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Show 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 attend at-tend the National Youth Conference Confer-ence on the Atom in Atlantic City, N.J., April 30 and May 1. The conference is being sponsored spon-sored by the Utah Power & Light Company and Telluride Power Company in conjunction with about 60 other investor-owned investor-owned 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 conference, confer-ence, the purpose of the two-day two-day 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 exceptional 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 comments, com-ments, and a personal interview. This committee will be made up of prominent scientists and educators edu-cators of the state. The students and teacher selected 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 conference. con-ference. They will learn how the atom is being put to use to advance medical frontiers, how it helps in the advance of agriculture, agri-culture, and how it is being used in industry, including the development 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, chairman chair-man of the Atomic Energy Commission. |