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Show RIVFS FART1? ill ' OiffLy I flu lii ml Commissioner Ward Tells of j Success of Municipal Estab- I lishment at Lincoln j Figures and facts obtained by J. Kay Ward, commissioner of public safety, in a survey of the municipal electric! liehtinc: nlant at TJnnoln. Knlir.. rliirlnrr E his recent trip east, he thinks may have! the effect of speeding1 up the plans for; the installation of such a plant in Og-dcn. Og-dcn. The findings o the survey, which; were satisfactory even beyond expectations, expecta-tions, were turned over today to May-, or Frank Francis by Mr. Ward. j As a result of the installation of the municipal plant, tho electric consumers I of Lincoln are getting electricity and I lights at a cost of from five cents a j kilowatt hour to two cents, according to the amount of power they consume.! (This, is in spite of the fact that every ounce of water used in the plant has I to bo pumped from a well, and steam Is used for power to generate the "juice," Mr. Ward said. Plant Makes Money. Even when compelled to use steam as power, the plant is making money, and Lincoln residents are getting their light and power fifty per cent cheaper than previously, when a power company com-pany furnished the electricity, according accord-ing to Mr. Ward.. Mr. Ward was enthusiastic over the result of his findings and declared that Ogden, with water power immediately immed-iately available, should have a municipal munici-pal plant. He predicted that Ogden could supply consumers even at cheaper cheap-er rates than Lincoln, owing to the water wa-ter power available. He said that such a plant here has been proposed and is stlil being considered, but that a bond election would" be necessary for Its construction. It is believed that action either for the Installation of a plant hero or for the abandonment of plans will come soon. Mr. Ward this morning told of the Important matters which came before the International convention of police chiefs in Detroit, and) said that through attending much beneficial Information regarding the direction of police departments de-partments had been derived. Talk of Police Pay. One subject which was particularly prominent in the discussion, he said, was the matter of pay of police officers. of-ficers. Air. Ward was asked to speak before twenty police chiefs of cities between population of 25,000 and 50,-000, 50,-000, and outline tho results of the pay increase in the Ogden department. He told them that, with the beginning of his administration, the pay of Ogden Og-den police officers had been raised ten ner cent and thnt hv rt ii revenue of tho city had Jumped materially. ma-terially. Figures wore read by Mr. Ward at the convention showing that last year, before the Increase of pay for officers, the fines and forfeitures in the citv court amounted to $14,000. During the first five months of this year the revenues reve-nues had already reached $11,-159, and the increase is believed duo to the I additional activities of the officers, following fol-lowing their increase in pav. Mr. Ward explained the immense value which could be derived through paying officers a living wago and a wage on a par with workmen in other lines of employment. Ills talk went home to his listeners, and at the conclusion con-clusion the chiefs agreed with his views. Others had obtained increases for their police officers and explained that better results were immediately obtained in tho department. Trafric Law. A standardized traffic law, to bo used in every city in the United States, was also proposed at tho convention and will bo considered during the coming com-ing year and decided upon at the nest convention, to bo held in 1921, in St. Louis, according to Miv Ward. I |