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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1971 Limited General Tax Increases Seen Citizens Committee Named to Advise In 39th Session of State Legislature Of Airport Works With opening day for A Utah's Diamond Jubilee Starts Jan. 4 With Lighting Ceremony citizens the 39th district budgets. If this proposal committee for Salt Lakeadvisory Inter- Utah Legislature now only days away pressure is building for several localized or limited tax or fee increases which could affect many Utahns. Some officials in Salt Lake City have launched a drive to cent sales tax inobtain a crease for local services such as police protection. Ogden and several other cities reportedly also favor the sales tax increase. The Utah Fish and Game Commission wants another hike in license fees, and a move is afoot to give Salt Lake County authority to levy up to two mills of property taxes to finance the merged health department after Salt Lake Citys $800,000 annual share is phased out. The Utah Educational Association is proposing that the state pick up the entire tab for driver education, about one third of which now comes from school is accepted, it could mean an increase of 50 cents in motor vehicle registration fees. Also, the UEA doesnt believe it should be dunned by counties for the cost of assessing and collecting school taxes. Hard pressed cities and counties are desperately casting about for the wherewithal to keep the creaking municipal machinery from breaking down entirely. The one-ha- lf cent sales tax increase is their first choice. No other type of tax will come anywhere near yielding the type of money needed, except a massive property tax increase and that is considered out of the question because of statutory and political considerations. The current optional half cent sales tax raised $3,543,329 for Salt Lake City during the last fiscal year and yielded over $1.3 (Continued on page 4) K. Gunn McKay Family Planning Move to Capital in January 17-m- an national Airport expansion has been all but unanimously accepted by the Salt Lake City audio- Commission. The only objection to the 17 nominations presented by Mayor J. Bracken Lee came from Commissioner Conrad B. Harrison. He objected to appointment of City Treasurer Jennings Phillips Jr., because he said Mr. Phillips was the mayors personal representative and he didnt think any member of the commission ought to be represented on the committee. However, Harrison approved as an excellent group the other 16 members. The committee will be concerned chiefly with making recommendations to the City Commission on spending of airport expansion bonding money and confirming sufficient financing backing exists to pay for the program, totaling $25 million approved by the voters early in the month. It also will make recommendations regarding over all transportation problems of the city in relation to the airporit, he Governor Calvin L. Rampton Governor Calvin L. Rampton announced that President Richard M. Nixon is being invited to flip a switch in Washington, D.C., January 4, to light a 4 million candlepower strobe light atop the Utah Capitol Building as Utah celebrates its 75th anniversary of statehood. The lights atop the capitol building will flash 30 times a minute to give the appearance of a huge diamond and will be visible 40 miles away, according to Arch L. Madsen, president of and Bonneville International John W. Gallivan, publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune, of Utahs Diamond Jubilee of McKays. So the current occu- said. pants will continue to maintain T. William Cockayne, senior the home in Utah while living vice president, Utah-Idah- o Sugar near Washington. Co. and Cash Hampton, retired My father raised eight chil- banker, will serve as dren in the home, and fathers of the group. father raised 10. I have nine, so Other members are: you can see that large families Fred F. Auerbach, president have been raised there, Mr. of Auerbach Co.; Hugh L. Bal-se- r, McKay said. a retired accountant; ClarWithin the family are about ence Bamberger, Jr., president Committee. 32 acres of land in the Huntssaid the busy The Bamberger Investment Co.; L. S. ville area on which the McKays Skaggs, Jr., president, Skaggs schedule calls for several noon have a few horses, a milk cow, Drug Centers; Sidney L. Cohen, some beef catttle, and a couple general manager. Film Service programs in the capitol Rotunda, cf sheep. Corp. "My brother calls it a billy Max E. Rich, executive vice goat farm, Mr. McKay said. president, Salt Lake Area ChamWhat the new congressman ber of Commerce; Jennigs Philand his family will miss is the lips, Salt Lake City treasurer; frequency of puttering around Virgil H. Smith, Beneficial Life en open houses at businesses and cultural sites, displays and exhibits, receptions, speeches, -visual presentations, and other activities. Governor Rampton has designated Sunday, January 3 as Cultural Heritage Day. Church services' and open houses at a half dozen locations will focus on the states religious and cultural heritage. On Monday, activities will center around a Statehood Day program at the Capitol. Rampton and former governors will open a Jubilee exhibit at the Utah State Historical Society Mansion following the nobn program. The spotlight will be on Education and Youth on Tuesday, January 5, with essay contests in the schools and a Capitol program. Utahs progress in Transportation and Communication will be noted during activities on Wednesday, January 6. Industrial exhibits will be on display all week at the Capitol to support the theme developed on Utah at Work Day, Thursday, January 7. Community Achievement Day on Friday, January 8, will spotlight the contributions of cities and towns to Utahs growth over 75 years. On Recreation Day Saturday, January 9, the public will get free rides on the inaugural run of the 'Heber Creeper train and the Utah Stars professional basketball team will conduct a prospecial Jubilee half-tim- e gram. Minority groups will be applauded in a special noon program on Utah Ethnic Groups Continued on page 4 en TODAYS K. Gunn McKay Utahs new representative in Congress, K. Gunn McKay, is looking forward to his new duties in the nations capital. The Utah Democrat from the sprawling First Congressional District plants to move his family to Washington early in the new year. The family will trade living y in a rock, colonial-styl- e home on a small acreage in Huntsville for a five bedroom suburban dwelling in McLean, Va., less than 10 miles from the two-stor- Capitol. We havent seen the home, Mr. McKay said. The Huntsville residence has been home to three generations with fence mending, messing with the cattle, occasional horseback rides up Middle Fork and Skunk Creek, or putting the bob sleigh and horse team together in the winter. Mr. McKays wife, Donna, a Salt Lake girl who has lived in Huntsville for about 20 years, admitted some qualms about the pending move. Of course, she said, when you leave friends and family, its kind of hard. I had no idea what the new home looks like, although its been described as having a study and large kitchen which we will need. Its like moving blind. The family, with children ranging in age from 15 months to 19 years, will buy new furniture for the rented Virginia home and later enroll the children in schools there. Insurance Co.; E. R. Dumke, representing private pilots; Earl Davis, salesman, Buffalo Sanitary Wipers. J. Allan Blodgett, comptroller, Chrch of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints; Carl A. Hulbert, attorney; Howard S. Clark, treas- y urer, Clark-Leamin- g, Inc.; Wil- liam L. Fields, director, Utah Transit Authority, and Maurice Richey, transportation planning supervisor, State Highway Department. . 0 Skidding accidents cause deaths yearly. Knowing how to control a ckid can be a life saver. Never jam on the brakes of step on the gas. The most effective way of regaining control are steering in the direction of the skid and stabbing at the brakes. 10,-00- EDITORIAL Pollution by Organic Chemicals More attention should be paid to the large group of organic molecules that are fat soluble and only slowly biodegradable if we want to secure a livable and enduring environment, says Dr. Philip H. Abelson in Science magazine. Fat soluble organic chemicals often tend to be accumulated in living systems, and if these chemicals are not condegradable in biological mechanisms, they may be centrated by the food chain so that the amount in living tissues and organs exceeds by far the concentration in the environment. (Continued on Page Four) |