Show 1109 EBS HO 10 INTEREST 0 OF F CL CLUBS U 0 S T eubel ME IT ING local people attend monthly convention of civic clubs A carbon county junior col college leee the escalante conservation project and the abatement of the dust hazard in bryce canyon together with a series of road matters saturday and sunday occupied the attention of the associated civic clubs of southern utah meeting at eureka the improvement of highway 26 designated as the link in U S highway no 6 was the chief topic of discussion of the meeting resided over by frank G martines president of the club ely and tonopah To nevada civic officials will be enlisted by the southern utah group in advancing of the program which will mark the route from grand junction colorado over U S highway no 50 to spanish fork on U S 91 to santaquin San and on state highway no 26 to eureka delta and to nevada culmination of the project is expected by autumn mr martines martinea said i A feature of the convention was a field trip through the tintic standard mine properties the trek being arranged by P J fennell executive committee member jas W wade general manager of the properties conducted the tour governor henry H blood was a special guest of honor on the tour tour he attended the sunday ari morning arim session of the club and civic officials from ogden provo and southern utah communities also attended the group studied the establishment of a junior college in carbon county and turned the matter over to the legislative and educational committees for consideration and future reports A coat of oil it was proposed would abate the disagreeable dust hazard in bryce canyon the bureau of public roads will be requested to take action on this project the association decided paul G hunts hunt park city mine official explained costs and productions duct ions of mines and the accruing benefit to the state he discussed the tax situation with regard to the mines and told of the income that the state realizes through this industry hugh B brown chairman of the state liquor control commission gave a comprehensive talk on the liquor control act in utah and urged that the present law with modifications be continued he said that although experimental the present act provides all the major control measures necessary and that with minor changes the law can be made adequate for the administration of the utah program the meeting being held in the northern part of the state drew the attention of many civic officials chief among the group were clayton jenkins secretary of the provo chamber of commerce E J fjelsted Fj elated secretary of the intermountain mount aln association of civic clubs and of the ogden chamber of commerce richard folland of the salt lake city chamber of commerce john gillman chairman of the utah county commission and frank francis fortner former mayor of ogden and publisher of the standard examiner while the mining industry provided the chief topic of discussion the meeting studied several items of business held vital to the southern utah group the eureka kawanis Kiwar ils club was sponsor of the program the next meeting it was decided will be held at ephraim july 18 and 19 invitations being extended to the entire membership those from richfield who attended were mr and mrs airs fr frank ank G martines Mar lines mrs rula J fuellenbach miss bem fem L J nelson H B waters joe buys vincent duggan and maurice and chester fuellenbach |