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Show Council Names Committees; City Appointments-Made Church Officials Present Plans For Stake House, City Park Area The Springville city council Monday evening, even-ing, in the first regular meeting under direction direc-tion of the new mayor J. Emmett Bird, with Councilman Blaine Clyde and Ruel Crandall, approved committees com-mittees to preside over the various var-ious city departments; also approved several city employee re-appointments and took up various other minor items of business. The standing committees with chairman named first, are as follows: Water, sewer and irrigation, E. A. Strong, Jr., Harold Whiting and Ruel Crandall; Electric lights and power, Blaine Clyde, Whiting, Strong and Crandall; Streets, walks, airport, garbage, Whiting, Whit-ing, Strong, Clyde; parks, recreation, re-creation, Grant Nielson, Strong and Crandall; bookkeeping, license, li-cense, office, Nielson, Clyde, Crandall, Mayor Bird; police, Mayor Bird, Clyde, Nielson; cemeteries, pastures, schools, Crandall, Strong, Nielson. Chairman of the various boards will be: Grant Nielson, planning; E. A. Strong, Jr., ad-justments ad-justments Harold Whiting, Memorial; Harold Whiting, E. A. Strong, Jr., and Blaine Clyde on the Spanish Fork-Springville Fork-Springville Airport board. Appointments Approved city reappointments reappoint-ments include: Lloyd J. Ash-craft, Ash-craft, city recorder; Verl S. Dallin, City treasurer; J. F. Wingate, justice of peace; H. M. Weight, police chief; Grant Whitehead, Supt. of Electric Lights; McHilton Roberts, water wa-ter and sewer; Carl Curtis, streets and - walks;- Jesse- H. Whiting, building inspector. Scott Wilkinson, an insurance insur-ance representative, attended the meeting and asked permission permis-sion to bid on insurance for the city. Frank Memory, representing the 20-30 club was commended for the club's request to operate oper-ate a portable lunch stand through the summer at the city ball parks and Kelly's (Continued on Page 7, Col. 4) City Council Names New Committees (Continued from Page 1) Grove and give funds to recreation. rec-reation. The request was granted. grant-ed. Bishop Wm. Pratt of the Sixth ward and Bishop Ernest Boyer and Floyd Shepherd of the Eleventh, presented a plan showing the property boundaries boundar-ies of the new Stake House and City Park. It was moved by CI. Whiting and seconded by CI. Clyde it be approved, showing that the city park area as 3.85 acres. Engineer Neff will be advised to check and verify the plan. Invest Funds It was moved by CI. Nielson and Seconded by CI. Whiting that the city recorder be authorized auth-orized to invest $20,000 of cemetery trust funds in Series Ser-ies "H" government bonds. Editor's note Minutes of the meeting as recorded are on file at the city recorder's office and the Springville Herald. |