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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1959 , Page Thre Utah Power and Light to Send Three to Atom Meet Two Utah high school seniors and one high school science teacher will be selected to at-tend the National Youth Confer-ence on the Atom in Atlantic City, N.J., April 30 and May 1. The conference is being spon-sored by the Utah Power & Light Company and Telluride Power Company in conjunction with about 60 other investor-owne- d electric utility companies in the nation. , According to E. M. Naughton, president and general manager of Utah Power and Light and general chairman of the confer-ence, the purpose of the two-da- y event is to "present to a group of the nation's most able high school science students and teachers an authoritative and inspiring picture of the promise of the peaceful atom in all its various applications, and to help advance interest in the study of science in the U. S." Each high school in the state will have the opportunity of recommending one student. He or she must be a senior of excep-tional ability who is studying science. The recommendations will be submitted to a final selection committee which will determine the two winners on the basis of scholastic record, teacher com-ments, and a personal interview. This committee will be made up of prominent scientists and edu-cators of the state. The students and teacher se-lected will leave Salt Lake City April 29. They will attend the two day conference, spend a day in Washington, D.C., visiting the points of interest, and return to Salt Lake City May 3. The Utah Power and Light Co. will pay all expenses for the five day ex cursion. A total of 400 to 500 students and teachers will attend the con-ference. They will learn how the atom is being put to use to advance medical frontiers, how it helps in the advance of agri-culture, and how it is being used in industry, including the de-velopment of electrical power. Highlight of the conference will be a three hour tour of the Atomic Energy Commission's new "Atoms for Peace" exhibit. In addition, there will be films, speeches, and panel discussions to thoroughly acquaint the dele gates with the peacetime atom. Featured speaker at the event will be John A. McCone, chair-man of the Atomic Energy Com-mission. the-LE- ASED GRAPEVINE V 4 In grade promotions for two clerk typists in the police de-partment were approved this week by the Salt Lake City Commission. John D. Shuler, 1006 Austin Ave., and Stella F. Miller, 29 G St., were promoted from third to second grade with salary increases from $255 to $265 a month. ' George Z. Aposhian, 3008-184- 5 East, president of the Wilford Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, has been cho-sen president of the Central At-lantic States Mission. Salt Lake City's 48 million dollar belt route highway should be shifted a few blocks to the south to conform with natural boundaries, Murray Mayor Ray P. Greenwood said this week in a letter to Elmo R. Morgan, di-rector, Utah State Road Com-mission. Means of keeping Salt Lake City's water supply pure and safe despite proposed construc-tion of an 18 hole golf course in Parley's Canyon will be dis-cussed by members of the city commission. Mayor Adiel Stew-art said this week a letter had been received from Dr. Richard J. Nelson, city health commis-sioner, containing suggestions. A filtration plant may be discussed the mayor said. Residents of the Holladay area have organized a citizens study committee to examine proposed location of a belt route highway through that community. L. Howard Marcus was named chairman of the committee. He said he hoped the committee would serve as a nucleus for a larger group to be made up of residents of all areas affected by the belt route. Granite School District board of education was told this week the district needs $7,730,000.00 more than it can raise through taxes and bonding to construct 572 classrooms by 1961-6- 2. The report came from Supt. Elmer J. Hartvigsen and Asst. Supt. Dr. O. C. England. Sportsmen who annually have vacations to coincide with vari-ous hunting andor fishing sea-sons were reminded that open-ing dates for three of the major outdoor seasons have already been scheduled. Opening dates already set are: General fishing season, June 7; Pheasant season, Nov. 7; Gen-eral deer season, October 17. The fish and pheasant openers were recently established by the Utah Fish and Game Commission while the opening date of the deer season is set by legislative law to begin each year by the Saturday nearest to October 20. The date is October 17, 1959. A veteran rocket motor sci-entist and executive, Anthony T. Guzzo, has been appointed di-rector of technical operations at Thiokol Chemical Corporation, Utah Division. John Higginson, general man-ager of the Utah Division, who made the announcement, said the position is a new one and part of major organizational changes to serve the rapidly expanding Thiokol operations in this area. COL FRANK THOMPSON TALKS ABOUT Clear Spring Water "CLEAR KENTUCKY SPRING WATER, fresh and cool from its limestone depths, helps make our premium Old Kentucky Tavern Bourbon gentle and smooth for you. And we mellow every drop 7 full years w -t- he perfect time for Bourbon flavor." git S; COL. FRANK THOMPSON. CHAIRMAN OP 5&Sv Ifl 86PBOOF&100PBOOF B0TTLED-IN-B0N-D jVffCS. KENTUCKY STBAIGHT Ml f ptfiH B0TJEB0N WHISKEY ik XfOOF GLENMORE DISTILLERIES CO. X, 5&fewV " Where Perfection of Product Is Tradition" 1 LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY U of U Announces Scholarship Plan Top graduates of Utah high schools will be eligible for $150 scholarships to the University of Utah under a new plan an-nounced by Dr. A. Ray Olpin, university president. The top three per cent of each high school graduating class in the state will be eligible for the new scholarships. Qualifying students during their first year at the University of Utah will have $50 of each quarter's tui-tion waived. These scholarships will be re gardless of the students' eco-nomic needs, Dr. Olpin ex-plained. Rather, the new pro-gram is intended to "encourage highly gifted students to con-tinue their education." Dr. Olpin quoted Dr. James B. Conant as saying that "high school students can be divided into three groups with respect to ability, and some three per cent of the pupil population na-tionally could be classified as highly gifted." Dr. Conant, a for-mer president of Harvard Uni-versity, recently completed what is regarded by most educators as the most intensive study ever made of the American high school. Based upon a total of 8,000 fllgh school graduates in the state, the $150 scholarships would be available to an esti-mated 240 honor students. However, the scholarships will be for use only at the University of Utah and will be limited to the top three per cent of each graduating class regardless of how many students in that three per cent actually use the pro-- ; gram. The new program will be in addition to the customary grants-in-ai- d and regular scholarship programs available to U. of ?U. students. Additional information will be available from high school prui-cipal- s. Students in the top thrpe per cent of their high school graduating classes, should makfe application for the scholarship through their principals in the! near future. j Farm Secretary Praises Beet Sugar Industry Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson told a meeting of intermountain and western states sugar beet growers here that a "realistic" attitude by sugar pro-ducers has saved the industry from the "fantastic and indefen-sible" surpluses of other farm commodities. Addressing some 700 sugar beet growers from several west-ern states, including Utah, at the annual meeting of the Cali-fornia Beet Growers Assn., Ben-son declared that cooperation by Congress to revise the "out-moded" support programs for wheat, cotton, corn, rice, pea-nuts and tobacco is a critical necessity. "By next July," Benson said, "we will have more than 9 bil-lion dollars of surplus farm com-modities in government inven-tory and under loan. The cost of storage on these government stocks will be about 1 billion dollars a year. This is fantastic md indefensible." Noting that the United States beet sugar industry this year is celebrating the 80th anniversary "f its founding at Alvarado, Calif., Benson pointed out that beet sugar "operations have been realistic geared to market con-ditions." He paid special tribute to early-da- y Mormon pioneers who played an important role in the development of the industry in the intermountain area and re-lated some early history of this saga of sugar. Benson told his audience that the sugar beet industry "is in a solid position. Production last year was about 15.3 million tons of sugar beets. This was about 30 per cent above the ten-ye- ar average and only slightly below the all-tim- e high of 1957. Yields per acre in the past two years have been higher than ever be-fore. "But you are not burdened with surpluses as producers of some other crops are. Your in-dustry has done a good job of expanding production and mark-ets simultaneously." I |