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Atlanta
Elwood R. Dryden addressed the At­lanta
Chapter of the National Machine
Accountants Association on Novem­ber
19. His topic was "Public Account­ants'
Views on Electronic Data Proc­essing."
On January 20 he spoke
before the Atlanta Chapter of the
Institute of Internal Auditors on "Co­operation
of Internal Auditors and
CPAs during the Annual Audit."
William Tate, a member of the Tax­ation
Committee of the Georgia Soci­ety
of CPAs attended a Tax Forum
on November 9-10 as representative
of TRB&S.
Chicago
William J. Schwanbeck spoke before
the Automotive Electric Association
on December 6, discussing taxes and
recent developments as to State Sales
Taxes.
Allen C. Howard is now serving as
the chairman of the Illinois Board of
Examiners in Accountancy. He has
also been elected to the Committee on
Auditing Procedure of the American
Institute of Certified Public Account­ants
(AICPA).
Kay H. Cowen participated in the
1959 Tax Conference of The Illinois
Society of CPAs held in Chicago on
December 3-4. He was largely respon­sible
for a dramatization of the part
the CPA plays in developing an estate
plan for a client and was cast in the
role of the tax man.
Cleveland
Carl A. Johnson addressed the Cleve­land
Controllers Group of the Con­trollers
Congress on February 10. His
subject was "Developments Affecting
the Relationship Between the CPA
and the Retailer."
D a l l a s
David Muir was panel moderator of a
discussion forum on direct costing at
the November meeting of the Dallas
Chapter of the NAA. The forum was
of major interest to local cost account­ants
as evidenced by the breaking of
all attendance records at this meeting.
Dayton
Les Buenzow, a member of the Ohio
Board of Accountancy, participated in
a panel discussion at The American
Accounting Association Ohio Regional
Group Meeting. It was held at Ohio
State University in Columbus on
December 5, 1959. The topic of the
discussion was "How the New Ac­countancy
Law Will Affect Ohio
Colleges."
Denver
Carleton H. Griffin wrote a tax article
for the Journal of Accountancy en­titled
"Changes in Accounting Meth­od"
which appeared in the December
1959 issue. This article brought up to
date one that had appeared in the
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