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Show DUCHESNE LEGIONNAIRES LEGION-NAIRES ATTEND DISTRICT DIS-TRICT MEETING Three Duchesne Legionnaires Legion-naires attended the monthly district meeting of The American Ameri-can Legion, which was held at Jthe Jensen Post No. 124. These Legionnaires are Elden R. Wile ken, Deon Brown and Bob Gunter. Only 17 Legionnaires of District Nine attended the meeting meet-ing - pulling from the area of both Duchesne and Uintah counties. coun-ties. At this meeting, Annual Utah American Legion's Boys' State was discussed. Elden R. Wilcken, Duchesne, and James E. Lenartz, of the Jensen Post will be counselors from District Nine this year in June, at the sessions to be held for a week on the campus of the Utah State University, Logan. Boys' State this year will have 16 cities, and an attendance of 630-650 boys. The date of May 11 has been set as the time to choose the Utah Department's Outstanding Legionnaire for 1966. This party will be held at the Holla -day Post No. 171. Total District Nine membership mem-bership is 416 - 34 short of the 1966 membership goal. A farewell party is being planned for Ed Horton, a member mem-ber of the Vernal Witbeck Post No. 11, and historian for the Utah Department of The American Legion. Tentative date for the party is May 7, in the evening, at Roosevelt. Committee members named for the party are Pete Santee, Vernal, chairman; Elden R. Wilcken, Duchesne; Harry Stewart, Roosevelt; and Lavar Southam, Jensen. Mr. Horton, also a past district commander of District Nine, is a staff member of the Ashley National Forest, assigned to the Vernal office. He will transfer to the Regional Forest Office in Ogden, during late April. The Utah Department Convention Con-vention of The American Legion Le-gion will be held at Ogden June 3-4-5. The district convention date is April 30, in the evening, at Duchesne. Date for the next District meeting is June 14 at Ft. Duchesne, Du-chesne, Post 126. No District meeting is planned for May. Commander Lenartz requested request-ed that all posts have their written report of post's activities activi-ties and completed to read from the convention floor April 30 at Duchesne, and after the reading, turn in the report to the district officers. Officers to be elected at the convention at Duchesne include the district commander, first vice commander and second vice commander. Other officers are appointed. All posts are asked to have elections completed prior to the district convention, so new officers offi-cers can be installed then. Announcement of elections so far are Chris Merkley for Duchesne Du-chesne Post No. 22; Lavar Southam, Sou-tham, Jensen Post No. 124. Utah Department Commander Comman-der Donald Tibbs is scheduled to be at the District Convention in Duchesne, as well as Sam Cowley, Cow-ley, the first vice commander. Mr. Cowley is an announced candidate for the Utah Department Depart-ment Commander. Dr. Edwin L. "Eddie" Peter-son, Peter-son, Utah State University Post 2, Logan is the other announced announ-ced candidate. Dr. Peterson is a director of Utah's Boys' State and is the liason officer be- ' tween the USU and The American Ameri-can Legion, as well as the Department De-partment Americanism Chairman. Chair-man. Roy Hall, Roosevelt, the past post commander, is the announced candidate for the first vice commander for District Dis-trict Nine. He is the only Legionnaire Le-gionnaire who has announced candidacy for one of the three elective posts. District officers whose terms end are: James E. Lenartz, commander; Thomas Handy, Vernal, first vice commander; and Harry Stewart, Roosevelt, second vice commander and Reynold Beaman, Adjutant. |