Show Santa visits 1500 kiddies week's general Merchant's which was cooperated in by most of the retail business establishments in Roosevelt was a definite success and our committee was very pleased at the response that came from the buying was a statement Dar-rell chairman of the Retail Merchants made at the Tuesday meeting of the Chamber of IN MAKING HIS report to the directors and general Tuesday Butler noted that the largest contingent of children and their parents over to assemble to sec Claus on his first trip was present last Saturday to greet the jolly old man who spent the entire afternoon passing out gift bags to more than 1500 youngsters and ing them at his booth near the He also visited various stores where he again greeted the small After discussing the 9 p.m. opening of stores the next two Fridays before Christmas the chamber voted to leave this up to the merchants Some showed desire to hold to the late opening and some were enthusiastic about the idea-thus the decision to leave it to the individual OTHER REPORTS Included one from R. V. Larson who discussed the latest development on the junior He told the group of a visit he had made last week to the office of the Coordinating Council on Higher Education in Salt Lake where he discussed the project with some of the office He showed a draft of a report the council will make to the Utah Legislature and said the report included a recommendation for as an initial appropriation to begin work on the He felt the project was on rather firm footing and should receive a favorable report by the Kenneth Aycock reported Roosevelt was represented at the annual Highway 40 meeting at last Saturday by Evans Phillips and Von with the latter being named as a director for the ensuing James Bacon chairman of the newly water steering committee from Duchesne made a brief report on the progress the committee had They had held two meetings since it was organized and planned to make studies of conservancy districts in the state and learn how they proceeded with their He and A. Hale spent most of the afternoon on Tuesday making a study of the Uintah county district they visited with officials at THE meeting of the chamber will be at noon on 20 at which time they will entertain a delegation of students from Union High School GOING TO MEXICO Elder John David Wimmer has accepted a call to serve his church as a missionary to He is presently In mission home and will represent the Duchesne |