Show Wardens Warden's Daughter Urges Prison Reform Removal LEHI LEHI-Lehi LEHI Lehi Lions club heard an interesting address on prison reform or and proposed removal of of the Utah state prison Thursday evening Miss Margaret Davis daughter of f Warden R. R E. E Davis recently returned from visiting prisons in England Germany and Russia was the speaker Prison reform is one of the three objectives objectives tives ves set up by Utah district U 28 of f Lions International The Lehi club voted to back a program designed to remove the i prison irison and bring about reform within within with- with in n the prison after hearing Miss Davis tell of the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of the present present pres pres- ent nt prison Insufficient work and with but 60 acres of tillable ground to o work work- for more than trusties creates reates an impossible situation at athe atthe atthe the he present site she contended Leo Hanson Joseph S. S Robison and nd Basil Hansen were named as delegates from the local club to meet at the Saturday luncheon and business session of the Associated Civic ivic Clubs of Northern Utah of which the local club is a member The delegates will go instructed to o vote in favor of pushing movements movements movements move move- ments for of political ts and governmental units with with- in the state particularly counties Opposing local option or control of liquor the local club also favors taking the superintendent of public instruction out of politics making the office appointive and raising the salary to a degree where highly trained and specialized superintendents superintend superintend- will always be available The local group although opposed I Ito to local option in feels that the state is getting more than its just share of special funds such as sales tax inheritance tax gasoline tax etc and will press demands for fora a return to the municipalities of from 20 per cent to 50 per cent of the gasoline taxes co collected through gasoline sales within the LEHI LEfT Mr and Mrs John H. H Smith have left Lehi on a six- six month trip to Europe most of their time abroad to be spent in England Both of them came from England in Utah's territorial days |