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Show Junior College Petitions Corcte To This Area For Signatures; Issue Is Hot One Of Political nature Thirty-three thousand bona-fide bona-fide signatures of registered voters vot-ers in the state of Utah is the goal of the "Save Carbon College" Col-lege" committee, an organization organiza-tion which has taken the initiative initia-tive in bringing the action of the recent special session of the legislature abolishing the school before the public. The 33,000 signatures are necessary to bring the issue onto the next general election ballot and at that time the people themselves will determine whether or not the governor and the legislature legisla-ture took a course of action favored fav-ored by the majoritv of the electorate. Where To Sign Petition In Roosevelt, Mrs. Orvil (Rhoda) Rudy, Notary Public, will be located in the grocery department of Ashton's, Friday Fri-day and Saturday, to give citizens who voted in the 1952 general election a Chance to sign the petition. The issue is not a policial one, but one that will give the people of Utah a chance to vote on whether Carbon College should be abolished and Weber, Dixie and Snow Colleges should be turned back to the L.D.S. church from whence they came years ago. Those desiring to sign the petitions, should stop in at Ashton's grocery Friday and Salurdav and sign their names. At least 330 names are required in Duchesne County, with about 175 needed need-ed in the Roosevelt area. The ground work for this fight has been laid in both Carbon and Weber counties. Weber County, too, has a similar sim-ilar situation. The act of the legislature reverts control of Weber, along with Dixie and Snow Junior Colleges, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Residents of Carbon and Weber counties have elected to fight this action Carbon County residents to prevent the abolishment of the only state institution in the southeastern section of the state and Weber to prevet their college col-lege from being turned over to the LDS church. Committees were immediately set up in both counties and a consolidated program emerged which is seeing the petitions of Carbori and Weber colleges being be-ing circulated together to save much time. Almost all counties of the state will be canvassed by notary no-tary publics and in many centers cen-ters will be established where the petitions will be available for signatures. |