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Show Local Club To Join In Observance Of National Jaycee Week Distinguished Service Award Banquet Next Thursday Night Will Culminate Observance By Springville Club Members Grant S. Thorn, president of the Springville Junior Jun-ior Chamber of Commerce, announced today that the week of January 14-21 is being observed nationally as "Junior Chamber of Commerced Week?' On January 21, the United States Junior C. of C. will celebrate cele-brate its 23rd anniversary, with its 1005 local organizations joining join-ing with the Springville Junior Chamber of Commerce in staging special banquets. A proclamation, appearing in another column of the Herald this week, has been issued by Mayor W. W. Clyde declaring ine weeK ot tne itn to zisi as "Junior Chamber of Commerce Week" in Springville. Similar proclamations are expected to be issued in twenty other cities in the state where Jaycee organizations are functioning. It was on January 21, 1920, that the Junior Chamber of Commerce movement was founded in St. Louis, with twelve organizations as the original nucleus. The Junior Chamber of Commerce in Springville Spring-ville was organized in 1940. President William M. Shepherd of the United States Junior Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce has very clearly defined the purpose of the Junior Chamber of Commerce movement in war-time by stating that "As a national organization we are dedicated dedi-cated to an all-out effort for victory. vic-tory. As young men we bear the heaviest responsibility in fighting; as young men we are also devoting devot-ing our energies to the development develop-ment of a better post-war world so that we may win the peace." The local organization is staging stag-ing its "Distinguished Service Award Banquet" next Thursday evening at the Memorial hall. The banquet will be the high point of local plans and will feature the presentation of a Distinguished Service Award key to a young man of Springville, between the ages of 21 and 35, who has rendered ren-dered the most outstanding contribution contri-bution to the community in the past year. This young man has already been selected by a committee commit-tee here, states President Thorn, and his qualifications have been appr6ved by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, which investigates the awards. |