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Show MAYOR THOMPSON DENIES STATEMENT MADE BY NEWS In reply to an editorial published In the Dese ret News, Msyor Ezra Thompson last evening made the following reply: "I see that the Deseret News savs editorially tonight that at the conduit celebration cel-ebration last Saturday I Introduced ex-Mayor ex-Mayor Morris as the man who hwd n"i i the building of the conduit possible. There is not me fnghtesi truth in i.ie 'statement. I did not introduce Mayor Morris at all. nor did I mention bis name in what I said. I merely congratulated the present and former administrations I on securing a water supply adequate for a population of 150,000. "I make this statement because I do rot want it said In the campaign next fall that I permitted such a falsehood to go unchallenged at the time It was uttered.-' |