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Show Alex Wood, flrthurPiper Named I To Head Escalante Valley Council In the annual election of officers of-ficers of the Escalante Valley coordinating Council Alex Wood was named president and Arthur i Piper vice president for 1959. In addition to their other duties these two men will have the task :f appointing a secretary and a , full slate of committee chairmen to serve with the heads of all valley organizations who are the other members of the executive council. Retiring 'officers are Niels L. Nielsen, president; Chester Ches-ter Whltelaw, vice president, and Mabel Nielsen, secretary. Mr. Wood Is currently serving as chairman of the council's recreation rec-reation and building committee. He Is also a member of the board of directors of the local Wildlife Federation. Mr. Piper is a member of the recreation and building committee, leader of a 4-H Electrical Club, and a member mem-ber of the Boy Scout-Cub Scout Council. Reports Rendered In addition to holding its election elec-tion the Coordinating Council also al-so heard the end of the year reports re-ports of the various club presidents presi-dents and committee chairmen. Bob Hyde, chairman of the Telephone committee, reported that the South Central Utah Telephone Tele-phone Assn. had scheduled a public meeting for one o'clock I Dec. 12. Purpose of the meeting 'is to consider the addition of several more telephones to the system, and a discussion of any problems which may exist In the .comparatively new system. ' Bryner Wood, president of the Wildlife Federation reported that Kay Boulter had been appointed appoint-ed as the new conservation officer of-ficer in this area. Mr. Wood also ', stated that the Wildlife Federation Federa-tion would like to discuss the results of the pheasant hunt with farmers and sportsmen to determine whether or not the game bird crop Is being proper- ly harvested, and whether a three-day or a five-day hunt should be held in the future. Clectrle Problem 1 Gordon Moyle, president of the , Escalante Valleye Electric Assn., I reported to the council on the f difficulties which are being experienced ex-perienced in the attempt to pro- vide power service for the Boryl-Zane Boryl-Zane area at the north end of the valley. He stated that It would be necessary to build approximately ap-proximately 10 miles of .new line for this project at a cost, minus transformers, of $2000 per m'.le, and that In addition It would be necessary to rebuild part of the existing system to carry the heavier load. REA engineers en-gineers have estimated that the total cost of this project would be somewhere In the neighbor-hoot neighbor-hoot of $78,000. Otto Fife, Lions Club president, reported that the club netted approximately ap-proximately $G0O from Its turkey tur-key shoot and deer hide collection collec-tion contest this year. He stated that onu of the next projects the club expected to undertake was a fund raising drive to help purchase pur-chase equipment sorely needed at the Enterprise clinic. It Is understood un-derstood that Dr. G. W. MacFar-lane MacFar-lane has brought with him more than $26,000 worth of equipment, but that a great deal more is badly needed, particularly X-ray equipment and an Incubator for babies. It would be understood than any equipment purchased by the Lions Club would become a permanent part of the clinic and could not be taken by a doctor doc-tor when he left the area. Road Deterioration Mr. Fife, also chairman of the road committee, reported on tin condition of the roads in the valley. After considerable discus sion by the group Mr. Fife and his committee were Instructed to contact the State Road Commis sion office In Cedar City and request re-quest that something constructive construct-ive be done about the condition of the state highway from U156 to Beryl. Over a period of several sev-eral years seven of the 13 miles of road have been oiled. The balance not only remains unfinished, unfin-ished, but It has been allowed to deteriorate to a dangerous condition several times, owing to the fact that maintenance equipment equip-ment has been removed from the county for use elsewhere. Inasmuch Inas-much as this road Is traveled twice dally by a school bus and Is used daily for mail delivery the council felt that steps should be taken to prevent the recurrence recur-rence of such conditions. Building Status Alex Wood, chairman of the building committee reported that to date In 1953 a total of nearly $3900 In labor, materials, and cash had been donated toward the recreation building. In addition, ad-dition, approximately $1100 appropriated ap-propriated for the building by the Iron County Recreation Committee Com-mittee remained In the bank. During the year the building committee has spent Just over $4100 for materials; and materials mater-ials ordered but not yet billed, Including furnace, a fuel tank, a pump for the well, and miscellaneous mis-cellaneous Items would come to $2237. The new building has been' built almost entirely by unpaid volunteer labor. Most of the funds for the project have been provided by Iron County with the stipulation that any money! appropriated must be matched by the community In money, materials, and labor. Mr. Wood als reported that the furnaces! would be Installed In the build-1 ing this week, and that workdays would be held each Saturday. I ALEX WOOD Mother of small boy to psychiatrist: psy-chiatrist: "Well, I don't know whether or not he feels Insecure, but everyone else In the neighborhood neigh-borhood certainly does." j |
