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<br />The following committees were appointed by the President: <br /> <br />RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE <br /> <br />C. A. Anderson, Arizona <br />Chairman <br />Gilbert F. Nelson, California <br />Duane L. Barnard, Colorado <br /> <br />AUDIT COMMITTEE <br /> <br />A. J. Shaver, Nevada <br />Chairman <br />Dallas E. Cole, California <br />B. Harold Mendenhall, Utah <br /> <br />NOMINATING COMMITTEE <br /> <br />Raymond Matthew, California <br />Chairman <br />Hampton C. Godbe, Utah <br />1. J. Coury, New Mexico <br /> <br />******* <br /> <br />Because of limited space addresses delivered at the Annual Meeting <br />have been summarized, however, complete copies can be supplied upon <br />request. <br /> <br />******* <br /> <br />EXPLOSION IN THE SOUTHWEST <br />George V. Christie, Vice President <br />First National Bank of Arizona <br />Phoenix, Arizona <br /> <br />Now there has been a tremendous population explosion in the Southwest <br />and it would appear profitable for us to examine together the reasons for that <br />explosion and then the effects which have resulted from it. <br /> <br />I doubt if many of us have realized until lately that in the past ten years <br />we have witnessed the greatest mass migration of people in the recorded history <br />of the world. Nearly ten million people have moved from East to West in the <br />last decade. I suppose the two largest ones before that time have been the mass <br />migration of the Jews through the Red Sea as we read of it in the Bible and then <br />later Peter the Great, Czar of all the Russians, he who decided to run a high- <br />way across his vast domain and called in his engineers, laid a ruler on a map, <br />and drew a straight line from S1, Petersburg to the farthest border of Siberia <br /> <br />- 3 - <br />