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Show City Starts Action on New Fire Hall and Jail CLEAN-UP DATES SET; SPEEDING ORE TRUCKS ORDERED STOPPED IVnford's City Dads had a little fun, listened to a lot of argument argu-ment and discussion, and transacted tran-sacted a little business at their .session Thursday evening. The much-discussed power issue provided the major portion of the discussion, with Senator CHf McShane Mc-Shane and James D. Williams matching verbal barrages that at times spotlighted personalities rather than issues. Mr. Williams ,an avowed foe of private utilties, with the announced purpose of bringing "better, steadier stead-ier power at cheaper rates" to the Milford Valley area, requested the City of Milford to join the South! Milford REA, which will be rep-1 resented in Salt LaJke City the early part of April by Mr. Williams at a rate adjudication meeting of the Public Service Commission and j the Telluride Power Company and various communities served by the company. The discussion was lengthy, and at times heated with Mr. Williams, Mr. McShane and City Attorney Sam Cline voicing opinions. The need for a power investigation was challenged by Mr. McShane, and the legality and ethics of entering in an REA contract were challenged chal-lenged by Attorney Cline. Finally, President Gronning ordered or-dered an executive session, excluding exclud-ing press and visitors, at which the Board df Trustees decided against e,itermg. into the, REA contract,, and rejected- a proposal that Mr. Williams be appointed as tiheh-representative tiheh-representative at the adjudication meeting in Salt Lake City. Visitors at the session included Warren Atkin, an "observer" from the Milford Chamber of Commerce, to Mr. Gibbs offej, prepared by City Attorney Cline, was read, discussed and approved. , Mr. Carl Scott; Salt Lake architect archi-tect who is well known in Milford, discussed proposed specifications of the jail-fire hall, and agreed to have tentative plans in the hands of city officials within the next few days. It is proposed to construct a jail, marshall's office and garage Mr. William, Mr. McShane, Police Chief Dan Smith, and Mr. Carl Scott, an architect from Salt Lake Oity. A fullquorum of City Board members was present. Contract for drilling of a well for domestic water purposes in the library park as -drawn up by Attorney Attor-ney Cline, was read and approved. Two Union Pacific special agents, D. W. Clayton and P. B. DeWeert, were granted authority to act as deputy oity marshalls. The Union Pacific was lauded by President Gronning and other board members for the manner in which they have gone about the task of cleaning up and making presentable to the public the property prop-erty adjoining-- their rail lines inside in-side the City of Milford. Mr. Gronning Gron-ning stated that "jjf we do-as well in the rest df the city we'll have a community we can really be proud of." Two floodlights will be installed at the highway crossing, helping to eliminate a dangerous hazard dur-'ing dur-'ing the late hours when no watchman watch-man is stationed at the crossing. The sum of $2531 was the recommended recom-mended allocation to the City of Milford from state liquor revenues, according to a report (from the Municipal League, read by President Presi-dent Gronning. An offer of Lauren W. Gibbs,' Salt Iake bond broker, to finance a city jail and fire hall, was read and discussed. A counter-proposal for the fire trucks, with a second story accommodating a recreation nail and kitchen for the fire department. de-partment. The structure would be built next to the library building-. Senator McShane made a brief report of the legislative session, stressing the fact that all state finances fi-nances were now under the state (finance department, with such, departments de-partments as the fish and game commission, Department of Publicity, Public-ity, welfare department, etc., now being required to operate on budgets, bud-gets, rather than spending their operational allotments without benefit ben-efit of legislative, budget or other restrictions. "The 'reallocation of funds," Mr. McShane said, "puts the money back where it comes from. Highway High-way revenues will be spent on highways, high-ways, a portion of the liquor revenues reve-nues will revert to the cities, etc." Speeding of ore trucks, especially espe-cially in the vicinity of the temporary tem-porary railroad housing area, came in for serious condemnation. condemna-tion. The rairoad housing area i supports an unusually large number num-ber of children. Children cannot be expected to have the judgment of adults, and it is the duty of motorists to at all times exercise the utmost caution when in the vicinity of playing ' children. A suggestion that liniit" fines and jail sentences be assessed against ore truckers, and other motorists, found guilty of speeding anywhere any-where within the city limits, was unanimously approved, and the city marshal! was instructed to "exercise the utmost diligence in bringing speeders into court." Dates for MUford's spring and centennial clean-up campaign were set, with the week of March 81 to April 5 designated as the period in which all the city is to be clean and i polished. James D. Williams prom-! prom-! ised "a truck and driver" for the 1 five days, compliments of the Harrington-Hickory Mine, and other mining and trucking companies are , urged to contact city officials and make their trucks available for hauling rubbish to the city dump. |