Show i. i K t r nf It City Calls Hearings Hearing r On Smoke e Plan PIon U r HALE Lake smoke smoked I 11 Pv sed Salt J. J p based on strIct g program kmen ment ent will be opened to lon March 7 before b enA 3 w I Commissioners at their regu regular regu- regu lar meeting Thursday morning called a public hearing for 10 a. a m. m March 7 in room city and county coun coun- II ty building on an abatement pro pro- Continued on Page 5 S 5 Column 6 f- f li 1 M r Open Hearings Ordered in Study lof Of Smoke Abatement for S. S L L. I Continued from Pate Page One gram submitted by William L. L Butler Butler Butler But But- ler city smoke abatement engineer engi engl- neer Mr Butlers Butler's program received by commissioners at a meeting Wednesday afternoon called for enforcement measures against what he called three classes of smoke violators Railroads commercial and industrial plants and resi resl- dences Mayor Ab Jenkins at the Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day commission meeting moved that a public hearing on the program program program pro pro- gram be held at 10 a. a m. m March 7 and the motion was J passed assed unanimously I Mr Butler when he met with commissioners Wednesday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon invited the officials to tear teardown teardown I down the program if they believed it not to be the solution to he the smoke problem However no changes In the program program program pro pro- gram were made at the session and Mr Butlers Butler's recommendations as originally drafted will be submitted submitted submit submit- ted to the public hearing The session was held in the office office office of of- fice of Commissioner John B. B Math- Math eson Mayor Jenkins refused to at at- at tend asserting t there ere had been n too many private meetings on public i matters Reporters were admitted I to the meeting Mr Butlers Butler's program called for forI I enforcement in three groups of I smoke producers describing them themas as railroads producing 40 per cent of the smoke in the city commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial and industrial plants producIng producing ing 36 per cent and residences residence pro pro- 24 per cent Generally his program called for mechanical firing equipment or use of smokeless fuel Meanwhile it was indicated that the public hearing would result In Ina Ina ina a lively ely discussion o of the smoke problem Commissioners already have received petitions in support of smokeless fuel development as asa I a means of smoke elimination |