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: CHARLES E. MORGAN — President of Association of Official Racing Chemists, which organization is also in convention in New York along with the NARC. Racing Chemists Also Convening in New York Thirty Members Expected to Be Present for Four-Day Meeting NEW YORK, N. Y., May 15.-— The convention of the state racing commissioners will not be the only one held in Hotel Commodore" next week. While the commissioners are in session in parlors B and C, the Association of Official Racing Chemists will hold their third annual meeting in parlor A. This also is a four-day convention. Like the commissioners, the chemists have an agenda that will keep them busily occupied. Chief features of the first days meeting will be a review of the work of members from new laboratories in the morning, and round-table discussions on pre-race tests, splitting of samples, cooperation with of f Icial veterinarians, publications and speeches, polargraph, form of reporting positives and "recording spectrophotometric data and relative merits of urine and saliva tests in drug detection. On Wednesday morning the chemists will hold a joint meeting with the National Association of State Racing Commissioners. The Association of Official Racing Chemists was organized in November, 1947, at a meeting in Chicago. In 1948 they met in New Orleans. The total membership at present is 48. Approximately 30 members are expected to be in attendance at this meeting, -coming from numerous states and several foreign points. A chemist in Bombay was recently admitted to membership. Officers of the chemists association are Charles E, Morgan, president; Y. T. Oester, vice-president; Harry Peterson, secretary-trasurr, and G. H. Lucas, Oester, Morgan and C. E. P. Jeffreys, members of the executive board.
