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Show Civic Problems Discussed by Municipal Officers Municipal officers from Iron and Beaver counties met in Cedar City Tuesday at a Utah Municipal Muni-cipal League Regional meeting to confer informally on civic problems. Authorities who acted as a panel during the meeting and assisted in the discussion included in-cluded Dale Despain director of Utah planning commission; Geo. H. Smeath, planning and zoning engineer, Salt Lake City; G. A. Duggan, engineer, State Road Commission, and Howard M. Hurst, health and sanitation specialist. spe-cialist. Officers of the League who also took part in the panel were Curtis L. Miner, mayor of Logan and president of the Utah Muni-cipal Muni-cipal League; Harold Ellison, mayor of Layton and vice president presi-dent of the League, and Tom McCoy, executive director who acted as coordinator of the meeting. Discussions during the morning morn-ing and afternoon sessions were informal and special emphasis was given to explaining the ways that the B and C Road Fund money could be used. This year Cedar City will receive $10,000 from the fund, and it was brought out that more work could be accomplished by using a new financing system called (Continued on Pack Page) Municipal Officers (Continued from Paqe one) Ihe 5-year plan. By this means, $50,000 worth of Improvements or new projects could be undertaken under-taken at one time. Members of the Cedar City Re-tall Re-tall Merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce met with the group in the morning session to discuss the problem of itinerant itiner-ant peddlers. Other problems that were discussed dis-cussed were liquor enforcement on the local level; licensing, traffic control, city streets, fire service, bonds, retirement, and the proposed four-year term of office. During the noon hour, those attending the meeting were guests at the Rotary club lunch-on lunch-on in the El Escalante hotel. Mayor Miner was the guest speaker at the meeting. |