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Show Discontinuance of Local CCC Camp Protested by Lions The reported early discontinuance discontinu-ance of the division of grazing camp at Milford was the most prominent subject of discussion Wednesday evening at the regular semi-monthly meeting of the Milford Mil-ford Lion club. The report, a matter mat-ter of rumor for some time, was given semi-official status Tuesday in a news story appearing in the Salt Lake Tribune, in which this camp was listed with a group of tentative changes and abandonments. abandon-ments. The meeting was attended by 15 Lions, with President E. R. Moody conducting the meeting. Members of the club expressed themselves as being in hearty accord ac-cord with any movement to effect governmental economy, but felt it was eminently unfair 'for Beaver Bea-ver county to lose its one and only CCC camp while other counties of southern Utah were scheduled to retain their two and three camps apiece, especially in view of the fact that so many local projects pro-jects are incomplete, with the probability that they will remain thus if this camp is discontinued. The secretary was directed to communicate with congressional representatives, protesting the discontinuance of the local camp on these grounds, and this has been done. " i Lion Ivan McKnight, member of the Beaver county board of commissioners, com-missioners, was called on to give a report of last Thursday's meeting of the Beaver County centennial Planning committee and Lion Wy-naught Wy-naught told of work he had done with the state road commission in behalf of highway 21. Lion George Jefferson, speaking informally, mentioned the unfairness unfair-ness of expecting this or that individual in-dividual alone to represent Milford Mil-ford and its interests, at the same time pending their own funds in payment of traveling and other expenses. He expressed himself him-self as feeling that the community communi-ty as a whole should share the burden since all the people1, benefitted bene-fitted from such representation. Present at the meeting were Lions E. R. Moody, V. Waddoups, J. M. Hughes, Karl Hanney, L. A. Wlynaught, O. C. Koch, Val Yep-sen, Yep-sen, La Mar Outzen, Thomas Ger-rard, Ger-rard, Ivan McKnight, P. B. Fisher, Fish-er, George Jefferson, J. C. Smith, J. R. Murdock jr. and David S. Williams. |