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Show Was J Reorganized .... Dr. R. V. Larson Sustained Bishop Of Roosevelt Ward Rulon Anderton, Dr. Vere Johnson Are Selected To Assist In New Bishopric Following an Easter program Sunday evening, March 25, the Roosevelt ward, Church of Jesus Jes-us Christ of Latter-Day Saints was reorganized with Dr. R. Vernon Larson being sustained as the new bishop. Selected as counselors to Bishop Larson were Rulon Anderton and Dr. Vere H. Johnson, with Merlin Sullivan being retained as ward clerk. The reorganization of the ward was under the direction of President Hollis G. Hullinger, Hullin-ger, of the Roosevelt stake, and was necessitated by the accidental acci-dental death of Bishop Randall I. Stewart on March 14. when he was crushed by a falling tree at the ward welfare farm south of the city. Bishop Larson, a native of Smithfield, has been serving since August 1949 as second counselor in the stake presidency, presiden-cy, and has been a resident of Roosevelt since February 1947. coming here to practice medicine. medi-cine. Shortly after coming to the Basin to establish his home, the new bishop was called into the stake Sunday school as Its superintendent, where he labored la-bored until being called to assist as-sist in administering the affairs of the stake in the fall of '49. During World War II. Bishop Larson served 64 months in the U. S. Army Medical Corps, and saw duty in the states and overseas. over-seas. He has also been active in civic affairs, being a past president presi-dent of the Smithfield Kiwanis club,' and is currently a member of the Roosevelt Lions club, and is active in other affairs of the city. His wife is also active in the churclv and is presenUy serving serv-ing as president of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association of the stake. They are the parents of three boys and a girl.' Rulon Anderton, who succeeds Howard Ivory as first counselor in the bishopric, has devoted a goodly portion of his life to the service of his church. He was born at Monroe and came to the Uintah Basin when he was six years old, settling with his family at Montwel, which was then a part of the Cedarview ward. He held offices in all three Aaronic priesthood groups and before leaving MontweL served as Sunday school superintendent. super-intendent. In 1943, the year of his marriage, he and his wife moved into the Moffat ward, where he fanned Indian land. He was again called into Sunday school work. Subsequently Mr. Anderton and his family moved to Ballard Ball-ard where he continued his church activity, being called as president of the First Quorum of Elders. Later he was assigned to the stake Sunday school su-perintendency. su-perintendency. In 1943 the An-dertons An-dertons took up residence in Roosevelt, and again it was the Sunday school that drew him in as ward superintendent, where he served until about four years ago when he was called as a member of the Roosevelt stake High Council. The third member of the new bishopric. Dr. Vere H. Johnson, was born at Beaver Dam. Utah. in Box Elder county, and like his associates boasts a long service ser-vice record in his church. A missionary to the North Central states in 1941-43. Dr. Johnson was a member of the retiring bishopric, where he served with Bishop Stewart as second counselor. coun-selor. While attending dental school at the Western Reserve University Univer-sity at Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Johnson was branch president for two years. A graduate of the U.S.A C. at Logan, he spent (Continued on back page.) New Bishop (Continued from page 1) approximately 18 months in the U. S. Navy during the last war. and has resided in Roosevelt Roos-evelt since Sept. 1948. The only retiring member of the former bishopric, Howard Ivory completes nearly seven years as a member of the official of-ficial family of the Roosevelt ward, before and since its division di-vision in April 1947. In Nov. 1945, Mr. Ivory, who is employed em-ployed as head of the local Soil Conservation office here, was sustained as ward clerk under Bishop Marden Broadbent. When he was released and Ezra J. Nixon became bishop, Mr. Ivory continued as clerk. When the ward was divided and Hollis Hol-lis Hullinger was sustained as bishop, he selected Mr. Ivory as his second counselor. When Bishop Hullinger was called into in-to the stake presidency, and the late Bishop Stewart became head of the ward, it was a first counselor calling for the former ward clerk. While serving in the various . ward capacities, Mr. Ivory en- i deared himself to the people of the wards in which he served, and in retiring from an official position, he does so with the best wishes of all who associated associat-ed with him. i The newly appointed ward officers each pledged themselves to do their all in seeing the , ward progress, and called on I all members to support them ! with action and work, not mere words. They will probably be officially set apart at the next stake conference, which is scheduled for April 21-22. Calling' a member of the slake I presidency and , cilman into the : bishopric leaves h5 cancies that wili coming sti, j Such vacancies by the stake D.r high council, a z; the general authr, I v e church and by the i a |