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Show Leo P. Harvey Conducts Soil Conservation Meet Saturday Leo P. Harvey of Pleasant Grove conducted a highly successful suc-cessful Soil Conservation District Dis-trict zone meeting last Saturday Satur-day at the Alpine Country Club. Eighteen supervisors and wives wiv-es from the eight Soil Conservation Conser-vation Districts in Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah and Wasatch Counties attended. Highlights of the meeting were interesting presentations by Frank Bohman, president of Utah Association of Soil Conservation Con-servation Districts ; A. R. Swan-son, Swan-son, State Conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service; William G. Bruhn, director for Utah Office of Local Affairs; James Harvey, State Soil Conservation Con-servation Commission, and progress pro-gress reports from each SCD. Frank Bohman of Peterson, Utah, who just returned from San Francisco, where he attended atten-ded a four-day meeting of the National Association of SCD's, stated that considerable discussion discus-sion centered on our land use policies and problems facing us. These have been intensified with our growing population. Mr. Bohman stated that our poor habits are catching up with us. Pollution, both air and water, are many times the result re-sult of poor land use planning. He commended that soil conservation con-servation districts, according to our Utah State law, considers all of our people in their program. pro-gram. We must all work together to-gether on this challenging job of pollution. Mr. Bruhn stated that one of his assignments from Governor Rampton was to simplify county, coun-ty, city and federal cooperative efforts. "Horse and buggy" system sys-tem of government will no longer lon-ger answer the needs of our people. Mr. Bruhn commented that a multi-county Council of governments made up of county coun-ty commissioners and city mayors may-ors would coordinate activity. Assisting them would be special spec-ial committees. One of these committees should be composed compos-ed of district supervisors. Mr. Bruhn commented further fur-ther that this is a new approach It will take cooperative effort and involvement by both rural and urban people. Our society is complex and we must find a way to work together for the benefit of all our people. |