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Show PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HEBAXD,' TH'OIISDAY, )t)NE If, IS36 Questions and Answers On City Power Problem Editor's Note: The city powet question has become a live Issue in Provo. With a view of getting free and open discussion of all phases of the problem as well as keeping the public Informed, the editor has submitted a series of questions to Mayor Mark Anderson An-derson which he answers below. Question: Why didn't you pro ceed with a survey af promised? Answer: How did we promise to proceed? How would the critics have us proceed ? We maintain that our proceedure so far has been logical. It is very inconsistent inconsis-tent to say that we should have entered into an engineering contract con-tract with some firm to make an appraisal of the Power company's local distribution .system, and in the samt brent h say that no such appraisal was necessary because the Power Company, under the direction of the State Public Service Ser-vice Commission, wa.s making, such an appraisal. Engineers who offered to make the survey, proposed in every case to appraise the local distribution dis-tribution system, and in addition make a canvass of consumers to determine tht sentiment of the people, the K. W. H. consumption consump-tion and the light and power revenues rev-enues of the. community. Our engineering department has done everything that other engineers proposed to do with the exception of making tne appraisal. An in dependent appraisal may or may net be necessary. We can be certain that if we make the appraisal it will be "unnecessary" and if we don't make the appraisal it will be 'necessary," in the. minds of critics. Question: Why not borrow monev from the government to build a plant? , Answer: No government money is available for municipal plants. Two hundred million wa.s alloted fiom PWA and applications for seven hundred millions were received re-ceived from cities and towns. Considerable Con-siderable legal trouble has delayed de-layed and in some instances defeated de-feated the cities in their efforts to acquire plants under PWA. In our opinion it would be better if the government would remain out of the financing picture. There is plenty of private capital available avail-able tor sound municipal power projects. The matter of public ownership vs. private ownership should not be decided upon the basis of , ' i 0l llW b nnf " BtX STRAIGHT WHIiKEV 1 J Q PHVV if. CHAIH tUtAL pmiT$ FEXN-MARTLANT) DIVISION NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORP.. K. T. C partisan politics. Why should Republicans Re-publicans oppose municipal ownership own-ership in any particular instance simply because a Democratic President is making a political issue is-sue of the power question? Lets decide our case on its. own merits regardless of politics or personalities, and with no thought of getting some easy money from the government. Nothing would please private power interests more than for us to delay on the hope that cheap government money will be available. Question: Wouldn't it put a let of local people out of jobs for Provo to build a municipal power and light system? Answer: Regardless of who owns our electric systems people must be employed to operate them. The use of electricity is increasing in-creasing rapidly. There is slight danger of fewer people being employed in this important field Provo City would employ about twenty-five persons to operate a complete system. Fort Collins, with slightly less population than Provo, employs twenty-one persons per-sons in the electric -department. Their generating plant is of the latest coal-steam type. The distribution dis-tribution system was purchased from the private utility. If it becomes be-comes necessary for Provo to build" the distribution system as well as a generating plant a large number of local people will be employed during the construction period. Question: What is the principal obs.tuele to Provo' acquiring an fleet rie system? Answer: The most of the obstacles ob-stacles are now out of the way but there is always danger of defeat de-feat resulting from delay. The chief weapon of the power interests in-terests is delay. These delays are brought about thru injunctions and unnecessary elections. We as well as the bond buyers want an election but we want the results j to be conclusive. In other words, ' we want the whole question before the people at one time. If this i is not done the power people ! will very likely call for an election ; on each separate official move of the Citv Cimmission. Also they can be expected to attack the validity ofjuiny election that does ) not produce the desired results. --It took 70 years to complete the Capitol at Washington. D. C. ity Briefs 'U. S. MAP SjETTJ.ES DEBATES SEATING PROBLEM Stanley Watts of Murray, is a visitor in Provo today. Elma Miller of Logan, spent today with Provo ' friends. Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Strong (Helen Penrod) have returned from a delightful three weeks trp with stops in Phoenix, Ari, Mexico, San Diego, San Francisco and places of special interest in the northwest. They returned home by way of Yellowstone park and enroute, they visited the parks in southern Utah. Mrs. Doris Lewis Eppick of Hollywood, and ilrs. Ruth Roberts Rob-erts Boyd and baby daughter of Los Angeles, have returned to their homes, after spending three weeks here. Dr. and Mrs. Le Hoy Hafen of Denver, Colo., are the house guests cf Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Weight. They came to attend the B.Y.U. alumni activities. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eggertsen of Philadelphia, Pa., have arrived in Provo to vacation with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Eggertsen. Eg-gertsen. Miss Edna Boshard, operator at the Moutain States Telephone and Telegraph company, has been transferred to the Los Angeles plant and will leave this evening for the roast city. Soil Conservation Meetings Set Friday The son conser VfiiLoju program has now advanced far enough to effect a permanent organization, acceding to S. K. lioswell, county extension agent. Utah county will be organized on the basis of three communities: the north, the center, cen-ter, and the south. Organization meetings will be held Friday. June 12 at S p. m. as follows: American Fork city hill for Pleasant Grove P o ft M I J I L c 3 A I t3 tOiISSMs" fa nor 4 pKrrr u M Id I i -,,T . 1 flONTAMA 14 4 XIX OH VTH 14 HlAOA r tOM HQ CALt FOAHlA 14 14. 14 4 OATC f Ov t4 4 a P o L K J 1 H ? F t D C 6 A 3 43 T S OtOII IMOMO - 9 oo is i J isitssFr ts ' F to I OA T4T"tOM KHTVCKY Ik tS iJ ILL I HO I & if 2 41 Hf i i COHS IH i ti 5, ' M I SSOU l ' I li Hi IS I KMSS aJ 7 a l MtHMtZAOT . G j O M L K J I H f V c 5 4 7 J -4 74 f H It 14 S h4 Ci.iH 3 1 tf0. CKG Lit A a lT riKiniA a i I8 .si PCHH f 4 H I 0 13 I 0 IS IS Onto HO I M V A it. Af C HI H 13 P c it V H s D C 3 trm b 9 ton n is c QL4Wi. f I i ' It r 1S"T40M JlJttty '41 M wr roe: 4 14 14 M 4 4 lALJAHT 'I M4H4CMV M 77 S 4 rtfMOHT H4IMC it a C7 io v o 3CT'OM 7 3 c T i O r S C TlOr S D U f A 7 J JJ?S7Jlf SPEAKER J L Delegates who know their geography should have little trouble finding their respective stations, shown in the above chart, at the Republican Republi-can national convention in Cleveland. TcV sidestep the traditional com plaint that big delegations were grabbing choice seats, the happy plan was devised of seatipg delegations according to the location of th eir respective states on the map. Accordingly, the Atlantic seaboard states will be in a row along one side of the Public Hall auditorium, with the New England states nearest the platform. Lined up on the other side will be the Pacific Coast states, with Washington nearest the platform. Between are sandwiched the other states, with Minnesota and Michigan "up front." The new plan, as revealed above, still allots favorable spots to the big New York, Pennsylvania. Ohio, and Illinois delegations. The alternates' seating section, behind th at of the delegates, but not shown in the above chart, is arranged similarly. and all north; city and county building at Provo for Provo, Provo Bench and Springville; city hall, Spanish Fork for Spanish Fork, Mapleton, Payson, Goshen and Those who nave filed work sheets are eligible to vote. Those who have not filed a work sheet may vote by signing the membership member-ship roll at the meeting. All farmers are invited to be in attendance. at-tendance. The last day for filing work sheets is June 25. All beet growers must file. M THHIEOGI lFOIMEmniP 0 SCIENCE Y - " A ortable dog pen for the city dog lover haa just been placed on the market. It is constructed con-structed of wire, and folds conveniently con-veniently into a small space when not in use. The enclosure. composed of six wire grills Schilling Something new! An inventor, seeing the many a c cidenti caused by electric fan blades, has i hin&eU together, can be unfold- piateu a new one on me mai - ; (d and set up ,n a few unutes ket, the blades of which are of ' , . r . . ... One .section, incidentlv, serves as solt rubber. The blades are flex- . r. . ible enough to prevent injury a a e when fingers come in contact with them, yet have sufficient More than one-fifth of the total rigidness to create a strong cur- (population ol England and Wales rent of air. lives in Greater London. more ZSi more jF- LI V A it tv in " i v r sin Mus ipEiMiirisjfln fiwffiiiojf f mwh (Pi as a dealer In OTA EI 150 North University Ave. Phone 666 J politi NITED PRESS experts have national cs at their fingertips. 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