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Show City Council Decides To Close Municipal Airport Temporarily Leeton Network Pushed Despite Opposition; Tentative Plans Discussed For Skating Rink The city council voted Monday Mon-day night to close down the Roosevelt Municipal airport until un-til an operator is appointed to take it over, after cancelling the lease of George Hunt and Morlely Hamblin of the Roosevelt Roos-evelt Flying Service. Councilman Bennie Schmiett reported the airport has been going downhill for the past year, mainly because of lack of public support. He; said he has been trying for several weeks to find an operator to undertake un-dertake management of the airport, air-port, but so far has been unsuccessful. unsuc-cessful. What is needed, Mr. Schmiett continued, is an experienced exper-ienced instructor and mechanic, who can operate the airport with ' a minimum of "Overhead. Mr. Hunt and Mr. Hamblin were handicapped because neither neith-er were instructors or mechanics. mechan-ics. The decision to close the airport air-port was taken to protect planes and equipment from vandals. Another major problem to come before the council was the advisability of trying to lo cate sufficient water for the city's needs at Leeton. Mr. Schmiett said he had heard some complaint against Leeton as a possible water supply location lo-cation because of the fear of many that successful drilling there would set back or possibly nullify the eventual realization of the Uintah Basin metropolitan metropoli-tan water system. Many people of the upper country, according to Mr. Schmiett, believe the plan will fall by the wayside if Roosevelt finds water elsewhere besides in a southwest direction' direc-tion' where its network might be hooked into the metropolitan metropoli-tan system and loses interest in it. Horace Allred, president of the Duchesne County Watsr Users Us-ers association, meeting with the city council at the request of Mr. Schmiett, said he believed be-lieved 15 years from now would be an optimistic guess as to when the Uintah Basin Metropolitan Metro-politan system might possibly be undertaken. He declined to advise the council as to what it should do under the circum- stances. After more than an hour of discussion, the council decided that since the alternative system sys-tem is a long-term plan and the city needs water immediately to supply urgent needs, city officials of-ficials should go ahead with efforts ef-forts to find an adequate water supply at Leeton. Mrs. Evelyn Schmiett, Howard How-ard Ivoiy, B. O. Colton, Grant E. Chugg, Hollis Hulinger, Dr. R. V. Larson, and others met with council members before the regular meeting in regard to construction of an ice skating skat-ing rink for the city before next fall. Mrs. Schmiett and Mrs. Ellen Rawlings were recenty appointed appoint-ed by the Roosevelt Junior Cj.:l ture club to investigate the possibility pos-sibility of building a skating rink in the guch behind Hi-Land Hi-Land dairy or elsewhere. Several Sev-eral possible sites are under consideration. Mr. Colton, Mr. Chugg, and Mr. Ivory are to assist the Culture Cul-ture club, sponsors of the project, pro-ject, in deciding a suitable location lo-cation for the skating rink and probably a small park. If the gulch behind Hi-Land, once selected, were dammed off to be used for ice-skating, Mrs. Schmiett said, an eye-sore would become a valuable city asset. Attempts are being made to get land - owners' consent to beautify the area before work is actually commenced. f i 1 The possibility of a stage being be-ing built in city park by the U. B.I.C. committee was brought forth by Dick Owen, who met with the council to get its cooperation co-operation in carrying out the plan. The stage, Mr. Owen said, would be built this year to floor level, would be about 30 feet wide and 18 feet long, and would cost about $150 to get started. Once begun, construction construc-tion would be continued each year until the stage is completed. com-pleted. Mr. Owen said that four or five days work were planned for this year, and that all labor would be donated with the exception ex-ception of a foreman. The matter was referred to the city property committee for consideration, members of which will meet with the U.B. I.O. construction committee Ken Zirker, chairman, Jack Hauter, and Mr. Owen to work out details. i i i The city council also approved approv-ed an ordinance declaring it illegal il-legal for anyone to allow irrigation irri-gation water to run into streets and sidewalks. Offenders may be fined from $5 to $200, or receive a jail sentence of from 2 to 100 days, or both. Action on the Union high school request for connection of a sewage line to the city's disposal tank was postponed. The general opinion of council m;embers was that the high should organize a sewer district alone with other individuals in the area. The city council also appointed appoint-ed Marvell Neilson as city treasurer treas-urer to replace DeVoe Lambert, whose resignation was accepted at the council's preceding meeting; meet-ing; purchased a dozen trash cans for use on city streets; and set Monday, August 31, as the first meeting of the council for the revision of city ordinances. |