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Show -e , i Assistant Smoke Abatement Engineer Appointed by City Roy East, Combustion Expert, to Be Head I of Observation Crew in Program Roy East, a combustion engineer, Tuesday had been appointed , assistant city smoke abatement engineer and supervisor of the 25 i to 30 WPA observers in the city's new smoke abatement program, ' it was announced by William L. Butler, city smoke abatement en- gineer. The appointment was made by H. , C. Jessen, assistant stats WPA i sdministrator,' and Rulon Walker, statistical director. Mr. East, a combustion engineer, was employed with the Mountain Fuel Supply company from 1929 to 1934 as supervisor of shops and distribution. Since that time he has been manager of the furnace division. divi-sion. Pacific Gas Aonliancs corno- equlpment would be installed In the laboratory and all types of solid fuel would be burned in the various plants to show ths public how to burn fuel smokelessly. Mr. Salt Laker will be able to see demonstrations demonstra-tions In a plant similar to his own, and engineers will be present to explain ex-plain to him the advantages of burning smoks rather than sending It up the chimney at a great loss. Officer in Clean Air War ration, at Oakland, Cel., and was , formerly in charge of production and geological field work for the Producers and Refiners corporation corpora-tion in Wyoming. "The methods to be employed In the new smoke abatement drive beginning be-ginning December 15 arc standard practices, but the large scale education edu-cation of the public is a new factor in smoke abatement in Salt Lake City." Mr. East said. "With ths material available, we will be able to accomplish our objective ob-jective of reducing smoke nuisance to a minimum. Every phase of the work baa been given consideration in detail and we believe that the results ef the coming 10 months' activity will convince Salt Lake City citizens of the advantages of the system." A "schoolroom" for ths education of the public will be acquired and 'is expected to become a laboratory Iwithia 10 days. Mr. Butler said. I He explained that all type of V HE'LL HEAD ARMY OF SMOKE CHASERS Rev East tells hew t burn coal amokeUsaly |