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Show REPRESENTATIVES OF SENATE AND HOUSE INSPECT BACPLANTi I Representatives -of Senate and j House spent Friday of last week at ! Cedar City inspecting the B. . A. C. 1 plant. How the Branch Agricultural , college staff of instructors were transformed trans-formed from a group of high school teachers to a. junior college faculty-was faculty-was perhaps the most interesting' of all the information laid before . the , members of the State Senate and ; House. The story. :of this change was told by Dr. J.. H. Maugham, director of the college, at a general assembly of instructors and-students in the auditorium. audi-torium. Senator John W. Peters of Brigham and other .legislators commented com-mented with gratification not nly up- ' on the expansion of the college, but j upon the advance of 'Cedar City it- , self. The legislators were accompanied from Salt Lake by Dr. Elmer G. Peterson, Pe-terson, president of the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college; Dr. C. N. Jensen, state superintendent of public instruction; .Robert D. Young of Richfield and John G. Swenson of Provo, members of the state boar dof education; C. H. Cutting, traveling passenger agent of the Union Pacific system, and a number of the attaches of the two houses of the legislature. Fourteen senators were in the party. par-ty. Unlike the house, the senate did not designate certain committees for the trip, with the result -that chair-, chair-, man of most of the important senate committees are here. Only five mem.-bers mem.-bers of the upper house did not come Senators Thomas W. O'Donnell of Vernal, who is ill; Knox Patterson, Moab; W..D. Mandland, Mt. Pleasant; J. W. Booth, Midvale, and E. R. Cal-lister, Cal-lister, Salt Lake. Nearly all the members of the three committees representing the house are here, including H. Claude Anderson Ander-son of Garfield, chairman of the appropriations ap-propriations committee; John G. Pace of Cedar City, chairman of the state university , and Agricultural college committee, and Byron D. Anderson of Salt Lake. Arriving at Cedar City they found the band of the 222nd field artillery, Utah national guard, waiting to welcome wel-come them. The visitors were taken by motor car to the college for the opening exercises on the long program of events which will stretch through today to-day and tomorrow. Wilford Day is president of the reception re-ception committee. There was an address ad-dress by Dr. Peterson, who attributed progress of the college to the harmony har-mony and good will of all who have shared in its betterment. Principal Maughan then reviewed the story of the college. Looking forward the future, Dr. Maugham said it should be borne in mind that southern Utah is even yet an undeveloped country. Then he told how his staff had been broadened from high school to junior college scope. Dr. Maugham explained how the college was handicapped by the need of additional buildings. The college is asking this year for an appropriation of 340,000 for a gymnasium building and $12,000 for the heating plant. Dr. Jcnsenand Mr. Young spoke as representatives of the state board of education. Senator Peters said all of Utah's educational institutions vou'.tl receive fair consideration. He lidded that he had watched with ratification the progress of southern Utah and the college. Chairman H. C. Anderson of the house appropriations committee also y.-romised to make every effort to meet the needs of the state's educational institutions. Other speakers were Senator Lucius N. Marsden of Parowan, who was introduced in-troduced as "the grand old man of iron county," Mrs. Julia Smart and State Representative J. G. Pace. Luncheon at the Hotel Escalante, inspection of college buildings and grounds, a concert and lecture, banquet ban-quet and dance completed the day's program, with a basketball game between be-tween the Branch Agricultural college and Dixie college thrown in for good I measure. J. F. Tolton, representative of Beaver Bea-ver county, came from Cedar late Friday night and spent Saturday and Sunday here returning to Salt Lake 1 Sunday night. Some of . the represen- I tatives made a trip into Washington county on Saturday. |