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Show Discuss Petroleum Resources Utah's tremendous wealth in potential petroleum reserves will come to national attention August 9th when the Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney Senate Sub-committee hearing on secondary patrolum resources is held in Salt Lake. A. S. Brown, chairman of the Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial Davelopment, who will preside at the hearing, said that in addition to Senator O'Mahoney, O'Ma-honey, Senator Chan Gurnfiy of South Dakota, Senator Dannis Chavez of New Mexico and Senator Sen-ator John Thomas of Idaho will be in the official party along with Utah's Senator Abe Murdock. Dr. R. R. Sayers, Chief, and A. C. Fieldner, Director of the United Uni-ted States Bureau of Mines will head a party of 12 experts from Washington. j Slated for discussion at the hearing will be the testimony on Utah's coal, oil shales, oil .-jands and asphalta, Mr. Brown announced an-nounced in extending an invation to all Utahna interested in any phases of the subject to attend . the conference which opens at 10 a. m. I Several of Utah's larger projects pro-jects including the Utah Copper Company at Bingham and the Columbia Col-umbia Steel plant at Geneva will be visited by the delegation Sunday, Sun-day, August 8th, Mr. 3rown said. 1 : |