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Show t .a . w. - . . Tir j a " -j X fev-- ,',Uf -a z . a - a , - ? V a- AVAA;:' - ' " - . . .-A A-. p " - i: - 1 ' a. .v. . .JW- - W " .AAV- ?s. - u Vv i:Api" ,?r ' L --r- -. Uf t t, , ' ! I - --w, .'A .. i f I Ivil r:l? 'A-r 'X : 1 T; : 1 AERIAL VIEW OF TEMPLE SQUARE, Salt Lake City, where the 137th semi-annual conference of the LDS Church will be held this weekend. Behind i . the spired temple is the famous domed Tabernacle which is celebrating its 100th year of service. Contrasting Con-trasting with the old buildings are the new Tem ple Annex to the right of the temple, and the new Visitors' Center to the right of the Tabernacle. Left rear is the dignified old Assembly Hall. Cfiwcfl members malt vjeekend conference sessions gal and business endeavors. President Tanner was a businessman busi-nessman and member of the Provincial Cabinet. Joseph Fielding Smith, a counselor and also president of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, is the foremost fore-most authority on church his- ard L. Evans who narrates the weekly Tabernacle Choir broadcasts. broad-casts. He also is past president of Rotary International. Howard How-ard W. Hunter was a .corporation .corpora-tion lawyer and businessman in Southern California prior to his call to the apostleship. tory and doctrine. Thorpe B. Isaacson, the youngest counselor, counsel-or, has suffered a stroke and likely will be unable to address the crowd. Harold B. Lee, an apostle, has been an educator, Salt Lake City commissioner and businessman. busi-nessman. He is a director of several national organizations. Other apostles are Spencer W. Kimball, a former realtor and banker and recognized authority au-thority on Indian affairs. Ezra Taft Benson, former secretary of agriculture in the Eisenhower Eisenhow-er administration, supervises missionary work in much of Europe. Mark E. Petersen has more than 40 years of exepr-ience exepr-ience in the newspaper business. He supervises missionary endeavors en-deavors in Britain and South Africa. From Arizona, Delbert L. Stapley was a merchant before full-time church work. Marion G. Romney, a native of Mexico, was a lawyer and served as a city, county and district attorney attor-ney in Utah. LeGrand Richards was a real estate executive. Millions of radio listeners are familiar with the voice of Rich- ; Six sesions are scheduled for j the 37th semi-annual general conference of tile LDS Church at which church authorities will jl speak this . weekend in Salt Lake. Meetings are scheduled for 1116 Sept. 29 through October 1 in the 100-year old tabernacle on Temple Square. The Sunday sessions will be tele ast in color coast to coast via a special network of some !00 stations. Some 30 radio stations sta-tions will carry conference messages mes-sages across the nation and by shortwave to South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe .1 and Africa. i Springville and Kolob Stakes Kill be well represented at the ,n inference with many car-loads .(J. of stake and ward leaders and auxiliary officers planning to attend. Speakers Heading the list are the five-Man five-Man First Presidency and the Quorum of ' Twelve ' Apostles. Church President David O. Mc-j Mc-j Ka', 94, was a leading Utah . educator prior to his call as an . ' xpost'.e in 1906. His counselors, V, Hugh B. Brown and N. Eldon Tanner, were active in Cana-f Cana-f fen affairs. President Brown Jf is successful in military, le- |