Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-08 | Page 13 | Raw Milk Ban Meets Defeat in Commission

RAW MILK BAN MEETS DEFEAT IN COMMISSION City Council Tables ""Measure Requiring-Pasteurization Requiring-Pasteurization The move to ban raw milk sales in Salt Lake City came to the end of a one-way dead-end street Wednesday Wed-nesday when the city commission defeated a motion to consider an ordinance requiring pasteurisation of all milk. The dead-end street was the "committee of the whole," whose chairman. Mayor E. B. Erwin, had proposed the motion. Defeat of the motion is tantamount to tabling the issue, observers agreed. Mayor Erwin denied the vote of the commission was a defeat of the proposed ordinance. "Evidently, the commission was not ready to vote on the ordinance, ordi-nance, but desired to make further fur-ther investigation," he sadi. "So, it voted to hold the ordinance ordi-nance on the committee of the whole calendar. As I view it, this was not a vote on the ordinance." The mayor was the only one to vote for his motion. Text of Motion The motion read: "In the matter of hearing upon the passing of an ordinance requiring requir-ing the pasteurisation of all milk consumed within Salt Lake City, which hearing was held before the board of commissioners December 1. 193T, and all matters in connection connec-tion therewith referred to the committee com-mittee of the whole for study, I move that the question of passing the ordinance be referred back to the board of commissioners, together to-gether with all communications in connection therewith." The raw milk controversy began some weeks ago when the board of health suddenly prohibited raw milk sales while herds were inspected in-spected for Bsng's disease. Hearing Held Chief Sanitarian A. C. Merrill of the board was outspoken in the opinion that the city could be assured as-sured of a safe milk supply only by pasteurization. The city commission held a hearing hear-ing on the proposal for a permanent perma-nent prohibition last Wednesday. Mayor Erwin has been the only commissioner on record as favoring favor-ing the ban. The proposed ordinance, read at the hearing, would have allowed raw milk distributors 90 days to arrange for pasteurisation facilities.