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Show Why I Should Like To See The Present Park Site Developed BY MRS. ROXEY ROMNEY First, the city owns the land, several acres, and this can be added to on three sides, as the city can. afford. The location is ideal for advertising adver-tising St. George, and we need to advertise. We need the tourist trade. Then, too, the city is growing grow-ing east, and when one really considers distance, the park isn't far from town. There is sufficient water on the land for both park and pool, and that alone in Dixie is something to consider. There is a storage pool already built and twice cemented to take care of the water supply. This has cost the people hundreds of dollars. Already there are from 75 to 100 trees and numerous shrubs growing on the place. That too, is something in Dixie. The place lends itself readily to walks and picnic nooks. Then very important, the place is landscaped beautifully by LaVell (Continued on page four) Develop Park Site (Continued from first page) Morris of the B.Y.U. who was state landscape engineer at the time he visited St. George in that interest, and consented to landscape land-scape the park because of its connection with Highway 91, and of the natural setting for a park. Flis plans, he said, if carried out, would make this park the envy of the state. Mr. Morris has planned many of the parks of the state and should know. His plans saved the city $300 and are well worth any city spending money on to develop, not alone because of their being so unique and because the site offers something entirely different to most places, but because of their nearness to the highway where the tourists will be readily attracted. Another state landscape engineer, engi-neer, who has worked and studied throughout the state, nation and in foreign countries said, "Don't give up this site for a park. If has outstanding possibilities". This he explained was with reference both to its unusualness and to its location lo-cation in the interest of the tourist. The plans for the pool were approved last year by the State Board of Health as being among the best in the state. Planned by Mr. Perkins of the Perkins Laboratory Labor-atory of Omaha, Neb., it has bath houses, shower houses and every requirement of the Board of Health. Of the hundreds he has planned, Mr. Perkins claims this is the most economical, and claims the only one he has planned plan-ned anywhere near this cost was one at $17,000, for a WPA project. These plans cost the city $715.00 and with surveys, etc., equaled $800.00. Plans for the park include pool and fountain in connection with the present storage pool, an amphitheatre, am-phitheatre, playgrounds for the children and adults, parking space for cars, flower gardens and pergolas per-golas with lawns and walks and shrubs for the center. The project as set up and approved ap-proved after four years work calls for $13,000 from the city with the government contributing $20,-000 $20,-000 in labor. Will we ever get a park and pool at lower cost than this? The places either side of the park show that with care things will grow there. It is years since this place has had care. The traffic problem, I believe, can be controled. Many of the places in the state are building on the highways for the purpose of advertising. To me the danger of children swimming in different water holes is greater than the traffic danger they would encounter en-counter there. We want a nice park and a nice pool and so. I believe St. George is willing to pay for something fine. The project is approved and ready to go. In a few years time the extra expense would be forgotten for-gotten in the joy and pride we would find in such a place. A council naturally hesitates when extra expense is involved, but interest in the development of fine things causes every thinking think-ing citizen to consider such opportunities. |