Show MAY 22 MORNING SUNDAY THE OGDEN (UTAH) 1955 7A STANDARD-EXAMINE- S 'Monster Monster Rider Cried Touched Off Bear Lake Dispute Near Panic Century-Ol- d By HOWARD S BENEDICT BEAR LAKE (AP)— “A monster! There’s a monster in the lake!” cried an excited rider as 30-mi- le Utah-Idah- min-out- es SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —A committee investigating Utah’s milk price situation still had some questions to ask yesterday following its second public hearing State Sen Sherman P Lloyd chairman of the group says its members want to know if Safeway Stores Inc still intends “to continue their previously announced policy of meeting glass bottle competition by reducing their price of Grade A milk in paper cartons by three cents a quart or more” i Lloyd who said the group meets again June 3 said “Any discussion of price controls is academic until we know whether a price war will break out without controls” The committee set up at a special session of the Utah Legislature last month must report to Gov J Bracken Lee on its investigation into the milk situation by June 15 Lloyd said the committee also will ask other wholesale distributors' for cost figures like those submitted to the committee by i Safeway at Friday’s hearing He said it also Will ask milk marketing officials in other states about their controls Hunt Resumed For Prospector GREENRIVER (UP) — Search was resumed near here yesterday for Lloyd B Iiams uranium prospector who has been missing since May 9 An estimated 100 volunteers fanned out over the rugged desert country west of here on foot horseback in jeeps and in planes They were led by Emery County Sheriff Don B Kofford Iiams’ car was found May 15 about 12 miles south of Green-rive- r The missing man recently moved from Salt Lake City to Price where he opened an electrical shop and began prospecting as a sideline ld Leo’s Donuis 3263 Wash some said But two days later the monster was reported again — by a man and three women who were swim ming near the spot where John son reported seeing it They said it was “very large and swam much faster than a horse could run on land” This convinced a few people that perhaps a monster did exist but most still were skeptical Changed Their Minds Most of the skeptics changed their minds two weeks later when 10 persons — including some prom inent businessmen — reportet seeing a creature near Fish Haven on the Idaho side of the lake One of them Thomas Slight said: “We were swimming when we were attracted by a peculiar motion or wave in the water abou three miles out from shore Sud denly we saw the sides of a large I Blvd 1S3 Wait Patters Dial 971 Drinking? 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