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FOUR PAGES TODAY' - JULIEN C. HVERBe win Yoak the conti the Fridt o’cloi Le Hem sent offici Milk Wiel Th othe; seek In tli tana has.V rmir vice phksioknt' lions international. ■ beliaDelegates from 244 Texas Li;tn.- ; forts Clubs will attend the Lions In in es ternat.ion.al Convention In Town ■ and to, Canada, July 11-1? in support Th of Julien C. Hyer of Fort Worth ' inter for International President of the} teres Association. Mr. Hyer has serve theii the International Association as , trial, first vice-president during the past year.Texas Lions have completed ar-j raneements for a special train to \ «•. take them to the International It/ Convention in Toronto.The opening night of the convention has been set aside by the j International Convention CemmM j A1 tee as “Texas Night.The election of officers of the »Tex: association will be held on the f 91$. 1 last day of the convention. j creaTexas claims to be the state of' fleui birth of Lionlsm since the first ' of \ Lions Club ever organized was! the |^S the Lions Club of San Antonio, i at *1 Dallas entertained the first inter j “I ,j._ nat ional Convention of Lions j creajp Clubs and -iso gave the young u. ......i sociation one of its first Inter- j of Lm- national presidents, L. H. Lewis. “Imj pi now of San Antonio. ! thero- It was 16 years ago. two years I cent in before the founding of the Intet j tnon re- national Association of Lions | “J ! Clubs that the first Lions club at j washe San Antonio cam* into fxlstan.ee. 1 prod to In the succeeding i v o years other ; Bastin Lions Clubs were formed, and aft-i pare n- er formal organization of the as and ia-; sociation In June of lit?, the 1 or first Convention of I.sons Int«t.g* na*ional-was held at Dallas In the nd same year. Lionism not only : Non irt lound its birth in Tex • - but ha ; 1 • nd *• shown a consistent growth-—until. ^ *'s n. at the present time there are 211 1 Sottt be , clubs In the state -more than J and is. twice the number of clubs of the relic ue I Other service om n iza ‘ ions com-! gQ bined. Tar:, n »w approxi VHJis: mutely 2500 Lions Clubs In the ng j t nited States and Canada w ith a []id. membership only slightly less j ui j than 100,000. Ir TEXAS LION CANDIDATE EC] FOR PRESIDENT OF LIONS - INTERNATIONAL AT CONV.
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Yoakum Daily Herald
Yoakum, Texas, US
Tue, Jun 16, 1931
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