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Show UTAH OFFICERS CALLED IN ON FLOOD RELIEF ' General Committee Meets! in Capital to Discuss Work; Total Amount' Now Exceeds $62,000! I Preston O. reterson, chalmuw at r ffce state road commission; tr. i f T B. Uestty, aecretarjr of the state hoard of health, and Attorney General Hsney H. Cluff or one ! of hia aaslatanta familiar with Stat- utea affecting public health and i y atata road work, hava. been re-1 ouested to ,ttend tha conference i Vf the flood relief committee In j Bovsrao. alsae. a f f leav4Mo eJtaavJ noon, tha chamber of commerce announced today. I The requests . followed a tela-1 phone communication ' from mem-nere mem-nere of tha executive committee of tha general committee who went to the devastated areas at Fann-Ington Fann-Ington and Wlllard this morning. No reason waa assigned for the Invitation, but tt la understood that In their Inspection of progress In relief work tha committee membere encountered queethme af responsibility respon-sibility that will ba Ironed aut at the conference. At noon today. It was announced that tha flood relief fund had I passed tha fC.OOO mark. Thla In- I rludea only contributione actually received or reported as pledged. A I great number of volunteer col- I lectors hare not yet reported the ' results of their canvaa and It Is be- 1 lieved that when the final check . I. made Wednesday noon the full I7S.000 set as a minimum will ba ' on on hand. ' CONTRIBUTIONS LISTED. , ', Among the Individual conttihu- tlona reported were: Mill and mine ' employe, of the t'tah Copper m- panv. SCOfl, Beneficial Life Insur- ' ance company, lino; streetcar em- ployes of Salt Lake, l 11.10; Bolt I Lake county farm bureau. 1100: 1 Lion's club of Murray. 1241.60: am-rlayea am-rlayea of the VuMIc safety depart- ' ent. fits: , Devi. County hsns. ' yrarmlngton. $:o: Farmlnffton J Commercial club. 1100: Amerlrsn ' legion mem hers. 1500; Rotgry club members, 11000. t 1 fortunsta neighbors. Resident of Bait Lake stake of ! the L. D. B.- church had raised ' aa a apeclal relief fund for , t!i famllkrs. of the four hoy, who loat the.'r Uvea when their camp : In Parmlngton- canyon waa wiped , aut by the flood. This Jund Is In sedition to contributions mada lev p the people In the northwest section , of the city to Ihe general relief , fund. Harrison Jack, father of one 0 nf the boys, returned a check for p IIS0 sent him. thanking hls I, neighbors for their thougJitfulncas. i but explaining that he had carried a life Insurance policy on his son and was In no need of such help. T The Utah Klete Automobile aa- sociallon today forwarded a memorandum mem-orandum to the relief committee, calling attention to alleged exploitation ex-ploitation of tha disaster at F.lrm-Ington- by IndiVlduala who turned the catastrophe to profit. Specific ti mention Is made of one resident whom. It is claimed, charged mo- torlets from sO cents up for the pr vllege of detouring over a small atrip of private property. . Other f irmer.. It la claimed, lined the u riiadslde and charged exorbitant ,, prices to pull -unfortunate motor- 4 lata aroaa.mudholes In the hastily opened detours. The association , auggests that pny financial telief ahould be withheld from.thoaa en- Cl gnaed la thla business and that ti their namea ahould be learned and o made public, .... |
