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Show Mayor Loren Whetten Named Member Of State Municipal League Board of Directors Mayor Loren Whetten, head- I ing a 13-man delegation to the ' Utah Municipal League con-! vent ion held in Salt Lake City this past week end. was elected elect-ed to a one-year term on the board of directors of the statewide state-wide organization. They will serve one term on the ten-man governing i board. j Other Cedar City officials in ! attendance at the convention I included Arnold Anderson, ci ty manager; Kerry Jones. Richard Rich-ard Stucki, Haze Hunter and Rulan Woodbury, city council-men; council-men; Marilyn Prince, city treasurer; Ellen Simkins, city recorder; Morgan Slack, City-building City-building inspector; Kent Hoyt, chief of police; Warren Cox, sanitary inspector; Roscoe Leigh, water superintendent, and Dell Judd, cemetery sup- I erintendent. I A good share of the convention conven-tion activities included spe cial departmental meetings for special area of city government, govern-ment, Mavor Whetten indicated. indicat-ed. The league went on record at the convention as favoring a one cent sales tax increase on gasoline to help provide funds for basic highway construction con-struction in the sta'e The proposed funds, already approved by the county organization organ-ization group on a state basis. I would have to be adopted by the Utah State Legislature, the mayor pointedout. However, a representative of the Utah highway department depart-ment met with county and city officials in Cedar City on Tuesday, to begin a primary program of highway designation. designa-tion. Roads will be designated in I counties and cities as arterial for which these special funds, if approved, will be designed. |