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Show Bank Women Hold Conference , In RccscveSi "Women in Banking," was capably discussed by Charles H. Dixon, president of the Utah Bankers' Association, and "The Ute Indian and His Problems" was the subject explained by Rex Curry, Busines Tribal manager man-ager of the Ute Indians, who were the guest speakers at the summer conference banquet of the Utah group of the Associa- . tion of Bank Women, held last ) Saturday night at the Frontier Grill Cafe, with forty-three guests in attendance. Statistics pointed out by Mr. Dixon in his talk, revealed that women own 70 of the U.S.A.'? i private wealth; women make up 53 of U. S. Steel's 240,000 i stockholders; and women own over $45 million of life insur- ance or nearly one-fifth of all life insurance in force. At the ) conclusion of his talk. Mr. Dix- I on had a film shown on banking. bank-ing. Mrs. J. O. Orser, assistant manager of the Commercial i. Bank of Utah, Roosevelt Office, ' welcomed the guests and int-o- duced special guests, including ! Mr. P. p. Thomas, president of Commercial Bank of Utah, I and Miss Adele B. Larsen, as-, as-, sistant cashier, The Continental I Bank and Trust Co., Salt Lake I I City. (Continued on back page) Bank Women . . . (Continued from case 1) Tentative plans call for the Miss Duchesne County contest to start the 3-day fair program off on Thursday evening at the Duchesne stake house, followed by a dance. Mrs. Robert Montgomery Mont-gomery is chairman of the committee com-mittee composed of Mrs. J. V. McLea, Mrs. Howard Harrison and Mrs. Cliff Memmott. The horse show, which is a new idea, will be the big attraction on Friday evening, with a parade pa-rade at 1:30 Saturday, followed An outstanding feature of the program was the colorful ceremonial cere-monial dance presented by a group of Ute Indians in elaborate elabor-ate costume. Other program numbers included in-cluded three vocal solos, bv Esther Wogec, accompanied by Clyde Johnson; and a piano solo by Joyce Jordan. Theme of the banquet encompassed en-compassed the Uintah Basin's Ute Indians and the Basin's natural resources, with clever Indian headdress favors serving as placecards and samples of the resources as decorations. The centerpiece consisted of bronze and white daisies interspersed inter-spersed with sagebrush and blue and yellow feathers. The decorative decor-ative theme was arranged and displayed by Mrs. Don Crittenden. Critten-den. The conference continued Sunday morning with a breakfast break-fast at the Grill, presided over by Miss Larsen. Program numbers num-bers included a vocal duet by Maxine and Beth Winkler; piano solos, Laura Ann Leavitt; and a vocal solo, Beth Winkler. Climaxing the two - session conference was a tour of the bank, the Union High School and Community Rose Garden. |