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Show CITY MOVES TO CURB JUNKETS; ATTORNEYS' RANK TO BE FIXED An ordinance setting the salsrles ot assistant city attorneys and stating whether they shall be designated by certain ranks likely will be proposed at meeting of the city commission Thursday, ' Tha commission. It Is understood, under-stood, considered the matter during dur-ing an executive session Wednesday. Wednes-day. It was also reported the commission com-mission discussed wsys of exercising exercis-ing greater control over "Junket trips taken to conventions by city officials and employes. The commission Tuesdsy ended a controversy over filling a vacancy va-cancy In the legal staff, created by the resignation of Fisher Harris, city attorney, effective March 1, by appointing Marion G. Romney as assistant city attorney. His salary sal-ary was set at $300. It was reported the commission asked Commissioner William Murdoch, Mur-doch, In charge of the department of publlo affairs and finance, to work out a system for curbing expenditures ex-penditures msde for Junket trips. A move In this direction was started after It waa revealed recently re-cently that such trips ecost the city $4215 in 1939, while the costs to Sslt Lake county for the same period were only $240. |