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Show f TO SELL g? 'EM, TELL ii 4 Willi An Ail Fuller & Sullivan Bros. LEEDS, UTAII Will Buv LIVESTOCK Telephone Leeds No. 4 Andrus-Hafen Co. Abstracts-Real Estate General Insurance rentals. Surety Bonds M North Main Street A FINE GIFT FOR fW-fy SOME r(J ONE .'.-A H"nCRIPTION 7 To THIS .EWp,lER Turning the Light on The Western Searchlight Following the carefully staged exchange of letters between Mayors Watson and Anderson, the second outside effort to influence St. George voters was made last week-end. St. George was flooded with copies of a Salt Lake sheet that few local persons knew existed. Following the Hitlerian technique of covering up their own flood of propaganda by accusing their opponents of these same acts, the backers of the 'Bletzacker Deal made untrue and extravagant claims against our Company. Knowing that no adequate and unbiased engineering survey had been made and that the Burton contract provided for excessive interest charges, an attempt was made to becloud these facts. An outsider was secured to "warn" St. George voters against "attacks" on the engineer and bonding company. Like Hitler atrocity stories, this propaganda was transparent and fooled few St. George voters. Is it not a fair question to ask who was responsible for this issue of the Searchlight? We feel sure that the local sponsors of the Bletzacker Bletz-acker plant and City Officials were not responsible. There were statements state-ments in this handout that these men know to be untrue. Also if they had issued any statement, they would have had the courage and fairness fair-ness to sign their names to the articles. If St. George citizens did not pay for this sheet, who did? What outside promoters stand to make thousands of dollars if the Bletzacker-Bond Bletzacker-Bond House ordinance is approved on May 6? Is it not a reasonable assumption that these promoters were responsible for this misleading propaganda? Ordinarily, unsigned articles do not merit an answer. Obviously we can not answer eight pages of untruths and half-truths in one advertisement. ad-vertisement. But we have nothing to conceal and want St. George citizens citi-zens to know all the facts. We have offered to open our books to the City and welcome bona fide requests from any source. Those $21,000 Dividends During the past ten years the Company has paid out-of-state stockholders an average of $16,401.86 a year in dividends. These dividends came from all Company operations and not only from St. George, whose portion would be $3,955.87. These stockholders own $1,012,700.00 of stock for which they paid full value in cash. They have been paid an average of $1.57 per year in dividends divi-dends on each $100 share of stock. During this same period local stockholders have received an average of $2.61 per share each year. This proves that local stockholders have been treated fairly. AH stockholders have received a smaller dividend rate than the interest rate provided in the Bletzacker deal. These stockholders believe in Southern Utah and its people. They have treated St. George citizens fairly by improving service and lowering rates. They also believe that St. George citizens will treat them fairly on May G. That Outside Board of Directors It would be easy for promoters living in Murray and Salt Lake City to check Public Service Commission records rec-ords if they wanted to know the truth. These records PROVE that the MAJORITY of Southern Utah Power Company directors always have lived in Southern Utah. You know these men and therefore will not believe insinuations insin-uations from biased outsiders with huge fees at stake! We are proud of this fine Board of Directors: Lehl W. Jones, Joseph J. Milne, John S. Woodbury, Claude Hirschi, Reid II. Gardner, Loren A. Whetten and Max R. Llewellyn, j THEY ALL LIVE IN SOUTHERN UTAII. Does the ! writer of the articles in the Western Searchlight live in Southern Utah? Southern Utah Power Company i |