Show Elder Young officiated Three chapels dedicated Sunday A total of 1564 members of the Roosevelt Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day and visitors crowded into bhe new Stake Center last Sunday at to participate m the dedication of the REPRESENTING THE first presidency of the church and offering the dedicatory address and prayer was Elder S. member of the First Council of Seventy He also officiated at the stake quarterly conference which was merged with the dedication ceremony In addition to dedicating the stake center Elder Young officiated at similar exercises at two Uintah Basin duin Mission chapels One at Gusher and the other at In his dedicatory remarks at the stake Elder Young reminded members of the church that it was their tithing money that bad made possible the beautiful new building that would forever remain as a monument to the faith and courage of the people who sacrificed to erect it church gave back to you one-half of the total cost of the or approximately to match funds raised by the people of Uie This meant that 1000 people who paid 00 in tithing had a hand in this new Elder Young IS MY HOPE and the desire of all other church leaders that you good people who will operate your stake center will never allow anything of an evil nature to enter the You have a house dedicated to the work of our Father in Heaven use it and more blessings will Make it a place to spread the true gospel of Jesus Christ to all who shall enter Elder Young told the the speaker's with Elder Young at the dedication were two past stake Hollis G Hullinger and Ezra J. Nixon and the current Paul President related a few bits of history leading back to 1954 when the two existing Roosevelt wards were divided into and all were housed in the old stake knew then that we had to have a new and began working toward that he Hullinger presided over the stake until May long enough to see ground plans accepted and much of the foundation Ground was broken March 1956 PRESIDENT NIXON who succeeded Hullinger as the presiding authority over the stake continued in office during the construction of tin It was first in with a stake con being the first meeting See 3 CHAPELS back page Three chapels- from Fuge He ww released in 1969 and President Murphy was liis It was under his guidance the final touches were added and the remainder of the payments made to the general church building committee making it possible for the dedication on Each stake president praised the people of the ten wards and one branch who make up the for their faith and Cooperation to bring thai dream into a It was pointed out that literally hundreds of banquets had been auctions and festivals sponsored to bring in as it went pointed out by the it was the cash donations that came from life's or was tinned to the church Instead Of buying had intended to that built the BISHOP ALVA SNOW of the Third occupant the Fourth ward and the and James E. senior high council who was described by the three stake presidents as the the man who acted as liason between The building supervisor and the stake and Mrs Minnie stake Relief Society were the other speakers The opening prayer by W. Russel Todd and the benediction by E. Dwain former counselors In stake presidencies The latter is now a resident of 1 le Nixon also moved from Roosevelt about 18 months ago and now resides in Norris ami Mrs Ardean by Mrs David A played B violin duet and the stake Relief Society Singing Mothers supplied the music for the Several other former stake and ward leaders returned for the CONDUCTING THE Gusher dedication program was G. B. counselor in the Contain Basin Indian He briefly welcomed the large crowd and introduced those l on the program Glen Oaks f a Indian missionary and remodeling supervisor of the two mission spoke briefly and a group of Indian children sang a Elder paid a glowing to Indian He the early history of the and reminded his listeners that the Ute Nation was an honored nation and their lead-i re wi HI an equal to the non-Indian You are of the House of Israel a chosen and will inherit our Father s kingdom in proportion to your Individual efforts to live the commandments and progress in of the He has offered the gospel in its fullness to the Indian the same is He has to the and all other people who are of a different he at the BENNETT dedication President Bills Morrill con-dm ted and announced the pro- Proceedings Elder Young as speakers were Charlie missionary and one of Uhe workers on the remodeling and Elbert Horce full-blood member of the Oata- Indian Tribe of South The latter bore a strong testimony to his Ute brothers and sisters and told two white-skinned carrying a book came to his people and converted to the He indicated 97 per cent of his people were of the Mormon and were very devoted to the He is an employee of the Bureau of Reclamation and is stationed bj Dutch John on the Flaming Gorge ELDER vol offered a very impressive dedicatory pray er after speaking to the overflow crowd that jammed the lovely remodeled building He told the Indian people tin being looked to for leadership and urged them to be serious in their acceptance of the gospel of Jesus Christ and be to take positions of leadership in the President Morrill made a brief report on the mission He said there were 17 men and women now from the four Basin stakes as Indian missionaries Approximately has been expended to remodel and furnish the two former ward chapels that housed the Moffat and Bennett wards before th- y were merged with Ballard and White rooks ve i y |