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Show Edwin C. Cox Hakes over reins of Chamber; awards made the national average. Those in attendance were also presented with a written report of the president indicating indicat-ing activities and projects of the past year. The report indicated in-dicated that the Chamber had begun a visitor registration this year that included 10S3 registrations since June 16. This included 933 from within the United States and representing repre-senting all but three of the states and 150 foreign registrations regis-trations from 24 different countries. California led in number of registrations with 403 while Canada was the country with the most registration, 31, fol- V lowed by England with 20 and France with 19. Edwin C. (Ted) Cox was in-tailed in-tailed as president of the Cedar Ce-dar City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce at the annual meeting leld Thursday evening. Cox, associated with the 'aUforni a-Pacific Utilities Co., vill succeed Tom Cardon at helm of the organization. Three special awards were nitiated at the annual meet-'ng meet-'ng for outstanding service to "le Chamber of Commerce during the past year. Dr. McRay Cloward, Leo C. Cahoon and Tom Cardon were the recipients of the awards. Dr. Cloward was cited for his contribution to the Chamber Cham-ber as chairman of the 1971 Color Country Winter Classic, "ahoon was recognized for his leadership as chairman of the National Field Archery Association Assoc-iation Championships sponsored spon-sored by the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce in July and Cardon was honored for his outstand'nf leadership as president of the organization for the pat year. Other results of ei"'',e were announced at the meet-'ng meet-'ng with Ken Benson, Southern Utah Stato prviio"" -! vice president. Four new board members were elected fo t vear terms including Ken B-wo, Ken M'ddleton, Gayle danrj and Klien Rollo. The near capacity crowd at he annual meef'ns: was told by Donald J. Carman, president presi-dent and chief executive officer of-ficer of California-Pacific Utilities Util-ities Co., that his company is seeking new power sources to meet the total needs of thr Southern Utah District. Carman Car-man indicated that California-Pacific California-Pacific Utilities Co. would probably not have available Colorado River Storage Power after the winter of 1975. "We are studying alternatives alterna-tives and should reach some conclusions within the next four to six months," he indicated. indi-cated. The company president pledged to the chamber membership mem-bership that "we will have alternate al-ternate source and that it wil' be available when we need it and that it will be the most economical power available." Carman reviewed the organizational organ-izational stricture of California-Pacific Utilities Co. and emphasized the fmnortnnee of the southern Utah division. He reported that the divi-sion, divi-sion, which serves nr'ncioally Iron County, parts of Wahin-ton Wahin-ton County and a station in Kanab, had an annual payroll of approximately $150,000. He 'urther reported that power . users have seen since 1958 a seres of 11 saoerate rate reduction re-duction without a single in-crease in-crease and he reported that the average rat for household house-hold use was sliehtlv below |