Show CANDIDATE HITS POWER PLANT 1 Tells Round Table Proposal Cannot Cut Rates as Promised To meet meal at fixed annual annual an an- nual bond and operating charge the proposed municipal power plant plan would have to serve 80 per cent o of Salt Lake consumption is impossible im possible J. J Melrose Miller candidate for city commissioner told Knights o of the Round Table at the chamber of commerce Tuesday The speaker contended that the plant could not reduce rates as promised prom prom- 1500 by its sponsors and pay for itself itself itself it it- self and that the borrowing o of 18 for or the project would prove proven an n unbearable burden for tor the taxpayers taxpayers tax tax- payers and threaten the financial Integrity integrity in In- of the city The present plans are offered without without with with- without out a proper survey of facts he asserted as as- I object to plunging the city into the electric light an and power business bustness busi bust ness until a sound and scientific survey sur sur- vey has been made to determine the economic consequences He also claimed the plant would create a political machine which would run the danger of furthering selfish interests of public servants Other speakers were City Auditor Continued on Pace Pue Seventeen CANDIDATE HITS POWER POWER PLANT PLANT Continued from rue rase Thirteen Samuel F. F Nicholls and Elmer Johnson John John- son son S Opponents' Opponents arguments to form a alart apart l part lart of the thc publicity pamphlet cir circulated circulated cir cir- by the city on peoples' peoples ordinance mince nance No 1 proposing a municipal power plant were filed lIed with willi City Rc Recorder order Ethel Macdonald Tuesday Proponents' Proponents arguments were filed several sev eral days ago One part of the argument was as prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared by the citizens' citizens committee headed by Raymond J. J Ashton architect archi archi- teat and Shirley P. P Jo Jones attorney The other was prepared by the Utah Power and Light company Both Submit submit submit sub sub- mit statistics indicating Salt Lakes Lake's per capita tax now lower per aver aver- age family of ot four than corr corresponding correspond correspond- pond ing lag taxes in cities having municipal power plants will be increased if the ordinance is adopted The issue was S given Sen en a touch of humor Tuesday when a group of citizens citizens citi citi- zens headed b by William Edwards president of the tho W Western tern He Heating ting and Steel Metal Works filed a petition uI urging a municipal cow We should have a municipal cow everybody uses sos milk the city should be compelled to furnish it at lowest cost the freak petition said The matter of financing is not serious we know a fellow who lives out of town who will sell us w a cow and he will take his pa pay from the cow of course he wants control of ot the cow until paid for |