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Show Sugar House C. of Box 73 ' Sh r SEE -SAW I make the motion that asked Sam to stay on. But the swoosh asd the upshot of it was, this Nicholes man had done hurtful damage to one of the city's better liked and more competent com-petent employes, S. S. (Sam) Taylor. Frankly, Sam was shocked. He had said nothing to the Round Tablers or anyone else that was disloyal to the city government and certainly nothing noth-ing that was not advisable for any citizen to watch when the matter of traffic semaphores comes before the city commission. commis-sion. Nicholes' rash assertions were illy made, poorly timed and inconsiderate in-considerate of the facts. Now Sam Taylor is a profes-ional profes-ional engineer, and he practices all the ethics of his profession. And unless we're living in a police state, he nas a right to voice his opinions and impressions, impres-sions, especially when they pertain per-tain to his phase of the city's business, and very especially when he's invited to do so by the Knights of the Round Table, the Sugar House chamber of commerce or any other civic or public group that bids him out as city safety engineer or as a private citizen. The subsequent hearing before the commission, however, cleared the air on the Sam Taylor case, but what will happen next from this commissioner who pops off so frequently apparently just to make himself out the bigshot Well, sir. Commissioner Lyle B. Nicholes endeared himself to his public and helpers again this past week when he jumped down Sam Taylor's throat for a few utterances the good city safety engineer en-gineer made to the Knights of the Round Table. In fact, Taylor's talk was far more complmentary than critical to the commission and was entirely practical and good sense. Besides, as an American citizen, citi-zen, he has a right to his opinions. Yet this little martinet of a city commissioner howled for Sam's scalp, bloody, raw and unseasoned. Now it is getting to be common knowledge that Commissioner Nicholes Nic-holes is scared to death that someone some-one will say "something and get credit for coming up with an idea for the city's and the citizens' good. He wants to glom onto every point that appears, and grab the credit, if anything comes of it, for his own. He has throttled the police. Now, to all intents and purposes, it appears he has all but silenced Sam. On more than one occasion, Nicholes has let it be known that to live in his official family happily, the cops, the safety engineers en-gineers and others concerned must NOT have ideas. Their ideas are the sole property and at the complete disposal of the city commissioner. And woe unto him who would talk to the public or the press about his job, his aspirations, his ideas of progress or anything else, practically, lor that matter. Let everything go through channels chan-nels and Nicholes, when and if he sees fit, with self-appointed righteousness, will come forth with all the public and the press needs to know. It took a full-dress commission hearing to save Sam's job from Nicholes tirade. Mayor Earl J. Glade and some of the more stable and considerate members of the commission heard the facts and after a thorough study, Nicholes was set a-back, and finally found the grace to |