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Show WEEKLY KEFEX-DAV- IS NEWS JOURNAL. MARCH 4. 1171 Fiscail OmifitoeCi For Utah Moire Uncertaini Although the 1976 Utah Legislature concluded its budget session with widespread disagreement as to whether the state budget for the coming year will be in balance, the fiscal outlook beyond 1977 is even more uncertain. THIS IS the main message contained in the fiscal summary of the 1976 budget session prepared by Utah Foundation, the private research organization specializing in studies of state and local government in Utah. for the coming year will go for educatio- n-25 percent for higher education 46 percent for increased support of public schools. The analysis further and the in- dicates that approximately 23 percent of the increased funds will be for social service programs. FOLLOWING adjournment of the budget session, the governor vetoed five appropriation items totaling $2.5 million along with a scheduled reduction in tne state inheritance tax. He indicated that he also may make d cuts in the appropriation allocations prior to the start of the 1976-7fiscal year if he feels that these are needed to balance the budget based on the latest revenue trends. across-the-boar- Among the items contributing to Utahs e fiscal problem, according to the Foundation, are the following: long-rang- 1. AN IMBALANCE between income and outgo in the highway fund has been only temporarily resolved by transfers from general fund surplus. Eventually the long range highway problem in Utah will have to be faced-eith- er through a drastic curtailment of highway activity in the state or by an increase in the motor fuel tax. Enrollment projections indicate that there will be a rapid growth in the Utah schools during the decade ahead. Substantial sums will be needed for operations and capital outlay to provide for this anticipated increase in the number of students even at present guaranteed levels of state support. In addition, school expenditures in Utah will also rise as the school program is increased to meet rising costs, higher salary and benefit demands, improved services, etc. 2. ARTISTS YOUNG 1 Check Old High Time Pesticides CHECK ALL leftover garden pesticides and discard all that are banned by law. Warm spring-lik- e days turn thoughts to camping. Check equipment, first aid kit and teach your children camping By FLORENCE BITTNER Equality can be destructive. belief in Consider the age-ol- d the inscrutability of women. From poets of old right down to the middle of this century, men agreed women were somehow mysterious and no mere man could hope to solve the question of what his true love really was. (Will the REAL Doris Day please stand up?) ALONG CAME the feminists, which is a contradiction in terms if I ever met one. Women, they insist, are no different from men. Inside. The real mistique of women, say the womens liberationists, is that they are only disguised men, and usually better at it too. It, being whatever is being discussed. Now and then a courageous man fights back. Well, sometimes I suspect he might not be so much courageous as misinformed, but that is a slanted opinion if ever I wrote one. : TAKE THE study of the late (and unlamented) Dr. Evertts, psychologist, whoever he was. The article I read never said who he was, just that he was late. My own belief is that not only was he late, he missed the meeting entirely. Having established my impartiality, I will now discuss the points made by Dr. Evertts in his article, Whats Wrong with Women. easily by a simple declaration. Nothing. But I cant quite support that statement. Almost, but not quite, so I will be specific. It is well to bear in mind that when men take pen in hand to about women, befuddlement is almost certain to set in. It has always write been so. From Bobbie Burns whose love was like a red, red rose to todays clinical analysts. WOMEN, STATED Dr. Evertts, are bizarre and puzzling. Well, of course. Isnt everyone? He muttered on a while about why he couldnt understand women nohow, then asked himself a few questions and strove to answer them. Consider his first question. It is a real jewel in clinical dilemmas fade after a WELCOME WAGON call. As your Hostess, its my job to help you make the most of your new neighborhood. Our shopping areas. Community opportunities. Special attractions. Lots of facts to save you time and money. Plus a basket of gifts for your family. Ill be listening for your call. n IN FAIRNESS, I have to remember that Dr. Evertts is late, and therefore must have missed the Olympics. Maybe those women looked clumsy to you, but that clumsy Id love to be. ID LIKE to wipe him out (( Getting settled made simpla New-tow- analysis. Why are women so clumsy at pitching balls and running? In my heart of hearts, I believe Dr. Evertts played ball against a womens team once and got trounced. Served him right, too, but how long should you bear a grudge? AND HOW would a Dr. of sufficiently middle years to suddenly become the late know so much about how a woman looks running? Chase them does he? Bone structure, says Dr. Evertts. A cop out. net optDR. EVERTTS is a beaut. He asks, "Why will women never admit they are wrong? Well now. Thats easy and obvious. Id like to meet Mrs. ion Evertts, either senior or junior. That man suffered severe and advanced repression probably beginning at his mothers knee and continuing right on to his lonely grave. Ill bet he was spindly. this question about women never being wrong, he is right. Even when we make a AS FOR mistake, we arent wrong. Were cute and mysterious and inscrutable and have to be protected and how can you be all that and wrong too? How could anyone so helpless ever be wrong? Accusing a woman of being wrong would be like spanking a baby. What good would it do? His final question, Why do women change their minds more often than men? has an answer with which I can finally agree, because the good doctor admits Thats a com safety. mon assumption which is in error. They dont. Once a woman forms an opinion, shes apt to stick to it. -- RIGHT ON, Evertts. Whats the use oLmaking up your -- mind if youre just going to go , and change it? If it was good enough for Grandma, it was good enough for Grandma. This is really just a shade ridiculous. A judge as biased as Evertts shouldnt be allowed to state opinion as facts. He probably formed his opinions about women about the time he found out there is more than one kind of people, and everything he found out about women after that only served to reinforce his prefabricated opinion. So look Foundation analysts point out that the principal difference between the Legislature and the Governor with respect to the budget is that the Legislature revenue es- timates for 1976-7- 7 are about $4 million higher than those used by the Governor. AFTER ALLOWING for items vetoed by the Governor, and using the revenue estimates adopted by the Legislature, the State will conclude the 1976-7- 7 fiscal year with an ending combined balance of $5.4 million. On the other hand, if the more conservative revenue estimates employed by the Governor are used in the analysis, the ending surplus would amount to about $1.4 million. In addition to the inheritance tax reduction, which was vetoed by the Governor, the 1976 budget session reduced state individual income tax rates and eliminated the sales tax on prescription drugs. These latter two reductions are expected to effect tax savings of about 3. BECAUSE renewal of the federal revenue sharing program is uncertain at this time, it is difficult to make any accurate forecast of revenues beyond 1976. Presently, state and local units in Utah receive more than $36 million a year in federal revenue sharing funds. to r front, Adam Jennifer Clint Austad, Rohner, Jimmy Batchelor, Robbie Hoggan, Aggen; back, Tiffany Rhodes, Kimberly Wallwork, Brent Hughes, Heather Holbrook, Starlet Keele. Art winners from Layton Elementary include 7 INSECTS BEGIN to buzz about after a few warm days. Remember bee and some other stings can be fatal to some. Watch for symptoms such as respiratory difficulties, nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. 4. Existing legislation $8.9 million. THE FOUNDATION study indicates, however, that the most significant tax change made this year from the stand-poiof business is contained in the amendments to the Employment Security Act, which were approved by the 1976 Session. The revision will allow Utah to retain its experience-ratin- g plan, but will contains nt provisions which automatically will raise program costs and expenditures in the period ahead. Financing of employee retirement costs and repayment of the 1975 bond issue are two of the items that will have a delayed impact on state finances. Such automatic increases place added e financial pressure on Utahs raise the wage base on which unemployment insurance taxes on employers are calculated. long-rang- outlook. ALTOGETHER, the 1976 Budget Session dealt with 209 separate bills and resolutions. The Foundation report points out that the volume of nonbudgetary TOTAL state spending authorized for the 1976-7- 7 fiscal year is estimated at $915 million. This sum is approximately $3 million more than the amount recommended by the governor in his budget and is about $75 million or 9 percent greater than the spending level approved for the 1975-7- 6 fiscal year. . matters considered at budget sessions has expanded dramatically since the first budget session was held in Utah six years ago. Between 1970 and 1976, the total number of measures brought before the' Utah Legislature during its even-yea- r budget session has increased four-fol- . The foundation report shows that more than 70 percent of the increased spending lAV'v r a N whos talking about mind changing. ONE THING about being a liberated woman, I can tell people what I think of them, including men who make snap judgments about women. And thats my considered opinion. Kaysville Mrs. Mina Oldham has returned to her home-- . She went with a group to Hawaii to visit the Islands and after arriving in California on her return, she decided to stay in San Diego and visit her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Williams. She is now at her home in Kaysville. Steven Sabin, Michael Kemp and Kirk Larsen were among the Eagle Scouts who attended the annual Eagle Scout banquet at Weber State College on Feb. 27. Mrs. Marie Nichols and daughters Mary Ann, Natalie, Patricia and Bonnie, Mrs. Jane Kemp and daughter Jane Ann were guests at a stork shower in Sandy Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. Ruth Whittacre in honor of Mrs. Sam Woffiden, the former Jane Nichols. Mr. and Mrs. Orson Hall returned recently from St. George where they spent the past few months with their children and their families. Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Crawford of Rock Springs, Wyo. were weekend guests of their Mr. daughter and and Mrs. Ed Hyde and son-in-la- family. Mr. and Mrs. James Dotson and children attended the funeral service of her father, LaVar Morley at East Carbon City, Southern Utah last week. Her father was killed instantly in a pedestrian-aut- o accident. ci racism From the Lo AngeteeUme, August 1 1974 Reprinted courtesy of Amt leaders Publishers FleM ffowepeperSyndlcsta - YOUmOBUMS Trying to Beat Train Can Be Deadly Game londm ts mwm Bear Ann Landers: I am married to a railroad engineer. My husband loves his job except when he hits a car. Most railroaders know its only a matter of time, because it happens to all of them sooner or later. My husbands time came yesterday. He is sick about it, but there was no way he could have avoided that accident Two people died because the driver ignored the flashing signals and the whistles, took the gamble and lost. I hope every person who reads your column will ask himself if he has ever done the same thing. If he has. I hope it was the last time. Its so easy to misjudge the speed of a train in the distance. I have stopped at crossings and waited while other cars passed me and Ann went over the tracks, even though the signals were going full blast. Some of them missed being nit by seconds. Trains rarely can stop in time to prevent an accident. Whats more, a small car. if it is hit just right, can derail a train and injure or kill the crew. I know this letter is too late to help the people who died yesterday, but please print it for the sake of those who are still taking chances. When they win, they win only a few minutes. When they lose, they lose their lives. Railroaders Wife. Bear Wife: In all the years I've been writing this column, yours is the first letter I've received on this subject. Thank you for taking the time to write it. Ill bet you saved some lives today. Watch (or flashing rod ggftta. Listen for warning bseml train whletiee. Be aware of the eights end eounda ; of r&Hroed croeeing. IT DOES Politeness is like an air cushion-the- re nothing in ut may be it eases the jolts. -- Journal, Milwaukee. OPERATION LIFE SAVER RAILROADS OF UTAH COOPERATING WTH THE UTAH HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAM yss XSv'Wy ..t |