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Show City Council to Cooperate With MIA Leaders In Control of Illegal Sales of Cigarettes At the regular meeting of the Cedar City Council held Thursday Thurs-day evening at the city and county building, two bids were accepted and an ordinance passed. pass-ed. Morgan Slack was the only bidder on the salvaging of cast i iron pipe from the old water system sys-tem In Cedar Canyon. An addressograph machine, no longer in use by the city, was sold to State Bank of Southern Utah for the sum of 531. Ltiyh Furnltuke also bid on the equipment, equip-ment, but the higher bid from the bank was accepted by the council. Council in action also passed an ordinance regulating the sale of "set up" within the city. The ordinance was brought about as a result of a request for a license to serve "set-ups" from Milt's Cir cus Lounge. , A license, according to the ordinance or-dinance will be sold annually for the amount of $150 and establishment es-tablishment must comply to strict standards as established by state legislation and adopt-ed adopt-ed by the council in the ordinance. ordi-nance. A study was also m. J by Councllmen of a proposed agreement agree-ment to the use of surplus water from the Cox well in Cedar can-yon can-yon by the Golf dub Committee. After consideration the agree, ment was turned over to city attorney at-torney Patrick H. Fenton for re flnement Members of the Cedar Stake (Continued on Pag Eight) CITY COUNCIL (Continued from Page One) Mutual Improvement Association met with the council to discuss the control of cigarette and liquor sales to minors. In addition action ac-tion was requested by the group for a control of obscene literature litera-ture within the community. After consideration the council coun-cil agreed to participate in the program to the extent that they would help publicize the city ordinances or-dinances governing the control of these practices. Specifically five sections of the city ordinances were cited as Information In-formation that should be distributed distri-buted to places of business who distribute cigarettes and other Items mentioned. Briefly they were titled as follows by the committee: Section 308 Supply of alcholoic beverages to minors; section 316 Obsene literature or conduct; section 335 Children Chil-dren not to be on streets. When.; Section 336 Sale of tobacco or narcotics to minors; section 337 Purchase or possession by minors. Committee cited a report from Cedar City High School, published publish-ed In the Iron County Record In the Spring of this year, as an Indication of the need for such a program. Request was specifically specifical-ly " .... to properly publicize to the citizens of Cedar City and especially those directly connected connect-ed with the sale of these pro-Mayor pro-Mayor Arnold Anderson Indicated Indi-cated that a suit in the amount of $50,000 has been brought against the city as a result of an accident that occured during the Junior Chamber of Commerce State Convention staged here. A Price woman was Injured In an accident and the suit has been filed for general damages, he indicated, in-dicated, and has been turned over to the Insurance company for action. ac-tion. Council discussed recommendations recommend-ations of the Planning Commission Commis-sion and began an investigation of the recommendations, the Mayor said. |