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Show Cedar City Chamber Readies Annual New Year's Eve Banquet and Dance i Everything is in readiness furl the annual banquet ami dance of the Chamber of Commerce to be held at El Escalante hotel on New Year's Eve, announces Arnold Anderson, chairman of the committee in charge of the event. The annual affair Is the climax cli-max of the year for the organization organiza-tion and also marks the election of officers for the coming year. Ballots were mailed to members of the organization recently and the election of officers has been completed by mail. However, the results will not be announced until the members meet at the annual banquet Monday. The number of officers elected for the coming year has been increased to 14, double the num- er of officers currently serving as Chamber of Commerce directors. direct-ors. The officers approved increasing in-creasing the number of directors as a means of widening the representation rep-resentation on the board. Each civic group as well as other representative rep-resentative groups such as industry, in-dustry, business, schools, labor, livestock and agriculture, will be represented on the board under un-der the new plan. Leo Cahoon and Paul J. Cox, both members of the 1951 board of directors, were nominated for the position of president for the coming year. Myron Higbee and Oscar Hulet oppose each other for the position of vice president. The other nominees were as follows: BPW club, Mrs. Leta Cowley and Mrs. Alta Johnson; business, W. Arthur Jones and Ralph Thomas; Elks, F. L. Frye and Kenneth Imlay; Kiwanis, Dick Morris and James Robb; labor, Carrol Brown and Carl Hazel; livestock and agriculture, Fred Biederman and Alex Williams; Wil-liams; Rotary, Charles R. Hunter and Jack Todd; schools, Miss Mary McMillan and Miss Bee Roberts; veterans, Hal Christen-sen Christen-sen and Milton Sevy. The annual banquet will start at 7:30 p. m with the annual dance to follow immediately. Reservations for the banquet must be made in advance Mr. Anderson states. The dance will be open to the public and will be the outstanding outstand-ing social event of the New Year. |