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Show . . , i Ruminatiri $ Roundabout In which Ruminator proposes to dream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bouquets bou-quets while their objectives are still above the sod to enjoy them, and fire a hot-shot now and then while said Ruminat or can enjoy seeing the sparks fly. The Beaver county board of commissioners are to be congratulated congratu-lated for their action Wednesday in turning thumbs down on the county hospital project not by any means as a hospital but only 98 an all-county tax burden wK:?l' can ill be assumed at this time. They would have been derelict in their duties as guardians of the interests of the taxpayers of the entire county had they permitted themselves to be stampeded into burdening the county with this $16,000.00 to $45,000.00 of addi tional taxes necessary over a five-year five-year period without a vote of the taxpayers on the question of a bond issue or additional levy. Petitions are not sufficient in such a serious seri-ous matter even were they signed by all the taxpayers which most r certainly has not been the case in this instance with "about 280 names" on the list, "nearly all, it not all, presumed to be taxpayers." taxpay-ers." And only 17 from Milford! Right here is as good a place as any to reiterate the feeling among Milford people that they are not in any way opposed , to Beaver having a private or municipal muni-cipal hospital. For several years Milford has had a very fine private pri-vate hospital of which they have had just reason to be proud and which they have patronized consistently. con-sistently. And Milford would be the , first to heartily commend Beaver town or some enterprising enter-prising individual, if and when they shall bring these same advantages to the peo-1 peo-1 pie at the county se&t. All Milford objects to is the plan to do this at the expense of the whole county! Wednesday's public! hearing I , brought out some very good arguments ar-guments for and against the Jiospital proposition, together with voluminous but pitifully conflict- ing statistics. With a single ex ception, all of the talks were dispassionate dis-passionate and pretty well to the A point, and the writer feels that a lot of good was accomplished in thus meeting together to talk things over. We, too, should be derelict in our duty did we not at this time commend County Commissioner Frank Piyor of Minersville, who stood his ground with Commissioner Commission-er Hubbell of Milford against saddling this new tax burden on the county. With this solid and sensible stand, Mr. Pryor adds to his growing reputation as one of the all too few strong characters in southern Utah official life! And may we, here and now, make a bit of an apology to Mr. Pryor and to Minersville people T When the results of the general election 16 months ago were announced, an-nounced, the writer and many others stood flabbergasted when Minersville voters were shown to have forsaken Frank M. Williams, veteran and supposedly popular county commissioner candidate, in favor of Mr. Pryor, comparatively young and untried in public office! of-fice! j Had Mr. Williams but ran even with the least known of his fellow candidates on the state ticket in the Minersville precinct he would have won out in the county, but the people of that town were, apparently, ap-parently, doing some deep thinking think-ing for themselves about that time and the result was a mere three votes plurality for Williams, Re- ' publican veteran, over Pryor, Democrat, in the home precinct of each which went Republican by a vote of 210 to 121 on the head of the ticket! To be honest, the writer was one of those who voted for Mr. Williams and, increasingly in-creasingly from month to month since that time, he has felt that he richly deserved to be kicked where it would do the most good probably in the head! In view of succeeding events, Minersville voters are now seen to have been a great big jump ahead of many of the other voters of the (Continued on last page) Ruminatin (Continued from page ) county in relegating Mr. Williams to private life. If there should have been any doubt of the wisdom of the Minersville voters in accomplishing this humanitarian humani-tarian act, all and sundry should have been in attendance at the meeting Wednesday. There Mr. Pryor was to be seen, quietly but forcefully and efficiently filling the role of commissioner While Mr. Ex-Commissioner Williams made quite a different dif-ferent impression. Seeming to forget entirely the bounteous benefits they reap, compared com-pared with the infinitesimal revenue rev-enue they contribute, certain prominent Beaver citizens came out plain, following the county hospital hearing Wednesday, and said that what they really aimed to get at was the Union Pacific railroad rail-road and the Telluride Power company! com-pany! Others thought Milford was just awful, laying claim to the Union Pacific, only a small part of which goes toward making Mil-ford's Mil-ford's valuation within the town limits amount to $810,528.00 while Beaver's valuation is only $438,-888.00! $438,-888.00! No wonder they want us to help build their hospital even though we have a splendid one of our own! But, apropos of nothing in particular, with Beaver loudly boasting its population, why shouldn't we boast our valuation! valua-tion! o- |