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Show MILFORD TO HAVE RACE MEET TOWN BOARD NAMES PLANNING GROUP, ASKS POWER COMPANY RATE CHECK The Milford Town Board met at the Town Offices last night with a full quorum, of members present, and moved toward a Bigger Milford by appointment of a Town Planning Board to handle the preliminary work on the many progressive pro-gressive ideas for improvement of Milford originating with and presented to the Town Board. Members of the planning committee, com-mittee, scheduled to hold their first meeting next Tuesday evening, are Joseph Smith, J. E. Kirk, LaMar Outzen and S. A. Williams. Dr. Lloyd F. Kohler will be the Town Board representative on the committee, com-mittee, and Carlyle Gronning, Town Board president, will be present at most of the meetings. Kenneth Farrer, Alan Fjeld, and John Vloyantes, instructors at the Milford high school, were present as guests to discuss with the Town Board problems connected with absenteeism of high school children and their alleged patronage during school hours of local pool halls. No truant officer being available, the matter was laid in the lap of the town marshal with instructions to enforce the town ordinances relating re-lating to minors. Another guest, James D. Williams, Wil-liams, presented a request that the Town Board petition the Utah Public Service Commission to investigate the rates, services and invested capital of the Telluride Tell-uride Power Company, with the ultimate objective of obtaining "more equitable" rates and a better bet-ter service for the Milford area. Mr. Williams stated that Scipio, Holden, Kanosh, Fillmore, Delta, Richfield, Millard county and 54 South Milford farmers had signed identical petitions, and in view of the large investment he had in the Milford mining area, and the fact he was one of the largest users of Telluride power in this area, he felt the Town of Milford should officially of-ficially assist him in his effort to induce the Utah Public Service Commission to investigate the power pow-er company's rate structure. In answer to questions asked by Town Board members preliminary to passing on Tiis request, Mr. Williams Wil-liams cited rates and other statistics statis-tics comparing power costs with smaller Southern Utah power companies com-panies as well as upstate concerns. The mine power rates in Milford, Mr. Williams showed, are 2Vi times as high as the rates for the same service 200 miles north of Milford, with the service greatly inferior. After hearing other figures and rates cited, including a water pumping charge to South Milford farmers of $8 per killowatt hour per month as compared to approximately approx-imately $6 per month charged by the Utah Power and Light Company Com-pany and a charge in some, northwestern north-western states for the same service of only $1 per month, the board voted to sign the petition. It was made clear by some board members that their action was not a direct charge of irregularities by the power company, but was a request to the state commission for an in- vestigation to ascertain definitely if the Telluride company is charging exorbitant rates. A horse race meet will be held in Milford June IS, 14 and 15, if those dates are approved by the state racing commission, after Town Board action on a motion by Trustee Kohler. According to tentative plans, the Milford Lions club or some responsible individual indi-vidual would sponsor the meet, making all arrangements, with a financial backing of $1000 guaranteed guar-anteed by the Town Board. All profits from the meet will go into the town parks and recreation recrea-tion fund, and President Gronning Gron-ning agreed to declare the last day of the meet a town holiday and request all merchants to close for the day. H. Allen Bingham made application appli-cation by letter for the position, of town marshal. The application was approved by unanimous vote, with the new town marshal to take office February 16. Mr. Bingham is a graduate of Milford High school, entering the U. S. Marine corps immediately after completing complet-ing his schooling. He has recently been honorably discharged after six years' active service. After discussion of a petition from residents in the north an,d west sections of town praying for relief from stray cattle and horses which are ruining lawns and shrubbery, shrub-bery, Trustee Hillman was assigned the duties of impounding all stray livestock that encroach upon the town's streets. The animals will be impounded and the owners held liable for damage. |