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Show Fine Attendance At Local Meet of Civic Clubs Group Having completed what they termed "one of the most important import-ant meetings of the year" officials of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah late Saturday night and Sunday departed for their homes. The March meetings of the association have been held at Milford almost without exception for a number of years and always al-ways there have been good attendance at-tendance of officials and directors of the association as well as state, government and railroad officials and representatives oif civic (organizations (or-ganizations from other states. The directors of the association convened in executive session Saturday Sat-urday forenoon, followed by a public pub-lic meeting at 2:30 p.m. The banquet ban-quet session began at 8 o'clock in the Union Pacific dining room and this was followed by a dance, sponsored spon-sored by the Milford Lions club. President James M. Sargent of Panguitch opened the Saturday afternoon af-ternoon meeting and then turned the gavel over to L. A. Wynaught, vice-president of the association. Road matters, raising of the dike in Navajo lake to insure plenty of water for the preservation of fish there, and a wide variety of other matters absorbed the attention of the directors. Authorization for the printing of 100,000 folders advertising ad-vertising the scenic attractions of the state was given and the matter mat-ter of the erection of additional road signs also received attention. The gathering assumed unusual importance with the presence of the three members of the state road commission, Chairman W. D. Hammond, Preston G. Peterson and George Abbott. Mr. Hammond1 acted act-ed as spokesman for the group and told of the commission's vital interest in all the roads of the state and the anxiety of the commission to take care of the needs of all sections just as rapid- i ly as possible. Put "on the spot", I in a way, by various questioners, ! ihe won the respect of everyone i by choosing not to "soft-soap", as so many political appointees are i prone to do as the easiest way out j of difficult positions, and reiterat-I reiterat-I ed that he and his fellow commis-! commis-! si-oners aimed to serve the best j interests of the people at all times , and that they- didn't hesitate to j overrule suggestions of their en-i en-i gineering staff whenever that ! seemed necessary to carry out this policy. State Senator Frank D. Williams of Minersville made a plea that the association should do something some-thing in an effort to get the governor gov-ernor to appropriate $500 for the junior livestock show at Delta. It seems his bill in the legisla-j legisla-j (Continued on last page) M Civic Clubs Meet (Continued from first page) ture for a $2000 appropriation had lost out in the final shuffle, and the gathering okehed the idea after af-ter considerable discussion and some dissent. President Sargent again officiated offici-ated with the preliminaries at the banquet, then turned it over to Mr. Wynaught who, in turn, introduced in-troduced Attorney Sam Cline, who acted as toastmaster in his usual clever manner. Musical numbers included a vocal solo by Dan Ferguson, Fer-guson, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. E. L. Smith, and instrumental instru-mental numbers by Milford high school students under the direction direc-tion of A. H. Baker. Bob Kalteniborn, vice-president of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, was present as the representative repre-sentative of that body and pledged the support of Nevada agencies in the various programs undertaken by the association. Otto A. Weis-ley, Weis-ley, state commander of the American Am-erican Legion also was present and expressed himself as being happy to be in Milford. The Union Pacific railroad was represented by B. W. Hansen, general agent, freight department; J. F. McCarthy, assistant traveling travel-ing freight agent; and Judge Robert Rob-ert B. Porter, counsel. iw |