Show city council approves ordinances for two natural gas gag franchises ordinances granting franchise franchises to greeley gas company and loran L laughlin to op operate e r ate natural gas distribution systems in vernal city were read for the third time and approved by the vernal city council wednesday evening the two ordinances which are very similar give whichever of the two men who received approval from the utah public service commission the right to construct install and maintain and operate a gas transmission and distribution system in the city the utah public service commission now has under advisement applications from both greeley gas co a colorado utility and loran lotan L laughlin of goodland kansas protesting the two applications are uintah basin natural gas company which filed an application to serve the vernal area in 1951 but has not yet asked the commission for a hearing and a group of vernal citizens sponsoring an initiative ballot question on a municipal gas system |