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Show Drouth Threats and Highways Discussed At Civic Clubs Meet j Following up a 'part of the pro-,g;ram pro-,g;ram undertaken at the monthly meeting of the Associated Civic clubs jof Southern Utah, held Saturday and : Sunday at Cedar City, F. G. Marlines, Mar-lines, president, and Senator George Jefferson, vice-president of the as-j as-j sociation, Tuesday called on Gover-j Gover-j nor Blood and the governor's drouth : committee in an effort toward get-' get-' ting- some relief for beet farmers in the vicinity of Salina, who are faced with complete loss of crops unless additional irrigation water is made available for their use. There is a quantity of water stored in the Piute and Otter creek reservoirs, stored for use of western Millard county farmers and it was with the idea of making some amicable arrangement between the two sections by which the Salina farmers might get the use of this water without injury to Millard Mil-lard county people that the conference confer-ence upstate was held. The meeting at Cedar City was one of the most, important held since the As.-oeiated Civic clubs first began its gocd work as an organization for the cmmon good of southern Utah. Road matters, which usually take up the major part of the attention of the association, as-sociation, this time gave way in a large measure to discussion of drouth conditions and suggestions for alleviation, al-leviation, with the six million dollar Dixie irrigation project coming in for considerable attention. The designation of Wayne Wonderland Wonder-land as a national park will be stressed wth the proper authorities, also the proposal for a road connecting connect-ing Hanksville in Wayne county with Blanding in San Juan county in order that the thousands of tourists now visiting southwestern Colorado may have a direct route to the Southern Utah parks. Approximately 75 miles of new road and a bridge across the Colorado river would be necessary to . bring about this connection, but it would undoubtedly prove to be one of the most prolific in the state as a tourist route and of especially great benefit to southern Utah. Several j other highway projects came up for i discussion and action, including the 'request of Caliente and Lincoln ; county, Nevada, men for construction land oiling of the highway from J Cedar City to Panaca by way of i Modena. I Brief talks commending the aims and accomplishments of the asoci-ated asoci-ated clubs were made at the Saturday Satur-day business meeting by three special guests from The Salt Lake Tribune, Noble Warrum sr., associate editor; N. C. Christensen, managing editor, and E. F. Baldwin, circulation manager. mana-ger. Speakers at the Saturday evening banquet included past presidents of the Associated Civic clubs, Reid H. Gardner, Cedar City; Ellis Pickett, St. George; State Senators Wilford Day, Parowan, and George Jefferson,! Milford; Secretary Harry W. Ras-mussen, Ras-mussen, N. C. Christensen, managing! editor of The Salt Lake Tribune; jChauncey W. West, assistant manager mana-ger of the Newhouse hotel, Salt jLake; and Roy Orr, chairman of the county commissioners of Lincoln I county, Nevada. j Included among the Beaver county people attending business meetings of the association were State Senator Sena-tor George Jefferson, L. A. Wy-i naught, H. T. Hanks, David S. Wil-j Hams, Karl S. and Walter L. Carl-' ton and Warren Nielsen. Many others from Milford and Beaver joined join-ed the group for the banquet and dance Saturday evening. On invitation of Garfield and Kane, county directors, the next monthly meeting of the association will be held in Kanab, the exact date to be announced lai.er. |