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Show Associated Civic Clubs Hold Successful Panguitch Meeting At the August meeting of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern South-ern Utah, held Saturday and Sunday Sun-day at Panguitch, the organization definitely went on record as opposing oppos-ing a diversion of the state gasoline gaso-line tax fund for purposes other than the maintenance and construction con-struction of highways, and decided to oppose the election of any candidate candi-date to the state legislature who is not in favor of keeping this fund intact for this purpose. President Frank G. Miartines : presided at the meeting, which was sponsored by the Panguitch Lions j club, with A. C. Folster and James ! J. Sargent in charge of arrange-j arrange-j ments. I In addition to the discussion on : the gasoline tax fund, the matter j of opening the season on doe deer. various road projects, a tubercu-i tubercu-i losis sanitarium for Utah, further i consideration of the liquor law and j other problems were considered. ! The attitude of southern Utah with regard to the proposal to divert di-vert any part of the gasoline tax automobile registration and license li-cense fees was made clear by speakers representing all parts of the territory. 'After consideraable discussion a motion to keep the tax as it now stands was made and was then amended to include a clause that the association and its members work to eliminate any candidate for the state legislature unfavorable unfavor-able to this plan. I The general opinion expressed was that certain leaders, in advocating advo-cating that part of the gasoline tax fund be diverted to other sources, was for personal reasons or that they were misinformed as , to the benefits being derived from , the present system. It was further agreed that should ! the cities and towns be given a j share of the tax, the smaller com-, com-, munities would not be benefited. It has been proposed that the I cities be given a percentage of the tax on gasoline sold in their juris-. juris-. diction. Carrvinir out thp r,,,-,.,, , keep the tax intact was delegated to the executive committee. ' Another subject on which th( arguments became heated was thf possibility of opening the seasor on doe deer. Xewell B. Cook commissioner of fish and game presented the sportsmen's side o! the question. He explained thai due to the drouth and other con ditions in certain areas, the deei had become concentrated to .-ucl : an extent that they were seriousl; damaging the range, but assertec that this year, in his opinion, i' j would not be advisable to shoo' (Continued on last page) j 1 . Civic Clubs Meet (Continued from, firs' uage ) both male and female deer. Through L. A. Wynaught, the Beaver County Sportsmen's association asso-ciation urged the support of the Associated Civic clubs in eliminating eliminat-ing further shooting of does on the Beaver mountains. W. D. Hammond, member of the state road commission, advised the group that probably the hard-surfacing of U. S. highway 89 will not be done this year. Previously the organization had been promised that about 15 miles of the highway high-way from Thistle south and 15 miles from Panguitch north would be hard-surfaced. He gave as the reason a shortage of the gasoline tax fund. Mr. Wynaught, chairman of the road committee, gave a report of the projects now under construction construc-tion in southern Utah and) also those on the program of the road commission that will be put under contract as soon as funds are available. Included were two projects in Circleville canyon that will complete com-plete the construction work on U. S. 89, the Hurricane cutoff and several others that the Associated Civic clubs have worked for. Various other matters were discussed, dis-cussed, including the establishment establish-ment of wineries in Grand and Washington counties, improvement of the water systems of Antimony and Escalante, revision of the present liquor law and construction construc-tion of a reservoir in Long valley Kane county. A resolution was adopted honoring hon-oring Secretary of War George H. Dem. During the afternoon business session the visiting women were entertained by the Lions club auxi- I liary in the South ward L. D. S. ! amusement hall. j Following the business session a banquet was served in the social ! hall and a dance in the Airdrome ! at 9:30 p.m. j On Sunday, a caravan made a taur of Panguitch lake. Big Springs, Cedar Breaks national ' monument, Navajo lake and Bryce ' canyon national park, with lunch ! served to the visitors at the Duck ! Creek recreation camp. |