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Show CEDAR CITY COUNCIL MEET Appointments confirmed; action taken on safety Two appointments were confirmed con-firmed by the Cedar City Council in their meeting Thursday evening. In addition recommendations of the safety council were adopted and a committee was appointed to make recommendations on the East boundary of the Cedar Ci- , ty cemetery. cated. He has a master's degree de-gree in recreation and also brings to the position much practical experience in working work-ing wth youth, both professon-ally professon-ally in his position as a coach and in other recreational ac-tivties. ac-tivties. Two recommendations of the Cedar Safety Committee were parking on one side of this narrow street would create a much more safter thoroughfare thorough-fare and provide better access to parking behind business and as access to main street. Owing to the problem created creat-ed by the expansion of the Main Street area near the Cedar Ce-dar City cemetery which ne- i Mayor Loren Whetten an- j ' nounced that the Council had appointed John Corry to take over the responsibility of street superintendent for the city. His appointment will be effective February 15. Corry, a long-time employee of the city has a wide experience in the city's road procedure and operations. op-erations. Recreation Director Jim Marshall was also named nam-ed to serve as Recreation Director Dir-ector for Cedar City. He will fill a vacancy created when Bill Farr moved from Cedar City to accept a coaching position po-sition at Parowan High School. Marshall, football and wrestling wrest-ling coach at Cedar High School, is well qualified for the position, the mayor indi- accepted by the council and will become effective immediately. immedi-ately. 1. The Council made it a traffic violation to make a U-Turn U-Turn anywhere on Main Street from Interchange to Interchange, Inter-change, north to south. Particularly Par-ticularly dangerous has been the practice of many car oper-ators oper-ators to make a U-Turn on Main Street at the intersection near the bridge across Coal Creek. Several accidents have occured in addition to many near accidents. Under this new regulation such a turn will not be allowed. 2. Parking on the south side of Harding Avenue from Main Street to 100 West will be eliminated. The committee feels that the elimination of cesated the tearing down of the old rock wall on the East I Boundatry, the council ap- pointed a committee to study the problem and make recommendations recom-mendations to the council for consideration. Committee Named Robert Hansen, councilman, will head the committee with members to include L. Robert Gardner, Zoe Palmer, Foyer Olson and lone Bolander. In other action the council adopted, by reference, the new Slate Food Handlers Code. Council also authorized a call for bids for the removal of trees on the East side of town. Bids will be opened at 8 p.m. on February 19. Specifications for bidding are available at the city offices. |