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Show Mires From Wm Sterling K. Hixson, chief system dispatcher for the Utah Power and Light Company Com-pany retired after having served more than 39 years as an employee for the company. Mr. Hixson has been a resident of Bountiful since 1952, when at that time he was transferred from Grace, Idaho to the main office as a dispatcher. MR. HIXSON was born in Salt Lake City on April 12, 1913. His father was a street car motorman and he remembers well the old street cars that came out on Orchard Drive, through Bountiful and on out to Cen-lerville. Cen-lerville. His father retired from the Utah Light and Traction Company, a company then owned by the Power Company in 1939 and Mr. Hixson started start-ed his employment with the company at that time. HE RECEIVED his training train-ing in various hydro power plants in Utah and Idaho before assuming the position ol chief dispatcher. His work required coordinating the generation of electricity and the distribution of it among the various companies in the Western United States and British Columbia, Canada. Mr. Hixson's work caused him to be associated with Mr. Berry Hutchings and the Bountiful Municipal Power lor many years. - J j i M " STERLING HIXSON MR. HIXSON lives at 167 West 2000 South with his wife Ullen. They are the parents of (our children, three of whom reside in the area. Richard, Mrs. Alan (Joan) Tibbitts, Mrs. Michael (Judith) Kuepper. Robert resides in Yuba City, Calif. The Hixson's plan on continuing con-tinuing to make their home on 2uth South in Bountiful, but will probably spend the winters in the Hawaiian Islands where they have spent many of their vacations in the past. THEY WILI i 'ami'y reunion TinT"" 1 van'a this jUyn '"penn, I mmmer. Mr hi nn8i P'ans to resume hi 81 |