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Show fc4i V V'. r V PEOPLE-EVEN- TS IN THE NEWS ' I "With the Lords help and some Serious planning over the years, we have been able ta send our children on their mission. , Thats how Mr. and Mrs, B. Herbert Ferrell, 3770 Kiesel Ave., feel about having two sons and a "daughter on a mission at one time. Da Kaye Ferrell Is serving In the West Spanish- - Americi Mission and will be the flrsbto return home in Junet3der tee Ferrel has been serving in -- theGanadianMissIon since Nov. 1960, Elder Ellis Ferrell Is the youtigest on a mission. He' haSbeen In thefleld since dune 196t trrttie Central States . Mission. , , The Ferrells have a large family of six sons and four daughters and it is their hope that they will all fulfill mis- sions for the Church. A yching-e- r son, Wynn, is now attending Weber College In Ogden and expects to be called into the mission this fall about the time -- his brother Dee comes - home: Miss Ferrell is a graduate of BYU. She expects to teach in Salt Lakes Olympus High upon her release. Qf her mission she says, "My testimony has grown, and the Mexican people are just wonderful." Dee Ferrell is presently trailing in Ttjnmins, Ontario, where temperatures plunge to 70 be-- " lowzeio. Elder Ferrell reports, "The woi k- - in the Canadian Mission is progressing and I .Ory X wo brothers sister serve- - missions in Mexico, Canada U.S, They represent six year :(, perfect attendance at' Sacra?; 7" merit Meeting, Sunday School and MJA. Rose Ann holds the Honor Bee,. Mia Joy and Laureate -- Brady brothersfrom Hyde Park train for mission service Three members from the Herbert Fefrejt family serve as missionaries. Left to right. Dee, Ha Kaye ' and Ellis. - -- have learned- - to love the Cana- " dian people. Laboring in Ponca City, Okla- -Ferrell is treadingin the footsteps of his father ' grandfather - who also served in the .Central Stales Mission. Mr. Ferrell is an active member of the Ogden LDS 32nd Ward. He manages to keep his ' family going by working at the railroad, operating a coal business and managing some rental property. Statuette cites woman for service to boys WHITTIER, CALIF. Whit tier Stake has honored Mrs. 'Fern Heaps for her many years of service in Primary ,work here during mission days and after the stake was organized. She was set apart as a couti- - . selor in the first Primary pres idyncy organized here in 1937 and became president in 1939, serving for six years. Many of the priesthood lead-aners of Whittier Stake cherish the Instructions they received from Mrs. Heaps, who taught them as a Guide' Patrol teacher. She served in this years. Due to illness, she gave up her Guide work but still is Pri- mary librarian. Betty Lou Dustin, Stake mary president, presented Mrs." Heaps with a statuette Inscribed For Service to Boys. - Casper senior wins 1 awards for six years Over CASPER, WyO. represented in, the weeks group. There wets 104 missionaries from Utah, 23 from California, 18 from Idaho! 16 from Arizona, 6 from Washington, 4 from New "Mexico, 3 from Canada, Florida 2, Maryland the and Illinois, Minnesota and Nevada 1 each. ' Sixty-four per cent of the group were 19 years of age. Sixty-onper cent of the group flew to their fields of labor. The rest travels by bus " ' e Ber-tagnol-e, ' group counselor J for25-yea- service- - r After 25 years of service In the stake YWMIA organization, Mrs. Viona Turner is back in her ward working ax" age- - ' group counselor. Murray South Stake' recently gave Mrs. Turner her pin. She was a member of the stake board for a number of years,-the- n became age group copnselor In the stake. YWMIA presidency. Mrs. Turner now Is a mem-- , ber of the Murray 13th Ward YWMIA presidency. Prior to her call to the stake board, Mrs. Turner had been ward YWMIA secretary, Sunday School secretary and teacher, Primary teacher and "a YWMIA teacher.! She is r native of Nephi, Utah,-H- er husband is Regnal M. Turner to whom she was married in the Salt Lake 25-ye- -- 2, past six years. Rose Ann Casper Third Branch, West Central States Mission, has won six individual awards?- - age Murray South Stake honors MIA worker - The brother are John and, Robert Brady, song of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brady, Hyde Park Ward,- - East Cache Stake; Utah. John, 20, is going to the North- -western States Mission. Robert, 19, is assigned to the South Australian Mission. Other statistics compiled by Mrs. Adele Bird,? Missionary Home secretary, show that 11 U.S. states 'and Canada were . -- la-bo- r. -- d 13 Mrs. Viona Turner Two brothers . were among the 181 missionaries who were in the Missionary Home recent, ly receiving training before de- parting for .their fields of . for She la a senior itthigbschGol and teaches a Primary clasp. train. ' f FROM THE CHURCH EDITOR'S DESK y Henry A. Smith . April when conference was seen and heard from coast to coast in America and sent by short wave radio to purls of the world. So it is fitting' that members of the Church everywhere join in .the realization that an almost insignificant event of 40 years ago has now become one of widespread influence. Happy birthday.KSL. . . Significant event Forty years ago tomorrow, May 6 President Heber J. Grant, seventhpresi-den- t of the Church! officiated at an event in Salt Lake City which has since become world wide in its significance and . ' microphone Holding a telephone-llk- e in his hand the Church leader gave a message which launched the Intermmin- tain Wests first radio station. KSL of Salt Lake City Is now 40 years old. -- A i It was but an infant then a 500 watt s tat Km with the call letters KZN. In those early days following the initial broadcast" of May 6, 1922, the station was on the air only half an pour each day. At one period it broadcast for only 15 minutes daily. After a couple of years., the call letters were changed to KFPT and again In June, 1925, it became KSL with Its power-doubleto 1,000 watts. The first radio studio was a small one- room shack on-lhtop of the Deseret News Building. It was put there because the DeseretNewgwned the station in its, infancy. , Continuing its growth the station had 5,000 watts of power assigned in 1929 and became a powerful voice in the Inter mountain West in 1932 when increased to her up,-neit- feel much like dancing. Then sorrieone had an idea why not ask the Fifth Ward elders to take over the work. They ac- ceptetf on an exchange basis. Now, four successful dinners later both wards agree it was a very agree; able and happy thought ' - . Here Is how they work it: , The host ward writes out the" menu, sells tickets, . arranges for the orchestra, and then has a carefree evening . Of dining and dancing, 7 The other ward prepares the food, 7 the tables, decorations, does the serv-tn- g and the cleaning up. . wards share the same building -- Both and the already friendly atmosphere has , been much Increased by this delightful" arrangement for welfare dinners, writes M- - Long; our informant,-Ad- 7 watts. It was in 1928 that the Station, having become affiliated with the National Company, carried the first release of the Tabernacle ChQlt.bfoadcastS. 'niisls now the oldest continuous radio broadcast, today and has an international au- 50,000 - Broad-castin- g i dience. ) .4, . car-ryrn- c In 1932 the affiliation was made with the Columbia Broadcasting System which has now continued for 30 years. For the past two decades KSL facilities have originated 'the radio and television transmission of general con- - -ference proceedings. This great Church service reached a new pinnacle last accepted the Gospel, but we learned this week of an unusual tribute. It came in fair exchange TheXas Vegas Fifth and Sixth Wards have solved a problem .with a unique arrangement between the tw'p wards. It began. when thebishopric of the Sixth Ward assigned the ward welfare dinner to the elders quorum and suggested a' dance to follow. The dance suggestion met with groans and a reminder to the bishop that after all the cooking,, decoranng?'iIishes andbleaning' the elders nor their wives would An Caster tribute , " Parents of missionaries often hear from grateful people who have heard and Ford fellowship given active Midvale doctor MIDVALE A Ford Foundation graduate fellowship has ' eerTa warded to Cringle May--' field, Midvale Fifth Ward, Mid- tairring 20 large white and lavender mums1 which came airmail from Bern, vale-- Stake. Switzerland to Mrs, "Sidney Jlorman 1 attend the note in With was it this Salt Lake City. Institute for Re unusuaL English : search on Excep "Bern, Easter, 1962. tional Children at the University "Dear Mrs. "Herman: of Illinois under "As Elder Charles Horman) finished the grant.' his mission in our centry, Easter is reDr. ' Mayfield is a member of membering me not only the mother of the stake Sunday Christ, who let her son accomplish His J School board, instructor In his mission, but also the mother oT a young . elders' quorum, chairman of Mormon, who courageously let Itifn folthe ward education committee, low the hard way of the Redeemer. chairman of the servicemens That your son accomplished more than a and a member of committee good mission others will Confirm you; I "" the ward church service cora the last work he received (and it was real mittee. In addition, heancl Mrs. work) would like to thank ydu.and your in temple Mayfield husband for the matter of fact, that you work.- - Dr. Mayfield is a con- gave him through your good education, veJt To ffie Churcit. your love and religious life, the will "more He --earned x hisNbachelorS to do as he had to do and so the possi" and masters degrees' at the bility and willingness to understand sin University of Oregon. 'He has ners. So he also showed me, an old womtaught 'at the Intermoufitain an, her useless life. Indian .School, Brigham- - City, for three years. Presently, he "These flowers may express you my thankfulness and remember yourself teaching an exceptional chllj, drens class at West Jordan the resurrection at which through Junior High, the mission your son accomplished f a Last June, he was one of lot of people are able to participate and three who received the first sq In the resurrection all the sacrifices doctoratesconTerred by Brig-hayou brought for thls child will find ful- Young University. fillment. He-wi- - - . are-activ- e -- ... -- "With- - Way To faith my best wishes for you and your family. Sincerely, "DriS.Fehr. At the return of your son, would express him my thanks jor the last visit, which gqve me owing to his kindness some" 'iope. you-pleas- e "Faith comes by hearing the wofd of God, through the testimony of the servants of God; that testimony is always attended by the Spirit of prophecy and revelation. Joseph Smith, Jr. Week Ending May 5, 1962 CHUkCH 5 v-i-s -- |
