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Show h' y . rf in HEADS C OF C David Faux, right, re-elected as C of C president, will be assisted by Craig Smith, secretary and Grant Atwood, vice president. They were named Tuesday. E)avid Faux Named P 6 C of C President The Pleasant Grove Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce Board of Directors Di-rectors met Tuesday morning and re-elected David Faux to another year term as president. presi-dent. They also elected Grant Atwood as vice president and the two officers then selected Craig Smith as secretary for the coming year. Mr. Smith is also a holdover in this office. President Faux, pharmacist at Smith Drug Co., said that committees would be selected in the near future for projects planned during the year, and that perhaps the most important impor-tant one would be the membership member-ship drive. He urged all citizens citi-zens of the community to become be-come involved in community betterment by joining this organization. or-ganization. Mr. Atwood is the owner of Atwood Realty and Insurance in Pleasant Grove, and Mr. Smith is also a pharmacist at Smith Drug Co. In other matters, the Chamber Cham-ber discussed two important aspects of Pleasant Grove's business community. The first was litterbugging in the business busi-ness district, and the second was shoplifting. Police Chief Mike Ferre, who is also a new C of C board member, and Assistant Chief Darrel Bullock, were present for this discussion In the litterbugging campaign it was planned to have emphasis empha-sis on two areas, one, an educational edu-cational program to make the public aware of the problem, (Continued on page 4) C of C Elects (Continued from page 1) and two, a drive to pick up flagrant offenders, children as well as adults, and cite them for this misdemeanor. Chief Ferre said that too many times in shoplifting the complaint never reaches them, but is settled between the merchant mer-chant and the shoplifter or his parents. It was felt that keeping keep-ing a "shoplifters roster" made up of people who were caught shoplifting, which could be looked at by all merchants, would help merchants detect potential shoplifters, and would act as a deterrent to people if they knew they were going to be listed as "shoplifters." A committee will be appoint-very appoint-very soon, President Faux said and both these problems will be dealt with in cooperation with local police and city officials offic-ials of Pleasant Grove. President Faux also said that Chamber of Commerce meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month in the Judge's chambers in the city hall, and that any businessman business-man or citizen is welcome to attend. If problems of any nature na-ture that the C of C can help with, come and present them at the board of directors meeting. meet-ing. "If we don't know the problem, we can't help with the answer," he said. |