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County. The salaries listed in the commission minutes in 1957 provide insight into the positions. County commissioners Cecil C. Pugh, Burton Banks, and Clark F. Swapp received $2,000 annually for their part-time duties, the county assessor was paid $3,000, the county attorney, $1,800, the full-time county sheriff earned $12,000, the county recorder and the county clerk each received $4,000. Issues faced by county commissioners were usually local in their nature—weed control, supervision of the tourist visitor's center in Kanab, animal control, disposal of waste, and increasing c r i m e — although the latter was generally of a m i n o r nature. In 1958, for example, law enforcement officers and school, church, and community leaders held a series of meetings throughout the county to discuss increased crimes among young people and others, as well as the general observance of the law. According to the newspaper: "Heading the list of problems are at least two places of business which are not governing their establishments in controlling juveniles in smoking in public and not observing the curfew hour."49 In June 1959 an inquiry into complaints of illegal sale of liquor, gambling, prostitution, and the failure of public officials to enforce the law was begun at the Kane County Courthouse. In 1958 a Salt Lake City corporation, Tourists Enterprises, announced a $800,000 investment in a development and in regional bus tours. The facility was planned to include a dude ranch, motel, nine-hole golf course and club house, tennis courts, cafe, photo shop, and sound stages for movie companies. President S. Wayne Clark said the company planned to capitalize on the tourist boom as well as the continuing interest in the area as a scene for motion pictures. The 393 acres of land purchased for the development was located on Johnson Road.50 Tourists Enterprises hired the Hogan and Tingey construction company of Centerville to construct its motel. By February 1960, however, the ambitious project had been reevaluated and p u t on hold.
Agriculture The Bureau of the Census report for 1945 categorized farming in the county. Of a total of 155 farms, one produced a specialty crop, fifteen others harvested a variety of crops for sale, nineteen were dairy
