Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-12-18 | Page 24 | Parley Closed by 20-30 Clubs

PARLEY CLOSED BY 20-30 CLUBS - PROVO Law enforcement, club ' policy and announcement of club appointments featured the concluding conclud-ing meeting of the quarterly conclave con-clave of Central Intermountain 3O-30 clubs here Sunday at the Hotel Roberts. T H Abbe Strunk of San Antonio, Texas, national' president, urged the clubs In the district to take a more prominent part In community affairs, to raise their membership, and praised the groups, particularly particu-larly the Provo organization, for their Safety Sally program for protecting school children at highway high-way crossings. . Other speakers at the Sunday morning meeting Included Jay C. ! Newman, agent in charge of the ; Salt Lake City branch of the fed-j fed-j eral - bureau of Investigation; George Southworth of Rene, Nev., ! tiatlonal district trustee; Wlllard I Mintun of Provo, district governor, and Al Carter of Pocatello, Idaho, - lieutenant governor. . . FBI Training Mr. Newman told of the methods Used by the FBI in training agents, explaining that all appli- public accountants and are put through a 16-week training course. Many communities also take ad-. ad-. vantage of the schools by sending ! their local law officers to attend, ' it, said. Some of these men raise money for their own expenses by doing odd jobs, he said, relating how one man took pictures of Washington and sold them to classmates, class-mates, and how another man's wife took in washing. - Mr. Mintun stressed the value ef cooperation between clubs to better put over their objectives, and announced the appointment of i Robert Rodman of Salt Lake City as national expansion director for the district; Max Booth of Ogden as national rules and regulations committeeman, and George Shaw of Provo as national publicity committeeman, com-mitteeman, . , ' Pledgee Vote - In pledging his vote to bring the 1941 national convention of the organization to Salt Lake City, Mr. Southworth also explained that the national district trustee would be appointed from this district In that year. .... Other officers In attendance be-eldes be-eldes some 60 members from Pocatello, Poca-tello, JOgden, Salt Lake Qity and Provo clubs. Included Ed Van Sweden, Swe-den, Incoming president of the Og-dea Og-dea club; Mr. Rodman, Incoming president of the Salt Lake City group; Arthur Duckett, Incoming president of the Provo club; Dick Kerr, incoming secretary of the Ogden club; Dick Jensen, incoming incom-ing secretary of the Salt Lake City Club, and Frampton Collins, present pres-ent secretary of the Provo chapter.