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Show the-LEASED the-LEASED GRAPEVINE A writ of prohobition was to be filed this week in Utah Supreme Su-preme Court to prevent the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City from levying 2 mills for 1961 operations. The high court action was ordered or-dered by the City Commission after discussing an opinion issued is-sued Tuesday by City Attorney Norman W. Kettner, ruling the district could not levy taxes to accumulate a surplus. The Utah AFL-CIO this week re-elected by a standing vote of acclamation. Re-elected were J. R. Schone, president, and C. E. Berger, vice president. Consideration of recommendations recommenda-tions by the Salt Lake City Commission Com-mission that the Finance Department Depart-ment transfer the City Cemetery operation to the Parks Department Depart-ment and the City Civil Defense office to the Public Safety Department De-partment has been postponed to Tuesday at 3 p.m. Three bids for the collection of Salt Lake City garbage by a private firm were opened this week by the City Commission. Only one met legal requirement outlined in the bid specifications. The lone bidder to meet requirements require-ments also was the low bidder. Beehive Sanitary Service, Inc., 1524 W. 3rd South, entered the low bid of $470,352 for a year's garbage service based on 41,000 collection units. National Conference on Family Fam-ily Life opened in Salt Lake City August 23. Prominent leaders lead-ers in family life education, counseling and research were in Salt Lake City for important annual national meetings of the National Council on Family Relations, Re-lations, which opened in Salt Lake City Wednesday. Utah's waterfowl season for 1961 will begin Oct. 14 at noon and continue through Dec. 27, with shooting hours to be one-half one-half hour before sunrise to sun set except for Nov. 4, when the opening hour will be 8:00 a.m. to conform with opening of the pheasant hunt that day. Other major waterfowl season regulations were recently approved ap-proved by the Utah Fish and Game Commission to incorporate the maximum allowable provisions. provi-sions. Utah's farms served by REA lines have doubled their use of electricity in the last ten years, Senator Frank E. Moss said this Monday. The Rural Electrification Administration Ad-ministration reported to the Senator Sen-ator that between 1950 and 1960, the average monthly consumption consump-tion of REA distributed electricity electri-city in Utah increased from 161 to 394 kilowatt hours per farm. Mr. Moss said that Utah borrowers bor-rowers are repaying both REA telephone and electric loans on schedule. |