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Show I cJlellerS to tlte Editor is a very large amount of the citizens' money being wasted. The reason for bidding is so that the city can obtain the best possible prices and save the taxpayers money. This is required by law. By what special spe-cial priviledge is this law ignored ig-nored ? As a taxpayer, I would like to know by what right, and for what reason the City Council Coun-cil is paying such a high price for gasoline, when FIVE LOWER LOW-ER BIDS WERE SUBMITTED BY LOCAL DEALERS. As a taxpayer I have a right to know, and as fellow taxpayers tax-payers I think YOU have a right to know; and I demand from the Springville City Council Coun-cil an immediate and honest answer. Respectfully, KENT BLACKLEY. Taxpayer asks why gas bids were rejected To the Citizens of Springville: I would like to bring to your attention the matter of how our City money is being spent for gasoline for City vehicles. At the time of this writing, the City is paying 24.3 cents per gallon for Regular gasoline, gaso-line, and 28.9 cents per gallon for Ethyl gasoline. On February 4, 1961, the City received a low bid on gasoline, offering to sell it to them for 22.45 cents per gallon gal-lon for regular and 26.45 cents per gallon for Ethyl. On March 21, 1961, the City rejected all bids, and continued contin-ued to buy gasoline from Utah Service, which had the low bid in 1960 except that in, 1960 no one bid on it. The last bids before this year were called for in 1959. At this time, there are five bids offering gas for LESS than they are now paying. pay-ing. When you consider the thousands thou-sands of gallons of gasoline consumed yearly by City vehicles, ve-hicles, it is apparent that there |