Show Citizens Ask County for Re Apportionment Study of School District Precincts A petition was was filed with willi the Board of County Commissioners at their meeting Tuesday after after- afternoon noon for a apportionment re-apportionment of the Uintah School District The law provides that this may be done every four years in order that the population of the district may be equally reo re- represented presented ROGER HACKING corn com chairman reported that the smallest preCinct in the county has a voting population of and represents only seven per cent of of the total voters of the district while the he largess larges district with 2440 voters represents 47 per cent of the school districts district's voters The T commission will follow through on the recommendation after proper legal steps have been taken other members of the delegation included Kenneth Aycock and D Whitney Ham Ham- Hammond mond Provision for the change is under chapter 3 Utah Code annotated A revision of state and county roads will be proposed propose at a meeting with representatives of the State Road Commission to be held at Vernal February 1 1 New designations will be made of nonfederal non roads including state roads will remain state roads some state roads will willbe willbe be transferred to county arter arter- arterial ial and others will be designated ed county general Four eastern Utah counties will meet at Price February 2 to discuss roads of the region This meeting will be attended by Uintah Duchesne and Grand County commissioners The meeting will seek a definite de- de decision decision about routing of the Book Ouray-Book Cliffs road so the National Guard will be able to set up a project for the coming summer to improve the design design- designated designated route AT THE present time Grand County is divided on whether th the road should use the Hay Canyon or the Sego Canyon route Following the Carbon County meeting the recommendations of of the four counties will be pre pre pre- presented at a meeting to be held in Moab in May and will be prepared for legislative action The Horseshoe dugway Continued u on page ag 6 j Precincts Continued from page 1 1 T portion of the Lapoint road will willbe be advertised March 1 accord e eing ing to the county commission This project will involve the ex of There ii iia is a possibility that additional funds of may be secure ed cd to complete the entire road 1 from Maeser to Lapoint mak Ing the total project The county's share of the Ithe adi ad additional project would be 1504 AN ALCOHOLIC ita lion center for Uintah Count County was discussed after the matters matter's was presented b by Dee and Joe Jo Hatch It was explained that five such centers are now located ed In iii Utah under a financed by the churches of Utah Utan A luncheon is scheduled scheduled by the city and county leaderS l 3 for Monday when the matter I I will be discussed further and a committee committee named to make a study of the proposal |