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Show Land Owners to Vote on Highland Water District Sylvan W. Clark, acting chairman of the Utah county commission, signed an order Thursday creating the Highland water conservation dis- -trict and an election has been called when land owners in this district will vote whether they should accept ac-cept the district. Date for the election among the land owners of the district was set for June 12th. These land owners will be allowed one vote for each acre foot of water or fraction thereof there-of alloted them by the state en- gineer. Providing a majority of the land owners vote against forming the district, it automatically will be killed, according to A. V. Watkins of Orem, general counsel for the Provo River Water Users' Association. Associa-tion. Directors for each of the three divisions di-visions of the district also were nominated nom-inated by the commission, as follows: fol-lows: Division one Harry Jerling of Highland; division two Orville L. Day of Highland, and division three Mayor Isaac W. Fox of Lehi. Voting places and judges will be as follows: Division one David H. Adamson residence, with Lew Emma Em-ma Groesbeck, David H. Adamson and Lot Robinson, all of American Fork, judges. i Division two Highland L. D. &'. ward chapel, with Stephen E. Beck, E. M. Strasburg and Kenneth White, all of Highland, as judges. Division three Lehi L. D. S. Third ward chapel, with Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet F. Anderson, Joseph E. Smith and Charles B. Colledge, of Lehi, judges. In voting on the district, the land owners also will vote for directors. However, they are not compelled to vote for the directors nominated by the coimty commission and may write in the names of their choices in spaces provided. Each land owner own-er included in the district may vote for a commissioner in each division. |