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Show THE UTAH Wednesday, September 8, 1976 supplement to the National Enterprise Council To Study Area Taxi Needs i n Taxi Situation: Political or Actual ? by Dean Alsup Is there a problem with Salt Lake City's taxi service? Salt Lake City Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr. says yes. Yellow Cab Co. vice president Val Thomasson says no. Phillips said that Salt Lake has had a taxi problem for years. The problem, he said, is that there arent enough taxis and that taxis are too slow to accommodate taxi riders during rush hours. Thomasson said that Phillips is just making noise." He said he thinks that Phillips is trying to get publicity and believes that if there was a serious taxi problem he would hear about it long before the commissioner would. But his office has been a lot of calls," getting Phillips said, in regard to the Most of the taxi service. complaints come from elderly people and a lot come at rush hours. He thinks taxi service in the city is adequate enough to handle traffic during the day, but not at the rush hours. "Thats when people start complain- ing," he said. are moving 2,000 Salt Lake area riders each day. Company officials say that the only problem Yellow Taxis they have at present is one of a political nature. Commissioner Phillips, on the other hand, says there Phillips office has kept partment as city commisno records regarding the sioner. nature or number of taxi Thomasson said that the complaints. I havent been city commission couldnt counting the number of taxi point out a specific area in which the taxi companies are people who are complainhe are unable to satisfy the public. ing," said, but there dissatisfied "If were doing such a bad enough people calling my office to indicate job," he said, wrhy dont that there is a problem." they come up with some Taxi service is one of about specifics. Why dont they 13 areas under Philips de tell me how many people are aren't enough taxis to handle taxi traffic during rush hours, lie's called on the Wasatch Front Regional Council to study the situation and determine if more taxi licenses are needed. complaining per day and what they are complaining about. He called the affair "political ganda." whole propa- Thomasson said that the city has "blasted him before. They tried to say we were altering our meters once before," he said. They said that we were overcharg ing our customers by changing our meters to make them run faster, or slower, or something. We had to prove there was no way we could alter our meters in any way. The accusations that they (the commissioners) are making now, like the claims they made before, are 100 percent political. Continued on jxige .lb Likened To An Oasis Warns Of Socialism International Center Key To Areas Corporate Future Marriot Attacks Deficit Spending by Mary McMillan Gaber The number one priority of the 95th Congress, according to Dan Marriott, Republican candidate for the Second Congressional District, should be to wipe out inflation. Life time bureaucrats, union pawms, and lawyers in the nations capital continue to fuel inflation with deficit spending," Marriott said, "while what the worker really wants, it the elimination of inflation, not more government programs. Marriott fears the United States is headed on a perilous course towards socialism and will continue unless sound business on page 4b prin-Continu- ed Customers using the airport think of airplanes taking off or landing and people greeting each other in a myriad of ways. But behind or underneath the passenger section is usually the essence of our gross national product: cargo. And cargo as well as people must be able to travel conveniently from airport to office or warehouse, or the airport may as well not be there, says Paul B. Gaines, director of airports. The states transportation system is essentially linked to other states and countries through the airport, Gaines continues, and the airport expansion is integral to the growth of the business community. For instance, success of the Salt Lake e International Center, a industrial park west of the airport, is closely tied to the airport. A industry, charter flights and tourism, is also dependent on an efficient airport. And, says Sands Brooks of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, Salt Lake's future as a corporate headquarters center is based on its ability to provide convenient air 680-acr- fast-growi- ng transportation for executives. International Center Like Zion itself, the Salt Lake International Center is fast becoming an oasis of green lawns, fountains, lakes and industry in the midst of a bleak desert environment. Already over 600 workers come and go daily, and plans call for another 250 to begin working there by February, 1977. First Security Banks 200,000 square-foo- t central operations building, houses 600 employees who operate computers, warehouse supplies and process data. "We located at the Center because it was one of the few places we could build such a large facility, and we wanted to provide a good, modern working area with plenty of space for our employees," explained Mason Smith, vice president of First Security. Skaggs' new 145,000 square foot Distribution Center houses about 23 employees. From this warehouse goods are delivered to stores throughout the district by Skaggs' fleet of trucks, tractors and trailers. Continued on page 9h |