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Show South Utah Civic Clubs Favor Plan of Cooperation of Factions Plan Meetings With Various Groups of State to Promote Pro-mote Better Understanding; Understand-ing; Plan Advertising Southern Utah Civic clubs rep-resentatvies rep-resentatvies went on record as favoring a plan for cooperation between factions in Utah in an effort to tetter understand the other fellow's problem and to further the best interests of the state The meeting of the clubs was held in Cedar City on Monday Mon-day in conjunction with the legislators. leg-islators. Pres. C. W Love, Jr., presided. Secretary Ray E. Carr issued the following report: "Included among the speakers were Paul H. Hunt, representnig the American Mining congress, who told of the effect of a lack of employment on the economic and social conditions in Utah; Senator Ward C. Holbrook, who was recently elected president of the Utah State Farm bureau ; Representative D. A. Tidwell; Secretary Sec-retary of State E. E. M'onson, representing Governor Henry H. Blood; Game Commissioner Newell New-ell B. Cook and others. "Senator Holbrook invited other interests to "talk things over'' with the farming interests when he asserted: "We talk about each other too much, but not enough to each other". "He added: "We realize that our success depends upon the success of others, and we want to get better 'acquainted". "Mr. Monson stressed the value of cooperation and gave the Associated As-sociated Civic clubs credit for being the organization responsible for proving the real value of cooperation co-operation in solving state affairs. Plan Outined "The plan decided upon for promoting a belter understanding understand-ing between vraious factions and groups calls for meetings nt which problems and possible solutions so-lutions will be discussed in a friendly manner. Recently the association as-sociation h a. s sponsored several such meetings as an experiment, with considerable success. "The plan has the approval of tho Mining congress. Sportsmen's association, livestock people, the farm bureau, the Utah Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' association and several other groups. "The directors also voted to request re-quest the forest service and Taylor Tay-lor grazing act officials to cancel grazing fees for 1937 in areas affected by the severe winter. In most of southern Utah the livestock live-stock men have suffered serious losses of stock, and the lamb crops this spring will be an estimated esti-mated 50 per cent below normal. "In addition to action on these projects and others, a definite decision was reached to erect large sign boards advertising tho state at stateglc points near Utah's borders. "The first of tho sign boards will be placed at Las Vegfts, Nevada,, Ne-vada,, and will bo 42 feet long by 12 feet high. It will picture a scenic attraction in tho southern south-ern part of tho state and an Invitation In-vitation to visit all of southern Utah." Newell B. Cook, state fish and game commissioner, g'ave a roporl on the new bills coming up in the legislature on fish and game, stressing especially tho importance import-ance and desirability of the raising rais-ing of the licenses for both resident resi-dent and non-resident hunters and fishers and the pheasant bill Which would provide revenue to take care of tho dhmage done by the pheasants and save the birds from ruhtless destruction by the farmers, uh has been the case In the past. Mr Oook also stated that plans were being made to toko '.care of practically all damage done by game animals to farmer where It can be appraised properly. It was decided to hold a Beri" s of meetings probably in Salt Lake with representatives of all industries in-dustries of the state with th' idea of feeling their puls and better acquainting each other with problem pertaining to various vari-ous group.?. These will be started in the near future. |