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Show - THE SUN CHRONICLE, THURSDAY,- JUNE 22, 1961 Sheila, A Little Girl with Great Courage, Invents A Game, 'Let's Play Sunday School' VALUES Sheila Nelson of Minneblue-eye- d and brunette young lady of five years whose cherubic face is generously seasoned with freckles, has lust invented a game called Lets Play Sunday School" The reason for this bit of little-gi- rl contrivance is that FOR OUTDOOR LIVING apolis, a FROM ROY LUMBER CO. PICNIC TABLES V 895, 24 Sheila no longer can walk to the Lutheran Church half a block up the hill from her home. And because of sidewalk bumps, it's equally excruciating to get her to her real Sunday school by wheel chair propelled by her mother. Indeed, she may never be able to make her way again to that house of worship at the top of the hill, a journeys end that seems more unattainable up INCH CHARCOAL with each painful, passing day. So 15 BRAZIERS Sheila today must make believe about Sunday school at home. Severe rheumatoid arthritis of the neck, hands, wrists, knees and feet, cruelly intensified in recent weeks, accountVor her inability to travel up that hill to church on the Sabbath, to listen to biblical stories and to ts of Noahs scissor paper ark with everything that tocreepeth upon the earth," gether with lambs and kneeling camels and other figures of the Nativity. Another 30,000 children in the nation each year are in the same aching predicament as Sheila, the answer to which The National Foundation is seeking today with March of With Electric Spit cut-ou- 24 INCH CHARCOAL BRAZIERS 1995 Electric Spit and Warming Oven Dimes contributions. Its difficult to believe," says Mrs. Ronald Nelson, the childs but many of my mother, neighbors just wont believe that children are stricken by 6 Piece Ice Bar-B-Q- ue Sets get." Two years of caring day and night lor Sheila have taught her attractive mother that juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a long way removed from harmless growing pains. Mrs. Nelson, her husband and two other children are often awakened in the night by Sheilas outcries although much of the time the Coolers 495 : arthritis. They actually tell me after all my experience with Sheila that arthritis is a disease that only the old folks Values to 19.95 Sierra Wood Handles' Stainless Steel Blades Your choice 095 e Sheila addresses her Sunday School" and tells story f Jonah and the Whale. She Is under treatment at March af arthritis clinic la Minneapolis. . make-believ- Dimes-support- child beats back Jier tears and fears. Once a week, Mrs. Nelson and Sheila travel tedious miles across Minneapolis to the March of Childrens Rheumatism Clime of the Uniof Minnesota. There versity scientists study any blood changes in Sheila and, under the almost astronomical magnification of electron microscopy, also study specimens of tissue and fluid from her knee. For her part, at the clinic, the mother takes lessons in home physical therapy for the child. Sheila is a withdrawn and tongue-tie- d little girl most of the time, her mother says, but the cat doesnt have, her tongue on Sundays i when she opens her Sunday school class' here at home. We think, the likely reason for this is that when she was able to go to our church until some months ago, that was the one time and place where she somehow blossomed. If she did have pain then, and that was 'often so. Dimes-support- ed she was just spunky enough not to let the Sunday school teacher and the other kids know about it. Through the exercise of prodigious badgering, a stranger was admitted to Sheilas at home Sunday school a Sunday ago. Dressed in her blue organdy best and seated on the living room couch, the young lady was recounting with appropriate gestures the story of Jonah ana the Whale to' a wholly imaginary audience of others of her small fry generation. With March of Dimes con- tributions, The National Foundation has been able to establish four arthritis study centers across the nation and has made an additional 20 research grants in this one field. But more such centers and grants are needed if Sheila is to climb back up the hill to her real-lif- e Sunday school; and if the torments of the other 30,000 child victims of rheumatoid arthritis are to end. it. PAGF SIX ' ' . r . daughter of Maurice and Betty planned for the boys. They will tired.- i , , to Marineland, go Disneyland, Highfield. Folks Day- - (a Old he annual other Visitor at the Rillon Champ-ney- s Knotts Beqy Farm and scheduled for June 28 at Lorin home last week was points of interest in the Los Farr Park. Transportation will will . and see . . area Pearls sister, Mrs. .Lavina Fish- Angeels be arranged for all those desira big league baseball game. er from Cuna, Idaho. ' . ing to go. A baby daughter was born Lavina Fisher, a sister to Ernie Johnson wa sone of at Dee Memorial Hospital June Mrs. Rillon Champneys, is visitfive adults who chaperoned 46 12 to Edward H. and Linda week. this Her Riverdale in ing the Lake Champneys Davs of Ogden. borne is in Kuna, Idaho, near Explorer Scouts of Bonneville Council on a trip Linda is a former Riverdale Nampa. down the Colorado River. The girl. The couple has one other The Champneys aer proud boys became acquainted with child, a son. again. This time such historic spots as Hole In Gene Bell suffered a badly grandparents is a baby girl, born to Ed- the Rock and Rainbow Bridge. it injured finger at his place of ward and Linda Champneys traveled 135 miles, employment on Thursday of Davis, of 2141 Adams. The baby They through canyons steep and ruglast week. It required 12 stitch weighed more than 8 lbs. ged, in places 2,000 feet straight es to patch up the injury. The Dee Burtons are the up. They were enthralled with Here from California for the proud parents of another little the Music Temple, huge natural missionary farewell of a grand- girl, too, born June 7. She amphitheater beneath a cliff, son and nephew, Jay Taylor, weighed 7 lbs. 10 ozs. Her name with acoustical properties exare Mrs. Annie Taylor Carter is going to be Katherine (Kathy celling those of the famed LDS of Clear Lakes and Mrs. Ardella for The Salt Lake Tabernacle. short). Taylor Allen of Palm Springs. was gone for a week. group the Mariano with Visiting They are staying at the home Mr. and Mrs. Brent Johnson this week are of David and Zona Taylor. Mrs. Cabrales family Bill and baby daughter are bark relatives from Chicago. at is Carters husband, James, (Uncle Billy) Zenk, brother to home. The Johnsons have spent present hospitalized at Veter- Mrs. Cabrales, and Adam Dou some time in Germany while in ans Hospital Salt Lake City. an uncle, are here to en Brent was in the service. They gard, In preparation for surgery in Ogden, but on Wednesday) Herman Fiet en- joy the mountai air until July are now living 5. Uncle Billy is a Cub reporter looking for a place to live in tered Dee Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Mr. Dougard is re Riverdale. Monday aftrnoon. Tonight, Jun 22, is th misS sionary farewell for Elder Jimmy Rae Boswell, son of Mr. PILLOW CLEANED and Mrs. Robert L. Boswell. It will begin at 7 p.m. in the Riverdale Ward Chapel followed our exclusive by dancing and. refreshments in the recreation hall. Elder Boswell will enter the Mission Home June 26, and depart for his mission headquarters at Sao Paulo, Brazil, order for our famous With any July 2. Bob and Joan Hosier, who are in charge of the Pinedale Sanitone Dry Cleaning . . . Trading Post, 23 miles northeast of Gallup, N.M., were here FREE to visit Bobs parents recently and brought with them ' somq New Tick InclududI samples of the lovely Navajo The at featured the post rugs rugs are collectors items. The designs are original, the material 100 per cent mohair. Robeert Tesch is one of the LAUNDERETTE lucky lads to win a big trip this week. He is attending the Cask and Carry annual California Fun Fest 561 7 S. 1 900 W. Roy, Utah sponsored for energetic newsDry CUaning boys. A full schedule of fun is ' V FREE! $00 2 aX $5.00 - RIVERDALE NEWS Among the ihany educators attending the Principals Workshop at Utah State University at Logan last week was Wallace Knight of Riverdale. He is principal of the new Mar-LoHills School in South Ogden. Recuperating at home after a nose and throat operation at St. Benedict Hospital last week is Sheryl Highfield. She is a n t t ore, the tunnel will help compete successfully in the world copper market. , Ken-neco- tt o"v : V t ! 1 r 1 -- a. Kennecott has completed a $10,000,000 tunnel to transport ore from the Utah Copper Division Mine at Bingham Canyon to the Copperton Assembly Yard near the mouth of the canyon. In a broader sense, this tunnel extends to the nations of the world. When Kennecott sells copper outsioe, of Utah, money comes back to Utah This money is reinvested in pro jects like the tunnel, that increase, efficiency and reduce costs. The immediate effect creates jobs in Utah, Through its helps keep copper production a healthy busi- MM. length will pass millions of tons of low grade ore which, processed into copper and copper products, will be shipped all over Therell so need to simmer this summer. Flay it tool . enjoy that refreshing, younger feeling . , let an electric air conditioner keep you cool. y An electric air conditioner frees the air from pesky dust and pollen too. Your electric dealer has smart model for you now styled to harmonize with th rthe free ( t jTm . 1 total aw ELECTRIC HOMEj e effect ness .that provides economic benefits for I ' our entire state. eliminating costly uphill haulage of i Buy now From your deafer. long-rang- world. 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