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Show I Short I County Treasurer Jarvis Bids L Ieal Taxpayers See HimSoon and Events News Avoid Last-Minute Rush IDriefl 'B. P. O. F. lodge No. 85 will gain 10 members at the first fall initiation meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. EDDIE CANTOR, banjo-eyed screen comedian, and James Thurber, New York artist, were en route to the east Wednesday after pausing briefly in Salt Lake to discuss the war. Moving pictures treating dictator dicta-tor plots will "pull no punches," Mr. Cantor said. Mr. Thurber, who has been In Hollywood collaborating on a play, said both the stage and the field of "light" magazine writing are bound to pick up because of the war. C. N. I.l'ND spoke at a meeting Tuesday evening of Townsend club No. 1 at 255 East Third South street. The meeting was the largest larg-est attended of any in the club's history. ALTHOl'GH the deadline for payment of county taxes is November No-vember 30 more than two months away County Treasurer J. R. Jar-vis Jar-vis Wednesday told taxpayers to "come early and avoid the rush." "We can always take care of taxpayers, no matter when they come in." he said, "but it Is to their own advantage to arrive early and miss the crowding that usually occurs on the last two days." THE Bennett Glass and Paint company Wednesday night will honor W. B. Stafford, veteran glass expert, who soon Is to retire after nearly 50 years of service, with a dinner at the Hotel Utah. APPROVAL by the president of a $10,560 WPA improvement project proj-ect in the Uintah national forest had been received Wednesday by Darrell J. Greenwell, Utah WPA administrator. OFFICERS of the Utah state junior chamber of commerce and the board of governors of the Ogden Junior chamber were guests of the Salt Lake group's board of governors Tuesday night at a stag supper at the Old Mill club. BECAUSE the city's fund for convention trips by employes is nearly exhausted. Mayor John M. Wallace said Wednesday he probably prob-ably would not attend the National Na-tional Safety congress at Atlantic City, N. J., next month, although he is scheduled to preside at two round table sessions. KEPT out of Canada and the European war by 30 minutes, an American-made Lockheed bomber was back at its home base in Bur-bank, Bur-bank, Cal., Wednesday after stopping stop-ping briefly in Salt Lake City. The plane was prevented from leaving this country because it reached the border 30 minutes after the arms embargo proclamation affecting af-fecting Canada became effective. WILLIAM A. MARTIN, president presi-dent of the Salt Lake Optimist club, presided at the organization's weekly meeting Tuesday in the Newhouse hotel. OPENING convocation ceremonies ceremo-nies at Westminster college will be conducted Thursday at 9:30 a. m. by the Rev. Theodore G. Lilley, pastor of the First Presbyterian Presby-terian church. "BASIC ISSUES In the European Euro-pean Struggle" will be the topic of Dr. W. Harold Dalgliesh at the first fall meeting of the Business and Professional Women's club at the Newhouse hotel Thursday at 6:30 p. m. CALVIN TAYLOR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elliot C. Taylor of 1813 Fifteenth East street, who received re-ceived a fellowship at the University Univer-sity of Chicago, will leave Saturday Satur-day for that college. PROBLEMS of the trucking Industry In-dustry were discussed Tuesday by directors of the Intermountain-Coast Intermountain-Coast Motor Freight Tariff bureau bu-reau at a meeting in the New-house New-house hotel. MEMBERS of the Neal, William and Michel McMillan families will hold their annual reunion Sunday at noon in Liberty park. |