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Show Townspeople consider Indians' plight A meeting was held Tuesday Tues-day by a group of Cedar City townspeople who are concerned concern-ed about the economic and social conditions of the approximately ap-proximately 90 Indian citizens citi-zens residing here. This was the second meeting of this sort in the past two weeks. The first meeting was comprised com-prised of townspeople and people from the Indian village. The 35 people at that meeting decided that separate meetings meet-ings of the two groups take place before another joint gathering was scheduled. The meeting comprised of just Indian In-dian people will take place on the 20th of this month. Tuesdays meeting was very informal, yet extremely pro tuctive. Its purpose was to decide de-cide what the "white man's" role would be in aiding the community (white and red) in identifying and overcoming overcom-ing the problems which have detained the successful functioning func-tioning of the Indian people in the area. The group has been brought together through the efforts of the Community Development Program at Southern Utah State College and consists of citizens ranging from businessmen busi-nessmen to Churchmen, from civic leaders to housewives, The council, as it is now called, prior to drafting a formal for-mal name, stands ready as a group to offer its services and to work jointly with the Indian In-dian people of Cedar City in obtaining and working toward to-ward goals that will be spelled spell-ed out in the all-Indian meeting- |