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Show I s if' Orem-Geneva Times Thursday, Jauu: ry i Afew Building Needed County Leaders Claim By Nina B. Reid Utah County Recorder Recordings in the County Recorder's Re-corder's office have increased from 13,000 to 17,003 in just one year. This has necessitated the hiring of additional personnel and filling prime storage space with voluminous permanent records. At the current rate of growth our office alone would require twice the room we have now in just a few years. We hope that our projected microfilm permanent recording system will eliminate some of this problem. Presently the Microfilm Department is filming records dating back to 1923 for the County Clerk. On this job alone we anticipate having to use one camera full-time. An additional ad-ditional camera will be used to film the daily take for the Recorder's Re-corder's office and records for other offices which must be filmed for security purposes. At the present time, however, there is no room for this new camera. In order for our office to proceed pro-ceed with an active filming program, pro-gram, we will have to house the camera, duplicating machine, processor and film cabinet in addition to equipment we already have. For the public's viewing convenience, readers will have to be available and, consequently, space for them. The space situation we find ourselves in now could never handle these necessary neces-sary requirements. With an effective filming program pro-gram we could eliminate a constantly con-stantly growing need for storage space of large heavy binders inasmuch in-asmuch as the space presently taken by one permanent record book will hold approximately 15 times as many filmed records. However, our need now for additional ad-ditional space with or without the microfilm updating is great Our Plat Department is severely overcrowded, and our microfilm room where equipment and per sonnel are constantly in each other's way is in great need of expansion. Even with the proposed two samll rooms which would be available by virture of the proposed pro-posed judicialsecurity facility, our personnel in the main office will remain essentially the same where they must "battle" with the public and title people for their share of space. In my opinion the County Commissioners Com-missioners and all those involved have been more than fair and honest in assuming their tremendous tre-mendous responsibility of attempting at-tempting to satisfy the needs of Utah County with respect not only to judicial and penal facilities, but to local government needs in general. If you are sincerely interested in Utah County Government, come in and make yourselves intelligently in-telligently acquainted with conditions con-ditions as they really are. Take the self-guided tour and ask whatever what-ever questions you may have. I'm sure this would clear up any doubt about the need for the new building. luwneif a HOUSE of FINE MEAT 838 NORTH STATE, OREM 2 Doors North of Park's Cafe 225-0336 Center Cut Only Select Pork Chuck (Sy Roast 5?W mm mmmmm m-m mm Toon eeff AM0T "XJS-itM Lean Choice Steer. Lean Turkey Added Pi f7t . il o r m v i riv. i .... 1 W 1 I 1 ksmmSK mmm mmm Veal Cutlets 7$ FOR 3-Oz. Breaded i Mutton Cut & Wrapped For Freezer LB. J Country Sty le Z''! ""X LB' or Rack' "'-- Sf' Sliced E(S)(jSlab rifoA j Bologna " Baconn.'vVY mmmmmmmmmmlmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmMm mmmmmm M nmw;mxm i :"iiUii, is Roast jf y I HALF PORK ,g I 1 Lean, Cut,Wrapped, Froien, Ham & Bacon Cured tS IU I HALF BEEF I 1 Choie Steer, Cut, Wrapped and Froien Letter To Editor OPPOSES BOND Gentlemen: It is nice to know that a few people have the courage to publicly pub-licly question the wisdom of hurling hurl-ing the County into a four million dollar debt for something we do not need badly enough to justify such a move. People are tired of deception, at least in one or two of our cities. "It will only cost $2.39 percapita". Why don't they say it will only cost the average family about $11.89, since there is generally only one in each family to pay the taxes. Then why don't they remind us that there are thousands of people who pay little or no property taxes, especially the new crop of oters just coming on? Anyone who has seen our bounty jail house will probably igree that we need a better jail louse, but why wake up all at once? By the same token, anyone any-one who has seen our present county court house will question the wisdom of saddling our children child-ren with this huge debt for something some-thing we do not need badly enough to justify such a debt. Why don't we start and just play we have to raise a quarter of a million dollars on a debt, but instead of paying it we just put it in the bank where it will draw interest, then in a few years we should have enough cash to pay for the new building; maybe by that time someone will com? JP with a plan whereby our present building can be rewired, if nec-cessary, nec-cessary, and the heating system modernized, etc. and we could still be proud of the building we already have. I can't believe my own figures or even that of my interest rate book when it comes to figuring the interest on four million dollars. dol-lars. Why don't ws ask our jail birds to be patient for just one more year. With the interest in-terest and principal we are going to save we will build a jail you will be proud of. It won't be on the proposed lot. Who ever heard of extravagance beinj a determinant deter-minant to crime? O. H. Anderson, Orem, Utah, USU Booklet Breaks Down Food Costs LoganDo you sometimes wonder if you nuke the best use of your food numey? Does it provide nutritious meals for your family at a price you can afford? A booklet available at Utah State University, "Your Money's Worth in Foods," might help you answer these questions, commented com-mented Flora Bardwell,USU food and nutrition specialist. The bookelt is available free from USU, Bulletin Room, Ag Science Building, or from County Home Agents. Mrs. Bardwell said that it's more important to consider price per serving than price per pound when purchasing food items. For example a picnic ham with bone in at 55 cents per pound costs 25 cents for a three-ounce serving. With the bone out you pay 70 cents per pound and the cost for a three-ounce serving is still only 25 cents. The booklet has a complete breakdown of costs per serving on all types of meats and vegetables. veg-etables. Other hints available in '.he booklet include best buys in eggs, cost of different milk forms, best buys in vegetables and fruits, meat alternates, and nutrition information. in-formation. The booklet, which is published by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Ag-riculture, also outlines what you should be paying each week for food, using low-cost, moderate and liberal plans for different' incomes. Community School Classes To Begin Community School classes will be held at Westmore Elementary for youth and adults beginning Jan. 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. These courses will be offered: ceramics, cer-amics, beginning guitar, ukelele, drums, modern dance, and directed di-rected recreational activities. Pre-registration forms maybe obtained at the office at Westmore or information may be obtained by calling Bob Christensen, 225-6383. DID YOU KNOW? Raptors are birds of prey such as eagles, vultures, hawks and owls. Brigham Young University leads the nation in the study of raptors. Project Two Thirty-Nine is a county-wide need, deserving county-wide support in the January 18 election. OH f50UGlnlS Mil n n n Z n wmm ciGn Your sheriff, charged with controlling crime in Utah County, is forced by lack of space in the County Building to operate without a prisoner "lineup" room, without proper prisoner interrogation and interview rooms, without a tactical squadroom, without a training room and without many other facilities he needs to do his job. re ct Two Your county jail, an abandoned pump plant, is hopelessly crowded, hopelessly outdated. out-dated. It provides no facilities for segregating first-time young offenders from hardened harden-ed criminals, no facilities for rehabilitation of any kind, no facilities for training, no facilities for medical isolation (including drug-related infectious hepatitis.) Fact Three Your county building, constructed in 1926, is similarly overcrowded due in part to a three-fold increase in county population since its construction. The offices of your county clerk, recorder, assessor, surveyor, treasurer and district court clerks, among others, are seriously overcrowded. There is only one jury room for three courts. In consultation with community leaders, professional consultants of the Federal Bureau Bu-reau of Prisons, state and municipal prison authorities, and community planners, your elected commissioners, following an exhaustive study reported extensively by the press, has recommended construction of a new facility designed to solve these problems. It would provide your sheriff with the tactic crime control "facilities he needs, an adequate jail, and proper facilities for our courts and our county clerk. Construction of the new judicialsecurity building will, for the foreseeable future, provide adequate facilities for these functions, and will relieve the overcrowded conditions con-ditions in the existing county building. raci Five No tax increase is involved in the $4 million project, to be located immediately east of the existing county building. All that is needed is the consent of the voters to undertake a 20-year bonding program. Utah County, with no present bonded indebtedness, indebt-edness, and with one of the lowest mill levy rates in the state, has been pronounced in "excellent" condition to undertake such a bonding program by professional financial fin-ancial consultants. The $2.39 is an average per-resident yearly cost figure for the project, pro-ject, including interest charges. feet Six Your elected county commissioners, your sheriff, judges, county officers and a wide segment of the Utah County community strongly endorse this proposal and urge you to give it your full support by voting "Yes" on January 18. These Utah County citizens and scores of others fully support and endorse Project Two Thirty-Nine: Steven Hansen LeGrand Jarman Larry L. Francis Heber Wolsey Glade Gillman Clarence Robison Bruce R. Dixon Calvin Baxter Richard A. Call Calvin Swenson Carl Patten Herbert E. McLean Gary Stone Mack Holley J. Robert Bullock Russell Innes William V. Oldroyd Mildred Ream Robert Hilton Verl D. Stone Merrill Hermansen Howard Barnes Diane Farnsworth Reed E. Halladay Haws Durfey Ray Whiting N. Gregory Soter Doyle Crook Max Warner John Markham Carlos Hjorth Harold B. Sumner Don T. Allen Collin Allen A. B. Gibson Ralph Chappie Paul A. Thorn Willard C. Nelson Harvard Hinton Allen B. Sorenson Ed Butterworth Fred Markham J. C. Henderson Stanley D. Roberts Claudius Stevenson M. Dayle Jeffs Morris Clark January H8 for new judicialsecurity building. i u - hi - r |