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Show B.V.F.D. OFFICERS INSTALLED TUESDAY AT JOINT MEETING . Officers to head Bingham volunteer vol-unteer fire companies Nos. 1 and 2 and the conjoint companies for : the year 1945 were installed at the regular conjoint monthly meeting held Tuesday evening at j No. 2 Fire hall. Bert A. Hocking acted as installing officer and John T. West was conductor. The following were installed: joint company officers Roy Nelson, I president; Ben McAllister, vice president: LaVel Timothy, secre-'tary: secre-'tary: No. 1 officers Earl T. James, chief; C. I. Stillman, assistant chiif; John J. Creedon, secretary; secre-tary; Joseph P Scussel, treasurer; treasur-er; Ben McAllister, chairman; Leonard Miller, assistant chairman; chair-man; No. 2 officers J. L. Householder, House-holder, chief; Clair Johnson, assistant as-sistant chief; Willard Nichols, secretary - treasurer; Wallace Johnson, chairman; G. T. Parkinson, Park-inson, assistant chairman. Fire chiefs J. L. Householder and Earl T. James gave the report re-port of fires for 1944. They stated stat-ed that loss was $3000 and that firemen made 21 calls during the year. Following installation ceremonies cere-monies a musical program under the direction of Joel P. Jensen was given. The following took part: vocal trio, Shirley Parkin, Genevieve Olsen, Beverly Nix, "Always" and "I Dream of You"; saxophone solo, Mickey Culleton, "Stardust"; trumpet duet, Jack Knudsen, Karl Hofmann, "The Friendly Rivals". Miss Parkin was accompanist. A trumpet trio, Margaret McKellar, Mr. Knudsen Knud-sen and Mr. Hofmann furnishud music during the installation rites. Presentation of colors was made by members of Boy Scout troop No. 136, Ronald Ball, Donald Don-ald Throckmorton. Howard Otte-son Otte-son and Douglas Morris. Mayor R. A. Murano. City Councilman Harvey Wolfe and Howard Hausknecht of Bingham high school gave short talks. Anast Chipian, city councilman, was also present. Mr. Wolfe reported re-ported that the city council has set up $1400.00 for fire equipment equip-ment for 1945 and that they had on order now 500 feet of 24 inch hose and 400 feet of inch hose. Two new hand fire extinguishers ex-tinguishers were delivered to company No. 2 Tuesday evening. even-ing. Joe Timothy, J. L. Householder Household-er and Duane McCandless were on the refreshment committee. |