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Show Utah Copper Anniversary Events include Dedication Of New Research Center Utah Copper Division of Kenne-oitt Kenne-oitt Copper Corporation is observing observ-ing its .rth anniversary this month. The first of the series of events in connection with the anniversary are scheduled this week. Members of the Hoard of Directors Direct-ors of Kennecott Copper Corporation Corpora-tion will come to Utah to take part in the observances, and also to conduct a board meeting. The new Kennecott Research Center on the University of Utah Campus will be dedicated at 10:.'i( a.m. August 13. On August 14, the National .Society of the Sons fif Utah l'ioneers will present to the State of Utah a statute of Daniel C. Jackling, founder of Utah Copper. The presentation will be made at ceremonies starting at 0 a.m. In the rotunda of the State Capitol building, where the btatue will be placed. Field Day Set Employees of Utah Copper and their families will have their annual an-nual field day at Lagoon on August Au-gust 20. Final public event on the program pro-gram will be the revival of Bingham Bing-ham Canyon's famed "Galena Days" celebration, prompted both by the I'tah Copper anniversary and the fact that August also is the 5(lth anniversary of the incorporation incor-poration of Jfingham Canyon. The celebration will be held August 2(1, 27 and 2S. Open house will be held in the J1.2fjU0,(K) Research Center from :.fter the dedication ceremony until un-til 8 p.m. Scientists and technicians techni-cians at the Center will take visitors vis-itors on tours of the building, explaining ex-plaining the work being done in the laboratories and the pilot plant. Equipment Modern The Research Center is equipped for study of all types of metallurgical metallur-gical problems and fundamental research. Equipment in the ore dressing section is the most mod-tn. mod-tn. and complete in the industry. The center will be staffed bv about 50 scientists and technicians, headed by S. R. Zimrnerley, director. direct-or. Mr. Zimrnerley formerly served as regional chief of the metallurgical metallur-gical branch, U.S. Bureau of Mines. Members of the staff will be available avail-able for seminars at the University of Utah's School of Mines. Among those who will take part in the dedication program are the Most Rev. Duane G. Hunt, bishop of the Salt Lake Catholic Diocese; Gus V. Backman, executive secretary secre-tary of the Salt Lake City Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce; J. P. Caulfield, general manager of Kennecott's Western Mining Division; Dr. A. Ray Olpin, president of the University Uni-versity of Utah; Governor J. Bracken Lee; Charles R. Cox, president pres-ident of Kennecott Copper Corporation, Corpo-ration, and Mr. Zimrnerley. The nine-foot high, heroic-size Etatue of Mr. Jackling is the work of Dr. Avard Fairbanks, noted Utah sculptor and former dean of the University of Utah School of Fine Arts. N. G. Morgan, Sr., headed a Sons of Utah Pioneers Jackling Memorial Commission which has been in charge of advancing ad-vancing the project to honor the veteran mining engineer who developed de-veloped the Utah Copper mine from a dream that was scoffed at by many experienced mining men into one of the world's greatest mining enterprises. Speakers Listed The presentation of the statue to the state will be made by Mr. Morgan. The statue will be accepted ac-cepted by Governor J. Bracken Lee. Other speakers will include Mr. Cox; J. E. Wallace Sterling, president pres-ident of Leland Stanford University; Univer-sity; C. C. Parsons, J. Reuben Clark, second counselor in the First Presidency, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Joseph Fielding Smith, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Music for the program pro-gram will be furnished by the Brigham Young University a ca-pelhi ca-pelhi choir and by John Charles Thomas, a life-long friend of Mr. Jackling. The Kennecott directors will be honored at two luncheons and a dinner during their stay in Salt Lake City. They will tour the Research Center Cen-ter the morning of August 13, then take part in the dedication ceremony. At 12:I!0 p.m., they will attend a luncheon with Utah business busi-ness and civic leaders in the Hotel Utah. That evening, they will attend at-tend a dinner at the Alta Club with Kennecott operating and staff officials. Tin- following day they will visit Governor Lee in his office, then j attend the statue presentation in the Canitol Rotunda. At 12:110 p.m. they will be honored by the Sons of Utah l'ioneers at a luncheon in the Hotel Utah. That afternoon, they will hold a directors' meeting in the new Research Center. Directors Named The directors scheduled to participate parti-cipate in these evmts include Mr. Cox. of New York City, president of Kennecott Copper Corporation and an officer or director of many of its subsidiaries; Leland B. Flint, of Salt Lake City, president of Flint Distributing Company; Henry Hen-ry S. Drinker, of Philadelphia, an attorney; Arthur W. Page, of New York City, business consultant and former vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Company; Charles Sawyer, of Cincinnati, an attorney and U. S. Secretary of Commerce from 1948 to 1952; Robert Rob-ert G. Stone, of Boston, limited partner in Hayden, Stone & Co., a firm that was a lajge factor in the original financing of Utah Copper; Albert E. Thiele. of New York City, business executive associated as-sociated with many mining companies; com-panies; Charles L. Tutt, of Colorado Colo-rado Springs, president of companies com-panies that operate the Broadmoor Hotel and the road and railroad up Pikes Peak; and Medley G. B. Whelpley, of New York, business consultant and a director of U. S. Rubber Company. |