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Show Commissioners Discuss Project To Bring Better TV to County The Summit County Commissioners Commis-sioners and the Utah Power and Light Company are working very hard toward the goal of a transmitter on Lewis Peak for bringing in better television reception for Summit County. To start, the transmitter will present Channel 7 to Summit County. This is an educational station. They held a special meeting on Wednesday, June 9. The landowners to be effected effect-ed were called in to this meeting. meet-ing. They were John Bates of Salt Lake, LaMar Pace, Fred Richins, Metta Richins, Clyde Saxton and Warren Robinson, representing the Summit Livestock Live-stock Company. The route of the power cable was discussed. The cable will this property too often. Damages Dam-ages should be negligible. Commissioners in attendance were Carlos Porter and Ken Woolstenhulme. Representatives Represent-atives of the power company were Clair Boyle of Park City, Frenchy O'Hara of Coalville and Don Frame from Salt Lake. It is hoped that the Power Company and the landowners can soon come to an agreement on right-of-way because the U of U station has offered the transmitter, valued at $8,000 to Summit County free of charge if they can supply a location and housing for it. Also, this will be the first giant step toward bringing better TV reception to our area from all of the channels. ue unuergrouna, ouriea in., and would entail digging a trench 5 to 6 inches wide. The power Company felt at first it would be best to start at the summit of the peak and then work down from there without making a survey first. However, after talking with the landowners it . was felt they all preferred a survey be made so they would know exactly where the line would be going over their property. prop-erty. The power company did agree on this survey. Some of the landowners were concerned that a county road would be established but they were assured that this would not be necessary that the Power Company was concerned mainly with a road for maintenance crews to check the cable from time to time and it would probably prob-ably not be necessary to cross |