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Show County Commission Favors GOP Led Departments, Cuts Demo Budgets City and County, building observers ob-servers this week were wondering wonder-ing just how much the Republican Republi-can dominated Salt Lake County Commission took party affiliation affilia-tion into consideration in arriving arriv-ing at the 1958 budget. A check of budget allocations showed that requests for extra funds which came from departments depart-ments headed by Republicans fared considerably better than requests coming from Democrat-headed Democrat-headed departments. The example receiving most publicity was Salt Lake County Sheriff's office, which was, according ac-cording to published reports, promised by Commissioner La-mont La-mont B. Gunderson that a $5100 cut would be restored. The promise prom-ise was reportedly given the day before final budget action ! was taken. But the department did not get the money. Instead, a budget $5,100 less than last ' year was approved. j Salt Lake County Clerk's of-; fice had requested an additional j $8,500 to take care of added sal aries brought about by the addition ad-dition of a new Third District Court. The commission, however, granted only $2,500 more than it had given the clerk's office for 1957. The figure, it was apparent would not even pay for the added add-ed salary expense for a new clerk, thus leaving a shortage of $6,000. In addition to the clerk's salary, sal-ary, it was pointed out establishment establish-ment of the new court would entail en-tail additional expense for the clerk's office. Among these are hiring of a minute typer, purchase pur-chase of additional record supplies sup-plies and binders, more typewriters, type-writers, etc. It was apparent that the clerk would have to seek a deficit appropriation ap-propriation before the year is out. It also seemed that any salary sal-ary increases contemplated in the county clerk's office would be put in the doubtful status. But on the Republican side things were not so gloomy. (Continued on Page 8) County Commission Favors GOP Led Departments, Cuts Demo Budgets j (Continued from Page 1) The county auditor's office was given an additional $7,000; the custodian's office $7,000 more; the license department $7,000 more; recorder $10,000 more, and county surveyor, $7,500. Roads and bridges were upped $362,453; flood control raised $23,483; county attorney's office of-fice was down $500; garage up $3,000; garbage collection upped $12,500. The only Republican whose budget was cut was the county assessor and his office was cut $2,100. In the case of the county surveyor sur-veyor it was pointed out that inspector duties were removed from the surveyor, thereby lightening his responsibilities o( and presumably his departments. Democratic department heads also pointed out that the commission com-mission did not extend to them the courtesy of calling them before be-fore it to justify requests for more funds. Observers, noting that an election elec-tion will be coming up next fall, agreed that Republicans were losing no time in taking care of Republicans while making it difficult for Democrats to operate. op-erate. It was expected that much of the additional money granted Republican dominated departments depart-ments would go for salary increases in-creases in those departments. The Democratic led departments, which did not get increases, were in no position to grant salary sal-ary increases, it was felt. Do |