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Show Presidents Elected To Head 1956 League Baseball Lester Heyborne, and Dr. J. S. Prestwich were elected presidents presi-dents of the Little and Pony Leagues of Cedar City, respectively, respect-ively, at a joint meeting held Monday evening In HoteJ El Es-calante. Es-calante. Lester, manager of the Columbia Colum-bia Iron Mines Little League team for the past two years, was elected to the helm to replace Clyde Higbee, who has served for the past year. The meeting was the annual election meeting of both organizations. Sam Gentry has served as president pres-ident of the Pony League for the past year and Dr. rrestwich was elected to that capacity Monday evening. Always a booster, Dr. Prestwich has been a staunch supporter since the organization of the league here in the city. Elected to serve with Lester during the coming year, which Includes the 195(3 season, was Steve Asmus as vice president and the following members of the board of directors: Carjyle Smith, Wesley Thompson, Harry Pryor and Elloyd Marchant. Ronald Ron-ald Morgan was reelected to the secretary-treasurer position as was Morgan Rollo as player-agent. player-agent. Higbee will serve on the board for another year, It was pointed out. I A slate of officers to serve in the Pony League with Dr. Prestwich Prest-wich was also elected. Chester Cripps was elected vice president and Lee Empey ejected as s'ecre-tary-treasurer of the organization. Board of directors wiU include Gentry as immediate past president; pres-ident; Yorke Nelson, Max Cowan, Ray Lee and Ray Englestead. Clo Petty, one of the originators originat-ors of the two programs in the city, was elected as umpire in chief to serve for both leagues. Financial reports of both organizations or-ganizations were heard and both groups' showed substantial increases in-creases over the past year. Tournament Tour-nament play in the Little League this year netted that organization a considerable sum allowing a special fund for the replacement of uniforms, Higbee said. |