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Show William T. Thurman Takes Oath As U.S. Attorney for Utah District m f ' V ' William T. Thurman. former State Democratic" chairman, this week was appointed and sworn in as United States attorney for Utah. The appointment, long expected, expect-ed, was officially announced on Sunday. The swearing in ceremony cere-mony took place Monday before some 400 friends in the U. S. District Court of Utah. Mr. Thurman's appointment is on an interim basis. Mr. Thurman, who resigned earlier in the day as state Democratic Demo-cratic chairman, was appointed to the post by U.S. District Judge Willis W. Ritter, acting upon the request of U.S. Attorney General Gen-eral Robert F. Kennedy and U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss. ; - Sen. Moss' nomination of Mr. Thurman is awaiting final approval ap-proval in Washington. The new attorney succeeded to the post which carries an annual an-nual salary of $16,000 after A. Pratt Kesler resigned. Mr. Kes-ler Kes-ler now is deputy attorney general gen-eral for the state of Utah. William J. Adams, who has entered en-tered private law practice with the firm of Fabian and Clen-denin. Clen-denin. The formal oath was administered admin-istered by Wayne Christopher-son, Christopher-son, clerk of the court. Mr. Thurman served on the legal staff of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. from 1937 to 1941 while attending George Washington Wash-ington Law School. He also served as coordinator of Inter-American Affairs for the state department from 1941 to 1945, and was an assistant general gen-eral counsel for several other State Department agencies from 1945 to 1949. He was chief deputy dep-uty in the Salt Lake County attorney's at-torney's office and later in private pri-vate practice. ' A successor to Mr. Thurman will be elected by the State Democratic Central Committee in the near future. A public reception for Mr. Thurman, his family and friends was held in Judge Ritter's chambers cham-bers after the swearing-in ceremony. WILLIAM T. THURMAN Mr. Thurman said he expected to make an appointment soon to fill a vacancy in the attorney's office created by resignation of |