| Show Stake achieves high Ming in Improvement Era 31 other leaders feted June 15 Written By G. Stake led the Duchesne on two counts and point citation winner dement Era work having a of for five wards and the Minimum other three strawberry and Era's equivalent to listed in and branches and their of Citation most excellent one branch may achieve r Sis W 90 of the families ward or branch is receiving 5 their homes a monthly mes-from Prophet David O. and others of the general Sues as they accept the placed over 90 and JJ a record for had an increase over years of and needed 5 more in to reach the of Arcadia did well and 11 St would been all that Lf Word would have Zm needed only 7 Du-i won a only fol half on one year's Madeline G. Horrocks by the General Board rive a talk at the General Jion of the Improvement Era was held in OK lake on Saturday afternoon She had been asked to bring in some posters that had made depicting the of the Lord as being the sector of all of the great mys-is of this world and how very the Prophet of God in the affairs of the tell a story of the section of the Improvement what the Elders of are charged with and lint ivro large hands holding in fem many and children that the men who hold held the lives 4 rosy in their It also that they the keys tie One shows that yer is the secret of great One shows ithe difference and wrong and fe They were in color cd vere made by using cut-outs 4 pictures from current pictures of the Savior and President of ithe and of the general was used to tell the I to After many who Ji the conference came forward notes from these and Elder Scott said in his that they had been inspired the Lord and that they would i used throughout the Church fc promoting this great He told Horrocks he wanted to keep them in ier that may be and used as slides for She says that jk feels very humble in knowing been an instrument in hands of the Lard in helping The Duchesne Stake high for Uie Stake and Ward of mie G. Horrocks Duchesne Era Director Ward Bra and all of their partners were invited to be present at a special Citation Banquet given in their honor at Salt Lake on Saturday evening June 15 at p.m. Those who attended were as President and A. President and Elmer high councilman for the Orvin J. Moon and Arthur Superintendent of the Duchesne Stake and Janet Cowan and Dorothy Noel of the Stake Presidency Marie Kiel-basa and secretaries of the Madelaine Stake Era Nettie from the Hanna Ward MIA and a T w i 1 a from the Tabiona Ward Presidency and a High councilman Glen Gilbert from Grand Coulee Stake in Washington sat with ithe Duchesne The Grand Coulee Stake was also a Gilbert was formerly from Duchesne Stake and had served before leaving ithe Basin as bishop of the Myton Those in attendance at Citation banquet were the presence of some very high and distinguished who sat at the head They were as President Joseph Fielding President of the twelve and his Apostle Richard L. Evans and Apostle George Morris and President Milton R. Hunter and from first presidents of ithe Elder Cleon noted writer and law enforcing officer and Elder R. general superintendent of the MIA and Elder Davis S. of the general and Bertha S. general president Elder Verl F. business manager of the ERA and Elder Doyle managing editor of the and Marba associate editor of the Edward and Lottie and others of the Improvement Era The honored guests each gave a brief response and a delicious steak dinner was enjoyed by about guests and Citation Winning There were ten Stakes out of the two hundred thirty nine in the church that were The reason that so many honors are given to Improvement Era workers and that so much stress is given this work is that it is the one current magazine that has as editor in ithe Prophet of the Church and it represents the Church in that it is one of the historical documents and is considered the missionary representing the Church in these It is called Voice of the and reviews Uie sermons of the First Presidency and the Apostles and other leaders of the Church as they are spoken at the Semiannual Evary month the President David O. McKay sends out a message to the Church in the There are going to be displayed some special features in the ERA of every Chapel in the Church concerning to look for in the future publications of the Those attending the Conference in Salt Lake were shown some breath-taking colored scenes which were painted by world-famous Edward Grigware depicting Uie history of the Church and they are to be inserted in the ERA in full color dur-in the coming Artist Grig-ware was one who painted murals for the great Los Angeles Temple and his work is truly There will also an issue with an insert of the pictures of the past presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in And but not the leaders of the Duchesne Stake and all of the workers who helped to make this Citation also wish to all of those who received the ERA in their for they too have had a great part to play in the missionary program of the Church in that missionaries are being supplied with free and supplies for their work and many strangers are being given free ones because of your subscription For all we you and hope that the series of books coming up for j the next year will give you many hours of |
