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Show July Fourth Gun Accident Takes Life Of Boy Scout Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted Saturday at 1 p.m. for Anthony Lundberg, 14 year old Independence youth, who was fatally' shot in the head by his older brother at the family home Wednesday. According to Sheriff Herbert Snyder of Uintah County, who investigated in-vestigated the accident Anthony and his brother David, 16, were in their upstairs bedroom 'at the family home in Independence, and as the older boy went to remove a .22-caliber rifle from the rack a lodged bullet in the chamber exploded ex-ploded hitting Anthony in the head. The bullet apparently had jammed in the gun some time ago. The youth was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital for attention, and later removed to the Holy Cross Hospital where he died at 10 p.m. He was born Jan. 19, 1942 at Independence, a son of Beatrice Johnson and David Lundberg, Sr. He completed the eighth grade at Alterra school this spring and would have been a freshman at Union this fall. He was aa active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was at the High Uintah Boy Scout camp with the Ballard troop last wee-kin addition to his parents the youth is survived by four sisters and two brothers, all of Inde-(Continued Inde-(Continued On Back Page) CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Continued From Page 1) er. The secretary is appointed by the president with the - approval of the board. Lawrell Jensen is the retiring vice-president, and La Vere Labrum, the treasurer. Both remain members of the board. The new directors elected two weeks ago are Mr. Jensen. Wesley R. Dickerson, Mr. Aycock, Gordon Harsmton and Cliff Memmott. The hold-over members of the board are Ben Turner, Kenneth Morgan. Ted Olpin, Mr. Labrum, Clifford Drollinger, Dr. Larson, George Miller, Lynn Dye and Don Truman. Tru-man. Annual Meeting Set The annual meeting of the chamber has been set for next Tuesday evening, July 10, at the Frontier Grill Cafe. It will be a ladies night with an invitation extended to 'potential members of the Chamber of Commerce being invited. According to Dr. Larson the speaker for the meeting has not been definitely decided on. Directors will be selling dinner tickets for the meeting during the week, but anyone desiring to make reservations should contact Dr. Larson or Don Truman. To Study Television Matters of business discussed included in-cluded possible television for the Roosevelt area. Vice - president Lawrell Jensen who conducted the meeting in the absence of Pres. Murdock, appointed a committee composed of Mr. Drollinger, chairman, chair-man, and Dr. Larson to work with Floyd Peterson, member of the city council, on the proposal made by Moore Radio Supply, Inc. of Salt Lake City who met the city council Monday night. |