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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES i Page Eight FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1959 Salt Lake City Launches Study of Worker Salaries Inc. Another committee member will be added later, the Mayor said. (Continued from Page 1) The committee was asked to recommend changes in regula-tions governing expenditure of city funds, including payment of overtime, mileage payments to employees for use of their pri-- j vate vehicles and the hiring of part-tim- e employees. In his letter Mayor Stewart pointed out, "The committee has been formed to review the city's employee affairs, with primary attention being given to possible inequities which may exist in present salary schedules. It is intended to be a citizens com-mittee, and the report submitted should reflect the thinking of the residents of the city on the prob-lems involved. "Adjustmentse which may ap-pear appropriate in salary sched-ules should be met from present revenue sources in so far as pos-sible. Therefore, any changes in employee administration which would permit a more judicious expenditure of city funds should be explored. "The city has heretofore de-veloped job evaluation. It is not the intent that the effort expend-ed in compiling that evaluation be duplicated but rather that it serve as a reference source for you." Meihbers of the committee, in addition to the chairman are: Reed C. Richardson, a co-direc- tor fo the Industrial Relations Department of the University of Utah; Wendell E. Adams, vice-preside- nt, ZCMI; Gayle F. Wine- -' riter, representative of the AFL-CI- O State, County and Municipal Workers Union; Frank M. Open-sha- w, former state senator and employee of Union Pacific Rail-road; Roy W. Simmons, presi-dent of the Lockhart Co.; Paul L. Pehrson, . representing Sugar House businessmen, and Orsen F. Hottinger, president of the Salt Lake City Employees Assn., Foundation Reports Utah Imposes 12 Leading Taxes Utah imposes most of the major kinds of taxes employed by state and local governments in the United States. Utah Foundation, in a special study of state and local tax structures, points out that Utah along with Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico are the only states that make use of all of the 12 leading kinds of taxes. Foundation analysts note that most tax authorities who have studied the state's tax structure have concluded that Utah's broad tax coverage is a strength in-stead of a weakness. These tax authorities suggest that breadth of Utah's tax structure enables everyone to participate in pay-ing for the cost of state and local government without placing an unduly restrictive burden on any one group or segment of the economy. In its examination of the tax structure of the states, the Utah Foundation notes a marked di-versity in tax patterns- - due to economic difference found in the several states and varying phil-osophies concerning tax policy. Foundation officials observe, however, that Utah's tax struc-ture is somewhat unusual in that it corresponds so nearly to the composite of the Mountain States and to that of the United States as a whole. Richfield Reaper Publisher Succumbs Mrs. Rula J. Fuellcnbach, 64, well known Utah newspaper -- publisher an;l civic leader, died Wednesday in a Richfield hospi-tal after a heart attack. With her s?n, Norman J. Fuel-lenbac- h, she had published the Richfield Reaper for 24 years. She had served as a director cf the state press association and was active in club and civic work. At the time of her death she was president of the Rich-field Study Club. In 1958 she was named Mother of the Year from the Sanpete, Sevier and Piute county region. During her newspaper career, Mrs. Fuellcnbach won more than 24 stale awards and in 1948 was listed in Who's Who in the West. Demo Solon Suggests S. L. As Plant Site Rep. David S. King (D-Uta- h) has asked the Department of the Interior to include Salt Lake Valley in the sites being con-sidered for proposed federal sa-line water conversion demon-stration plants. "This area located on the Great Salt Lake would seem an ideal site for experimental work in saline water conversion and would offer salt water in con-centrations available nowhere else in nature in the western hemisphere," Mr. King wrote in a letter to the Interior. Federal engineers already have begun the inspection and evalu-ation of more than 100 American cities which have asked consid-eration as sites for five conver-sion plants authorized by the 85th Congress. Ten million dollars was appro-priated for the five plants, which will perfect processes for the conversion of sea water and brackish water into water suit-able for agriculture, industry, and other beneficial consump-tion. ' In a letter to Dr. A. L. Miller, director of, the Office of Saline Water, Mr. King said a plant located at Salt Lake could profit "not only from a unique water supply, but also from possible association with a great univer-sity. The University of Utah, lo-cated at Salt Lake City, has an outstanding graduate program in science, and its scientists, by the proximity to the Salt Lake, have a natural and historical interest in the conversion problem. "I feel that any long range pro-gram in salt water conversion studies will eventually lead the scientists into experimental work on the Great Salt Lake, whose salt content runs approximately 20 per cent, and perhaps the whole program would benefit if work were started there in the near future, rather than later," Mr. King said. Last month Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of the Interior, an-nounced the selection of a pro-cess known as "long tube vertical multiple effect distillation" for the first demonstration plant. "This process gives promise of achieving a remarkable break-through in saline water conver-sion. In the pilot plant tests of this process we have eliminated the formation of scale on the distillation equipment at much higher temperatures than here-tofore possible." The plant, using this process, will convert sea water into fresh water at the rate of one million gallons a day. IIS M8jiiniifeS5 mm I ,5f ft whiskey pP p , c"Mi a it's ? Xs THE LIGHTER BOURBON STRAIGHT IOURBON WHISKEY 90.4 PROOF BELMONT DISTILLING CO., LAWRENCEBURG, INO. t ' SAVES 111 and a kitchen extension costs only pennies a day to order, just call our y business office & Mountain States Telephone S. L. Demo Women Chart-- Meeting The Salt Lake County Demo-cratic Women's Club will hold its regular meeting and luncheon at 1:00 p.m. at the Fireman's Hall, Murray, Saturday, April 177. Election of officers for the year 1959-6- 0 will be held. The area of the flight deck on the Navy's newest aircraft car-rier, is equivalent to about four acres. The SS United States and SS America could be placed on it with room to spare. |