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Show Moab Lions Hosts Saturday, Sunday To Civic Directors The Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah Saturday, at the monthly meeting in Moab, voted to sponsor a constitutional amendment amend-ment providing that no part of the state gasoline funds or of the automobile auto-mobile registration and license fees can be diverted to purposes other than development of the state highway system. The association also voted for a branch of the University of Utah or a junior college at Price, and went on record in favor of "equal educational opportunities .for all children". These three objectives were among many considered by the directors di-rectors of the organization, which represents fifteen counties in southern Utah, when they con-. vened Saturday with the Moab Lions club as host. The directors took an unanimous stand on the gasoline tax fund a-mendment a-mendment after serious consideration considera-tion and discussion. They determined deter-mined to call 0n other chambers of commerce and on civic organizations organiza-tions to assist in bringing the a-mendment a-mendment before the legislature and the voters of the state in an effort to protect the highway fund. W. D. Hammond, member of the state road commission, at the request re-quest of the organization reviewed the state road commission's annual an-nual budget and told of the possible pos-sible effects that diversion of any part of the tax might have on the road building program in Utah. When some doubt was'expressed that the entire amount of tbe gasoline gaso-line tax fund would be needed for construction and maintenance of highways aftft' a few years, Mr. Hammond l-eported that of the 5126 miles on the state highway system, only 1728 miles are now improved to a satisfactory standard. stand-ard. Other parts of the system are now graveled, but only less than one-third are hard surfaced, he said. Following the business meeting a banquet was held, and on the following fol-lowing day the guests who had met visited the wonders of that part of Utah, some going to the Arches National monument, others to the famous Goosenecks of the Colorado river, and others to Monument Valley, Kayenta, and home by way of Arizona. The latter roundabout way home was chosen by Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Wynaught and Attorney Attor-ney and Mrs. Sam Cline, who represented rep-resented Milford at the meeting. They found the road vastly improved im-proved over a similar trip made two years ago, and enjoyed themselves them-selves immensely. |