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Show T . p- r ii)i j: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Utahs Congressional Delegates Flooded With Mail On Pay Raise Utah congressional delegation this week say that their offices have been flooded with letters from the federal employee in Utah saying that they want congress to approve the 8.66 percent pay raise. All four of the senators and congressmen say that the bulk of their mail is that from the employees wo want to see their pay boosted by 8.66 percent. Congress however has failed to vote for more than the five percent increase recommended by President Ford. Both the Senators voted for the lower figure last week. Sen. Frank E. Moss indicated that his heaviest flow of mail was coming in on S-- l a bill to federal criminal code. The massive bill sponsored by Sen. John McClen, and was first proposed by the justice department. Moss said most objections were being raised over a plan to toughen the definition of insanity and tighten up other areas of rewrite the criminal law. Sen. Garn reported receiving 110 letters a day on picketing that issue involved an attempt by labor unions to gain the right to picket an entire construction site in a dispute that involves only one of several unions, this closing the complete operation. Federal courts have held recently that it is illegal for a union to picket employers not directly involvel with the dispute. Garn said that 98 percent of his mai on picketing was opposed to changing the law. Representative Gunn McKay indicated Utahns were telling him how unhappy they were with Environmental Protection agency wich is very unpopular in Utahs first congressional district. McKay said for reasons ranging from denial of sewer aid money to Wellington, to its restriction on coyote control measures. Depresentative Howe said the single most significant issue in his mail was the federal pay raise. After the senate voted down the 8.66 percent increase. Howe said Utahs correspondents suggested taking out of the resolution the congressional, judicial and upper administrative employees and giving other federal employees the full increase. Governors Approval Of Utah's Title XX Plan Finalized this is the first time local governing bodies have been involved in the planning of social services, which are publicly, funded through the Social Security Act. h Utahs plan for the orogram year, which begins October 1. 1975. amounts to a total of 814.666,700. This amount provides for .approximately S2.8 million beyond what is currently being spent for social security funded social service programs. Priorities for spending these additional dollars have been set by the Utah State Department of Social Services after conducting 22 public hearings and working intensively with the state social service policy boards and local officials concerning local needs. The plan lists 29 services. to Tnese will be welfare recipients and individuals and families. Governor Calvin L. Rampton Many of the services will also has approved Utahs first comp- be available to middle income rehensive annual services pro- groups to pay who are gram plan under Title XX of the part of the cost of willing based services, Social Security Act. In a letter to their pay. Two ability to the citizens of the state, which upon of the services, information and accompanies the plan, the Gov- referral and protective services ernor refers to an intensive planfor children and adults, are free ning effort which has involved hundreds of Utah citizens. The without regard to the income of Governor also points out that Ihe recipient. nine-mont- free-of-char- ge low-inco- me J . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1975 No Primary County Sheriff Larson Will Seek Authority To Hire 20 Deputies Election For Majority Of Utahns The majority of voters in reUlan will sit this one out to 7 Oct. the ferring primary election. However, everyone who lives in an incorporated city or town will have a chance to cast a ballot Nov. 4 in the final municipal election. Only first and second-clas- s cities or those which have opted to do so by ordinance, are required to held primary elections. Those with sufficient candidates to require a primary include Salt Lake City, Murray, Midn vale, West Jordan. Provo, Ogden. Bountiful. West Bountiful, Park City. Grants-vill- lis-tric- Lo-aa- e. Salt Lake, the only city of the first class in Utah, is electing a mayor and two commissioners. Provo, a second-clas- s city, is one commissioner and electing an auditor. Ogden is electing a mayor and six councilmen, while Logan, just converting to the council-mayform of government, is electing five councilman. Towns, those municipalities with less than 800 population, will elect two town board trustees. City judgeships are also up for election in first and second-clas- s cities, but in most cases incumbents are unopposed. Almost 190 cities and towns will elect officers in the final election Nov. 4. or County Government 'Decentralizing1 Move In Full Swing Salt Lake County governmon4. is decentraizing in the most literal sense of the word. Space probems in the City-Coun- mated that with the difference of the additional 20 and the ideal of 120 deputies te county was looking at about $2 million in difference. The formulas based for the ideals of 120 deputies was based on the national average of 1.2 law enforcement officer for each 1,000 residents. But the sheriff said he feels that this would net apply to Salt Lake County. Still wen the sprawling unincorporated area is split into patrol officer find themselves serving area about the size of Salt Lake City. The plan that the sheriffs would like to see with the addition 20 deputies would cost about $300,000 based on S15,000 to field each new officer and would bring the department total strength to 292 with a field Delmar L. Larson strength of 264. Sheriff The merit study which was acCounty cepted but commissioners will Salt Lake County Sheriff Del-m- be sent to the county auditors L. Larson said this week consideration with the sherthat contrast with that ideal and for iffs budget expected to total the practical he will seek autor-it- y some $7 million an increase of to hire some 20 additional some $600,000. deputies next year. Sheriff Larson seemed more The ideal came from a study enthusiastic about merit comwhich indicated that 120 addi- mission plan to fund and expantional deputies are needed. The sion of his department than with hiring of 120 new deputies as the proposal for the 120 new recommended by the sheriffs deputies. merit service commission would The sheriff expressed satisboost the departments field faction in the suggestion for a strength to 374 according to the special mill levy like those supgroups report. porting flood control library and That is unrealistic in the the heath department, but that light of available money," said would take action by the legis Sheriff Larson. The Sheriff esti lature. ty ar " TODAYS EDITORIAL Building have prompted various key departments to depart the building for the wide open spaces of the County Com- V plex, 21st South and State. Already gone, or preparing to go. are such department as Personnel, Intergovernmental Relations, Community Development. Purchasing and the Department of Social Services. In another sense, said Com- missioner William Dunn, the rash of moves represent 'more centralization," since many related lepartments will now be housed under the same roof at the complex. The assistant lirector of facilities and maintenance, Kurt Hawkins, agreed with Dunn. "For example, we hope to have under the same roof the closely related departments of Real Estate, Flood and Highway, Planning. and Licensing." The moves, however, have been prompted more by a crit-- ( Continued page 8i ts 4 Algae Vegetable Chunks Seen As Foodstuff Direct use of ordinary green and blue-gree- n algae for animal food and experimental human food was proposed recently at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society. To produce protein most efficiently, the algae could he cultivated in giant artificial lagoons which would yield 20.000 pounds of protein per acre, according to Dr. H. K. Kobinson of the Department of Food Science. The Fniversitv of Heading. Cheat Hritain. This compares verv well with wheat, which provides 1U5 pounds of protein per acre, and forage clover, which yields 1,478 pounds of protein per acre. (Continued on page 4) |