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Show Officials Attend Ogden Meeting of Municipal League Four city officials from American Fork attended the meetings of the State Municipal League of Utah at Ogden, Thursday and Friday, at which various problems of current interest to cities and towns were discussed. Mayor Albert Tregaskis headed the American Fork delegation, which also included Councilman William S. Storrs, Councilman G. Hudson Gordon, and Recorder Karl Bennett. The group attended sessions .Thursday and Friday, and report the convention was very instructive. They came home before the end of the convention, not attending Saturday's Sat-urday's activities. Mayor J. Bracken Lee of Price was named president of the league, in a close contest with Mayor Mark Anderson An-derson of Provo. St. George was selected as the 1939 convention city. The league adopted resolutions favoring communities receiving 50 per cent of the net profits from the sale of liquor and a segregation of taxes whereby the municipalities would be the units solely empowered to tax real property, except that the state would continue to levy for school purposes. Other resolutions provided for: 1. Full-time employes of waterworks water-works and utilities departments in first and second class cities being placed under civil service through legislative enactment. 2. A uniform state law prohibiting prohibit-ing sale of use of fireworks in any city, county or town without the consent of the governing body. 3. An equal distribution as between be-tween cities and counties of moneys derived from the motor vehicle registration reg-istration tax. As it now stands, counties receive 70 per cent and cities 30 per cent. 4. Revision of the Granger act "with a view of presenting proper legislation to make it workable and consistent with law and judicial construction." con-struction." The object of this resolution reso-lution is to make permanent the law, adopted as an emergency measure, which provides for communities issuing is-suing revenue bonds for self-liquidating projects. 5. Enforcement of the ordinances against the sale of tobacco to minors. 6. Strict enforcement of traffic laws and traffic ordinances within the corporate limits of cities and towns. 7. Opposition to a federal tax on municipal salaries or bonds unless such taxation is reciprocal. 8. Cooperation between local boards of health and the state health department. This is designed to forestall further attempts to set up district units under supervision of the state. 9. Future joint conventions of the league and the Utah Public Health association. 10. Uniform accounting in cities. 11. Amendment of the new primary pri-mary law so as to set up uniform methods of nominating candidates for public office in cities of the third class and towns. 12.. Better methods of purifying water for culinary purposes so as to meet state and federal standards. 13. More widespread use of Utah products in the purchase of materials mater-ials for municipalities. n |