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Show Smelting Firm Establishes 3 Scholarships At "U" Three scholarships as a memorial to Downie Davidson Muir, Jr., and Walter Hazen Eardley, two former officials of the United States Smelting Smelt-ing Refining and Mining company, who did much toward the development develop-ment of Utah and its mining industry, in-dustry, were awarded recently and the students are now attending the University of Utah. The scholarships were offered by the smelting company of which F. S. Mulock is vice-president and manager of western operations. The recipients are Melvin Joseph Belich. 19. and Conway W. Nielsen, 18, of Midvale and LeRoy Peterson, 19. of Murray. Provisions under which the scholarships schol-arships were established by the company, made eligible sons of employes em-ployes who have been on the payroll pay-roll continuously for 5 years or more at one of the company's operations oper-ations in Utah and sons of employes whose services have been terminated termi-nated by death or retirement. Sons of salaried employes could not participate. Ths scholarships are for four years, dependent upon the maintenance mainten-ance of satisfactory scholastic and personal ratings by the recipients and carry an annual stipend of $400. The boys will be given an opportunity to work during the summer at one of the company's operations. One of the scholarships is in honor of the memory of Downie Davidson Muir, who was for many years vice-president and general manager of western operations for the smelting company and one in honor of Walter Hazen Eardley, who was manager of the Midvale plant for the company for many years prior to his death. The other was a special award In recognition of particularily meretorlous scholastic scho-lastic attainments by the applicant. Both Mr. Muir and Mr. Eardley contributed much to the state and the mining industry by instituting and fostering advancements which placed the industry on a higher and better level. The smelting company Is now receiving re-ceiving applications for two scholarships schol-arships which will b awarded h the fall of 1010. |