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Show Sustained Springvllle Stake Leaders !To Direct Kolob Stake Affairs ... i : " " ! t s ; 7 ' '. - ' - I t . ' ' ''.v , ' .. . f . ' ; . I A v. - t - ."- ' ; m, S I ; 'x . - " t x.. -" s y ' . ' I -" y . - -v, ; E, - - ; r".-?, r 4.."' ; i i -- -- . I - -'; , Sustained as the new Spnngville Stake leaders, are, left to right, F. Calvin Packard, assistant clerk-Leo clerk-Leo A. Grandall, president; Glen A. Christensen, first counselor and Blaine P. Clyde, clerk. Howard -lacock.- "ho "as sustained as second counselor was not present for the picture. 8 Newly sustained officers of Kolob Stake are: sea:ed, left to right, Hal Taylor, first counselor to President E. A. (Bert) Strong, Jr.; Claude A. Smith, second counselor; rear, Dean A. Bird, assistant clerk of the stake; George R. Bird, clerk. First Ward Bishopric ... Kolob Stake Divided; Heads Named in Stakes, Wards At Quarterly Conference Kolob Stake Comprises 4366 People In Seven Vards; Springville Stake's Seven Wards Include 4008 It was a history making day for, Kolob LDS stake Sunday, when the stake was divided and new leaders sustained in both stakes as well as in two wards, : : x . i !''''- ' ' ; ' X 'I i ' Second Counselor . . . Bird Brown, left, who was sustained first counselor to the new First ward bishop, Maurice Bird, at Sunday quarterly conference; Alvin R. Taylor, second counselor. Merrill Nielson, LaVar Clow-ard Clow-ard and Ed Roundy are hold-over clerks not present for the picture. Bishopric of Second Ward . . . i : 4 . f. . . -: isr i 1 - . ; I ' .iS - i t- .-. .,.,'.. ; ' ( 1 t- .1 J " . - 1 ; " j ' 'A" J during stake quarterly conference.,; The conference began Thursday Thurs-day evening, when members of the Priesthood of the First, Second, Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth and the two wards at Mapleton, were call-el call-el together to discuss business relative to the -division of the stake and each was asked to write the name of the man he desired for stake president. ' The Saturday evening session of conference was for stake welfare workers followed by a stake lead- ership meeting. President Leo A. Crandall of Kolob Stake, presided over the conference sessions which were attended by Elder Henry D. Moyle, Elder George Q. Morris and Church Historian Preston Nibley. Stake fficials President Crandall after being released as head of Kolob Stake, was sustained as president of the new Springville stake. Serving with him will be Glenn A. Christensen, Christ-ensen, who also was released from Kolob Stake presidency to become first counselor to President Crandall Cran-dall in the Springville stake, while Howard Maycock was sustained, second counselor and Blaine P. Clyde released as Kolob Stake assistant as-sistant clerk, became clerk of the new stake with Calvin Packard, assistant clerk. The new Springville stake will include the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth wards, with a population of 4,008 stake members. e 4 J I ' -" ' 'J' ' 1 Howard C. Maycock, who was called out of town on business and did not have his picture with other members of the presidency. Boyd L. Wilson, first counselor to newly sustained bishop, C. Lynn Hanks of the Second Ward; Robert Pierce, second counselor. The ward clerks are to be announced later. Kolob Stake Sustained to head Kolob Stake, for which a new stake house is to be constructed, are E. A. (Bert) Strong, Jr., president; Hal Taylor and Claude A. Smith, first and second sec-ond counselors; George Bird, retained re-tained as stake clerk and Dean A. Bird, former clerk of the Twelfth ward, assistant clerk. The wards included in Kolob Stake are: First, Second, Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth and the Maple-ton Maple-ton ward and Mapleton Second ward, and includes a population of 4,366 people. The new Kolob stake house to be built will also house two wards of this stake, the Eleventh and the Sixth. New Bishoprics Maurice C. Bird was sustained as bishop of the First ward succeeding suc-ceeding Lewis Childs, who became a member of the High Council. Bishop Bird's counselors are Bird Brown, first, counselor and Alvin R. Taylor, second counselor. Retained Re-tained as clerks were: Merrill Nielson, statistical; LaVar Clow-ard, Clow-ard, financial and Ed Roundy, assistant. as-sistant. Succeeding Edward Boyer, bishop bish-op of the Second ward, who became be-came a High Council member, C. Lynn Hanks, who had been a counselor coun-selor to Bishop Boyer, was sustained sus-tained bishop with Boyd L. Wilson, Wil-son, also a former counselor, now first counselor and Robert Pierce, second counselor. Named as High Council members mem-bers in Springville stake were: (Continued on Page Two) Kolob Stake Divided At Quarterly Conference (Continued from page 1 John Y. Bearnson, Frank A. Ber-rett, Ber-rett, Howard Sumsion, Richard A-Huntington, A-Huntington, W. W. Clyde Mark Johnson, Howard Ivory Arthur Condie, Edgar Best, Frank Springer, Spring-er, Richard Miner and Mays Anderson. An-derson. High Council members in Kolob Stake include: LeRoy Tingey, Oliver Ol-iver Dalton, Freemu Bird, wo Felix Erwin Sheffield, VVelby Warren, Lewis B. Childs, Edward Bover, Wm. H. Greenhalgh, Ernest Binks, Carlos Hjorth and Alton Merrill. Glen W. Sumsion was selected as president of the High Priests in the Springville stake; Victm Frandsen and Theron S. Hall, counselors and Glenn Allan, secretary. secre-tary. In Kolob High Priests organization, organiza-tion, G. Lowry Anderson will serve as president with John i. Holley and J. Leonard Harris, counselors and Wm. Perry Hyde, secretary. Patriarchs Peter Nielson will serve as patriarch pa-triarch in the Springville stake and Oscar Whiting will also continue con-tinue as patriarch in Kolob stake. Glenn A. Tipton will be bishop s council chairman in Springville stake and Ruel Crandall will have the same position in Kolob stake Wm Witney will head KoloD stake missionary activities with Max O. Thorn assistant and Mae I TT .; carrptnru. John J3. XlUIlLlllg vv J Jensen was named missionary chairman for Kolob. The changes made in the stake and ward organizations will necessitate neces-sitate filling in a number of positions posi-tions in both stakes as well as in several wards, but President Crandall Cran-dall announced that the two stakes will function as before the conference confer-ence until the first of the month, when a change in schedules will be announced. In their addresses before the conference assembly, the visiting elders emphasized Fast Day observance ob-servance asking members to abstain ab-stain from two meals and give the equivalent fast offerings. The report re-port was that less than 10 cents per capita had been given the past year for Fast Day offerings. Music at the general conference sessions, was furnished by the Third ward choir and by the Youth Chorus. Evening Meeting The evening conference session, featuring Prayer as the theme was under direction of the stake MIA. Talks were given by Bill Bearnson, Sherman' Harward, Janet Snelson, Steven Ashby, Laree Bigelow and Marie Ewell. Reed Miner sang, "The Lord's Prayer," and a quartet quar-tet sang, "Teach Me to Pray." |