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Show Codar Merchant Promotion Leadership Urged Haze Hunter, vice president of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce this week made an appeal ap-peal to businessmen to support the chamber in the organization of a committee to be known as the Business Boosters. This com. mitlee, he Indicated, will replace the committee formerly known as the Retail Merchants Committee. Com-mittee. The Retail Merchants commit, tee has been discontinued. "As most businessmen will remem- 'ber, funds for this committee were solicited from builnesso. J in addition to regular membership member-ship dues to the Chamber o' Commerce." Hunter pointed out. The new organization, "Business Boosters" will be a new committee com-mittee within th chamber proper prop-er and no additional funds will be solicited for the promotion of the committee's activities "How-ever so far we have bren unsuccessf .1 In finding a busl-nessman busl-nessman to head the committee. vr nVr iufius avuauie io UU a good job of rromoting busines' in Cedar City but unless a com mittee can b formed at once jthse funds wPl be allocated fo' j other uses," the vice president said. I "The businessmen of Cedar contributed a large portion of funds to the chamber for which we are thankful. But, If we are not willing to form a committee or accept a committee assignment assign-ment to promote business wei will have no one to blame "but. ourselves." He also pointed out that one i of the main complaints against ! the fanner Retail Merchants wm that an additional fee was nec-.essary. nec-.essary. That is not the case now and the chamber Is anxious to have the backing of the businessmen busi-nessmen on this newly formed committee, Hunter concluded. |