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Show Legion Post Commander Wins DSA; Two Men Receive Key-Man Keys the Mapleton Lions; Hughes Brockbank of Salt Lake City, treasurer of the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce and a number of relatives of the DSA winner including his wife,' and his mother, .Mrs. Henry Maylett of Manti. The eight other Springville men who have received the award in previous years include in the order or-der of presentation: Harrison Con-over, Con-over, Grant Thorn, Verl Whiting, A. H. Mortensen, Paul Haymond, George Bird, Glen Turner and Bert Strong. In charge of arrangements for this year's banquet and program were LeMar Miner, chairman and Marcus Johnson, co chairman. Dave Thomas, commander of the American Legion post No. 28, became be-came Springville's ninth man of the year and was presented with the Jaycee Distinguished Service Award during an annual banquet and program conducted last Thursday Thurs-day evening at Melody Inn binder direction of the Junior Chamber. President Stanley Roberts conducted con-ducted the meeting. The award is in recognition of the activities in which the winner has engaged during the past year and of his contributions to the community in various fields. Ray Klauck, one of three judges making the selection, presented the coveted award and cited Mr. Thomas for his leadership. He named among his activities his chairmanship of the Springville civil defense to which he was named the past year. Mr. Thomas is commander of the Legion post and a member of the 20-30 club. He is an active member of the LDS church for which he has served as a ward teacher and is also a Scout leader. He served as parade chairman of the centennial cen-tennial celebration on the Fourth of July. He is presently office manager of Whiting and Haymond Construction Company. Mr. Thomas's Thom-as's wife is the former Clista Larsen and they have two children. chil-dren. Other judges acting on the committee com-mittee with Mr. Klauck were G. Lowry Anderson and Leo Crandall. Cran-dall. Sharing a place on the award list were LaMar Miner and Marcus Johnson, who received "key-man keys" in recognition of their service ser-vice to the Junior Chamber of Commerce the past year. The third such award was given to Reed Johnson prior to his departure depar-ture recently for service with the armed forces. The key-man awards were made by Glen Hansen and Robert Parker, Par-ker, past Jaycee presidents. The dinner-program attended by approximately 160 club members, their wives and a number of special spec-ial guests, featured an interesting interest-ing program from the high school announced by Toastmaster Verl Whiting. Miss Coleen Norton entertained with a reading; Joe Smith, an accordian selection; Marlene Oakley Oak-ley and Glida Ann Packard, vocal duets. They were accompanied by Dan Bartholomew, who also played play-ed a piano selection. Marvin Bertoch, Salt Lake City attorney and chairman of the state DSA, was the principal guest speaker pointing to the fact that these DSA winners are not only civic workers, but are good Americans, Am-ericans, to which their fellowmen may look for leadership. LeRoy Tingey, councilman, acting act-ing in the absence of Mayor Edward Ed-ward Clyde, was introduced as a special guest and spoke briefly commending the Jaycees for their leadership and active interest in community affairs;. Bill Welsh, state Jaycee vice-president, was also a special guest as were Arvil Bird, president elect of the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce; Milton Harrison and Edward Boyer, city council-men; council-men; Frank Cranmer and Glen W. Coffman, president and vice-president vice-president of the Kiwanis; Lamar Weight, immediate past president of the 20-30 club; Wells Bring-hurst, Bring-hurst, commander of the local post ! VFW; Carlos Hjorth, president of |