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Show Granite Teachers Recieve Mineral Study Scholarships Under a special scholarship award, five Granite school teachers are studying Utah's mineral industries and resources resour-ces this summer. Kenneth R. Curtis, 3007 So. 1815 East, and Lawrence Greene, 668 Redondo Ava., who teach at Olympus High School; J.. Leslie Davis, 3321 So. 3010 East, and Sumner E. Rule, 117 Layion Ave., who teach at Valley Jr. High; and T. T. Wis-( Wis-( er, 1593 Park St., who teaches at Central Jr. High School, will attend an advanced ssminar and workshop taught at the University of Utah during June and the first part of July. These men were five of 30 successful Utah school teachers and administrators to be awarded the scholarship covering cover-ing tuition fees and transportation transpor-tation expenses for the course. The scholarships were made available by the Natural Resources Re-sources Committee of tha Utah Associated Chambers of Commerce. Com-merce. Dr. EIRoy Nelson, vice president presi-dent and economist of the First Security Corporation, and Osmond Os-mond L. Harline, director, University of Utah Bureau of Economic and Businer.s Research, Re-search, will supervise the: class. Participants are making a three-day field trip to southern and eastern Utah to viit the iron ore, coal, gypsu) i and other industries in thes areas. Six additional one-day excursions excur-sions are made to visit the underground lead-zinc mines at Lark; the Midvals lead smelter; the Bingham copper mine; the Magna-Garfieki mills, smelter, and refinery; tho Utah oil refinery; the cement plant at Devils Slide; the brick and concrete block; uranium, fertilizer fertil-izer and electric power plants; Geneva steel works; 1 ronton pipe plant; and steel fabricating fabrica-ting industries located in various var-ious parts of the state. The balance of the time is in the classroom discussing the field trip and learning more about Utah's economy. |