Show Salt Lake Telegram Courtesy ALLEN V. ASTIN alum to head Bureau of Top Standards Bureau Position Allen V. a member of the university's class of has been named director of the important Bureau of Astin served as associate director of the bureau for the past year and will succeed E. U. who resigned recently to accept a position with private Astin is a former Utah Chronicle editor and a member of Phi Kappa honorary scholastic He is also a graduate of the Engineering department at the Having been with the Bureau of Standards for 21 Astin served as chief of its electricity and ordinance branch for several He is best known for his wartime work in developing the proximity a mighty weapon in America's defeat of Germany and Japan in World War The live in a suburb of a Utah went to Washington in He is married and has two one a student at Johns Hopkins university and the other at Gettysburg Astin attained his doctor's degree at Johns Hopkins university in under a two-year He was born June in Salt Lake and married the former Miss Margaret McKenzie of Salt Lake |