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Show Accepts Trophy for Local Club . .: ", V ' '-.' r v - h -' -L- '' I - l : r K - 'i'v-T v'-yW ' " :,, - . Sheldon Olds, right, immediate past president of the Cedar City Junior Chamber of Commerce, accepts State Jaycee trophy in behalf of the local club from Phil Christensen of . Provo, State Vice President. Presentation was made at annual an-nual Jaycee Convention here last week end. A A A w w Three National Officers Address Jaycee Conclave; Cedar Gels High Awards Jaycees from 40 Utah communities communi-ties met in Cedar City on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to attend the Utah Junior Chamber of Commerce convention. The three day session . was attended by the executive sec-, retary of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, Frank Fls-ter; Fls-ter; the national vice-president, Robert Graham, and national vice president, Cliff Cooper. The three national officers addressed ad-dressed sessions of the convention. Mr. Cooper spoke at the afternoon session on Friday. His message was for Jaycees to sell democracy. "If Americans can sell Industrial products pro-ducts anywhere In the world, they should be able to sell Democracy' Mr. Cooper told the convention guests. Frank Flster talked to the convention conven-tion on Sunday morning. Secretary Fister Is a former Utah Jaycee, having hav-ing belonged to the Ogden, Salt Lake and Provo Jaycee groups. He ' Is now of Oklahoma City, Okla. . Mr. Fister told the convention that they must strive to sell Utah. Each community has some unique feature, and they should sell that feature to the State, then, the state Jaycee organization should do whatever possible to sell Utah to the nation. Mr. Fister complimented the Utah group on Its cooperation with each other, their way of solving problems, prob-lems, and their ability to put over their projects. Mr. Graham told the group, at the "Bob Oraham Luncheon" Bun-day, Bun-day, that the Jaycee .organization .organiza-tion Is an organization of service. , There Is no room for selfishness In our national economy, the wel- .. fare of others should be the con cern of an. The Jaycee organization organiza-tion Is set up to give the kind of . trailing for leadership that will give service whost criteria Is the welfare of others. Mr. Graham told the group that leadership is needed In management-labor problems, in International relations, and other phases of our national life. Young , men under 35 have shown leadership leader-ship In construction, sclcntlflo development, de-velopment, and business, so they can also give leadership ln.publio relations, the speaker sold. Cedar City placed high In the awards that were given for state projects, and for outstanding work , during the past year. In the classified classi-fied project awards, Cedar City Jaycees received an award for first place In their Leadership Training project. They received second place plaques for their Fund Raising project, for their Public Health project pro-ject and for their Publlo Relations project. Cedar City Jaycees received the ' Utah Jaycee Award at the Sunday , night banquet, and Sheldon Olds, ' past president of the Cedar City group and convention chairman, re- " Cestui Vaek rage) Jaycee Conclave (Continued from Pace One) ceived the award for the Outstanding Outstand-ing Loral President. The Parowan club, organized under un-der the sponsorship of the Cedar City group, received the award for the outstanding new club of the year. Elections held on Sunday afternoon after-noon gave Al Hart of Bountiful the state presidency; Allen Strong of Kaysville and Dr. Keith Stratford Strat-ford of Ogden were elected National Na-tional Directors; state vice presidents presi-dents "were: Sheldon Olds, Cedar City; Roy Klauck. Sprlngvillc; Lawrence Sldoway; Vernal; Gordon Gor-don Mcndenhall, Payson; Marvin Peters, Bingham, and Kenneth Shoulsen, West Jordan. Vernal was chosen as the 1949 convention city. Jaycettes attended most of the convention sessions with the Jay-cees, Jay-cees, but on Sunday morning had a session for themselves, with a Ladies Breakfast at 9 a. m. The local committee worked hard to make the convention a success both with the business and entertainment enter-tainment features. Visitors and members who attended the convention conven-tion were high in their praise of the hospitality of the Cedar City Jaycee group. |