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Show Unity' Theme Of Monday's Banquet For Hew Council An inaugural banquet was held Monday night at the Frontier Fron-tier Grill in honor of Roosevelt's newly elected city council: Mayor May-or Homer P. Edwards, Recorder Record-er George Hacking, and 2-year councilman, Elmer "Bump s" Eldredge, reelected incumbents; Steve Bellon, holdover councilman; council-man; and newcomers, Bennie Schmiett and Paul Murphy, 4-year 4-year councilmen; Don Johnson, 2-year councilman; and DeVoe Lambert, treasurer. At noon Tuesday, members of the Roosevelt city government govern-ment were sworn in by Recorder Record-er Hacking. At the same time the Mayor's bond was approved by the new council, and dates of regular meetings changed to the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 8 p. m. Special guests at the banquet were Mayors Joseph L. Hansen, Vernal; Otto Johnson, Duchesne; and W. H. Linck, Myton. William Wil-liam Van Tassel, chairman of the Tabiona town board, was unable to attend because of adverse ad-verse weather conditions. In their addresses the three visiting mayors, as well as Mayor May-or Homer P. Edwards, called for better relations between towns in the area, and condemned con-demned the "sectionalism" that now divides the Basin. All seemed to think that certain factions in the various towns have attempted, in the past, to promote animosity and "sectionalism," "sec-tionalism," instead of correcting the misunderstanding and jealousy jeal-ousy that have plagued the Basin Ba-sin for decades. After the banquet, the general gen-eral concensus of opinion was that ' the get-together had materially ma-terially aided prospects for harmony har-mony in the future. t 111 I Mayor Hansen enumerated the industrial possibilities of this area in agriculture, stock-raising, stock-raising, phosphate, oil shale, and other fields; and asked lor united unit-ed support of the Echo Park project, and cooperation in general gen-eral as the best means of progress pro-gress for all. Mayor Edwards, also sounding the "end of friction" note, pledged Mayor Hansen his support sup-port of the Echo Park and other Central Utah projects. Verland "Bill" Nelson, chairman chair-man of the Progressive party, warning1 the new council of the responsibilities facing the members, mem-bers, asked that they carry out the party platform. He appointed appoint-ed a citizens' committee to cooperate co-operate with the council in city planning. Serving on the board are Bob Ferron, chairman, Mrs. Grace Hacking, Mrs. Ellen Rawlings, Clifford Fretwell, Mrs. Beryl Mullins, Randall Stewart, and Bert Burgess. A crowd of approximately 62 braved the snow and cold weather to attend. George Stewart was toast- master. |