Show UTAH rAH OFFICIAL L ALLS DOUBLE I PAY AY REGULAR i. i I 1 Holds Ids U. U S. S Salary Received for Earlier Work Chairman A. A S. S Brown of the thet ite t publicity and industrial j K i commission de- de 1 Tuesday that procedure inner i r which he received federal salary while being JaI k a salary by the state was regular gular ITh T federal funds Mr Brown ex- ex tuned d were paid him for services e dered as register of the U. U S. S land office before July 1 h hn ien n he assumed his st state te duties placed on the state pay JIL 11 JILIE IE U i t July 1 relinquished the position of egister of the land office at 9 mJ m n July 1 and has had nothing id d with the federal position nee ace lie Jie said I L r Brown It was revealed In I p al dispatches Monday from D. D C. C held the federal Os at least technically until g st 19 and was paid In Jar from from July 1 to August 15 35 Ith 40 still due him hUn from August to August 19 He was paid a month by 1 instate estate Io for the same period re- re S for both July and g st state stat state auditors auditor's records w. w I old Due in June rhe The pay 1 received from the theral eral ral government after July 1 u for time accumulated before assumed umed the state position and was due at the end of offne w ne he said However the policy of the fedal fed- fed r. r al government is to to leave the eme em- em oje oye e on the pay roll until ted d time Is js taken care of rather un n to pay for it at the time are terminated he added liberal Lateral are all allowed owed rowen ro so 1 wen n time each month for leave Absence the the time to be spent or for other private Mr Brown said he stayed SYed close to my desk and accumulated leave time The time I was entitled to and p H paid P d for after July 1 was com com- in the federal land office in D. D C. C Mr Brown Continued on Page Eleven Column One Utah Official Officio Defends Double Pay Denies 1 enies Any Hint of Irregularity rc continued from Page 0 One e aid I 1 could have computed it bere ere but left it entirely to them lo to determine termine it MI Virginia deputy in inthe the he land office became head of that hat office when Mr Brown left 14 be aid f I if It there is anything open to criticism it is the ta fact t that that 1 I used i federal office for state business business for or some lome time after July 1 he dried explaining that because of I lack of ot headquarters for the late commission it met sometimes la In n the federal office EMr Browns Brown's salary as a state tate is a month and as a federal official he received a month He was appointed chairman chair- chair nan man an of ot the state publicity and In Industrial industrial in in- development commission by y Governor Herbert B. B Maw to take lAke office July 1 The law creating the commission forbids a member from holding other state or federal offices Attorney General Grover A. A Giles said he had no comment on the situation at this time Governor Herbert B. B Maw who met with members of ot the publicity and industrial development commission commission commission com com- mission on other matters Tuesday morning said he had no comment on n the case |