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Show USSR & M CO. LISTS PROMOTIONS Appointment of B. E. Grant as assistant to the manager of western west-ern mines was announced Thursday Thurs-day by F. S. Mulock, vice president presi-dent and general manager of western operations, United States Stat-es Smelting Refining and Mining Min-ing Co. Mr. Grant, a resident of Bingham, Bing-ham, formerly was general superintendent sup-erintendent of the U. S. and Lark mine. The appointment is effective effec-tive February 1. He succeeds A. G. Kirkland, who on January 1 was promoted to assistant manager of western mines. Mr. Grant was graduated from the U. of U., in 1931 with a bachelor bach-elor of science degree in geology and political science. During 1931-32 he received a teaching fellowship and engaged in postgraduate post-graduate studies at the university. univer-sity. He later taught in Jordan school district, did postgraduate work in geology at the University Univer-sity of Idaho and in international law at the University of California Cali-fornia from 1934 to 1936. Mr. Grant was first employed by U. S. Smelting in 1937 as a geologist helper and was advanced advanc-ed to the post of superintendent of the U. S. section of the mine in 1942. He became assistant to manager of the Utah mines in 1943 and general superintendent of U.S. and Lark mine in 1944. Mr. Mulock also announced appointment ap-pointment effective Feb. 1 of Max M. DuBois, Lark, as general superintendent sup-erintendent of U. S. and Lark mine. He is a graduate of Washington Wash-ington State college and a veteran vet-eran of World War I. His first job with United States Smelting was as an assayer in 1928 at the Pittsburgh Idaho mine, Gilmore, Ida. He later advanced ad-vanced from shift foreman at the U. S. section, Bingham, to assistant as-sistant superintendent of the Lark section in 1937. He became superintendent of the U. S. section sec-tion in 1943 and superintendent of the' Lark section in 1945. Benton Boyd, a graduate of the State College of Pennsylvania, was appointed to fill Mr. DuBois' Du-Bois' position as superintendent of the Lark section. He first was employed as a mucker in the St. Joe section of the firm's operation opera-tion in 1936 and subsequently was promoted in 1943 as assistant assist-ant superintendent of the Lark section. Harold H. Wells of Copperfield, U. S. section general mine foreman, fore-man, has been promoted to assistant as-sistant superintendent of the Lark section. Mr. Wells first was employed in 1934 at, the U. S. section as a shift foreman. He left the firm from 1940 to 1944 to become mine superintendent of Saudi Arabian Mining Syndicate, Syndi-cate, Ltd., Saudi Arabia. He returned, re-turned, however, and in 1946 was made general mine foreman of the U. S. section. Other promotions announced by Mr. Mulock included: Neil Fresh, West Jordan, to succeed Mr. Wells as general mine foreman fore-man of the U. S. section, and Robert Weagel, succeeding Mr. Fresh as assistant general mine foreman of that section. Mr. Fresh began employment with the firm in 1925 as a shift foreman and was advanced to assistant as-sistant general mine foreman in 1942. Mr. Weagel, a graduate bf the University of Idaho, worked in the Coeur d'Alene, Ida., district, dis-trict, and later as a shift foreman at National Tunnel and Mines, Tooele. He was advanced to stope foreman in 1947 at the U. S. section, sec-tion, and later to shift foreman. O |