Show county planning board holds initial meeting the initial meeting ot of the iron county planning board for 1938 was held friday morning january 28 in the extension assembly room ot of the federal building hugh L adams chairman of 0 the county planning board was waa in charge of the mooting meeting director william pe of the state extension service dr 0 J wheatley extension mrs airs rena B maycock av assistant director ot of home economics and mr air chapman of 0 the department I 1 part ment ot of agriculture washington D C were in attendance at the meeting A summary of previous inventories of 0 county resources as compili d by the planning board was waa given by arnold Y stevens director pe presented briefly the picture of the states agricultural resources and mentioned some of the problems with which utah Is faced we spend approximately per child in the state of utah out of tax money mcney tor for each boy and girl graduated from high school said director peterson Po terson this amount Is in addition to ito what the parents must brend to give their child a high school edu education caton A large percentage ot of these high school graduates are of necessity leaving the state of utah in other words the state Is under the expense or rearing and educating our young people and when these young men and women attain the age of productivity they spend the best years of their lives in other states increasing the wealth there and thus impoverishing the state of utah director peterson made an earnest plea tor for the people in iron county to develop and use their natural resources economically onomA ono cally and efficiently thought of 0 providing a place in business industry or agriculture tor for tho the young people who are coming to the age ot of maturity so that we can provide a satisfactory opportunity port unity to our own people as well as others and thereby there by enrich our state director peterson Pete raon said we must either cither admit that we have rea reached clied the limit of our expansion in ill tho the state of utah or we must got busy and demonstrate that there are still ample resources in the state to take care of our growing population the county planning board will begin actively to accumulate more detailed information regarding the countes coun tys resources and their proper development and control and add to the valuable data that has already been compiled by this group in the past three years |