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Show Provo Attorney Candidate For Supreme Court Post ' w .jnwwnmiimi'wniumi.iw , George W. Worthen of Provo, wtll-known attorney and former judge of the Fourth Judicial District, Dis-trict, Saturday announced his candidacy can-didacy for Utah Supreme Court justice for a 10-year term. Mr. Worthen will seek one of two state supreme court posts to be filled this year under the new nonpartisan judiciary election law. A native of St. George, Mr. Worthen Wor-then attended Brigham Young University Uni-versity and received his legal training at University of California Califor-nia where he received his degree oi doctor of jurisprudence. He served as Fourth district judge from January 1929 to January Jan-uary 1933 and since that time has been engaged in private practice In Provo. He was a juvenile court judge prior to serving as district judge. Mr. Worthen taught school for a while after his graduation ffrom Brigham Young University and before be-fore entering University of California. Cali-fornia. . Active in civic affairs, Mr. Worthen Wor-then has been a member of the Utah Commission for the Promotion Promo-tion of Uniform State Laws for the past 14 years. He is a member mem-ber of the Utah County Bar Association As-sociation as well as the Utah State Bar and American Bar Associations. Associa-tions. After World War I he was very active in American Legion affairs in Provo and the state. He served : as commander of the Utah department. depart-ment. Mr. Worthen married Charlotte (Lottie) McQuarrie of St. George. They have four children: Ralph M Worthen of Chicago, Illinois, who is with the Federal Public Power Commission; Mrs. A. R. SEEKS POST George W. Worthen, Wor-then, candidate for justice of the Utah Supreme Court for a 10-year term. (Ruth Ann) Purhonen, with the Public Health Department, Salt Lake City; Dr. Howard George Worthen, with the University of Minnesota Hospital; and David M. Worthen, student at Provo high school. All adult members of the Worthen Wor-then family have attended Brigham Brig-ham Young University, and the youngest son, David, who is still in high school, spent seven years at the BYU Training school. Mrs. Worthen, wife of the candidate, can-didate, is well known in Utah for her work in civic and . patriotic affairs. I Dr. Louis L. Madsen, sealed right, president of Ufah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College, receives check for $7,800 from R. R. Thomas, vice president of Southern Utah Power CoM Cedar Ciiy. Money is being granted the college by four Utah electric power companies for conducting con-ducting research in farm electrification. Looking on are- George M. Gadsby, left, Utah Power & Light Co.. and H. R. Waldo. Telluride Power Co., presidents of other electric companies contributing to the program. LOGAN To find and develop new ways of putting electricity's "wired help" to work for the farmer is the aim of a program being initiated this month by Utah State Agricultural college. The program is being made possible by a $7,800 grant made to the college by four of Utah's investor-owned electric power companies. The 'grant was made June 20 at a meeting of power company and college officials in Salt Lake City.. USAC president Louis L. Madsen received the $7,800 check from R. R. Thomas, vice president presi-dent of Southern Utah Power Co., Cedar City, one" of the contributing con-tributing utilities. According to Dr. Madsen, the following power companies are also cooperating in the electrification electrifi-cation program: Utah Power it Light Co., Salt Lake City; Tellu-ride Tellu-ride Power Co., Richfield, and Uintah Power & Light Co., Roosevelt. A special phase of the program will deal with the proper use of " electricity by rural youth groups including Future Farmers of America and 4-H club members. Practical demonstrations and published material will be made available for use in their educational educa-tional programs. The research, itself, will be conducted by the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural Experiment station and cooperating department at the USAC in Logan, Dr. M,adsen said. Results and practical application of the work will reach the farmer farm-er through the Utah Agricultural Extension Service and other cooperating co-operating agencies. An advisory board known as the College-Industry Farm Electrification Elec-trification Committee has been set up to supervise the research program. Prof. Dee Broad-bent, Broad-bent, acting director, Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural Experiment Station, is committee chairman. "Object of the research project pro-ject is to supply new and impor tant facts and methods concerning concern-ing the optimum use of electricity electric-ity on Utah's farms," said Dr. Madsen. "It is planned that research re-search on the adaptation and use of electricity will be undertaken under-taken in such areas as farm refrigeration, farm crop harvesting harvest-ing and processing, a farm water supply including drainage and sprinkler irrigation, farm shop equipment and electricity in the farm home." College officials point out that the cooperative efforts of the companies making the grant and USAC make research results quickly available to farmers in the form of new methods and equipment. They say that reduction re-duction of hand labor on farms - is of vital concern to farmers in the"state and research in thi9 field should yield important results. Power company officials serving serv-ing on the committee include W. A. Huckins, manager, business development dept., Utah Power & Light Co., Salt Lake City. R. R. Thomas, vice pres., Southern Utah Power Co., Cedar City; Paul P. Ash worth, general manager, man-ager, Telluride Power Co., Richfield; Rich-field; Kenneth R. Aycock, manager, man-ager, Uintah Power & Light Co, |