OCR Text |
Show j Message to Our Men in the Service! Dear Fellows: It has been almost a year now since 'ir local unit of the National Na-tional duard left Cedar City for Fiirt Lewis, Wash., and in that time I guess that as many other young men have joined the armed forces as left with the guard, so we find a very noticeable notice-able absence of young men of military age in and around Cedar Ce-dar City. During this last year many interesting in-teresting things have happened hereabouts but our good friend, Morg has kept you up-to-date on them through the weekly issue is-sue of the Iron County Record, so I should not attempt to recount any of them. Although I am not on Main street a great deal to keep abreast of all that goes on as Loren VVhetten or John Rowber-ry Rowber-ry could, it seems to me that we have had an unusually active summer here, both from the standpoint of community growth and development and from tourist tour-ist travel. However, there seems to be a slight lull right now. It is a sort of breather, I suppose, for the numerous activities that are planned for the latter part of this month and the first part of September. You have already read abou Carl Hazel and his committees being busy getting things in order or-der for the .annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, which will begin here on Aug. 20. This promises to be a big affair and will likely tax all the facilities in Cedar City to take care of the visiting union members. I have an idea that this convention will surpass anything any-thing that has been held in Cedar Ce-dar City from the standpoint of numbers attending and activities planned. Following right on the heelsi of this event, Cedar City will be host to the Municipal League convention which was planned to be held in Vernal but later changed to Cedar City because of lack of accommodations in the fast growing eastern Utah city. Incidentally, I attended the State Lions convention in Vernal Ver-nal last June and was amazed at the manner in which the Vernal Ver-nal Lions and townspeople were able to entertain us. They have no hotel or cafe accommodations equal to our facilities at El Es-calante Es-calante hotel, yet they served a banquet in one of their churches to about 700 Lions and guests, with unusually efficiency. Even though most of the preparations for the banquet had to be carried on in private homes, the meal was excellent and was served with such dispatch, that I think many of our local caterers could take a lesson from them. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lunt and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sargent, former Cedar City residents, did a wonderful job of greeting our representatives representa-tives and making our stay pleasant pleas-ant while we were in Vernal. I can't refrain from mentioning the fish fry which the Vernal Lions served to the convention members mem-bers one evening. The affair was held at a local park and served to the visitors in not much more than an hour's time. Those people peo-ple certainly know their stuff about frying fish and serving an out-door dinner. They must have a lot more fish to practice on than we have in this area. Well, getting back to the Municipal Mu-nicipal League convention, it is scheduled for the last of the month and is usually attended by a good representation from most of the communities in. the state so there should be a record rec-ord crowd here for that event. Cedar City is fortunate in being be-ing able to handle groups of this size and is considered as one of the best convention cities in Utah. Following Labor Day, on Sept. 4 and 5 the eighth annual Utah conference on Higher Education will be held at the B.A.C. This conference will convene for two days and, paralleling it, the State Department of Public In- stiuction. through its trade and industrial division, will conduct a workshop on counseling and guidance which should be of interest in-terest to many of the vocational; school people in the state. j The rest of the week, Sept. G; to 8 will be taken up with thei Southern Utah Livestock Show; which promises to surpass all j previous shows held in Southern ; Utah. President Carlos Jones, j Alex Williams and many oilier i leading livestock men in this, area are already busy making plans and arranging space for a record breaking number of; show animals. The show has always encouraged encour-aged exhibitors to strive for improvement im-provement in the livestock entered en-tered in the show and great gains in quality have been observed ob-served from year to year. So much for coming events. I was happy to meet the new coaches for the B A C a few-days few-days ago. Cleo Fetty and Dave Gates are on the job getting ready rea-dy for the opening of school and organizing a football team for the coming season. They plan to spend a few days in the southern Utah communities meeting prospective pros-pective students and arranging for the pre season football school. We hope they will be able to muster a squad that will make a creditable showing this fall. There was considerable interest inter-est shown last week among our townspeople when the Escalante Valley farming district and county coun-ty agent Stephen Brower conducted con-ducted a field day and took a group on a tour of the Escalante valley. People were amazed at the progress pro-gress that has been made in the Valley and everyone is optimistic optimis-tic about its future. You may know that the Escalante Valley has the greatest potential agricultural agri-cultural possibilities of any area in Utah today. Others have mentioned the fine improvements that have been made on Main street this summer, but there is more to come yet. At present the south approach at the city is receiving a face lifting. The curve continuing continu-ing south from 400 South street has been curbed on both sides and a new oil mulch surface is being applied. When it is finished fin-ished it will compare favorably with surfaces of the very modern mod-ern free-ways that one sees along the coast. Cedar City still continues to enjoy a steady growth. I note from the building inspector's report re-port that construction permits for July mounted to a value of $88,-000. $88,-000. The expansion in residen- tial building is moving to the! southwestern part of town and) the section through Dewey avo. I and 4th and 5th West streets, just south of the college will soon bo completely built up. We hope that water development can keep pace with the growth in population. If it can, I have great hopes for the future of our community. com-munity. Rebuilding and repair work on the Miller Auto Farts building and the Fair Deal Motor Co. are progressing rapidly and we hope I that both firms will soon be able to resume business in permanent perman-ent quarters. I could go on and on, but had better close before I air my j views concerning the State Flag j which was requested by the 213th recently. Suffice it to say that it was a very nice gesture for the Elks lodge to purchase the flag for you and everyone is grateful to the group for its thoughfulness. Hope you have received the flag and are making mak-ing use of it by now. I hope the recording machine which the Lions club is sending reaches you soon and that you will make the very best use of it. May I extend to all of you the very best wishes from the Cedar City Lions club. We are all happy to see some of the boys returning home. God bless you all and may you return re-turn safely home very soon. Sincerely, Charles B. Cooley |