Show UTAH PRESS HOLDS ANNUAl MEET Editors Urged To Confide In Public Election of officers and speeches speech speech- es urging newspaper editors and publishers ers to assume their full share of public responsibility marked the forty-first forty annual meeting of the Utah State Press association Saturday and Sunday at the Newhouse hotel In Salt Lake City Leland G. G Burress Bun of Bingham was elected president of the association association association asso asso- succeeding Val H. H Cowles of Price Elisha Warner of Spanish SpanIsh Spanish Span Span- ish Fork was named vice president Henrik Romeyn of Salt Lake City was reelected treasurer secretary-treasurer by acclamation Chosen for the board of directors directors directors tors were A. A C C. C Saunders of Castle Dale C C. C A. A Epperson of Kaysville I Frank Gaisford of American Fork Edgar Simpson of St. St George and George Harrison Hanison of Roosevelt Elective state officials and members of ot the state legislature with other public dignitaries were guests of the association Saturday night at a gridiron dinner Mr Epperson was toastmaster and greetings were extended by association association asso asso- leaders and guests n Byrd rd Trego Speaks Principal speakers speakers' Saturday were Byrd Trego of Blackfoot Idaho daily dally newspaper publisher Edwin A. A Bemis of Littleton Colo Col Jo field manager of the Colorado Press association and George H H. Watson mayor of Alta Speaking on the topic Confide in Your Public Mr Trego urged newspapermen to dedicate themselves themselves themselves them them- selves first to serving the p public good and to take readers into their confidence on matters of news and business policies As an ex example mple of confiding in inthe inthe inthe the public the Idaho publisher told of an educational program carried on in that state to acquaint acquaint acquaint ac ac- ac- ac quaint readers with the importance of legal notices T The e importance of publishing public notices in detail was stressed stress stress- ed in hi the tal talk by Mr Bemis who pointed out it was a safeguard for forthe forthe the public official and a guarantee to the public against secret processes pro pro- processes through hidden channels Public Notices The question of public notices is tied very very closely to our form of freedom of the press the speaker speak speak- er remarked Government can can operate more effectively when it has the confidence of its people Since Continued On Page 8 UTAH PRESS HOLDS ANNUAL MEET Continued from Page One we elect eJect citizens to make decisions and administer for us and since It is physically impossible for forus us to meet daily or weekly on questions questions questions ques ques- of government or its administration adminIstration administration admin admin- then we look to our elected elected elected elect elect- ed representatives to give an accounting accounting accounting ac ac- ac- ac counting to us at a time and place when it is convenient for us to read or listen Basin Papers Represented One of the weaknesses of the present publication laws relating to public notices Is that too little publicity Is required Mr Bemis declared or there Is insufficient detail to give the public a complete picture The convention tIon ended Sunday after a meeting when mutual problems problems problems lems were discussed M Meetings of the legislative and executive committees committees committees com com- followed the general ses ses- All AIl three Uintah Basin newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers were represented at the conference by Mr and Mrs Bill Wallis Vallis of the Vernal Express Mr and Mrs Irs George Gcorge H H. H Harrison of the Roosevelt Standard and Mr and Mrs Roy A A. A of the Uintah Basin Record |