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Show Public Hearing on Sale of Escalante Hotel All citizens of Cedar City are reminded of an important public hearing to be held in the court room at the City and County Building at 7:30 p. m. Thursday, April 2nd. The hearing has been called call-ed to ascertain public opinion on a proposal to sell the Escalante Es-calante Hotel property by the city. An offer for a purchase of the building and three-fourths of the land, tearing land adjacent ad-jacent to 100 West Street in city ownership, has been re ceived and the city council is making a study of the proposal. propos-al. The city purchased the hotel when It was offered for sale by the Utah Parks Company several years ago. Citizens approved ap-proved the purchase of the hotel as a means of providing a civic center for public functions, func-tions, a need that was very apparent at the time. How-ever, How-ever, it has not been used for that purpose for some time, and has been rented to College Col-lege of Southern Utah as a men's dormintory for the past two years. Details of the purchase proposal pro-posal will be outlined at the hearing on April 2nd. |