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Show FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1971 Page Eight Utah Travel Council Display Wins Awards 8 to 21 Year Olds Cast Ballots For 'Close to Home' Government 1 -- -- the Foundation reports. Bountiful and Orem, third class cities, are larger than either Logan or Murray, cities of the second class. Bingham remains a city of the third class even though it now officially has only 31 residents. Incorporation as a city or town is optional under Utah law, and lives. A Research Report released three of Utahs ten largest urban this week by Utah Foundation, communities are unincorporated. the private, nonprofit public ser- Two of .them, East Mill Creek vice agency, discusses the func- and Holladay, are larger than tioning of municipal government either of the two smallest second in Utah and emphasizes its im- class cities. portance in the daily lives of urCities of the first class effecban dwellers. tively Salt Lake City are govMaintenance of law and order, erned by a five-ma- n commission fire protection, public health and consisting of a mayor and four sanitation, recreation, and the commissioners, all elected at provision of sidewalks, streets, large. The city auditor is also and gutters, water and sewage elected. On the 1971 ballot, and disposal systems, and garbage each four years thereafter, the collection, arc among the major offices of mayor and two comfunctions carried out primarily missioners will be contested, all by municipal governments. All of fcr four-yeterms. In 1971 (and them are of daily concern to quadrennially thereafter) the dwellers in urban places. other two commission posts and In addition, municipal govern- that of auditor will be on the ments regulate commercial and ballot. residential development within Cities of the second class are their borders by means of zoning comgoverned by a three-ma- n ordinances, building codes, and mission a of mayor and consisting licensing procedures. two commissioners, elected at Utah cities and towns are not The auditor is also an elecsovereign, but derive their ba- large. official. The auditor and one tive sic powers and are given their commissioner will be elected in responsibilities by law, both con- 1971, the mayor and the other stitutional and statutory, the commissioner in 1973. Ogden, Foundation report notes. They under its a notable exis charter, operate within frameworks set Ogden has a commission forth, and on occasion amended, ception. of a mayor and six by the State Legislature. The consisting commissioners and all serve two-yevery form of government for terms and run at each mueach class of city and town in election. In Ogden the Utah is prescribed by law, al- nicipal auditor is an appointive and not though the Constitution provides that any Utah city or town may an elective official. Cities of the third class are adopt a home rule charter and select its own form of govern- governed by a mayor and city council, the mayor ment. Only Ogden and Tooele not being a regular member of are now operating under charter council. Offices of mayor and rule, although Provo adopted a thetwo of councilmen are at stake charter in 1955 but abandoned it in 1971, the other three council in 1962. The Constitution specifically posts being contested in 1973. a board prohibits the enactment of spe- of Towns are governed by a of trustees, consisting presito specific cial laws to apply ' electall dent and four trustees, cities, but the Constitution also directs that the Legislature shall ed at large. Town residents will voting on two trustees in 1971, by general laws provide for the be and board president and incorporation, organization, and otherontwothetrustees in 1973. classification of cities and towns by proportion to population, which laws may be altered, Petroleum and Mining amended, or repealed. By setting population requirements for Wives Sponsor Party various classes of cities, the Leg- For Multiple Sclerosis islature in effect makes general laws apply to only one, or a Puppets, prizes and barbershop very few, specific places. Salt harmony will headline the HalLake City is Utahs only city of loween program for multiple the first class, and there are sclerosis patients, families and the second friends on Oct. 27 at the Salt only four cities-oclass Provo, Logan, Lake Board of Health auditorium Ogden, and Murray. Utah has 106 cities at 610 So. 2nd East. of the third class and 104 towns, This annual MS Halloween a total of 215 incorporated muni- party will be sponsored by the cipalities, after making adjust- Petroleum and Mining Wives, ments in accordance with the under the chairmanship of Mrs. 1970 census. Don Nichols. She will be assisted A city of the first class is curby Mrs. Boyd Henrie, Mrs. Allen rently one with more than 100,-00- 0 Henderson, Mrs. Ken McGriffin, residents. To become a city Mrs. Jack Blankenship, Mrs. of the second class, a city must John C. Wilson, Mrs. Barr L. have more than 60,000 and fewer Smedley, Mrs. Victor Graf, Mrs. than 100,000 inhabitants. Cities John Welsh and Mrs. Paul l. of the third class have populations between 800 and 60,000. A lively puppet show to be Towns are incorporated places presented by Mr. and Mrs. Richwith fewer than 800 residents, ard Cannady and a medley of and must have at least 100 in- familiar songs by the Oil and habitants at the time of incorpo- Landsmens quartet will be topration. ped by a prize awarding Halloa that Utah law provides city, ween costume contest for chilonce having attained a given dren and adults, with cider and classification, shall not be re- doughnuts for all. duced in rank even though it Reservations may be made by loses population or the statutory calling Mrs. Lydia Bean, secrerequirement for that class of city tary of the Utah Chapter, Nabe raised. Some peculiar situa- tional Multiple Sclerosis Society tions have arisen in consequence, at Municipal elections in 1971 will give Utahs new voters their first experience at the polls, and even though no national or state offices are at stake they will be helping to mold the layer of government closest to their daily ar ar five-memb- f Bur-chel- 521-266- 6. er After two national ski shows the Utah Travel Councils Four Seasons display has won as many awards a third place in the Los Angeles ski show and a first at Chicago. In Los Angeles, the Travel Council tied with Snowbird ski resort for third place honors while southern Utahs Brian Head ski resort walked away with second place in the contest held by a local Los Angeles ski council. At the same show last year the Utah Travel Council display won first place. This year in Chicago, the local sponsoring ski council awarded the Utah Travel Council first place. Utah Travel Council representatives at the national exhibitions, Bob Soltys, reports, More than 80,000 people braved the 100 degree Los Angeles heat to attend the show. Affpr finishing the Chicago ski show, where attendance exceeded 100,000 Soltys will travel to Detroit, New York and Boston. When not representing Utah at the shows Soltys will attend meetings with airline representatives and local travel agents informing them of Utahs Greatest Snow on Earth. Committee Approves Bill Exempting .22 Ammunition The House Ways and Means Committee has approved legislation exemting .22 caliber rimfire ammunition used in rifles and pistols from the record keeping requirements of the 1968 Gun Control Act. If Congress approves the bill, it will remove the last retail record keeping requirement for rifle ammunition from the 1968 act. Record keeping would still be required for sales of rifles and handguns and handgun ammunition other than .22 rimfire. Under this bill, retailers will no longer be required to record the name, address or other information about the purchaser of any type of sporting ammunition. This will relieve both sports-m- e nand dealers from unnecessary bureaucratic red tape and the unreasonadle burden created by the 1968 law. I believe that records of retail sales of .22 ammunition serves no useful purpose in reducing crime and imposes an unfair burden on the dealers. A similar bill was passed by the House last year but the Senate failed to act on the bill. Rep. Lloyd, who voted against the original gun control law, said the provisions on ammunition had merely served to harass both sportsmen and sporting goods dealers. Commission Candidates (Continued from page 1) by Mr. Holbrook, commented with it was an interesting vote because of my background in black voter registration, the antiwar movement and fights against media monopoly. I dont represent the usual kind of candidacy. Its nice to know that there are that many people in Salt Lake City who apparently agree with me. Wooden gates over five feet high or three feet wide usually require three hinges, but the middle one is best located slightly above center. THE SALT LAKE TIMES Regional Schools are Eligible For $34 Million Under Title I and secondary million educationally deprived of children. One of the new regulations is Health, Education and Welfares the Region VIII comprising to make certain that states of Colorado, Montana, designed federal aid to schools in poor disNorth Dakota, South Dakota, tricts is not used to make the Utah and Wyoming are elig- difference between what isupspent, ible for $34 million under final on pupils in affluent areas. The regulations relating to Title I of ratio of students to teachers and the Elementary and Secondary expenditures per for teachEducation Act signed Oct. 14 by ers salaries andpupil instructional HEW Secretary Elliot L. Rich- materials are among factors that ardson. will be used to determine comThe regulations concern the establishment of parent councils, parability. The regulations also specify bonus pay for teachers, public in-that parents of Title I students formation policies, and comparwill comprise more than a simability of state and locally fundple majority of the districts aded services. council, that a public inAccording to Regional Educa- visory formation dissemination program tion Commissioner Leon P. Min-ea- r, be will maintained by Title I the Title I funds in HEW with free copies of perRegion VIII will serve nearly projects, tinent documents available to 134.000 children in 1,338 school parent councils, and that special districts. bonuses may be paid to teachers Nationally, the regulations in schools with very high conwill affect the distribution of more than $1.5 billion to ever centrations of children from 16.000 school districts serving 8 families. Elementary schools in the Department ; low-inco- me Motorists Face "Retirement" Says Tire Industry Safety Council Retirement is right for some persons and wrong for others, but when it comes to its a must for all motorists eventually. The Tire Industry Safety Council warns motorists that continuing to drive on bald tires tires with a tread depth of of an inch or less is not only unsafe, but impractical. While delaying on the replacements, the tires are up to 44 more times likely to suffer disablement that could lead to a serious accident. Surveys show that tires are involved in less than one percent of all highway accidents, says Ross R. Ormsby, chairman of the Council, but in more than half of these cases the tires are bald or worn to the cords. The Office of Vehicle Systems Research, formerly of the Bureau of Standards and recently assigned to the U. S. Department of Transportation, re-tiri- ng 1-- 16 Na-toin- al Inflation Pressures Predict Decline in 72 Inflation pressures will slacken in 2972, it was forecast this week by Eldred L. Waldron of Logan, president of the Utah Savings and Loan League. Mr. Waldron said he feels that President Nixons economic program will have more than just a limited impact on inflation. The. rate of inflation will be substantially lower next than it was in the first six months of this year. The rate of inflation in 1972 is much more likely to be in the range of two to four per cent than in the range of four to six per cent. The favorable prospects in the fight against inflation will mean that mortgage rates on the home loans are not going to move hgiher in the next three to six months. We have joined the United States Savings and Loan League in backing the Administrations battle against inflation and the Utah savings and loan business plans to hold the line on interest rates in the period just ahead. I can see no circumstances which would cause us to retract this pledge. has estimated that as many as one third of the cars on the highway are riding on at least one bald tire. Auto registrations in 1970 totaled 89,309,101. Dividing these government figures, are are possibly 20,769,700 cars on the highways with potentially dangerous tires. The Council reminds motorists that driving on bald tires is illegal in many states. Minimum tread depth laws are presently being enforced in 29 states, including Utah. Only two states. California and South Carolina, inch as a minimum require allowable tread depth. Government tire experts Jack L. Harvey and Dr. F. Ceciil Brenner of the Office of Vehicle Systems Research, stated in their study: There is evidence of significantly greater hazards, not only of tire failure but of an accident with bald tires. The evidence is sufficient to justify further study leading, perhaps, to action by appropriate authorities limiting the use of such tires. Indeed, it may be found desirable to establish inch as the minimum tread average depth for acceptance in periodic inspections of cars in use. Tires with deep cuts and sidewall cracks should also be rejected. 1-- 32 1-- 16 The supply of funds are quite ample in Utah savings and loan associations to finance the home building and home buying. Utahs savings and loan associations provide nearly half the financing for homes in the state and Mr. Waldron notes, There is every reason to believe that the insured associations will have enough financial resources for continued strong activity in all phases of the residential real estate business. If you are 35 years old or older, the Utah Society for the Prevention of Blindness urges you to see your ophthalmologist every two years from now on, because youre in the age group most often struck by glaucoma, a blinding eye disease. Glaucoma cannot be cured, but, with early detection and careful treatment it can be controlled. ' |