Show Chamber Airs Recreation Plan Vernal Chamber of Com Com- Commerce merce Monday at the Hotel Vernal discussed recreation plans for this area President Glade M Sow ards said that Uintah Recreation Recreation tion Association has purchased ed about 65 lights from Arch Dam Construction at Dutch John for lighting a sports field for night games He said that the original cost c st of If the mercury vapor lamps was 1200 but they were were- purchased for third one that amount MR saId that many other items such as new bulbs were included at no extra cost He suggested that in addi- addi addition addition tion to night games that the lights could be used for night convention activities The Chamber president de- de deplored deplored the continued acts of vandalism that occur to re- re recreational recreational facilities He said that lIghts had been shot out at the ball park and at Merk- Merk Merkley Icy ley Park and that rest room windows had been smashed out He said that vandals had reached through the broken windows and smashed the toilet fixtures with rocks HE CITED problems that had faced the city in its at- at attempts attempts tempts to make a skating pone pond A nice skating area has been made at Stewarts Lake however he pointed painted out with about an acre of skating space He said that a dike spillway may be constructed for for- flooding purposes Under the sug estion Hof 01 Pf SoW the Cham- Cham Ch r to invite profession profession- professional al football star Jim McNaughton McNaughton to attend the Chain Cham- Chamber's bers ber's annual meeting and re- re receive receive a gift showing the corn com community's appreciation for fot his representing Vernal Ben Lindsay said that Jim McNaughton was well liked on campus by athletes and non athletes alike Secretary Manager L Y reported that one one- quarter of the people in Utah work for some type of gover- gover government government unit He He said that population of Utah will reach one million during the early part of 1964 |