OCR Text |
Show Iron County Commissioners Consider Major Improvement Programs in Monday Meet The Board of Iron County Com-, missioners has invited the State' Road Commission to meet with' Iron County officers on Aug. 19! to discuss three major road problems prob-lems within the county. Decision to invite the state group to visit j the county war, made at the reg-1 ular meeting of the commissioners commission-ers on Monday. One of the three major road items to be considered will be dust control in the Buckhorn Flat area. This has been a major traffic problem for a number of( years, and although a new highway high-way Is being constructed across the flat at present, it will not overcome dust hazards. Second on the agenda for consideration con-sideration will be flood control adjacent to state and county roads in the Shoal Creek area north of Enterprise. Some flood control work has been done at this point by the county, but considerable con-siderable more work is necessary. The third item to be considered will be the Parowan Canyon road, which will be inspected in the hope of de eloping a program for completion of that road. At the meeting of the commissioners commis-sioners Monday a petition bearing bear-ing the signature of 90 members' of the United Steel Workers of America, Local 2751, . was f Ued demanding the dismissal of Iron County Road Supervisor, J. A. Pace. In a letter accompanying the petition, Donald Mathews, union president, alleged that Mr. Pace refused to hire members of the union on county road work during a recent one-day strike of the local. The union president requested that "someone with a better concept of fairness" be appointed ap-pointed to take Mr. Pace's place. The commissioners informed ,the union that the opinion alleged alleg-ed to have been expressed by the county road supervisor did not reflect the policies of the commission com-mission In hiring workers, and that Mr. Pace had been so advised ad-vised by them. A committee of livestock men met with the county commissioners commission-ers to' request that the county make application to the State Committee on drought relief to include in-clude Iron County in a survey of drought-stricken Utah counties. County Clerk W. Clair Rowley was' directed to write the letter :of request to J. Taylor Allen, ' chairman of the state committee. The livestock committee that met with the county board in-eluded in-eluded Richard H. Leigh Kumen S. Gardner, Waldon Isom, Wesley 'Bauer, Cedar City, and E. Ray Lyman, Parowan. |