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Show JAYCEES PRESENT LIFE MEMBERSHIPS Bingham Canyon Junior Cham- ber of Commerce held their re gular meeting Monday evening at Bingham Club in honor of past presidents and former outstanding outstand-ing members of the club. Bob Jimas began the meeting by expressing his appreciation to these former Jaycees, some of whom were charter members of the group when it was organized in 1937 Mr. Jimas stated "Words could not express appreciation for the work they have perform -for the local group", before presenting pre-senting life memberships to the four present, Elliott W. Evans, first president; Dale Johnston, third president, Joel P. Jensen, sixth president, Harold R. Barton Bar-ton and Leland G. Burress of Gooding, Ida., fourth president, who was unable to be present. Mr. Evans expressed his view that the Jaycee organization must be kept a young man's organization, or-ganization, and when u member reaches the age limit, he should relinquish his work to the younger young-er men, and they have made this country a bettel place to live than before Frank Fister, past state president, presi-dent, of Ogden, gave a very interesting in-teresting talk on what Junior Chamber work consists of and what benefits are to be gained, such as leadership training, encouragement en-couragement in business, church and social work, with an opportunity oppor-tunity for every young man He also stated that young fellows are the life blood of a group and the old timers are the backbone of the club. A letter of appreciation and regret for not being able to be present, was read to the group, from Mr. Burress, who was a member of the club eight years State President Hughes Brock-bank Brock-bank of Salt Lake City formally installed officers of the organization organiza-tion who were recently appointed appoint-ed to office by the board of directors. di-rectors. In presenting the president's pin to President Ray Carl, Mr. Broekbank stated that one man of the organization cannot do anything alone. He must have the cooperation of the group to function properly. Eddie J. Arata, resigned president pinned the button on his lapel. President Carl in his response, stated that an organization is as strong as its member and that there is a great satisfaction in knowing that the Bingham club has made Bingham a better place to live. Minutes of the last meeting were read by Secretary Dan De-laney De-laney and approved by the club. Incorporation of the club was discussed and explained by Chris T. Praggastis and it was unanimously unan-imously approved to corporate, with a few minor changes. Highlights of Junior Chamber work were given by Harold W. Nielsen, giving history of the organization or-ganization as a whole and also history of the local group. John Brown, member of entertainment enter-tainment committee, discussed the possibility of a barbecue in the near future, and it was decided de-cided that the committee decide and arrange a date for the affair. Invitation of Dr. Paul S. Richards Rich-ards to hold the next meeting at Bingham hospital picnic place, was accepted. The meeting will be at 7:00 o'clock August 19. Twenty-nine members and guests were present. Guests were Mr. Broekbank, Mr. Fister, John Stevens of Tooele, Jack Bee of Tooele, Ford Boulware, Nick and Pete Chanak, James Jones, Gordon Gor-don Jensen, John Predovich, Norman Tanner of Salt Lake, John Muhar. |