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Show CI7ZL7Z: ei SI cr w rATv7-IicrriIdoirtra.co- m Oa Utah county's Leader in Local news ArRlL 6, 2008 VW $1.50 YOUR TOWN ' ' YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR NEWSPAPER US Cliircli names new amostle li f - ' Caleb Warnock and the Associated Press ' daily herald if standing up in groups according to church categories, and then a second time as an entire membership, LDS Church members were asked to rise from their seats whether watching at home, at church or in person, and raise their right hand to sustain Thomas S. Monson as their new prophet, seer and revelator. Monson, who then presided over -- hey asked members to be more inclusive, authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints bore witness to the divine mission of their new prophet on Saturday. ' Working in a solemn assembly, and y MARK JOHNSTONDaily Herald D. Todd Christofferson the assembly, introduced speakers but did not speak himself in the Saturday morning session. Members also sustained a new member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Elder D. Todd Christofferson. Christofferson, 63, has most recently served the church as a supervisor over church activity in parts of the U.S., including California, Hawaii, the Northwest and Southwest. A Utah native, he was previously the executive director of the church's Family and Church History Department. Before assuming a position with the church 15 years ago, Christofferson was a lawyer who worked in See LDS CHURCH, A8 Charlton Heston, 84, dies at home Brideless in Provo Bob Thomas i THE ASSOCIATED PRESS , LOS ANGELES Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor "Ben-HuOscar as the chariot-racin- g and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Qd and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84. The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with ' his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said. Powers declined to comment on the cause of death or provide further details. Heston revealed in 2002 that he had symptoms consistent with Al zheimer s disease, saying, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure." With his large, muscular build, d face and sonorous voice, Heston proved the ideal star during tne Charlton Heston neriod when was Hollywood filling movie screens with panoramas depicting the religious and historical past. "I have a face that belongs in another century," he often remarked. The actor assumed the role of leader offscreen as welL He served as president of the Screen Actors Guild and chairman of the American Film Institute and marched in the civil rights movement of the . 1950s. With age, he grew more conservative and campaigned for conservative candidates. In June 1998, Heston was elected Aspresident of the National Rifle sociation, for which he had posed for ads holding a rifle. He delivered Clinton, saya jab at ing, "America doesn't trust you daughters, and with our we sure, Lord, dont trust you with our guns." Heston stepped down as NRA mem-Se- e president in April 2003, telling r" O well-bone- (is :P .... .. MM. i ky te . disced M DAILY HERALD , eonard Woodward, 96, woke up early on Hav nf his thu "- 1U1U1 I - final Canadian noneymuun lact month. He had to catch an early Greyhound bus back to his home in Provo. . - 1 11- ' . 1 "h -- - ' ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald it," at his home in Provo, TTT i , ally. ' Alone. I4 Tm just back to bach' Woody and the other passengers had to wait for another bus to come and get them, and he arrived at his home on Provo's east side at about 9 a.m. the next dav. It was an exhausting oraeai, both physically and emotion- Logan Molyneux T ""Hr W.iwa,d - - An immigration snafu had forced him to leave his bride behind in Canada. The trip from Raymond, Alberta, is nearly 1,300 miles straight south on Interstate 15, and it took more than a full day. But Woody, as his . friends call him, gets along well enough to make his own connections, despite his virtual blindness. He switched buses in Salt Butte, Mont., for the ride to broke bus the But Lake City. down just north of Ogden in the middle of the night. ; Woody has been alone beAffore, and he doesn't like it. he in died 1986, ter his first wife remarried a few months later. His second wife died in 2005, when he was 93, and he began looking for a new companion almost immediately. "He's just not one to be alone," said his son, Leon Woodward of Maple-to- then-Preside- n. . It took Woody three years to find Doreen Buttery , a . youngster of 73, at the Eldred Senior Center in Provo where ; they both lunched occasionally. See ALONE, A8 HESTON, MARIO J RUIZDaily I Herald Provo Temple after being February wedding: Woody and Doreen exit the 20. Feb. married on INSIDE BRIEFING A4 EDITORIALS A5 Standoff with FIDS begins at Texas compound THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ect lead- ELDORADO, Texas -S, in ers at a polygamist compound to West Texas refused Saturday for a a search temple let authorities of abuse whose report gfrl teenage said led to the raid, and authorities "for the worst. were preparing they with If no agreement is reached 6ect leaders, authorities will forcibly remove the sect's followers "as peaceably as possible," Allison "Within the religion that we have t encountered, their place of worship is very special to them," Palmer said. Palmer, a prosecutor in Tom Green Standar"It appears to be of great concern to County, told the San Angelo them if a person from outside their d-Times. congregation even attempts to step Medical workers are being sent ' ' inside their place of worship." in a a way "in case this were.to go authorized warrant search A that no one wants," Palmer said. Law troopers to enter the retreat, run by enforcers are "preparing for the the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They are looking for evidence of a marriage between the girl and a man. . . . Court documents show the girl had a baby eight months ago, when she was 15. See STANDOFF, A 7 cloudy B4.B5 OBITUARIES Ct LIFE & STYLE HIGH 55 LOW 39 C10 BUSINESS SPORTS 01 WEATHER 08 I 6 Mostly B1 OUR TOWNS worst," she said. A7 111 II II VOLUME 85 ISSUE 250 1 I II 11 I lllB61055"00 150' |