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Show V 22 B - 7 r" -37 Medicine Man Fights Taboos AND TELEGRAM,, Mondoy, June 1, 1964 ESERET-NEWS ir- - ,7 New Leaders Named N r .. - Germs Cause Disease? Navajos Don't Believelt r - . ... -i - - . Infectious diseases are thej The taboo might have been a patient who returns from a child who should go to the hos .. Ipital for treatment is asked by common ailments among broken at any time in the per- - hospital stay. I rvatua la abaarva ttwfr activitias Theseare not necessarily his parentsjf he wants to go sons life, A childhpod violation traatma Indiaa yaunastert. Thu la har Navajo children. 0ie t0 cure T but to the hospital. afaryxaa Inaiaii baliafa abaul madtema.) Illness, 7 7 Believe In Taboos considered-the cause might be A father to purify the person said 7 Ms SMOOT KAY then be when If no, illness. cure By par.To Dr. Vanderof . Howevef, an adult says it Dr-. Vanderwagen. JUBA CITY, ARIZ. The idea wagen tries to explain to par- the medicine man must conduct He. said the children under- - ents dont Make him go. 7 ,7 7 of germs causing disease is in- ents what is wrong with a child a sing over the sick person. stand and accept what the phy- - Navajos are gradually who has pneumonia tell them much more ling the physicians and A singis the chanting of a comprehensible and very silly to than do their parents. tis, the parents do not underfaic the average Indian,, stand. The' idea of little Older Navajos believe their In 1950 only eight to 10 babies orgaDuring this chant the medi- bodies art! hollow, and therefore according to a pediatrician with nisms causing an ailment is ridibom in the U.S. Public cine man is thought to become they cant understand what the were, the UJS. Public Health Service culous to them. ' Health Service Hospital at Tuba, .. , Every good Navajo knows that a supernatural being, and it is doctor is trying to tell them .City.'" here, , Dr. Robert Vanderwagen, wh 6 when someone is ill, he has vio- through him that the cure for about an operation that must be. Now 40 to 60 babies are the illness Js obtained. took his residency in pediatrics, lated a taboo. done. f there'every Inohth, said to these duties, the T Parents Permissive at the University of Utah Col- . To the Navajo, illness isa Si addition Dr. Vanderwagen. - man medidnemay also have Adults will accept the physmanifestation of evil spirits," ex'-lege of Medicine, is well with Indian customs plained Dr. Vanderwagen. It an occupation such as farming icians treatment, bub wont be7- and: beliefs... , means the person has been in or sheeplirdUig.,"r'T' Apartment Ransacked , lieve what they say.-'. 7 77 Inwith Znni Helping Physician lightning.: Or perHowever, (it is the children who Eduardo Godoy7, 125 T St; told J.egrewuip on the dian reservation and worked at haps spit on an anthill. Gradually, the physician is must be convinced that going police Saturday, his apartment Sometimes a Navajo doesnt taking Ms place beside the medi, to the hospital will not hurt them was burglarized. A thief entered Navajo trading posts while school.; His ability know, why he is ill, but he cine; man. Although more ana but will help them get well. through the front door, which to speak the language makes knows he must have violated mbre Navajos go to hospitals to Navajo parents are extreme- - was unlocked, and ransacked him a trusted iriend of the Na- some taboo or he wouldnt be. be treated, for illnesses, the ly permissive, said Dr. Vander-- the room. Cash worth $15 was ' .Sick. ' va jos. medicine man often chants over wages; A five or w missing plus a check book. " i C'fC,?ifoN.R!i7irost : Thp prgiJpny nf JVnintifl Wqrd apdju. various. other ward, South Stake,' Church of Jesus and stake positions. He Also has served in the North Central Christ pf Latter-da- y Saints, was States Mission; reorganized Sunday with Del- - Pres. Beesley has been second mont Hayes, Bountiful contrac- - counselor-i- n the presidency for o approximately-twyears. Pretor, .as the new president heTTadnbeetraJiigh'coum viously, Ward succeeded Pres. Hayes cil member and bishop. He was C. Holbrook who has headed the a missionary in Czechoslovakia. stake since its organization in Born in Salt Lake City, he is a ' 1958. The new the University of president has been graduate-- of -first cousdor to Pres. Holbrook Utah, He and Mrs. Beesley, the 7: forme- r- Phyllis Foulger, have for the past five years. - 7 - 1 -- L 77 n u : - ' 7.: Counselors to Pres. Hayes are Pres. Bingham has been, a . main-Sterling E. Beesley, line member of the stake high counPenance manager for United Air cil the past three years. Pref 7 ' Lines in Salt Lake City, and Jay viously, he Was assistant stake executive director clerk, bishops counselor and had been active in various other ca"7 of the Utah Water, and Power He served as a guide pacities. A'-5Board. on Tempfe - Square for ' three Harold Secrist Ivas retained years and has been vice presias stake cleric, 7 dent of the Great Salt Lake The reorganization was effect-- junctl; Boy Scoutg nf SmeHca7 ed at Hyde Park, Utah, is Pres. ference in the Bountiful South birthpiace. He is an Binghams Stake Center under the direction : engineering graduate el Utah of Elders LeGrand Richards and State University. He and his Richard L. Evans oh the Council wife,, Lyal, have six children. of the Twelve. 777 -- Pers. of native a is SAN ANTONIO, TEX Hayes The Bountiful corpus Chrt5tl7Stake7398ttrTn and Weber College and was an The Church of Jesus Christ of Air Corps pilot in the South Pa- Latter-da-y Saints, was organcific area during World War II. ized Sunday through a division Jleandhls wifer.Ethel,Jiaye.fouE. children. Dr. Clarence Cottam, former - He has previously served as BYU dean and first --counselor in bishop of the Bountiful Eighth the - San Antonio Stake - presi-dencwas sustained as presi- r . . I! a . - f&yp-etuldr- en. adult-Navaj- - . , ; Delmont Hayes . . . stak president . 1 -- , - -a- ttended--Davis41igh y, PostsSelect"7 - .. .. Boys, Girls . GRANGER iThe Granger and Kearns American Legion posts have selected 12 Granger High boys to attend Boys State in July and five girls for Girls State in ' June. ; r; - Th bovi Robert Collsrd, ion of Mr. and Mrs. Gale W. Collard, 3223 Pearce Dr.; Jack Draxler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chlors M. Draxler, 5530 S. 4270 West; Richard Farmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace E. Farmer, 5442 S. 4270 West; Nelson Faux, son of Mr. and Mrs. Neal.D. Faux, 3684 Bishop St.; Larry Hlnman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Hlnman, 4093 W. 3860 South and Greg Larson, son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Larson, 1982 W. 3255 South. Also, Anthony Lucas, son of Mr. and 'yfr sH,, f Thomas Roberts, 3273 W. 3450 South; John Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Frank Scott, 3027 W. 3500 South; Steve Wei shall, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W, -Welohall, 3583 S. 3270 West; and Sidney Westerman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gala - Westerman, 4715 W. 5055 South. Girls who will attend the Logan meet are; Christine Albrechtsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Albrechtsen, 5063 S. 1130 We.it; LaVel Bennlon, daughter of. Mr. arfflUMrs. Udell Bennion, 3897 S. 3200 West; Julie Letts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Georgs Letts, 3205 S. 4800 West; Lmda Lucas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick J. Lucas, 3354 W. 4700 South; end Diana Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley R. Wood, 1440 W, 6235 South. h t f.. I dent of the new stake. He selected as his counselors WrlliamCUhormleybiskopb Corpus Christl Ward, and Melvin E; Call of the high council. Pres. Roland C, Bremer continues as head of the San Antonio Stake, with Douglas D. Van Buren as his second counselor. Roy E. Harris Jr. of the high council was named as the new first counselor, to succeed Pres. Cottam. Elders Marion G. Romney and Howard W. Hunter of the Council of the Twelve effected the .division at. the quarterly conference in the stake center. The hew stake will include efght units: Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi Second-War- ds. Kingsville Ward, Alice Branch, Robstown Branch, Victoria Branch, Laredo and Laredo Sec-on- d Branch San Antonio Stake retains the San Majxios; Austin, San An: tonio San Antonio Second, Third and the foland Foufft-War- ds lowing branches: Austin Second, Boeme, Kenedy, Kerryille, New Braunfels, Randolph Field, San Antonio Fifth and Sixth. ' O 2V1 I D0I7HT017H A i- -T COTTOKfYOOD FATHERS DAY IS JUNE1 21 - - heres a loving gift for Dad... AND IT'S 3aS ft I SPECIALLY-PRICED- TOOF , 9 9 j g A? : f 4 ' Seek. ShM. Smooth. 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