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Show Plaster Bank Yields $ 51.99 ' For Primary Hospital Use A unique gift a plaster monkey bank has full of coins and weighing 23 pounds been given to the Primary Children's Hospital by an Oakland, Calif, businessman. Sherman F. Thompson, supervisor for a chain of discount stores', presroted the bank containing $51.99, to Hospital Administrator Kenneth C. Johnson. Mr. Thompson had been collect mg the coins for several years. I decided to start saving the money and give it to the Primary because of the great influence that it and the sisters who Mr. supervise it had on my youth, said. Thompson The bank was originally a gift to Mr. Thompson from a salesman. 1 liked the bank although that particu lar model didnt go into our stores. Every night when I came home, Id place my change in it and pretty soon the bunk was full, explained Mr. Thompson. Trilba J. Lindsay, general secretary of the Primary General Board and a close friend of Mr. Thompson, picked up the bank while returning from a Primary assignment in Hawaii. Mr. Thompson is a guide at the Oakland Visitors Center and wrote the guidelines given to all new guides. He is a Seventies group leader in the Oakland First Ward and teaches a standing room only Gospel Essentials class. Sherman F. Thompson, left, and Kenneth C. Johnson count coins given to the hospital by Mr. Thompson. 9 Youths Raze House ST. CEORC-E- , UTAH Nine St. George youths, armed with crowbars, shovels and hammers, set out to do their New Years good deed this year. The youths, priests in the Third Ward, St. George Stake, spent the day demolishing an abandoned, dilapidated, Passed In Ward Youth Program The presentation of books to about 80 youths of the Cupertino Ward, Palo Alto, Calif., Stake marked the halfway point of the wards Year of the Youth. Set aside by Bishop Gordon F. Jensen and his counselors, Edward Kullick and A. Monte Holt, the period of Sept. 1, 1968, to Sept. 1, 1969, has been signaled out for spe- cial work with and for the youth of the house. Their good deed was threefold: first, to rid he neighborhood of an eyesore (Brigham youngs summer home is just across the street); second, to do a favor for a ward member by tearing down the house for him; and third, to provide a Urge supply of firewood to a needy widow. For weeks they had tried to find a time when they could get together to tackle the project, but finding the suitable time wasnt easy. There were school activities, Church activities, holiday activities, homework and jobs which interfered. So they chose the only time they all had available New Years morning, when normally they would have rested up after the nights activities or had taken advantage of the last cherished hours of their holiday vacation. THe nine boys are Richard McArthur, Steven Leavitt. Larry Kenwonhy, Kerry Johnson, Mark Avery, David Watson, Russell Barton, Wayne Rice and Steven Sheffield. Assisting the boys were their priest quorum adviser, Fenton Terry, and their bishop, C. William Wonnacott. Halfway Point Priests of St. George 3rd Ward tear down an abandoned house as a New Year's day goodwill project. ward. The halfway point of the program was marked when a member of the Bishopric personally visited each youth in the ward and presented him or her with About Life and Love. The informative book wa3 written by two LDS doctors for LDS teenagers. The inside cover of each book is signed by the Bishop and his counselors with the inscription: In accepting this book, we hope you will read it thoroughly and that it will prove to be a guide and inspiration to you throughout your adult life. About 60 per cent of the teenagers in Cupertino Ward are currently qualified for individual awards to be made at the end of the period. Last year, less than 15 per cent had qualified. The Bishopric has promised ward youth that if 60 per cent or more of the youth remain eligible for the awards, the young people will be taken to Disneyland as a reward. 5 Mormons Head Up Activities For Nixon Inaugural Continued from Page 3 committee woma x for the District of Columbia and vice chairman of the Republican National Committee. She has been active for many years in die local political life of the capital. She was graduated from tin; University 1927. She is a vice president and of Utah in director of the Marriott Corporation. Mark Evans (he drops the Austad in his professional work), is vice president of Metromedia Inc., an independent radio and television network with holdings in advertising? magazines, and entertainment. He ' 9 -- was bom in Ogden in 1917 and served a three-yea- r mission in Norway. Mr. Evans started his career in radio at KSL. Later he operated a radio station at Walter Reed Army Hospital during World War IL He now conducts his own naUonal interview program for Metromedia. Mr. Evans is an adviser to WNYW, a New York short wave and FM radio station operated by the Church. He also advises Bonneville International, the holdings company for Church radio and television. His background in communications has made him a possible nominee for the directorship of tlie United States Information Agency and he has been mentioned as a possible ambassador to Norway under President Nixon. WEEK ENDING JANUARY 11, 1969 Mr. Barker is the legal representative of the Church in Washington. A senior partner in Wilkinson, Cragun, and Barker, he will work with Mr. Marriott, inaugural committee executive director Robert G. McCune, and other officials in handling all legal matters related to the inaugural arrangements. Mr. Barker is Regional Representative of the Twelve, serving the Philadelphia Region, consisting of Philadelphia, Potomac, Virginia and Washington stakes. During World War II he saw combat service in Africa, Sicily and Europe as a major in the field artillery. He served in 1951-5- 3 as administrative assistant to Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, Mr. Barker and his firm are active in legal and bar circles in the nation's capital and the Federal and American Bar Associations. Mr. Smith, a member of the high council of the Washington Stake, is retired Washington counsel for the Armstrong Cork Co. He was born in Utah and served a mission to England in his youth. He has been long active in the Church here, serving in the Chevy Chase bishopric and for 30 years on the high council of the Washington Stake. In addition to his services to the Church. Mr. Smith has long been active in civic affairs in his adopted community. |