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Show Iiivia. . . by Max Cali This week we have a lively public forum. We like that. 1 think it is healthy for citizens to express their ideas publicly. It provides an opportunity to air various sides of a question. We all to take encourage advantage of this avenue of thought. Well publish any letter ... as long as its not libelous or slanderous, and is in good taste. We require letters to be signed, but we will withhold names if for a good reason. Just because you dont want to be identified with the thought is not enough reason, however. So keep those cards and letters coming, folks! Volume 93 Number 18 n Candidates MANTI, UTAH 84642, THURSDAY, Tuesday's Showdown by Bruce A Speaking of letters to the editor, we are in complete agreement with the thoughts expressed by one writer this week. He points out that a great deal of unfairness is shown in quarterly conference seating. If you go to conference at 9 a.m. you find the entire chapel filled . . . with very few people. The front rows are reserved for dignitaries, and the rest of the chapel has a person about every six seats . . . reserving all those in between. I suspect that each family sends one of the kids an hour early to grab a half dozen seats, so that the rest of the family can come in at 9:58 and still have a choice seat. Seems to me it should be first come-firs- t seated. Reserved seats, even one, should be taboo. Ushers should simply be instructed to seat people wherever there are seats, regardless of whether someone has a sweater or purse on it to reserve it. So now that Ive tried to tell the church how to run their business, I'll change the subject. Two deer hunters went out last week. Starting forth In the morning, the two men had walked but a short distance when they came upon fresh tracks which they Immediately Identified as being those of a large bear. Tell you what wed better do, suggested one. You go on ahead and see where he went, and Ill go back and see where he came from! . A mother we know was unable to get to church one Sunday . So she sent her young son alone with the admonishment to come straight home and tell her what the message was. When the lad arrived home, the mother asked, What text did the speaker use? Don't worry, The boy replied, youll get the quilt. Amazed and knowing that this was wrong, the mother called the bishop and asked what the subject had been. "Fear not, thy Comforter will come, was the reply. Congratulations to the Manti High School football team. Although not a winning season on the scoreboard it was (season record nevertheless a good season. It has been said that it's not so much where you are as in what direction you are headed that counts. That's true of the football team. Many of the games the Templars lost were close ones, and play was much improved from last year. Also a sizeable number of this year's starters will be back next year. This has indeed been a building year. Coach Van Tassle and team . . . we're proud of you . . . and expect big things next year. ), Here at the office, Beth kept ignoring the telephone when it rang. Finally I told her to answer it every time it rang. She retorted, Now, thats ridiculous. We both know its for you because none of my friends know Im here yet. Not ao trivial: A good father who finds his son on the wrong track will provide switching facilities. Musicians Schedule Concert The music department at Manti High School will present a concert, featuring all the musical organizations in the school, Nov. 3, 1978 at 8 p.m. in the Manti High School Auditorium. This will include mixed chorus, Constellation (formerly Chamber Choir), concert band and jazz ensemble. All groups are under the direction of Bill Thompson. include Musical selections will classical and popular music. Admission is free, so bring the whole family. Point to NOVEMBER 2, 1978 Extensive damage was done to this car owned by North Sanpete School Superintendent Lloyd Smith, by thugs Tuesday night. Two shots were fired in the attack. Supt. Smith was uninjured. rock-throwi- Teach Children Correct Principles, Conference-Goer- s Admonished "Teaching Correct Principles in the Home, at Primary and in the Community was the theme for the Manti Utah Stake quarterly conference held last Saturday and Sunday. Stake President Lee R. Barton presided at all sessions, with Counselors LeMar 0. Hanson and Don V. Tibbs assisting. President Barton said that approval from the general church offices had been obtained for the new seminary building at Manti High School. Architects are being sought to design the building and construction should get underway early" next spring. Cost of the structure will be about $300,000, Pres. Barton said. He also announced that a new LDS Institute building at Snow College was funds, he added. He reported that the imbalance of female temple endowments over male endowments was slowly being corrected but urged all to increase their temple We want the sisters to attendance. continue their fine temple work, but we want the brethren to do even more, he said. Teach Correct Principles All speakers at the Sunday session emphasized the importance of teaching children correct principles and setting good examples. Pres. Barton said that homes, communities and nations were better because of the teachings which the children received in Primary. He urged all children to attend Primary and under consideration by general motivate their friends to do the same. authorities. If constructed, the building Monique Luster, a Primary pupil, said would accommodate all the Institute's that Primary teaches children to stay activities and all requirements of four close to their heavenly father. She pointed out that inward beauty is what college LDS wards. All buildings in the future will likely really counts. be handled by a stake building fund, Moniques mother, Joy Luster rather than individual ward building said that Primary teaches them that A fire gutted the interior of a barn and adjoining sheds in Manti Monday morning. The fire apparently started in an oil storage room of an outbuilding owned by Forest Washburn at Sixth South and Second West about 8 a.m. Monday morning. The Washburns were notified that there was smoke coming from the building while they were eating breakfast, by a neighbor, Moroni Frederickson. An immediate call summoned the Volunteer Fire Department who arrived quickly. However, the fire had a good start and spread quickly. Firemen found the blaze hard to reach and had to chop holes in the roofs of the buildings before they could work on the blaze. The entire inside of the barn was gutted, and the interiors of other sheds. Machinery, power tools and miscellaneous storage items were lost in the fire, Mr. Washburn said. One of the losses we regret the most was the destruction of an antique room in one of the buildings, which contained antique items which are irreplaceable, he said. Damage was estimated to be near $10,000, with no insurance coverage, Mr. Washburn said. The Washburns were hearty in their praise of the fire department and those others who came to assist. They did a marvelous job, Forest said, and added, Many of them took personal risks in trying to work with the fire and save as many items as possible. Were grateful, he added. hard-to-fig- Heavenly Father loves them. Primary helps them to have a clear conscience of what is right and wrong, she said. Stake Primary Presidency Speak The Stake Primary Presidency, consisting of President Barbara Eliason and her counselors Diane Bair and Katie Larsen also addressed the conference. The gist of Pres. Eliason's message was that "working toward perfection is a process to be pursued throughout a lifetime. Our Savior taught his children correct principles, and he expects us to do the same, she said. Diane Bair emphasized that the Savior wants us to become like little children. "No one has ever lived on this earth who loved children more than our Savior. He said Blessed are the pure in heart. Our children are pure in heart and it is parents' responsibility to teach them correct principles so that they will remain that way," she said. Katie Larsen said that it was parents' responsibility to teach children, through (Continued on Page 5) group of thugs attacked North Sanpete Superintendent of Schools Llovd Smith, of Manti, as he drove along a county road Tuesday night. Uninjured in the fracas, Supt. Smith was driving to his home m Manti following a visit to the Spring City school. The incident occurred east of the Pigeon Hollow junction north of Ephraim. Smith said that a red light flagged him down as he drove. He slowed to a stop and as he did so, a group of men in a pickup came up behind him, fired two shots and hurled boulders through the windows of Smiths car. The shots sounded like a shotgun, Smith said. Follow ing the boulder barrage and the shots, the truck sped past the Smith car. He was unable toget the license number because the taillights had apparently been disconnected. Mr. Smith was uninjured. "They must have been trying either to injure me or frighten me, he said. "But they A rock did hit the did neither. windwhield a glancing blow, but did not penetrate. The incident was reported to the Sanpete County Sheriff and investigation is continuing. Emotions have flared during a recent school controversy in the North Sanpete School District, with the community being highly polarized as a result. The incident occurred on the eve of court action on the most recent case in the controversy. In that action the school board is seeking an order to restrain the defendants from harassing the school board and interfering with the orderly functioning of the board. Motions in that in court case were presented Wednesday morning. shot-firin- g President's Concert Series Opens The Presidents Concert series at begins another season November 5, when the Snow Sunday, College resident string quartet is presented in recital. The event begins at 4 p.m. in the Lucy Phillips Library. The string quartet features Richard Nibley and Dennis Hansen on violin. Richard of course is well known in the community and Dennis is a new faculty member at Snow College this year. David Linbloom, who played 11 years with the Utah Symphony, will be featured on the viola. David is also a instructor at Snow College. part-tim- e The cellist will be Dr. Fred Thompson. The public is in vited to the recital at no charge. Snow College Jennings Sanpeie County voters will go to the polls T uesday to elect a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a state representative, two county commissioners and several other county officers on the partisan ballot. They ll also vote for local school board members, a state school board member, precinct justices of the peace and indicate their approval or disapproval of two justices of the Utah Supreme Court on the ballot. The polls will open Tuesday morning at 7 a m. and close that night at 8 p.m. Election officials predict a light turnout. Returns from some of the smaller districts in the county should be available by 8 p.m., according to Douglas Jorgensen, Sanpete County n clerk-audito- r. October 31 was the last day prospective voters could register for the Nov. 7th general election. U.S. Representative Gunn McKay, a Democrat who is seeking his fourth term, has as his principal opponent in his bid for Jed Richardson, Republican, who is a Brigham Young Other University speech teacher. candidates for the office are Robert T. Owens, the American party candidate, and Dennis A. DeBoer, an independent. Ray Nielsen, Democrat, Fairview, who is completing his second term as State representing Representative, District No. 69, which includes all of Sanpete County and Thistle, Mapleton, and two other small Utah communities, is being challenged in his quest for a third term by Dr. G. Stanford Rees, Gunnison, the Republican candidate, who is a retired physician and has previously served in the Utah State Senate. Republican incumbents ONeil F. Larsen, Ephraim, and Ned P. Madsen, to Manti, both candidates for the Sanpete County Commission, have Democratic party opposition. Newton Donaldson, Moroni, a former Sanpete County deputy treasurer and assistant manager of Moroni Feed Co. for 31 years, is opposing Mr. Larsen for the four-yea- r commission seat and Keith W. Sorensen, Centerfield, a retired dairyman, is opposing Mr. Madsen for term. the two-yeKennard V. Anderson, Gunnison, chief Sanpete County deputy sheriff and former Gunnison police department head, is the Democratic candidate for sheriff in replacement of Sheriff Jim Allred, who did not file for His Republican opponent is William E. Curl, Manti, a former Utah Valley law enforcement officer. Five Unopposed Five County include Jackson other candidates for Sanpete office are unopposed. They two Republican incumbents: Wanlass, Manti, now in his (Continued on Page 3) |