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Show Labeled as "fruitless" City council halts A invest battle -Debbie Norton, presently city office secretary, was appointed as Assistant City Recorder in the absence of Yorke Nelson. Nelson, the council said, is in Valley View Medical Center with a lung blood clot problem. -a preliminary ordinance dealing with the sale of business licenses to circuses and carnivals, especially when being sponsored by local community com-munity organizations, was given to each council member for consideration. con-sideration. A decision on the matter will take place at a future council meeting. -a request from the Cedar City Veterans of Foreign Wars to hold a flea market on the Main Street portion of City Park was approved for the dates of July 23. The Cedar City Council concluded Thursday it was "fruitless" to spend time and money in efforts to convince Hughes Airwest and the Civil Aeronautics Board that the airline should remain in Cedar City and stopped all funding of legal actions. The city council said it will now seek . national schedules from other carriers. The CAB has told Airwest itcan terminate ter-minate flight service into Cedar City on August 12. In other action, the council okayed a zone change request at the intersection of the North Fields Road and 1-15, upon the recommendation of the city Planning and Zoning Commission. Property owners had requested the R-l to R-2 change to conform with adjacent residential subdivisions. The final plat for Cove II, which borders the cove subdivision to the south, was also accepted by council. At a cost of $43,000 the city engineer and city street crews were authorized to begin curb-to curb oiling of the surfacing project on College Way Street, which runs from Center Street I-15 I-15 overpass to U-56. The project uses city collector road funds and has been preceded by curb and gutter installation. Steve Corry, a Cedar native who recently returned to the community, was appointed to the Cedar City Board of Adjustment, replacing Floyd Atkin, whose term had expired. Corry's term will run from July 1, 1977 to July 1, 1980. In other business: -James Hoyle visited the council with a request to consider the possiblity Cedar City might be approved as a stop on the Amtrak system. He said this should have bearing on the upcoming Union Pacific Railroad and Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on the abandonment of track in the depot area of North Main. |