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Show UNIVERSAL mcilCFISriXNO BOX 2603 Legislature Convenes With Cells For Longer Session To Meet Need Invites Bids On Anticipation Note .' The hussle and hurry of the 41st Legislature is being felt this week with a flurry of bills being presented to both house for conferences and passage of new legislation. The need for longer legislative sessions and better interim organization to take care of the pressing needs of the state were those heard with the greatest emphasis during the first week. Senate President Ernest H. Dean called for a revamp of interim committees, including joint operations and legal services and said it was imperative that the office of the legislative auditor be implemented. Ronald Rencher, House Speaker, also supported longer sessions. He said that a bill should be passed allowing a general election next year to submit to the voters the constitutional amendments necessary to achieve legislative reforms. Many measurers are piling up in the Legislature, for instance one measure calls for general session of the legislature of 60 legislative days to be held every year and three other resolutions would change the method of determining the pay of legislators. Other bills set for introduction include one setting up a state department of transportation which would take in the State Road Commission, State Highway Department, Division of Aeronautics, Board of Aeronautics and Passenger Tramway Safety Board. Other subjects represented in legislation in Senate and House .: ' .& 8-11- FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1975 Salt Lake County . 's? s .A. County Anticipates $1 Million Community Development Funds SL Salt Lake County will most likely qualify as an Urban this month, and as County such, will be eligible for approximately $800,000 to $1 million in entitlement funds under the new Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, County Commission Chairman Ralph Y. McClure said. Commissioner McClure said d the preliminary assessment of the Countys qualifications to receive community development funds was contained in a letter received by hif from David O. Meeker, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. Commission McClure said that Secretary Meeker reported that a review of materials and information submitted to his office by Salt Lake County in early December of last year substantiates that the County possesses statutory authority to conduct redevelopment and public assisted housing activities in the unincorporated areas. Inasmuch as you do possess these powers . . . and you do appear to have at least 200,000 population in such areas, you will most likely be an urban county for FY 1975, Meeker said. long-awaite- I ! Ernest II. Dean Senate President hoppers were taxation safe walkways utility rates, preschool immunization, security of school teachers, transit districts and mental illness. Arthur L. Monson County Treasurer The Salt Lake County Commissioner this week called for bids to borrow some $16.5 million in tax anticipation notes. The opening for the bids on the lowest possible interest will be On hand is a package of bills held in the city and county ready for introduction which building. would extend taxes on mineral County treasurer Arthur L. to such substances as sodium, Monson said the money which potash, phosphate, sand, rock and (Continued on page S) other nonmetalliferous substances. To ease the impact of such in- Howe, Garn Await dustries as those processing Great Salt Lake Waters for min- Official Word On eral the legislation would per- Committee Calls mit spreading of the so called Utahs two new members of start up costs over a period of Congress get their committee as10 years. signments this week, selections by the congressional leadership which may decide their legislative careers for decades. Rep. Allan Howe, as already been told informally that he will be on the House Interior Committee and on the Public Works the property tax by $1 million and Transportation panel. Those the Utah Legislature will ap- - choices, made for him by the ('1$: prove Caucus Steering a one fourth cent sales Democratic tax increase. Committee, must be ratified by The reasoning behind the trade the full caucus meeting here this offer is to make the offer in week. would Sen. Jake Gam, which it is estimated that it on to the Senate be placed would insure a stable revenue like Interior Committee and on the base for the city. Commissioner Glenn Banking, Housing and Urban AfCity Greener and Jennings Phillips, fairs Committee. Jr. this week said that a recent Garn still has no word what meeting they had with Governor his assignments will be. He Calvin L. Rampton included a should learn later this week, discussion on the offer. after the Republican leadership City Mayor Conrad B. Harri- meets. son said that if the sales tax is His wait could be prolonged if increased the city could reduce the Senate accepts a challenge to the property tax by three mills. the election of Sen. Louis WyAfter consulting with the other man, Whether Wyman commissioners, Mayor Harrison keeps his two-vot- e victory marsaid the others concur with the gin or loses it will affect the balconcept. ance of Republican-Democrati- c It is estimated that the in- Senate scats on all committees, Commissioner Glen Greener crease in sales tax would mean and could result in Garn going some $2 million in added rev-- ( on different panels that he would The Salt Lake City this week offered to reduce otherwise be eligible for. Continued on iage 4) ! ! Time For Trading Game With Tax Dollars Offered By Commission R-Uta- R-N.- H. li, r Ralph Y. McClure Commissioner Commissioner McClure pointed out that a maximum entitlement of roughly $1,046,000 is contingent upon the County entering into cooperation agreements with all of the incorporated cities of Alta, West Jordan, South Jordan, Murray, Midvale, Sandy, South Salt Lake, and Riverton, but excluding Salt Lake City which is receiving its own entitlement of approximately $4.5 million. (Continued on page 8) TODAYS EDITORIAL Say Goodbye To The Hollywood Indian recent study indicates that the conventional porof the American Indian has been trayal of the false and that the general publics distorted images of the Indian as a noble warrior, or brutal savage, or a stock comic character uttering unintelligible sounds are changing. 'These inaccurate images have been aided and abetted by movies, television, and social science research. Psychologist Joseph E. Trimble finds that the caricatures of the American Indian are so real and pervasive that Indians themselves have sometimes found it necessary to assume the mythical roles so they will be perceived as Indians by However, Trimble claims that the Indians have always known when thev did not. Thus, there has were been, at times, a mutually exploitative relationship. The Oklahiina Citv University Professor concluded in a 10(58 study that the Hollywood image of the Amer- ( Continued on page 4) A self-ima- ge non-Indian- role-playin- g; non-India- ns s. 72 -- CITY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH CCR5 71 |