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Show CHURCH GROUP SEEKS HOUSING FOR CONVENTION Several hundred volunteer workers work-ers are climbing stairs and ringing doorbells throughout the Salt Lake metropolitan area as Jehovah's Wit nesses search for rooms in private homes to accommodate mote than 6,000 visitors expected to attend their coming "Ptace-pursuing District Dis-trict Assembly", August 4-7, in the Utah State Fairgrounds Coliseum. Volunteer workers from congregations congrega-tions as far as Ogden and Provo are making daily trips into Salt Lake City at their own expense to participate in this city-wide search for accommodations. As room hunters locate accommodations accom-modations at reasonable rental rates, rat-es, they list the information with the rooming staff at convention headquarters, 986 So. 4th East, Salt Lake City, "Our local organization is prepared pre-pared to handle the daily requests coming in so that everyone will have a place to stay during their visit," said F. Richard Kelley, rooming room-ing director. "Thus far over 600 accommodations have been received receiv-ed from New York, New Jersey, Oklahoma, California and many other ctates besides all the inter-mountain inter-mountain states and a few from Canada." - "The response we have received in this door-to-door search has been very favorable so far," continued Kelley, "but a great deal of work yet remains since we anticipate 2,500 to 3,000 requests for rooms before convention time." This convention is one of 1 8 dis trict assemblies being conducted this summer in the United States, Canada and England. |