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Show HISTORY UNIT SEEKSRECORDS County Officials Are Asked for Files Request that heads of county government gov-ernment departments turn over all public records more than 10 years old was received Friday by county commissioners from Herbert 8. Auerbach, president of the Utah State Historical society, founded in 1897. In 1917, by legislative enactment, the society was made custodian of all records, documents, relics and other historical materials of value then In charge of state, county or other public officials which they were not required by law to keep in their possession. Mr. Auerbach's letter explained the society Is In a position to catalogue cata-logue the records and assure their safe keeping in fireproof vaults which at the same time would provide pro-vide vault storage space now so badly bad-ly needed by several county departments. depart-ments. The matter was referred to the commission clerk to acknowledge the letter, and commissioners personally per-sonally said they would contact department de-partment heads to determine feasi-bility feasi-bility of the suggestion. |