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Show County Dismisses Worker In Tax Adjustment Office Commissioners Fail to Give Reason for Ouster C. H. Carlqulst, an employs of ths tax adjustment bureau of Salt Lake county for ths past two years, Tuesday had been summarily "dismissed "dis-missed for cause" by tha county commission. Commissioners voted unanimously unanimous-ly to accept the dismissal recommendation. recom-mendation. , But which commissioner commis-sioner made the recommendation could not be learned immediately. The formal entry In the board minutes read: - "Recommendation fas duly made that ths board of county commissioners commis-sioners dismiss for causs C H. Carlqulst, smployed In the county tax department, effective as of September Sep-tember 30, 1937, and that a time check be lasued in Mr. Carlqulst s favor to compensate him for two weeks' vacation period for the year v'-J .1 1M ass almrf i r & ( BwSBala -an ' - C H. CARLQ11ST . He was "dismissed for cause" slon who could be contacted were reticent to discuss the mstter. "There hss been no particular trouble." said Commissioner Anderson. Ander-son. 1 "Ths commission has endeavored en-deavored to define a policy for handling han-dling tax adjustment cases and Mr. Carlqulst demonstrated to my sat- (ConUnuao on Pasa Twalval (Column Pour) 1937 upon which roll was called, the vote being: Commissioner J. R. Rawlins 'aye.' Commissioner J. B. Mulllns 'aye'' and Commissioner Welter H. Anderson 'ays.' " Following the usual custom of reading the minutes at the next ensuing board meeting, at which time they are approved or corrected cor-rected and signed by ths chairman, ths minute entry had hot been finally approved Tuesday.- Ths nsxt board meeting la not until Wednesday Wednes-day at 10 a. m. Asked concerning the situation, Mr. Carlqulst said: "My resignation was prepared and ready for submission to the board upon approval of Oscar W. Gray, head of the tax adiustment bureau. In the absence of hia approval, ap-proval, it had not bee a submitted. I have done nothing I regard as dishonorable or disloyal to merit the action taken by the county commission. com-mission. Members of ths county commis- .V COUNTY OUSTS TAXJFFICIAL ( Coat laued fro Psse One lafactlon that ha waa unable to adhere ad-here to that policy. Therefore, It appeared there waa nothing to do but dlamlaa him." Commtaaloner Rawlins, chairman of tha board, declared Mr. Carlqulat had failed to a'ubmlt hie resignation whan It had been requeued by the board. He "declined to dlacuaa-detail! Of tha Incident or underlying cauaea which led up to Mr. Carlqulst's dis-mlaaal. dis-mlaaal. "Mr. Carlqulat waa aakad a week ago to aubmit hia resignation." aald Commisaloner Rawllna "When It waa not forthcoming the board derided de-rided to Uke the action which It did" Htrlfe Dodging fWn Oheervera aaw In tha county com-mlaatonera' com-mlaatonera' rafuaal to dlacuaa the affair an attempt to avoid Demo-cratio Demo-cratio party atrife. They called attention at-tention ta the fact that Mr. Carlqulat Carl-qulat la praaident of tha Bagebruah Democratic club and a diligent worker among certain claaaea of tha party. Mr. Carlqulat. formerly a success-ful success-ful real aetata operator, told The Telegram he had taken advantage of knowledge gained through a newapaper advertisement to acquire through a third party certain Draper real aetata of which ha claimed once to ba buying under contract. The discharged tax adjuatar realties re-alties at Draper. "I did nothing but what any private pri-vate eltlien could have done." declared de-clared Mr. Carlqulat. "I had no part In appraising the property Involved In-volved and waa not the beneficiary of any special knowledge which came to me because of my official connection with the county." Commisaloner Rawllna hinted vaguely of a lawault arising out of the tranaactlon. "But Salt Lake county will not auffar or be Involved In the lawault, law-ault, I am informed by attorneys," aald tha commissioner. |
