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Show Holladay Lions Club President ... D. Webster Richards Jr. 1st Vice Pres Wayne L. Shaw 2nd Vice Pres L. A. Springett 3rd Vice Pres Wayne Nichol Secretary Roy Hobbs Treasurer S. C. Gaddie BY MEL AYRIGHT Chairman Club Publicity Committee I District Governor Randall was i scheduled to meet with the club at its membership dinner meeting meet-ing Thursday night at Judd'.t . Inn when 30 new members were presented with their "L" pins. (More on this meeting in next week's Bulletin). Lions from every club in Utah, from Montana and Maine, and district governors from Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho turned out for the most outstanding meeting meet-ing 'in the history of the club in this state last Monday at the Newhouse Hotel. The huge attendance at-tendance was a fitting tribute to the guest of honor, Dr. Ramiro Collazzo of Havana, Cuba, Lions international president. The meeting, conducted by Ed C. Randall, governor of District 2S-A, was arranged by International Inter-national Counselors Jack Denton. Den-ton. Magna-Garfield: George Boy-ack, Boy-ack, Salt Lake: Flash Nielsen. Hyrum; Cry Stringham; Vernal; Joe Rouison, Lchi: Ora Hatch, Provo: Ira Overfelt, Gunnison, and Wes Nelson, St. George. Mayor Earl .1. Glade of Salt Lake welcomed the guest of honor and the oOO members attending at-tending the banquet and Gov. Herbert B. Maw paid tribute to the Utah Lions for the outstanding out-standing work they are doing in the interest of their local fommunities, the counties, and the state. Dr. Collazzo in the finest talk on Lionism that has been heard in this state paid tribute to our own international past president, presi-dent, D. A. Skeen, for the won derful work he accomplished at" the United Nations conference at San Francisco during his tern1 of office, and to the 5100 clubs throughout the organization fettle fe-ttle 74,859 projects completed in their local communities during 1944-45. This work is being accomplished ac-complished by private inititive being organized into group projects proj-ects and following through until un-til completion. Dr. Collazzo brought out that our greatest asset in the international' inter-national' organization is friendship friend-ship -?nd that by bringing our friends into the organization and by contacts made such as the international convention in Havana in 1910 we are proving our friendship for all the peo-' peo-' pies of the world. He noted thaf I Lions are not only hard workers work-ers but that we knw how o See HOLLADAY on Page 8 Holladay - - (Continued from Page One) relax and play. The war just concluded was fought, he said, to create a future, not a past, and by our. concerted efforts we will continue to gain as an organization, or-ganization, as individuals, and as leaders in ur communities. M. James Urie of Cedar City, district 28-B governor, presented the distinguished visitor with a beautiful copper cop-per plaque bearing an embossed em-bossed horse head as a token of our esteem and to remind him of his visit to Utah and the west, l" Two pet projects of the Holladay Hol-laday Lions are going forward rapidly and we hope to see some ground turning on them in the near future. First of these is the Holladay community building, a $53,000 project which will provide pro-vide facilities for group meeting, meet-ing, a health center and various other civic needs, and second is proposed sewage treatment plant to be located at 6th W. and 33rd So. and to serve the whole south-central area of the county. Federal advance planning plan-ning funds have been requested for the ciyic center building, and during1 the past week the county commission has solicited the aid 'of Sen. Abe Murdock In acquiring the acreage necessary neces-sary for the sewage plant. At the Holladay club's regular regu-lar board meeting Feb. 7 at the home of Harold Bennion, plans were approved for the annual club birthday party to be held March 25 at Starlight Gardens atop the Hotel Utah. This will be in the nature of a dinner dance for which . reservations must be made well in advance. The Country Club orchestra has been engaged for the. occasion. Jay C. Newman, special agent I of the field division, FBI, Salt Lake, will be the speaker at our regular business meeting to be held in the library of Olympus Jr. High Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at 10 a.m. in the chambers of the public utilities util-ities commission a public hear-ing hear-ing on the proposed transfer of franchise of the Airways Bus Co. , to the Salt Lake Lines will be 'held. All members of the Lions club should plan to be in attendance. |