Improvement Era, 1939 by Unknown

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The Church Moves on

LEVI EDGAR YOUNG TO HEAD NEW ENGLAND MISSION

APPOINTMENT of Elder Levi Edgar Young, member of the First Council of Seventy and Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Utah, as president of the New England Mission to succeed Carl F. Eyring, has been announced by the First Presidency. President Young will leave some time in July for Cambridge, Massachusetts, mission headquarters.

CARL F. EYRING

LEVI EDGAR YOUNG

Elder Young became one of the General Authorities in 1910. For many years he acted as president of the Temple Block Mission. An authority on western history, he has achieved a prominent place in the field of education during the past 40 years. Several of his publications on Utah are well known.

Dr. Eyring will return home to resume his place at Brigham Young University.

PLANS READY FOR IDAHO FALLS TEMPLE

BEAUTY, character, and utility have been achieved in plans for the temple to be built at Idaho Falls. Designed by a group of architects, comprising Edward O. Anderson, Georgius Y. Cannon, John Fetzer, Ramm Hansen, H. C. Pope, and Lorenzo S. Young, the building will be constructed of reinforced concrete on a five-acre plot between Memorial and River drives overlooking the Snake River.

The temple will have a capacity of 150 people per company. In the basement will be located the baptismal font, dressing and waiting rooms, archives, laundry, and kitchen supply room. Offices for the temple presidency and the recorder, a waiting room for children, kitchen, dining room, assembly hall, linen room, and additional dressing rooms will occupy the main floor. The second floor will contain the ordinance rooms. Plans include a tower to rise some 124 feet above the ground.

NEW HEADS APPOINTED FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL STATES MISSIONS

SUCCEEDING Bryant S. Hinckley, who has presided over the mission for more than three years, President Leo J. Muir of the Los Angeles Stake has been announced as new head of the Northern States Mission. Elder Muir, former State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Utah, has served in the Los Angeles Stake presidency since 1923, when it was organized.

TOP: ELIAS S. WOODRUFF, JOHN F. BOWMAN. BOTTOM: BRYANT S. HINCKLEY, LEO J. MUIR.

Elder John F. Bowman, former mayor of Salt Lake City, has been appointed president of the Central States Mission to succeed Elias S. Woodruff, who concludes over five years' service in that capacity. Elder Bowman was a member of the Y. M. M. I. A. general board from 1913 to 1935.

PRESIDENCY OF ONEIDA STAKE REORGANIZED

ELDER GEORGE E. BURGI, succeeding President Taylor Nelson, who has served since 1920, was appointed head of the Oneida Stake recently, with Paul R. Wynn, first counselor, and Phenroy Edgley, second. Retiring counselor was David G. Eames. J. Hyrum Bells, Leander Boyce, and George A. Griffith of the stake high council were also released. Reorganization was under the direction of Elder Stephen L Richards.

NEW WARD CREATED IN PASADENA STAKE

DIVISION of the North Hollywood Ward on April 30 added a new unit, the Van Nuys Ward, with Paul M. Pack as bishop, to the Pasadena Stake.

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