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Show Basin Natives Contribute To The Progress Of Iranian Government; One Returns Nome, Other In Hospital Dinner guests at the home of Mrs. Lula Mullins on Saturday, Dec. 4th, were Mr. and Mrs. J. Glenn Morrill and daughters, Glenda, Afton and Carolyn. Mr. Morrill is a brother of Mrs. Mullins Mul-lins and Grace Morrill. The Morrill family is spending a week visiting relatives and old friends in Ioka, Roosevelt and Tridell, following their recent return re-turn from Iran, where Mr. Morrill Mor-rill has been employed for the past two and a half years as chief agricultural technician in the Meshed Region of Iran for the United States Operation Mission. He has actually been employed by the Utah State Agricultural College, who are providing the agriculturists for Iran. Mr. Morrill reports a very pleasant pleas-ant tour of duty, acting as consultant con-sultant and adviser to the Khorac-san Khorac-san Department of Agriculture in the development of programs for improvement of methods of farming, farm-ing, irrigation, and livestock improvement. im-provement. He states that while agriculture is very backward in Iran, the Iranians have some good points and do quite a good job of farming considering what they have to work with and considering consider-ing the tendency of the rich to subjigate the poor. Speaking of the rich and poor, Mr. Morrill emphasizes that one of the big problems in Iran is the lack of equal rights for all the people. In Iran there is no great middle class as there is in America. Amer-ica. They have only the very rich and the very poor. Mr. Morrill states further that to travel abroad is to love America Amer-ica and appreciate her freedoms and opportunities. It is his conviction con-viction that Americans must cease to take their government, liberties and blessing for granted. r Mr. Morrill is at present con- J sidering an offer to go to Bankosk, Thaildan as agronomist for the United States Operation Mission. However, he may return to Iran to continue his work there. In either case Mrs. Morrill and the girls plan to remain at Logan for the balance of the school year to pursue their schooling. Reed Morrill In Iran Another brother, Dr. Reed Morrill, Mor-rill, a former principal at Alterra High School, is now in a hospital in Iran suffering from a heart attack. He had been granted a leave of absence from the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University and was performing a mission for the Iranian Iran-ian government in the field of education. Dr. Morrill has been a member of the faculty of the BYU for several sev-eral years, and was granted a leave to accept the post in Iran. Both he and his brother are natives na-tives of the Basin, where they were born and raised. |
