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Show ' ' "" -' .': : i . -; '' i' ,w I 4 y ; .. p , " .' -; S.J - J . - , - I t , J I DOWN IT GOES. The Cox Building, called by many an eyesore, is being brought to grade by crews hired by the city. An appeal on the matter is possible. waite said, there could be action agaiast the city for razing the building. But the chances of that are slim, the council said, owing to the nuisance and health hazard factors the eyesore possesses. The city moved on the advice of the mayor who stated we preferred to raze the building now, taking the slim chance a successful appeal will be made, rather than waiting until the 30-day period and the subsequent hearings. Braithwaite indicated the appeal process may take six months. Rather than take city crews out of their present projects, a motion by Gordon Slack stated the city would seek to hire a private contractor to raze the structure. The bringing to grade of the vacated and once-destroyed-by-fire truck stop and service station began Monday. I A five-year legal battle has apparently ap-parently ended-at least for the time being-with crews contracted by Cedar City tearing down the so-called Cox Building on South Main Street. City crews had begun to raze the building last week, but a last minute stop order, halted the work even as the front end loaders were moving onto the property. The day following the stop order, Thursday, a hearing was held in the court of Judge Harlan Burns in which he reversed the stop order, giving the city the opportunity to continue the destruction. At the city council meeting Thursday, Thur-sday, City Attorney Robert Braithwaite Braith-waite pointed out there is still a 30-day appeal period in which the co-owner of the building, Paul Cox can ask for the decision to be reconsidered. If the appeal does go Mr. Cox's way, Braith- |