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Show ' r HI V n- City Auditor Lawrence Jones Updating S.L. Plans County Finance Commissioner Ralph Y. McClure this week Mr.. Jones said the commission said industry planning to set up could use at least $700,000 for ouerations in Salt Lake County government operations and that soon may use a county master the other $300,000 of the $1 milas an index in finding a plan lion is usually committed to plant site. projects. citys capital was seen this fund improvement week as one solution to mounting municipal financial problems. The recently completed Legislature failed to provide a one-ha- lf cent increase in the for use of cities. tax sales Commissioners discussed the citys plight following adjournment of the Legislature. City Auditor Lawrence A. Jones said the city receives more than $3 million annually from the pressales tax and that ent half-ceset aside in the million is $1 capital improvements fund each year. nt He said placing of a gross receipts tax would be one of the answers to our financial woes. The tax is expected to bring in $3.5 million a year. Streets Commissioner George B. Catmull said that without help from the Legislature we may not have any money for capital improvements. Public Safety Commissioner James L. Barker Jr. suggested the auditor make a study to see what capital improvement funds are obligated because we may have to cancel some commitment to make money available for operations and salaries. The whole financial problem will have to go to department budget makers, said Parks Commissioner Conrad B. Harrison. Mr. Harrison visualized having to reduce summer time work forces. Mayor J. Bracken Lee said the city will be required to stop its giveaway programs. He referred to gifts to the Utah Symphony, Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce and other charitable and civic organizations. We may not have to use all the capital improvements money. Anyway this fund should be abolished. We should bond the citys capital improvements. Legislative Council, Committee Appointments Are Announced Appointments to the Legislative Council budget audit committees were announced this week along with other appointments to interim committees. Terms run for the next two years. Twelve of the 16 appointees to the Legislative Council are: Omar Democratic Senators B. Bunnell, Price, minority leader; Carl E. Peterson, Magna; Merrill Jenkins, Plain City; and Richard V. Evans, Salt Lake. Senate President Haven J. and three Barlow, other Republican appointees have not yet been announced by Barlow. By precedent, Barlow is scheduled to be elected chairman of the council. Other Democratic appointees from the House of Representatives are: Speaker Richard C. Howe, is Murray, who by precedentvice scheduled to be elected chairman of the council; David C. Harvey, Pleasant Grove; Mike Dmitrich, Price; and John E. Smith, Grantsville. Republican appointees from the House arc: Lorin N. Pace, Salt Lake, minority leader; Glade M. Sowards, Vernal, assistant minority whip; Homer F. Wilkinson, Salt Lake minority whip; and John Redd, Bountiful. Six of the eight appointees to the budget audit committee are Rep. Stanley A. Leavitt, and Rep. D. Leon Reese, Rep. Howard C. Nielson, Rep. Stanford P. Dar-ge- r, Lake; and Sens. ErFork nest H. Dean, and Edward T. Beck, Senate minority whip. Barlow has yet to announce the two Republican senators tr be appointed to the budget audit committee. Six of the eight appointees to the higher education committee of the Legislative Council are: Rep. L. Glen Cottle, Rep. Milly Oberhansley, D-Ore- Gll() I Mr. McClure is ordering an updating and expansion of the six year old master plan to make this a possibility. The master plan, he said, is a general thing and it should be. But it should be supplemented by addition of specific neighborhood plans showing which areas could support what industries. Updating and supplementing the plan will start this month with a total survey, the commissioner said, after a series of meetings with local industrial promotion groups. Wejve had firms interested in coming to Salt Lake County but the red tape involved in finding locations and getting them rezoned scared them off. The result is frustration and the companies go some where else and they take with them a bad image of Salt Lake County. Although the new programs wont solve everything, Mr. McClure feels they will show industrial prospects that were a pro gressive community and we want to work with them. There are all kinds of indusresearch labs, trucking tries companies, manufacturing plants and so on, Commissioner McClure continued. We have to put them in different classifications: Where one site might be good for one type of industry, it might not be suitable for another. For example, a research park such as the one being developed by the University of Utah fits easily into a residential area. But an industrial park with its warehouse facilities, truck traffic and noise would not be compatible with houses or apartments, the commissioner said. Because there is a shortage of trained planners, work must be handle done a priority basis: To see what affects the people of this valley the most and go on from there. Supreme Court Approves Code Of Professional Responsibility The Utah Supreme Court re- the Code. The Code was precently approved the Code of sented to the membership of the Professional Responsibility as Utah Bar in 1970 at meetings developed by the American Bar Association and the Utah State Bar. The new Code represents the first comprehensive revision of the Canons of Professional Ethics which have guided the lawyers in professional dealings for over 60 years. New rules of disciplinary procedure have also been promulgated by the American and Utah Bars and those too have been approved and enacted by the Utah Supreme Court. The new Code clarifies ethical standards of the profession and according to J. Thomas Greene, president of the Utah Bar, represents a substantial improvement over the existing Canons of Ethics. Mr. Greene noted that the new Code was prepared by an American Bar Association Committee which has worked on the matter since 1964. A committee of the Utah Bar also spent a considerable amount of time preparing and analyzing alt D-Kea- D-S- alt held in Salt Lake City and attended by Edward Wright, then chairman of the Code committee and now president of the AJ3.A. Following exensive discussion, the Code was approved by the Utah Bar and certified to the Supreme Court with the recommendation that it be approved. Mr. Greene noted that the Code incorporates fair trial free press standards for lawyers in the area of pretrial and trial publicity and also provides for group legal services to the nonprofit organizations as allowed by existing constitutional interpretations. The Code is primarily an improved statement of former principles as updated to meet modem situations and demands, said Mr. Greene. More than 22 states have now adopted the code and it is anticipated that many more states will act facorably on the proposal in the next few months. Demo Women to Hear Two Speakers at Creation Meet Former Assistant Secretary of Labor, Mrs. Esther Peterson and Mrs. Evelyn Dubrow, adviser to the International Ladies Gar-weWorkers Union will speak Saturday at a Concern With Creation conference sponsored by the Democratic Women of Utah. The event will start at 9 a.m. at the Rodeway Inn. Luncheon speaker will be Mrs. Calvin L. Rampton, wife of Utahs governor. Mrs. Peterson is consumer adviser to Giant Foods, Inc. Mrs. nt Dubrow, a former New Jersey newspaper woman, has held a variety of position in organized labor. Chairman of the conference is Mrs. Val J. Boothe, state vice chairwoman of the Democratic Party. She said nonpartisan subjects will be discussed, such as education, ecology, economics, consumer affairs and the arts. All women are invietd. Reservations may be made by phoning 328-023- 9. TODAYS EDITORIAL m R-Pro- R-S- 5-- FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1971 Finance Commissioner Ralph Y. McClure Sees improvements Fund 'Raid' A raid on the t JJW SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Lawrence A. Jones ., - CITY sV . - Who Needs It? Lake; Rep. Ronald T. HalverRep. Vance W. son, Green; Sen Thorpe Wadingham, The National Wildlife Federation has announced and Sen. Jenkins. Appointed to the joint opera he 3i?rd annual observance of National Wildlife Week, Mens committee are Rep. Robert March 21-2- 7, in cooperation with its 50 state affiliates. and M. Arbuckle, The theme of this year's Wildlife Week asks the Sen. Monte Bailey, Two more appointments are to piestion, Wildlife Who Needs It? be made. The sooner Americans know that the answer to this is We all do, the better our lives If liberty produces ill manners inportant question and want of taste, she is a very will become. There is no greater need today than to excellent parent with two very (Continued on Page Four) disagreeable daughters. Haglitt. Aa-gar- D-Del- ta, D-Ogd- cn Wildlife 7 1 |