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Show : Three Stakes Fortne'd In East Mill Creek--, Wilford Pealigrinieiit - - - at - A - Sr, tt released as first counselor to President George Z. Aposhian of the Ilford Stake, and Joseph Samuel Oliver, released as bishof the Valley levr Ward. Eugene Maier is the stake clerk and George M. Williams, pa. triarch.- 4 . : , , ' ; - ' 1 4 : i 1 ; , i t , , ' - t tirr'',f.,,,,,.. ; ' ) I, ? , . . 1 I 1 1 , !k i 1 f 1 - - , 1 -- , - --.. . t I A ,..,,-,.- i f 4 , 1 Sustained Sunday as the new Presidency EAST MILL CREEK STAKE PRESIDENCY H. Leroy Erickson, first counselor;- - President Cordon R. Ilincidey and O. Layton Alldredge. second COU111401 Standing is Don T. Sperry. clerk. at the stake art, left to right. s. GORDON HINCKLEY, FORMER COUNSELOR, NEW PRESIDENT OF EAST MILL CREEK STAKE Appointed president of the East Mill Creek Stake during its quarterly conference Sun! day was President Gordon R Hinckley who had served in the stake presidency for several years. Ile selected as counselors President II. Leroy Erickson, formerly the second counselor in the stake Presidency, as his first counselor and Bishop O. Layton Alldredge of the East Mill Creek Fourth Ward as his second .counselor. Additional stake officers sustained Sunday were: High CouncilKline P. Barney, Joseph H. Goaslind, Lesley Coates, Joy F. Dunyon, Francis W. Christiansen, Orin Woodbury and Charles C. , . i k 22. . I ' ' '7,39.: 4. . Presbyterian 1 i , ) Church on Filth Avenue, Oct. -- 4 S art - Dr. top-notc- t 4 Frank W. Asper, Tabernacle organist played an organ recital f - i ,..' - Among the audience was James Lavensteim member of CBS Television staff at New York City who said: I can't tell you what a thrill and how unusual it was to sit In a conservative Presbyterian Church and listen to a Marmon organist play 'Come, Come, Ye Saints. The organ was by no means equal to the one In the Tabernacle l. but U you know. Dr. Asper is such a organist that he made It sound muck better than It really is. lie had a large and enthusiastic audience whose applause called I tor two erweres 1 , ) Dr. Asper IR N.Y. Recital first i t - In the , :' 'Ty., t -- YORK I I 1 s '. - - NEW l 1 . Apo-shis- h - i : ; 4,500 2. i I 1 i i s ; 1 , . . '. , : 1 is , members reside la the stakes six wards.East Mill Creek Stake retaining the four East Mill Creek Wards. East Mill Creek, East Mill Creek Second, Third and Fourth Wards with Gordon B. Itinckley. released as Brat coun-selcyr and sustained as president LIB& Icounselors are IL Leroy Erickson, former second counselor in the stake presidency, as first counselor and O. Layton Alldredge, second counselor. The four wards contain approximately 3.600 members. President Allredge bad served one month as bishop of the newly created East Mill Creek Fourth Ward. The Wilford Stake contains eight wards with a population of approximately 5,500 members presided over by President and President Verden E. Bettilyon, with another counselor to be sustained at the stake's conference Nov. 4, The morning session of the, Conference attracted 2,001 Per. sons, the afternoon session 1265 and the evening meeting 623..;- - . - The 236th and 237th stakes counselors are Rex C. Reeve the Church were created Sunday through divisions of the East 11111 "Creek and Wilford Stakes in the Southeastern part of the Salt Lake Valley,. Under the direction of El&ra "Iarold B. Lee and George Q. Morris, of the Council of the Twelve, the Canyon Rim Stake . consisting of seven wards forinerly of the East Mill Creek Stake, was organized at the morning session of the quarterly . conference held in the South east Stakes Tabernacle- The neer stake is composed of the Canyon Rim and Canyon Rim Second; highland View and highland View West: Carden Heights and Garden heights South. and Rosecrest Wards, with a population of approxi, mately 6,100 members. At the evening session of the conference four wards of the Wilford Stake were Invited to - join with the Evergreen and East Mill Creek Fifth Wards to become the new Valley View Stake. Valley View Area This new stake in addition to the previous named wards of the East Mill Creek Stake will Include the Valley View, Valley View Second and Third Wards and a new Valley View Sixth Ward created from portions of the Valley View and and Wilford Wards. Evergreen Ward becomes the Valley yiew Fourth Whrd and East hint Creek Fifth the Valley View Fifth Ward. ' Bishopric of the former Wilford Ward, Bishop Arthur IL Sorensen and his counselors William.", Marl, first and Elmo S. Colton, second, become the of the new Valley View bishopric ' ' " Sixth Ward. of the CanNamed president ,. yon Rim Stake was Vert F. Scott, released es bishop of the highland View Ward. Ills coun- selors are John J. Nielsen, for' iner high councilman, first counselor and Darwin J. Isom, second counselor. Robert IL Graham is the stake clerk and James M. I Iopkins, patriarch. A ppmxithe stake is "mate population-o6,100 members in seven wards. Pres. Gundersoa Valley View Stake will be pre' sided over by President Lamont 73. Gundersen. released as East Creek Stake president Ills . I Woods. the Deseret Sunday School Ward. first counselor in the Board bi October 1937 and filled bishopric and counselor In the Of a mission in Great Britain 193335 and served as executive secretary of the Church Radio Publicity and Literary Committee for several year. He is a eon of Bryant S. and Ada B. Hinckley. He was graduated from the University of Utah. He married Marjorie Pay In 1937. He has five children. President Hinckley is executive secretary of the Church Mission Committee. Pres. Erickson President Erickson has been chief refinery accountant at the Kennecott Copper Corp., Garfield plant since April 1950. He is a .nwmber of the National Assn. of Cost Account - Garfield Ward bishopric. President Alldredge is a native of Mercur. Utah, where he was born Dec. 31. 1907 to Minor W. and Ida Black Alldredge. Ile graduated from the Cyprus Iligh School and attended the University of Utah. He married Hilda Hubert Alldredge of Johannesburg, South Africa, at Durban, South Africa, June 17, '1936. They have four 7 - children. From 1935-4he was in the ice cream manufacturing bustness at Johannesburg, South Africa, and since returning to Salt Lake has been in the con. struction business. He served as bishop of the East MM Creek Ward four weeki prior to his new appointment Previous to that he had served two years on the high council and before that was second counselor in the East MM Creek Second Ward bishop. 5 Julian. F. Dans!. was sustained as High Priests Quorum lie was born May 26. 1901 In president and Franklin IX Rich- Mill Creek, Salt Lake County ards as mission president.. to Henry and Ezruneline Fagg Heads of auxiliary organiza- Erickson. and Married Erma An tions were chosen as follows: derson In the Salt Lake Temple Thelma Dangle, Relief Society Aug. 20, 1924. They have four Five years of the time he president: Alden J. Anderson, lived in South Africa he was School Sunday superintendent; Ile Is a graduate of the lint- president of the Romah Branch Dr. Edmund P. Hyatt. YMMIA of Utah. versity of the South African Mission. superintendent; Shirley I. ColIlls Church positions have In He filled a mission there from LuIrWMIA and lins, president; eluded second counselor In The 1927-3where be was also pres,cille Tate, Primary president, Piot Mill Creek Stake presider). ident of the Transvaal District. and Paul L. Swensem district cy since 195o. Previously he - tie is a director of the East ' scout chairman. served as a highl'eouncihnan. MM Creek .1 Chapter of the Sons The Dud Mill Creek Stake at one time occupied the bishop of the ast MILLI:reek of 'which -southeast section of the Salt Lake Valley, be; MILL CREEK STAKE tween Sugar House and Cottonwood, an area now covered by CEWRCH GROWTH six stakes, has only one chapel TYPICAL within its boundaries. The East Some Interesting statistics in of the Church in Mill Creek meeting house was the southeastern part of the Salt growth Lake Valley were noted built in 1879 and enlarged In by Elders Harold B. Lee and George.Q. Morris of the Coun1916 and 1925. cil of the Twelve Sunday as they effected division of the as Sustained bishopric of the East Mill Creek Fourth Ward, East M21 Creek Stake. Elder Lee said the East Mill Creek Stake when created succeeding Bishop O. Layton In 1945 was the 150th stake in the Church. It at that time Alldredge and his counselors who were released. were Bishop had a population of 1,500 members. Sunday when it was diStephen Coulam Richards with vided the stake contained nearly 12,000 members and 13 Charles Mont Mahoney, first -wards. President Lamont B. Cundersen, released as stake presicounselor and Elwood ,Delyle dent and sustained Sunday evening as the president of the Lambert, second counselor. new Valley View Stake, noted he has lived in three stakes Elders Mahoney and Lambert succeeded- - thernselvec tyro addiess E. 33rd South. Pres. Hbwkley Elder Lee said that in- 1899. the year be was born, there - President Hinckley has served were 33 stakes In the Church and now there are 237, or an 1 as first counselor in the stake Increase of six times the number et stakes. If such an presidency for the past several for the next 20 years It cotild be possible years and was first appointed ' for the continues Church to have three tithes second counselor to president many stakes us It I nolo Itas or 791 I than ,more 1916.I 1 1 Gunderoen in Jul! di Ile was aPpointed a member - . . - - , 1 7746 Imo t. '- 1 --III t !s - V" nires 7 Poo, az:1 - .4, Ava '".1.mmumwo -- t, :: a, . 'i P cp.., o,tig I v 1' ar,4 P, p. 4 1 Lzi N rl trarit iLla 4 Werth Pep. ) 11,- ,- . 64,...4. I 4 leo O. s: '.... 1 - ),- - . ) og '' 1 i - - P 111011111111M111111111101111MMU a 1:...1 I OF , 4, .. ,fr- - , - i . . , it NEW STAKE-ThnewCanyoli-Ttinand Valley View Stakes as well as the boundary changes In the Wilford and East Still Creek Stakes Are shown In the above map. Also indicated are the number of wards in each unit and the population of tech. Creation of the two neW stakes raises Church roster to 237. e yeeek -- Novembei, j3i,1956. t 154 at-2- - 4 se 70 mm. , -- . , . ... m. it it ik - |
