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Show UBiC Financing Studied By Chamber Board Directors of the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce Monday night made plans to carry on a finance campaign for the 1952 UBIC, which will allow high school students 10 of all the Booster Buttons they sell and a chance to win a $50 scholarship scholar-ship to any college or trade school of their choice. According to Gordon Harmston, Harm-ston, president, students from the various high schools in the Uintah Basin will be solicited to enter the campaign to sell the buttons. They will be compensated com-pensated to the tune of 10c for each $1.00 button they sell. The high salesman will receive a $50 check when he enrolls at a 1 college or trade school. Steps were taken to complete the survey of the city for possible pos-sible lots on which homes can be built. They also planned at least two community-wide promotional pro-motional days, one to come near the UBIC dates and the other in November or early in December. De-cember. A grievance committee was selected, or additional responsibility respon-sibility wag delegated to the Merchants Committee, to aid the members of the Ute tribe who come to Roosevelt to trade, I in being assured of fair and honest treatment. The Chamber Cham-ber is very much concerned with businessmen who might try to "take" the Indian when he has a little money. The committee commit-tee will encourage courteous and fair treatment of their Indian friends. The executive committee was appointed to meet with ' the mayor and city council at the next meeting on Monday, June 2, to , discuss, licensing- o com-petitive com-petitive wholesalers who sell to local merchants and who operate op-erate their main offices and supply houses in other communities. commun-ities. It was pointed out that Roosevelt dealers who sell ir. Vernal are forced to secure a city license to sell their wares. They will also discuss other problems that need the combined com-bined efforts of the city officials of-ficials and the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce to solve. The next board meeting will be held Monday, June 9, at the Frontier Grill. |