| Show Retiring post commander of Basin Post American Legion Reviews activities of past year Retiring commander of the Basin Post American Jay S. Fitzgerald has released a thumb-nail report of the activities of the Legion in Roosevelt during the past Fitzgerald and following officers were retired last Thursday when a new slate of officials was installed to carry on the work of the post during the ensuing Jay S. Fitzgerald First Vice V. Bill Second Vice Paul Bill Wayne Jimmy Ken What's Been Done Our year began April with a membership of At present time we have This figure is an all time high for Basin Post Our first major project was Memorial We began the day by putting flags on the graves at Later in the day we held services at three cemeteries Hayden and This was done with a full firing squad and color We had a seven-man delegation attend the department convention at along with the Roosevelt High School band which participated In the Our annual chicken fry was held in Uintah The food was very good and the attendance was Steve was again our Boys State Steve did a good Seven boys We again sponsored a Boy Scout as one the accomplishments of this it leaves much to be Our Baseball team took second place in the The boys were coached by Clem A Veterans Day Banquet was held on November There were 65 in The principal speaker was William Smart of the Editorial Section of the As our part of the community Christmas we furnished and decorated the Christmas tree located in the center of Several parties were held the past The annual New Year's Eve party was the big-best with 90 in It seemed that there were more than the usual number of our who passed dur-thc We held graveside funeral services for 11 and assisted Myton one of During the year there was a total of 49 meetings As I recall there was no meeting but what there were many Items of business taken care We had many good both locally and from outside the Uintah Community Service Our Community Service projects were many and We ran a lot of money through our bank total deposits amounted to Of this was used for community service projects and American Legion Youth Disbursements for these purposes included the Boys Grave Markers at the Roosevelt American Legion Junior Little League Junior High School Band to Bull Berry curb and entrance signs to Roosevelt flags for Main the swimming pool Crusade for Red High School Oratorical Contest on Senior and Junior books 52 material for schools tree many ar For the second strain our members became for a night and all-time high In March of Miss JoAnn Bursas 1 bara were winners of the a Oratorical was first place winneT district meet held at 1 With the assistance m Legion con-improvement was made iS inside and outside of 1 I consider we have other very successful Basin Post 64 an I express my to the Legion Auxiliary for the and support they have Jay S. Commander |
