| Show E FAI 4 N A G IH HANDS IN HIS J TA L horne home haigins from froin explains Ms step in an interview richfield people take great interest in a piece of 0 news coming from salt lake city to the effect that J L horne home who halls hails from richfield resigned his bis position as state fair manager wild rumors of gross irregularities reg in keeping the fair accounts came with the announcement of the resignation but an audit of the books is not completed yet and these rumors so far are nothing else but unfounded rumors even a criminal has to be considered innocent before the jury finds him guilty and the same inalienable right ought to be given to mr horne home before forming the opinion that he ib guilty of the irregularities in an interview with the resigned manager mr horne home said As the auditors went through the accounts some little irregularities were disco discovered ered that were not explained to their satisfaction this was due to the fact that money for concessions at the state fair was turned in in a lump sum tile the same practice had been followed the preceding year NOY the auditor at work does not know where here to credit these amounts the irregularities are arc traceable to tile the fact that ono one person in the attempt to economize had so much work given him to do it was expected that I 1 should assign and attend to the concessions and at the same tide manage the fair one in continued on page eight state fair manager continued from page one cannot do these two things and do them properly of course J E ellison 0 of layton was supervisor of 0 concessions mr ellison however lived out 0 of the city and was unable to be present all the time the work 0 of assigning sig the concessions and maki making fig collections in the various forms 0 of contracts acts was turned over to me at the conference at which governor mabey state auditor tuttle I 1 were present these matters matten were ere discussed the governor seemed to feel that some irregularities existed and the tenor of his conversa conver a tion was that it would look better if I 1 were to resign I 1 told him that if that was what was desired I 1 would do so and I 1 turned in my resignation at the meeting the audit is not lot yet finished and no statement of any def definite lutte sort has hag been forthcoming when it is complete it may reveal things in an entirely different light mr horne home was an appointee oi of the state fair board of the former ad J ministration taking office shortly before the 1920 fair he succeeded D W r as state fair manager when mr Par harriatt became superia superintendent teli delit of granite school district |
