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Show ,v s I t v i V-V '' Herbert F. Smart, to speak on aspects of state government govern-ment at Chamber of Commerce Com-merce installation Fri. night. State finance director guest speaker Chamber imlkfrna hammti Friday Herbert F. Smart, director of Utah State Department of Finance, and native of Utah County, will be the guest speaker at the twenty-seventh annual Chamber of Commerce installation banquet Friday, January 19. His topic will be "Interesting "Interest-ing Aspects of State Government." Gov-ernment." The annual dinner meeting meet-ing will be held in the Art Building at 7:30 p.m. Arrangements Ar-rangements have been under the direction of Maury Thomas, acting vice president. presi-dent. Martin .Conover, publisher of the Springville Herald, will take over the office of president succeeding Hugh Gardner who has served the past three months since the resignation of Kenneth Met-calf, Met-calf, who moved to St. George. The guest speaker was born in Provo of pioneer parents and was educated in local schools and the BYU. He later graduated from George Washington University Univer-sity School of Law, Washington, Wash-ington, D.C. in 1938 and was editor of the George Washington Wash-ington Law Review during., his senior year. Presently he is serving as the director of the Utah State Department of Finance. Fi-nance. He is also a member of the Central Utah Water Conservancy ' District, Utah and District of Columbia Bar Associations, Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, and of the Information Informa-tion Systems Committee of the Council of State Governments; Govern-ments; vice president of the National Wildlife Federation, Federa-tion, a national conservation organization of over two million people. He has held many offices in state government and been active in conservation and reclamation fields. He was - instrumental in establishing estab-lishing a State Workshop on Conservation Education from which a conservation source material book was published for use in the schools of Utah. He also played a leading role in the Congressional authorization of the Upper Colorado River Project and appeared before Congressional Congres-sional Committees relative to this legislation as well as other conservation bills Other Chamber officers who will take over their duties du-ties during the installation ceremonies will include Arthur Ar-thur Tucker, vice president; two-year directors : Bruce Braithwaite, Larry Burning-ham, Burning-ham, J. Melvin Duke, Ray Klauck, Milan Packard, Floyd Stewart. Holdover directors di-rectors include LaVell Brown, Edwin Johnson, Jim Peay, Maury Thomas, and George Wright. Retiring president, Hugh Gardner, will also serve on the board. Reservations will be accepted ac-cepted up until noon Thursday Thurs-day at the Chamber office. |