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Show Utah Lacks Funds for Flood Relief Cash Ample for Convention Trips Travel Budget Given Attention I Pleasant ResortJ tn . Southe rn ! States ; Attract . Utah OTfl-cials; OTfl-cials; Expenses Paid From -Public Funds . First Conference of State Department De-partment Heads Results In Opposition to Aid Wil- , : lard and Farmington . ' '. . This. It la .declared, la the nice time of th year to vl.lt springs and aummer resorts In the South, for Inatanca. - like White Sulphur Springs In Virginia and Aahevllla.i N". C. No one knovi thla batter than the people who reside there, henea It haa been dlacovered that either of the reaorte are daalrable placee to hold conventtone and that after taking a - vacation at home either of tha points named ia.a. moal daalrahla plana la Head another vacation. Neat month. If all goes wall, two atata efflclaia wlU attend a Catherine Cather-ine at White Sulphur Springs. Ten days ago. In two counties of tha atata. great damage was dona to property and a heavy' toll of Ufa waa taken due to cloudbursts In tha mountalna which awept down canyons. can-yons. Tha people responded at once to tha call for help for the stricken communities. Included In the destruction of property wu the water systems of towns and cities and the blotting out of a part of the stste hlghwaya. Confaraasaa wee bees e state K4 dale to aea what cold be dona In th way of atata aid. not only to tha people direct, but In tha way of reconatructlng the highways which I while three others, and possibly snother, will attend conventions st Aahsvllle. At the latter place one of the offlciala, the director of finance' and purchase, will dejlver an address on ' "State Financing and Pnrehaeinff.' . - To make this trip hy ths stste offlclnls will root the state in railroad fare for ths .round ' trip about I7M.70: tha Pullman fare will aggregate 1M, and meals about II 0; In all. a total of about 11071 .In the preparation of the budget forthe atsts for ths preer ent biennlum great care was exercised ex-ercised In seeing that a fund waa provided for traveT. Other matters may havs feson. It Is declared, and undoubtedly were, overlooked, but the matter of travel was provided for. Hesult. many trips have been mads in the present hies alum ot which the one that u f.n? proposed Is a ssmple. The question being asked la: Does It pa y the stst e ? were so bsdly damaged. Then a discovery wss made, and that waa that there waa eio fund provided for emergencies like the one cited here. While there Is no legal provision pro-vision whereby funds may be obtained ob-tained to alleviate the conditions, the etsts haa provided for travel expenee for Its officers. In the conferences held ths question ques-tion of a deficit In eoms of ths several funds waa thoroughly canvassed can-vassed and It was finslly determined deter-mined to create a dericlt In the ststs health department so that a fund might bs had for proper ssnl-tatlon ssnl-tatlon In ths stricken localities. Latsr. after another conference. It wss decided to loan to the two counties coun-ties In which tjie trsgedy occurred half of the amount necessary to reconstruct re-construct ths blghwsys from a revolving re-volving fund. Perhaps ths next legislature will rut the travel account. ac-count. It waa remarked today when icontraat wss made regarding Sams 1 and funds for smergenry work. . |