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Show UTILITY PETITION GETS REAL AIRING llcnrv H. Blood, member ol" the public ittilitioa commission of .I tah, is willing to testify that. October nights in Utah OT .COO), parttenlnrlv vvlien tho altitude is about 6000 foot. :ilovo sea level. Ho rcfurncii vcsler.lay from holding an ftl fresco hearing at. night at Bwrnaittg, some hcnltli officer having doclnrod that indoor gat.horings were taboo during dur-ing ihe inflneir.a epidemic. The hearing was on the application of 1m1 P, layman to operate as a public carrier an ant mnobi Ic that vvouhi allowed to go. aiivwherc at :mv time, and 80 far as definite schedule wont, at any rest. The mavor of the town and other prominent citizens Hesttfied as to ttie necessity of sneh a scrviee in Hlandinp, though it is not the sort of application that generally comOs within the purview of the commission. The Moah-lVlnff Transport at ion company opposed permitting opposition on its established route between Moah and Bluff by way of Klanding. The hearing was eondnctod between tho hours of 8 and 11 p. m., and then the commissioner buttoned up his overcoat over-coat and took a twenty-six-mile drive across the uplands of San Juan county to Montieello, where ho spent the night or that part of it remaining after S a. m. Tho hearing on tho application, of IVWitt Brothers Candy company to operate a motor freight service between towns in the I'intah basin and tho Kio Grande railroa,d has been postponed jintil 10 a. m. next Friday, November i 1 . The application of t he Johnson Transport at ion company for ;1 similar service has boon dismissed on its own I mot ion. |