Show Dealers Get Together To End Short-Lived Short Gas War A A half day gasoline price was called off and an n association association association as as- of Retail Petroleum Dealers was formed at an emergency emergency emer omer gency meeting of Moab service station operators held Sunday morning The gasoline war developed Saturday morning with several station operators in town posting a price of cents for regular and cents for ethyl a drop of Rr from the regular i p rites Reason for the short-lived short gas war according to reports was being being being be be- to counter-act counter price-cutting price ing used by some dealers in Moab being used as a method of obtaining new cus cus- Those dealers who were opposed to price-cutting price methods methods methods me me- decided on Saturdays Saturday's action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion after learning that a bid of cents per gallon had been quoted in a a bid to Moab City This being the low bid of those offered the city council had ac ac- ac- ac The 29 3 bid was less than the cost of gasoline to some dealers in Moab some reports indicated A meeting of all aU dealers was called celled Sunday forenoon ing all those who had made bids to the City At the meeting operating operating operating op op- op- op policies were agreed to with unwarranted price cutting to be discontinued The group agreed to ask that all bids made to the City be rescinded and that the City Council be asked to divide their purchases among all the dealers in Moab As a means of maintaining unification unification unification uni uni- among the dealers a 7 man governing committee for the new dealers' dealers association was named Curt Robertson of Robertson Robertson Robertson Ro Ro- bertson Brothers was named president with J. J W. W Holland Hollands Holland's Mobile Service vice president Jack Sanders Sanders Texaco Service secretary and treasurer Committeemen include Bill White Moab Phillips 66 Service Alvin Moses Als Al's Service Fred Pyramid Service and L. L B B. B Barefoot Tex Beeline Service While service station operators operators operators oper oper- in the more populated ted areas of Utah have gone through one gasoline price war after another this is the first price war of any ariy consequence that has come to Moab L |