Show LIGHT RATES EXCITE LOGAN I Must Install Meters and andI I Pay Bonded Debt Mayor Insists LOGA LoGAN March 18 13 Following Follo 1 the to the tho city com coat com missiOn last iTt week of ot tad t petitions urging that light heal beat and power for tor the tho lh municipal electric plant ant should not l be e raised Maser John A Crockett Monday Issued n IL statement defining hI his position and that ot of tho city commission In the th controversy The city offIcIals took look 1 the tho matter of 01 o power rates before beloro tho public utilities urging that the th commissIon lon order ord both the th municipal plant and the tho t tah Power 10 1 Light compOn compan which also alio has hag a distrIbuting plant In Logan to Bell ll electric energy oner y for tor torpo po pen cr or purposes purpose at such auch prices as the tho commission after a shall find to ply the tho cot cost ot of prod production This action was objected to In I a wIdely signed ned petition the tho Ion It week stock and In Ina Ina Ina a petition presented by former William l- l lam am In which It Is alleged lIo that ft IL na ae mado b by tho that rato would not ho bo b raised at atthe the tho time tim the th nw now electriC light plant bond bondi ere er toted at n a election Tho The mayors mayor's mayor state ment ment In part tollo s LiSI INSISTS TS ON My Iy positIon and that of the tho present city Is 1 the tho th same me meu u as when the hondo bond nero ero voted We Vo promised the oters that the tho th rate hM would not bo ho li III In of that charged by our competitor I this his la is tho the promise made not not- notwithstanding not notwithstanding withstanding an statements to the tho th contrary My position petition on th the tho tight light plant and Its Ito lt problems remain rema-lm toe tn same amo In public private vate to I and the tha th press prees pre I hs ha hao o 0 stood for tor forthe forthe the meter as a the tho only basis upon the tho ph plant nt can be bo mado to topa pa pay Tho The directors ot of o tho the cham cham- chamber her ber of recommended the tho meter ashen the tho th cw now llant i I nt should ho completed l The enemies ot of o the th plant desIre delro the tho flat Oat 10 rete rut te to maintain hy hy SImply that they may bido theIr timo and through high hl h taxation necessary ary to ste opel-ste tho the plant pl and retire the bonds bonda the tho people will bo- bo be bo come discouraged dl ed and dispose or of orthe othe the plant It Jt tho the flat rate that ono one obtains In Logan Loran Is a sound busi ss no flees s proposItion ushy hy does our competitor operate or a meter metor ba ha basis sis ever even where else cle el e PIT Y COSTS The Th cost co t of ot production ot of o any article be It electric current or a asuit a suit of or clothes must be met Wo We must pay oft off the bonds the In- In Interest Interest l In-l terest rc t on the th time state me maintain the tho plant and It Its distribution stem s Will the citizen ens allow the Same to be paid through their taxes at ata ata ata a much hl hitter er rate or shall hall liall sue n e that p opio ople who use u tho the prod prod- product product of 01 o the tho plant pa pay a fair toll rot rate Mayor Crockett also alo Indicated that a minimum chirgo would ho be allowed tor lor tho tle porch and nd that an ordinance would be bo enact enact- enacted ed cit e l compelling evor every very d oiling to maintaIn fc a light to the tho end that the city might not bo ho left lett l t In dark dark ns ness nus upon the tho chango to the meter ter system 00 |