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Show Mayor, Commissioners to Meet With U. on Auditorium Project Commissioner L. C. Romney this week said a proposal that Salt Lake City and the University Univer-sity of Utah jointly construct a multi-purpose civic auditorium on city owned property near the university will be further explored ex-plored next week. Commissioner Romney said he and Mayor Stewart would meet next week with Dr. A. Ray Ol-pin, Ol-pin, university president, to discuss dis-cuss the plan and determine if a joint venture satisfactory to both parties could be worked out. Mr. Romney is in charge of city parks and public property. The university's board of regents re-gents has taken no official action on the proposal but has author ized Dr. Olpin to discuss the matter with city officials. Mayor Stewart and Commissioner Commis-sioner Romney said they feel the utilization of the site by the city and an agency of the state for civic purposes would be a proper use of the property. Both denied that the city had agreed to sell all or part of the property to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The mayor said that "no sale of any portion of the tract is being discussed or is contemplated." The Commissioner said that regardless of outcome of talks with the university president the city would retain the property for some civic or recreational purposes. The triangular tract of about 36 acres is bounded by Hempstead Hemp-stead Road, Wasatch Dr. and Foothill Blvd. It was acquired by the city in 1948 from the federal fed-eral government at a cost of $35,000 but currently is valued by Mayor Stewart at many times that figure. Since the tract was acquired two small parcels have been disposed dis-posed of, one to the American Red Cross and another to the Boy Scouts of America. |