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Show i CLAUDE'S f ommsuniA r by Claude Ortor. It looks as if we people re- ' siding on East Center Street I got sold "down the river" last Wednesday night by the Parowan Par-owan City Council and the Utah State Highway Depart- j ment. On that night, at the public hearing held to determine deter-mine whether U 113 from Parowan Par-owan Main Street, up Parowan Paro-wan Canyon, should go up Center Street (ours) or 200 South Street. After much dis-sion, dis-sion, the matter was called to a vote, which resulted in a tie at 21-all with the city council members not voting. Then they voted and 200 So. won 25 to 22. Well, that was alright, they had the right to do so, but I feel that the decision had been .decided upon before the meeting. And it doesn't matter mat-ter a great deal to me where the road goes, but we, on Center Street, have been sidetracked side-tracked on the promises made to us by the city officials. Let us go back a year or two, when agitation for Center St. was supposed to be the highway, high-way, but to get a finished street, citizens on it had to buy curb and gutter for it. The council sent a mimeo- graphed form around with the city building inspector, I giving us the estimated cost j of each one's assessment My : assessment was was $31)0; I had to pay $525. And we were made wonderful promises that if we "dug up" for the curb and gutter, the city and state would do the rest. Premise was that we would got the street oiled from curb to curb, which was done; And that a fine street lighting system would be placed on the street from Main Street up around the turn; we understand under-stand this has gone by the wayside, and will not materialize; mate-rialize; and the city would finish the curb and gutter at 1 the place if left the proper- ty line, with well rounded cor- ' ,1 I ners, to make for a more . . '. attractive street. This hasn't -been done, and the way the '. city officials talk, there are no funds to do it. But in spite of what has happened, or what may happen, hap-pen, we on east Center have the finest street in town, and it had better be kept that way. j The Brigham Young University, Uni-versity, in a report published last week in The Salt Lake Tribune, has selected Governor Gover-nor Calvin Rampton as the "outstanding public official" for 1971, in a survey made recently. They voted him to bo the outstanding administrator in the state, for his work as governor In guiding the affairs af-fairs of the state. They even went farther to pick him as the most outstanding gover-nor gover-nor Utah has ever had. He must be good if he gets the vote at BYU. A citation presented to the Governor by the University's Master of Public Administration, Administra-tion, observed that "through his personal interest, a new sense of professionalism was introduced into stae fovern-men." fovern-men." It goes on to say that Gov. 1 Rampton's real measure of mxtcss is not personal in stall sta-ll us however, but in the brne-jfit. brne-jfit. of government that his administration passed on to the people." By the way. who whs that man who filed for governor on the Republican ticket |