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Show Secondary road system plans are discussed by County Commission The Federal Secondary Road System in Iron County was the subject of major tlis-cushion tlis-cushion at the regular milling mill-ing of the Iron County Coin-mission Coin-mission held at Parowan ! week. Meeting with the commU-I commU-I sion was K. Paul liilg'T, Mate 'secondary roads engineer to discuss the Coal Creek Bridge construction project and additional ad-ditional roadway on the s-t.?w s-t.?w from that project Eat to Cedar City's Main Street. Gilger requested that the Commission allow a change In the project to llow the addition ad-dition of the road which has been approved by Cedar V'.'.y for necessary funds and for the acquisition of necessary right of way. I The ct'iniiiusiion granted approval of tie ad.lition and J tjlljv;ng a d; m-uasIuii of proposed pro-posed change of the flood channel of Col Cnvlt in the area, left the matter for further fur-ther engineering study. A delegation from Cedar City Iiulud.ng Marti ll Huston, executive secretary of the Chamber of viwnmenw anJ Win, Thorley, met with the commission to request further improvements on th- Cedar Mountain Hoa which Is expected ex-pected l carry much heavier tralf.c w.th th opening of a scout camp ir the area this year. The comtnUsion assured the men that the board w?.;; aware of the ned and the problem and indicated thai efforts are c irreruly being made to m.ik.. an exchange with the State to include tin Cedar Mounta n road on tin secondary sy em in ordei that nvr. tta e and federa money would le available fo improvement;. The exchangi of roads with the state was-propad was-propad In orJer to encour age the lnclusl)ii of the roa In the sys'.em, the commls sion pointed out. An Inquiry ty JeSs Picket' of I'arowan as to further im provements of the road wes of I'arowan thrx ugh "Parowai. (Jap" to eonn?ct with the Mincrsville rot d was aire I by the coinmi.,vion. Approxi mately two anij miles o' Improvement on the road hat previously be n completed and the eomriLssion note I that further Improvement would be compk'tcd in stage with additional work In basj; grade and grav.-ling expect.;! in the near full. re. Commission granted an expenditure ex-penditure of ipproxlmately 210 for eulprr,ent mcessaiy .or further testlig of the e evision signal at a paint t of I'arowan for better reception recep-tion In the northern part "f the county and for the Mid- valley arfa. Ca lyle Johnsol, Indicated to th commLsslcn that a strong sirnal had betn found n field meter testirg and requested tie additional equipment for tie testing of a single channel. If the si'e is adequate it would be picked pick-ed up from FrUco peak it i Parowan bypa.ss.ng the pr;-' sent Beaver Ridjie relay st i-1 tion. I County also took under a-l-i visement consideration of a type of fair wa;e scale fir deputies and pa t time help ! for th various departmerts 1 of county government. Courty l treasurer Hugene Kobb iniil- cated that the variations In the county Is creating confusion confu-sion and m Isu r tiers t a n d i i g. The commission asked that tne treasurer prepare suggest ?d i standards for consideration oy i the commission at a la er date. County further authorised the expenditure of $100 as a temporary funding to help meet the needs of the Stitel Health Department psych) it-' rist appointed to the Di.stiict Juvenile Court. Appeal for funds was made by Jut go Sterling Bossard vdio indie it- (Continued on I age Tw ) County Commission i (Continued from Front Page) 1 1 ed that the psychiatrist is presently located in offices at i the Valley View Medical !' Center in Cedar City. Salary '! will be paid by the state but I1 office space, travel expenses '! and telephone are the re- spomubilities of the eight i participating counties. The $100 was allocated from juvenile juv-enile court funds to carry the county's responsibility J through July 1 at which time 1 1 further funding and responsi- i bility will be determined, the 1 1 Commission indicated. u Applicaton by the Iron jf County Health Department for & a 5 percent salary increase for a nurses and $20 for secretaries, retroactive to January 1, was approved by the com- Wt mission. wl A request for Iron County Sj to serve as sponsoring agent ' for a ilood control project on ' Shoal Creek in true Escalante I A Valley was discussed, but ac- ! i tion tabled for further con- ', sideration. The commission !' f will investigate the possibil- i ty of a b-county organization ' currently established in the ! i area to serve as the sponsor since the project will involve both Iron and Washington 5 Counties; Apparently ' |