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Show Pres. Brown Visits England, Feted At Dinner President Hugh B. Broun. fit- -t in the First last week enjoyed a short to the Btiri-- n Mission and shared the honor of a special dim ei given by Lord Thomson of lVi t at Thomiun-ol- rr Pte-ulenc- y, it son House m London. Pres Broun had presided at the 17:h Annual LDS Ser itemcn' Conference at Bercht-gad- c n. (Germany the previous week and visited England on Church business and to attend the dinner at the invitation of Lord Thomson. land Tlv m-visited with Pres Broun and other Chuuh ('ffioors in Salt Lake Ciiy last August when he was a guist speaker at the Wot Id Con'ference on on Records. At this time he extended an invitati-to Pres. Brown to visit him in London. in Land Thomson is the rum of 1S1 the United States, Canada. Licit Bii'ian and many other nations. eople vveio Twenty internationally ponuncti present at the dinner. Cm P. m M R.a.g.m of Calito--ni- a sat next to Loid Thom-o- n It was a gala affaii and impressive," Pres i r.evv-pipe- sured by the British Mission under the direction of Pres. Dean lie! nap. Pres. Brown traveled with Pips. Belnap to Ipswich District where he met with 000 members and to Maid Ston in Kent to meet with the members there. I am well pica sod with what I saw in the British Mission. The woik is going well there. I visited a seminar that Pres. Belnap was conducting which was teaching the missionaiics a very effective method of approach, based on the idea f bunging families rather than individual; into the Church. The missionaries are holding family home evenings with their contacts, Pres. Blown said. is Brown said. Sunday evening, Fres Blown addtessed mote than 1.200 members of the Cb.ui.h ami guests at a spevi.il meeting in Hyde Park Watd The meeting was sp in 1 San Diego To Honor 1 Battalion SAX DILLi i. CAI.ir. "Giant men and march of over 2.000 miles will be unveiled hue next Saturday in conjunction with San Diegos 200th anniversary celt in at ion. btonze statue The monument - a heroic-sizof a soldiei of the Mormon Battalion and will be unveiled ..tut dedicated in a cetcmonv scheduled for noon. Xov. 22. at Fort Stockton m Presidio Park. The cetcmonv will ho the final event of Utah Week oi the San Diego 200ih anniversary celebration. The statue will be fuimally presented to the city of San Diego by the 29 chapteis of the Sons of Utah Pioneers. Officials of the pioneer organization said there is a good chance that HEW Secretary George Romney and Treasury Secretary David Kennedy may attend the ceremony. Both are A motiumv nt to a band of their v unprecedented infantiy e Mormons. Also on hand "ill be the mayor of San Diego: Kl.io, Maik K. IYteixen. a member of the Council of Twelve, and Eugene Watkins, Salt Igike City national uiesidcnt of th Sons of Utah Pioneers The siatue of the Mormon Battalion soldier is a product of Utah artist Edward Fraughton. The nine nul figure was fashioned in Salt lake City and cast in bronze in Florence, Italy. The soldier is depicted marching, with a pack on his back, rifle over his shoulder and a Book of Mormon in his hand. History reveals that the 500 troops were recruited by the U.S. Army from the Mormon pioneers led In Btigham Young. Thev were sent from the Midwest to help secure California during the vv.ii with Mexico. Most of tiie troops later marched back to Utah to meet their families who bad finally arrived in the (beat Salt Like Valley of the Rockies. On the battalion's march, it's commanding officer, Lt. Col. P. St. George Cooke, said History may lie searched in vain for an equal nvuvn of infantiy. Hall vd it has been through a wilderness where nothing but savages and wild boasts are found, oi du- -i i ts where, tor want of water, there is no hvig creature. There, with almost hopeless labor, wp have dug well- - which the future traveler will enjoy. Without a guide who had traveled there, we have ventuied into trackless tablelands where water was not found for several marches. With crowbar and pick or axe in hand we have worked our way over mountains which seemed to defy ought save' the wild mountain gut. and hewed a of rock nai rower than our pass thio,,gh ch non-Morm- This statute of a Mormon Battalion soldier was sculpted by UtaH-arti- st Edward Fraughton. wagons WEEK ENDING LaVern W. Parmley 'outstanding citizen' . . . Mrs. Parmley Receives Scour Award Mi- I.aVern W. Parmley. general president of the Piimary Association, received Citizen Award"from Rean 12 of Boy Scouts of America in gion Salt Lake City Nov. 8. "Oui-tumli- She was cited for her many years of service to the youth of the region. The award was made at a womens luncheon at Hotel Utah in conjunction with the logionol meetings. Mr, rnrmloy was the fir- -t woman to servo on a national scouting committee hi accepting the award, she said 50.CKXI Cub Scouts ate lieing trained in the Primary to he good citizens and to do their duty to God and their country. Eighty-siper cent of the boys who graduate from Primal y aie Second Class Scouts wher they gt actuate. Mi- -. Parmley said. It - the manpower we give the boys o' today, that will build the manpower o' tomortow, she said. Two other Chu h members were also honored at the luncheon. Mrs. Joanne George of Clearfield, Utah accepted an hot, or medal with crossed palm- - in hchalt ot her late husband, Philip Dean Gtorge Cev il S. Janie-- . Pinvo. a Sc outer for 37 veal- - in Wyoming and I't.d), received ti S.ive: i.tc lope aw. id. x NOVEMBER 15. 1969 CHURCH- -5 |