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County Board Gets Overton WS$£rJ>istJict Problems ~ t- 0^^gt4^\^r .sc The problem or who will, «r Who will not, head the directorate of the Overton township water district was hurled squarely in the laps of the members of .the; Clark county board of commis­sioners today following a protest meeting called before the board yesterday by one faction of lead­ing citizens in the community of Overton. Charges that they were being! given- “the run-around” by the district attorney’s office, were! made yesterday, by the citizens! group, headed bj\Raul G. Nunn,' leading Overton sand miner, who are currently protesting the elec-1 tion of Harlan Lyon and Norman1 Shurtliff to the water district: board of directors. , The county^ commissioners have! (been caught in crossfire between (the group headed by Nunn and | Wallace Jones, and a * second group who defend the rights of | Lyon and Shurtliff to hold office.; ! Last week, following an opinion | by District Attorney Robert E. iJones, that the two men hadj been unqualified to run for the; water board, Overton citizens! asked the county commissioners! to step in and referee the squab-! ble, which threatens to tear down the water district structure. At a meeting earlier this week,! Nunn told the county commis-! sioners that his group did not! care who was elected to head the water district, but that they were! protesting the election because! Lyon and Shurtliff were .holding ’ office_ illegally. - v w election was the only measure that could be taken. Nunn said that the /group for which he was spokesman, did not want to take official court action to protest the election, but would rather have the commissioners arbitrate the trouble. Main bone of contention in the pretest is over the question of whether Lyons and Shurtliff were owners Of property in thei precincts from which they were elected, as required b y state, statutes. The charges against the district attorney came yesterday as the result of a subsequent investiga­tion which prompted Jones’ second opinion that Lyon mid Shurtliff were legally elected J<»es said that an investigation of records in the county re-' carder's office showed that the two men were holders of prop­erty in the precincts where they ran for office. Nunn and Wallace Jones said that the district attorney’s second ) opinion contradicted his first, j and that they were getting the! .run-around.” A third meeting had been* called for later this week to try to reach a solution to the prob­lem, according to County Com-! missioner George Franklin, Jr. The commissioners have held that they have no authority to settle rtie matter or* disqualify the two elected officers and in-: formed the Overton group once that a formal court protest of the