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Show County Planning Board Holds Meet Saturday Immediate Action Urged On Enterprise- St. George Highway The Washington County Planning committee, which was organized earlier in the season, held their first of a series of check-up meetings meet-ings at the Arrowhead hotel Saturday Sat-urday evening, Dec. 4, at 7 p. m. Representatives attended from Enterprise, Hurricane, Rockville. Santa Clara, Washington and St. George, including also Pres. James Judd and directors of the St. George Chamber of Commerce. W. B. Mathis, county chairman, conducted the meeting. Reports of Chairmen General business of the mooting moot-ing included reports from the various chairmen, check-ups on the projects outlined and presented pre-sented last August to Gov. Herbert Herb-ert B. Maw for present and postwar post-war activities. Committees were also appointed to continue gathering gather-ing information concerning some of the projects. George H. Seegmiller and Wallace Wal-lace J. Iverson reported that work is going forward on the farm-to-market road through the Washington Wash-ington Fields and expressed appreciation ap-preciation of the farmers for this much-needed improvement. Some minor details only are to be ironed out on this project. Reports on the St. George airport air-port improvements were deferred pending investigations now under way, which it is expected will materialize shortly. Henry Graff gave a brief re- . e 1 ..ic fr, flip port or nis rettui vii .... Irrigation Congress at Denver and told of what has been done in the interest of the Winsor Dam project along the Santa Clara creek which has a high point listing for early activity as a "Food for Victory" project, although al-though it is evident that close and definite cooperation of all those concerned will be necessary to put this over. He emphasized the fact that many fail to figure these improvements in the light of their extended benefits to the generations ahead and see only the immediate cost of the project, which is not the proper angle from which to view such an undertaking, un-dertaking, especially when those concerned are ready and willing to stand their portion of the cost, because they are experienced in (Continued on page five) Co. Planning Board (Continued from first page) the benefits that will logically accrue. . Enterprise Committee From the Enterprise committee, which included Arthur P. Jones, Luther M. Terry and Jacob Truman, Tru-man, it was learned that the St. George-Enterprise highway for which Governor Maw allocated an appropriation for improvements to begin Oct. 1st, was not receiving the promised attention. The committee com-mittee reported that the farmers of Veyo, Central and Enterprise are being put to much extra expense ex-pense as well as to the increased use of gasoline and wear on trucks and tires in handling their 1943 potato crop, because of the delay on improving the road from St. George to Enterprise. In their words, the people are up in arms over the situation, and feel that there is no reason why this work should not have been properly prosecuted as promised by the Governor. Because of the work not being done, the potato growers are again being forced to haul their potatoes po-tatoes across to Cedar City to connect with Highway 91, which takes them to market with their crop. This means they must travel an extra 100 miles, and part of this distance over a section sec-tion that is too cold and endangers en-dangers freezing of their potatoes. po-tatoes. They feel that there is an explanation due them and the committee as to the reason for this neglect, which so far as they are able to determine has been entirely uncalled for. Letters Mailed To Governor In their interest letters have been mailed to Governor Maw and others explaining the situation, asking for explanations and urging urg-ing that even at this late date the road work be done, since this area can be worked during the winter months when other sections are frozen up. The understanding under-standing was that this road was to be widened where needed, graded and capped to make it passable' for the winter and to keep it in shape for post-war completion and the farmers affected af-fected feel that they are entitled to this consideration in the interest inter-est of protecting their crops from loss and saving on gas and rubber. Senator Claud Hirschi and Commissioner Com-missioner Walden Ballard were assigned to investigations on the post-war project on the Rio Virgin. All in all it was felt that this meeting was productive of much good. Other meetings will be held later. |