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Show 1941 Community Chest Drive Goes Over Top In Bingham $1200.00 RECEIPTS REPORTED HY DRIVE CHAIRMAN; 1941-42 BUDGET REQUIREMENT IS EXCEEDED With $4200 in subscriptions already reported, success of the second annual Community Chest drive is assured, L. F. Pett, campaign chairman, has announced. Over 300 individual contributions were made to the fund, proof of the general approval with which the Chest and beneficiary projects are regarded. The drive began May 10 and lasted one month. - Biggest donors to the fund were mine employees and companies: Utah Copper employees, $1900.00; 13. & G. Railway employees, $28.00; U. S. Smelting Refining and Mining employees, $340.00; National Tunnel and Mines Em- ployees, $218.00; Utah Copper company, $100.00. These amounts total $2486.00. Business firms and employees contributed $1214.00 to the fund. Professional men and their employees em-ployees added $200 to the total. Additional and late responses to campaign solicitation may bring total of receipts to the $4500 goal optimistically set at the beginning of the drive. Officers Offic-ers and directors point out that budget requirements and likely emergencies are considerably less than the campaign netted, making mak-ing prospects good for building on to a reserve fund being established estab-lished for years less favorable financially than the present. Last year, the first Chest drive brought in $3998. Special credit was given foremen fore-men and department heads of Utah Copper company and U. S. Smelting Refining and Mining company for their help in the campaign. Others mentioned by Mr. Pett for valuable help were Irvin Stillman, secretary-treasurer; John J. Creedon, Joseph P. Scussel, James Mclntyre, J. A. Norden, Mayor Ed W. Johnson, Sid Tregaskis, Chris T. Praggas-tis, Praggas-tis, Elliott W. Evans, J. William Grant and Leland G. Burress. The budget set up the beginning begin-ning of the drive approved the following projects and expenditures: expendi-tures: Following are organizations and projects approved to receive assistance: as-sistance: Bingham Boy Scouts council $440; Women s ' Civic club, Central school playground, Thanksgiving baskets and cancer control fund, $236.75; junior chamber of commerce summer band work, awards and Christmas Christ-mas lighting prizes, $189, American Ameri-can Red Cross, $300; Utah State Firemen's mortuary fund, $50; Highland Boy Community House, $425; Bingham volunteer firemen, fire-men, Fourth of July celebration, $450; American Legion junior baseball, summer playground, state title playoff (if necessary). $400; Copperfield P.-T.A. Christmas Christ-mas program, $75. o : |