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Show Four More Presidents Coiled to Lead Missions been with the Farmers Home Administration. He has served in two bishoprics, on two high councils, as bishop of two wards, and in other ward and stake assignments. For the past 18 years he has served as district coordinator of seminaries for western Idaho and eastern Oregon districts. He is a graduate of Utah State University at Logan, Utah. Mrs. Redford was born in Meridian, Dec. 2, 1914 to Norvillc W. and Katharine Giie Booth. She is a graduate of Boise Business University and has attended Boise State College. She presently is serving as Cultural Refinement leader of the Boise North Stake Relief Society board, and as genealogy technician for the Stake Genealogy Committee. She has served in music and other teaching and leadership posts in the wards and stakes. Four more new mission presidents have been called to serve by the First Presidency. The new presidents, their missions, and the mission presidents they are succeeding are Pres. Seth D. Redford, Boise, Carolina Mission, Idaho, Georgia-Sout- h Pres. J. Orvin Hicken; Pres. Lester B. Whetten, Provo, Utah, Mexico Mission, Pres. Eran A. Call; Pres. John E. Reward, Holbrook, Ariz., Ecuador Mission, Pres. Louis W. Latimer, and Pres. Robert L. Marchant, Salt Lake City, Uruguay-Paragua- ner y Mission, Pres. Gard- H. Russell. SETH D. REDFORD Pres. Redford, rjow scrvimg as president of the Boise North (Idaho) Stake is a native of Idaho and was born at Hatch to Robert L. and Phoebe Elizabeth Dews-nuRedford on Jan. 19, 1916. He married Arline Diane Booth of Mep ridian, Idaho in the Logan Temple Nov. 8, 1940. They have a son and daughter. Pres. Redford is retiring after 33 years service with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the last 25 of which have . LESTER B. WHETTEN Pres. Whetten, former dean of the General College at Brigham Young Uni- - New Records Submission Manual A new Records Submission Manual, in binlarger format so it will fit in a der, is off the presses and now available for purchase at the Distribution Center in Salt Lake City, and in certain book stores. This fourth edition has some changes, and those apparent changes arc welcome to the novice in the preparation of names for temple ordinances. Thomas E. Daniels, executive secretary to the Priesthood Genealogical Committee, said it also is of interest to church members of Japanese ancestry that a Japanese supplement to this manual has been published. "The manual is available in both Japanese and English, and each version contains a research paper entitled Major Genealogical Record Sources in Japan. Both manuals may be purchased from the The Genealogical Society (50 E. 6 - CHURCH 0 WEEK Pres, and Mrs. Robert L. Marchant early-mornin- g North Temple, Salt Lake City 84150) for each. The research paper is available separately for 50c. Stock of the Japanese language version also is maintained and sold at the Tokyo Distribution Center, Elder Daniels said. The Japanese Family Group Record Forms, to be used in conjunction with the new manuals, may also be purchased from the Genealogical Society. In the new English manual, illustrated Entry Forms make this process seem simple. There are five major changes since the third edition of the manual. These changes are listed in the front of the manual to make it simpler for the instructor, and for those using the manual, cither as a study source or as an aid to do temple work for ancestors. $1 ENDING MAY 26, 1 973 versity, was born in Colonia Garcia, Chihuahua, Mexico on June 23, 1904. His parents were John Amasa and Martha Elizabeth Carling Whetten. He married Kate Allred in the Alberta Temple on June 18, 1930. They arc the parents of four children. He was graduated from Juarez Stake Academy, received his M. A. from BYU, and has done graduate work at the University of Chicago and the University cf Colorado. At present he is patriarch of BYU Third Stake and a sealer in the Frovo Temple. He has held most administrative positions in stakes and wards, districts and branches. Mrs. Whetten was born in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 20, 1910, to J. Urban and Amelia May Hammond Allred. She received her B. A. degree from BYU, and has done graduate work at the same university. She, too, is an ordinance worker in the Provo Temple, and has worked in the auxiliaries of the church. JOHN E. HEWARD Pres. Reward has been laboring as a missionary among the Mexican people in Holbrook (Ariz.) Stake since last fall. He has served in many executive and teaching posts, both ward and stake. He was born in Woodruff, Ariz., Sept. 27, 1910, a son of John Kdwin and Hazel Turley Reward. He married Beulah Whiting in the Salt Lake Temple on April 5, 1934, and they arc the parents of five children. He life. has been self employed most of his Mrs. Howard was born in Woodruff on July 23, 1914 to Earnest J. and Beryl Johnson Whiting. She has taught Primary for 35 years, as well as MIA in several wards, and served as branch YWMIA president and district Relief Society president. She is serving as secretary-treasure- r of the Holbrook Stake Relief at Society present. ROBERT L. AAARCHANT Pres. Marchant, formerly first counselor in the Cottonwood Stake (Utah) presidency, is now instructor of the Gospel Doctrine class in his ward's Sunday School. He was born in Salt Lake City, Feb. a son of Robert II. and Ivy Wine-ga- r Marchant. He married Izora Reed, July 13, 1937 in the Salt Lake Temple. 12, 1909, They have five children. An electrical contractor by profession, Pres. Marchant has served as a missionary to the Mexican Mission, on the stake high council, and as ward clerk. Mrs. Marchant was born in Fima, Ariz., Feb. 10, 1912, a daughter of James W. and Myrtle Taylor Reed. She has been a counselor in the Relief Society, Junior Sunday School coordinator, Sunday School and Primary teacher, and YWMIA president. Their youngest daughter, Afton, will go with them and labor as a missionary in Uruguay-Paragua- y |