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Show CONVEIITIOIIERS POUR MILLIONS III S.UPURSES Ten National Meets Already Booked for 1938-39 ; Conventloa-eonaeioua Salt Lake City will benefit by "million of dollars" during IBM and 13 from delegatea' dollar scheduled U) pour Into local pockets. Mr. Winifred P. Rail, convention conven-tion secretary of the chamber of commerce, Friday announced 10 national na-tional convention an) six regional gathering already have bean booked for Salt Lake City during th coming year and th first few month of lMt. Th lxth regional gathering, landed Friday, waa that of th southwest regional conference confer-ence of th National Federation of Boroptimiet clubs. Soreotimlsta Ptek S. U Mr. Margaret M. McQuilkla, collector col-lector of cuatoma here and president presi-dent ef the Salt Lake Boroptimiet olub, aald th 1917 regional confer ence in Lo Angeles, October 11 to 16, voted to hold their next convention con-vention her In April. Approximately Approxi-mately goo delegate are expected to attend. What the coming convention will mean to Salt Lake City waa evident la figure released by Mrs. Ralls, which showed that delegate attending at-tending conventions bar tnoe 1M0 had apent flO.091.5M. Mrs. Ralla baaed her figure en th minimum number of day apent by delegate in the city and eh minimum expenditure per day of the delegate. Last yar U.2M delegatea del-egatea wer here for it conventions. conven-tions. When December II, 193T. roll around, 64.000 delegatea will have attended 101 convention bar. at ye rirth Mrs. Rail aald that Salt Lake City now i fifth convention city In th United Bute. Thta ranking rank-ing .was mad possible, she aald, by th methods used la obtaining the conventions. - Mrs. Ralls said that a convention hall constructed la Salt Lake City "would enlarge our field ef prospects pros-pects at least four times. As it la now, our invitations are limited not only to the smaller national group, but to th group that require lit-tie lit-tie or Be exhibit space." Having no convention haB la serious handicap to inducing large organiaatlon to meet la any city, aha pointed out. The national conventions secured for Salt Lake City In 1931 and number of delegate expected are aa follows: National Woolgrowars aaaoclation, 500, and auxiliary, 100, In January; National Parent-Teacher aaaoclation congress, 1500, and th board ef manager. National Pj-T. Pj-T. A. congress, 500, in May) th United Commercial Travelers of America, MO, In June. Letter Carriers Listed The National Federation of Rural Letter Carrier, 800, in September; the National Exchange clubs, 1500 , in November. National conventions already booked for 1939 Include the Northern North-ern Baptiat aaaoclation, 6000 delegatea; dele-gatea; the National Council of But Garden cluba, 900 delegatea, and the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, 150 delegates. Large regional conventions Include In-clude the western division. National Recreation aaaoclation, 600 dele-gatea; dele-gatea; the southwestern Physical Education conference, 200 delegatea; the Central Weatern Shippers' advisory ad-visory board, 500 delegatea, and th Pacific division. United States Building snd Loan local, 150 delegatea, dele-gatea, in June, and the western regional re-gional dairy conference, 500 delegatea, dele-gatea, In November. Stay Estimated . Mrs Rail said the average stay of convention delegatea during paat yeara in Salt Lake City haa keen from three and one-half to five day and th average minimum expenditure ex-penditure per delegate per day was $9. She based her revenue figures on three and one-half days' stay. Sh aaid th national conventions would increase the average stay to five day or mora, while regional and atate convention delegatea would remain from one to five days, with an average of three days. From January 1, 1930, to December Decem-ber 11, 193T, there will have been 526 conventlona In Salt Lake City, aeatlng 288.330 delegatea to the tune of 110,901,650. |