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Show Council rules on burial fees, dogs, .truck purchase, etc. at meeting At the regular meeting of the Parowan City Council a week ago, a long list of varied var-ied matters were discussed; by the members, and action taken on most of them. Among .business matters transacted were the following according to Dennis Lowder, recorder: The matter of burial fees came up again as a continuation continua-tion from a former meeting. At that time the matter of fees for burials in the cemetery was discussed, including the vault vs. non-vault burials, the latter by which the city has to cement in the box that the casket come in. It was felt that the charge for this should be raised from the usual us-ual burial fee of $35.00. The council finaUy voted to do away with all non-vault burials bur-ials there and left the charge for burial with a vault at the original figure, $35.00. The council voted to purchase purch-ase a used forestry fire control con-trol truck of military type. It will be purchased at a cost of up to $500, placed in shape to give good service. It is a four wheel drive outfit with a 1200 gallon tank. It will be used as a back-up truck for the present fire truck, and will i also be used In the city snow pushing operation (when it snows), being a four-wheel drive outfit. With Increased complaints coming into the city office ; against dogs running at large, both day and night, the council coun-cil voted to instruct the city police to (starting at the end of this month) do all away with dogs caught running loose if they are unlicensed as of the deadline date. Also to notify no-tify owners of licensed dogs that this does not give them the right to run at large either, eith-er, but must be looked after. Licensing does not permit the animals to run loose at any time. Complaints have also come in of the dumping of dead animals ani-mals at the city dump ground. This practice is absolutely prohibited by state law and city ordinance, and the council coun-cil warns the dumpers that prosecution may follow such an act. In connection with hauling rubbish to the dump ground the council urges that when loose papers, bpxes, etc., are -( hauled there, that the hauler I take along a few matches and iaKe ume 10 Durn up sucn ... materials to stop them from blowing down on the highway area. Lowder reports that the city council has made a change in engineers in charge of this service on the new road being be-ing constructed from the intersection in-tersection of Main and 200 South streets, west to the location lo-cation of the second, or west interchange on 1-15. The council released Robert Rowley from this work and appointed Ralph Piatt in his place to take over immediately. immed-iately. Workmen are now at work removing trees and brush along the 100-foot right-of-way getting it ready for road bed building to commence. com-mence. The road will be constructed con-structed along its present alignment, the report states. The council discussed improvements im-provements to some streets inside in-side the city, the main ones to receive attention right away to be: The street from Main to 600 West, on 100 North (to the Hvatt Dairv). the final two blocks of which are still unoiled; and the one on 300 East from Center St. to 200 South, up past the swimming pool. This work is to get under way as soon as a gravel crusher arrives ar-rives here to make gravel available. Councilman Morris Rasmus-sen Rasmus-sen reported to that body that the new batteries have now been Installed in the Parowan hydro plant, 60 of them, at a cost of $1434. They were burned burn-ed up when power from Cal.-Pac. Cal.-Pac. failed, during a wind storm some weeks ago. They came from Graybar Electric Company. |
