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Show League of Women Voters to Meet All Salt Lake Women are invited in-vited to attend an open meeting of the League of Women Voters of Salt Lake City to be held on June 6th, 12:30 p.m. at Wright's Restaurant, Foothill Blvd. This panel discussion is the climax to a two month study by the League membership of water policies and problems in the Wasatch front area of the Bonneville Basin. Subject of the meeting will be . ' 'Salt Lake 's Watershed Problems : Conflicting Interests of Expanding Recreation Facilities and Maintaining Main-taining a Pure Water Supply". Panel members are Messrs. Gerald Ger-ald Irvine, past chairman Salt. Lakec Chamber of Commerce Water Resource Re-source Committee; Glen Murray, Salt Lake County Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; F. C. Koziol.Forest Supervisor, Wasatch Nat'l Forest; and Charles W. Wilson, Supt. Salt Lake City Dept. of Water Supply and Waterworks. Water-works. Arrangements for the panel were made by Mrs. Grinnell Jones, Jr., Nat'l Program Chairman on the Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters. Mr. Irvine will discuss possible ways of financing water resource projects. Mr. Murray will present what could be accomplished under the Public Law 566 and the status of the Little Cottonwood application through this act. Mr. Koziol will explain what the Forest Service is doing to protect the water supply and plans for expansion of recreation rec-reation facilities. Mr. Wilson will discuss the health hazards to be met and the standards which must be maintained. There will be time for questions after the panel discussion. dis-cussion. (Cont on page 3 Col3) LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS MEETING (Cont .from page 1) This will be an open meeting, and the public is invited. For reservations call Mrs. William R. Swiler, HU 7-7232 by Thursday June 4th. Mrs. Swiler is being assisted on her committee by Mrs. M. K. Soderquist and Mrs. S. G. Paul. The League has made water problems a part of both its national na-tional and local programs of study for several years. The 1958-60 national program includes "support "sup-port of national water policies and practices which promote coordinated coordin-ated administration, equitable financing fi-nancing and regional or river basin ' planning". On the local level, the League spearheaded the movement for inproved water purification and sewerage disposal programs in Salt Lake City. They supported also the four mill levy at the 1955 and 1957 Legislatures and lent vigorous support to the Metropolitan Metropo-litan Water District bond election . in the spring of 1958. |