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Show Civic Clubs Meeting The work of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah is ! fast developing into a business by 1 mail, rather than a business by ! board members. The rubber shortage short-age is acute and' the railroad and bus schudules such that it is difficult dif-ficult for board members to attend at-tend the monthly meetings. From the present outlook, it is doubtful that conditions are going to get any better in the near future. We' are, therefore, attempting to keep our membership advised: through the directors and local newspapers, as to what activities the club has engaged in since the last meeting. The president accompanied the field secretary to Carbon, Grand, and San Juan counties the latter ! part of April. From May 4, to May 10, he made another trip with the field secretary to Sevier, Wayne, Piute, Garfield and Washington Wash-ington counties. Those courses visited, that are delinquent in their annual contribution to the association were contacted with good results in most cases. It is planned the first week in June for the president to visit the remainder remain-der of the territory represented' by our association. J President Humphrey joined a delegation from Sevier and Sanpete San-pete counties, and called; on Gover- nor Maw on the 15th of May. At this meeting, the governor assured ; the committee that he would do all j in his power to secure federal assistance as-sistance in the dredging of the Sevier river channel to prevent the inundation of Redmond town. Representatives from Manti, Gunnison, Gun-nison, Salina, Richfield, and Elsi-nore Elsi-nore were on the committee. All the data available on the possibilities of aiv industrial alcohol plant at Fillmore has been furnished the club by the state department of publicity and industrial indus-trial development, and the agricultural agri-cultural colleges of Utah and Idaho. The committee handling the basic science law will meet with the medical association in Salt Lake in the near future, and will be prepared to report on the question at our Panguitch meeting on June 20. The field representative, T. W. Jensen; President J. W. Humphrey, Humph-rey, Vice President Chauncey Sandberg, and Lawrence Wads-worth, Wads-worth, Washington county director, direc-tor, met with the faculty of the Dixie Junior college on the morning morn-ing of May 6, at which time the objectives of the association and other business matters were subjects sub-jects of discussion. This association associa-tion of teachers has always been Uftal supporters of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah. The National Park service at Zion canyon has been contacted relative to securing permission for busses, other than Union Pacific owned, to enter the national parks. We were advised that the park is open to automobiles operated for pleasure, where motor vehicles on such trips have been rented by the week or month for in and outside the park and are rented especially for the general trip in which the trip though the park is incidental. Those individuals indivi-duals making trips of this kind should make application to the secretary of interior or to the office of-fice of any of the national parks before the trip is made so that no trouble will be experienced upon arrival at the park entrance. The president met with the Inter-state Commerce commission on April 30, and expressed the opinion that our association, while j friendly to the railroads, was j hopeful that the Frisco branch of! the Union Pacific can be continued j for another year in the interest of i development of the scheelite (tungsten) ores as well as other i much needed metals, j The secretary's report shows that the club finances are in fair; condition. The various committees (Continued on last page) 1 Civic Clubs Meeting (Continued trom first page) of the association have taken care of the business coming up from time to time. The educational committee has recently cooperated cooperat-ed with other organizations in an effort to secure additional money for schools. Due to the high salaries paid by defense industries, practically all our schools face the prospect of losing more than half their teachers, and this applies to all sections of Utah. Some of the wealthier school districts in the northern part of the state, which have in the past been able to select se-lect the best teachers from the country districts by paying better salaries, are now beginning to feel the pinch of other agencies offering offer-ing their teachers better money than their schools can pay. This situation is a serious one and everything possible must be done to keep our schools running. In the Wayne county section the suggestion was offered that studies should be made to develop, if possible, practical canning fac tories to take care of the surplus i fruits and vegetables in summer, I and meats in the fall . and, ithe j winter. Just now, due to the war situation, no experimental work i on such projects can be under- j taken. I Miss Doris Nielson, the club i secretary, has received word that j she has successfully passed, with a good rating, the civil service examination for junior steno. grapher. It seems highly probable that we may be looking for another ano-ther secretary in the near future if clerical help in government industry in-dustry is as badly needed as reports re-ports would indicate. v |