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.
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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-
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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)
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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
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