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Show 1 . fi J I i : - r a O 7 A - O 1 yftnifi)a pr,0,(Sli,oii Fair KEARNS - Fire protection for unincorporated Salt Lake County is back in the limelight with the announcement by Salt Lake County Commissioners of a public hearing to be held April 27. Following the hearing opponents of the Salt Lake County fire tax will have 15 days to get the names of half of all the registered voters in the unincorporated area to sign petitions opposing the tax. If the tax goes through Salt Lake Countys Fire Department will once again be operating under the legal sanction of the law. County commissioners were forced into the awkward position of drastically increasing county taxes by an order of the Utah Supreme Court last May. That order declared that residents of the incorporated cities in the county could not be required to pay taxes which go for services in the county they do not receive and which they pay for separately through another tax (city tax). That order prevents the count from using county wide taxes to pay for planning, street lighting, garbage, and fire protection. The county was able to put through special service distr icts w ith the taxing authority to collect on all but fire protection. Because fire protection is more expensive than the other areas the county lacked the authority to take such a big tax bite without permission from the voters 0,i February 22, less than 13,000 unincorporated residents went to the polls and decided for the entire area not to pay for fire protection. Risking a contempt of court judgement Salt Lake County commissioners ordered the county fire department to continue as usual and the county has not been without fire protection even though that protection has not been legal. Since a vast heavily populated area such as Salt Lake County cannot- be without fire protection county leaders appealed to the Utah State legislature. The new measure approved by the legislature eliminates the chance for voters to vote on the tax. When county residents defeated the February proposal they forfeited this right. - If the new tax is not defeated by petition by May 12 property owners may expect an additional tax of approximately $3.25 for each $1,000 of property valuation, or somewhere between 6 and 8 mills. This is in addition to the $4 garbage fee and the 2 mills for street lighting and planning. The additional tax does not include ambulance service, which will continue to be funded through the general fund until other funds and contractual arrangements can tie arranged. Issued each Thursday at 9124 W. 2700 So.. Magna, Utah 84044. Second Class postage paid at Magna, Utah. Town Council Meets, Hears Local Issues KEARNS - Harold Newman was excused from Town Council meeting Monday night due to illness. Newman is back in St. Marks Hospital with further coronary problems. Edda Timmerman chaired the meeting in his stead. Timmerman announced the Council has received word of the amount of United Way funds they will have to distribute. The amount fell short of the amount requested and following the Council meeting the board retired into executive session to discuss how to make the cuts necessary in individual allocations to Kearns agencies. Actual allocations will be made at the next Council meeting on April 18. Requesting groups should be in attendance at that meeting. A discussion of the proposed Oquirrh Mountain landfill site was discussed a report on the multiincluding community committees actions before the County Commissioners and in the THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1977 KEARNS, UTAH VOL. 23 NO. 21 area meeting held at Brockbank Junior High last week. Council members reiterated their stand as adamantly opposing the selection of any landfill site along the Oquirrh Mountain foothills.- Two youth work programs were announced. Summer youth employment applications should go to Edda Timmerman at the Kearns Youth Center, 4115 W. 5295 South. Her telephone A year around number is program for youth employment can be contacted through Carmella Thomas by ext. 13. calling The possibility of solar energy presentation was discussed. Further information will be available at the next meeting. Kearns residents are reminded that a vancancy remains on the Council. Applicants desiring to fill the post should forward letters of intent to the Council care of Hardy Pollard, 5511 South 4270 West by April 18. 299-720- 1 Meeting Series Explains Plan A series of meetings have been scheduled by the Special Education Section of the Office of the Utah State Board of Education. These meetings will explain the proposed Utah State Plan to meet the needs of educating all handicapped children in the state. Each session will begin at 7 p.m. and will be two hours in length. One hour will be devoted to the Plan presentation and one hour will be utilized by the public for their suggestions. Dr. Benjamin Bruse, Programs for the Handicapped Specialist, said, All comments will be considered individually or by category, and suggested modifications, determined to be appropriate, will be included in the final plan." Dr. Bruse continued, Every person in Utah who is interested in the education of handicapped children should plan to attend one of the meetings. We have scheduled the sessions in seven areas of the state in order to give everyone an opportunity to participate. The seven locations are: Box Elder School District Office, Brigham City, on April 19; Richfield High School on April 20; Roosevelt Jr. High School on April 20; Cedar North School, Cedar City, on April 21; Helen M. Knight School, Moab, on April 21; Spanish Fork High School on April 22, and State Office Building, Room 106, Salt Lake City, on April 25. Dr. Bruse also indicated that copies of the Draft State Plan will be available after April 15, 1977, upon request, from the Special Education Section of the Office of the State Board of Education, 250 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. Requests extension Tofiks Wotflh) Inters iujD Hercules Incorporated has requested extension of three existing Utah Transit Authority bus routes to provide additional service for Bacchus Works employes. 4500 The routes are No. 40, east-we3900 South, and South; No. 39, east-weNo. 37 , 3500 South service to Magna. In a letter to UTA officials and the st Wasatch Front Regional Council, Hercules asked that these extensions be fully considered along with a system-wid- e UTA review now being completed. Changes indicated by the system review are expected to be put into operation by June 1. In its request, Hercules pointed out that the extension involves no new UTA routes, only morning and afternoon worker service, and that additional service miles could be easily absorbed in the changes made in June. Also, Hercules emphasized that its traffic runs counter to the heavier in and outbound city traffic in the morning and afternoon. Hercules also requested that one ad CJT ditional afternoon pickup be scheduled on the east-we5400 South route No. 84. John Inglish of the Wasatch Front Regional Council indicated the councils favor fpr east-we5400 South and east-we3900 South extensions. He said the 3500 South request may be more difficult. He said no changes will be made before June 1. st st Local BYU Student Among Team Traveling To Group Competition Four Brigham Young University communications students took first place in the 1977 Public Relations Society of America Regional Case Study Competition. Robert Meldrum, a senior in public relations, from Kearns, captained the team. Other members include Sue Clason, from Fresno, California, Kathy Knudsen, from San Marino, Clif. and Genbe Parrish from Farington, New Mexico. The team travelled to San Francisco for competition with San Jose State on March 28. Both teams were regional finalists for the 1977 North Pacific competition. This region includes the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and the northern California area. According to Meldrum, the BYU team will now compete for the national championship in Memphis Tennessee. The competition, to be held later this month, will include all nine regional winners. Meldrum said each team in competition creates a public relations campaign to solve problems and meet objectives of a hypothetical case. "This years case, said Meldrum, involves representing seven environmental groups opposing a proposed nuclear energy plant to be located in a recreational and scenic area. We took a neutral position regarding nuclear energy since it is predicted to be a viable future energy alternative and instituted an emotional effort opposing the site itself. We targeted to the family, said Meldrum," We used a slide and sound presentation with an original musical composition by one of our fellow students in order to effectively create this head-to-hea- students Lela Velesde, Steven James and Helen Leech with fourth grader Heather Peterson and student Annette Tennety display posters they made to bring Book Fair' to the attention of David kindergarten students. Gourley SECOND GRADE PTA SpomisoirDinig) Hook Poor Ail lOeinraeirDifeiiry - David Gourley PTA is a sponsoring book fair. A wide variety of books are available for the children to inspect at school. The books have been classified in groups such as science, KEARNS animals, games, jokes, puzzles, activities, gifts, cartoon fun, general leading. They have been selected to meet the gamut of needs of varied age levels and abilities. Many of the books have won nationl acceptance and commendation for their excellence. The objective of the program is to stimulate reading growth and learning by providing a variety of enjoyable reading materials to young people at low cost. The PTA, which is sponsoring the activity will also realize small profit which will be used for special projects. Most of the books are available in sufficient quantity that they can be taken home on the day of purchase. Where sufficient copies of a book are not immediately available, the book will be ordered from the supplier entailing a wait of four to six weeks. Parents are urged to help children select books, keeping in mind that some books are for fun and some for growth. d low-ke- y emotional appeal. Meldrum said, The competition is good because it gives you an opportunity to put together a public relations campaign like an agency would do. We also received the benefit of professional USDA Heres some thought home-produce- d respected titioners. public relations prac- The four students were selected from among the top public relations students at Brigham Young University. Sponsors Study for food: largest federal study of food consumption in America is about to begin. More than 20,000 households across the country will soon be canvassed about their eating habits by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The study will be conducted for USDA by the National Analysts Division of Booz Allen & Hamilton. The survey is noteworthy in that it includes for the first time the outlying States and Territories of Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Also, it will provide information about the food consumption of all of the family members as well as the household unit to which they belong. The study will give an picture of the dietary and nutritional patterns of consumers in all walks of life. It will also reveal the effects of changes in the American way of life on the way Americans eat. Smaller families, greater numbers of older people, different life styles, the number of people who eat away from home, the growing number of women working outside the home, the increasing food to popularity of offset rising food costs, all may be factors in changing dietary and nutritional patterns. But the real significance lies one step beyond finding out what, when, how The critiques by a panel of judges who are much and with whom Americans are eating. It lies in whats done with that mass of information. The USDA food studies are leading examples of translating research into action. Past USDA food studies have been a factor in the development of such concrete consumer benefits as various school lunch and food assistance programs, food fortification and enrichment programs, nutrition education programs and dietary guidance materials, and special assistance plans for such high nutritional risk groups as the young, old and poor. Crime Meet Rescheduled KEARNS - Crime Council was previously announced for tonight, April 7, but has been changed due to Easter vacation. The group will revert to their regularly scheduled night, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kearns High School library. |