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Show THE NATIONAL ENTERPRISE, SEPTEMBER 28, 1977 Foundation SAVE TIME AND MONEY LET US HELP LOW SERVICE CHARGE 40 FIRST MONTH preside in the area under study to ensure accuracy and The found- completeness. dation won't change a finding just because an official may want them to, Pearson said, but it does want to be sure something hasn't been overlooked. Small staff REPUTABLE -- HONEST SERVICE COVERING ALL EMPLOYMENT NEEDS Much of the output has been produced by a small, but Aside from veteran staff. vetPearson, theres eran John R. Talmage, senior research analyst. The staff is rounded out by research assistant Anne Sperry and retiree Amy van Tongel, who runs the mail room. 27-ye- ar EMPLOYMENT SERVICE 2520 S. State 486-383- 8 ' niiinn'il from piigc 1? We do not merely reprint government reports, he said. Foundation policy, once the information has been ob- tained, is to print the facts and stay away from opinion, Pearson claimed. Pearson has also cut down on the number of his public appearances in order to avoid having his subjective statements confused with official pronouncements of the Foundation. The latter isnt supposed to be activist or controversial. Pearson said the foundation played a key role, for example, in getting qualified engineering personnel for the . state highway department, getting a certified public accountant into the position of state auditor, and creating the position of legislative auditor. Mont Kenney, who was once with the Foundation, now holds the latter post. Other former Foundation staffers have gone on to responsible positions in state government. "We have not discouraged our personnel when they have wanted to go to key positions in public That Pearson said. life, way, their expertise is transferred to the inside of the decision-makin- g process. Meager budget The Foundation runs on a realitively meager budget of $185,000 this year. Most of that goes to salary and pubContribulication expense. cortions to the poration come mostly from businesses, in relation to their non-prof- it DRAPERY CLEANING & PROFESSIONAL DRY CLEANING tax exposure, Pearson said. In other words, its a and it provides nice write-of- f good sources of information at the same time. Pearson wouldnt say who his major benefactors are but a quick look at the Foundation's Board of trustees would probably yield some good guesses. Among the 34 members are representatives of First Security Corp., Kennecott, Zions First National Bank, Prudential Federal S & L, BYU, Utah Power and Light. Commercial Security Bank, Mountain Bell, United States Steel, Equity Oil, Bonneville International. s Bank & Truse, Union Pacific, Sears, Roebuck. Mountain Fuel, Phillips Petroleum, and others. Tracy-Collin- 1 REMOVAL, FOR DRAPERY PICK-U-P, CLEANING AND REHANGING : M FINE DRY CLEANING 1871 South 7th East 487-854- 8 ,700 business members Pearson says there arc 1,7000 business firm members in the Foundation whose contributions range from $10 to several thousand. There arc also perhaps 30 or 35 the public entities such as major universities and the LDS Church who contribute somewhat. The Foundation has a mailing list of about 8,500, and reports arc also sent to the media. They all apparently have confidence in the organization which was started in 1945 to provide information to representatives of the business community and advise state government on tax policy. The Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce decided it needed a organization to perform that function, and it brought in Roland Vandegrift, then legislative auditor in California and a former University of Utah professor, to organize the Foundation. The rest, as they say, is dirhistory, and long-tim- e ector Pearson is still plugging away at what he sees to be an We important function. he says simply, believe. "public policies will in the long run be better if they arc based upon accurate non-activi- st |