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SALT LAKE CITY — For the first time in the event's 183-year history, a w o m an led a prayer Saturday at the semiannual gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jean Stevens led the morn-
ing session's closing prayer for the more than 100,000 Mormons gathered in Salt Lake City for the two-day general conference, and the millions more watching via satellite, radio or Internet broadcast. Among other church roles, Stevens is member of a threeperson board that advises and assists parents on teaching their children about the faith, which has more than 14 million members worldwide. A feminist group launched a campaign earlier this year asking church leaders to let women lead theopening and closing prayer — a first for the conference — as asymbol of gender equality. Women h ol d l e a dership p ositions i n t h e Mo r m o n church but aren't allowed to be bishops or presidents of stakes, which are geographic areas similar to Catholic dioceses. At past conferences, women have regularly given speeches and could pray in the audience. The "Let Women P r ay" campaign was launched in January from the same group that drew national attention in
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Jean Stevens prays during the morning session of the general conference Saturday.
c onstruction of t e mples i n Payson and Provo. Nearly 2 million members of the faith live in Utah, where the church headquarters is located. Monson also a n nounced during his opening address Saturday thatthe church has created 58 new missions to accommodate swelling numbers of missionaries. At the last general conference in October, church officials announced a lowering of the minimum age for missionaries: from 21 to 19 for women, and from 19 to 18 for men. Church leaders and outside scholars believe that decision could be a landmark leading to many more women serving missions. The semiannual conference, taking place Saturday andtoday, offers Mormons words of inspiration and guidance for daily living from the faith's senior leaders. Besides the thousands attending in person, millions more participate in the meeting through satellite, radio or Internet broadcast translated into more than
the eighth planned or operating temple in Brazil, where there are more than 1.1 million Rick Bowmer /The Associated Press Mormons. Six temples are up People gather inside the Conference Center during the semiannual general conference of The Church and running in the country, of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday in Salt Lake City. The faith's president, Thomas Mon- and a seventh is planned in son, announced plans to build two new temples in Rio de Janeiro and Cedar City, Utah. Fortaleza. The planned temple in Cedar City, in southwest Utah, December by urging women church's behalf ... that women cred to Latter-day Saints and will be the 17th temple operatto wearpants to church rather a re really important in t h e are used for religious rituals ing or planned in the state. The than skirtsor dresses to raise church and that women's voic- including p r ox y b a p t isms, church previously announced 90languages. awareness about what they es matter," she said Saturday. marriageceremonies and othperceive as gender inequality It also shows that "women's er rites designed to strengthen within Mormon culture. prayers matter as much as church teachings. Amber Whiteley, 23, of St. men's," Whiteley said. The exact locations of the Louis, was one of the camEarlier Saturday, Thomas S. n ew buildings wil l b e a n paign organizers and said Sat- Monson, the faith's president, nounced later, the church said. urday she was "thrilled" and announced the church is plan- Worldwide, there are 141 temcouldn't stop smiling when ning to build two new temples, ples in operation and 29 under Saturday, April 20, 2013 she heard the news. in Rio de Janeiro and Cedar construction. "I think it shows that it was City, Utah. 8:00am — 4f30pm The newly announced temreally compassionate on the Temples are considered sa- ple in Rio de Janeiro will be Deschutes County Fair R, Expo Center
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Lumber mills are busy With 69 men on the payroll, and its mill working with a full crew and to full capacity, The Bend Company finds itself facing lumber orders from the East that promise to keep it "snowed under" almost indefinitely. The same is true of the Miller Lumber Company, which is employing about 35 men and is shipping about five carloads a week.
Give up what? In the Portland Oregonian last Wednesday, we read of a young man of Chicago who, having set his clothes afire while smoking a cigarette in bed jumped into a tub of water to extinguish the flames and was drowned. In his rush to the tub he hit against a gas cock, turned on the gas which lighted, flared up and set the house on fire. After reading this we began to wonder, and are still won-
dering, whether we ought (I) to give up smoking, (2) to give up smoking in bed, (3) to keep away from the bathtub, (4) to light the house with electricity
or (5) to stop reading dispatches from Chicago.
75 YEARS AGO For the week ending April 13, 1938
Jackie Coogan, grown up, suing for millions earned as 'The Kid' Jackie Coogan, the kid who grew up, only to be forced to win his bride on $6.25 per week, sued his mother and stepfather today for the millions he earned but contended he never saw. Jackie, once advertised as the cutest child ever to smile through tears for benefit of film fans, now is 22 years old, shiny-haired, nearly six feet tall, the husband of beauteous Betty Grable — and broke. He told S u perior C o urt Judge Emmet H. Wilson that his mother and his stepfather, Arthur L. Bernstein had withheld the $4 million he had earned as one of the highest salaried child actors and that now he figured they should give him his bank book. Judge Wilson ordered a receiver for Jackie'sassets,
including his film producing company which he accused his stepfather of turning into a beer establishment. The judge set April 20 as the date for hearing on Coogan's plea for an accounting of his fortune. Jackie's mother and stepfather indicated through their attorneythey would have a re-
ply ready by then. Jackie informed the judge that hi s l a t e f a t her, Jack
Coogan Sr., set his allowance but the Bruins turned in a reat $6.25 a week while he was cord smashing time of 3:32.5 in his teens. Then the elder with the team of Duane Radke, Coogan died in an automo- Herb Hickman, Mike Westfall bile crash three years ago, and Craig Usher. and Jackie'smother married The Bruins also won anothBernstein, who had been the er first place in the two mile Coogan business manager. relay when the team of Mike Young Coogan said his Donley, Randy Slate, Mark $6.25allowance continued un- Miller an d H er b H i c kman til he was 21 years old, when toured the track in 8:19.2. The even that stopped. This left shuttle hurdles were won by him on the spot because he Bob Nosler, Jim Tye and Bill was courting Miss Grable. Hutton in 37.2. J ackie didn't e ven h a ve The victory, Bend's first dimes to take his girl to the in the history of the school, movies, so he asked his moth- brought defending champions er for his money. He quoted Cottage Grove to its knees afher as saying, "You haven't got ter a seven year monopoly at a cent. There never has been Hayward. The Bruins finished one cent belonging to you. It's second forthe pasttwo years. all mine and Arthur's." Bend coach Hoot Moore felt The "Kid," who achieved it was a real honor to win the his greatest fame in Charlie championship. Chaplin's picture of that name 18 years ago, said then he went 25 YEARS AGO to the offices of Jackie Coogan Productions, Inc., to look at the For the weelzending books, but was ordered out. April 13, 1988 Before retreating from his Healy has given hisall b usiness headquarters, h e to Mount Bachelor said that he discovered that his stepfather apparently had While the Mount Bachelor converted the premises from ski area muscled its way to a film producing center to a the forefront of Northwest ski wholesale beer plant. areas, a nerve disease slowly He accused Bernstein of s apped the strength of t h e losing money on the ponies man most responsible for the in $100 chunks, and charging success ofthe Central Oregon his loses to Jackie's $4 million. resort. Furthermore, he said BernBill H ealy, wh o s t epped stein still wore a $2,000 plati- down as President and Genernum wrist watch which an ad- al Manager of Mount Bachelor mirer had sent to Jackie. Inc. must take satisfaction that Bernstein, C oogan s a i d, he has given his all to the ski before his father's death, was area and a small group of inthe family's "trusted associate, vestors founded 30 years ago. agent and employee." Today he is 63 years old and Jackie said when he was a suffering from a neuromuscuboy his father explained he lar disease that makes it nearwas to have only $6.25 a week ly impossible to walk and talk. spending money so he would Mount Bachelor, meanwhile "grow up l i k e o ther boys." matured into one of the bestThis was fine, Jackie said, known ski areas in the West but it wasn't so good when and a powerful force in the Bernstein continued the same Central Oregon economy. allowance upon his father's Healy, h o w ever, i n s ists death. that neither he or his work at When Jackie found himself Mount Bachelor is finished. In without funds, he organized response to a question about a jazz band. This was n o retirement he said, "Let me success. explain one thing right now, I Then Jackie got work in the plan to be as active as I have movies and last November he been." Healy's " vision" and d e married Miss Grable. termination to lead and not follow are common themes 50 YEARS AGO raised when friends and coFor the week ending workers describe his contriApril 13, 1963 bution to Mount Bachelor and the rest of Central Oregon. He Lava Bears win Hayward is a man of deep vision and a Class A title in upset man of persuading others to Hoot Moore,thetrack coach see things his way," said Dean for th e B end L av a B ears, Pape, who has been a board brought a team to Eugene four member of Mount Bachelor years ago for the Hayward Re- Inc. for 16 years. "There isn't lays and did not score a point. a member of theboard who Saturday, Moore brought back doesn't love and respect him." "He has the most marvelous the champions. The new champs, trailing enthusiasm for everythingthat by 20 points, had to win the he does and just a tremendous two final events, the mile relay ability to work with people," and the shuttle hurdles to take said U.S. District Judge Owen away the title. Panner, who served as Mount The last event, the mile re- Bachelor's lawyer for a numlay, was run on a sloppy track, ber of years.
The neuromuscular disease has robbed him of his speech and his mobility, but Healy's enthusiasm and love for his work have not been dampened. He still is determined to play a key role in guiding Mount Bachelor, and those who know him well are certain that he wilL "He will until the day he dies be 100 percent involved in the planning of the future of Mount Bachelor," said Kathy Degree, Vice President of Marketing for the ski corporation. Healy rarely speaks of his health, but he emphasized in a written statement that there is much more that he would like to accomplish at Mount Bachelor. "Nobody seems to want to speculate on when I will die," Healy said. "What appears to keep me alive is that I am far too busy and don't have the time to die. "There is still much to do."
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