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Show '"Tea sed GRAPEVINE 1 Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets Smoot, 84, widow of Sen. Reed Smoot of Utah, died Tuesday in her apartment in Hotel Utah. Death was attributed to natural causes. Final approval ,of a capital improvements program was voted vot-ed this week by the Citizens Advisory Ad-visory Committee on City Planning Plan-ning and Capital Improvements. The program was presented to the Salt Lake City Commission. The report carried the same recommendations which were tentatively approved a week ago. They call for a $17.5 million bond issue to finance the improvements. General contract for $1,156,-000 $1,156,-000 was awarded Jensen Construction Con-struction Co. this week by the Salt Lake City Board of Education Educa-tion for construction of a gymnasium, gym-nasium, swimming pool and library li-brary addition to South High School. Residents of Salt Lake City will vote this November on whether or not the city's water will be fluoridated. The City Commission made the vote test certain this week by tabling a petition bearing 8,936 qualified voters signatures demanding the city fluoridate its water. Mayor J. Bracken Lee, who expressed a strong opposition to fluoridation fluorida-tion said he felt it was a matter for the voters to decide. Other commissioners agreed. Third District Judge Merrill Faux this week notified Mayor J. Bracken Lee that calling a grand jury to "investigate city government" would be "premature "prema-ture at this time." Salt Lake City Commission has agreed to pay $38,741 in architect's fees due to the firm of Harold K. Beecher Associates. At the same time the commission commis-sion accepted a contract clarification clarifi-cation with the firm which committed com-mitted the city to pay the architects archi-tects an additional $50,436 in fees should the proposed bond issue for capital improvements fail to pass. A total of 717 Canada geese had been banded on the Utah marshes by department of fish and game biologists as this annual an-nual program came to a close last week. This compares with 608 geese banded in 1960 with the increase in numbers being credited to an increased effort to band segments seg-ments of the state's goose population popu-lation of which little is known. Using airboats to reach the molting molt-ing adult and flightless young birds, the department employees worked marshes at the Public Shooting Grounds, Ogden Bay, Farmington Bay, Redmond lake, Wales Reservoir, Bicknell Bottoms, Bot-toms, Mona Reservoir and Koo-sharem Koo-sharem Reservoir. The last three named areas had not previously been included in the banding program. |