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Show It's A Long Way From Chicago To Carthage Nauvoo The Beautiful, a microcosm of once the largest city in Illinois with 15,000 Mor-monis- By ALF PRATTE Try to catch a bus or train from Chicago to the two most famous towns of Mormon history in Illinois and you will probably have people ask: Nauvoo? Carthage? Where are they? Its a long way, isnt it? What do you want to go there for? And if they don't already know something about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, you may find it a little difficult explaining why those places mean so much. Because Nauvoo and Carthage are more than jiAt two tiny towns tucked away in a dusty corner of Hancock County near the Mississippi River border with Iowa. Theyre symbols of a great people and the men that inspired them to the glory that once was and still is. You can still see today what those pioneers left behind, northwest of Abraham Lincolns Springfield and southwest of Carl Sandburgs Galesburg. residents. Today, it has a population of 1,000, and rabbits play in its quiet streets. You tan see the homes of the men who helped build Nauvoo out of the swamplands of the Indian village of Commerce on the Mississippi : Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Prat.., and Orson Hyde. Or you can see the places where the men lived who betrayed Nauvoo. What you cant see Is the stately temple the Saints built in the middle of a great depression in a young nation They built it like everything else they built only with great sacrifice and effort on behalf of the living and the dead. But the Navoo temple is gone now. Destroyed by enemies and nature. Eastward from Nauvoo is Carthage, the butcher shop for those who resented the intrusion of honest industry and truth into their land. with It is here that Gov. Ford met, Judas-likthe Carthage Greys and conspired to take the life ot the great leader of Nauvoo. Today, the peaceful jail which has served as a home for many families, looks incongruous as the place where Joseph and Ifyrum Smith were murdered. But jou get the feeling that you now knew Joseph better, and your testimony is a little stronger. The president of the visitors center has planted flowers around the grounds of the tragic spot. When the breeze blows on hot summer afternoons the neat white curtains sway in the open windows. On the second floor of the east side of the jail is the window where the Prophet Joseph fell, crying O Lord, my Cod! They say it was hot in Carthage the June afternoon in 1844 when Joseph and Hyrum died. In fact, they say its always hct in Carthage and Nauvoo in the summer. A nd the two towns are a long way from Chicago. But Im glad I went anyway. e, Samoan Member Returns Home To Direct Center 4r v PAGO PAGO, SAMOA rV Q r- WELCOME' fciCHfiaa - mmm mmmmm FREE ADHEYEKIfttt TOURIST historic b i !3$!S30 j mmm umms . L'AUtjfdt sflfcSST tbfwt '"lire inW "3 4 v ' t v Sign welcomes tourists to Sevier Stake Tabernacle where visitors center met with success. AT RICHFIELD TABERNACLE A New Visitors Center RICHFIELD, UTAH Hundreds of tourists from many states heard and saw the story of the Church a new visitors center in Richfield this year. The first effort to tell the story in Richfield begain a year ago when two films, Mans Search for Happiness and "The Morning Breaks were shown at a local cafe along with a scenic slide program about southern Utah. Because of the lack cf space for other displays, tne program was moved to the Sevier Stake Recreation Center this year. It was expanded with paintings and sculpture, and met with high success, according to Norman Jackson, stake mission president, who spearheaded the f RCH J WEEK Enosa I. Wilson, a native of American Samoa and former missionary, has returned to his home in the South Seas after receiving his MS degree in counseling and guidance from BYU. He will head the counseling center at Mapusaga High School, the Churcli school at Pago Pago, American Samoa. It is believed that Mr. Wilson is the first Samoan to return to his homeland with a masters degree and enter education of his people. His present plans are to return to BYU for his doctors degree in educational psychology after three years in Samoa. According to Mr. Wilson there is great need for education among his people. Once they were an isolated, simple people living slow and easy and close to nature. Now six jets a week land at Samoa. The age of industry and automation has caught up with us, he said. With the exception of two years of school teaching in Samoa, Mr. Wilson has been in the United States for 10 years. In 1967, he studied on an NDEA Scholarship at Washington State University in Pullman, at the counseling and guidance institute. He was one of 31 selected Irom 300 applicants. Mr. Wilson feels that it will require a Ted Hodges, buyer of fashion accessories at ZCMI in Salt Lake City, has been named to the Dance Committee of the YMMIA General 51968 school. His mother died when he w'as nine years old, and during his boyhood he helped his father who is a fisherman. Board, announced Gen. Carlos Smith Jr. Supt. G. A member of the Bountiful 30th Ward, East Bountiful (Utah) Stake, Mr. Hodges has served as dance director on both the ward and stake levels. He served in the Scottisb-Iris- h Mission from 1961-6- 3 where he was an assistant to the mission presi- dent. Reproduction of paintings and scenes depict tiie Mormon story, obtained from the Church Information Committee. Lifelike busfs of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon, David Wliitmer, Oliver Cow drey and Martin Harris, are displayed in the audio-visuroom where the films are shown. ENDING' OCTOBER Samoan with the local cultural background to understand the Samoans. His parents were converts to the Church. His father served 38 years in branch presidencies, district presidencies and other important positions. Seven of his eight brothers and sisters have filled missions for the Church. He served a mission in Western Samoa (British) at the age of 17, three days after his graduation from high YMMIA Board Member The center was open daily from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Plans now call for its use during the winter months for groups on an appointment basis. Some $3,000 was spent in the foyer of the center. During the summer months members of the state mission and the 36th Quorum of Seventy participated by taking barns operating the film, explaining the program and answering questions. Mr. Wilson Before his present position with ZCMI, he was assistant manager of the Ogden ZCMI store and had been an assistant buyer cf Bon Marche in Ogden. at Mr. Hodges Mr- - Hodges, who makes his home 2187 S. Carolyn Way in Bountiful, is married to the former Mary Jo Gregory and they have two |