Show county board holds jan meeting monda monday y with all member of the board in attendance along with the other members of the county official family the board of iron county commissioners ners held its first meeting of 1944 on monday morning of this week taxes land sales and land sale contracts took up the major portion of the time at the meeting with an effort to be made to clear up the back taxes on certain property and bring same property sales contracts up to date to commissioner 11 L adams was assigned the responsibility of contacting parowan carowan city officials re garding the taxes on the marion E lowder property this property has been taken over by the city because of delinquent special improve ment taxes adams is also to contact R L halterman to see if satisfactory arrangement cannot be made to satisfy the countes Coun tys tax lien on his home property the county clerk was instructed to write all parties whose payments are in arrears on their contracts to purchase tax title property from iron county asking that they bring their contracts up to date immediately the countes Coun tys lien and tax title to the east half of the east half of see sec 13 tarp twp R aw was sold to dwain decker for a cash consideration of henry L jones of cedar city was allowed to purchase acres of land in sections 22 and 24 of twp tap range for a total consideration of with the payment price to be paid on an installment basis the county also entered into an installment sales con contract I 1 bract with edward R mccall of los angeles for the purchase afif acres in sec 31 tap twp is range with the total price being the county clerk was authorized to make execute and deliver to the following named persons who the county treasurer has reported as having completed payments on their contracts to purchase land from iron county john R stewart kate walker lillian H Al macfarlane acfarlane state of utah lucius M benson kumen L jones douglas clark roscoe guymon W C pendleton john H pendleton george william rhodes jul julia a E leigh effie forsyth beacham wm M eyre and chester stubbs alfred S H 0 robinson J hunter gibson and john henry williams jennie V larson in charge of the health program for the state department part ment of health in district no 11 which embraces iron county met with the board to ask for an appropriation to help finance the program in this county during 1944 19 44 she was advised that an appropriation of had already been made but that the county had not received a cooperative contract to sign money in the county road fund as set up in the budget for 1944 and ca corn ming ing from other than license plate funds were appropriated as follows road supervision expense custom work expense I 1 1000 miscellaneous road oad i maintenance total I 1 the county road supervisor was authorized to purchase used steel rails from the provo foundry and machinery company compa ny to use in construction st of cattle guards in iii necessary places along county roads mr platt is to send one of the county trucks to provo for the I rails ails apter after the is bius bills against the county were acted upon the meeting adjourned to convene here again on monday feb 14 |