Show u. u Decision Reached To Bold Hold Bold County Comity Seat Election Election A After Series of Investigation Meetings l and F fl 1 Discussions by Groups from Cedar and Parowan It Was Decided to Secure Sufficient Signatures To Petition for f The Election To Be He Held This Fall Cedar City will wUl make malee Its second bid for the removal of the county seat from Parowan to Cedar City this fall It was waa announced Wednesday Wed by Chamber of Commerce officers The decision to ask for a vote on the question was reached after three weeks of thorough In In- and study of the matt matter matter mat mat- t ter r made by Chamber officials and specially appointed committees s. s The final decision was reached when a fact finding committee composed of from various civic organizations and taxing units decided that the ma- ma majority of the people favor moving the county seat to Cedar city and that now Is the time to bring the question to a vote The was first voted on In 1930 at which time Cedar failed ailed to muster the necessary two thirds vote and the seat was saved for Parowan by a narrow margin af at er the citizens of that community had put up a determined fight to defeat the move Since that time It has been the opinion of people In both communities communities corns com com- that It would not be long before rore the question would be again brought to a vote However according to law such a question cannot be voted on until a period of four years have elapsed and technicalities of the procedure really extends that time to a a. per lod iod of six years In 1930 considerable thought Wl was s given n the matter but since it was a presidential election year and because the county had not recovered from the ravages of the depression It was that the matter should not be brought to a vote Early last fall sentiment favoring the removal began to be apparent and It seemed to reach a point by the first of December that the Chamber of Commerce officers felt fet that the matter should be giver given serious consideration and I IQ the majority of the people favored the move leadership should be provid provid- provid ed Accordingly a committee WIll was appointed to maIe make maka l a study of the matter However very little was done and the matter seemed to have been dropped although there thre were still many who wanted to take action on It this year Interest was suddenly revived last lat month when It was made known that the local officials were faced with the need of a City adI administration administration ad ad- I ministration building and the I council started an tin investigation of the possibility of such a II I building Suggestions sprang from 1 all sides that now was the time to move the county seat and build a ai combined City and County build tag ing Much thought was given liven to the matter and finally the Chamber of of r Commerce Board of Directors appointed ap p- p pointed a committee to proceed with plans lans to bring the matter matter mat mat- ter te to a a vote When this was made known Parowan Par Par- owen owan asked for a hearing which was gladly granted and as a re e sult suit a group of Parowan citizens met with the Chamber officials on March These men while expressing fX- fX ex expressing pressing a doubt u as to Cedar CIt City's y ability to to acquire enough votes ies to move Inove the county seat pointed out that Cedar City City's gain would not equal Parowan's loss Iou They also pointed out several other reasons why they felt this should not be bedone bedone bedone done am among them being the fact that certain school and county Count problems are facing the people which they maintained could not be satisfactorily y settled If if U the tho county was split spilt over a eo county nty seat fight It was maintained that if the need for a new high school building becomes so 10 apparent apparent ap ap- parent that a bond election ia is held Parowan would probably not support It and that this may result re- re suit sult In the defeat of such bond band election They nley also alao maintained that Parowan people would probably probably pro pro- I bably badly refuse to io do business with Cedar business firms finns which the they claimed would be a s a substantial loss Joss ta to Cedar City As a result of this hearing haying It was decided to call a special meeting to consider the matter holding u uthe up the work of the county seat eAt committee com corn mUtee in the mean time School County City and civic officials were invited to his meeting which was wai held Saturday night A Parowan delegation attended this meeting and were again acain al allowed allowed al al- lowed to present their case More discussion followed and al at factfinding fact factfinding factfinding finding was committee appointed to make final recommendations ThU committee spent much time in gathering lathering data and in determining deter deter- determining determining mining the sentiment of the people people people peo peo- and then at a meeting Tuesday Tues Tues- da day night decided that the matter matur should be brought to a vote yote Atthe at atthe atthe the election in November As a result of this decision the c County Seat Beat removal committee will start work Immediately to lecure se secure secure se- se cure the necessary signatures on a II p petition requesting that the matter mat ter be voted on It requires enough signa signatures tuns of qualified voters to equal fifty percent of the votes vote h cast cut at the last general election |