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Show lev Chamber Of Commerce Officers Installed At the annual meeting of the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce Com-merce last Friday night,-newly elected officers were installed and retiring one praised for i the progress that had been noted not-ed over the past three years. Taking the reins of the Chamber is Howard Harrison, sho succeeds Dr. Paul String-ham String-ham as president. Vice-president is W. S. (Bill) Murdock, with uVere Labrum as treasurer, jlerlin Sullivan and Floyd; Labrum make up the executive committee which consists of the three elective officers. Addressing the annual affair (rhich was a dinner-meeting, was B. H. Stringham, state senator sen-ator from Duchesne and Uintah counties, who re - emphasized how Utah and the West needs the Upper Colorado' River Development De-velopment project. He displayed the project, showing what wo"uld 1 maps to explain the stages of I come with the initial phase, and I finally with the ultimate phase. V He urged constant and eternal vigilance in working for the passage pas-sage of the project by the congress. con-gress. A brief speaker was Bob Campbell, executive secretary of the National Highway 40 Association. As-sociation. He outlined the program pro-gram of the association that extends ex-tends into Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Mis-souri, Colorado, Utah and Nevada,' Ne-vada,' with California almost in. Retiring president, Stringham made a financial report of the Chamber in the absense of Mar-rell Mar-rell Wilkins, retiring' treasurer, who was unable to attend- He also briefed the group on the accomplishments of the organization, organ-ization, referring to a report compiled by Bill Murdock. ' Mrs. Irene K. Fretwell, who has served approximately 15 months as executive secretary, resigned effective immediately. No replacement has been announced an-nounced for the part-time position. po-sition. E. J. Nixon conducted the meeting as toastmaster, and was in charge of arrangements for the program and dinner- ! meeting. Approximately fifty members and their partners attended. at-tended. Allen Gines sang two ' tenor solos for the group. Retiring directors are Mr. Xixon, Cliff Memmott, Paul Murphy, Dr. Stringham, and Bennie Schmiett. Elected to , take their places were Floyd e and LaVere Labrum, Lynn Dye. Een Turner and Robert Huish. w?t- ) 1 Li ; . 1 A . ; NEW OFFICERS SEATED The annual meeting of lhe Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce Com-merce held last Friday night at the Frontier Grill Cafe saw the above group installed as officers for the fiscal year beginning July 1: Seated are: Howard Harrison, president; W. S. Murdock, vice-president. Standing are: Floyd Labrum and Merlin Sullivan, executive committee members, and LaVere Labrum, treasurer. CPhoio by Edwards Photo Service) |