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Show ft ft ! isOUmy isommission uisinouies oiass B Road Funds; Transact Business The Board of Iron County Commissioners in its regular April Ap-ril meeting made allocation for county road use of funds received receiv-ed from the State Road Commission, Com-mission, the county's share of the Class B road funds. Funds received this year from this source amounted to $67,774.00. In addition a surplus of $11,45-1.00 had been accumulated from prior years, making a total of $79,228. to be allocated to various county roads. Major allocations made Included In-cluded $20,000 for county-wide road maintenance, $20,000 for the Cedar City-Minersville road, and $15,000 for the new equipment, equip-ment, repairs and parts. Other projects were listed as follows: Newcastle to Enterprise road, $0,000; Parowan via I'aro-wan I'aro-wan Gap to Minersville road, $2,500; Parovvan-Panguitch Lake road, $5,000; Cedar Mountain road, $3,000; Chipping expense, $7,728. . Cedar Euildors Supply Co. of Cedar City was awarded the contract con-tract for supplying pipe, pipe fittings, water tanks, etc. to be Installed at the Woods Ranch Recreational area in Cedar canyon. can-yon. Total bids of this company was for $3118.25, as compared to $3-19-1.00 by the Waterworks Equipment Co., Salt Lake City, and $3,682.40 by the Ludlow Waterworks Wa-terworks Supply Co., Salt Lake City. The engineer's estimate by Ralph B. Flatt, Cedar City, was $3,317.00. The commissioners accepted a bid from Clark D. Dennett of $10.00 per front foot for four city lots owned by the county adjacent to the new Iron County Hospital site in the Southeast section of Cedar Clt the purchaser pur-chaser to stand proportionate cost of a new sewer line In the area at a cost of $2.25 per foot. Commissioners Clarence Miller and Frank Milne reported that arrangements have been made for the Installation of six fire hydrants In the town of Summit as a fire protection project Par- owan city will give assistance and the county is to pay the balance after Parowan's partici pation on the first three hydrants hy-drants out of the 1961 county budget and for the remaining three from the 1962 operation budget. Summit people must stand shipping and installation costs. A plan submitted by Milt Jol-ley Jol-ley of the County Industrial Development De-velopment Committee to sponsor spon-sor a county contest for naming a participant in a Miss Universe contest, was approved by the commissioners. Commissioner Milne was asked to confer with Miss LaRue Ford of the County Health Department and urge that she do all she can in arranging appointments for people from Kane, Garfield, and Beaver counties at the Mental Men-tal Health Clinics which are sponsored by the Five-County Organization on a cooperative basis as to expense of the clinic. McRay Cloward and Warren II. Bulloch, Cedar City Democrats, and Bryce D. Adams, Parowan Republican, were named as a Deputy Sherrif's Merit System Commission, In compliance with new legislation adopted this year. The men were appointed subject to their acceptance of the non-paying positions. The bid of Southwick and Whettcn accounting firm of Cedar Ce-dar City for auditing the county coun-ty books was accepted by the commissioners. The bid by the firm was for $800.00. A cooperative agreement between be-tween the Utah Aeronautics Commission and Iron County for constructing an airport near the Beryl Junction In Escalante Valley was approved by the commissioners. The estimated cost of the airport has been set at $18,000 of which the Stat Aeronautics Commission would pay a maximum of $9,000.00. John E. Neff, an engineer who has done preliminary engineering engineer-ing on the airport, was asked to prepare specifications and bid forms for the airport project |