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Show Page aeHERALD, Provo, Utah Sunday, uaa3, in LDS Church to Dedicate Missouri Visitors Center at Rites May 31 SALT LAKE CITY — The attractive new Visitors Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Independence, Mo., a city of historic significance in President Tanner will speak and dedicate the new visitors center located at Walnut and River Streets. President Kimball will conduct the services and Elder Dyer will Mormonism, will be dedicated at special outdoor services, also speak. Music will be by a 250 voice Monday,May31, at 7p.m. chorus from the two stakesin the Church President Joseph Kansas City area under the Fielding Smith, 4, a grand- direction of Gaylen Thomas with nephew of the Monnon Prophet, Joseph Smith, will make the journeyfrom Salt Lake City to preside at the exercises and speak to the assembly. President Smith is a grandson of Hyrum Smith, who, with his brother, Joseph, played a significantrole in thefounding of Independence. Merrill Moody as the accompanist. Opening number by the chorus will be, “With a Voice of Singing,” and the closing number, “Hallelujah” from MountofOlives. The giris chorus of the choir will sing, “We Ever Pray for Thee, Our Prophet Dear.” Mrs,Jessie Evans Smith, wife of President Smith, will sing, “Bless This House.” Accompanying President With the Church leader will be his second counselorin the First Presidency, Pres. N. Eldon Tanner, Acting President of the Quorum of Twelve, Spencer W. PARTICIPANTS IN GRADUATION CEREMONIES for School May 26 will be, front row, from left, Marsha Brent __Tipton, Mike Stansfield, Alauna Hed,Brent Kimball and Elder Mark £. Petersen, both of the Council of Thorn, and Ron Hitchcock. Back row, from left, are Kevin Hoim, Gloria Gardnez, Nora Holdaway, Wilford Clyde, Bessie Edwards, the Twelve Apostles, and Elder Alvin R. Dyer, Assistant to the ‘Twelve. andSteven Bartholomew. ir LDS Church Appoints Four New ervice Heads of Missions—Last of 29 Appointmentof four ae presidents — the last of scheduled to be called this fee — was anno ced Saturday, May 22, by the First Presidency of the LDS Church. Included in the four are a father and son, a rare occurrence in Mormon mission annals. real. Peru Mission painDriggs’ son, Pres. James Robert ae of Saratoga, Calif. will direct the affairs of the Andes-Peru Mission, with headquarters in Lima. He succeeds Pres. Allen E. Litster. Pres. Samuel Victor Miera of Sandy, Utah, will preside over the Mexico West Mission, with Mission, headquarters in Sonora, Mexico, headquarters in succeeding Pres. Eugene F. Shreveport, La. He succeeds W. Stanford Wagstaff who will Pres. Lewis Mangum Bastian Each new mission president will be accompanied byhis}wite, wife, who will share the mission responsibility with him. Their young children also will accompany them. A mission presidents’ seminar will be held oe City June 21-23 for the new mission leaders. They will depart for the mission field shortly thereafter. £erved President t Driggs served a mission to the Eastern States earlier in life, as well as in Bishoprics in Phoenix and wre serving as before being designated a . certified life underwriter in in 1936. His wife is the PRESIDENT AND MRS. GO’ DENK. DRIGGS former Maude MacDonald of Mesa,Ariz, She has served in the Relief Society and in various ward, stake and mission itions. They are the parents . . . of six children andlive at 2745 Noted at Springville High North Univ. Ave., Provo. Winnerof Scholarships Poe i ‘Their son, President James R. ‘Scholarships to Hollywood priggs, is currently serving asa School went to Renae youth leader (MIA Venturers)in the Saratoga Ward. He servedin Bishoprics in Scottsdale, Ariz., Jesus Christ of Latter-day move designed to make it Saints. convenient for most people to attend. President Harold B. Lee,first annual ccmcounselor in the First The 102nd Presi mencement address will be —iy,weTeee delivered at 9 a.m.in the 15,000 seat Special Events Center by mencesat 8 p.m. oa Nobel Prize-winning biologist Music will be by the Taber- Dr. George Wald, Higgins nacle Choir under the direction Professor of Biology at Harvard ichard P. Condie. University and adjunct ie Continental Beauty School. #2 8 part of the memorial service. Also to be honored will be all LDS servicemen who have been wounded in Vietnam or who have been casualties of all wars. points. He represented the Western Training Commandona special assignment at San Antonio, Tex., for 30 daysto write 2 guide as to a standard procedure for pilot instructional operation for medium bombers. He won the contest for small arms firing at La Junta, Colo. Air Base and went overseas to the Phillipines in 1945. He was discharged with the rank of captain in 1946. Beturned to Teach Mr. Partington returned to teaching school at the Springville High School in 1946 as vocational ag, farm mechanics and biology teacher. He returned to Spanish Fork Junior High School in bts teaching industrial arts. department won many on and awards on project displays at county and state contests. Hehas served as scoutmaster, stake young men’s director, teacher in the Young Men’s Mutual and is presently an assistant meee leader in the lest Quorum of SousFourie Ward. by Neg Cochran THEN HE GETS HIM BETWEEN ROPES, Bakos By George, we've gotit! CRT Ce Ue i available.in many other RS eC Rc TREO Councanon the Argentineiin 1951-53. Attended BYU President Miera is a native of Manassa, Colo., and attended schools in Albuquerque. He graduated from BYU and now teaches in the Jordan District Schools in Utah. Heserved in the U.S. Army in 1951-53. He has served in the superintendency of And why. patterned carpet? 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Hinckley, Elder Veterans Administration trainees get additional Thomas S. Monson and Elder Regional Office in Salt payments for only two depenBoyd ing K. director. Packer, Harold who L. is City, ¢& that they are entitled to dents, while the others get them for all dependents. Previously, Mr. Smith said, # G. Crawford, ee,is and Robert veterans could be paid the adassistant. ditional amounts only from the havehis $175 a month increased Elder Packer explained that a date they otied the VAof their list is being gathered of the to $205 when he gets married and new dependent. Under names of LDS servicemen who to $230 if he becomes father. ‘ion effective Dec. 24, have been killed or missing in Veterans taking cooperative, 1970, however, students have ore apprenticeship, on-the-job or action in Vietnam or who are year from the event to present prisoners of war. It is expected farm cooperative training also the marriage license or birth thatthe roster will beannounced have their VA payments in- certificate to VA. =DSROUNT exe BEANS University agriculture. He graduated from USU in 1929 in mechanical arts Training Command. He atand received an ROTC Second tended a six-week course in Lt. Commission in coast ar- Second Echelon Maintenance for sent to prominentpublic leaders of the area. Attractive murals, paintings, tillery. He was a member of models and displays will tell the Omega Tau Fraternity, Scabmessage o: the gospel of Jesus bard and Blade Fraternity and Christ as restored through the ROTC Rifle Team. Mr. Partington started Joseph Smith. teaching school in 1930 at the Pleasant Grove High School in the Industrial Arts Department. Hetaught in Pleasant Grovefor seven years before moving to Spanish Fork High School in 1937. He started the first farm, auto mechanics and welding The commencementexercises program in the Nebo School wili include recognition of this District and won sta‘e honorsin year’s honorary degree and farm mechanics in 1940. Nistinguished Teaching Award Entered Service recipients and the awarding of He entered military service diplomas to all Ph.D. and Ed. D. with the 222nd Field Artillery degree candidates. National Guard March 3, 190 At11 a.m., President and Mrs. and served as battalion motor Alfred C. Emery will greet officer. He attended an eight‘aduates and their families on week training school in Army 8 the Marriott Library South Motor vehicle maintenance at Plaza, where a buffet lunch will Detroit, Mich. at the automotive be hosted by the class of 1971 and factories and transferred to the the U Alumni Association. Each Air Corps in December 1941 and graduate will receive three served as a ground school intickets for the buffet. structor, field maintenance Additional tickets may be officer, link trainer officer and purchased through June 1 for $2 base mechanic officer. He wrote a procedure system for inat the Alumni House. Students and visitors niay use strument flying which was all parking areas free of charge, approved by the Western Flying except loading zones, red curbs and reserved stalls. OUT OUR WAY Gl Benefits Increase Departmental presented at the annual awards assembly pi to the following students: en Bartholomew and Craig natield agriculture; Evelyn Chesnut and Chris Weight, art Kelly Tuttle, boys athletics; Rick Newton and Ken Ellis, boys Rife, Evan Roundy, Susan physical education; Shauna the ward and stake Sunday Smeath, Michael Stansfield, Mason and Connie Taylor, Schools and as president of the business. Cumorah Branch. Sam Barker and Bob Engle, President Bastian currently is David Swelves, Daniel Vincent, cy: Marsha ‘Tipton and serving as director of the Dennis Wilson. and Berkeley Institute of the Churcti An academic scholarship to faland Susan Weight, girls located near the University of the University of Utah will go to physical education; JoAnn California campus. Previously Alan Marshall, while Linda Tolley and Lynette Whiting he served in the Language Francis and Jeanette Miller won , home economics; ‘Training Missiorat BYU. Heis a scholarships to Weber State Bills and Guy Bartholomew, graduate of BYU and completed College. Others include: Julie industrial arts; Daryl Strong his course work for his PhD at Gividen, Snow College; Linda and Don Davis, pallid Indiana University. In his Jones, Southern Utah State; Kenneth Goates and Wendy Church service, he has served as Oldroyd, music; Bruce Jackson a high councilman of the Marilyn Newman and Wi Young, Utah Technical Coltege; and Dan Vincent, science; Indianapolis Stake and as a Gerald Biesinger and Paul Kenneth Goates and Nora bishop’s counselor in the Creer, Payson Hospital Medical Holdaway,social studies; Gloria Berkeley University Ward. A scholarships; Lynn Bartlett, ean and Ina Bartholomew, native of Bicknell, Utah, he filled veterinarian. a mission to Central America. POP SODA Nebo School District and seven yearsin theAlpine District. Mr.Partington was born and reared in Logan, Cache Ccanty, Utah, the son of Joseph A. and Martena Christensen Partingion, He married Helen Ault and they have two daughters, Janice P. Loveless and Joyce Ann Beardall; five grandsons and three granddaughters. Attended USU Heattended the public schools of Logan, graduating from an High School where he lettered for two years ul basketball. He won a tuition scholarship to Utah State Juline Van Wagoner, whi Robert Lee Averett, Steven Rolbert Brown, Marie Calder, Donald Glen Davies, Bessie Louise Edwards, Gloria Gardaer, Kenneth Earl Goates, Ronald R. Hitchcock, Nora Linn Holdaway, Kevin Holm, James Hopkinson, Bruce Jackson, Mary Sue Porn 425 professor of physics and biology The general public is invited. at Utah. Degree candidates will The service, designed to pay assemble for the processionalat special honor to Latter-day Saint 8:30 a.m. servicemen have given their lives for defense of their country, is being arranged by the Church’s Military Relations Committee. BYU have been awarded to Pattie Ctler and ‘Debvie Surmiathoslat woxiiory REO dedicatory services are being SPANISH FORK — William A. Partington wil! retize this year after teaching 29 years in the At 'U’ Commencement Twelve of the LDS Church of same day as commencement—a of Richar the 20 acres of the or'ginal independence Temple site of 63 acres which was dedicated by the Mormon prophet, Joesph Smith,for a templein 1831. Adjacent to the new Visitors Center are other buildingsof the Church,the mission homeof the Kansas-Missouri Mission and the chapel of the Independence Sei Second Ward of the IndependenceStake. ing in plans for the dedicatory services under direction of the Church Information Committee, have been Mission PresidentJ. Stuart McMaster, and the two stake presidents, Melvin J. Bennion of the Independence Stake and Christian F. Sanders of the KansasCity Stake. The public is invited to join ‘vith members of the Church and special invitations to the 3,000 Grads Expected Approximately 3,000 On May 30 graduates will be honored atthe University of Utah’s new A special Memoria! Day streamlined commencement a Bishop in Chicago. Later he served on the high council in Chicago and Fresno. Professionally, he has been prominent in the insurance business, having served as director of agencies for the New York Life Insurance Company. He is currently serving as Director of Associate Development for Brigham Young University. He is a native of Driggs, Idaho, and attended the University of California cademic scholarships centeris erected on a portion of of Concord, Calif., has been called to the Mexico North with service will be held Sunday, May exercises, Saturday, June 5. It Central Mission, headquarters in Coahuila, 30, in the Salt Lake Tabernacle will be the first time that the Mexico, succeeding Pres. Arturo under the direction of the First awarding of diplomas at college Martinez. Presidency and Council of tk> convocations will take place the San Francisco SPRINGVILLE Scholarship. winners from Springville High School have been announced by : — eee Pastof Sesquicentennial Under construction during the past two years, the completion and dedication of the Visitors Center have been planned and timed by the Church as its principal contribution to the Missouri Sesquicentennial. The Partington Will Retire After Teaching 29 Years Koz the |