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Show i- -r Rental Demands Irk Utah Guard DDg(al'iy fd du Ik5 TTGn OF New Status Symbol... Renta! demands on the Utah Air National Guard for use of facilities at Salt Lake Municipal Airport may result in loss of the installation plus loss of $3 -- million in federal expenditures to Salt Lake Valley. Salt Lake Airport Advisory Council has urged the City Commission to support a rental increase from $1 per year to per year for UANG use of the airport facility. MaJ. Gen. Maurice L. Watts, Utah Adjutant General, has warned that if the rental is imposed the UANG facility may be relocated at Bill Air Force Base. The Guard installation at the airport, Maj. Gen. Watts reminded, benefits the Salt Lake City local economy by federal support of approximately $2,961,548 per year in payment of salaries to full time employees, drill pay for National r-mbers, gasoline $40-thous- ks lUtii w lease at YET KEEP INDEPENDENT TOWN STATUS by they might eipect Iroi contract police to variably the toul savings service considered probably aeaf fifty per cent or bettor Some-lepolitical aspirants are viewcontract ing the savings possible through police service as one 'of the few remain HmMh wtueb public serwnts JUa Baldwin " Private Road Repairs Too? 8 (City Street Employees Reveal Record Padding ine use oi puouc personnel, puouc equipment and public materials to repair a privately owned stretch of road in the area of the Industrial Center was revealed to The Review this week. . That the work was done cm orders of an official high in city government in the face of a warning that the road was pri - v&te property also was told to The Review. (M rerrtment ( Underhanded , How Many Demos? v v t ODlKiL BM 6 ' four-bloc- Its Rent Free to by Jim Baldwin ha W47 my m obviouily 111 it mm la Ua el tv cloths Iba daak of a lota officer la a run! t tOUii " Mt,r Mh lota for uTooo ail at " thanujuaM - A,V J!',," it l0i u ioa., Itwul FaF tlco NIELSEN TO STEW IN OWN JVICE? b) Hierarchy of city government) that it was a private road. He told me: I didn't ask you if it was a private road. I told you to fix it!" The former employee 6&ld that he hauled approximately 10,000 tons of using gravel from a city gravel pit city trucks and crews, and distribute k stretch along the Dam Water Money tera M Site for example, with police service superior and tor more extea ve tt anythtH the city could bou tu a The er for many years 16 come could be provided, he added, nt am rd Hit mately fet cost 00 (Mi 0COllOEltfG'gtt8 Gerrard Ax MEAN ECONOMY INTERLOCAL ACT COULD tell mm te pp m puli fi to news Lut Friday moraine tht Utah State Fair Board held its regular monthly All went veil in the morning, meeting. the Fair's secretary-manag- er The roe (Jim) Gerrard, reported that he lad met with the Governor, and had received comments from Mm complimentary shout the plans for the 1966 Utah State Fair and Industrial Exposition tied to a Utah Products Week. . The board had lunch and came to KDt Mr fismnl v t - lfite EskRfey? J es liquor-by-the-dri- nk Dk Vi'L'UiJUl per year. $40-thous- The proposal was made in a resolution in which it was noted that the UANG ocof airport cupies and uses about property adjacent to the landing field. Also used are some 31 buildings belonging to the airport and other buildings belonging to the Guard. The Advisory council estimated value of the leased property at $1 --million. Activities of tire Guard, the resolution points out have become global and more a national than a local responsibility. The resolution notes that all other airport tenants are expected to pay fair rates d charges for facilities or for services by Jim Baldwin Universities I la its recommendation to the City Commission, a recommendation endorsed by City Commissioner Louis E Holley, the Airport Advisory Council proposed a 10-y-ear Membership Cards Commission , i. (SOM ILw Both CGftoinic security and police pro teetica la small communities in the Salt are being threatened by rising officers and equipment aad e otf Interstate highways t Immediate alternative todtir tUce efiertnwoess at inrreaf i application of Utah's tote oration Act The Act prof cutback In public salt be eitie who can entoy v Kttoa ttaaa the in Salt Lake City and County appears to have Sale of the in the history of commission controlled liquor sales.... reached highest peak and this phenomenon appears to have been made possible by public demand, abetted by the laws and regulations of federal, state, county and local levels. Federal tax regulations, to hear police tell it, actually make it difficult or on unlawful liquor sales activity impossible to concentrate enforcement efforts in public taverns federally taxed cm liquor sales. man State laws and local regulations, it appears, serve to protect, rather detection. establishment police against locker expose, the private liquor for And. the unexplained attitudes and conduct of courts and legal counsel to the difficulties police contributes would actually it appear, and county city, encounter in their law enforcement efforts. t Cl diifhvl' " IV F PMet or rm goU tfodar,' aafood 4vr a' 30 amt foa Lid if or thraa tlma aa much la laCroat m habypaya oo th 1 l0 tor u " P " u much u $760,000 Cicbt Cotatyv.,.iAd you aaotadontby Duty htvw up to dotsa't chorft oot Jir Bildva Salt t .kt Count Shurtff Oortt Hitlua ku to6M pro. touoMlua to ttu vwb wt lai adopted isMUonl patroaa(t Dont Bet On It pGfe Promises , Promises... esuiiMig pa aat) to utioxo D3ngjto(oiy in; s i o Police Cadet Program MM Cop and gown could very well ft 0)0 - Jim Baldwin The Civic Auditorium Board is telling nation's convention planners that the Salt Palace will be ready for them in 1968.... .but as the ink dries on the plans the $17 million complex, a growing segment of Salt Lakers are asking a second the look. Theyre asking if tills dream,' planned on a two block lot of expensive downtown property is really a dream, if it will live up to expectations, or if there are other alternatives. Inquiries made by the Review in recent weeks reveal fears of economic collapse for s wide area of private mterprise... ...and these fears seem rooted soundly in hazards which may well Impose upon the backs of valley residents a "dead weight cost' of at least per year for the ne- Some business tax-we- Editor's Note: This i the first in a series of articles ia which The Review takes a second look at the Salt Lake County Civic Auditorium complex; presenting for the first time the dissenting voice that has grown in opposition to this costly venture of county government into the entertainment business. After several weeks of investigation, study and interviews, The Review now focuses public attention on problems Inherent in the project . . . problems heretofore ignored in public accounts of expectations for the civic auditorium fa- cility. The Review will expose the other side of convention expectations for the complex. We will define the competitive that will be faced by University of Utah, and several net th' bidding ee. the M (S tl1 g1 .I!. if i tesny the Department of the future in Sa City, if City Commissioner Jim can continue with development of; LX Hoiv About The Other Side By thesymbol of excellence for f P0(i3 wwrajn Ex? ej)p RE not, flood Centre! tad wiltr itore would ImbUH from t a ten propowa for too Cottnvoo u It mdltioa dw kkn eoaM rw! etatrowvy w Soot control probtom, W Om --row masolrt - vltk t m. now On February 3 a scant 11 weeks ago....Comrhlssioner Marvin G. Jensen announced forthrightly and with flourish that he would reduce the Roads and Bridges department work force by 39 employees. The announcement was duly headlined in newspapers ' as an economy move. All of which proves me necessity of distinguishing between what a county commissioner says hes going to do and what he does. Almost as announced 30 men were terminated from the department (now renamed the County Highway Depart-- but 25 new, men have been ment) employed or transferred from other areas leaving the department only 7 short of the 262 employees on it payroll on January 31. Along with the February announcement was the estimate at a $200,000 the savings in 1966 from the release 39 employees. No announcement was made of the The Review learned of replacements. them by an analysis of payroll lists in the County Auditor's records. Theyve been accomplished piecemeal, a few every week. Two weeks before the announcement, -"ary 15, Highway employment 9. As of Wednesday of this ched 257. a all soo int-"mn- as th- - "I |