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Show THE CHURCH IN ACTION BC FRESNO: Professional J Around The World ARNHEM Scouter Promoted media across the Initid States. Members will colicu ot- - totals on a precinct by precinct basis in 30 of the states 36 counties an ca'l the totals into the Portland Bureau o! the Associated Press. The AP will di pitch the results throughout the country The Oregon prim.u is atti acting national attention brer use of the political race among leading picsidrntial canttt-dte- s of both parties. The six counties not covered by Church members are cqu , d w ith viting s machines. In most money earned will be used for building funds. Oregon stakes and No h western States Mission districts are cooperating in tiic prpject Samuel H. Bailey, Corvallis Stake president, Is coordinator. Mac Gardner, professional Scouter of Fresno, California, has been promoted to the National Staff of the Boy Scouts of America and editor of the Scouting Magazine at the national office in New Brunswick, N. J. Mr. Gardner started his scouting career in Troop 14, sponsored by the Burley (Idaho) 2nd Ward of the LDS Church. After Serving in the U.S. Airforce, he entered professional scouting as a district scout executive in the Great Salt Lake Council of Salt Lake City. In 1902, he was promoted to the post of Scout Executive with the Sequoia Council of Fresno, where he was serving when called to the national post. The Gardners and their two children moved to Nev Jersey in March. ca-o- - CORVALLIS: Shovels Swing At Ground Breaking Counselor Named Company VP PITTSBURGH: John B. Cahoon Jr., first counselor In the Pittsburgh Branch Presidency, Eastern Atlantic States Mission, has been elected vice president of research and development at Vesuvius Crucible Company. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Cahoon was associated with the University of Californias Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, Calif. He has been instrumental in building chapels in Scottsdale, Arizona; Livermore, California, and Pittsburgh. Earlier in life he had filled a mission for the Church in Sweden. RESEDA: LDS Gym Coach Honored Reseda Stake YMMIA Superintendent, Bill Vincent, has been named Gymnastic Coach of the Year by the NCAA. He is gym coach at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, Calif. His team won the College Division NCAA title and among the placed three ranks of the nations top athletes. NAMPA: Senior Heads Future Farmers A shower of presidential responsibili-vtie- s has descended on Kenneth Christensen, 17, of Caldwell Second Ward, Nampa Stake, Idaho. The Notus High School senior has been elected Idaho State president of the Future Farmers of America at the FFA Leadership Conference. He is high school student body vice president and president of the Notus High School FFA chapter as well as Boise Valley District president Kenneth received a state farmer degree at the leadership conference and was named to be a member of the national dairy cattle judging team. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Christensen and is secretary of his Priests Quorum and a seminary student. Dutch Mayor Accepts Gifts BOUNTIFUL: Students Have Patriarch's Day Stake Patriarch Day at Bountiful, High School Seminary may become an annual affair following a successful introduction of the event, May 2, in Bountiful, Utah. Four patriarchs from Bountiful stakes were invited to speak and answer questions of some 725 students divided in 28 classes during the day, according to Myron W. Home, Seminary supervisor. The invitations were sent to the patriarchs after a student committee proposed that the Stake Patriarch Day be established to help students learn about the calling of patriarchs and the purpose and benefits of patriarchial blessings. Patriarchs, who participated, included C. Lloyd Walch and William H. Bennett of Bountiful South Stake; Alma D. Eakle, Bountiful East Stake, and George L. Scott, P untiful Stake. OKLAHOMA CITY: Relief Society Chorus A Hit Some 137 singeis from Relief Sacieties in all parts of Oklahoma joined their voices in song when 300 society members held their annual spring conference and luncheon in the LDS Stake House of Oklahoma City. The special program carried out the theme Let There Be Music. They will also sing at the June 1G Relief Society Conference in Oklahoma City. C8 . . . young executive It was no April Find when ground was broken on April 1st for a new $526,000 chapel to house two wards arid a stake center In Corvallis. The billowing day, the Lebanon Ward in the same stake broke ground lor a $90,000 first unit of an expandable chapel. Start of the new Corvallis chapel marked the third time Mr. Jolley has done file excavation for chapels of wards Jo which he lived. No. 1 was the first chapel In Corvallis. He then moved to The Dalles, Ore., and did the excavation for a new building there. Last year he moved back to Corvallis just as plans for the new stakehouse were completed. Lady missionaries Orlean Mitier, right, former Miss Idaho Falls, and Judith Jubber from Rhodesia, Africa, present the Book of Mormon and Meet The Mormons to the Mayor of Arnhem in the Netherlands. He promised to read both and commented favorable on a new chapel to be built in Arnhem. This was part of a Meet the Mayor program in the Netherlands Mission which has attracted attention in the Dutch press. A bus load of these same singers will CHRISTENSEN Ground breaking for now buildings s in the came on successive Stake (Oregon) in April emphasizing the rapid growth of the Church in the Pacific Northwest ch-- be part of the Singing Mothers from all give parts of the United Slates who willHemis-Fair two concerts on August 11 at the KENNETH - BEIBBBBBIIB BBHIBIBl B BBI1EIIII BB1H in San Antonio, Texas. Singers from 17 branches and wards participated in the Let There Be Music program, under the direction of Mrs. Otto Grimes, stake chorister. FT. CARSON: Long Beach Serviceman Cited Specialist Four Lynn K. Durham, IDS serviceman from Long Beach, Calif., has beat selected as one of two top enlisted men at Fort Carson, Cob., to represent the Mountain Post in the City of Colorado Springs competition for the outstanding serviceman of the vea- -. JACK M. TUIASOA . . . Tongan trainee LAIE: Polynesians Train in Business The Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie is looking for young Polynesian college graduate executives to take over key areas in the Center's expanding operations. Serviceman Durham, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Durlnm in Long Beach, has been in the sendee 15 months. His commander said he was impressed with Specialist Durhams exceptional ability as a statistician, neatness, soldierly con- duct and devotion to du'v. His record of Cm rch service includes a mission to Lima, Peru, teacher, Sunday School couns- lor and secretary, organist and choir singer, assistant scoutmaster, manager of the LDS serviaemens basketball team, YMMIA superintendent and president of the Sou.hern California Andes Mission Association. 16-ye- - M. Tulasoa, a Tongan, is one of the first to be named. Lawrence Hanetoerg, general manager of the Cultural Center at Laie, say they expect Polynesians eventually to take over operations in sales, marketing, public relations, food services and business. Mr. Tuiasoa, former Church College of Hawaii and BYU student, will channel his Jack energies toward the Centers famous show and theater ojierations. He is a talented singer. We are now currently recruiting young Polynesians like Tuiasoa for our new management training program, said Mr. Haneberg. CORVALLIS: Members To Tally Election Results Church members in Oregon wilt play key roles in getting results of the Oregon Primary Election on May 28 to the news WEEK LYNN K. DURHAM . . . top electee ENDING MAY 18, 1968 - CHURCH-13- --' ' |