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Show Deseret Corp joins ass'n Western Fuels Association, Inc., has grown to 28 members by addition of three generation and transmission rural electric cooperatives. Everett B. Chesney, president of , Western Fuels, announced that the board of directors has approved applications ap-plications for membership of the following: Deseret Generation and Transmission Tran-smission Cooperative, with headquarters at Sandy, Utah; United Power Association, headquarters at Elk River, Minnesota, and Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc., headquarters in Tampa, Florida. Seminole is the first Florida member of Western Fuels, a non-profit cooperative organized to supply fuel to the electric generation plants of its consumer-owned members. Western Fuels' memberships extends ex-tends now from the Pacific Northwest to Florida, with a concentration in the upper Midwest and Mountain States, serving electricity users from the Canadian to the Mexican borders and the Gulf of Mexico. Mr Chesney said that a contract has been signed for Western Fuels to supply coal to a generating station Deseret is preparing to build, and that the Utah cooperative had joined as a Class B member, entitling it to one member on the board of directors. Merrill J. Millett, general manager of Deseret, was elected to the board. Deseret is comprized of six rural electric cooperatives serving consumers con-sumers in Utah and contiguous areas of the adjoining state of Wyormng, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona It was organized in 1978. Harry Fieldsted, a director of Moon Lake Electric Associate (one of Deserefs member coops), co-ops), is president. |