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Show NO 212 107TH YEAK. PROVO. UTAH. SUNDAY. APRIL 6. 1980 $4 50 MONTH PRICE 50 CENTS Kimball Jeffs Throng ighteously, r ' ) r & O 7T 0 SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -- Mormon ) President Spencer W. Kimball today asked the members of the religion to celebrate it 150th anniversary by living righteously. One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to o Q Church make more righteous history," Kimball told the opening general session of the church's annual conference, "General conference is always a glorious event," said Kimball. "But this conference is even more special because we celebrate the sesquicentennial of the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints." Kimball, who recently celebrated his 85th birthday, said "I have lived for mors than half of the 150 years the restored church has been upon the earth in this last dispensation. I have witnessed its marvelous growth until it now is established in the four corners of the earth." In the past year, the Mormon Church has gained national, but often unfavorable publicity over the solid opposition of Kimball and other church leaders to the 0 y 1 Equal Rights Amendment. Much of the publicity was sparked by the excommunication of Mormon feminist Soma Johnson of Sterling. Va , a founder for "Mormons for ERA." But Kimball told the confer- ence audience "Pray for the critics of the church love your enemies. Keep the faith, and stay on the straight and narrow path Use wisdom in what you say ; and do, so that we do not give cause to others to hold the church or its people in disrepute." The patriarch, who in a semiannual conference address six months ago stressed the importance of the traditional family as the basic unit of the church this conference spoke about the value of unmarried Mormons. "May we suggest that in our desire to enrich family life in the church and to provide more time for Christian service we make sure we do not overlook the tens of thousands of single Latter-daSaints who do not live in a y Saint traditional Latter-da- y family setting. Please do not neglect these wonderful brothers and sisters," Kimball said. Persecution Not Over' SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -P- ersecution of the Mormon (if 4 1 LjL Kick Harmon Photo Bishops, stake presidents listen to address by President Spencer W. Kimball. Bored Sniper Gets Life janitor and students near her home. She reportedly told police who arrested her at the time she was bored. See story and photo on Page 5. Carter and Reagan in Lead Carter and Reagan were favored in their respective parties as winners of the Louisiana presidential primary election Saturday while Illinois Rep. John Anderson and California Gov. Jerry Brown President Jimmy Ronald pondered their futures. Meanwhile police nab suspects in two kidnapping cases one in which victim was found the dead and another in which the victim still is missing. See "World Roundup" on Page 29. Nurse Pleads Innocent Las Vegas nurse A pleaded innocent this weekend to a murder, charge in the publicized "angel of death" case. She is accused of holding back the oxygen supply on a hospital patient which supposedly led to the death of an older man. See story on page 6. Stained Glass Beauty Shows Colorful stained glass windows of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Provo are the subject of the Easter Feature Page opening the Women's Section on Page 41. The art of "Ace" Moore, Provo, who makes stained glass windows, is shown pictorially on the following page, along with a feature article on him by Charlene Winters. The section also includes Easter food leftover ideas, and a sewing page featuring a column on buttonhole-makin- g by Apryl Cox. 'Cherry Stem' Furor Growing A Utah County deputy attorney recommended that the Utah County Commission disconnect county property from the land recently annexed by Spanish Fork City in the annexcontroversial "cherry-stem- " ation. However, county commissioners did not decide to do so, and commission chairman Karl R. Lyman said no decision will be made until a more complete study of the situation has been made. Story is on Page 4. Partial Clearing Expected Today Partial clearing is forecast today for the Central Utah area. High temperatures are expected to be in the 60s. Probability of measurable precipitation is expected to near 30 per cent. The forecast for Utah in general calls for decreasing showers today with partial clearing and cooler temperatures. High temperatures are expected to be in the 60s. Here's Where to Find It Agriculture Amusements Classified Ads 33 36,37 58-7- Comics Commerce Community Notes J Editorial National-Internation- All 54-5- 5 2,5,29 Prime Time 1 53 Society Sports 14 Utah-Region- 5-- ministration He said the Mormons have faced persecution and tribulation every since the religion was organized at a small New York farmhouse in 1830. In recent times, the Mormons came under fire for refusing to allow blacks to enter the a policy which was priesthood changed by a "revelation from God" received by current President Spencer W. Kimball in 1978. Critical Clergy Keaeh Tehran Sunday: SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Bre- nda Spencer, who just became an adult in the eyes of the law was told today she'd spend the rest of her adult life in prison for the , 1979 sniper shootings of a school principal, a Church will continue in coming years, but eventually the religion will build temples and set up missions in almost every nation on earth, a prominent church leader said Saturday. Ezra Taft Benson traditionally next in line to become president of the 4.5 million-membChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, said "Opposition has and will be the. lot of the Saints of the kingdom in any age. Benson, who serves as presi dent of the church's Quorum of Twelve Apostles, was agriculture secretary in the Eisenhower Ad- 29 41-5- 1 By United Press International Three American clergymen, two of them openly critical of the United States and its handling of the Iranian crisis, arrived in Tehran Saturday to celebrate Easter with the 50 hostages in the U.S. Embassy. They were joined by Hilarion Capuc-c- i, the Greek Catholic archbishop once imprisoned by Israel for smuggling guns to the PLO. He delivered gifts and letters to the embassy and said he too would celebrate Easter Sunday with the hostages. It will be their 155th day in captivity. In other developments, Iranian President Abolhassan BaniSadr again denounced the embassy militants for thinking they can "make the United States kneel by keeping the hostages." But any hope that Bani-Sad- r raised was quickly dashed by Iranian ruler Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who reiterated through a spokesman Satur day that only Iran's new parliament could take any decision concerning the hostages. turn prompted Iran's washes pots after every meal, was described as "very likable" by Guzman. Asencio is one of the commission of ambassadors who deal directly with the guerrillas, who are demanding freedom for jailed leftists and millions of dollars of ransom, and with the Colombian authorities. The others are the ambassadors of Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and the papal nuncio, party that will command a majority of the new parliament's seats all to issue statements pledging to "follow the imam's (Khomeini's) line." was quoted in the But Bani-SaFrench newspaper Le Monde respected as saying Iran should avoid actions that would "reawaken the war-lik- e spirit" that was present in the United States during the Vietnam war. "The American people these days do not want to be involved in military ventures," he said. "If we bring about a change of opinion in them, it could be a catastrophe for the Iranian people and all of humanity. I am not ready, for my part, to assume that heavy responsibility." Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh announced the Revolutionary Council would meet Sunday night to discuss the hostage crisis but declined to say what action, if any, he thought the council Monsignor Angelo Acerbi. would take. That in Revolutionary Council the embassy militants and the hard-lin- e political Asencio Leads Hostages sador, (UPI) Ambassador Asencio has the guerrillas BOGOTA, Colombia U.S. Diego become one of the leaders of hostages in the besieged Dominican Embassy and hold his own in often-heate- d debates with his guerrilla captors., who call him a "symbol of U.S. imperialism" a released hostage says. Mario Guzman, 43, a Dominican businessman who was a guest at the diplomatic reception Feb. 27 when 9 guerrillas captured the embassy and 57 hostages, was released on Thursday. On Saturday he gave an interview to UPI that focused on Asencio's life inside the embassy. As the U.S. ambas M-1- Asenciom, 48, is considered by to be one of their most valuable hostages. Asencio, who has become known in Colombia as the ambassador who M-1- 9 Lava Building; Guard Musters VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI) -R- Mount St. Helens was showing all the signs of building toward a major eruption of lava Saturday and National Guardsmen were called in to keep the curious at a safe distance. Sixty soldiers moved into place at 6 a.m. on roadblocks around the 9,677-fomountain to' assist local law en- umbling, steam-belchin- g Col. Robert Rudolph, operations and military support officer for the state guard, said. All 5,500 members of Washington's National Guard were available in the forcement officials event of a "major disaster," he said. The soldiers established bases at Camus, Longview and Vancouver, and Rudolph said additional base camps might be established closer to the mountain. The volcano blew steam and ash thousands of feet into the air for nine sustained minutes begining at 6:28 a.m. Saturday morning. of guardsmen was The call-u- p authorized under an official state of emergency signed by Gov. Dixy Lee Ray on Thursday. With the mountain showing all signs of getting ready for a major blowout, other state agencies readied plans for a possible evacuation of the arsa. The decision to bring in guardsmen was preceeded by the largest "harmonic tremor" yet as molten lava worked its way up inside the mountain earthto set off an unnerving harthe second was It quake Friday. monic tremor of the day and the sixth recorded since Tuesday evening. blast The volcano let fly a of ash and steam Friday afternoon and followed up with another blast that sent steam plumes nearly three miles into the sky. A sharp earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale jolted the mountain early Saturday. U.S. Geological Survey scientists said tremors measuring under 3.0 on the Richter scale were occur-inby the "thousands" each day. "They're going on constantly, ranging from 1.0 to 3.0 and on up," said one seismologist at the USGS observatory at Newport, Wash. "We've never seen anything like this before these past two weeks." Those in excess of 3.0 were "running about two or three per hour," and temblors in excess of 4.0 were rattling the mountain approximately every six hours. University of Washington spokesman Dave Endicott said. The governor's volcano watch group issued a list of four recommended viewing spots for sightseers who were forced a few miles further from the base of the mountain by Cowlitz County deputy sheriffs worried about the hundreds of parked cars lining the nar- for. g row two-lan- e highways. I PI Telephoto Portland, Ore., spectators watch eruption. tS'mjj JstjfJtJ J J.J JJjC.fJ J f |