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Show High School Studcnts-To Studcnts-To Participate In Model UN Meet Five students of the Cedar City High School and students from high schools all over the state will convene at the University of Utah April 20 and 21 to participate parti-cipate in the Model United Nations Na-tions Conference. It is expected that nearly 500 students wUl participate. par-ticipate. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late president and former delegate to the United Nations general assembly, will address the second annual model UN conference in Kingsbury Hall. In addition Mrs. Roosevelt will give a pubjic lecture on the evening of April 20. Delegates from Cedar High have chosen to represent the country of Turkey at the conference. con-ference. The five students selected select-ed to attend Include Gloria Dot-son Dot-son and Bob Thompson, seniors, and Lois Lindsay, Joan Nvlson and Betsy Lunt Juniors. These five students were selected se-lected on the basis of essays written writ-ten dealing with the culture and economics of Turkey. All students stu-dents In the school were eligible and each student interested had to write an essay. The five delegates dele-gates were selected on the basis' of their essays. The Utah Association forjhe U N is pjaying host to the conference con-ference together with the U Extension Ex-tension division. Mrs. Roosevelt is serving as chairman of the board of governors govern-ors of the American Association for the U N and Is telling the U N story In all parts of the nation. na-tion. A native of New York, she has been associated with the Democratic National Campaign committee and in the early days of World War II was an assistant assist-ant director of the Office of Civilian Ci-vilian Defense. Sixty-one of the U N's seven member nations will be represented repre-sented by 57 Utah high schools at the two-day meet. Council meetings are expected to Involve discussions of the effects ef-fects of atomic radiation upon human health and safety, programs pro-grams of technical assistance, the question of Cyprus and the right of peoples and nations to self-determination. |