Show Letter L To The Editor A The Editor Manti Messenger and Ephraim Enterprise With grazing cuts drouth water storage Sanpete County had troubles enough but now we have received a blow that can bring about our complete ruin This is an order by the US U.S. Supreme Court directing that representation in state leg legislatures be on a population basis reapportionment Under this ruling Sanpete would lose its senator and have to share one with Emery Wayne Piute Kane Beaver and almost all of Juab The number of senators in Salt Lake County would be increased from 7 to 12 We shall therefore therefore therefore there there- fore be completely controlled by Salt Lake and Davis Counties about three per cent of the states state's area Notwithstanding that we are already carrying a backbreaking break back ing load of taxes these counties could increase our tax load on a land area land value basis They could control the destiny of of Snow College We are hopeful that Snow might become a year four-year school thus saving us the expense of sending our children away and adding to the prestige of our area But these counties could prevent this or event REMOVE the College to toa toa toa a new location Both Democrats and Republicans have devoted unselfish service and material means to Snow College Is this to be lost by arbitrary decisions from two state up-state counties Having lost our own legislative protective power they could harass ou industries until these might have to leave Where then are the jobs we so desperately need What new industry is going to come in when our County is a helpless victim in the hands of the making law city big-city counties city big-city bosses The power to rule is the power to ruin Too much power has always meant abuse of that power This is our homeland We Ve love it Shall we be forced to leave the land of our fathers like homeless European refugees leaving p stricken poverty ghost towns behind us Senator Frank E E. Moss is in favor of the Supreme Courts Court's ruling There can be no doubt about this It is a matter of public record Now he favors an amendment An amendment can be just as bad as the original Court ruling What we must have is a congress that will override the ruling of the Court We Ve want to keep our representative as it is the way the Founding Fathers designed it under the constitution Ernest L. L Wilkinson is committed to fight for this if elected For our own sake and the sake of our children and our future both Democrats and Republicans MUST VOTE FOR WILKINSON This isn't politics This is bread and butter This is SURVIVAL COMMITTEE TO SAVE SANPETE LA MONT BLACKHAM CLIFFORD BLACKHAM GOLDEN CARLSTON SCOTT COOK RULON P. P r HAZEL WHITE IWHITE Y GRACE JOHNSON f ONEIL O'NEIL LARSEN I E JACKSON I Paid political advertisement |