State&ou&e IRefiatt by C. Sharp services. Rampton said October 1st that the state may be able to restore the 10 percent cost of living increase to recipients by February . if tax receipts continue their ward trend. ' Public welfare, higher education and public schools - as anticipated - are clamoring for sky- This amendment extending school districts across county lines. The Board of Higher Education 'November 26 agreed to ask for $48 million for support of nine institutions for an increase of 21 .9 percent over the $39.4 million appropriated by the last Legislature. In keeping with this trend, the State Board of Education agreed November 13th to ask for $18 million more for public schools during the next fiscal year. beginning July 1. Rollbacks also is approved. were made in medical and other would permit successive session and Sen. Reed echoed similar views recently. rocketing appropriations from Austerity will be a keynote of the 1971 Legislature. the session, they said. Governor Calvin L. Rampton, At the monthly meeting of the who carries a lot of weight, said Family Services Board Novemflatly November 14 that he will ber 18, Evan E. Jones Jr., new oppose any tax increase to finance director, said: A 25 percent budget increase programs of the executive branch of government. to $75.14 million for public welThis apparently would confine fare is needed for an overall any increases for welfare, higher effective program education and other programs to an anticipated $20 million in6,700 More Needy crease which might normally be The number of persons on welanticipated in tax collections and fare during fiscal 1970 has been other state revenues. 49,706 compared with 42,986 in He said, If we intend to retain 1969 and 37,275 in 1966, he said. all of the federal (welfare) proJones is among the many state grams, we will have to raise our administrators meeting this sights regarding welfare and month and next with Rampton in realize that the degree of utilizabudget hearings. tion has been much heavier than Needless to say, Rampton will have to apply the shears drasexpected. tically or agree to propose a . Fair Balance tax increase in his budget mes1 will . try to make a fair allotsage to the 1970 Legislature ment between welfare and higher which he will be drafting soon. education. Public assistance grants were Sen. Haven J. Barlow, rolled back October 1 to the 1969 te president-designaof level after a 10 percent cost of the 1971 Senate for the third living increase had been given Bullen, up- Favor Reforms tight budget may be favorable for legislative approval of two proposed constitutional amendments and laws to save state dollars. Sen. Omar Bunnell, newly elected minority leader of the Senate, is chairman of the Legislative Councils Education Committee. This committee has agreed to sponsor laws to fuse three substandard school districts in Summit County into one and two small districts In Sanpete County into one. As now operated, the Summit districts have a combined enrollment of 1,925 pupils. Sanpete districts, have a combined enrollment of only 2,887. Yet these small districts qualify for additional state aid for more administrators and small programs. May Incidentally, 294 In District Tintic School District, Juab County, with an enrollment of only 294 could be combined with Nebo District, enrollment 9,973 in Utah County if an amendment approved by Bunnells committee and the full Legislative Council the expenditure. Cecil Thomson, Moab, is chairman of the Land Board which also gave a extension on proposed new regulations to require restoration of mined-olands. 30-d- ay ut Strip Mining Rules The regulations as approved by the board, require that before surface or strip mining on state lands, a lessee must remove and stockpile topsoil. After the mining is finished, the topsoil must be replaced and reseeded. This would be important in Level Guns case of oil shale stripping operaMeanwhile the Budget-Aud- it Committee of the Legislature tions. 'and State Auditor Sherman J. Final hard surfacing on 45 between Castle Preece leveled their guns at miles of the University of Utah Medical Gate and Duchesne, now Is comHospital and Dixie College Nov. pleted and in use. 12th. Henry C. Helland, state director of highways, said this key Leo Memmott, legislative anthat secondary road will be kept open told lawmakers alyst 12 months in the yar. $885,000 in state funds was adW. W. Clyde & Co., Spring-vill- e, vanced to the hospital last year and after this was repaid as of completed 15.5 miles of June 30, 1970, another $650,000 surfacing on this section at a conwas advanced without legisla- tract price of $515,000. The U.S. Economic Developtive authorization. ment Administration has desigMemmott quoted Atty. Gen. Vernon B. Romney as classing nated Sevier County as a rethese advances as of dubious development area under the legality. Preece had demanded Public Works and Economic Dereturn of the money which was velopment Act of 1965. advanced to cover a deficit in Organizations and individuals in the county who are eligible now hospital accounts receivable. Sen. W. Hughes Brockbank, are eligible to apply for financial within the area, Lake, committee chairman, assistance commented on the situation at Rampton has been informed. Dixie College where bank balances have not been reconciled for many months during transition to computer accounting. U-- 33 erson explained. he said, Even withincreases, rate levels for interstate calls are still about 14 percent below 1953 levels. In the same period the consumer price index rose nearly 47 pecent. The rate changes, to become effective January 19, 1971 are designed to produce an additional six percent ($385 million)in total interstate revenues, Severson said. This will be the first general increase in Interstate long distance rates in 17 years. The rate changes are moderate, but vitally important if the Bell System is to sustain its massive service Improvement program and meet fully the nations growingcommunications needs, Severson said. year conducted by Rampton, pro- basic license or posed a $2 surcharge increase against hunters and fishermen. This is needed, said John E. Phelps, director, to provide funds to supply from $300,000 to $400,000 a year to improve the program. Mickelson Chairman Evan H. Mickelson, Salina, mm MSB BOOB Mant Panguitc I) 50-5- ' ' How long do you have to work here before you get on days? REDUCTIONS MM on IN STILL STOCK AT SUCH PRICES!! NEVER AGAIN SPECIAL LOW PRICE ON ZENITH T. V. rates. (BEFORE NEXT PRICE INCREASE) The increases are centered on calls requiring operator assist- 2 WITH CHROMACOLOR on credit card, collect and coin telephone calls, which are more is costly to provide. Smaller increases are planned for station calls dialed by customers during chairman of the State Board of Fish and Game, which approved the budget request. The State Land Board Nov. 18, approved a request of the West Price Cattle Association, to share 0 in the $1,000 cost of replacing a dam in the high country west of Price which had been washed out by 1970 thunder; " storms. The state's portion of the cost will come from the Land Maintenance Fund provided the State Board of Examiners approves My Neighbors 5 CHEVROLET IMPALAS American Telephone and Telegraph Company last week asked the Federal Communications Commission for an increase in long distance interstate telephone person-to-pers- 7 1970 26, REDUCTION $1 Telephone Co. such as Thursday, waters. nd year-rou- BIG Sought By ance Page November nd alt Invites Dishonesty There is no evidence of dishonesty but the situation there is such as to invite dishonesy, Brockbank declared. The Fish & Game Division, in the first budget hearing of the tDtee&aUntfun Sportsmen are reminded that their current hunting and fishing licenses remain valid until April 15, 1971. Many licenses are discarded after the fishing and hunting seasons close in the fall and sportsmen desiring to indulge in some late chukar or cottontail rabbit hunting, or fishing on year-rouwaters find that they no longer have a license. Seasons remaining open and requiring a license are: chukar and Hungarian partridge, quail in Washington County, cottontail rabbit, cougar and fishing on IHUENT0BY Rate Increase am Save That Hunting License Kelly Tires the busy weekday daytime hours, according to Dee Severson, local manager for Mountain Bell. Not all rates would be increased. Rates on evening, night or weekend calls that customers complete without operator assistance will remain the same or iri'some cases be reduced. 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