FLDS Member Moves To Texas Town With Mixed Reception

Now that the courts have imposed a trust on the properties of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, a polygamous sect that was centered in Colorado and Utah, a number of the church's members are moving elsewhere. Yesterday's Salt Lake Tribune reports that Samuel Fischer, with his two wives, is moving his thriving cabinet-making business to Lockney, Texas. Fischer met Friday night with residents of the city at its Community Center to explain his life, faith and family-- 12 of his 24 children are coming with him. The rest are grown. Lockney is economically depressed, and it welcomed the move until it learned of Fischer's background. Now the reception is more mixed, with some fearing that Lockney will become known as an FLDS town.