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Show Dr. R. V. Larson 4 Seeks State School Board Post When the voters of four counties coun-ties of the state, Uintah, Duchesne, Duch-esne, Wasatch and Utah, go to the polls Nov. 2, among the ballots bal-lots they will receive will be one containing candidates for the office of-fice of state school board member mem-ber from District No. 4. Among the candidates is Dr. R. Vernon Larson, practicing physician phys-ician and surgeon, prominent church leader and an active civic worker from Roosevelt. A native of Smithfield, Utah, where he was born in 1908, a son of Supt. and Mrs. Ri V. Larson, he attended schools at Smithfield and North Cache high school and graduated from the Utah State Agricultural College in 1929. After teaching one year at North Cache high, he entered en-tered the George Washington University Uni-versity at Washington, D.C., from which he received his medical degree de-gree in 1935. After completing his medical course, Dr. Larson returned to Smithfield where he practiced medicine until 1940, when he entered en-tered the United States Army. He received his honorable discharge in Feb., 1946, as a Lt. Col. After his discharge from the Army he began practicing medicine in Roosevelt. An active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served two years as a counselor' in the Roosevelt stake presidency, a position he was holding hold-ing when called as bishop of the Roosevelt Ward, serving for three years. He is a past president of the Smithfield Kiwanis Club, and is now affiliated with the Roosevelt Roose-velt Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce. The state school board candidate is married to the former Helen Calder of Vernal and they are the parents of six children. In seeking the position on the state school board, Dr. Larson, expressed ex-pressed his interest in continued development and growth of Utah's Public School System. He pledges himself to work for the interests of the entire- state if it be the will of the people that he be chosen as their servant. , |