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Show UNEMPLOYMENT AND ROAD WORK TOPIC OF CIVIC CLUBS MEET September Meeting of Association Associa-tion Scheduled to Be Held In Beaver L'nited action to attack the unemployment unem-ployment problem existent in Utah was decided upon Sunday by the directors di-rectors of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah, at the conclusion of a two-day meeting at Fish Lake. Tha directors voted to ooneentrate upon jobless relief projects regardless regard-less of the action of the federal government. gov-ernment. State Senator George Jefferson of Beaver county attacked the ambiguity ambigu-ity of promises already received in regard to the letting of road con tracts, and the directors passed a re-I re-I solution favoring the abandonment of road contracts and the adoption of the force account system as a relief re-lief measure. It was the consensus of the directors direc-tors that the use of the force account system would be more adaptable than contracts to providing emergency emer-gency employment, and it was said that the resolution tallies with expressions ex-pressions of opinion already received from the U. S. bureau of public roads and the state road commission. Prospctive benefits for the counties from a general improvement program, pro-gram, to be launched by the state road commission, also were discussed. discuss-ed. It was sug-gested that state gasoline gaso-line tax funds be used to improve secondary state highways. The directors also authorized a survey to determine the nature of new industries which could be attracted at-tracted to southern Utah counties. J. W. Robinson of Piute county was instructed in-structed to launch the survey and aid in the promotion of new industrial development. Addresses on other important state topics were delivered by a number of speakers at the banquet Saturday night, at which Dr. P. L. Holman of Mt. Pleasant acted as toastmaster. The banquet, held at the Skougaard's tavern, was attended by 100 persons. Walter H. Hadlock, state bank commissioner, reported upon banking conditions in the state; tourist problems prob-lems were discussed by iPhillip C. Hall of the California-Nevada Travels Trav-els association; Newell B. Cook, state game commissioner, pleaded for southern Utah to promote the possibilities possi-bilities of its bountiful big-game crop and support of the municipal homo rule amendment to the state constitution consti-tution was urged by Shirley P. Jones, former Salt Lake City attorney. The amendment will be voted upon at the November elections. Other speakers at the banquet were Mayor W. I.. Warner of Richfield; Rich-field; Perry E. Burnnam, state head of the national seed loan commission; David 11. Madsen of the United States Stat-es bureau of game conservation; Harold S. Jennings, secretary of the Utah Manufacturers association, and Peter C. Peterson, Sanpete county state representative. The banquet ended with a dance at the tavern ballroom. It was decided to hold the August meeting of the club at Cedar City while the September meeting is scheduled sche-duled to be held in Beaver. |