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Show Commissioners Study Citizen Proposals The Iron County Commissioners, Commission-ers, meeting in regular session Monday, were confronted with ' citizenry action regarding proposed pro-posed roads in the county, particularly par-ticularly western Iron County. A citizens committe from west-ern west-ern Iron County made a plea through William H. Wood to improve im-prove road conditions in an area described as west and north of the Union Pacific railroad right-of-way in the western section of the county. This request was turned over to commissioner Lyman Ly-man Sevy for investigation and study. A delegation from Newcastle composed of Alonzo Christens'en, Richard Jones and Ernest Heft-ner Heft-ner also asked the commission to reconstruct a strip of road south from Utah highway 56 to ranches in that area. This group also asked ask-ed help to build a road running north from Newcastle to the cooperative co-operative dairy barn In the Es-cante Es-cante valley. AGREED TO HELP The commission agreed to help on these two projects if the citizens cit-izens committee would acquire the proper rights-of-way for the roads. Agreement was that the construction would be completed within the next two weeks. County Attorney A. M. Mars-den Mars-den was directed to draw up an agreement between the county and Ancel J. Adams for the oper-atlon oper-atlon of the county rest home in Parowan for the next year. County Coun-ty Clerk W. Clair Rowley was directed di-rected to advise Chambers' of Commerce of Parowan, Cedar City and Pangultch of the Commission's Com-mission's support In asking con-gressional con-gressional delegation to this area soon to Inspect the proposed Cedar Ce-dar Breaks rim road. This road, it was pointed out, is on federal land and therfore is wholly a federal project. A detailed report of action of Iron County nurses, LaRue Ford of Cedar City and Mrs. Alice Barton Bar-ton of Parowan, was heard at tha meeting. They reported extensive activity over the past year and a'so discussed plans for the coming com-ing year. |