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Show GOP Count Commissioners Ignore Demo, Take Top Posts ' JsA 1 cratic Party will not stand for .this. Sixty-three thousand people peo-ple strongly expressed a choice in November. The people are entitled en-titled to have Mr. Larson perform per-form more than minor sewer functions and supervise a dilapidated dilapi-dated detention home for children. chil-dren. Commissioner Larson did not vote on the assignments but otherwise did not protest the action ac-tion during the commission meeting. meet-ing. In addition to his two "major" duties the new commissioner was appointed a member of the County Coun-ty Library Board, the Planning and Zoning Commission, the So. Salt Lake Mosquito Abatement District and the Magna Sewer District. W. G. LARSON County Commissioner Salt Lake County Commission in its first meeting of the year gave all the best and mos$ important im-portant assignments to the two Republican members and the leftovers to new four-year Commissioner Com-missioner W. G. (Bill) Larson, the commission's only Democrat. Commissioner Larson found that he would be acting mainly in an advisory role. Republican Commission Chairman Chair-man Lamont B. Gundersen took the patronage heavy department of roads and bridges and garbage I collection and will serve as a member of the Recreation Board. Republican member Edwin Q. 1 Cannon will direct the large I health and charity department, which includes Salt Lake General Gen-eral hospital. His domain also includes building and grounds, 4 garage, property tax, licensing M and purchasing departments. Commissioner Larson was voted vot-ed head of the finance printing - and detention home departments. In this capacity he will oversee only five full time county employees em-ployees including his secretary. Funds to employ a secretary will come from another department. The action did not go unprotested. unpro-tested. Warwick C. Lamoreaux, an attorney long active in the Demo-cratic Demo-cratic Party, asked the commis-sion commis-sion to reconsider its action. He later declared that "The Demo- - |
