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Show rcortc-cvcraTatom-- 1 r j ? Cannon S.S. teacher Church aides attend passes state bar despite handicaps national Scout meet . Delbert Ross Phillips, crip- pled by cerebral palsy since birth, has refused to let physical difficulties halt his wheel- " chair" march to professional work. Mr. Phillips passed the 'State - bar- - examination this spring, graduate from the University of Utah school of law, ' ' After getting straight As In Portland high school classes while In Oregon, Jie moved to Provo and went to Brigham Young University where he re- ceived his B.A. in chemistry. He -t- ook two additional years of postgraduate study in German, Russian and French When he ; found there was no available work for, scientific translation in chemistry, Mr. Phillips decided to study law. Law was rough at the U. of U. but I graduated and am now delighted to receive word that I passed the bar examination," he said. He will spedalize ln real abstract research, contract administration and other types of legal work that require re- search. Studies have' not interrupted his Church work. He was a budg- et director, Sunday School enlistment x director , and ward teaching supervisor at the BYU. Presently be is a - Sunday School teacher in Cannon Stake ' 8th Ward. i f t Bryan v I 7 L. Banker w assignment -- jr mission head Jast named counselor in temple presidency: - Physical handicaps fail to stop law student Delbert Ross Phillips from passing the bar. es-ta- te - CLEVELAND, OHIO A group of prominent Church officials attended the recent 54th annual meeting of Ute National Council, Boy Scouts of America, here. - They included Elder Ezra Tv Benson of the Council of the Twelve and president of the Eu- - - ropean Mission; Gen. Suptr G. ' Carlos Smith Jr. of toe YMMIA and his second assistant, Carl W. Buehner; Gen. Pres. LaVern W. Parmley of toe Primary; Folk-ma- n D. Brown, director of Mor-mo- n relationships, and Ross Taylor erf toe YMMIA General Board and Salt Lake Council Scout Executive. The leaders attended the an-nual Mormon relationships breakfast with a numbered! Church Scotiters. At theJbreak-fas- t, Elde Benkm was honored for his role in gaining the Lorillard Spencer award for .Region 12 while hewas chairman of toe regioiL The award is presented annually- - to the region with the best record in mem- -' of ership growth, units and Boys Life ' -- " S Hollanders j)!an conference in Ogden - OGDEN The annual confer- - . ence for members of toe Utah Hollanders Association of t he' Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be held Sun. day June 7. Meetings wiDbe held at 18 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the Ogden , Pioneer Tabernacle, 22nd and Washington Blvd. A member of the Church 'foreign language committee, will be the main " " speaker; r- The mnual Hollander sessions have been held for more than 50 years. Elder Henry Hansen is president, with George Even-hu- ls and Bart Herbert, counselors and Marie Sierag, secretary. Special Invitations are extend- d ed to. Church members friends who have immigrated to .Utah rfoora Holland. Former missionaries to toe Dutch speaking country are also invited. ElIer Bryan L. Bunker, twicu president of the California Mission, has been called by the First Presidency of toe Church to be second counselor in toe presidency of the- - Salt Lake Temple. He will be counselor to Pres. Howard S. McDonald and replaces G. Eugene England, present second counselor, named re-cenfly as president of toe Lon- don Temple. Horace P. Beesley is first counselor is- - toe temple- - TjSs. U Priel Bunker; a inem. her of toe General Board of toe Relief Society,' will be set apart' as a temple worker. Elder Bunker was president of. toe Moapn Stake" at Las Vegas,' Nevada, in 1951 when he was called to serve his first' term as president of toe California Mission. When Pres. A. Udall was appointed by the governor of Arizona to the state supreme court. Elder , Bunker was called to serve his second -- term as California Mission presi, FROM THE CHURCHEDITOJrS Henry A. Smith Anunusualbaptism The Marx Brothers made baptismnews last week when Edward 0., 83, baptized his elder brother, Howard, 84, at the ward bapr tism font in Hamilton, Montana. The two, sons of Pennsylvania Dutch parents, were bora in Reading, back in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The Marx family moved west to Salt Lake City about 1892, though none of them were members of the Church. The two sons began working tord help support themselves and their parents.-Howasays of those times: . X - - , ' States . Mission. - j We are Blodgett of the Hamilton Ward for this inv x teresting baptism story. lHandLwentJojrork8sishJ)ojjtor 50 - -- - t' Nevada's Mother . We should make note for the record that Nevadas 1964 Mother of the Year who competed In. New York last month for the American Mother of the Year award, is also an active Latter-di- y Saint She is Mrs.- - Emma LaVera Calvert, of i . x Caliente. ' X- - Densely populated indebted to Bishop Donald T. 1 Auerbachs. Daring the next years I sales-- ' ''was alternately silk and dress-good- s man for Walkers, Keith OBrien and Aner-bach- s. My mother was an Invalid much of the time and I took care of her until she died. I didnt have time to think of marriage then, bat finally got around to it when I was 72 years old. Edward, who is known by his many 7 This note came from Elder Dick Harmer in the Berlin Mission: x. Dear Editor: - In response to your densely populated 'mission contesf (7) hereVone that should be mentioned. The proselytable division ef this mission is West Berlin 2.2 million peo- pie; size (excluding forests, waterways, and parks) is 123 square miles. We have approximately 115 missionaries. Thats about two square miles per missionary pair. Hows that for concentration. Just thought you might be interested. According to Bishop Wesley A. Holt toik yHer MxrOlsYBemotHfur ol Z T1h&a? s Hall on Sundays. When asked what made . Mm decide to Elder-Bun- . president for nine years. She has been a ' 35 visiting teacher for years, and has taught - . is- - well- ker - known -- throughout Nevada and south- -' em Utah for his activities in - Church and civic affairs. He was bishop of toe Las Vegas First Ward for seven years and was counselor and stake president of the Moapa Stake, for a total of 13 years. -- - as rEJ fen;ln'loverwlffitoal)alU'bf More smoking comment at an early age, and became a professional pillar of strength in the ward and to loved - NEW YORE A group of advertisers recatcher for a number of years. 1 also by all of the people of our community, She is snch a saintly person and so kind fell in love with a Mormon girl from Eureka, cently heard a call for a national advertising Utah, and married into the Church, though ' to alL campaign warning young people against the I wasnt baptized until a few years later, dangers of smoking. Mrs. Calvert has been a widow for the Mrs: Esther Peterson, special assistant on he says. With a family to support, I quit Cal20 husband Artour past toe baseball league and settled in Hamilton, to President Lyndon B. vert, a railroad worker, was killed in 3944. Mont. I became a furniture and hardware -made the salesman and later the owner of the fte third annual Moral f Tone in AdvSng Awards luncheon. She ness until I retired in 1954. I was branch have, filled missions. a former Utahn. president and superintendent of too Sunday-SchoTTuTmQ&er reared her family sucessfully . in Hamilton, for about 37 years when will be a national shame if the gen- there were only a handful of Saints in Westeration now growing up is not saved from ern Montana and we met In the this habit erf their fathers and grandfathers, toeCIfente-Waid,-'hrr'Cdv'err- , t dent. Saint Mother of the The other Latter-daYear, as our readers already are aware, was Utahs Mrs. Lurena E. Warnick, of Pleasant Grove Utah. A mother of eight and grandmother of 25, she has served all her life in the auxiliaries of the Church. y Helping in toe declsioi woe two mis skmaries, Elder Brad Smith,'-- Sugar City,' Idaho, and Elder Kent Swallow of Fillmore, Utah, who are serving in the West Central My parents took me ont of school at -- In Sunday School and Primary in Caliente, Join the Church at 84, Howard replied: Well, Ed kept after me and I decided it was about time I did something about it. 'xix ' Jesse DESK Mrs. Peterson said, Week Ending June Willard matron, 81, v 'I S6rV6Cl OS ChoriSf6r With ten bishops WILLARD, UTAH Edith B. was recently 're- leased as choir director of th Willard Ward, a position she has feM sInce 1905. Jhe .has semU under 10 Willard Ward bishops, carrying out other assignments as weiL Mrs. Harding was born Edith Harding, 81, Blackburn in Rexburg, She started her music there when she was just girl. She would stand oh Idaho. career a small a chair- ing in Primary. While in her teens she was in great demand-a- s a soloist around toe Idaho Falls area. She married Daniel F. Harding in 1905, She is the mother of eight sons and daughters. " CHURCH- -5 6e 1964 , ' " -- |