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\ Should we qT present true fa cta to people through medium of prase cad radio UHQ3? those so -ca lled true fa c ts would obviously favor one sid e or the other ia the controversy, which would autom atically put us in the fron t lin e . A fter a ll the eleo tlo n of Get. 19th does nothing hut in d icate whether the people in the d is tr ic t want a Veter D istr ict or n e t, and the expenditures which can he made hy D irectors p rior to tha voting of a bond issu e w ill he lim ited to those necessary fo r the engineering survey required fo r preparation of cost estim ates, e tc , 1 strongly recommend that ve heap hands o ff of th is argument u n til such time as the development of tho plan Indicates cle a rly whsrfc our hast In terests l i e , and that la the meantime both Mr, fe lg e r «und Mr* Blonde he instructed to take a com pletely neutral p e titio n in any discu ssion s which they may hare In the m atter, I suggest that your reply to Mr. G ragln's la tte r of October 8th be noncommittal a s fa r as any suggestions as to what aetioh the C ity should take* perhaps advising him that ve are of course v it a lly In terested in the development of the area and that i t i s our desire to a s s is t e l l p o ssib le in any a c tiv ity which would tend to expand the in d u strial and ether developmente. R-259. WH - 3 - 2 -