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Show Officials Discuss Water And Sewer Problems As Convention Opens Here The perplexing problem of municipal mun-icipal water supply and sewer disposal dis-posal occupied municipal officials from many Utah Cities in the third annual municipal waterworks and sanitation conference of Utah here Wednesday. The conference was held as a prc-conventlon session of the 39th Annual convention of the Utah State Municipal League which opens here today and continues until un-til Saturday night. More than four hundred delegates had registered Wednesday night, and with the leguae convention sessions ses-sions opening early this afternoon registration is continuing this morning with League officials expecting ex-pecting the total reglsttatlon to reach at least nine hundred by tonight. to-night. The delegates at the waterworks conference were advised by H. E. Thomas, District Geologist, U. S.' Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, that the only hopes of many Utan cities to increase their water supply is to develop underground sources. He advised that in many localities -here is an ample supply of under-giound under-giound water, but that its development develop-ment may entail considerable expense. ex-pense. He emphasized that such development would require through study of the supply and its relation to already developed pumping areas. City expansion and Increased use of air conditioning facilities Is taxing tax-ing the visiting waterworks and sewer sew-er system facilities of many cltits, and the problem of providing ad ditional facilities and ' financing such extension programs is of major concern of most municipal officials it was evidenced at the conference . sessions. Other speakers at the sessions were Newell W. Pickett, Chief Sanitarian, San-itarian, Utah State Department of Health, Prof. Harold 8. Carter, civil engineering department, University of Utah; W. C. Hague, Assistant Engineer, En-gineer, Salt Lake City Water Department: De-partment: and Howard M. Hurst, Santitary Engineer, Utah 8tate Department De-partment of Health. Recommendations were madt that the cost of extending sewer systems be met by the establishment of special spec-ial Improvement districts, and the speakers also urged the cities to make more widespread use of modern mod-ern sewage disposal plants. So much Interest was taken in ese problems that it became necessary nec-essary to continue the discussions until this mornlne. Mayor Myron F. Hlgbee of Cedar City presided at the Wednesday morning session and Mayor David H. Whlttenburg of Richfield at the afternoon session. The opening general session of he League convention will be held at 2:00 p.m. today in the public ichool auditorium, with John Gun-dcrson, Gun-dcrson, Mayor of Mt. Pleasant presiding, pre-siding, and with Mayor Earl J. Glade of Salt Lake City, League President, Presid-ent, keynotlng the convention. All delegates will be guests of Cedar Ce-dar City at the Beef Barbecue at Cedar Breaks this evening. Business session will contlne Friday, Fri-day, with the delegates entertained entertain-ed at a Buffet Supper at the City Park in the evening followed by a '.ocal talent play "Our Town" to be presented In the Public school auditorium. aud-itorium. Feature of Friday afternoon's after-noon's rsctlvities will be an Aircraft Air-craft display at the Municipal Airport Air-port under the direction of Joe Bergln, State Aeronautical Director. General Panel sessions will be hld Friday forenoon, with elections and committee rcorts, etc., scheduled schedul-ed for Saturday afternoon. The 39th annual banquet of the Leaquc will be held at Zion National Nation-al Park Lodge Saturday evening, with President Earl J. Glade presiding. |