Show Welfare hoard Board puns Out of Red After 5 Years REPORT SHOWS CASH BALANCE FOR STATE UNIT Body Votes to Retain Garfield County Sum Pending Probe The state welfare department with a balance of on July 31 and In the revolving re revolving revolving re- re fund officially is out of the red for the first time In five years J J. J W. W Gillman director told board members at a meeting in the capitol Tuesday Mr Gillman made the statement statement statement state state- ment after A. A C. C Burton director of the departments department's bureau of fi finance finance fi- fi nance and accounts submitted his report Mr Burton announced that the the Salt Salt Lake county welfare department had exceeded its July budget by and that on August 16 the state board turned over to the county board A committee representing the Utah Optometrists' Optometrists association charged that the state welfare department has failed to recognize recognize nize the group roup by requiring that all cases involving eye eve treatment be handled by ophthalmologists whereas state law and professional professional professional ethics permit optometrists to handle cases not requiring surgical surgical surgical sur sur- or medical treatment Optometrist Cases Casesi i The committee said that out of eye cases last year I were for refractions which the optometrists could have handled The board voted to take the petition under advisement url uril the tho September 11 meeting The board voted approval of Mr Gillman's withholding payment payment payment pay pay- ment of 1318 to Garfield county courty welfare department which the county unit s sought as salaries to Discussion brou brought ht out that not since July 1 1 1939 when the county paid as its 15 per percent percent percent cent of welfare costs in the county has the county made payment pay pay- ment to the state department Mr Gillman said sid that with the state paying all the county's relief costs the county has been under its 1940 budget since January January January Janu Janu- ary 1 Mr Gillman said the state feels that as long as the salaries go o to the responsibility responsibility responsibility is the county's and not the states state's To Make Investigation The board decided to send Mr Gillman to Garfield county Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day to complete investigation and to withhold the 1318 payment in inthe inthe inthe the meantime On learning that nothing has been done re regarding ardin the eight cases of alleged chiseling brought out at the meeting two weeks ago Bayard W. W Mendenhall a board members obtained the boards board's decision to call in Wayne Chris- Chris attorney attorney attorney ney general handling these the e cases to report on the status of prosecutions prose prose- |