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Show CLUBS TO MEET AT MILFORD IN MARCH IDELEGATES DECIDE Milford is to be the locale of the March meeting of the Associated Civic Civ-ic Clubs of Southern Utah, it was decided de-cided at the meeting of that organization organi-zation at St. George last Saturday and Sunday. L. A. Wynaught, as official delegate in plance of Senator Georgj Jefferson, eight other Lions of Milford, John Bowman and William Hurst of the Beaver Lions represented Beaver county at the meeting. ( Banquet Meeting The meeting opened with a banquet sponsored by the Rotary Club of St. George at the Liberty Hotel nt seven o'clock. Here Mayor A. Atkin of St. George made a welcoming speech to the visitors, Ellis S. Pickett of St. George acted as toastmaster and F. G. Martins, president of the association associa-tion acted as chief speaker. A talk on Utah National Parks was given by E. T. Soyen, superintendant of Southern South-ern Utah National Parks and Dr. C. R. Parrish of the Milford Lions was called upon to address the gathering. At eight thirty the bansuct meeting adjourned and the guests attended the dance sponsored for the occasion, leaving the more serious work of the convention to the nine official delegates dele-gates representing nine counties of southern Utah. Milford Meeting Place Business transacted at this meeting consisted in naming Salt Lake City as the convention city for the February meeting and Milford for March. Plans for an extensive membership drive were proposed and articles of incorporation incor-poration were prepared for filing. The meeting was adjourned in an hour and called to order again Sunday Sun-day morning when it was decided that Kane County's petition to have a connecting con-necting link in the highway built should be presented before the state road commission and urged by the organization. or-ganization. Form Road Project The delegates looked favorably on the project being urged by the Beaver County representatives to have the road between Buckhorn Flat and Pan-guitch Pan-guitch completed and will probably take action on it when the organization organiza-tion holds its meeting here. Kane County also received a hearing hear-ing in the matter of the quarrell between be-tween the sportsmen and cattlemen of the county the latter attempting to have House Rock Valley set aside for a buffalo preserve. It was resolved at the meeting to support the cattlemen's cattle-men's contention that such valuable grazing land should not be set aside for a preserve and to place the matter before the government authorities. The Sunday meeting was adjourned at. one o'clock in the afternoon. Milford Lions attending the meeting meet-ing were: L. A. Wynaught, Jerry Hancock, Dr. C. R. Parrish, J. R. Murdock, Mur-dock, Jr., R. E. Ellingsworth, Ed. Patterson, Pat-terson, John Coffeen accompanied by Mrs. Coffeen, and Clifford Landes as the guest of Harold Cline. n |