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Show It seems one has to be a political po-litical animal nowadays to pal around with Attorney George Stewart. Monday at council meeting Councilman B e n n i e Schmiett, who is also county chairman of the Democratic party, and Attorney Stewart, a staunch Republican, mind you, took turns baiting each other on a friendly basis, of course. As an independent with Democratic Dem-ocratic leanings and its always a lot of fun to oppose the attorney at-torney in a light discussion (the last one was on the unquestioned unques-tioned merit of General Robert E. Lee's generalship) I natural ly sided witn tsennie. ine discussion dis-cussion went hot and heavy, all taking the numerous opportunities opportun-ities to get in a few solid cracks between city issues. At the time I felt it unfair and even dangerous for both of us to gang up on such a formidable for-midable opponent as Attorney Stewart. Wednesday I had positive pos-itive evidence of the fact. I went into his office then to get some i n f o r m a t r o n for this week's edition. And lo and behold! be-hold! In addition to Mr. Stewart, Stew-art, there was also that other GOP stalwart, Ken Aycock, both ready for battle. The fur really few for about three-quarters of an hour. Needless Need-less to say, the discussion was as much deadlocked in the end as it was in the beginning. But it is always a lot of fun to sit back and relax and listen to the stimulating conversation of Attorney At-torney Stewart and Ml'. Ay-cock. Ay-cock. It's an occupation for a real gentleman, I've had compalnts this week of two mistakes made In last week's paper, Judge John Baumgaertel was in here to inform me that he did not set the bond for Howard Richards, Bountiful, who posted $10 bond for a game violation and then didn't show up in court. The Judge says that if he had set that bond, it would have been at least as high as the expected fine. And Horace Allred said I erred in quoting him as saying, in the city council story of last week, that the metropolitan water wa-ter system would get underway under-way in about 15 years. In the first instance I am guiltless. I got the information from two sources, one of which was a news dispatch from Duchesne. Du-chesne. In the second instance, my memory did indeed err. Reading correctly, the story should have stated that the metropolitan system might be "completed" in "ten" years, as an optimistic guess. I hope by this correction that Horace is completely exonerated from the charge of being anything but whole-heartedly in favor of the metropolitan system. |