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Show v T-n j- i mi,,,, tlUmi , tv-niriii-nr T f"ni rj'te' " JTii.-i nnii .!. n in iiijfWh . ,. J Sam Cline. "Over 55 Years as City Attorney" Attorney Sam Cline To Retire Nov. 1st An important personage off of Milford's Main Street will be missed November 1st when Sam Cline. who has pracliced law in Milford since 1915. retires re-tires from the firm of Cline, Jackson and Mayer. Since Sam first hung his shingle in Milford in 1915, there has been a lot of water under the bridge or we Sam. They were joined by McCoy for a few years, then LeRay Jackson, who left the firm in April of this year to move to Delta. At this time, they were joined by Bruce Mayer, who after Sam's retirement, will be the local attorney, since Joe Jackson has opened a branch effice in Cedar City during the past year. Sam has been active in the community, having served as Past Master of Albert Pike Lodge, F&AM; Past Noble Grand of the IOOF; he served on the Utah State Bar Commission Com-mission from its organization for six years. He was a charter member of the Milford Lions and is a past president. He is also a Charter Member of the Milford American Legion Post 16 and a past commander. When asked what he thought of Milford's future he said -Agriculture has reached ,ts imSits, unless other water ources are found. The railroad potential has been reached, so far as Milford is concerned. Freight traffic will undoubtedly undoubted-ly tacrease, but technology will fee" it from producing more employment in Milford. "But manTwill someday ring out tne mini"g potential of the Continued on Page Four should say a lot of underground, under-ground, culinary water on the alfalfa, potatoes and grain of Milford farmers, and no little part of it is due to the diligence dili-gence of Mr. Cline, who is one of the foremost authorities on underground water in Southern Utah and maybe the whola state. He was the attorney for the deep well pumpers in the landmark land-mark case before the Supreme Court of Utah which decided that early priority was not an absolute right but rather, the early priority water right "must employ reasonable and efficient means in taking, their own waters in relation to other users in the end, that the g eat'est amount of availab e water is put to the most bene- fidmark dec.ion -s of Southern Utah agr of SOUUieii. d ,V at the University of college at tne u Southern California from t0 1914' " m where his first came to Mallfreaneral Mer- abated1 with the store m 1898' .a his law office Sam opened his i in 19i5 and begin Ms - "City Attorney that same year, a v w still holds today, and has continuously since W"h T wast hVarmy dur-vears dur-vears he was in gam mg the dest ac-said, ac-said, "One of my P' years complishments iy ser-of ser-of continuous comm said vice in PbllC fght hold a he believed it mM was record of some sort, not sure. in his prac- He was joined in m ther tice in 1924 by 1 lasted Harold. This partaersh P until Harold s Gil- Sam married Mrs 1 Jies in 1934 and ba a children, a son . jyjgdsen. daughter Mrs. Marie ded Xne Partnership in 1927 wh.Jer of the Mil-long Mil-long time PbUsh Flll. lard County more, joined tne g & the firm returned to Cline, then Cline stlU whence h a member of te HERE'S MORE ABOUT ATTORNEY Continued from Page One area." He also said that tourism would become a larger employer employ-er in Milford, though it will mostly be in serving people in transit, since there is little to draw them to Milford itself. ' As to his future plans He and his wife Irma will move to Salt Lake City. He will commute com-mute to the Milford State Bank Directors Meetings, of which he is president of the Board. He also will be back and forth in the next few months, as he phases out his work at the office. |