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Show ' ! i'i REVIEW, A6 February 17, 1966 Barker No Dough ; (Continued from page 1) Barter pointed out. This one was real and occurred in that old source of trouble the police pension fund. At the present rate of de- and withdrawals the funds will be bankrupt by the end of 1967. After that, the city will have to pay police pensions out of its general fund, according to Mr. Barker. With the city now paying $90,000 (about) per annum into the fund, the City Auditor told Mr. Barker, contributions of about $140,000 must be made to maintain the present rate of withdrawals. Mr. Barker made note of what has been apparent: The City Fathers have been hoping to escape their quandary by having the state legislature set up a system for the state to administer the Salt Lake Police Pension Fund. Something Cheap Fire Chief A1 Thompson declares, for purchase of equip-M- r. ment that will cost $210,000. Mr- - Barker suggested the future budgets should take into consideration the equipment n.eeds..of departments "ra-pos- its ther than permitting them to accumulate to the hazardous stage." For this year, though, lacreases have been granted with money to be obtained by ignoring equipment again needs, and by the probable need to borrow $130,000 from capital improvements. Adding injury to injury, Mr. Barter reminds the city fathers that the city still owes capital Improvements funl some $50,000 from money borrowed to meet an earlier pay increase. I ncr&qse The new raise schedule, Barker goes on, calls for automatic increases. Other increases will be demanded to meet cost of living increases. Two new fire stations are a must for the city. An increase in the cost of housing city prisoners is around the corner. The New Hall of Justice was constructed to require more personnel, more equipment and supplies . . . more money. Those added city costs are for Public Safety only, Mr. Mr. What hasn't been clear is that were not going to get something for nothing, the loyal opposition pointed out. Mr. Barker then pointed his opposing fingeratthat$3-mil-lio- n deficit and declared: The . hoped for new law wont re-;-V lieve Salt Lake City from the j i VrtA obligation of making up its deficit. Present V' Mr. Barker said that ex- -ploratory talks with state offi-a- V Barker noted. cials indicate that the antici-- V Understatement pated state law will require that Salt Lake City bring its And, in the understatement pension fund current if it is to of the entire State of the City quamy for participation in the Message: "It seems to me that proposed state fund. the finances of Salt Lake City The city, apparently, hopes are in a precarious state. It to have a ar would cause me no amount of period of to make up thede- - pleasure if someone can show 'j'ficit, Even with the 30 years me that I am wrong." Free advice from the rookie granted, in which to make up for past with city administrator: "We must 'Vvv th law. Mr. Barter declared, economize by carefully scrutand the fiscal consultant inizing every facet of city op.. agrees, the city will have to erations. We must actually about $270,000 per year perform as recommended by "v ' pay into the state fund at a dimin-,'- y. the city auditor and the fisv cal consultant. s ishing rate. By the 30th year, "Y we'll be paying $150,000 per About the recommendations of the fiscal consultant, Mr. year. i'W v N Thai payment, he empha-size- d, Barker observed that back cm will make up only the April 29, 1964, Mr. Oliver deficit. made some detailed "suggespresent ' ihe total required payment tions for achieving operating X;,: into the proposed fund, Mr. economies in various deBarker said, will be $320,000 partments. ; 'if!::;; Pr year more than is now Ideas Ignored being paid. It has been admitled publicly V-- Y Praise that the suggestions, largely, as were ignored. Bis paragraphs of praise The resolution that came f ' .V: now far in the background, Jim from Mr. Oliver along with his to the meat of the u ' Barker gets for the city fathers, situation: The city has been praise Mr. Barker notes, duplicates able to live within its income the 1964 suggestions. during the last few years by Anjl, "if the present resol ignoring concerning i v iwA il: ! ,' v.i Also, chase of equipment for the various departments, not by decreasing or streamlining city personnel. Mr. Barker, who has begged the other commissioners to go along with him on nationally -worldwide - recognized techniques of effecting economy, observed that manpower has increased in the city. Procedures While t 0 Barker offers Mr. procedures for cutting back personnel totals, the payroll shows that numbers employed has Increased from L574 at the end of 1961 to 1,650 at the end of 1965. The Public Safety Depart- ment . . . . area J.m Barkers of operations . . . ."is at a point where economy can no longer be achieved simply by making the old equipment last another year," Mr. Barker warned. The Fire Department, he said, is operating engines of 1941 and 1942 models. Since 1956, the Fire Department has had to abandon its program of purchasing a major fire fighting unit every three years. Equipment There is an immediate need. do little by Mary Gail Stark new modern structure the Holladay area that is described by leading architects and engineers as an architectural masterpiece was completed recently. The new complex, built by W. P. Harlin Construction Co. is the Regis Medicus Building located at 2200 East Murray YVYTYr 2:00 two-sto- private telephone system is installed which functions asj a dial inter-co- m system, a1 direct general or selective paging system and a remote control dictating system. Open House will be held at the new medical building on Sunday, February 13, between' the hours of 2 and 7 p.mj structure. Other supporting faculties include emergency surgery and cast room areas, complete physical therapy section as well as Moffitts Regis Pharmacy, Regis Optical and Hearing Aid Shop, and Regis Coffee House. The building will embrace every major field and facility --- Physical Therapy, Pulmonary Istope, Function, General Laboratory, Radiologic. John W. Sugden, architect chief designer and one-tifor the famed Mies Van Der Rohe, has designed a buUding not dated as to period but perpetual in design and ageless in selection of materials. The entire four --perimeter waUs were prefabricated into eight huge sections and welded with a framework of structural steel into llteraUy a unibody structure, fabricated with such precision that the special glass panels fit within a inch tolerance. The glass, caUed solar bronze, inch plate is of providing a most efficient barrier against summer sun heat absorption and permanent in its beauty. therein Radio -- one-eigh- th one-quar- ter AU interior walls- - are of steel studs, double faced with special soundboard, thus making each waU as virtually soundproof as is possible to construct a building. Cllmatel control, is achieved by a) special system of overhead ventilation providing individual control of temperature and ventilation in each room, thus making it possible even one portion to of the building while heating another. All doors and frames are of steel indeed, the oily wood used within the building is the wall paneling of genuine walnut or rosewood especially matched, one panel to the next, as is the White Roman travertine in the lobbies. Interior designers, John W. MIKE DOUGLAS v SHOW Youth Conference The annual Adult-You- th Conference in Jordan School District will be divided into junior and senior high school groups for the first time this year, according to Mrs. Gordon Merrill, of the disfirst trict PTA and Earl Thurman, pupil personnel director. The conference is held each year so that young people can air their problems, discuss and remedy these when possible. The senior high conference will be held February 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at HUlcrest High School under the chairmanship of Roger Simper, studentbody president. The theme will be Todays Goal, Tomorrows Destiny. The public is invited to attend the reporting session from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. Junior high conference will be held February 23 from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in West J ordan J unior High. Deo studentbody president at Butler J unior High is chairman of the program, themed, "Youth Asks Why. The reporting session wUl be from 11:50 to 12:30 p.m. The adult session will be conducted March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Midvale Junior High. Parents and interested adults are encouraged to attend. vice-presid- ent Hal-lad- ay, t u ii MITCHELL TRIO FRI. SANDY MON. LOUIS TUE. LIONEL HAMPTON WED. BETTY WHITE BARON NYE KCPX TV -- H. STRONG MOTOR CO. AVAUABLE Deal 1 ONLY AT UTAHS No. 1 MNm FORD DEALER 41west6Qisouth T ARCH BROWNING BUICK 510 SO. MAIN tf 364-657- 5 CAPITAL CHEVROLET 777 SO. STATE 355-75- w rs w r 33 HAYES BROS. 2280 SO. STATE 484-618- a, Yi Keys to the University of Utah this year. Protests of the bookstore's policies still echo around Campus. Perhaps apathy week died because no one cared. Challenge week hit students head on with the best in university programming. Programs and speakers revealing new insights in major issues of our day. Learn what's happening in the new world of academia. Subscribe to the Daily Utah Chronicle. Rates: $5.00 per year, $2.00 per quarter. Just call 322-748- 3. aili ttah Chronicle (Ehc hijihpw 1 MATES SPORTS CAR CLINIC PROTEST APATHY & CHALLENGE Cmwm 'W' L. Utohs No. 1 i FEBRUARY Jordan ry w THE 1 To eliminate the necessity of a central switchboard, a first started on buUding in June of la4t year and over 17,000 square feet of space will be utUized by fourteen physicians who will bo housed In the Work was the seating1 space. ently but capitalize cm the group concept of sharing central facilities; thereby providing better and more adequate faculties at less individual overhead cost. WEEKDAYS & ishings and individual tandem, seats provide adequate -Holladay Road (4800 South), Holladay. The organizational structure is a new and unique concept utilizing the corporate struc- -j ture to preserve the individual (independent) practice of medicine a system in which each doctor may practice independ- GREAT GUESTS! THUR.-- Sugden and Pembroke Company, have slected a charcoal and black decor for the furn- A al, nmFvw !i good. The budget limiting procedures that lave been proposed by Mayor Lee bear no resemblance to the suggestions of Mr. Barker, when he advises that we look to large private corporations for guidance. Large corporations, particularly those that achieve success, have industrial enMr. Barter said. gineers, "These are efficiency experts who periodically review company operations to eliminate waste and inefficiency. 'Salt Lake City operations -from an efficiency standpoint -have never been reviewed except by the politicians in charge. "I sincerely believe that the only way we will achieve a measure of true economy is by having our operations reunviewed by a biased efficiency expert - and having his conclusions published so that we will be under public pressure to put his recommendations into effect. Because some of the city departments - Mr. Lee, Mr. and Mr. George Catmull Holley - have resisted Mr. Barkers suggestion, hesug gested in conclusion that each department should make a real effort to achieve an economical operation wthout regard to political considerations. Area Gains Regis Medicus Hall .. linn, LJ r L I. iiwihwmihihuiiwwim 581 SO. MAIN 359-240- 1223 3 JOHNSON LINCOLN MERCURY 951 East 21st lb ZION South 484-873- COMET 1 MOTORS 4646 SO. STATE |