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Show I Page 6 SOUTH EAST INDEPENDENT Sugar House, Utah Thursday, August 22. 1957 Witnesses have been subjected to beatings and violence by police and prison guards in an effort to make them renounce all asso-ciation with the movement, Mr. Hatton. stated. About 50 are now in prison, some were sentenced for two years. "Witnesses" Ousted From Puerto Rico Ten American missionaries were deported to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic August 3, E. Gordon Hatton, presiding min-ister of the South Unit congre-gation of Jehovah's Witnesses, announced yesterday. Fare was paid by the Dominican government and the missionaries were escorted under arrest to the plane. Action came on the heels of "a wave of persecution equaled only in the Communist countries" climaxed by a total ban pre scribing the work of Bible edu-cation conducted by the Witness-es in the Dominican Bepublic since 1945. An ultimatum to the Christ-ian missionaries to renounce all association with the organization and cease communication with their Brooklyn, N.Y., office or leave the country was made last month by Major Arturo Espai- - llat, Minister of Security, whom the U.S. government has sought to question in the disappearance of Dr. Jesus de Galindez. Some of the missionaries have been in the country for 11 years. According to the official news "o'Tces of the Dominican Republic, proscription of the Christian activity of Jehovah's Witnesses was legalized by President Trujillo on July 25 and the law carries penalties of from one to three months imprisonment with fines of from thirty to one hundred dollars. It was announced that over $1 million had been appropr-iated by the Dominican govern-ment to enforce the ban. Mr. Hatton said a full-scal- e campaign to to restrict the relig-ious freedom of the witnesses has been under way since July 1. Kingdom Hall meeting places had been ordered closed and about ious freedom of the Witnesses has brought in for questioning. The (Continued from Page 2) pretty cute hairdos styled by "Jlonseur Windblown" himself. There are some pretty exciting things going on up around East Millcreek way. Just recently Jack Hart won a golf tournament, fifty dollars, and a beautiful trophy. Margie Fairbanks, Marva Taylor and Jack Hart went for a jeep ride up in the mountains. All Marva could say when she got back was, "Boy.am I sore from going over all those bumps." The other day I went down to the fairgrounds to take my Learner's Test (for the second time). I felt like letting the whole world know that I had passed my test afterwards. So you had i . better watch out. Bye now, Lynne. I ACHING MUSCLES Relieve pains of tired, sore, aching muscles with STAN BACK, tablet! or powders. STAN BACK acts fast to bring comforting relief . because the STANBACK formula combines several prescription type ingredients for fast relief of pain. from Copper--1 Approximately 7000 years ago an Egyptian great accomplishments: the telegraph, the developed a primitive smelting process to telephone, the electric light, and many others, recover copper. No one knows exactly who he was, where he lived, or when helived. IfeiffjfiKnl But this is known about him-- he was im-- fcSSf S portant to the rise of civilization because he & Tfc$nS feftXS helped man progress from the stone age to $arrm the age of metal By solving an in metal- - By solvingthe complex production problems lurgy, he nelped make itpossible for copper of todayjCamecott, like the ancient Egypt-- to ferve his fellow men. They used the ever-- ian ffW e ?use bejte,r llvm- - lasting metal for water pipes, utensils, and irst J? producing a metal, for tools Secondly, Kennecott operations are pro-viding the benefits of payrolls, supply Through the years copper continued to --purchases and tax payments that add to serve mankind. It played a vital roll in the prosperity of our state. , "A Good Mzhbor Helping to Build a Better Utah" : v,.: |