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Show Letters Editor: My recommendations to the people and the Federation board is to continue holding together and be undeviating in our goal of unitedly negotiating with CPN, and CPN only, for their entire electric system in Southern Utah. If UP&L were allowed to purchase the CPN system and then deal individually in-dividually with each community for their own electric system, the following would happen: One: They would negotiate with each community until the negotiators are worn down, discouraged, fragmented and defeated. It took Attorney George Fadel six months to get the In-termountain In-termountain Power Project contracts signed with UP&L and then only under orders from the governor and UP&L is 25 percent of the project! Two: The smaller communities would have to contract back with UP&L lor system maintenance. It's easy to see, with UP&L setting maintenance rates, how they would slowly break each little system, with the community eventually having to sell back to UP&L. UP&L tried to do this to Nephi. Nephi was large enough to kick UP&L out and set up their own maintenance for their municipal system. The Power Federation, with elected power representatives, will administer the CPN inventory, through an experienced ex-perienced manager, to provide wholesale co-operative maintenance to alljittle communities who will need and desire Three: Overriding all, the people voted before against CPN, and having now voted against UP&L. UP&L cannot compete with a municipal ' electric system. Nevertheless, you are witnessing a money-hungry monopoly ignoring the vote of the people, forcing their way into your pockets, when experts Jn engineering, legal, and financial matters say it is not in your best interest. UP&L ,. is still receiving encouragement en-couragement from a number of prominate . civic leaders and CPN stockholders, individuals who supposedly sup-posedly are the economic and financial promoters of the community. They have never learned a fundamental law of economics, that the best evidence of value is demand. UP&L is demanding the CPN electric system. Do you think UP&L knows value? If Ui?&L ignores the vote; the chance lor wholesale power from UP&L, low ! cost power from the Colorado River dams, ability to charge UP&L to wheel their power through your system, being able to "mark up" each kilowatt of power for your community as the millions of kilowatts move through your system going to develop coal, geothermal, MX, etc. . . will all be lost forever. You have been yoked with CPN because good people did nothing after the vote against CPN. Where is the Cedar Chamber of Commerce now? Where is the Cedar Rotary Club now? The people need you! UP&L is betting that, you'll again be indifferent and tire, not being smart enough to distinquish between what UP&L says is value. ... and the gold resident in your own electric system. With your continued support, letters to the Public Service Commission, Governor and newspapers, we're betting against them. This time the people are going to win. Carl L. Palmer |