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Show CITY TO SLATE-PUBLIC SLATE-PUBLIC PARLEY-ON PARLEY-ON MILK ISSUE Reapproved Permits Given Dairies Inspected While the city legal department Monday continued preparation of tentative drafts of an ordinance banning aale of raw milk within Salt Lake City, city commissioners agreed in executive session for ho4d-tmt ho4d-tmt e nubHs hseriag. Us eonlre-verted eonlre-verted issue. The date and hour for the public hearing will not be fixed, Mayor E. B. Erwin said, until commissioners commis-sioners convene In regular session Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, health department officials of-ficials announced that some of the raw milk distributors had been approved ap-proved by the department and were again serving unpasteurized milk In their customers. Herds Chocked Reapproved permits have been given only to dallies whore herds have been checked and found in a healthy condition, the mayor Indicated In-dicated hs waa informed by Dr. T. J. Howels. health commissioner. Dr. Howells met with the mayor before the chief executive of the city called his fellow commissioners Into executive exec-utive session. Mayor Erwin said there are about 24 distributors of raw milk In Salt Laks City. However, only 4 per cent of the total number of milk users in Salt Lake City demand raw, or unpasteurised milk, according to board of health statistics submitted to the mayor. Approximately one-half of the dealers In raw milk are agreeable to an ordinance banning permanently perma-nently the distribution of the unpasteurised un-pasteurised product. Mayor Erwin said, leaving a small minority of distributors, serving about 1 per cent of the total milk market In the city, opposed to enactment of the proposed ordinance. Ordinance nought Health officials asked for the ordinance or-dinance about 10 days ago after deckirlng an emergency existed and citing that the milk-consuming public pub-lic was being threatened with un-dulant un-dulant fever as a result of herds Infected In-fected with Bang's disease. Scores of citizens have protested the suggested ordinance on the ground that it will deprive them of a food commodity they have customarily cus-tomarily used for years. Several dairymen also are protesting pro-testing the ordinsncs on ths ground that it will effect adversely an established es-tablished Industry with an estimated esti-mated $900,000 investment. |