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Show Concrete Conclave Slated for Logan A one-day Concrete Conference Confer-ence will be held February 25 in the Edith Bowen auditorium at Utah State University at Logan. Registrations for the conference confer-ence are being taken by Prof. William A. Cordon of the USU Civil Engineering Department. The conference will be conducted conduct-ed by the University's Engineering Engineer-ing Experiment Station, the Civil Engineering department, and the College of Engineering. Alan C. Carter, Salt Lake City District Engineer for Portland Cement Association, will preside at the morning session; Vaughn E. Hansen, director of the USU Engineering Experiment Station will preside in the afternoon. The program will open with an address of welcome by Clayton Clay-ton Clark, acting Dean of Engineering Engi-neering at the University. Morning Morn-ing speakers will include Kenneth Ken-neth O. Cummins of Detroit, the technical director of American Concrete Institute. Cummins will speak on Technical Progress in Concrete. Other morning speakers will be Chris Pickett, Portland Cement Ce-ment Association District Structural Struc-tural Engineer; Allan Flandro, manager of the Utah Sand and Gravel Corp., and Prof. Cordon. The luncheon speaker will be, Milton R. Merrill, Vice president of Utah State University. He will be introduced by Prof. Cleve H. Miligan, head of the USU Civil Engineering Dept. J. R. Walton, Project Engineer of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Reclama-tion from Dutch John, Utah, will speak in the afternoon on "Construction "Con-struction at Flaming Gorge Dam. Also on the afternoon program is Paul Buehner of the Otto Buehner Co. of Salt Lake City. Buehner will discuss decorative uses of concrete, a field in which his company has earned a national na-tional reputation. Derwin Merrill, a graduate research re-search assistant at USU on a fellowship from Ideal Cement Co . will discuss concrete durability. dura-bility. Walter C. Oram, an engineer with the Salt Lake City district i of Portland Cement Association, will be the final speaker, discussing dis-cussing "New Shapes in Concrete." |