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THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Mormons Returning to Eastern U. S. Where Smith Originated By LARRY DAY United Presi International ; Palmyra. N. Y. - IUPI) - "The Mormons are coming!" As the cry rang out, a mob of wild eyed men broke and ran away from the Carthage, 111., jail. . It was June 27, 1844, and the mob had just gunned down the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, and his brother, Jiyrum, who had been lodged in the jail for their protec tion. With Smith's death, they sought to kill the new religion he had founded. But the Mormons are still coming, and in ever-increasing numbers. Nowhere is this attested more vividly than in the impressive pageant they have presented annually for the past 25 years on the slopes of the Hill Cumorah, In west ern New York. The silver an niversary performance this summer drew 100,000 specta tors. The Mormons are growing throughout the world. The 2-million-strong church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the wealthiest church per cap ita in the world. . The Mor mon Tabernacle choir was fea tured on the first formal in ternational television broad cast via the new Tolstar sat ellite. Missionaries Proclaim The Mormons are about to build a skyscraper on Fifth avenue In New York City and 10,000 young missionaries proclaim the Mormon gospel throughout the earth. They converted and baptized 90, 000 persons last year. Typical of the missionary zeal with which these young men proclaim the "restored gospel" was Young Steve Covey of Salt Lake City. As a missionary in Ireland, Cov ey used to run through the streets of Dublin shouting, "The Mormons are coming", to bring a crowd to the street corner where his companions were preaching from a soap box. But mostly the Mormon missionaries go quietly from door to door, making contacts, leaving tracts and giving "a prayer and a message." There are 65 Mormon mis sions throughout the world. From north of the Arctic cir cle to south of Sydney, Aus tralia, the church sends its volunteer missionaries. They stay two or two and a half years and pay their own ex penses. Mormon converts, whether they live in Venado Tuerto, Argentina, Osaka, Japan, or Council Bluff, Iowa, receive the same Intense religious training before they are bap tized. Before they become Mormons, they must testify that Jesus is the savior of mankind and that Joseph Smith and the church's pres ent president, David O. Mc Kay, are prophets of God. t Converts abstain from tea, coffee, tobacco and alcohol and adhere to the "word of wisdom" proclaimed by Smith in 1830 as a health standard. Mormons Tithe All promise to give 10 per cent of their gross income to the church, in keeping with the old testament law of tith ing. All attend Sunday re ligious services, both morn ing and evening. Mormons don't neglect the temporal side of life. Mormon b u 8 i nessmen, professional men and politicians strive in their careers with the same zeal they bring to religion. U. S. Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall is a Mormon, as are George Romney, presi- ' V - Ant - If "jr PAGEANT GIVEN Brinda Moore, Morgantown, Ky., ad justs the costume of Kent Bagley, Sunnyside, Wash., who was cast in tne role of the Prophet Ezekiel for the 1962 Hill Cumorah pageant near Palmyra, N.Y. Mormans have pre sented the pageant annually for the past 25 years. The silver anniversary performance drew an estimated 100,000 specta tors. The Morman church is returning in force to the East Coast, where it got Its start with Joseph Smith many years ago. (UPI) tmrntmntHtHttrMtutiti HmmntrtitH itnmti f n in n mtif bib fssgi Your Monev s Worth V-s, f js.JLrtwl..aJ By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. TRUTH ABOUT THE U. S. DOLLAR Repeatedly, we in the United States are being told that the value of the American dollar is being relentlessly under mined by our "irresponsible" financial policies and that the currencies of other industrialized Western nations are per forming far better than our "once mighty" greenback. The "irresponsible" label isn't pinned on our federal government alone. It's slapped on our big businessmen, our big labor unions, our big agricultural Interests too. At times it seems that no matter what the various power blocs in our nation are doing, critics at home and abroad are determined to convince us that the dollar's record is among the more dismal of the free world's currencies. The truth Is precisely the opposite. Yes, it is a fact that the U.S. dollar has Ins 9 buying power each year during the past decade. The dollar that could buy 100 cents of goods and services In 11)51, could buy only 85 cents' worth in 1050, can buy only around 07 cents' worth now. But this percentage loss has been half the loss in buying power of the British pound sterling, the only other great currency in the world and this is the only other great currency, regardless of your impression about the Swiss franc, the West German mark, other "strong" ones. The annual losses in buying power of the currencies of these nations have been slightly less than the yearly loss in the U.S. dollar. But the losses have been only slightly less and comparisons between these currencies and the U.S. dollar are utterly misleading. The money of tiny Switzerland or tiny F.I Salvador or tiny Portugal could hardly be the pivot of the world's cur rencies hardly. Other governments do not proudly pledge their readiness lo sell gold at $H5 an ounce to all eligible buyers Valley Firms Take Part In Tests 01 New Dial System KBES-TV In Mcdford and Magnolia Lumber company, Ashland, are taking part in the nationwide dial Teletype writer tests this month, ac cording to J. 11. Creagcr, local manager for Pacific North west Bell Telephone company. The two wore selected of the 1,500 subscribers in the nation to pre-test customer to customer dial Teletypewriter service which will become a reality for the more Hum 57.- 000 subscribers in early Sep- icmoer. The vast mechanical net work will be turned up for a few hours on two Saturdays and dial TWX messages will speed to all corners of the na tion culminating two years of planning and installation work by. I he telephone com panies. Checking Equipment A small army of telephone people throughout the nation will be marking and recording every step of the great net work, checking for equip ment bugs. 1 X calls are presently handled tlipmn'l, ,a,,,,fn Other money markets aren't open to all borrowers, do-1 eraled switchboards mestic or foreign. Only ours is wide open, only London's is lairiy tree, all the rest are shut tight or brutally restricted. Other currencies haven't stood up under the burden of rebuilding the free world. Rather, most currencies have been t lie beneficiaries of our billions of dollars In gifts and loans. As for Switzerland, she has thrived on her neutrality, refused to involve herself. The facts are in the annual table showing the rates of depreciation of the currencies of 44 nations from 1H5I to 11)62, just released by the First National City Bank of New York. With the dollar under such constant attack, the yearly compilation is even more significant than usual. Deprecia tion is measured by the rise in the nation's official cost of living or consumer price index. Ahead of the U.S. with practically no loss from Ifllil I I-,!...-J ! T I to 1062 or loss up lo 13 per cent n year are these nations' I M J U 6 Q 111 LTdSlI In this order: j ' Philippines, Ceylon, Guatemala. Venezuela, El Salvador Portugal. Belgium, Ecuador, Switzerland, Lebanon, Germany Canada. Then comes the U. S. with a loss of 1.4 per cent. Following with losses ranging to 3 3 per cent a year are: India. Italy. Netherlands. Denmark. Pakistan. Austria South Africa, Japan, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United King dom. After this comes a long list, including Fiance with an T he change to dial nnera- lion means faster service for the customers who send more than 2,500,000 written mes sages each month. The entire nation will be switched to the new dial sys tem simultaneously. It will 'be the first nationwide convers ion In telephone history. Kootenai Sheriff l.ewislon, Idaho - UW The Kootenai county sheriff re mained in serious condition al a Spokane hospital today afler his car collided with one driven by another law offi cer on the Lewislun grade near here Wednesday night fsiienlf Wall dent of American Motors, Sen ator Wallace Bennett, (R- Utah) and Frank Moss, ID-Utah). Other prominent Mormons Include former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Tafi Ben son and Middleweight Boxing Champion Gene Fullmer. The church, n addition lo 515 chap-la under construc tion and the proposed New York City skyscraper, is en gaged in a $40 million build ing project in Salt Lake City. It owns three cattle ranches, 650 farms, a number of can neries, processing plants and factories. It is whole or part owner of two insurance com panies, a hotel, a motel, a de partment store, a radio tele vision station, a book pub lishing firm, a sugar process ing company, a newspaper and large stretches of unde veloped real estate. The Hill Cumorah, where the annual pageant is per formed has come to be known as the cradle of Mor monism. It was atop this hill in 1827 that Joseph Smith said he received a set of Bold- en plates from the hands of an angel called Moroni. From these plates Joseph Smith brought forth the church's scriptural companion to the Bible, the Book of Mormon. It is a record of God's deal ings with an Israelite civili zation which flourished on this continent for centuries and was finally extinguished by war and confflict. Reluming To East Mobbed, persecuted and driven west during the last century, the Mormons an, turning to this cradle of their t religion. There are 7,000 Mor mons in New York state today. The Mormons have no pro fessional clergy. The male members of the church re ceive the priesthood at the age of 12, becoming deacons. From then on they progress through a series of callings to become high priests. Mormon congregations ,re called wards and roughly com pare to parishes. They con tain about 1,000 members each. A bishop and two coun selors preside over each ward. The bishop may be a sales man, the neighborhood tele vision repairman or a busi ness executive. ! Five to eight Mormon! wards grouped together make j a stake (diocese) which is pre sided over by a stake presi-! dent and two counselors. In j western New York, where for years the only Mormon was the man who cared for the Joseph Smith farm, the church is growing rapidly. A slake, the 346th of the church. was recently formed, with some 2,250 members. The Cumorah stake, typi cal of the other 345, is pre sided over by Bryant W. Ros siler, 31, a research chemist from Rochester. So the Mormons are com ing back to the place where the unschooled farm boy with his talcs of visions and revela tions founded a religion which "didn't have a chance". Pilot's Mistake Results in Probes Portland -ItlPIl- The landing of a United Air Lines DCS at Troutdale last Sunday has re sulted in three separate in vestigations, the air line said Wednesday. A company spokesman said the company is conducting an investigation and may hold a hearing in Portland on a date yet to be determined. The air carrier branch of the Federal Aviation Agency sent investigators from Seat tle to make a report, which was forwarded to the regional FKA office in Los Angeles. The Seattle office of the Civil Aeronautics Board also has ordered an investigation. Purpose of the investigation Is to determine how a veteran pilot mistook Troutdale's 4.200 foot runway for Port land International's two paral lel runways, which are twice as long as Troutdale's I ' .(, annual rate of loss of 4 2 per cent, and ending with Bo-j Coetir d Atone, received a livia with an annual rale ot loss of 36 2 per cent. That's ! i,ri rii.i pie face lacerations when his inflation.) Even this compilation doesn't loll the full tale. Many of the nation's indexes of prices hide the real losses because they are so limited In coverage or do not indicate govern ment policies which hold down prices of specific items. In our country, In contrast, the rise in the consumer price Index in recent years has been due almost entirely to In creases in the costs of services, not in prices of goods 1 am noi unneresumaunK an annual loss In the dollar s and a broken bin buying power of 1.4 per cent; I know what this does to the, Mavrr, alone ill his car was value of a nestegg in cash over a Reiteration. Hut I am putting 1 reported in fair condition to the loss in perspective and In perspective and considerim day at a hospital here with the burden our dollar has carried, the U, S greenback has fractured ribs, chest and leg performed remarkably well. injuries i car collided with one driven by Edward W. Mayer, 48. I.ewiston agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Deputy Sheriff Hans K. Blount, riding wilh Cox. re ceived possible fractured ribs more met SI re flavors All Grinds MJB COFFEE 49 2 - 97 Oftc mi w 10 Oz. 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