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Show the-L the-L EASED GRAPEVINE f Salt Lake City Commission this week voted for unanimous support of a recommendation by H. C. Wood, city animal control con-trol director, that animal shelter operations not be merged with those of the Salt Lake City Humane Hu-mane Society. Answering a proposal pro-posal of the society, Mr. Wood told commissioners there is no financial reason why such a consolidation con-solidation should take place and that such action would reduce city control over animal impoundment. im-poundment. Agreement has been reached between the federal government and private power companies for joint construction of "backbone" power transmission lines in the Upper Colorado River Storage Project. Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall said this week the agreement will allow private firms to have a hand in helping build the federal system. The free enterprise system is in such "critical danger" that it could be only a memory some 15 years from now, Ron H. Bailey, Bai-ley, manager of the western region, Chamber of Commerce of the United States said in Salt Lake City this week. He was in Salt Lake City to make plans for a chamber aircade planned for March 9. Utah Republicans observed Washington-Lincoln Day Thursday Thurs-day at a dinner at The Terrace Ball Room. Speaker for the event was U.S. Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, Keat-ing, New York Republican. The Utah Supreme Court unanimously and briefly affirmed af-firmed the Third District Court conviction of Robert Buddy Washington for burglary in Salt Lake City. Justice F. Henri Hen-roid Hen-roid .wrote the opinion holding that the jury had sufficient cause to determine the defendant's guilt. The Salt Lake City Commission Commis-sion has approved the first partial par-tial payment of $46,549.37 to Christensen Construction Co. for building the Redwood Road sanitary sani-tary sewer trunk line. The first section now under construction is from 11th West and 15th North going south. Forest E. Mahoney, 1504 E. 17th South, has retired after 40 years and seven months as a railway rail-way postal clerk. He was appointed ap-pointed a substitute railway postal clerk on June 16, 1921. Projects to control rough fish through chemical treatment covered cov-ered 23,701 acre feet of Utah's waters during 1961. Surface acres treated totalled 3,518 for the six waters covered by this program last year. Waters treated included Strawberry Straw-berry and Minersville reservoirs, Salem Pond, Maple Lake, Honey-ville Honey-ville Ponds and Harve's Pond. The two major projects were Strawberry and Minersville, with the former by far the largest of the year. Cost of chemicals and aerial application totalled $45,841.36. There were 65,700 pounds of powdered or dry chemicals and 3,953 gallons of liquid used, according ac-cording to figures released by the department of fish and game today. |