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Show WIT CENSORSHIP OF PICTURE SHOWS Club Women Appear Before City Commissioners With Request for Board. ASK REPRESENTATION Decision Is Reached to Close All Billiard and Pool Halls at Midnight. The civic, committee of the Utah federation fed-eration of Women's clubs requested of the olty commission, In a communication presented H.i &st night's acsslon, tbo appointment ap-pointment of a iochl board of . elisors for motion picture Bbowa Declaring this clnfs.M of entertainmeni lo have h testing effect on the minds of the young, the ciui-. women ask the appointment of a censorship commission "from among the most public spirited of our citizens, men and womcii jihout e.cjually." The communication, which bore the simi luri ol" I-.1 i7.1. ctli ("ink, h.i Irm.i n, suggested that "one eduoatoi Miss Williams Wil-liams of the playgrounds association," and Mrs, Graham, president of the site federation, be named on the censorship commission. "This In slmph beginning." begin-ning." wrote Mrs. Cook. "There are many others capable and sufficiently Interested." In-terested." The communication was referred re-ferred to the department of public safety, For Midnight Closing. Milliard aid pool halls operr-uinn In Salt rake oiy win henceforth be re: quired to lose their doors :i midnight. An orolnuncf prepared bj Mayor Samuel Sam-uel C. Park before the illne.5 which necessitated ne-cessitated ins absence was passed hy the commission at Inst night's meeting. The provision prohibiting minors from frequenting fre-quenting these places is emphasised In the new ordinance and in addition, the mirlnlRht Closing Section Will he enforced en-forced difference of one-half Inch In tlv depth of the standard -pfie box designated desig-nated hy the commission ami thai declared de-clared official by the state board caused the passape Of an entirely new ordinance on the Weight and measure problem of the city, in the ordinance passed a fortnight fort-night ago, the depth of the "standard" box for apples was placed at eloen and one-half inches, but the state officials having decreed the proper depth to lie eleven inches, a new ordinance was enacted. en-acted. License Is Refused. Refusal of n rooming house license to yfrod BSckstedt at 59 Blast Second South street, made hy the city auditor, was endorsed hy the commission, the police chief having recommended that action. The place has operated for some time without a lic nsc and without application for one being made. Appointm.nl of five new members of the fire department wa-s approved by the commission ana Incidentally Chief w, ll. Bj water's plan for try-out of applicants was vetoed. On the auditor's ruling that try-outs are not provided for under the city's Charter, the chief announced the appointment of K. R. Craig, William Scnade, Eml Stein, re. C. May and Robert Rob-ert Anderson as firemen of the third class. Back pay for the portion Of April the men have worked was allowed by the com mission H. Warren Smith, chief deputy under Noble Warrum, was given S light Increase In-crease In salary, as was Miss Ethel Mat -Donald, a valued member of I he same office staff Commissioner "W. II EoniS voted against, the Salary Increase in this department, declaring that the city was going too fast iti the. Increase in expenditures expendi-tures along this line. |