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Show THE CHURCH IN ACTION WHITTIER: Explorers Cycle Through Europe Around The World TOKYO A troop of 19 Explorers can claim the honor of being true explorers after returne bicycle tour through ing from a Europe with seven adult leaders from Whittier Stake in California. They were able to put their bicycles in the plane as part of their luggage allowance when they left the Los Angeles International Airport for Amsterdam. Raymond Howarth, Explorer Post Advisor, and his troop had been planning the trip for two years. They made a trial run between San Francisco and Whittier to get the feel of their bicycles. Each youth had to put $300 into the fund. This was accomplished by work projs stand sale, aid from busiects, nessmen and contributions. They mapped routes, contacted youth hostels and worked out plans that would meet their budget. After arriving in Europe, they bicycled through parts of France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. In Zurich, several splinter groups elected to travel to various points of interest, including Paris and London, before they gathered again in Amsterdam for their one-daflight home to Los Angeles. They spent several Sundays with fellow Church members in the cities of Worms, Singe n and Nurenberg. MT. PLEASANT: Lost Nephew Found The Beck ami Christensen families of Mt. Pleasant, Utah, have reunited with their cousin and nephew, Charies Lenard Wells better know n os Chailes I conoid Wheeler, after 69 years separation. Extensive genealogy lesearch pointed the way to Chailes after his mother had placed him in an orphanage due ta financial troubles. When they went back to get him, he had been adopted by another family. He finally met missionaires in 1959 and joined the Church in Butte, Mont, lie became interested in genealogy and followed t!ie lines of Ids adopted parents and his natural parents. It's really wonderful to know my own heritage," Charles Wells Wheeler said. 1200-mil- lire-work- MONTREAL: Missionaries Hold Street Meetings Ambassador Visits Mission Pres, and Mrs. Walter R. Bills of the Japan Mission, left, visit with the Hon. U. Alexis Johnson, Ambassador of the U.S. in Japan, center, and Pres and Mrs. Edward Y. Okazaki a Mission. Harrison T. Price, right, of the is attached to the American Embassy in Tokyo. Ambassador Johnson, a career diplomat for 40 years in the Far East, talked with the mission presidents for nearly an hour on the activities of the Church in Japan. y Japan-Okinaw- Explorers fa'ip totaled approximately 15.000 miles from start to finish, including 1200 miles of cycling, 1000 miles by train, 50 miles by boat and 12,000 miles by air. The pleted a successful Chinch display at the Western Idaho State Fair in September. Whittier Stake leaders felt their Explorers and their leaders were ambassadors of the U.S.A. and the Church. Their cycling troop gained wide attention as they traveled through Europe. Two large office trailers were placed side by side to house a Visitors Center and a movie studio where the film Mans Search for Happiness was shown to hundreds of visitors. A total of 1,713 signed the guest book, half of them nonmembers. Many showed interest in the and signed referral cards. Gospel Missionaries in Boise and the Northv'est-er- n States Mission will contact those interested. REXBURG: Ricks To Note Homecoming Ricks College, Idaho, will celebrate its Home0th anniversary with a four-day coming Program, starting October 9. Cecil Ricks and Jane Wilson will spark the event which will start with the annual student trek up tire butte west of Rexburg to whitewash the big R on the mountain side. The homecoming will be queen and her attendants announced that night. Homecoming parade and a football battle with Mesa College, r Homecoming ball, concert, bonfire and snake dance are a few of the activities that will fill the four days of fun. Ricks Alumni Council will stage a pageant telling the history of the Church-operatecollege. There will be alumni reunions and special banquets, one nurses training featuring the course at Ricks. d LAWRENCE J. SPJUTE . . . Boise Stake aide BOISE: Stance LAIE: College Counselor Named Assistant Named Lawrence J. Spjute, former bishop of the 12th Ward Boise Stake, was sustained as second counselor to Stake Pres. B. Clair Johnson at the Boise Stake confer- Col. Jesse E. Stay, USAF (Ret.) has been made an assistant to Pres. Owen J. Cook at the Church College of Hawaii in Laie as director of public affairs. Col. Stay has had 11 years of public affairs experience in his 26 yea re as an officer in the Air Force. He was the first professor of air science at the BYU where he started the Air Force Officers Training Program in 1951. 22. He succeeds Albert who was sustained as first counselor following the release of Kenneth II. Johns by Bishop Robert L. Simpson of ence, September G. Call, Jr., the Presiding Bishopric. Pres. Spjute came to Boise in 1958 and has served as a president of the 208th Quorum of Seventy and a counselor in the 12th Ward bishopric before being ordained bishop in 1905. Ho fillet! a mission in Sweden from 1!M9 to 1952. Pres. Spjute and his wife, Ruth, are the parents of eight children. lie is a graduate of the University of Utah and presently is an adjuster for the Employers Insurance of Wausau. BOISE: Seventies Set Display At Fair Ricks College Cecil Ricks and Jane Wilson Each quorum invested $200 in the project. Part of the expenses were met by sale of carnival novelties at a silly booth on the midway. from the Boise, Quorums Seventy West Boise and Boise North Stakes com One of (lie last missionary cffoibof Pies. Lamont F. Toronto before being released as president of the Canadian Mission was to gain permission to hold street meetings in Montreal, Quebec's largest city. Pres. Toronto and Police Chief Gerard Cote met on two occasions to work out the program, which gave missionary vvo;k a boost in Mo"tre'1. A portable display used in the lectures tells the story of the Book of Maimon to curious onlookers. Good results have resulted in the meetings being held in La Fontaine Park, one of the four key paiks in the predominantly French city. The elders aie able to illustrate their lectures about the Church by pushing a button on the board which changes pictures telling the story of Prophet Joseph Smith and his acquisition of the golden plates from which .he Book of Mormon was translated. Copies of the Book of Mormon are presented to those who desire to investigate further after hearing the lectin es. These meetings are held each Saturday and Sunday with missionaires speaking both English and French. MANTI: Talented Student Honored Julianne Howell, Miss Sanpete County and a competitor for Miss Utah honors, rightfully received such honors. The beautiful blonde is a straight talented musically, active in Church and seminary, serving as secretary-histofor the Manti Seminary ar.d rian Central Utah Seminary District. Scholarship talents come naturally. Her father, Fremont Howell, is an instructor at Snow College and her mother is a teacher in the South Sanpete School FORT PAYNE: Mothers Show The Way , Mothers trounced iheir daughters kick-bal- l annual first at the a game mothers-daughter- s overnight camp to be held in Alabama Stake. in This was just a starter as some 70 mothers and daughters anived at DeSoto State Park, pitched tents, fixed dinner, built a big bonfire and enjoyed skits, music and talks. The following day they proved to their daughters they could still do some kicking. After winning, their daughters predicted tilings would be different next year. . JULIANNE HOWELL . . . talented musically WEEK ENDING .OCTOBER 5, 1968 CHURCH-- 13 |