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Show UTAH HAS NEW POWER DISPUTE Municipal power plant advocate of southern Utah Tuesday were engaged in a new controversy with ths state public service commission. Seven hundred residents of a number of southern Utah towns In the Panguitch area, who organized an R E A cooperative to produce and sell themselves power, are defying defy-ing an order from the state commission com-mission requiring them to obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity. Ths commission has served notice no-tice on the cooperative, which ia organised under the name of the Garkane Power Company, Inc, thai unless ths certificate ia obtained the commission will seek an injunction in-junction in the stats courts to prevent pre-vent ths company from erecting generating plants and power lines. Contending that the cooperative is not a public utility, and therefore there-fore not subject to state regulation, the Garkane company Tuesday notified no-tified Ward C. Holbrook, the commission com-mission chairman, that it would not submit to ths commission's jurisdiction. |