Brigham accepted a position at Young University, then went to the University of Utah. He returned to BYU after he had been retired at the University. of Utah: Local. survivors include two brothers, Fred Barker, North Ogden; Henry Barker. Ogden, and a sister, Mrs. I. L. Richards, tr oS a “a7. :