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Show 50TH YEAR NOTED BY THE UTAH STATE FIREM0TS ASS'N The Utah State Firemen's Association convention will have special significance for the local fire department this year. The Association was organized fifty years ago in Salt Lake City on September 16, 1908 and the Bingham Bing-ham Fire Department was one of the Charter Departments and has been a dominant force in the Association to the present day. At the convention to be (held in Heber, June 12, 13 and 14, the Golden Jubilee Year will be observed and Bingham will 'be honored as a Charter Depart - ment. In addition, two of its members are among the five living charter members to be honored at Heber on Thursday, June 12th at 1:30 o'clock. These two men are R. R. Marriott and Dean Wilcox. Mr. Wilcox joined the Association while a member of the Bingham Fire Department, Depart-ment, but has resided in Spanish Fork since 1911. A special program, "The Golden Gold-en Years" patterned after "This Is Your Life" on television will outline the life of each charter member with pictures of different differ-ent events in their lifetime flashed flash-ed on a large screen. John J. Creedon will be the narrator and Chief J. K. Piercey of Salt Lake City will take care of the pictures. pic-tures. A special gift will be presented pre-sented each member. The other three men to be honored are John J. Sullivan, Eureka; John H. Durranit, Provo, and Reg White, Sandy. Mr. White will be the Marshall of the Day during the parade, also held on Thursday, June 12th at 6:30 p.m.p leading it on a horse. The other four men will have a special place of honor at the head of the procession. The local fire department and the ladies auxiliary will! also be in the iparade. A large delegation plan to attend at-tend the convention for all three days. The colorful tournament will again be part of 'the program pro-gram after an absence of twenty years and the Bingham Fire Department will enter teams in all events. This will take place on Friday, June 13th at 2:00 pm. The annual banquet wild be held the same day at 7:30 p.m. Governor Gover-nor George D. Clyde will address the convention on Friday morning. morn-ing. The convention will close Saturday with the annual elec- tion of officers and selection of the 1959 convention city. Six of .the Bingham Firemen have held the office of (president of ithe Association, W. S. Gannon, E. G. Locke, C. J. Stllman., A. A. Macke, Earl T. James and Irvin Stillman. C. J. StiUman was also Association secretary for six years and John J. Creedon has held the secretary's office for 27 years. Bingham was host to the convention in 1910 and in 1928. A special 50th Anniversary Year Book has been published and distributed to the 1850 members mem-bers of the Association. The 52-page 52-page book was printed in Bingham Bing-ham Canyon. O . |