Pleasant Grove Review | 1938-10-07 | Page 5 | Voters of Ogden Defeat Proposal for Power Plant

o Voters of Ogden Defeat Proposal For Power Plant Ogden Voters of Ogden, Utah's second largest city, for the second time in less than two months last week voiced their disapproval of a municipal power and light plant entering en-tering into competition with the existing ex-isting state regulated public service company. By a mapority of more than 1000 ballots the citizens turned thumbs down on a bond issue of $1,650,000, to match a requested PWA grant of $1,350,000 for construction of a $3,-000,000 $3,-000,000 power plant. The federal grant had not been made previous to the election. At the first election August 8 the voters rejected by a majority of 1244 the city's proposition to build a plant through issuance of $2,600,000 in bonds. Opponents of the municipality entering en-tering into the electric service field asserted the defeat of these ventures indicated a definite trend in the state away from public ownership and operation of electric utilities. They said public funds should be expended for necessary public works instead of attempting to incur needless need-less debt by duplicating existing utility util-ity facilities when the latter is offering offer-ing good service at fair rates.