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Show IIBIMRy PERIODICAL DIVISION UfWERSTIY OF UTAH .' l u'uivEnsiiY liep.aby UtUVESm OF LTAH umi ' oJ CITY 12 AC &tL!F 14KB COY ; SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1959 GOP Count Commissioners Ignore Demo, Take Top Posts ' JsA cratic Party will not stand for .this. Sixty-thre- e thousand peo-ple strongly expressed a choice in November. The people are en-titled to have Mr. Larson per-form more than minor sewer functions and supervise a dilapi-dated detention home for chil-dren. Commissioner Larson did not vote on the assignments but otherwise did not protest the ac-tion during the commission meet-ing. In addition to his two "major" duties the new commissioner was appointed a member of the Coun-ty Library Board, the Planning and Zoning Commission, the So. Salt Lake Mosquito Abatement District and the Magna Sewer District. W. G. LARSON County Commissioner Salt Lake County Commission in its first meeting of the year gave all the best and mos$ im-portant assignments to the two Republican members and the leftovers to new four-yea- r Com-missioner W. G. (Bill) Larson, the commission's only Democrat. Commissioner Larson found that he would be acting mainly in an advisory role. Republican Commission Chair-man Lamont B. Gundersen took the patronage heavy department of roads and bridges and garbage I collection and will serve as a member of the Recreation Board. Republican member Edwin Q. 1 Cannon will direct the large I health and charity department, which includes Salt Lake Gen-eral hospital. His domain also includes building and grounds, 4 garage, property tax, licensing M and purchasing departments. Commissioner Larson was vot-ed head of the finance printing - and detention home departments. In this capacity he will oversee only five full time county em-ployees including his secretary. Funds to employ a secretary will come from another department. The action did not go unpro-tested. Warwick C. Lamoreaux, an attorney long active in the Demo-crati- c Party, asked the commis-sio- n to reconsider its action. He later declared that "The Demo- - - (Lta Lehlfwe Wheels IBegaim to Tmd mfl ILw$ Bills some of which will be-come Utah Law this week be-gan flowing into the Legislative hopper as the state's lawmakers settled down to business. The Legislature early this week named its standing committees and began wrestling with some of the major problems that will face it during the present ses-sion. By Thursday 32 bills had been introduced in the Senate and 10 in the House. The measures introduced in the Senate included one to change Salt Lake City's govern-ment to a strong mayor-counc- il type; another to permit first and second class cities to change their type 'of government with-out going through a home rule procedure and a third to author-ize a Y2 of 1 per cent sales tax for local governments on an optional county-wid- e basis, and a Sunday closing act. The Senate also received bills providing for a basic science act which would cover practitioners of the healing arts. A number of bills called for abolishment of the office of district attorney. One called for increasing the special fuel tax from 6.1 cents to 9 cents. Over in the House a bill to carry out a consttiutional amend-ment approved in the last elec-tion to exempt household fur-nishings of owneroccupied homes from taxation. Another House bill would establish a medical examiner system.-- Another would extend milk inspection to all fluid milk sold for human consumption in the state and to provide a five-da- y, 40 hour week for state of-fice employees except in emer-gencies. In other action the Senate named Republican Kleon Kerr of Tremonton and Democratic Sen. H. S. McFarlane of Weber as en of the important Appropriations Committee. Chairmen of the two commit-tees on Revenue and Taxation are Republican Senator Charles R. Hunter of Cedar City and Democrat Sen. Carl H. Taylor of Weber County. In the House Democratic Party Whip Wallace Peterson spelled out failure of city government. He charged that the city had al-lowed North Temple and other west side streets to serve as im-promptu city dumps. He said long trains block streets and the Salt Lake City Freeway is dis-rupting the area and causing a waste of money." Rep. Richard V. Evans, Salt Lake Democrat, called for some-thing to be done about air pol-lution, and another Democrat, Rep. Delia L.. Loverldge, noted the "insufferable pittance'" re-- ceived by old people iii the stated The Legislature should, she said, find ways to increase the amount of welfare grants for old people. Democrat Rep. Ernest H. Dean of Utah County told of need for improved counseling and guid-ance work in the state. He said that local mental health clinics also are needed. Two Democratic State Senators Begin Lawmaking Work t ' ' fiiimS&sit """" I T. II. McMULLIN Bingham High School for 13 years. He served on the Bingham Town Council and was president of the Bingham Lions Club for two years. He is married and has two sons. This will mark Mr. McMullin's first duty in the Legislature. Mr. Jenkins, who resides at 1072 So. 13th West, now is en-gaged in private law practice. In addition to serving as deputy Salt Lake County Attorney un-der Sen. Frank E. Moss, Mr. Jen-kins also served as a deputy Utah Attorney General. He was graduated from the University of Utah Law. School. Mr. Jenkins is a former president of the Salt Lake County Young Democrats, a former secretary of the Salt Lake County Central Committee and presently is sena-torial district chairman in the Fifth Salt Lake County District. Mr. Jenkins is married and has three children. BRUCE S. JENKINS Former ' Deputy Salt Lake County Attorney Bruce S. Jen-kins and Jordan High School Principal T. H. McMullin this week took their seats in the Utah Senate. Gov. George D. Clyde, waiting until a few days before the Leg-islature opened, named the two men to replace W. G. Larson and Mrs. C. L. Jack, who won elec-tion ;to Salt Lake County posi-tions in November. Their names were taken from a list of 14 supplied by the Salt Lake County Democratic Central Committee. Mr. McMullin, a native of Mid-val- e, was named to serve the last two years of Mr. Larson's term and Mr. Jenkins was named to replace Mrs. Jack . Mr. McMullin is 'a veteran edu-cator. He has been principal of Jordan High School for the past four years. He was principal of Bingham High School 15 years and served as athletic coach at TODAY'S EDITORIAL Republican Abuse of Public Trust If Salt Lake County and all other Utah voters need more proof of Republican disregard of the voters' wishes they got it last week when the Salt Lake County. Commission organized. The commission is composed of two Republicans one of whom barely won reelection by a few hundred votes --and one Democrat who won by a huge majority. All other county offices went to Democrats, reflecting a strong desire on the part of voters to have Democrats in key county positions. So what d,id the Republican dominated County Commission do? , The new Democratic Commission, W. G. (Bill) Larson, a former state senator and a man of wide experience, was given a number of minor jobs while all the important and patronage-packe- d assignments went to the two Republicans. Rarely has so crude a political move taken place before the public eye. Voters might ask themselves if the two Republican com-missioners feel they alone are intelligent enough to run the big jobs. They might ask if the two Republicans feel the overwhelm- - . ing Democratic vote in the November elections meant that Salt Lake County voters wanted the Republican commissioners to (Continued on Page Four) i a ; News Preview j Vice President Nixon is per-- ! t I sonally assisting the President I lin preparing his Civil Rights ;" j proposals to Congress j i j Red China is intervening inj i j Khrushchev's upcoming anti-- J ' I party purge to let Outer Mon- - j fgolian envoy V. M. Molotovj . j "off easy" . . . 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