Show E naughton Is new president of utah power po W er edward M naughton has been elected president of utah power light company succeeding george al gadsby who had held that position since 1929 A vieb vice president and general manager of the utility since last june naughton will wil I 1 now become president preside rif and general manager gadsby will remain a direct director br and chairman of the companas comp anys board of directors power company directors also advanced joseph E cushman and david D moffat jr to vice presidents of the concern moffat fat has been serving as assistant to the president and mr cushman as commercial manager all of the changes will become effective on july 1 A native of waxahachie texas naughton has been associated with the electric industry for 29 years he came to upil in 1935 as superintendent of steam electric generating plants and in 1942 was appointed assistant to the vice president in charge of operations in november 1950 he was named assistant general manager of the company and was elected vice president and general manager in lune june of 1953 naughton is an engineering graduate of the university of notre dame Gadsby who relinquished the presidency of upil after 25 years but remains as board chairman is ii nationally recognized as a leader in the electra as a the electra cal industry he was the man behind the companas comp anys recapitalization and reorganization activities tivi ties and guided its emergence as a home owned independent company he supervised e d the curreli current multimillion multi million dollar postwar post war expansion pr program which already has nearly doubled the companas comp anys electric generating capacity gadsby is a native of collinwood ohio and is a graduate of marietta college and massachusetts institute of technology ile he holds doctorate degrees from three universities and is a past president of edison electric institute sti tute As a new vice president cushman will have full supervision over division and business development activities A natle native of salt lake city cushman lived in idaho tor for many years and is a past district governor of the utah idaho district of rotary international a former member of idaho state water resources board and served three terms as president eres ident of the idaho state chamber of commerce he began his career with upil in 1912 as a mr air moffat assumes a 9 upil vice presidency after serving as assistant to the president since november 1952 A native of salt lake city he joined the company in 1929 and served successively as a salesman lighting specialist division sales manager rate engineer research engineer staff engineer assistant to the vice president and assistant to the president he is a graduate of university of california and later received a masters degree from massachusetts chu institute of technology moffat is a veteran of world war 11 |