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Show Utah agencies opposes I Airwest termination of service to Cedar City , Attorney General Vernon B. Romney, announced yesterday that he has filed papers with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington opposing any action by Hugh's Airwest to terminate - air service to Cedar City. The papers which were prepared by Assistant Attorney General, David L. Wilkinson, Council for the Utah Agencies, argued that Airwest's application ap-plication for permission from the C.A.B. to suspend service to Cedar City should be denied summerily, or at the very least, a hearing should be held at which witnesses could testify before final action is taken by the CAB. If the hearing were ordered by the CAB, Airwest's application would not be ruled on for at least a year. Meanwhile, Airwest must continue to serve. Cedar City. In the reply opposing Airwest, Wilkinson argued that "Airwest is the Architect of its own failure to run a profitable operation at Cedar City', in that it has reduced the number of its flights less than one-third of the 1969 level. Based on actual air traffic counted from 1962-1969 in Cedar City, continued service at the , 1969 level could have boosted ' total annual enplanement to i nearly 17,000 compared with 2338 enplanements achieved last year under poor service conditions. Wilkinson further noted that I Airwest has already succeeded , in suspending service to 23 other ' cities in the last few years and j asserted that if Airwest is successful suc-cessful in abandoning Cedar City, "A new level would be , reached in terms of community isolation." All of the other 23 j stations were substantially closer than Cedar City to another air terminal on the transnational air network. In addition to the Attorney General's reply, papers opposing the move to suspend were filed by Cedar City Corporation and the town of Page, Arizona (Airwest was seeking permission in the same application to suspend at Page). |