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Show POLICE CHIEF SUSPENDED: feir's, 13 S J Chh Mil the ordinances, however, when they have an unusually large crowd, it is difficult to get them out on time. Hardy suggested they stop selling earlier in such instances. in-stances. The club owners said it was difficult for their customers cus-tomers to understand the closing, since they could go to the restaurant with their spirits and continue drinking. drink-ing. The clubs both have cafe licenses as well. It was explained that the laws governing the license for selling beer (the major portion of their business) exceeded ex-ceeded the cafe license. The Mayor charged Chief Cook with appropriating the back -hoe and dump truck and enlisting the city crew during dur-ing working hours to move some dirt and materials from near Leo Nelson's to Cook's farm. Cook admitted the fact, but said he thought it was after working hours, and he had asked Atkin for use of the truck (the city rents the dump truck from Atkin Auto Service). Ser-vice). The motion to suspend Cook came from Jimenez, with a second by Dalton. Swain and Whlttaker joined in the vote 'for', and Hardy voted against, on the grounds that 30 days was too long. Ted Bridge asked what decision de-cision the Council planned to-make to-make on hiring of a City Supervisors Su-pervisors Jed Thomas, who was authorized to be hired last meeting, decided to stay on at Essex. The applications on file were read. Those applying for the job were: Richard L. Rose, Dewey Hawkins, Jr., Ted Bridge, and Jan B. Fisher. Dewey B. Hawkins also applied ap-plied for a job with the city. All applications were filed for future reference. The Mayor explained that the budget was tight and that he felt it was advisable to hold off until the first of next month. Councilwoman Whlttaker told the Council that the Bicentennial Bi-centennial Commission had turned down funds for the golf course project and the tennis courts. Property for a historical his-torical park was offered on lease only by the Union Pacific Pa-cific and this was ruled out. She said the only project still being considered was a heritage project by the Historical His-torical Society and the presenting pre-senting of the Centennial Pageant Pa-geant again in 1976. The Bi -Centennial Com-mission Com-mission turns thumbs down on participation with any project underway, wanting instead, one big total project. pro-ject. She said that both Minersville Min-ersville and Beaver City Councils put up the matching match-ing funds for their projects. If Milford does not come up with acceptable projects and matching funds, they will lose the $7000 allocation. After almost eight months of routine business, the proverbial pro-verbial s hit the fan Monday night' when Mayor Young recommended to the Council that the two local clubs, Casper's and B & J Club, be put on probation for six months, for failure to adequately police their places of business. Before the evening was over, ov-er, he recommended that Cliff Cook, Chief Marshall and City Supervisor, be suspended sus-pended for 30 days, for appropriating ap-propriating city equipment and crew for work on his farm. Both clubs were charged with the same offense of not dispersing their customers soon enough after closing. LuDean Barnes, owner of Casper's, said he had an unusually un-usually large crowd the night of August 25th when he was charged, and they were just leaving at 1:20 a.m. MDST, when Cliff Cook walked In. The Mayor later joined Cook and a discussion was held outside the bar, at that time. City ordinances read that clubs must stop selling at 12:00 midnight MST(1:00 aim. daylight saving time) and customers have 10 minutes min-utes to finish their drinks and be out. The B & J Club was charged charg-ed the night before on August 24. The hour was not disclosed. dis-closed. However, Lyle Dalton Dalt-on said that no one was drink -ing and there were just a few Indian wrestling and arm wrestling when Cook walked in. Both clubs may return in 90 days and request the probation pro-bation be lifted. Motion for ' the 6 month's probation was made by Hardy with 2nd by Whittaker, in both cases Swain and Jimenez voted for the motions and Dalton abstained. ab-stained. Both owners said that they did their best to comply with |