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Show City officials protest the present 30-degree angle parking along Main Street. They declared that the old parallel par-allel system provided two lanes on the street, one of which was approximately a lane and a half wide. This created a dangerous dan-gerous situation where motorists motor-ists mistook the extra wide lane for two lanes. They cited the incident in which a truck sideswiped five cars which were parallel parked on Main Street. Chief Graham emphasized that the 30-degree angle parking park-ing created the safest conditions condi-tions he has seen along Main Street in his 12 years with the police department. Mayor Haymond said the highway department had Springville's Mayor Paul Haymond,' councilmen M. D. Peay, Omar M. Hansen, Taylor Reynolds, Frank Memory, Floyd Stewart; chief of police, Ashley Graham and Taylor Burt, president of the Chamber of Commerce, met with the Governor in Provo last Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon. Purpose of the meeting was to enlighten the governor on the controversial controver-sial Main Street parking problem prob-lem and the culinary water purity tests and disapprove-ment disapprove-ment from the state level. Mayor Haymond acted as spokesman for the Springville officials and pointed out to the governor why action from parallel par-allel to angle parking was taken. tak-en. He declared the state highway high-way department had failed to keep its promise to the city. In comparrison, Mayor Haymond asserted that neighboring cities on the south and north do not have parallel parking. Citizens have openly voiced opposition to this. Safety factor Councilman Hansen and Police Po-lice Chief Graham diagrammed the safety factor involved in threatened to withdraw all federal fed-eral aid for Springville highways, high-ways, and had also threatened to cut off the main Springville access to Interstate-15, along 400 So. Street, unless the city re-institutes parallel parking. Governor Rampton declined to make any commitment on the problem until he had familiarized fam-iliarized himself more thoroughly thorough-ly with the situation. He promised prom-ised to contact the highway department, de-partment, and also to ask for a written report on the matter. He also indicated that he will be spending a full day in Utah County and promised he would personally inspect the Springville Spring-ville parking situation. Water problem Councilmen then discussed their second major problem with the state, the fact that Springville was taken off the approved list for culinary water wa-ter two years ago. Mayor Haymond said the city showed some bad water tests at that time, although he did not believe even they were serious ser-ious enough to warrant removal remov-al from the approved list. Springville then made all the improvements in the city's collection col-lection system, fencing, backfilling, back-filling, and doing all other work recommended by the Utah State Health Department. Rating refused The mayor said that officials of the health department had refused to give the city an approved ap-proved rating, or even to conduct con-duct tests of the system, until the city chlorinated its waer supply. "We feel we have corrected cor-rected our problems, and that our water is pure. We have good water . . . the best in the state . . . and our people don't want it to be chlorinated," he said. Council members said the city has invited the health department de-partment to come down and (continued on page 12. col. 7) |