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Show Leo Sets Finish Date For 'Point' Prison goes Into ths welfare relief fun from- state sales tax, according u law.) Present at the meeting were th governor; Atty. Gen. Clinton D Vernon: P. H. Mulcahy, chairman state finance committee; Reeas M Reese, state auditor; J. W. 8el wood, deputy auditor, and Sen Marl D. Gibson (D Carbon). Commissioner Mulcahy has held sines July 1 that ths money couM be transferred to the building fund, and that about JJ.475.00C was available. Auditor Reess hsi maintained welfare money must be taken from "spillover" before transfer of funds to the building fund. Point-of-the-Mountaln prison win be completed by Jan. 1, 1851, sven If legal action la necessary to acquire funds for ths construction. construc-tion. Gov. J. Bracken Lea declared Thursday. The governor said be wished building funds be made available for the project even If legislation is needed to resolve the differences differ-ences of opinion between fiscal officers of-ficers In his cabinet The conclusion resulted at the end of a 55-minuta conference at the capitol on the building fund at the end of the quarter, and on the availability of "spill over" from sales taxes (Spill over is the money over and above the $5,000,000 which Rejects Transfer He has maintained that only $704,000 is available for the building build-ing fund. Mr. Reess has rejected ths transfer of money which Mr. Mulcahy Mul-cahy has attempted to make to the building fund. Mr. Mulcahy has never voided his transfer. The attorney general has made official opinion on the matter. He pointed out however, that if the building fund accepts the 1704,000 figure of Mr. Reese, ths prison still can be completed by the governor's deadline. For, he said, another $1,000,000 will be available by April 1, according ac-cording to Mr. Reese's reasoning. Gov. Lee reed a letter from the prison architect Raymond J. Ash-ton, Ash-ton, that ha could assure the governor gov-ernor the completion of ths prison with $1,500,000. Ths meeting continued Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, three prison officials, See Page 3. Columa 4 PRISON Continued from Page One Including two from famed Alca trax, were suggested Thursday to ' whip Into line the administration ; of the Utah state prison system, i Gov. J. Bracken Lee. disclosed the name of the three who had been submitted to him by James V. Bennett director of the bureau I of prisons In the United States department de-partment of justice. , The three JiavfederaL prison training and are recommended by Mr. Bennett for the purpose of making a working survey of Utah condition and recommending Improvement, Im-provement, if they find any are needed. The three Include Nova F. 8tucker, a captain at ' Alcatras, Cel.; Frank L. Johnson, a lieutenant lieuten-ant at Alcatraz, and Alvin O. Severson, a lieutenant at McNeil Island, Wash. Both are federal prisons. The name will be reviewed by the board of correction at the pedal meeting, which ha been called for 6 D m. Thursday at the Utah state prison. Gov. Lee ha asked the board to make selection aa quickly aa possible. Request for suggestions from the federal prison system grows out of the high number of escapees from the Utah prison, and the recent report of the governor' Investigating committee on the prison. The committee recommended the ouster of Warden Mason W. Hill aa one of the reform, but the governor and the board of corrections correc-tions failed to follow this recommendation. recom-mendation. Instead, they said, they preferred to leave Warden Hill on probation under the eye of a federally trained prison expert |