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Show PRICE ASSAILS BUILDING UNIT The slate building com m Lie ion was under fire again Wednesday, this time indirectly as the result of , the Utah tuberculosis sanitarium squabble. For the second time In a few weeks, resignation of the members was demanded, this time because of asserted refusal to proceed with construction of a new Cat bun junior college and an addition to Weber college at Ogden. The demand came from Mayor J. Bracken Lee of Price, where the Carbon college is to be built. Honpltal Hlte Meanwhile, the state tuberculosis tubercu-losis sanitarium site selection commission com-mission was to meet Wednesday afternoon at the capitol to scan an attorney general's opinion showing show-ing the 33-acre site the commission has chosen at Ogden to be encumbered. encum-bered. The building commission has refused re-fused to build a sanitarium with the $182,000 available and its refusal re-fusal gave rise to a question as to the validity of that section of the 1837 appropriations act providing funds for the sanitarium and two college projects. The section Is ambiguous In that It does not set forth whether the approprTationsTncTude orare" in addition to P W A grants. Demands Board Quit When the building commission recently refused to begin work on a sanitarium, the Ogden chamber of commerce demanded resignation of members who voted not to proceed. pro-ceed. It appeared possible the Ogden it nnnnt k. l,tH h.an.. th sanitarium law directs that a site must carry a clear title. The site is part of the Weber-Box Weber-Box Elder water conservation district dis-trict and will have to bear a share of a district debt, being repaid over a 40-year period to the federal government, gov-ernment, said the opinion of John D. Rice, deputy attorney general. Outline Duties ' The amount of the site's debts should be ascertained by the site commission. Mr. Rice said. Mr. Rlre found 21 defects in the abstract, but ths title will not be Injured if these defects are corrected, cor-rected, he held. Soma of them are items such as misspelled names and lack of quit claim deeds. Attorney General Joseph Chei still is workingxon a mandamus action, to be filed in state supreme court as a test of the appropriations appropria-tions act so far as it affects the two colleges. . |