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Show Council awards airport contract, OK's new patrolman at luly meet The street improvements that are to be made by the Alder Construction Co. under its contract for installation of the Parowan City sewer system, sys-tem, were discussed. In connection con-nection with this was t he repairing re-pairing of the concrete bridge at the intersection of 400 North and 200 West, was discussed dis-cussed and City Manager Wood Decker was instructed to go ahead and make necessary neces-sary repairs. A change in the present method of billing power and water patrons for their monthly month-ly bills was discussed and steps will be taken to improve the present billing schedule. A representative of the Westinghouse Electric Co. met with the council to discuss matters pertaining to rebuilding rebuild-ing distribution lines from the west boundary of the city to the site of the new substation to be constructed adjacent to the Parowan hydro plant at 20CT South and 200 West St. j At the regular meeting of jthe Parowan City Council on ! Monday, July 14, several mat-, mat-, ters of business pertinent to I the growth and welfare of the city and its residents, were discussed and acted on by the council, according to Mayor Ralph S. Orton. The contract for the first phase of the improvement of the municipal airport was awarded by the city and work will proceed on the project within the next ten days the mayor states. The work to be done under this contract, that was awarded to the following follow-ing bidder, is as follows: Richard Nelson of Midval-ley Midval-ley was low bidder with an ofar of $11,000. He will start work on the project July 25, and it will consist of leveling and bringing the runway up a a set grade to make it suitable suita-ble for an oil mulch cap. The total cost of the project, including in-cluding engineering will be approximately $14,000, Mayor The new substation is necessary neces-sary by reason of heavier use of power within the city. The new facility is to be built in the very near future, the Mayor May-or states. Mayor Orton also informs us that he and Councilman Earl Bunn, along with Iron County Commissioners, and representatives from Cedar City met with Governor Calvin Cal-vin L. Rampton during the week to discuss items which they felt needed state support. sup-port. The main reason for the city officials meeting with the governor was to discuss an additional interchange west of the city at the time 1-15 is constructed through Parowan Paro-wan Valley. The Governor informed in-formed them that the part of the Interstate would start next spring and he promised that he would give all the support he could to the inclusion of Orton states. The grading and leveling of the field and runway will bring it to the stage where is can qualify for additional funds from state and federal agencies. Work to be done under un-der this contract is to be financed fi-nanced cooperately by Parowan Paro-wan City, Iron County and the State Aeronautics board. The city will take care of the removal of brush and weeds from the ground to get it ready for the contractor to begin his work. The council discussed the hiring of an additional police officer to work with the present pres-ent officer Bruce Bunting to replace Roy T. Wilkerson, who is retiring after serving as city marshall for several years. The council all were of the opinion that there is a need for the additional officer offi-cer and after the discussion, the matter of selecting the new officer was turned over! this additional interchange in the road construction program. to the Public Safety Committee, Commit-tee, with Councilman Wim-mer Wim-mer Mortensen as chairman. Mr. Mortensen states that following the investigation by his committee that Rick Evans has been recommended for the appointment, and it has been approved and Evans will begin be-gin his duties on Aug. 1. The newly appointed Justice of the Peace James Pinkham, met with the council to discuss dis-cuss some remodeling of the J. P office in order to take better care of the accumulated records in that office and his request was approved. Councilman Coun-cilman Edward Burton was authorized to take care of the alterations in the office that is located in the building formerly for-merly housing the Parowan Service Company, now used by Parowan City under a lease agreement. J |