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Description
1 image. Mormon Church president, 9 May 1958. David McKay (President) Mrs. Emma Ray McKay (wife) Henry Taylor. (Handout). Supplementary material reads: "From News Bureau. Pan American World Airways. Mormon Church President. David McKay, president of the Mormon church in Salt Lake City, accompanied by his wife, Emma Ray, were greeted upon arrival at International Airport tonight (5/8) by Henry Taylor (left), president of the California Mission at the Mormon Temple in Los Angeles, after they arrived via Pan American Airways Clipper from a $1,200,000 new temple dedication in Auckland, New Zealand. President McKay and his eight-menber group will stay overnight in Los Angeles and leave Friday afternoon for Salt Lake. McKay, who has been president of the church since 1951, said tere are 16,000 Mormons in New Zealand and stated that the membership is constantly growing". Supplementary material continues: "He pointed out that last year there were 32,500 new converts or members into the religion and added that, 'It is a religion of the people since it is so practical and might be termed a 'layman's church', since it brings the religion home to him'. He said that the New Zealand temple is the first temple below the equator. McKay and his group departed Los Angeles April 14 and he said the dedication was highly successful in spite of the chilly weather".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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