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Show Rural Utah Firm Gets Statewide Recognition A rural Utah manufacturing firm, operating in basic industry, received statewide recognition August 19 at Hotel Utah when the Standard Saddle Tree Co. of Vernal Ver-nal was awarded the third annual Distinguished Service Award for Industrial Achievement. Firms from all rural areas of the state were nominated. Presented at the luncheon session ses-sion of the 10th annual State Economic Eco-nomic Development Conference, under sponsorship of the Utah Committee on Industrial and Employment Em-ployment Planning, the award goes annually to a firm outside the Weber, We-ber, Davis, Salt Lake, and Utah county areas which has distinguished distinguish-ed itself by: 1. Evidencing initiative and ingenuity in-genuity in establishing the business. busi-ness. 2. Utilizing local materials and labor. 3. Overcoming obstacles Ln markets mar-kets and transportation. 4. Contributing materially t o the economy of the area in which it is located. Previous winners of the coveted award have been Brown Equipment Equip-ment Co. of Hoytsville, Summit County, and Crofts-Pearson Industries Indus-tries of Richfield and Panguitch. The Vernal firm cuts and mills lodgepole pine in the Uintah Mountains Moun-tains and hauls it to Vernal, where it is shaped into saddle trees. The saddle tree is then covered with green rawhide and dried to form the finished saddle tree. The firm also manufactures saddle cinches, saddle pads, and finished saddles. Products are marketed in all parts of the United States and Canada. They employ 40 Vernal area workers. work-ers. A citation signed by Governor George D. Clyde and a trophy provided pro-vided by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce were presented to Law-I Law-I rence Fox and Kenneth Hadlock, who own and operate Standard Saddle Tree Co. |