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Show Cemetery Committee Organized in Green River Woman's Club decided de-cided to do something about the Elgin Cemetery Cem-etery this spring, and Louise Sherrill was appointed ap-pointed as Chairman of the committee to get the project going. The movement was a part of the Civic Improvement Improve-ment Program, of which Mrs. Norma Politano is " the chairman; therefore Mrs. Sherrill is Associate Assoc-iate CIP Chairman, as Mrs. Scott Anderson is also, as chairman of the Christmas Light Program. Pro-gram. With three active projects booming along at once, Woman's Club was faced w ith the practical prac-tical problem of more chiefs among its Indians. In-dians. Mrs. Politano's project pro-ject of encouraging the disposal of old abandoned abandon-ed cars and encouraging the cutting of weeds in the streets and vacant lots goes on smoothly, and Mrs. Anderson is getting her Christmas lights paid for. She is planning to set one up in the Bank, so that everyone can see how beautiful they are and perhaps be constrained constrain-ed to chip in a bit to the project. Mrs. Louise Sherrill as chairman of the Cemetery Cem-etery Committee, has enlisted so many in her program that it is no longer just a Woman's Club committee, but is representative of the entire community. Serving Ser-ving with her are Mrs. Irene Wilcox, Sexton of the cemetery, Lee How-land, How-land, Grand County Chairman of the Cemetery Cem-etery Co.r.mittee and Gary Fluckey, Green River City employee in charge of the cemetery. The committee is anxious to get something done to enhance the appearance ap-pearance of the cemetery cem-etery in Elgin, as well as the old one in Green River and several plans are in the offing. The plat of the cemetery must be brought up to date, and roads and lots firmly mapped out. Then a system of irrigation, either the Durrm and pipeline already owned by the organization, or a well drilled, or whatever what-ever seems mostpract-ical mostpract-ical to grow a few trees and shrubs along the fences. It has been decided de-cided to retain the desert des-ert appearance as far as possible, with agate-way agate-way built of rocks and other natural construction construc-tion and planting as far as possible. Mrs. Sherrill . and Mrs. Wilcox plan a trip to Moab to look into the mapping and location of the older graves, and to find out the name of the party owning the land between the cemetery and the road, so that this peice of property might be purchased to enlarge the area. A clean-up day will be set soon, to clear off the weeds and spruce up the general appearance appear-ance of both graveyards Mrs. Sherrill states, and it is hoped that a good turnout can be encouraged en-couraged to get the job done thoroughly. |