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Show the-LEASED the-LEASED GRAPEVINE Salt Lake City and County Commissions this week named City Engineer Roy W. McLeese as project manager of the proposed pro-posed Salt Lake City-Salt Lake County Public Safety Building construction project. The commissions com-missions directed Mr. McLeese to supervise putting the joint venture together and arranged to have the city and county attorney at-torney work out a preliminary legal agreement. Salt Lake City Commission this week voted to abolish out-of-state convention travel by city employes and themselves. The motion to cut out the expense during this year was made by Mayor J. Bracken Lee and supported sup-ported unanimously by the commission. com-mission. The mayor said up to $24,000 would be saved by the move. Sale by Salt Lake City of property at 1st South and State for a federal building site was ruled valid Monday in Third District Court and motions to dismiss a lawsuit questioning the suit were granted. But District Judge Stewart M. Hanson said that the sale of Forest Dale Golf Course to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a junior college site was questionable and the matter will go to trial. He ruled only the city commission should be a defendant, de-fendant, however. Early phases of the yearly fish planting program are now under way from state hatcheries, according ac-cording to the Utah Department of fish and game. A limited number of early plants is now being made, mostly in southern Utah, where stocking stock-ing conditions and access to several sev-eral waters occur earlier than in other portions of the state. The statewide general planting season will get into full swing about May 1, with an expected 11 million game fish scheduled to be stocked into Utah's lakes and streams during the year. The production of fishes from the 12 department hatcheries will include rainbow, brook, native, na-tive, brown, walleye and other game species. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has sold a controlling con-trolling interest in Zions First National Bank to a group of businessmen for an estimated $10,000,000. Purchasers of the 146,542 shares of bank stock were Leland B. Flint, Roy W. Simmons, and other Salt Lake businessmen, and Judson Sayre, Michigan City, Ind., chairman of the Norge Division of Borg-War-ner Corp. |