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Show IR. C. MEETING IS CONCLUDED Dinner Served to Utah Delegates; Dele-gates; Junior Body Is With a reception at the homo ol Mrs Maude Dee Torter. secretary Ol the Utah chapter. 800 Washington avenue. av-enue. Inst niuht the first regional conference, con-ference, of th- Utah chapters of the American Red Croaa with delegates present from practically every county in the state came to a close. Dinner wax served at the residence of Mrs. Forter by the Women of the Canteen service In uniform. Prior to the reception and at the (lose of the business session at the University club, Fred M. Nye, chairman chair-man of ihe entertainment ommlttec of the Weber county chapter, provided pro-vided automobiles and took the delegates dele-gates for a trip through Ogden canyon can-yon and as far as HuntBVllle, after which they were taken to the home of Mrs. Porter, following the reporl Ol the committees com-mittees yestcVday afternoon at the University clui, Miss Mary Concannon, director of the Junior Red Cross. Pacific Pa-cific division, delivered an address on the work of the Junior organization throughout the world. She told of the activities of school children thai were numbers of the organization and of how one school at Seattle provided the funds to the extent ex-tent of 5000 per year a Jioepltal for Ihe treatment of eye- ear. nose and throat diseases among the school children of the City. She also told of a Junior Red Cross organization In CtechO-Blovakia sending send-ing .1 contribution to this country at the time of the Knickerbocker disaster dis-aster at Washington. The organization had. she said, 5,000.000 members among the boys and girls of the United stale; and had established chapters In 18 of the foreign for-eign countries. Bishop Joseph A Tuttlc of I'rovo was selected as the chairman of the. program committee for the meeting to be held next year at Provo, |