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Show stags state mmm eme ummmm w C -IC n.Zn S S S I 111111 MARKS EfiD ilF SESSION Mammoth Parade and Spectacular Spec-tacular Contests Bring Session Ses-sion to Close at Springville; Bingham Gets 1928 Meet. The twentieth annual tournament was the attraction of the final day of the L'lah Slate l-'aeiiien's associiition convention at Springville. Spring-ville. Contests on Wednesday, the final day of the convention, were preceded by n mammoth parade of he assembled firemen n spectacle more tlmn six blocks in length. Springville Band Le;ul The parade was led by the Springville Spring-ville band, the Suit L:;'k and Mid-vale Mid-vale bands also were included in the long line of march. I'rovo firemen, fire-men, Salt Lake firemen. Suit Lake Indies' auxiliary, Bingham, Hing-hnni Hing-hnni stage, Eureka, Murray, Mid-' vale, Midviile Indies' auxiliary, r;iy-son, r;iy-son, Sandy, Spanish Fork, Tooel; :ind Springville all were represented :n (he firemen's parade. The see-tacle see-tacle was a most, picl uresipie one, with all members of the vnriouf ilepartmont in full uniform. A novel feature was the appenr-iince appenr-iince of the Iiinghnm dep;i rl meiit dressed in miner's outfits. The afternoon's tourmiment included in-cluded motor races, individual hose coupling, ladder climbing, four-man team hose coupling, tug o'war and special events of a most interesting unture. The three day session came to a close- Wednesday evening with a tirenicn's dance at Clengarry. Tuesday's session marked f ho close of the convention proior, wilh election of officers and the selection of Bingham as the sile of the 192S convention. Former Governor Charles Ii. Mnbey delivered the memorial address ad-dress Tuesdny. Other speakers included in-cluded L. E. Wiscombe of the Springville department, and Chief Walter S. Knight of Salt Luke. ItesohJf ions presented by C. W. Booth of Spanish Fork, chairman of the resolutions committee, wero adopted. Officers Are Klcctcd Officers for the ensuing year were .dected as follows : Walter S. Knight, chief of Ihe Salt Lake City fire department pres- blent; L. C. Canning, chief of the .Midvale department, first vice president; Arthur 11. Mnackc of Hingham, second vice pre .deiit ; Harris E. Anderson of Salt I.ake, secretary; Reuben Simpson of Salt Lake, treasurer ; E. L. Anthony of Salt Li:ke. state organizer; Kdwin Larscn of Murray, sergeant-at-nrms; J. J. Hannifin of Eureka, five-year term trustee; Dan Peterson Peter-son of Hrighnni City, one-year loam trustee; L. IC. Wiscombe, Springville, and W. T. Ayland, Salt Luke, are bold over trustees. Life certificates were presented to tbe following on Tuesdny: H. A. Hacking and Albert Imdell, Bingham: Ceorge V. Cromar, Eiire-;il Eiire-;il ; .lames' P. Powell, Midvale ; iVilliam .1. Hancock, C. E. Jirnw-bray, Jirnw-bray, P. 11. Diillon anil M. I . ISInUe. salt Lake; (Men Chiidwiek, Ainer-rilli Ainer-rilli Folk; Wlllard Peterson. Tooele; Too-ele; Thomas Phillips, Spanish fori, : Albert Herklnshaw, Park City, John il. nonnelly, Eureka. The importance of a well organized organ-ized fire deparln t to comniiinll.v' ife was stressed by speakers at til" r.poning session Monday. Mayor (ircets Uclcgales The convention whs called to or-ler or-ler .Mondny morning by President Irving L. Pratt of American Foil;, file delegates were greeted by May- r !. R. .Maycock of Springville. The invocation was by James Pea- ock. a veteran of tbe old volui r lire department of Suit Lake Cilv loin ik-.'l lo ISKt. Miss lioniiii S.il-sbury S.il-sbury gave a reading and Vern tavis and llonnlft Hansen gave a ioliii duet, after which a hnsim-" netting was held. At the at'leinoon session Assi-I ml Chief W. .1. Hancock, of lh" silt Lake fire deta rl nclil . gave :; -eport of tin- fire prevent ion colli millec. Robert Larson, of Sand;, reported for tbe topic eonunillcc. ind C. W. I ',i mt h . oT Spanish fork, or the law nnd legislation ennnni!-lee. ennnni!-lee. C. A. ('aiming, of Mldval". -puke on "For tbe flood of tin- As-i. 'ialion." lie recommended Mint a ladies' auxiliary to the suite firemen's fire-men's associa I ion be organized to in 'lude the wives and daughler-: or all firemen. The recomniciida I ion wie. favorably received, to b- ticlcd on before the adiounuil'-nt of lb" '"'11-vention. '"'11-vention. Arcbii' Slcwarl. of Sinul '. talked on the subject, "Why Ar" Y"ii a Fireuui ti V Firemen's Pension Fund 'William Doxev. of Hoiinlifnl. presented pre-sented a resolution that n bill be (Continued on page four) ' STATE FIREMEN (Continued rrom page one) presented at the next legislature creating and establishing n veterans' veter-ans' volunteer firemen's pension fund for members of regularly organized or-ganized pioneer volunteer fire department de-partment and to create a board of trustees and provide for the collection collec-tion and distribution of the fund and its maintenance, management and conduct. The annual banquet and good-fellowship meeting of the association was held in the Springville high school Slonday evening last, at which Chairman A. O. Smoot, of flie board of Utah county commissioners, commis-sioners, was the principal speaker. Sir. Smoot told of the work being accomplished in Utah county in the way of establishing coojierative fire departments outside of the corporate corpor-ate limits of cities and towns of the county in keeping with the provisions provis-ions of a law passed by the last state legislature authorizing county boards to offer protection to property prop-erty in rural districts. "Notwithstanding we are giving all of this protection to property of this county, und the cities and towns have the most modern fire-fighting fire-fighting apparatus to be found, underwriters un-derwriters and fire insurance companies com-panies continue to make exorbitant rates," declared Sir. Smoot. Almost I'roliibitive Rates "Building specifications call for the most fireproof materials and workmanship, but these underwriters underwrit-ers are everlastingly clamoring for greater protection, and they are given giv-en greater protection than ever before. be-fore. Still their rates remain almost al-most prohibitive, in spite of the fact that a vast majority of these companies are making a fabulous profit on their investment." Sir. Smoot received hearty applause ap-plause at the conclusion of his talk. A feature of Slondny's session was a visit of the delegates and their wives to the Columbia Steel plant. |