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Show Cedar City Man Gets Important Research Position John M. (Jack) Urie, son of Mrs. Ruth G. Urie of Cedar City, has been employed by the Farm Bureau of DeKalb County, Illinois to undertake an analysis of existing ex-isting tax structures and districts in the county. The experimental program, the first ever attempted attempt-ed in Illinois and perhaps in the nation, has been tentatively set as a two-year project, but if the results warrant the Farm Bureau officials claim that it will be continued. con-tinued. Mr. Urie was selected as a specialist in government management, man-agement, to initiate and carry through the program. Mr. Urie, a graduate of the University of Denver where he Majored in business administration, administra-tion, has a master's degree from the same school in government management. He specialized in business organization and management, man-agement, public administration, commercial and government accounting, ac-counting, corporate finance, public pub-lic finance, personnel administration, adminis-tration, public personnel administration, admin-istration, business law, administrative admin-istrative law, and research methods. Among the Jobs that he carried car-ried out in the same general field as the DeKalb county involves was a review of the administra tion in the Iraho Department of Public Assistance at Boise, completed com-pleted this year, and a survey of the municipal administration of Golden, Colorado, in 1947-48. Jack was a B-25 bomber pilot assigned as a training instructor in this country for two years during dur-ing the war. In the DeKalb research program pro-gram the findings of Mr. Urie will be reported to the Farm Bureau where they will be considered con-sidered for possible recommendations recommen-dations to the various governing bodies of the county. |