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Show Club Hears Talk On Local Dust Evil J.J. Turner of Cedar City, area conservationist for the United t'tnt.s Soil Conservation service and a member of the Cedar City I.ions club, was present for last week's regular meeting of the Mil-fin! Mil-fin! club. The meeting was held Thursday evening in th.' Union Pacific dining room and Mr. Turner Tur-ner was present in response to an invitation to meet with the club and discuss nuasures that might be taken to alleviate the recurrent dust evil. Lion President E. L. Smith conducted the meeting, with the following additional members mem-bers present: O. C. Koch, L. A. Wynaught, Thomas Gerrard, Sam Cline, George Jefferson , La Mar Outz-cn. J. U. Murdock jr. and David S. Williams. Mr. Turner, in the course of his remarks to the club, stated that he had made a brief inspection of the dust area north of town, in the vicinity of Reed, in company with Lion Murdock, and then went on to explain that there were differ-' differ-' ent methods of procedure by which the condition could be alleviated to some extent. One method, and perhaps the best, would be to organize or-ganize a soil conservation district, as provided by an act of the 1935 stat.? legislature. There are several sev-eral of these now functioning in the state, and it only through recognized agencies such as these that help may be given by his department. Some cooperation might be had from the grazing service through grazing service C C C camps, Mr. Turner added, but in any case it would be absolutely necessary to regulate grazing while a ground cover was getting established or all efforts in that direction would be lost. In conclusion, he said it was largely a matter of what the people wanted the sheep herds permitted close to town or freedom free-dom from dust. Lion President Smith appointed Lions Murdock. Jefferson, Wynaught Wy-naught and McKnight as a committee com-mittee to make a further investigation investi-gation of the matter and the best procedure to be taken. |