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Show Town Opens Secession Move WENDOVER, UTAH-NEVADA. Reminiscent of the Civil war controversy con-troversy is the move sponsored by 2,000 residents of the Utah part of this little Bonneville salt flats town of 2.500 to secede from Utah so they can join their other 500 townsfolk towns-folk as residents of Nevada, where a man can do anything he wants well, almost anything. "Utah doesn't even seem to know we're in the state and apparently ! doesn't even care if we're in the Union," bewailed Lester Giffen, spokesman for the secessionists. Main complaint against Utah is the fact that the Beehive state's laws are too strict. "A tourist, coming from the East, stops in my place and looks for the slot machines." explained a cafe owner on the Utah side. "I have to tell him we can't have them, so he says 'to heck with I you' and drives across the border to Nevada." While this same innkeeper can ' sell only 3.2 beer, his fellow barkeepers bar-keepers across the state line have ! some of the best-stocked bars in the West. "In Nevada, if a man wants a drink, he orders one or two. then he's happy and satisfied." Giffen said. "In Utah, he has to get a permit, go to the state-owned store and buy a quart. Then he feels he has to drink the whole quart. So he doesn't show up for work the next day." Petitions will be presented to I the Utah legislature and. if approved ap-proved there, must be accepted by the Nevada legislature. Then congress con-gress will be asked to alter the Utah-Nevada boundary to include all of Westover in Nevada. |