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Show TODAY'S EDITORIAL Utah's GOP 'Business Administration' Appears Short on Business Knowhow A most interesting circumstance came to light this week with release of a report by the Utah Foundation, the private, nonprofit non-profit governmental research agency. The foundation noted 10 ways in which the state's Republican Repub-lican administraton is bungling Utah's purchasing program. The charges, which would be serious in any administration, are even more so in one that got itself in power by claiming vast and superior "business" experience." Yes, it appears the Republican "business administration" of Governor George D. Clyde must have overlooked the six million dollars a year purchasing setup. How much this fumbling is costing Utah taxpayers is diffi-j diffi-j cult to tell. But since it presumably has been going on for years i under the GOP governors it can be assumed that the figure is huge. It will be interesting to see how many of the foundation's I wise recommendations are acted upon by the "business administration" adminis-tration" of engineer Clyde. (Continued on Page 4) |