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Show ilecrd Crowd 'Assembled. For Opening Of IS I lit cili . Basin Convention On Wednesday Initial Address Given By rs. Eve Ashton Beautiful girls, beautiful floats and pleasant weather featured fea-tured the opening parade on Wednesday morning as the 1954 Uintah Basin Industrial Convention Conven-tion got underway in Roosevelt. The parade made the march from the elementary School, east to Main Street, north to the Neola highway, west to the hospital corner and south to the City Park. The same line-up will again take the spotlight on Thursday morning. After the parade broke up at the park, the generous crowd assembled at the program stand where they were entertained by some of the Basin's top talent; heard a speech of welcome from Mayor Paul Murphy and the 1954 slogan essay by Miss Barbara Bar-bara Ray; saw the crowning of Miss Maurine Yack, UBIC Queen; met the 1954 officers and listened to an address by Mrs. Eve Ashton, imediate past national president of the American Amer-ican Legion Auxiliary. Chairman Chair-man of the meeting was William Sutteer, past department commander com-mander of the Utah American Legion, and Mrs. Lillian Wil-kerson Wil-kerson and E. Floyd Ross led the group in community singing. With J. V. McLea, former ' Roosevelt mayor and member of the board of trustees of the Utah State Agricultural College, as chairman, the audience heard two top addresses delivered by Congressman Douglas R. String-fellow String-fellow and Dr. Henry Aldous Dixon, USAC president Musical numbers were presented by Gene Tueller and Bonnie See-holzer. See-holzer. Departmental sessions were scheduled for the afternoon after-noon following the general assembly as-sembly program, with sports, and various exhibits on the agenda to keep people busy. At 5 p m. Miss LaVerna Laub, Miss Utah State Fair of 1953, will model the dresses she wore during the recent Miss Universe contest at Long Beach, Calif. The all-Indian pageant at 7:30 is a special feature to entertain the public. A dance on the tennis ten-nis courts will complete the first, day's program, . , . Departmental Speakers Slated as guest speakers in departmental sessions are A. J. Morris, professor of dairying at the USAC and managing di- , rector, American Dairy Association Asso-ciation of, Utah; Welby Young, president, and Merrill N. Warnick, War-nick, director. American Dairy Association of Utah; Lloyd Hunsaker, Hun-saker, professor of Dairy Science, USAC, and Hale Holgate, Uintah Basin director of the dairy association, who will conduct a panel discussion, "Problems in the Dairy Industry." Indus-try." Arch Thurman, administrator of Mental "Health Education, State Board of Health, and Mrs. Alice McKay, Department of Psychology, U. of U., will discuss dis-cuss "Mental Health Education." Mrs. Hazel Stevens, Department of Health, USAC, will discuss, "Getting Good Nutrition at a Lower Cost." Ariel M. Jorgen-sen, Jorgen-sen, commissioner, State Board of Agriculture, will lecture on "Weed and Seed Laws.'' Also listed as speakers in departmental depart-mental sessions are LeGrand (Continued On Back Page) UQaliCi (Continued from page one) Jarman, mayor of Orem; Daniel Hammond, representative for Utah' Oil, and J. Wells Robins, president Utah Cattle and Horse Growers Ass'n. Valuable Prizes During the three day convention, conven-tion, members of the Chamber of Commerce will sell dance tickets for the three nights. Each ticket gives the purchaser an opportunity to win one of the six valuable prizes that will be given away at the Friday night dance. Prizes include a Pfaff sewing machine, boy's and girl's bicycles, luggage for both men and women, and a Hereford calf. The latter was donated by Lynn Ross, of Arcadia, Ar-cadia, who promised in 1953 he would deliver a calf to the 1954 committee. He won the Necchi sewing machine last year. Homecoming On Thursday Again the second day of the UBIC, which is Thursday, Aug. 5, has been designated as homecoming home-coming day. Lynn Johnstun is chairman of the committee in charge of this part of the annual an-nual convention, and all former residents of the Basin have been extended an invitation to come back home for a day. |