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Show Conference Speakers Admonish Stake, Ward Leaders To Stimulate Scouting; Changes Listed In Priesthood Leaders Twenty-four ward and stake leaders were called on to address ad-dress the four sessions of the Roosevelt stake conference, Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-Day Saints, held last Saturday Satur-day and Sunday at the chapel here, which was presided over by Hollis G. Hullinger, president, presi-dent, in the absence of a member mem-ber of the general authorities of the church. Several changes in ' leadership were also announced an-nounced in some of the Melchiz-zedek Melchiz-zedek priesthood quorums. Scouting in the Basin and the future of our youth was more or less the unannounced theme of the conference that began Saturday evening with a priesthood priest-hood session conducted by Dr. R. Vernon Larson, second counselor coun-selor in the stake presidency, who was one of the speakers. Others heard on the program were Paul Murphy, Paul Nelson, Nel-son, Louis Jensen, high counsel-men counsel-men and members of the stake Melchizedek priesthood committee; commit-tee; Grant Mace, scout field executive ex-ecutive and President Hullinger. A youth chorus, directed by Mrs. Rulon Anderton, supplied the music. Mr. Mace made some rather startling statements when he announced that there were 503 boys in the Roosevelt district, which has the same bounds as the Roosevelt LDS stake, and that only 140 boys were enrolled in scouting. This is far below the National Parks Council average av-erage of 53 per cent. The White-rocks White-rocks Indian school has the highest average with 73 per cent of its boys enrolled in scouting. Whiterocks LDS ward is next with 43 per cent, and the Roosevelt Roos-evelt ward with 15 per cent was the lowest. He stated that an Explorer troop' had been organized organ-ized -recently in the Roosevelt ward and that would probably raise the average to about 32 per cent. The facts released by Scouter Mace prompted Dr. Larson to challenge the group of men to raise that average, and then he told them how it could be done. He was joined by Pres. Hullinger Hul-linger and other leaders through-lout through-lout the conference in pleading 'for more activity and interest in scouting. The opening session on Sunday Sun-day found President Hullinger as the first speaker and he sounded a warning to the young men who are about to enter the ; services of their country to up-'hold up-'hold the standards of the gospel I and honor the priesthood they 1 had received. He announced that a recent ruling of the first presidency pres-idency has banned calling young men on missions who had not served in World War II. or who were not exempt by the draft board. Speaking directly to the young men who will be called to serve their country, Pres. Hullinger made this statement: "If you will honor your priesthood priest-hood and keep yourselves clean and unspotted from the sins of I the world, the Lord will sanc-itify sanc-itify your bodies." I Music for all sessions of the 'conference was under the direction di-rection of Mrs. Rulon Anderton, and consisted of a piano solo j by Miss Bonnie Moser, BYU I student; vocal solos by Mrs. I Joe Hapi, of New Zealand; Mery I Lou White, and Roy Anderson; vocal trio, Janet Stevens. LeRae Drollinger and Janice Anderton. Ander-ton. Joe Hapi, native New Zea-lander, Zea-lander, who at present is attending at-tending the B.Y.U. where he is preparing to supervise a new project for the South Seas islands, is-lands, addressed the morning session. He told how his people peo-ple had been inspired by' God to explore, pioneer and settle the islands of the sea. He expressed ex-pressed his gratitude to the Mormon missionaries for bringing bring-ing the gospel to his people in 1850, and for continuing to send them missionaries since that time. Other speakers heard during the conference included the three members of the stake presidency, pres-idency, Hollis Hullinger, Russel Todd and Dr. Larson; Van Win-terton, Win-terton, high councilman; Robert Rob-ert Andrews, stake Y. M.M.I A. president; Acel Perry, bishop of tli,e Mofatt ward; James Ham-blin, Ham-blin, Montwel bishop; Eugene Keene, missionary recently returned re-turned from Denmark; Bishop Randall Stewart, Roosevelt ward; Bishop Glen Gilbert, My-ton My-ton ward; Ezra J. Nixon. Roosevelt Roos-evelt Second ward; Clifton N. Memmott, newly sustained president presi-dent of the -162 Quorum of Seventy; Sev-enty; Wendell Johnson, principal princi-pal of the Alterra seminary; and Melvin Peterson, high councilman council-man and principal of the Roosevelt Roos-evelt seminary. Several changes were made in priesthood quorums of the stake with Glen Allred and Le-Roy Le-Roy Anderson being sustained as first and second counselors in the Fourth Elders Quorum, replacing Ray Haslem and Lawrence Law-rence Brighton. Arvin Bellon is the president and Ernest Betts, Jr., the secretary. In the Fifth Elders quorum, Elvyn Bascom and Norman Murphy were released re-leased as counselors, with James Hall and H. Orman Sullivan being be-ing sustained, in their places. Lawrell Jensen is the quorum president, and Ray C. Scholes the secretary. In the 162nd Quorum of Seventy, Sev-enty, John Swenson, stake clerk, was released as a member of the presidency and Clifton N. Memmott sustained in his place. Jesse Allen was also sustained as second counselor in the First Elders quorum. |