Show C civic ivic clubs hold annual meeting at st george sat after some discussion on oil the notional national silver question members of 0 the he associated civic chic clubs of southern Sout lioni utah in a meeting held beld lit it st george saturday afternoon of last week passed a resolution urging an increase in the price of domestically mined silver which would be higher than the price luring during 1038 1938 other matters ot of importance discussed and passed by tile the members included highway af ty the passage of a preferential law backing a building program at snow college and matters pertaining to highway construction st near beaver and salina in I 1 the discussion the price of silver ore it was brought out that should the present price be lowered it would have an III effect on the mining industry in the state its as a whole and in southern utah in III particular the members present e tooted voted for a resolution urging a raise in the present price rather than it a cut it wa was emphasized during the meeting the neighboring states have hac preferential bills giving the state departments counties and cities a right to award bids to lo 10 cal 1 firms for locally produced items at a higher rate than that to be paid to out of state concerns ais for out of state products the members passed a resolution asking king for a preferential bill to tie lie passed in the next session of the legislature and turned it over to lo the lie legislative committee the col to set the rate of deferent following proper study 0 of f tile the situation in III order to b ahne anve the legislative in fit proper action members were appointed at the meeting to act for the coming year and includes ludes L A mayor of allford Ml 1111 lford ford as eb chairman aiman with henry 11 Jones of helper thomas NY jensen jense of mt pleasant frank G farlines marlines Mar Alar lines thies of richfield lorn lora S continued on page five B R r civic clubs abs hold hoad w I 1 me meet i at st geqrge george continued from page aae audrus andrus of st george and daniel stevens of finimore fellmore as i members traffic and acel accidents dents throughout the state came in for considerable discussion and 1 earl auen alien president of the panguitch Pan gultch lions club presented a resolution asking for the clearing of loose stock from highways es especially ec lally during the night hours it was stipulated in the resolution that it if laws were pilot not in proper form to carp care for fotr this phase of traffic prep prevention that proper steps be taken to give authorities power to execute proper measures chester J olsen assistant regional forester from ogden speaking for the utah idaho district hiwania clubs told the gr group that this state was one of three in the nation coshow an increase of traffie traffic ded deaths titia over last year he brought out that over the nation traffic fatalities had decreased 20 per cent from last years record compared to this decrease nationally present record shows 20 more kil killed ledon on highways to december 17 1938 than during daring the same period last year and five more than were killed during the entire year of 1937 in telling of the need for the building program at snow college president james A of that institution stated that the school was in n need eed of a new gymnasium and remodeling of other buildings on the campus it if is the desire to obtain a project with the state as sponsors opposition was voiced against the suggested 50 50 distribution of automobile license plate monies to cities and towns and the afie division which last yearly years distributions were ft ere based upon were preferred by ibe the group it was brought out during the meeting by L A NV naught vice president of the association that beaver county would stand to lose some were the division to lo be made differently ferent ly than was last years division A report from the road committee committee stated that thai work would commence on the wild oat cat canyon project north of beaver in the near future and the two projects in salina canyon would likely be pushed by the state road commission commiss lion mr stated that owing to some possible change chailee in plans plane for the salana balind canyon ganyon canyon road would perhaps pel naps delay certain sections but that there was no further farther reason to delay the two projects planned tor for immediate action the afternoon meeting of the association members was held in the auditorium of the dixie coi college and in the evening the members and visitors were entertained at a banquet in the arrowhead hotel LS L S andrus director from washington county was in charge of arrangements president bar gent gear mr mi mr martinese Martine Martl nes and mr jones gave brief remarks during the banquet |