The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 2

Standard-Examiner Monday July 3 2A JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH LDS Leader Known as Theologian SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Just three days ago the 95- ear-old president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was alert and showing his usual dry sense of humor while signing letters cn the first floor of the Church Office Building Joseph Fielding Smith who died Sunday night was quietly signing fiscal allotment forms for the missions of the three million member Mormon Church when one of the officials broke in upon him and asked to let a visitor have the "priv Continued From First Page more than any other church official The late Apostle Richard Evans who narrated the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcasts until his death last year characterized President Smith as "essentially a student who devoted every spare minute to reading and research" MAN OF SOIL But he also was a man of the soil a sports enthusiast and a promoter- of the Boy Scouts of America Nearly every Mormon ward unit sponsors a scout troop As head of The Twelve he used to drop in on small religious and social gatherings throughout the church He and his third wife Jessie Evans Smith sang duets at church meetings when he was in his 80s Mrs Smith who recorded several albums of religious songs and sang with the Taber xyr-' 3 i 5 A IK -ry his first two wives' deaths Smith "herded cattle and did other chores on a farm as a boy but devoted nearly all of his life to the church His' brothers said that at 10 years old he would often wander off from a ball game to read the Book of Mormon or the Bible President Smith was head of the Corporation of the First Presidency of the Mormon Church which owns insurance companies radio and television stations a newspaper depart-ment stores hotels a university colleges and interest in dozens of other businesses The church owns substantial amounts of real estate including wide-spread agricul- tural land and much of downtown Salt Lake City A giant office building the tallest in the city is under construction in Utah's capital to house the church's offices WAS HISTORIAN If lis ilege of shaking his hand' The white-haired leader seat-j ed in a large leather-backed chair slowly wrote his name in a spidery signature on one of the many pages before him and turned in the wood-lined room CHATTING at Ogden Temple dedication in January 1972 are President Joserjrr Fielding Smith (center) and his counselors Harold Lee (left) and Flrkm nacle Choir died in August at ase 69 I The Mormon leader also held Tanner President Smith spoke of the temple as "an abode of the When President Smith was the office of church historian for nearly half of the church's to grasp the visitor A THEOLOGIAN existence He was alive during the lifetimes of all presidents of born July 19 1876 the Mormon Church was still practicing polygamy but it was banned before the turn of the century He remarried after each of CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP Fischer 6- Then with a smile he told ill! lmmaSammmm the church except Josepn Smith including Brigham Mao Board the Mormon press secretary "You too may have the privilege of shaking my hand PRESIDENT Joseph Fielding Smith and his wife Jessie Ella Evans Smith were deeply endeared to LDS Church members Thev were married in the Salt Lake Temple on April 12 1938 Her contralto voice won for her critics acclaim The couple often sang duets occasionally at church functions Match At Impasse Off? again" He chuckled and turned! back to work i President Smith who follow- ed the dynamic David McKay i as president in 1970 was known Bobby Fischer's deadline to champion was reported "stick- DEMO CREDENTIAL mainly as a Mormon theologian He came to the church as the 10th presiding prophet seer and REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) The world chess championship was threatened with collapse today 24 hours before Young who led the Mormons west to settle Utah in 1847 after they were driven out of the east President Smith's recent speeches stressed the family in modern society He preached against any form of birth control and urged LDS to foster large families His birthdays were traditionally celebrated at a family reunion in a public park with his 10 living children and more than 16-0 grandchildren and great-grandchildren His second wife Ethel Reynolds Smith once wrote of him: "The man I know is un with Boris Spassky of Russia mg t0 demand Fischer the American chess He toId the New York Daily News he wouldn't yield revelator at the age of 93 after Continued From First Page seek a meeting with AFL-CIO Fiery Crash Kills 6 Toll 359 to Date Associated Press Six Columbia SC residents were killed Sunday in a fiery crash when their car veered out of control at an intersection and burst into flames when it hit three parked trucks Thev were among the 359 a lifetime devoted to doctrine gation which his forces wonf President George Meany this and history '-If I thought it would serve 'week Meany is officially un- When he was called to the the interests of a stronger par-1 committed in the race for the presidency by the Council of the jty and heal some of these nomination although he is con-Twelve Apostles hich will now ounds and not do any violence sidered a supporter of Sen Ed-have the duty of selecting ano-jto the rules of the party Imund Muskie ther leader it was widely believ-Uvould support a wn i pf him ed that he would changelhe said on ABC's "Issues and1 church doctrine toward blacks Answers" program Jm £omS t0 him if The church bars Negro from McGovem again expressed President Meany will see me its priesthood and one of i the convention McGovem said 'I welcome HIJACKER IN VIETNAM spILr Federation was reported unani- Continued From First Page first officer landed the jet at mr Poea unam mousiv opposed to paying Fis- scratches or bruises and one Sai2on Tan Xhut cher the extra money passenger a US Air Force 'where rinSed by troops BLATANT ATTEMPT lieutenant colonel broke his an ambulances One board member called leg I went t0 the rear com- Fischer's gambit "a blatant at- selfish uncomplaining considerate thoughtful sympathetic doing everything within his power to make life a supreme) To back up his threats the Pdenc rneie tne hijacker tempt at extortion" last official acts or resident would overturn the committee alu "ccu 1110 11C1 mm him tn half rrA aaa i i ah ai i hijacker carried a recommendation on the Calif or- The senator also said he uiiv McKav was to release a posi Inner lrnifp auueu mc waiu met unill me early 6 "You have deceived me" hours tnH av with lu- ask Lawrence O'Brien to Ht Yn tion paper reaffirming the tradi-lnia delegation and a package which he said Vauehn said hp acl-ph AnHrou- ni a tional restriction but calling for! "The convention is going to main as head of the Democrat- Uw contained a bomb Vietnamese come closer because the lan- man said there was no prog- secularjbe fair" McGovern said -It is ic National Committee if ju XntifiM as full civil in rights police sources said two home Ifrnm Jr nnm no aH JnH A tv-iv- McGovern is matters i going to be the most-open the the 1 i 1 I 41 rnA Urr-n'f rti -vllt niUUO guage problem made it difficult ress to understand the Vietnamese i As the deadline approached "This seemed to disarm him1 the board was in session again mentallv and made grenades were in the package and there was no indication whether they could But President Smith did not change the policy towards lCdbfiAiiiCU lujv Cli null 111 11c oam American historv" ins Sen Edward Kennedy Xesroes and the church conser-'l In an effort to beef up his as a running mate but feels joy for his loved ones That is the man I know" President Smith had six daughters and five sons Mrs Henry (Josephine) Reinhardt Mrs Elden (Julia) Hart Mrs Garrett (Emily) Myers Mrs Hoyt (Namoi) Brewster Mrs Bruce (Amelia) McConkie Mrs William (Lois) Fife Joseph Fielding Smith III George Reynolds Smith Douglas A Smith Milton Smith and the late Lewis Smith vatism on the race issue became strength in advance of Miami Kennedy will not be a candi-a target of civil rights groups 'Beach McGovern said he will: date Brunson 23 Annie Lee DuPr-ee 24 Annie Rose Wester 25 and her daughter Zelma Morris 11 and Edward Norris about 30 Authorities said the car failed to stop for a traffic light at the intersection in West Columbia SC and was traveling at a speed in excess of 100 miles an hour KILLED FOUR jn I ffi rib''" ndve cAiuucu uui me Cnance" the pilot said isolations with Davis a': man described them as harmless "I jumped him I grabbed the i they say has no written objects wrapped that was holding the bomb! tials from Fischer -in aluminum foil and it flew onto the floor I Some chess experts whd have The hijacking attempt began spun him around and got an gathered here from distant after the jumbo jet flight 841 arm iock on him He was flail-! parts of the world for what left Manila on the last leg of its mg with a knife in his other 1 promised to be the match of San Francisco-to-Saigon flight 1 hand but all it get was a hit of the century expressed a belief Binh who had boarded in my laundrv I had incredible that Fischer in the end would Honolulu grabbed stewardess strength I could feel his neck I sabotage the championship May Yuen 23 a Hong Kong collapsing under mv arm Two Chinese as a hostage and sent passengers made flying tackles two notes to the control cabin and we all went down on the (0mVn demanding that the plane be di- floor" wgorn januffni-cxwnwirr verted to Hanoi i 1 455 23rd fQVED AWAY 1 The hijacker in the rear paS-i Published 6aW and Sunday at Ogden senger compartment also i aiJd he managed to gtah byjhe standard corprrat ion oSden A car-train collision near Litchfield in central Illinois Sunday killed four persons and critically injured another Police said the car in which the victims were riding collided talked with the pilot Captinuvt: IUb uuu-v dUd' 11 UI" uie Hpiip Vanphn nf SmttsHaiP Vietnamese while keeping the Gene Vaughn 53 of Scottsdale keeping the Subscription rates $275 per month any- arm lock on 'him and shouted to ffjff ma" an unidentified armed passen-i icited artideSr picures letters ger "Kill the SOn Of a bitch" manuscripts and related matter sert to the with a Norfolk and Western (reig'ni train at a country road crossing and was dragged more than a mile along the tracks after the crash Ariz over the intercom REVENGE ACT "I am doing this for I-J iAN FRANCISCO DENVLR V- -d'JCl ti V- re-j five ShOtS Were fired fOUr hit-! owner's risk and The Standard Corporation does not assume responsibility for their venge" Vaughn said he told ting Binh in the chest The victims were identified! custody or return him "Your bombers are' maim-j Vaughn said a few minutes i PASTOR HAPPY HE DIDNT MIX COUPLES MELROSE Mass (AP) Gino Sasso gave away his three daughters in a six-ring wedding ceremony Sunday At one point the pastor of Incarnation church the Rev Paul Clougherty said "Now place the ring on Kathleen Mary's finger Now Mary place the ring on John's finger Warren's finger" When it was over he added with relief "I think at this point I've married the right bride to the right bridegroom" Kathleen married John Calhoun of Waltham Mary married Warren Talbot of Medford and Jeanne married John Beck of Cambridge 1 I Mi: 1 1 11 i 1 il 1 i lMUCI OLlimiJ-L! as Shirley Webb 37 of Litchfield her son Silvanis Webb Jr 4 her son by a previous marriage James Priesley 10 and her stepson Jeffrey Webb RAIN 10 of Granite City 111 iiig anu Kinui uur pevipie UI Uie i later ne COUlQn I Sianu Uie Slgnilber of Associated Press United Press Inter- Democratic Republic of North of the dead hijacker in his and the Audit Bureau cf Circula' Vietnam You are going to fly plane and he pitched the blood-! 1 wnda Gene Hatch Pres me to Hanoi and this airplane ied body "just like a football" Breeze Gen' Mgr will be destroyed when we get to the concrete taxiway below TELEPHONE DIRECTORY there" Authorities withheld the CIRCULATION 39611 Vaughn kept up the conversa-name of the passenger who ALL OTHERS 394-7711 tion telling the hijacker the jet! shot Binh but another traveler: Subscribers in North Davis would have to be refueled and said he was a former police-j and South Box Elder contact made with North Viet-'man from Richmond Calif i the Standard-Examiner toll free nam in order to cross the de-j coming to Saigon to work fori by dialing operator and -asking militarized zone Meanwhile the! an American firm 'for Zenith 9611 V- Another stepson Eddie Webb 11 use rpnnrtpH in rritiral rnn- siw Kshowirs now LZZZZ UN WIA1HIR lOlOCASI dition in a Litchfield hospital A car slowing down for a roadblock set up by police was struck from the rear by another auto in Portageville Mo The Missouri Highway Patrol said five persons perished in a fire that followed the crash FOPiECAST Tonight showers will he scattered across parts of the mid and North Atlantic states central and Southern Plains and in the vicinity of the Tennessee valley Elsewhere mostly fair weather should prevail THE WEATHER TODAY Mkte Ease Sounded iorm warnm XWOT with both days Los Angeles 79 highs change 62 75 55 44 63 58 57 57 71 near 90 and the lows tonight in New York 91 I the mid 50s probability of rain 73 zero through Tuesday Logan: Generally fair today f2 land Tuesday little temperature -t'ntv "'qo change highs near 80s lows 40 City 90 Utah: Fair south and sunny Qga 02 When you buy a Renault 12 you i don't sacrifice comfort for 1 1 Arte United Press International Warm humid air today brought showers and thunderstorm warnings from the Great Lakes region to the Texas Panhandle and Georgia The National Weather Service issued thunderstorm warnings for portions of Kansas Oklahoma Missouri Arkansas Tennessee and Mississippi A tornado struck near Laurie Mo Sunday night killing two persons and injuring another Another tornado was reported near Idalou Tex about eight miles southeast of Lubbock Cool weather was the rde for the area from the Northern Rockies to the Central Plains as a Canadian high pressure system pushed southward The far West remained hot FAIR SKIES i The remainder of the nation savings It's a healthy 1725 cubic inches long That's 7" longer than It A north today and Tuesday lit- tie temperature change highs I both days mid 80s to low 90s north and 95 to 105 south lows tonight 50 to 60 WARMING TREND Southwest Idaho: Fair through Tuesday with warming trend! 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