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Show 1980 Police Convention at Cedar City' Cedar City will be the site of the 1980 Utah Peace Officers' Of-ficers' Association convention. con-vention. , According to Cedar City Police Chief Douglas Bolton, the convention is tentatively scheduled for June 18 to 21 and is expected to attract more than 400 Utah police officers and their families to Cedar City for the event. Chief Bolton further stated that the convention should bring over $40,000 in revenue to the area. Cedar City was nominated as the next convention site by Chief Bolton at the recently held 1979 convention con-vention in Logan. Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Tom Rynearson was named chairman of the upcoming convention. The police officers' convention con-vention is held yearly to conduct business of statewide state-wide law enforcement, pay respect to newly retired or deceased officers and to compete in pistol shooting. In this year's pistol competition in Logan, area police officers and their wives won nine trophies in various competitions. Iron County Sheriff Detective Gordon Adams placed fourth on the governor's list of the top 20 shooters in the state after taking two first places and a second place in the expert classfiicaiton in combat shooting. Adams also placed third in the expert class in slowfire competition. Adams and his wife, Brenda, placed third in the state in combined husband and wife shooting. Combat and slowfire competitions vary in that combat shooting is completed com-pleted at different distances to the target in quickly timed intervals while slowfire shooting is strictly from fifty feet with ten minutes to fire ten shots. Police Chief Douglas Bolton and Detective Roy Houchen took a second place trophy for two man combat shooting while Sergeant Harold Bradley and Houchen placed first in the state in the two man slowfire event. For the fourth year in a row, a Cedar City women's team was best in the state in team slowfire shooting as Mary Bolton, who has been on the winning team all four years, and Delores Houchen won the first place trophy. Delores Houchen also won the slowfire event in the women's marksman class and Mary Bolton placed fourth in her class in combat shooting. Delores was named the most improved women shooter. |