Show HUNTSVILLE UNCERTAIN oi OF ITS liS LEGAL LECAL STATUS When hen Is a city not a city The Tho age of Ann the tho North Pole controversy or the accurate length ot of the tall tail or of comet are arc more moret t I commonplace problems compared I with the question which I confronts the residents of yme just at this time Wants to A month ago a majority of the tax taxpayers taxpayers payers of the little city concluded that the honor of living In a municipalitY with a mayor or city council and other dignitaries necessary to take care caro of Jf the civic machinery did not balance up with the tho onerous burden of tax taxation nUon which became to 10 maintain a city government Accord a petition was presented to the district court asking permission to vote on the matter of the city at the tho recent election Judge Howell issued nn an order In the tho city recorder ot of Hunts vms to prepare reparo the tho yoUng machino In such a manner as to enable the yot Vot Voters ers to express themselves on the tho mat matter mattar tar ter hy by voUn voting yes or no When the tho vote was counted on the night of the election the judges found that 33 yates votes had been recorded In I favor of and 23 votes I had been registered on the negative i isIde sIde of the tho question notwithstanding the fact that tho entire vote cast to 73 13 Eleven votes had to be dl dis I C ll because the they r were verc found to tobe hC be recorded In blank The other sIx Votes could not bo be accounted for The I jUdges that the machine had Leon whon the tho polls opener opened i In such a manner mannor that hat It was I to I leave a 0 the tho voting booth hooth a ot oto on the tho question had he been en cc 10 corded hilt in this tIt they 0 erred Results Undecided I The Tho knotted problem which now I II I Confronts ts the tho of Huntsville is oi 01 not the they are 11 under municipal laws or arc ao governed 1 r the count county officials In the same man I ncr nur a other settlements or of the state 1 I Which are not Hot Incorporated The of the state requires that a I of the total vote voto ca cast t at a l be In favor of j b before fore such tich an no ao I Ilion lion can be declared decalo legal As 33 i ot 8 lack considerable or of being a I I majority of th the total vote It now looks that will be a city until another election Is hold held I Th The city council held n a moc meeting Un and by br a vote yoto of 3 to 2 decided to pass the problem of their existence to the tho district court to decide Until such sucha n a decision Is rendered A J Andorson the tho recently mayor and the tho theother other city officials will not know tho thoy are arc officials ot 01 Just ate vate citizens |