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Show Council urges dairy to locai c in Dcauor Scott Nichols, manager of the Highland Milk Bottling Plant in Cedar City, told the Beaver City Council last week, that the company was considering moving the plant to either Beaver or St. George. The company, a subsidiary of Western General Dairies, with headquarters in Murray, Mur-ray, must move the bottling plant from it's downtown location lo-cation in Cedar City, and is considering Beaver City, where the UCN Cheese factory, fac-tory, also a subsidiary of the company, is located. The company already owns plenty of property next to the cheese factory on which to build. The Cedar City plant supplies sup-plies freshmilk, cream, cottage cot-tage cheese, and other dairy products to Southern Utah, and would employ approximately approxi-mately 26 persons. Much of the milk comes from Beaver County dairy farms. Mayor Christiansen, him -self a dairyman, and the Beaver City Council said they would welcome the bottling bot-tling plant. City Clerk Bryant Bry-ant Lowe was instructed to write a letter to the office in Murray, encouraging them to locate in Beaver, Mayor Christiansen has asked for an appointment to meet with Ivan Millard, Western General Gen-eral Dairies President, to discuss the matter. The concession agreement at Canyon Breeze Golf Course, operated by Lynn Parsons and Max Ray Jensen, Jen-sen, was reviewed and agreed ag-reed upon for the next year. A report on the recent meeting with District 5 highway high-way engineer, AlexMansour, was discussed. The signing on 1-15 will be updated considerably con-siderably to reflect recreational re-creational activities to be found in Beaver County. Al- (Continued on Page 2) |