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Show 'i .Snctnccr, l . Mlcrafiiai Plorjpnnt t U)r? Avenue Citoi Uth REVIEW PHONE NUMBERS WASATCH Advertising, News, Office 487-740- 1 Action Ads Circulation 487-227- EDITION 8 487-181- 9 s i Vol 10 47 No WASATCH EDITION The Weekly Newspaper Serving Sugar House. East M.' Creek. Holladay. Cottonwood & Cottonwood Heights - Health Director Urges Air Pollution Study THE REVIEW'S photographer had to go high above the residential property line to reach a point where terra firma was clearly visible through smog and smoke trapped In Salt Lake City. He couldn't find the city for this picture, but that's , Oquirrh Mountain range seen vaguely In the background. Salt Lake taxpayers cough up $18 million every year to run Salt Lake but few know, County government . in detail, what they are paying for. During the next few weeks before the budget is presented to the county the Review will make a department by department report of the major divisions ... of Salt Lake County government. This that the budget, to be presented later report will be based primarily on the this month will acquire additional meanstatements of the people in charge, it ing. We have asked or will ask each departis their own declaration of their function. ment the following questions. In some The Review undertakes this project cases they do not apply to specific deto better inform citizens of the nature partments. of the countys expenditures, in the hope ( Continued on page A 4 1 Detention Home The possibility that the Salt Lake County Detention Home may have approached the enviable status of being a unit of government functioning with maximum efficiency at near maximum economy desirable appeared likely Tuesday from information revealed in a routine survey conducted by The Review. Within the walls of the detention center, 3534 South 600 West, is an organization actually diminishing its staff while increasing its effective application toward its purpose, and while programming a 1966 budget less than that of 1965. Lloyd Bennett superintendent of the center, proud of the establishment of a classical organization plan from the time he began work in 1962, told of use of Utah State Prison produce and meats, use of County Roads and Bridges men and facilities, use of county garage service, and extension of effort beyond state lines to obtain the most for the least. A duel functioning organization, the county detention center has responsibility for custodial care, diagnostic services, rehabilitation treatment services for those who need secure custody on the one hand, and care and shelter service for neglected and dependent children on the other hand. For this latter task, the center Administers a separate budget of $20,000 annually out of the Statutory and General Budget, as required by law. Under the watchful eyes of a citizens advisory ( Continued on page A 5 ) an r Purchasing Salt Lake County Purchasing Department and adoption at a county ordinance to bite of the county purchasing agent are arm of county government for 1966. James N. Kimball, purchasing agent, announced that his budget for 1966 will provide for employment of an assistant buyer to be assigned to an office at the County Roads and Bridges Department, where up to 70 percent of all county purchases originate. Thl budget also will be amended, said Comm missioner John Preston Creer, to provide for employment of a second additional person to specialize in insurance liabilities claims. The county, said Mr. Creer, needs an experienced person to negotiate all insurance policies and to handle all Insurance claims. The statute which Mr. Kimball hopes to have adopted would require that all purchases of $1,000 or more be advertised for Expansion of the by two employees put teeth into the objectives of that bidding. Hello, Review... This Is Sam, You Know.. .Sam Moll has an adassistant Quiet people, who handle the complaints and advise the commissioners They talk to the press too, sometimes. Commissioner Creer has one: Sam Moll, experienced in the formidable, complex world of pAilic relations. This conversation didn't take yet. place Each county commissioner ministrative -r! This Is The Review I think This is Sam Jim, boy? got a hot one for yuh Sara Who'd you say this is?.. .Oh! Hello! I man Yeh' Creer's left-haMoll and he keeps a secretary at his right Heh! Heh! hand Very funny, Sam. Vk hat can I do for yuh "You got me wrong, Jim, Boy. Fm You won't doin' something for you. believe it. Things are goin' slow around here, I m gettin so I'll believe almost Sam hy don'tcha' tell me about anything nd it-- ' "This is- good for Page One, boy I And don't forget where yuh got it told you I'd have something good for and this is the yuh on of these days, A clean You got your pencil0 day sheet of paper'' Now I don't know how . Effect of such an ordinance, he said, would result in an increased number of bids from all eligible sources, providing competition and encouraging lower bids. Meanwhile, Mr. Kimball, participating in a Review survey of functions of county departments, reported that the biggest savings to both SaltLakeCityandCounty would be combination (Continued on page A 5) THE MORNING AFTER 5 WILLIAM R. IRVINE, sanitarian, left, and Wilbur Parkinson, chief sanitarian. Salt Lake City Health Department,- - demonstrate results of air filter which turns coal black from spotless white after only half a week in an air trap atop police head-th- e quarters. City receives report only on atomic fallout contained in air garbage. Inside County Government Larson Gets KCC Leave - Somethings There, But Who Knows What by Jim Baldwin study of atmospheric garbage in the Lake Valley has been suggested to the Salt Lake County Commission by Dr. J. O. Brewerton, county health A December 2, 1965 IOC - tFQ( ()()o The proposed budget tor the 1966 Installment of the Salt Lake County Flood of $334,771, was revealed Wednesday Control Program, calling for expend-ture- s by Salt Lake County Commissioner Marvin G. Jenson. At the same time, David I. Gardner, hydrologist and consulting civil engineer, announced his resignation as Salt Lake County Flood Control Engineer, effective December 1. In announcing his resignation, Mr. Gardner informed Mr. Jenson that be will be available at any later date on which his services might be needed. The dissension that has existed in die administration at the county flood control program, however, continued Wednesday and was reflected In a statement by Ray H. Leavitt, flood control coordinator. 1 will prepare a report for the Commission outlining the state of the Flood Control Program while Mr. Gardner was advising me Commission, Mr. Leavitt wrota. He added: 1 believe that it Is important that Mr. Cantor's activities while he was employed by Salt Lake County be fully aired and fully understood by the people of the county. The latter statement, Mr. Leavitt insisted, carries no Implication of any criticism of Mr. Gardner's service to the county. Mr. Gardner reviewed the projects be was employed to direct. Including cleaning the Jordan River, cleaning the Cottonwood Creeks, getting the potential flood water from the Wasatch Mountains into the Jordan River and Great Salt Lake. These projects have been completed, Mr. Gardner reported. Mr. Gardner express satisfaction that a fourth project putting together as agreement between the major canal companies and Salt Lake County for the water to the Jordan and the lake - can be concluded conveyance of storm run-o- ff satisfactorily, although some determined opposition may have to be overcome. Mr. Jenson commended Mr. Cantor for his efficiency In cleaning out the Jordan River in 14 days, and expressed pleasure with Mr. Gardner's objectives in relation to the canal companies agreement. In announcing th proposed budget and the sharp reduction from the 196S budget of $715,449. Commissioner Jenson announced in favor of continuing Flood Control In conjunction with and under the same supervision as Roads and Bridges as the only practical and be anomic approach to administration of the program. The County Commission is expected, possibly next week, to determine under which Commissioner the program will be assigned and Commissioner William G. Larson has sajd be doesn't want it. Commissioner Creer has Indicated he does want It. Application of 1988 flood control funds to storm sewer installation and several costly capital items needed to Initiate the program, said Commissioner Jenson, was responsible for the heavy expenditures. The 1966 proposed budget provides only for $49,550 In capital outlays. This item in 1965 totaled $71,900. The proposed budget (1965 figures ta parentheses) includes $2 11, 81 1 ($211,815 for salaries and wages; $18,669 ($12,485) for supplies; $38,350 ($31 450' materials for repairs and malntainance at grounds, buildings, etc.; $17, 12 ($31,492) malntainance of the Jordan River; $4,281 ($11,261), services other than salaries and wages; none ($17,020), contributions. The total for these ( Continued on page 4 ) 'I air over Salt director. Gutters Crumble While Commissioners Rumble What do you think they'll find, If the com- -' mission does as Dr. Brewerton suggested and names a committee to make a study of needs to enforce clean air on those who are breathing the present cauldron at gas and garbage? A study might show how much Salt Lake County contributes to the 133 million tons of garbage blended each year with the oxygen we breath in the United States . . . and with the carbon dioxide we exhale. Will Salt Lake County make a study as to bow much contamination comes from transportation, manufacturing, electric power production, space heating and refuse burning? The U. S. Public Health Service has made such a study on a national scale but local representatives of USPHS could not tell The Review where locally to acquire a copy. The national health service survey showed critical hazards to health, destruc tion of crops, deterioration of metals and fabrics running into the billions of dollars in damages each year, $11 -- billions in property damage alone. The survey also cited things similar to the five o'clock shadow you can see on the Walker Bank Building, after winds and air currents have virtually particles of air refuse against that tall sand-blast- M 1 i !! i i f , e t ;i 7 i .1 ed structure. Will Salt Lake County attempt to determine the measurement of, and provide for diminishment of the deadly sulfur dioxide, oxides carbon monoxide, hydro-carboof nitrogen and particulate matter that is produced in Salt Lake Valley? The national health service notes that 85 million tons of transportation garbage, 22 million tons of manufacturing garbage, 15 million tons of electric power manufacture garbage, eight million tons of space heating waste and three million tons of waste from refuse burning enters the breathing spacs of more than half the nation's population in less than one per cent of the nation's land area Details of thus report have been called to the attention of the elite of American Business in an article by Edmund K Faltermayer in the November issue of Fortune Magazine. In a message to American Industry titled: "A Fortune Proposition: We Can Afford Clean Air, Mr. Faltermayor warn; that "besides damaging health and property and wasting resources (including quantities of sulfur dioxide with current sale price value of $300,000,000), air pollution dejects and degrades the human spirit In ways that a civilized society should not tolerate How much is Utah aware of this prob- you'll want to handle this, but you'll You Salt Lake County Commissioner William give it what it's worth, I know. G Larson's moonlighting days are over, ready? or the time being, at any rate. But I'm ready I'm gasping, Sam ' Salt Lake County Commissioner John Commissioner Larson was granted a and eave of absence Wednesday from Kenne--o- tt Preston Creer announced today Copper Corporation. He had held a just for you, Jim, boy. You know that that he will turn admin- night job as a conductor on the company's dontcha? istration of the County Finance Department railroad cars running from Bingham to over to W. G Bill Larson. What happened. Magna Jim, boy 0 Did you faint? The shock An official of Kennecott told the Review too much for yuh, boy Tuesday that Mr. Larson applied for the Say that again will, yuh, Sam? This leave on November 24, 1965. They stated hat Pule 27, subtitle C of the contract I dropped the phone shoulder piece "No, you heard me right. Boy " between Kennecott and the CPC and B It's Lke you said, Sam. I won't be- union, of which Mr. Larson was a memnot even if I see it in the ber, stipulates that any person being lieve it dailies. Why would John give his Fin- elected for public office must tie granted ance Department to Bill Larson0 After a leave of absence upon making proper all. Finance takes burning of the mid -- application for it, according to the methods night oi L and Bill works nights out to prescribed by the contract Mr. Larson said T asked to take a Kennecott. 'Well, now, Jim, you won't want to use leave a year ago Jarjary. They said And I wasn't going tc this, but for your own information, Bill not right now. has some o'her problems You know al! force them. Mr. Larson further stated that he wants that extra work Marv piled on Bill' And you know how It is with to bo back out to Kennecott, and that shoulders Bill and John sorta stand-offis- h, yoiijhe was aware of the union clause permitknow. Well, with John not speakin' to ting leaves of absence for elected officials The Kennecott official stated that You lem0 Bill, John and Marv got together communication had passed beJohn and got a bad cough there, Jim Wilbur Parkinson, chief sanitarian, Salt Marv got together and decided if Bill tween the executives of the company and Mr. Larson until November 24, and that 4 , f Continued on (Crmumiod on pj. 3 ) any prior communications were verbal ns, Gutter sniping among members of the Democratic "troika of the Salt Lake County Commission has expended from Commission chambers and offices out into the gutters, according to complaints received by The Fteview in the past week. Commissioner Marvin G Jenson is alleged to have ordered a delay of work on a curb and gutter repair project because he resented that complaining taxpayers took their grievances to Commissioner John Preston Creer in search of relief. A group of property owners complained that the dissention between Com missioner Jenson and Commissioner Creer has involved the taxpayers, their property and sections of cmsity property as helpless victims of the controversy. At least two residents alleged that repairs to curb and gutter installations on their property has been delayed and disintegration of faulty curbing has been permitted to continue unabated while County Roads and Br dees repair efforts are directed to projects of less serious consequences ia Two residens in the Panier Ave, Ave and Plateau Dr. area reported to The Peview that they were told by a supervisory employe of the County Roads and Bridges Department that badly needed repairs to their curbing was delayed on direct orders from Commissioner Jenson because someone made the apparent mis- take of asking Commissioner Creer to intercede for them to get the work done after more than two years of continued delays An attorney at law, Merlin O Baker, 3081 Ranier, spokesman for the group of unhappy taxpayers, told a tale of months and years of delay and procras- tination, climaxed by spite and more delays, apparently because, as a lawyer and acquaintance of Commissioner Creer lawyer), he asked the (ho also isto a discuss the problem with acquaintance Mr Jenson Commissioner Jenson denied that be had, at any time, conveyed to any Roads and Bridges Department employe any relating to the problem as reBaker and his neighbors. Mr. by ported The curb and gutter repair program, and said Mr. Jenson, "is nothing I might say to an empire, and led Se-qo- r . ' (Continued on pare A 9) ( ; 5 . i I |