Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-22 | Page 15 | Parents Seek County Lease on Play Area

PARENTS SEEK SEER COUNTY LEASE ON PLAY AREA West Siders Request Use of Six Acres On Dead End Street Continuing efforts to obtain a playground for children of west westside westside side r residents a delegation Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day requested the county commission commission commission com com- mission to o lease to the city a 2 six-acre six tract between Navajo and Cheyenne streets at the dead end formed at Fourth South street The delegation was headed by byI I Mrs Virgil E E. Anderson Peter Peler PeterR R R. R Birrell and Eugene V V. Ronneburg Ronneburg Ronneburg Ronne- Ronne burg and accompanied to the county commission by City Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner P. P H. H Goggin Previously a delegation had appeared ap ap- ap- ap Reared eared before the city commission commission commis commission sion on the matter and was referred referred referred re re- re- re to Mr Goggin At that time an acre 11 tract adjacent to the six-acre six tract was requested Spokesmen said homes are established In the area and more are under consideration The several hundred children It was wassal sal said must go one and one-half one miles mlles to the nearest playground The two tracts it was pointed out are adjacent to property owned by the board of education education education tion and it Is requested a school be built there J J. J B. B Mullins county commission commission commission commis commis- sion chairman Indicated the re request request request re- re quest would be granted for the six-acre six plot but an Investigation tion first must be conducted by bythe bythe bythe the county property department Mr Mullins noted that four- four lane lan lane highways highways traverse west from the business district to the Utah ordnance nce plant on Fourth South Ninth South Thirteenth South and Twenty-first Twenty South streets The highways he said would pass through the area creating a hazard hazard hazard haz haz- ard for children playing In streets