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Show fell w: f - Pli I ;r 1X7 jp p MORMONS TO DEDICATE CHAPEL NEAR SITE OF CHURCH'S FOUNDING PALMYRA, N. Y. - David O. McKay, right inset, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will officiate at dedicatory services Sunday, Jan. 15, for the'new chapel of the church at Palmyra, in western New York. It was in this area that the church's first prophet and president, Joseph Smith, shown in left inset, lived at the time he was visited by heavenly messenger resulting in the organization organ-ization of the church on April 6, 1830, in nearby Seneca County. The Sacred Grove, Hill Cumorah, scene of the great annual Mormon pageant, "America's Witness for Christ," and several other spots r ignificant in early Mormon history, are located in or near Palmyra. Since 1847, Salt Ike City has been headquarters of the church, now numbering 1,700,000 members throughout the world. |