MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1950 Financial Independence for West E. G. Bennett Goal E. G. Bennett, national known banker, business man and public servant, was selective in his enthusiasm, but to those enterprises or causes that appealed to him he gave devotedly of his time, energy, industry and skill in the organization and operation of large-scale affairs. Perhaps the dominating enthusiasm of his career pertained to the winning by the Utah-Idaho-Wyoming region of financial independence. Almost from the moment he moved to the Twin Falls area of Idaho from his native Nebraska, he sense the dependence of this region on eastern money for development and the high price paid for this dependence. His Idaho banking experiences further confirmed his early impressions. Accordingly, when he became associated with the Eccles and Browning interests in the organization of the First Security banking system in the early twenties he embraced a project to which he was happy to apply the full measure of his abilities and energies and these were great indeed. His drive, application and accomplishment soon became the subject of admiring comment among those close enough to him to appreciate the full measure of his qualities. Mr. Bennett was a quiet worker, his demeanor reflecting a retiring nature, yet he went everywhere and met people who do things, acquiring an impressive list of friends and acquaintances in the fields of finance, business, industry, agriculture and politics. Through these personal contacts he kept himself one of the best informed persons in the country. Mr. Bennett will be buried tomorrow, his career closed too soon by his semi-retirement because of his health and by his unexpected death. The obituary articles in the newspapers reflect only an outline of his activities and accomplishments. The real story of a many-sided man who would take time from pressing personal affairs to be wartime chairman of his Weber Red Cross chapter and who could find relaxation from pressure by improvising at the piano will be told from time to time in future years as his friends meet and compare notes, but assuredly enough already is known and told to cause him to stand high as a remarkable western figure. 8B THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINER TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1950 In Public Service Unit Heading collection activities of the public service division of the Weber county American Red Cross fund drive are J. J. Dunbar, left, vice chairman, and Eldon Zundel, chairman. Their division is one of the largest in the drive. High Report Expected At Luncheon One of the largest volunteer collection groups in the current 1950 Weber county American Red Cross fund drive is the public service division, headed by Eldon Zundel as chairman. The division has already made a fine record for itself at the past two report luncheons and chairman Zundel said he expected the division’s report to be ever better at the third report luncheon, to be held Friday. Assisting Chairman Zundel in the leadership is J. J. Dunbar, vice chairman. Under these two leaders are team captains as follows: George F. Larkin, amusements; William C. Hinds, utilities; J. Parker Coombs, finance; Richard K. Hemingway, hotels; Harold L. Tribe, general; Ezra B. Jones, restaurants, and Ralph Fuller, Jr., laundries and dry cleaners. As of the second report luncheon March 10, volunteers had collected a total of $18,090 or 40 per cent of their entire quota of $44,865, according to Gene Robinson, general chairman.