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Show Dolls Of A grandmother from England who came to Salt Lake in September with the Manchester Choir didnt forget the, youngsters at Primary Childrens Hospital when she started making plans for her trip. ' 0 'S $. V 5 v . VS' "fcv N , -' X, s $ $ svA , 7- . ?" vV$ . .' v V S' v vs ' V Sv' ,' s V v j. : V:,..; V ,- . f a caterpillar. She also made dresses for two bride dolls. All her gifts and a knitted gift made by the wife of the Eastwood Ward bishop, Mrs. Mabel Hill,, were presented to LaVern W. Parmley, president of the Primary Childrens Hospital Board of -- Trustees - and - general- - president-- of the We have heard so much about the hospital," said Sarah W. Potts, a member of the Eastwood Ward, Leicester Stake, who made several dolls and knitted toys for children who are patients at the Church-owned- , facility. She is the mother of five children ohd has 10 grandchildren. Primary Association. Making the gifts was not difficult, Mrs. Potts said. She has made many toys for Relief Society bazaars in England. There are 15 women enrolled In her ward Relief 7 Society. ' . Children need so much more help and attention when theyre ill, Mrs. Fotts continued as she told about hearing of the childrens hospital. During her stay in Salt Lake City she was a guest in the home of Thomas and Geraldine Anthony who formerly were members of the Derby Branch until they emigrated from England to the United States 17 years ago. , Mrs. Potts, who is now a Sunday School teacher in the Eastwood Ward and a former Relief Society President and work meeting director, was injured in a fall earlier this year. During die three weeks she was recuperating In bed she knitted tiny teddy bears, dogs, lamb and A Its been wonderful to see Salt Lake City, to go through the temple and to see -- ' President McKay in conference, added. - Mrs.-Pot- ts few - Sarah Wt Potts, left, shows Gen. Pres. LaVern W. Parmley, dolls and toys she made for Primary' Children's Hospital. Tvo Stake Presidencies Reorganized The presidencies of two Utah stakes the Hillside in Salt Lake City and the Sevier Stake were reorganized Sunday. In both instances the stake president was being released to assume his new duties as one of the newly appointed Regional Representatives of the Twelve. SALT LAKE CITY: , Douglas Hill Smith was sustained as the new president of Hillside Stake at stake conference, Oct. 8, under the direction of Elders Spencer W. Kimball and Richard L. Evans of the Council of the Twelve. He succeeds Pres. Harold M. Wright Pres. Smith, formerly first counselor to the retiring president, Harold M. Wright, has been in the stake presidency since 1959. Sustained as counselors to Pres. Smith Arvel Robert Milne, former second counselor to Pres Wright, and Ray Clawson Johnson, former high council member. Pres. Smith has held executive positions are In the Church during the past 23 years, serving as Elders Quorum president in Edgehill Ward for a year before entering the bishopric in Edgehill Ward for three years. He was then ordained bishop of South Edgehill Ward in 1949, a position he held for five years before being made a member of the Hillside Stake High Council. Pres. Smith and his wife, Barbara Jean, are the parents of four daughters and three sons, one of whom is now serving a mission in the Western Canadian Mission. A graduate of the University of Utah, he is president of the Utah Home Fire Insurance Co., of Salt Lake City. Pres. Milne, a native of St George, Utah, filled a mission in the Northwestern States Mission. He has been a counselor in the Hillside Stake presidency since 19G3. Before, that he was a member of the high council for four years and a counselor in the Mt View 2nd Ward bishopric, Hillside Stake, for four years. Pres. Milne and his wife, Miriam, have one son and two daughters. He is president of the Milne Thick Lines Service. Pres. Johnson, a former Norwegian missionary, has held executive positions in Hillside Stake since 1950 when he was YMMIA superintendent of Colonial Hills RICHFIELD: Blythe Maynard Gardner, former president of die South German Mission, was made president of the Sevier Stake at the Oct quarterly conference in Richfield. Pres. Gardner succeeds Pres. Alten Christensen. Elder Mark EL Petersen of the Council erf Twelve and Elder Henry D. Taylor, Assistant to the Twelve, were present at the conference and supervised the reorganiza-- " 7-- 8 don.- - Pres. Gardners counselors are Desmond Orin Larson and Paul Hampton White. The new president has been active in executive Church work since his return from die German-Austria- n Mission in 1936. He was Elders Quorum president, high councilor and bishop of Richfield 4h Ward for nearly six years before being called to preside over the South German Mission. He. Was High Priest group leader when called to be stake president. As a Hillside Stake Presidency reorganized. The new presidency includes captain in the U.S. Army Air Force, Pres. R. (left to right), Arvel Milne, 1st counselor; Pres. Douglas Hill Smith, Gardner served in India, China and Burma for three years. He. is a partner in Ray C Johnson, 2nd counselor. the L. W. Gardner Co., in Richfield and was president of the Federated Security Insurance Coi, in Salt Lake City until i960. He and his wife, Genevieve, are the par ents of four daughters. Pres. Larson hs been a counselor in " die Second Ward bishopric of Sevier Stake, stake mission president, and president of a quorum of Seventy and superin tendent of the wards YMMIA. Ehiring World War H, he served in the European Theater for three years before becoming a Doctor of Optometry in 1954. He and his wife, Wilda, are the parents of four sons and two daughters. Their oldest son, Dennis, is now on a mission in the South German Mission. Pres. White was YMMIA superintendent of Richfield 4th Ward when called to the stake presidency. He has been a member of the 4th Ward bishopric, president in the Quorum of Seventy, ward clerk, a Sevier Stake's new stake presidency (I. to r.), Desmond O. Larson, member of the stake Sunday School board 1st counselor; Pres. Blythe M. Gardner, Pcful H. White, 2nd counselor. and Elders Quorum presidency. He spent three years in the UJS. Air Force during World War H, serving In the European Ward. During the next 11 years he held theater of operations. Since 1954, he has dency. He b a partner in the Maxfield every position in the Colonial Hills Ward been the owner and operator of a jewelry Candy Company and a major in die UiL store. In Richfield. Pres. White and his bishopric; After five years as bishop he Army retired reserve. Pres. Johnson and was called to the high council before his wife, Marian, are the parents of two wife, Marilyn, are the parents of three becoming a counselor in the stake presi daughters and two sons. daughter end three eons. ' ' ' WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 14, 1967 CHURCH- -3 |