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Show Parowan City Council holds busy session This equipment can come in to put the city power department de-partment back in business on a standby basis, while the permanent repairs are being made. This equipment, or the city portion of its cost and expense will be $1175 and will be located where it can be brought in in record time. The council approved a resolution res-olution to be forwarded to our congressional delegation, supporting the filling of Lake Powell to increase the supply of power that may be developed devel-oped there for use in this area. ar-ea. This will be a protest against the ecologist groups that want to koep the level of the lake down low enough so the backed up waters will not reach up into the Rainbow Rain-bow Bridge National Monument. At the regular meeting of the Parowan City Council on Wednesday night, a number of business matters were taken tak-en care of, it is reported by recorder Dennis Lowder. They included the following. The city safety department reported that a radar stick has been purchased for use by the city police office in its traffic traf-fic control job. It will enable the patrolman to determine the exact speed of a moving vehicle by focusing the stick ' on it. It will make it possible for them to make arrests and know the exact speed which the car is traveling, and will also keep them from making falst arrests. With the transfer of Rick Evans from the electrical department de-partment to the police department, depart-ment, leaving a vacancy in the former. Elwyn Rowley has been employed to replace Evans, and will become an assistant to Clair Benson. A discussion was had as to what may happen in the city recreation department this season. sea-son. One of the things that is supposed to be undertaken during the summer is the construction con-struction of the Lions Club shelter house south of the municipal mu-nicipal swimming pool. It is to be erected at the south border of the parked area and some material was accumulated accumu-lated there last summer. The Lions Club is to receive some financial assistance on the project from the city recreation recrea-tion funds, when they are allotted al-lotted to the city. Approved participating In the ICPA to assist In having accessable a portable transformer trans-former unit, that can came in to be available in time of trouble to our power transmission trans-mission facilities. This in case oue of the city substations is knocked out by lightening. |