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Show Volleyball Tournament Opens May 2 All-Chur- ch When the volleyball tournament opens In Salt Lake City May 2, senior division teams will have another crack at unseating the Oakland Fourth Ward team. - The Oakland team has captured the senior division crown four consecutive years. Similar to the basketball tournament, 64 teams, divided into junior and senior divisions, will compete, according to Parry D. Sorensen, tour- nament chairman. This year there will be a major change from past tournaments, according to the chairman. Instead of double elimination, we are new planning on dividing each division Into eight gioups of four teams, he said. On Friday, May 2, each team will play each of the other teams within the group and then the two top championship teams will be placed in a bracket for Saturday play. The third and fourth place teams of each group will play Saturday with other teams that were in third and fourth place. This means that every team in the tournament will play at least five matches during the two days, 16-tea- with some teams playing six and seven matches. An added attraction this year will be the participation of the Church College of Hawaii's volleyball team. Enroute to the national championships, the Hawaii team has offered to play an exhibition match at 7 p.m. Saturday evening in the Deseret Gym. Tournament matches will be held at three Salt Lake locations with the finals scheduled for the Deseret Gymnasium. Hundreds Attend Youth Meet Enthusiasm, Devotion Highlight Conference JOHANNESBURG, Hundreds SOUTH AFRICA of South African youths Johannesburg to attend the youth conference held here Easter weekend. President Howard C. Badger, mission conference president, said the three-dawas the largest youth conference ever held in the history of the mission. The youths, many who traveled up to 850 miles, held square dances, speech competition, sunrise services and scout demonstrations. They also participated in snorts with a golf tournament highlighting the competition. from Salt Lake City. She held seval Relief Society seminars w hile here, according to Mr. Ashton. South African Mission y people presented The Vigil, a three-ac- t play. Marvin J. Ashton, first assistant in the general superintendency of the YMMIA, attended and spoke at the conference. Twenty-thre- e young He said the youth here showed more enthusiasm and devotion than he has previously seen at any youth conference he has attended. Mrs. Norma B. Ashton, a member of the Relief Society general board and wife of Mr. Ashton, also made the trip here Groundbreaking Set In Nauvoo Groundbreaking for the new Visitors Center in Nauvoo has been scheduled for May 24, according to Rendell N. Mabey, recently named general chairman in charge of arrangements for the event Serving with Mr. Mabey, former president of the Swiss Mission, are Wendell J. Ashton and Neal J. Maxwell, both of Salt Lake City. The goundbreaking will be conducted by members of the First Presidency and other General Authorities. We also hope to have some national figures attend these very important rites, Mr. Mabey said. 17ie overall restoration work in Nauvoo to make it a major point of interest in Mormon history is under general direction of Nauvoo Restoration, Inc., of Salt Lake City. The youth held a youth conference ball Some Enchanted Evening. entitled A special feature of the conference was the signing of a letter to Pir blent David O. McKay. The letter read in part, We hope the Lord will continue to be as good to you as He has been in the past. And we pray that you will continue to lead His Church in the spirit and manner which you have to date. The letter accompanied a set of gold cuff links which the 900 youths that attended the conference sent to President McKay. The sisters of the South African Mission Relief Society sent Mrs. McKay an ostrich hide purse. Both the cuff links and purse will be presented to President McKay and h's wife by Mr. Ashton on behalf of the young people of the South African Mission. All indoor conference sessions were held in the Ramah Branch Chapel and cultural hall. Boy Scouts ot Youib Conference compete in as Scoutmaster watches. tug-of-w- ar YMMIA Calls Utahn To General Board Lynn Andrew Sorensen, high councilor from Wilford (Utah) Stake, has been named to the Ensign committee of the YMMIA general board. Mr. Sorensen, employed as materials , LTV manager for Electro-Systems- attended the Division, of a graduate of and is Chicago University the University of Utah. Montek-Memco- r He earned a B.S. degree in business administration and was number one in his class. A native of Salt Lake City, Mr. Sorensen served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II as a navigation officer on a B29. He served as a counselor in the bishop WEEK ENDING, APRIL 19, 1969 ric of the Kenwood First Ward, then in the Wilford Stake high council for two years before being called as bishop of the Kenwood Second Ward. He then was called again to the high rouncil. lie filled a mission for the Church to Brazil. Mr. Sorensen is a member of the Salt Lake Exchange Club and the American Production and Inventory Control Society. He is married to the former Janet Elaine Weech. They have two married daughters, Marti Lynn S. Lythgoe and Kathleen Ann S. McConkie. Two sons, Craig W. and Lynn D., are serving missions. Other children are Cindy Lee, Kent D., Scott A., Gary W. and Wayne R. Sorensen. |