OCR Text |
Show Legionaires Make Nominations, Discuss Housing Situation At the regular monthly meeting of the Cedar City Post of the American Legion lield Mondi) night in t Jie Elks hall nominations for the election of officers were made, and plans laid for the Hit annual election to be held at tlr 1 ext regular meeting, Monday, July 2Pth. A very In: crest irg discus-Ion wa'. al o given by Hah'ow E. Chrlstcn-sen Chrlstcn-sen on the benefits, rights anc. privileges of veterans under the Mil of rights and rehabilitation rtup offered by the government. NomlnMions were made as follows: fol-lows: For Commander: Dick Leigh, Nelson Bullooli, Kent Carpenter,, Kent Smith. Lyman Sevy, Frank Dalley. For First Vice Commander: Ralph I.inib. Bill Huntington, Ralph Junes and Ihruin Perry. For Second Vice Commander: I.orln C. Miles, Loyal Corry, Bert Carpenter and Steve Asmus. Post Adjutant: Ben Riddle, Harold Har-old Sargent and Pratt Smith. Finnne." Oificer: Parley E. Anderson, And-erson, Albert A'.bertson, nnd Dec Cowan. Sergeant-at-Arms: Victor Selby Historian: Alfred Ol?n. Eddie l eteison, Clayton C. Sherman, and laiithus Wright. Po t Service Officer: Claude EJ-v EJ-v nrcls, Haf Chrlitensen. Kent D iver Chaplain: George Ortmshaw. F.lwo id Corry. and Vernon Jones. Fxfcutivc Committee: (Three to l." elected i Elias Leigh. Jack Brown, Francis Mlddleton, Boyd Edwards, Dean Huntington, Douglas Doug-las Nelson and Don Nelson. The discussion which followed ld by Mr. Chrlstenscn, centered on the rights and privileges ol tH" veterans with prn'ticilly every service man present alrlrg his view: n the subject. The opinion wa' tronulo voiced that the veteran; ,f ( ar City were not beine ir afd lalrly In regards to the housing program, that building materials nre being irleised to ther individuals nnd contractors, which should rightful go to tlu veterans who are struggling to get homes built. R-f -rence was made to the remarks re-marks it Congressman Walter K Granger in a talk at the IJ m convention wherein he staled that !h" Tivice men are being dlscrim-'n;iti dlscrim-'n;iti d again' t. nnd that al'hough teilei'. nnd ri'iitiacts may be acting act-ing v.lhln the law they certainly l.nd fnrgotv-n tlv spirit of Hie law. It was a's i fiit by the veteinns th.it lnii'.lir.g l"t In many in-tame, in-tame, nre bf'n laid nt prnlubl-! prnlubl-! tlv pr'rer. World War I vetrr.'ns who nt-'er.i'rd nt-'er.i'rd the iu."'t:nu nnd heard the r-mnrk-c of W rid War II vet-rnrs vet-rnrs were very much Impressed ar.d feel that It Is th? duty of everyone who stayed at horn," during the last war to give something some-thing bc.sldc "lip service" to tlu' catie. A committee was appointed to ork with a ommlt'ee fre-n tlio V-terans of Foreign Wars to see if something cannot be done to Improve the present situation. |