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Show 'L - "1 ' : , I V'v"3 -,; 4 --.. . ." :;- J .III K h IU . i i L It TOUR SOUTHERN UTAH. These youths, from all parts of Oregon, spent Friday night in the homes of members mem-bers of the Cedar West Stake, LDS Church. They are a group on tour from the state of Oregon which in-eluded in-eluded visits to the Manti and St. George LDS Temples as well as scenic attractions. Large group of LDS Church youth from Oregon visit in Cedar on Utah tour their thanks to those who made arrangements. One hundred and 70 youths and their chaperons from the state of Oregon, all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spent Friday night In Cedar City as guests of the Cedar West Stake. The group, headed up by Clarence H. Peterson, geneol-ogical geneol-ogical advisor to Northwestern Northwest-ern States Mission president, Robert L. Backman, explained that the youth tour was undertaken under-taken to acquaint LDS youth in the area with Utah and particularly par-ticularly with the LDS Temples. Temp-les. First major stop along the tour was Manti and the LDS Temple there. The youths spent two days in Manti where they were given the opportunity opportun-ity to perform vicarious baptisms bap-tisms for 1653 people. From Manti the group traveled trav-eled Bryce Canyon and Cedar Breaks before arriving in Cedar Ce-dar City for an overnight stop. Saturday the touring group left Cedar City for stops in Zion National Park and to St. George to visit the St. George Temple. The youths were divided almost al-most equally between boys and girls, which is unusual, according to Mr. Peterson, and they had enjoyed their tour very much. In Cedar City the youths were taken into private homes for an overnight stay. "Foster parents" provided them with a meal Friday night and breakfast break-fast Saturday morning then packed them a sack lunch to be eaten in Zion Park that day. Tour personnel were extremely ex-tremely greatful to the many residents of the community who opened their homes to these youths and expressed |