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TTATE BOARD MEMBER CITESOPPORTUNITY(Continued from Page 1)Ja\vitnkrily a short time until sentiment j ould favor buying more because ; j le park would prove its worth. j That has been the case at every ate park, he said, citing Lost !land Lake state park, near Ruth-$1\v]en, where 94,000 people visited' w:le 27-acre park last year. I‘ mThe state would provide a shel-»r house for meetings, picnics, ad other gatherings, and a cus-)dian. A sanliary water supply ; ^ould be installed and other sani-ition features. He advocated a irvcy to determine just how' high ae lake level should be, what kind f a dam should be built, and other hysical features.There is an ideal natural site for dam at Sw’an Lake, he said. | V Jlr. Woodcock said he had often : te een Iowa people going north for tl ishing and hunting, each of them | pending from 930 up to $100 or | aore for that purpose. He said, IcIirareninetically, that it w'as some-imes hard to get the.se same 13 eople to donate to a cause for ; _ ishing and hunting right at home, | To lse Local Labor 'Mr. Wilson followed Mr Wood- j ock’s address with the statement iIhat it was the intention to use | ocal labor cxclu.sively on the pro- j ect. He said the state would ; pend thou.sands of dollars on the i rojcct but that tiie only local ' xuenditurc would be to acquire ho land.Others Kiulorse ItMayor S. H. Johnston added hisnSorsement to the project, dc-laring that if the unemployed andecdy were not given work suchs Swan Lake would give them,he c itv and conntv would have to % 'ig dovvn and get the money for irect relief. It w«uld mean niueli o local busine.ss for them to liave he work rather than the .small uina they would get in roliel unds.It was pointed out that action I nu.st com ouickly as those federal ^unds may he exhausted before the irojoct i.s under way. The money ■ cill h.'' spent, liere or elsmvhcre. it cas stateil, and Carroll countv | night as we!! get it as anybodv.Father P. T. Lynch added bus ‘ ndorsement of the proposal, as ^ lid Dr. O. P. Morgenthalcr. of |rcmpleton.W. 11. Scharnwcbcr, .secretary of ^ he Chamber of Commerce, re-wrted that in three days Mr. ' drees and himself had seen OH ^ )Cople and had secured $1.02.n in , dodges. Cards were signed at tiio * neeting last night adding .$256 to 'liat amount jIt is desired to have the funds ;aised bv Tuc.sday of next week, f po.ssible, when the committee rill have another meeting with the tate board of conservation. T’c lesire of the group i.s to have t’n vork started by Dec. l-a.
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Carroll Daily Herald
Carroll, Iowa, US
Sat, Nov 25, 1933
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