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Show Looks as if Frank Ward, executive ex-ecutive secretary of the Vernal Chamber of Commerce, has pretty pret-ty well fired the last shot in the struggle for consolidation, at least for this round. (I'll get around to George Stewart later.) Still the resentment and excitement excite-ment stirred up by the latest attempt to move the county seat from Duchesne lingers on. The county is split wide open, and the people of Duchesne, this time, feel Roosevelt is to blame. Perhaps, however, they would calm down a bit if they realized rea-lized that 10 per cent is certainly cer-tainly too generous an estimate of the number of Roosevelt people peo-ple in favor of consolidation. Annexation to Uintah county, ranks just ahead of communism in popularity. A few people I've talked to have sarcastically suggested consolidation with Russia in hopes of achieving lasting peace. What really rankles in the minds of many is the way the entire matter was handled. Instead In-stead of open meetings being held and the city council, planning plan-ning board, civic groups, and other important organizations contacted, an ambitious group of never more than 25, after holding several private meetings and one to which invitations were sent to certain privileged individuals, suddenly announced it was going all out to get the consolidation issue placed on the November election ballot. Few people had any idea that consolidation con-solidation was even being discussed, dis-cussed, until the hot potato was suddenly tossed in their laps by the newspapers. Naturally, even the so-called average man in the street, likes to get in on matters so vital to his welfare. Of course, Attorney Stewart discussed the merits and demerits demer-its of consolidation a few days ago before the Junior Culture club. And everybody knows Mr. Stewart is an expert on international inter-national affairs. (The fact that Duchesne and parts of Uintah county happen to be in the same country is purely coincidental.) Maybe the attorney's talk, instead in-stead of Ward's, should properly proper-ly be considered a signal for a return to normality, after all the excitement created by county coun-ty consolidation, oil, and Madman Mad-man Sather's latest sale. Incidentally, Ken Labrum is laying odds of two to one that Hot Rod Happy is acquitted. Any takers? |