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Show I Operation Of Geneva Steel Plant Promises jlndustry Development 1 I "If the great Geneva steel plant . can be kept in operation after the J war, Utah Is d stlned to become a j great Industrial state", stated Con- jgressman Wulter K. Granger, when he adddr ssed the members of the I Lions Club Monday noon. He point-id point-id out that Utah has always had tremendous natural resources, but ts dev lopment has been retarded by the lack of industrial plants, j which will now be assured if the Gen va plant can be kept in operation. oper-ation. Peace-t'mc operation of Genevai will result In the industrialization of the w st, because the plant !s the greatest end most modern steel Plart in the world, and Is locat d in the heart of ths great natural re-j sources of thi West. He pointed lout that one of the principal obstacles ob-stacles to getting thi plant Into (peace-time operation Is opposition ccoiing from thi ;ndustrlal areas of Pennsylvania ard Ohlx 1 Lt. Richard (Dick) Lunt. homo 'after nearly a year in a German , Prisoner of War camp, also spoke r.rl fly at the meeting, 'ell'ng of his expeiiences es a prisoner. He stated that cond'tiens at the camp, except for the lack of food, were no, too bad until near the end of j the war, when thousands of prl-j prl-j soners were crowd d into the camps 1 of Southern Germany In the Mun-' ick area, when food was scare, I 1 and camp conditions, particularly' with regards to sanitation, were' terrible. He stated that the Red Cross contributed greatly to the comfort and wellbeing of the prisoners, pri-soners, the Red Cross food packages pack-ages supplying much ne-ded nourishment, nour-ishment, and recreation supplies doing much to break the monotony iof prison life. I I A group of Las Vegas Lions, In ,Utah on a vacation trip, att nded 1 the meeting. I |