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Show i UNrGuSliUTAH ' JAW 2 7 1961 l- - Dmsi0M J l UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNIVESITY OF ITAH j KMOu.CAL ROOM- - CITY 12 AC SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1961 Sen. Moss Co-spons- ors Bill To Increase U.S. Forest Roads btv'v - 's ' "' - ; " " Vi' - ' ; ft ' 4 1 V':i r ' m0y J- - " agement will increase this to 100 million board feet a year. Yet we are presently cutting only 62 million feet. "Last year, Utah's counties received $190,000 as their 25 per cent share of receipts from timber cut and grazing privi-leges in Utah's nine national forests. As the facilities are im-proved, these revenues will rise. "Utah now has 5600 miles of forest development roads, and 6400 miles of trails. To properly develop our forest resources, we need 1200 more miles of roads and 500 more of trails. This will take several years and an esti-mated investment of $15 million. The bill also authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into reciprocal road agreements to facilitate access to the national forests by both casual and com-mercial users. "These provisions are long overdue if we are to manage our forests well. Now, private and public sections form a hodge-podge that many areas of the national forests are inaccessible , except to those owning adjacent lands," he said. He also emphasized that bet-ter forest roads and trails are needed for sportsmen, hikers, picnickers and stock raisers. He cited these figures: Between 1950 and 1960 the number of recreation visits in-creased from 3 million to more than 5 million in Utah's for-ests. Over a hundred thousand cattle and 430,000 sheep graze there." SEN. FRANK E. MOSS Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah is cosponsoring a Senate bill to provide an "adequate system of forest access roads" to improve multiple-us- e development of the national forests. "This bill authorizes the pro-gram and level of expenditure on forest roads and trails that was advocated in the program for the National Forests offered by the Department of Agriculture under Secretary Ezra Taft Ben-son," Senator Moss declared. "Figures of the Forest Service show that present allowable timber cut in Utah on a sus-tained yield basis as 89 million board feet, an estimates that completion of this program com-bined with better forest man-- Legislators Consider Pay Increases; Postpone Action on Vehicle Taxes i Board of Regents and one to create a Capitol Building Monu-ment Commission. In the House, HS 15, which would have established a proce-dure for imposition of a state-wide, uniform tax on vehicles, was attacked by rural lawmak-ers, claiming it would centralize state power and impose an add-ed burden on rural residents. Rep. Ben E. Rawlings, Republi-can of Salt Lake City and spon-sor of the measure, moved that the measure be made a special order of business for Feb. 1 and the House agreed. Among House bills passed was HB 53, reducing from a year to six months the residency re-quirements for a resident hunt-ing and fishing license. The Utah legislature this week wrestled with a pay increase measure, dropped discussion on a plan for uniform tax on ve-hicles and conducted hearings on a bill to repeal the right to work law. The Senate passed on final reading a proposed constitutional amendment permitting an in-crease in compensation for legis-lators, killed two measures and received the third legislative measure of this session. The legislative measure as sent to the House would hike the maixmum salary from $500 to $1,200 annually and increase the present $5 a day expense allow-ance to $10 a day for members residing over 25 miles from Salt Lake City. An attempt by Sen. Orval Hafen, Republican of St. George, to amend the maximum to $1000 was defeated. - Amen" measures given the ax this week by senators was one to ' remove the president of the Uni-versity of Utah from the school's Utah Senate Grants Change In Current Fiscal Legislation The Salt Lake City Commis-sion this week asked that word-ing in the Uniform Municipal Fiscal Procedures Act (SB 31) now before the Utah Legislature be amended to substitute "city auditor" for the phrase "director of finance" as city budget officer. The Senate complied with the city's wish. The commission orally agreed that provisions in the bill had considerable merit as applied to Salt Lake City. . Fred M. Oliver, representing the firm of Haskins & Sells, was asked to see that the change was made in the bill so the city audi-tor would become the city's bud-get officer in addition to per-forming duties of general ac-counting for the city. The Senate shortly afterwards amended the law to take care of the Salt Lake City requests. The Senate then advanced the bill to third reading. Commissioners have expressed a desire to accomplish other or-ganizational changes and cen-tralization of city fiscal affairs as much as possible instead of state statute. Mechanics of the fiscal procedures affecting the city are to be determined later by the commission. Mr. Oliver noted that the fiscal procedures act established ac-counting for the city's water de-partment on a utility basis. The commission, however is in charge of its operation. Mr. Oliver explained that this "change is part of an over-al- l procedure to establish a uniform accounting for all cities in Utah and is in full accord with gen-erally accepted governmental accounting principles." City Attorney James Barker described the act as an "excel-lent act, carefully drawn up." Ray H. Leavitt- - Gains Approval As Zoning Unit Chief RAY II. LEAVITT Salt Lake County Commission j has approved appointment of Ray H. Leavitt, 1346 Sunnyside j Ave., as director of the Salt Lake County Zoning and Building In-spection Department. The approval came on recom-mendation of Commission Chair- - j man W. G. Larson. Mr. Leavitt, who replaces Jo-seph F. Home, assumed his new position this week at a salary of $550 a month. The department is located at 352-2n- d East. It formerly was under direction of Republican Commissioner Edwin Q. Cannon. ! Mr. Leavitt has been chief in-spector in the county surveyor's office and was one time chair-man of the Utah State Road Com-mission, when it included aero-nautics and building commis-sions. Dr. Sterling McMurrin Boomed For Education Commission Post The appointment of Dr. Mc- Murrin also was backed by Utah Senator Wallace F. Bennett. The appointment of Sterling M. McMurrin, vice president of the University of Utah, as U.S. Commissioner of Education has been recommended to President John F. Kennedy by Secretary of Health, Education and Wel-fare Abraham Ribicoff. It was expected that Dr. Mc-Murri- n's nomination would be sent to the Senate for nomination shortly. The position pays $20,-00- 0 a year. Dr. McMurrin conferred this week with Sen. Frank E. Moss and later with Secretary Ribi-coff. Sen. Moss said he was work-ing on clearance of the appoint-ment with Utah and National Democratic organizations. In ad-dition, he conferred with Law-rence O'Brien, special assistant to the President in charge of personnel affairs. "Dr. McMurrin is a man of great competence who would serve ' well as commissioner of education," said Sen. Moss. "I have known him personally and by reputation for a good many years and I consider him one of the leading educators in our state and the entire country-- " f i ' TODAY'S a EDITORIAL I News Preview f Kennedy favors an early j Allied Summit conference in) ! Washington before any sec-- i ondary level East-We- st Sum-- I gets underway . . ! trade missions to imitry now are studying pos- - j trade deals with Cana-- i subsidiaries of U.S. firms Attorney General 'Ken-- J and Labor Secretary are already working j on the Hoffa problem Inedy. Ex-U.- S. Ambassador to! Britain Whitney willj a storng pro-Rockefel- ler i jrole in the GOP ... Friends! !say Arizona's Goldwater now! wants to boom American Mo- - j George Romney for thei ito.r.s. Presidential nomination j The Kennedy adminis- - J Jtration will use its Congres--j j sional "honeymoon" for quick I I jobless and aged care legisla-- 1 j tion. ! i I Our Growing Need for Water Without pure water, life ceases; without an abundance of water, the economy falters. Water supply is regional, it ignores political boundaries and is a national problem. Water is re-usable and can serve varied purposes: domestic and industrial needs, irrigation, navigation, habitat for fish and wildlife, out-door recreation, and generation of electricity. But water must also be controlled to prevent floods, pollution, salinating, and silting. Sound management of each watershed is vital. We either pay to develop our water resources and enjoy the benefits, or we pay for the damages and shortages which lack of development leaves. Inadequate water supply thwarts agricultural, industrial and community growth. Power sites undeveloped and river channels unopened to navigation mean higher costs for electricity and transportation. We pay for floods heavily. Disastrous floods have struck large regions north, south, east and west. Midwestern and southern basins, and j basins of both coasts are periodically subject to floods of great Jr-magnitud-and calamitous effect. 1 The demand for water is increasing. j (Continued on Page Four) ' : |