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Show the-LEASED the-LEASED GRAPEVINE W. Lamar Webb this week was named president of Zions First National Bank. He succeeds Or-val Or-val Adams, who retired Monday after 36 years as the bank's chief executive. J. Eastman Hatch was named a member of the bank's board of directors. The University of Utah has acquired without cost an additional addi-tional 35 acre site at Fort Douglas. Doug-las. The land will be used as a site of married students' housing facilities costing more than three million dollars. The university board of regents accepted deed to the land this week. . Three veteran members of the Salt Lake City police department depart-ment who recently retired, will be honored Friday at 2 p.m. at an open house at the police gymnasium gym-nasium in the Public - Safety Building. They are Gussie A. Friend, Albert H. Rogers and P. Clyde Smith. " ' Plans to start a junior college in the Salt Lake area have been announced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Negotiations are under way, the church said, to obatin a suitable site. No information was given as to the site. ...'. Salt Lake City's fourth grade pupils meet the national norm in spelling ability but. exceed it in reading, language and arithmetic, arith-metic, the Salt Lake City Board of Education reported this week. The information . was ' obtained from tests administered to students stu-dents in the fourth, seventh and tenth grades. Seventh grade pupils pu-pils top the national norm in all four categories, the tests showed while 10th grade students stu-dents far axceed the norm in nine fields. T. Quentin Cannon, a Salt Lake attorney and six year veteran vet-eran on the Salt Lake City Board of Education, this week became president of the board succeeding Virgil H. Smith. Waldo M. Smith replaced Mr. Cannon as vice president of the board. Arrests for fish and game law vciolations last year shaw an in- . crease over 1957, according to figures released by the department depart-ment of fish and game. Total amount of fines imposed, however, as well as the average fine for each case processed by the courts, show a decrease over the previous year. Court costs of $4,918 deducted from the total fines collected by the courts leaves a net of $21,467 returned to the state for deposit in the fish and game fund during 1958. Average charge of the court per case processed was $2.92. The report further shows that arrests were made for violations of 56 different sections of the fish and game code. . Scientific research is a Bell System tradition that dates back to the earliest days of the telephone. tele-phone. Today, more than 100,000 scientists, engineers, technicians and their associates carry on this tradition of research and development devel-opment at their laboratories. Their work benefits both the nation and world as well as the telephone system. |