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Show Kaysville. Btfl. Doctors Go To Guatemala Two Kaysville doctors and one Bountiful doctor have been sent to earthquake stricken Guatemala to assist with medical needs in that area. Dr. George F. Snell of Kaysville and Dr. Glen Griffith Grif-fith of Bountiful left Friday for Central America and Dr. . Ute Knowlton of Kaysville left Saturday moming. JERRY CAHILL, director of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints press ' relations division said, Dr. ' Snell was in Panama City to help treat Randall Ellsworth of Rockville, Maryland, a LDS missionary who was seriously injured in the quake. His condition was listed list-ed serious. Elder Ellsworth had been pinned six hours under a beam. Dr. Snell will accompany him back to the states. He was the only one of the 230 LDS missionaries in Guatemala who was injured. Dr. Snell was in Guatemala several years ago. He is on the staff at the McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden. DR. UTE Knowlton is on the staff at the Cottonwood Hospital Hos-pital in Salt Lake City. He left at 6:40 p.m. Saturday taking 1,000 pounds of medical supplies with him. He was expected to arrive in Guatemala City about 3 p.m. Sunday. The LDS Church was send- ing 8,000 pounds of medical supplies. The other 7,000 pounds of supplies in addition to the 1,000 taken along by Dr. Knowlton was to be shipped to Los Angeles, Calif, late Saturday Sa-turday evening to be sent by air freight hoping it would arrive in Guatemala City by Monday. ACCORDING TO Mr. Cahill, the medical supplies would not be restricted to the church's members, but would be for all victims of the quake, np |