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Show WARREN STOUTNOUR OFF FOR SERVICE Public Utilities Commissioner Gets Commission Com-mission as Lieutenant in Naval Reserve. Warren Stoutnotir, member of the state public utilities commission since its organization in March, 1017, will leave this morning for the Atlantic coast, having received yesterday a com mission as lieutenant of the first grade, civil engineer, in the United States naval reserve. Immediately upon receipt of his com-mission com-mission Mr. Stoutnour made application to Governor Bamberger for leave of ab-! ab-! sence as a member of the utilities commission com-mission during the term of his military service. When the other members of the commission and the office force were advised that Mr. Stoutnour was to enter the service they presented him with a wrist watch such as is used by soldiers. .M r. Stoutnour is a graduate of Lafayette Lafay-ette college in Pennsylvania, class of !!():;, and came to Salt Lake that year. Since then he has been in the employ I of the Northwest Bridge works in Port-j Port-j land, Ore., and Seattle, Wash., the Ore-i Ore-i gou Short Line railroad and the Bamberger Bam-berger line, always in construction work. tor more than a year Mr. Stoutnour has served with the state public utilities commission of Utah, in charge of all technical engineering matters for that body. His home is at 417 J street. |