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Show Ill@ --- THE STATE ·- - THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL • SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITI'. • MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1998 UTAH DIGEST There's only one love in your life ... Why settle for anything . less ... - - ~ . CHURCH PRESIDENT REITERATES DISTINCTIVE MORMON BELIBFS: Mormon in the middle of the block... behlnd the clock ') Diamond Engagement Sets 83 N. Main Cedar City 586-8341 church President Gordon B. Hinckley reiterated the faith's Gordon B. distinctive beliefs on Hinckley Saturday and said it doesn't matter that other churches don't consider Mormons to be Christians. "Let us never forget that this (church) is a restoration of that which was instituted by the Savior of the world," Hinckley said in opening the 168th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The 87-year-old church president and leader also urged the faith's 10 million members to respect other religions and the good they do, and not to contend with nonMormons over doctrinal differences. In a Saturday evening session for the male-only priesthood, Hinckley counseled the young men of the church to live worthily of the women they will eventually marry by shunning pornography, drugs and alcohol and anger. The conference continued yesterday as Thomas S. Monson, a ·member of the Quorom of the Twelve Apostles, opened the second and final sessions of the conference. EXPERTS CANNOT CURE SCHOOLS' MYSTERIOUS ILLS: A few months ago, a member of the Utah National Guard tossed a smoke bomb into an unoccupied classroom at Panguitch High School, trying to solve a mystery affecting the 42-yearold building and its teachers. "The architect said the smoke would disperse, but it didn't go anywhere," said Ted Chidester, the high school's principal. Many of his 19 faculty members say they suffer headaches, nausea, nosebleeds and other physical complaints, but no cause bas been found despite a wide range of tests at the building by government and other experts. Panguitch is not the only school in Utah or the nation with such problems. In late February, Salt Lake County's Jordan District closed Riverton Elementary,. where some students and staff were stricken with rashes, burning eyes and respiratory problems. Students were sent to nearby schools, and health experts still are seeking the cause of that outbreak. Officials at southern Utah's Garfield School District still are searching for a solution to the problems at Panguitch High. Some suspect chlorine from an indoor swimming pool. Panguitch High teachers say they stiU are suffering, but add their physicians have not accepted theories that the building may be causing their symptoms. I |