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Show USPA SCHEDULES MEETING IN SALT LAKE CITY The Utah State Press Association Associa-tion will conduct the annual midwinter mid-winter convention in Salt Lake City or. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Harrison Conover, local publisher, president of the State Press Association, w i 1 1 be in charge of the sessions which will be held at the Newhouse Hotel. Highlighting the convention will be a tour of Hill Field Saturday forenoon, and the group will be guests at a luncheon at the Officers Offi-cers Club at Hill Field at 1:30 p. m. The group will return to Salt Lake City for a business meeting at 4:30 p. m. A banquet is scheduled at the hotel Saturday evening, and Sunday Sun-day morning the past presidents of the association will' hold their breakfast meeting. A regular session ses-sion of the convention will be conducted con-ducted at 10 a. m. Sunday, at which time Vernon Frost, prominent promi-nent Idaho publisher, will be the principal speaker. The group will be guestj of the Western Newspaper Union at a luncheon at the hotel at 1 p. m. which will conclude the convention. conven-tion. Delegates to the convention on the Hill Field tour will see one of the largest war installations in Utah and the inter-mountain region. re-gion. Built at an original cost of $25,000,000, it is Hill Field's job to "keep 'em flying." Here, huge bombers and other plane equipment equip-ment returning from foreign missions, mis-sions, are retired and put m condition con-dition to resume their attacks. There will be a tour of the shops and warehouses, of the technical tech-nical schools where thousands of soldiers are trained, and the barracks bar-racks where soldiers are made ready for shipment overseas They will also see the test buildings and the flight test and operations hangars. Arrangements for the tour are under the direction of Capt. A. B. Wanamaker, special information officer. |