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Show THE CHURCH IN ACTION Around The World iiiininviMaiiaiamii BaBBBBBBBHIBMBBBBBBIBHaiiaBai SEATTLE: Mormon Boy OTTAWA SMITHFIELD: Airman Wins Olympic Medal Decorated for Heroism An Olympic swimming medal has been added to the enviable collection won by Jackson S. Horsley, swimming WOl Ted A. Pitcher, 20. Smlthfield, Utah, has recently been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star and the Air Medal with 19 Oak I.eaf Clusters for heroism in Vietnam. star, in Seattle, Washington. in Jackson, a priest The former Utah State University student flys an AH-1- J "Cobra" helicop'er p for the Army and has more than 500 combat flying hours. WOl Pitcher is also serving as a district missionary during his off duty hours and has been instrumental in baptizing four men. He has been in Vietnam since April and is assigned to Troop D, 3rd Squadion, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division. WOl Pitcher received the Distinquished Flying Cross for delivering accurate fire with complete disregard for his Own safety that permitted another helicopter to land and evacuate troops. . The Bronze Medal was awarded for WOl Pitchers action in ignoring enemy file and extracting an injured crew from another helicopter within 200 meters (250 yards) of the enemv. the Aaronic Priesthood of the 12th Ward, Seattle Stake, received his Olympic gun-shi- Bronze Medal for the 200-- eter back stroke showing in the Olympic races at Mexico City. He also holds the world record for the d free style made at the Seattle Times meet this year. His time was 8:15.5. The noted swimmer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Dr. and Mrs. G. Smoot Horsley. A senior in high school at Seattle, young Jackson has not yet decided where he will 880-yar- attend college. CLOVIS, N.M.: Honored sup-ressi- Roland Michener of Canada receives a Book of Mormon and historical account of Mormonism from Elders Hans P. Mueller from Switzerland; Bruce Hirsche from Sterling, Alberta, Canada. Governor-Gener- al REXBURG: For Home Design . Honored for her work in the field of home design and interior decoration was Mrs. Ellen Claire Weaver Shaffer, of the Clovis Branch, Western States Mission. She with four others of the same areas are to he listed in tire 1969 issue of, Outstanding Young Women of America. Mrs. Shaffer is past Relief Society president, and presently is a Relief Society teacher, organist and Primary chorister. Others so honored include Mrs. Betty Martin, Mrs. Myrta Rudd Weems, Mrs. Wanda Jean Spriggs, Mrs. Sue Carol Richardson, Mrs. Tommie Lea Snodgrass and Mrs Charlotte Anne Pierce. ARIZONA: Hopi Indian Appointed Councilman former governor of Hopi Indian Reservation, been appointed councilman in the Tuba Samuel Moencopi has on Shing, the City District of the Southwest Indian Mission of the Church in Arizona. It will be something Ill be happy and Shing told Pres. proud to do, Dale Tingey of the Indian Mission. During the year he was governor of Moencopi, he succeeded in building a much needed community center for the people on the Hopi Reservation. He has a long career of service among his Indian brethren, including 17 years at the Brigham City Indian School in Utah, builder of the Hopi land claims board and secretary to the Hopi Tribe for the past 15 years. He is a carpenter by trade, a farmer and father of four children. Teton Peaks Council Tired of Birthdays Dr. Dan5?! S. Hess, administrative assistant at Ricks College, is the new president of the Teton Peaks Boy Scout Council. The council, one of the largest in the United States includes Idaho Falls, headquarters of the council, Jackson, Wyo., Ashton. Rexburg, Dubois, Mackay, Moore, Arco, Rigby, St Anthony and Tetonia. Born in Ashton, Dr. Hess received his associate degree from Ricks College in 1949; his BS degree from Ricks in 1951; his Master of Education degree from Brigham Young University in 1956 and Doctor of Education degree from BYU in 1961. He has been an instructor in the North Fremont High School where he also was head of the Industrial Arts Department and head of the speech and drama department, also boxing coach. He held the middleweight and heavyweight boxing championships at Farragut Navy Boot Camp in A man who is not quite ready to take it easy anyway Monday to observe his 102nd birthday. I think I'll be 110 at I before least, retire, he said. SAN LUIS OBISPO: Wns Music Scholarship Ann Jones, Catherine , won musical the seventh annual Monday Club Music Scholarship for San Luis Obispo County in California. 17year-old- has Cathy, organist for the San Luis Obispo Ward Sunday School for the past three years, won the $250 scholarship by playing Griegs concerto in A Minor and Schubert's Impromptu in E flat Major. She also served as pianist for the Primary and is active in Church and seminary activities. The high school senior is a member of the girls drill team and participates in musical productions. Cathy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Jones. AMES, IOWA: Safety Specialist Wins Award SAMUEL SHING . . . former governor ST. GEORGE: Centenarian retire says he CATHERINE ANN JONES . . . scholarship winner Dr. Norval J. Wardle, safety specialist at Iowa State University, Ames, recently received a distinguished service award from the Iowa Farm Safety Council. Dr. Wardle has served as secretary of the council for 21 years and is widely known for his safety research and education programs. Active in civic and Church affairs, Dr. Wardle currently serves as genealogy adviser for the Central States Mission. He also serves as public information coordinator for the Central Iowa District and is a former district president. President Of will Known as Dad to his family and Brother Miles to a which community regard him with awe and respect, George Edmond Miles will spend the day quietly at home. I get tired of George E. Miles birthday parties, he explained. One can hardly blame him. He's had 1944. quite a few. His first birthday was celeDr. Hess established the first industrial brated Dec. 9, 1867, and since then he has arts department at North Fremont and witnessed more than a century of change W'as the first principal of the LDS Semithat has made our world what it is today. nary at Ashton. He also was a semury inHis advice to the youth of today is that structor at Provo High School and later was a teacher at Ricks in technical educathey keep clean physically and mentally tion and religion. and serve God and keep His commandAt present he is director of public relaments. He also tells them to get all the tions and community services and is execeducation they can. utive secretary of the Alumni Association. An active member of the Church, Mr. Dr. Hess served as a missionary for the Miles continues to give occasional patriarchal blessings to persons requesting them. Church in the Hawaiian Islands, 1946-4and was bishop of the College First Ward He attributes his health and longevity to keeping the Word of Wisdom. His chief at Ricks for four years. He is currently a concern is for people and tilings of the member of the Ricks College Stake High Council as an alternate. spirit. Born in England on Dec. 9, 1866, Mr. Miles is the son of John Henry William and Jane Mary Wyatt Miles. He was brought to America in 1878 with his mother by an older He began working at the age of 10 and worked for Anthony W. Ivins, E. B. Snow, and Wooley, Lund and Judd in St. George and Silver Reef. In 1895 he married Victoria Josephine Jarvis. She died in May, 1941. He was a temple ordinance worker 25 years and has been a patriarch in the Church since 1939. He taught school four years, was a city clerk 18 years, a juvenile judge eight years, and served as justice of DR. DANIEL S. HESS the peace three terms. He filled a mission . . . . aide at Ricks 1896-9to the Southern States from half-brothe- r. WEEK ENDING JANUARY 11, 196? CHURCH-- 13 |