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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH County Attorney Carl Nemelka Asks Flood Attorney Resignation FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1971. Tribute to Young Voter end Governors Ball Slated January 26, 1972, will be the date set. for the annual Governors Ball set for the Terrace Ballroom. The event will start at 8:30 and honor Governor and Mrs. Rampton. A Tribute to the Young Voter and the 26th Amendment will be the theme for the Ball. for the Governors Ball are John Ballinis and Ruth Draper. Other chairmen of committees include Hal Gardner, Harold Chesler, Bettina Black, J. Gordon Brownings, Stan Dickinson, John Klas, Kent Briggs, and Doris Roemer. Admission will be $100.00 and reservations are required. The Utah Symphony will provide the music in what has become a tradition, and Utahs Repertory Dance Company will entertain and the evening dancing will be Bill Fowlers Combo. James McIntosh The 1972 Governors Ball will asked to resign lead to the success of the 1972 candidates for election in the resignation. general election and the support Attorney Nemelka said that of all is urged. he would take steps to see that the matter was handled immediately and take the necessary Lawrence A. Jones, steps to have the matter settled in court City Auditor, Shows Responding to the letter Flood Cautious CitySpending Control Attorney McIntosh said he was surprised to receive the letter. I certainly dont know what precipitated it. I have represented Salt Lake County for 10 years in the flood control and no one has ever questioned my legal advise even though my association with the county has been investigated by the county attorney and auditors cf the opposite political party. Mr. McIntosh went on to say, my procedures and recommendations to the county commissioners and departments of storm drainage have followed the same pattern for the 10 years. Mr. McIntosh has tried many times to reach the county attorney to set up a meeting to iron out the matters but the county attorney will not meet to receive telephone calls from Mr. McIntosh. Lawrence A. Jones Through Problems, Dissension A Thank You for Com. Catmull Co-chairm- en Carl Nemelka Carl Nemelka. Salt Lake Coun ty Attorney, has asked for the resignation of Flood Control Attorney James McIntosh. The county attorneys office request for the resignation has touched on a dispute which has gone on during the past several years over whether attorneys could serve the various branches of county government without being part of the elected county attorneys staff. In the letter to Mr. McIntosh the count attorney said, that the flood control attorney is no longer affiliated either directly or indirectly with the Salt Lake County Attorneys Office. At least two other departments are gaining legal services from an attorney, apparently independent of the County Attorney. The main reason for the request of the resignation from Mr. McIntosh stems from the commented way of handling procedures which the county attorney said your disregard of multiple directives from me and this office relating to advising the county attorney on procedures and recommendations made to commissioners and others on flood control matters arc the reasons for the request of the $5.5 Million Central Utah Project Funds Get Approval Senator Frank Moss has announced that $5.5 million was approved to continue work on the Central Utah Project by the Public Works Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The measure is expected to receive quick approval from the full Senate Appropriations Corti-mittc- e. Of the $5.5 million expected, $4.8 million go to the Bonneville section of the Central Utah ... Project and $700,000 will go to accelerate construction on the Jordan Aqueduct section of the Project. The Jordan Aquedict is the part of CUP that will expedite the flow of water into the Salt Lake Valley where the demands on the current water supply arc greatest. In a November letetr to Sen. Stennis, chairman of the Senate Public Works Subcommittee, which helped ease the way for the $5.5 million, Moss urged Stennis to approve appropriation of the seriously needed funds. The approval of the Central (Continued on page 8) Salt Lake Citys financial situation is good and may look even better when its share of the 1971 property taxes is received from the county. Expenditures for the period July 1 through October totaled $5,792,533.69, while collections were $4,220,712.67, according to the report. The city has $20 million innotes vested in interest-bearin- g of different types. This includes the $8.5 million of airport bond funds. Spending ran ahead of revenue collections but is considered normal at this time of the year, (Continued on page 8i Com. George Catmull Salt Lake City Commissioner George Catmull left his own construction company to seek and help the citizens of Salt Lake City when he was elected to the post of commissioner. Mr. Catmull has served the last years as street commissioner in Salt Lake. His department has set and achieved many goals of new road surface laid in Salt Lake City, more mileage than any other streets commissioner had laid before. Commissioner Catmull has served the people of Salt Lake City in a fashion any person would be happy about. He has been faced with many problems while serving his term in office and many facets of dissension within his department. Although he has faced up to them and has been fair with all who came before him, Mr. Catmull has served his office with honor. After all the many years in public life Commissioner Catmull has now decided to take a well deserved rest with his wife and somewhat retire from public office. (Continued on page 8) TODAYS EDITORIAL v Half of Blindness Preventable 'Today more and more the concept of preventive medicine is being adopted as a solution to many of the pressing health problems facing the nation, but it is only in recent years that this concept has begun to come into its own: prevention is not the traditional approach. 'The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, founded in 1908 for the sole purpose of identifying and working toward the elimination of the causes of preventable blindness, has played a pioneering role in th emove to emphasis on prevention in health care. With its wide ranging program the Societys goal has always been to reach as much of the population for whom the potentiality of blindness exists as possible before blindness can occur. 'The Societys task is a large one. In the Unied States right now, today, half of all blindness is preventable. This means that of the estimated 35,000 more Americans who will become blind in the next twelve months, half will lose their vision needlessly. Evidence that the challenge is being met has been demonstrated in two recent events of import. After fifteen years of intensive campaigning by the National Society and its state affiliates, the Food and Drug Administration has finally responded by issuing a regulation, effective January 1, 1972, requiring that all eyeglasses and sunglasses manufactured or sold in the United States have impact resistant lenses. Thus, in the ( Continued on page four) |