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Show Legion Convention Opens Today, Vernal Is Siost Vernal is expecting approximately approxi-mately 300 visiting American Legion Leg-ion and Auxiliary delegates from all over Utah to visit that city and participate in the annual Utah Department Convention that begins be-gins today and continues through Friday and Saturday. One of Utah's prominent women, wom-en, Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, will be a guest speaker at a joint meeting of the Legion and Auxiliary. Mrs. Priest, who is United States treasurer, treas-urer, will address a banquet in the Vernal Armory, Friday, June 3. Also addressing the group will be Robert L. Shelb., vice-commander of the American Legion. A full program has been arranged ar-ranged for the Auxiliary, beginning begin-ning at 10 a.m. Thursday, with a joint meeting with the Legion. Other joint sessions will be a memorial service at 7:30 p.m., Thursday in the Third ward stake center, Church of Jesus Christ of (Continued on Back Page) STORES BURGLARIZED . . . (Continued from Page 1) morning they made photographs and completed a very thorough investigation. Since that time several sev-eral leads have been followed up, but to date nothing definite enough to make an arrest has been found. Drunkeness Increases The last couple of weeks, or since legalizing of liquor for Indians, In-dians, there has been a definite upsurge in drunkeness charges. According to Mr. McDonald, there are on an average of four or five people jailed for intoxication daily. "Another privilege that is being abused is overparking in the vicinity of beer dispensaries, a situation that is hard to control being short handed on the police force," Chief McDonald said-He said-He suggested a lot of the difficulty dif-ficulty with excessive drunkeness could be controlled if employees of taverns would curtail service to patrons when they have a bit more than they can normally absorb. |