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Show Statehouse Report . . . Western Governors and Senators Ask Action f Ha If Cspsist Strike BY C. SHARP Governors of five inter-mountain inter-mountain slates and fiv? U. S. Senators are urging President Johnson to appoint ap-point a fact-finding board to recom'mond action toward to-ward settling the nationwide nation-wide copper strike. This action would be accompanied ac-companied by a temporary order which would send 42,000 workers back to their jobs and halt a growing grow-ing economic problem. In a letter to President Johnson, Sens. Frank E. Moss, D-Utah; Alan Bibb, D-Nov.; and Joe Montoya, D-N.M., said: "Today the nationwide copper strike began its 44th day. Some 42,000 workers are idle. They have had no t ike-home pay for five weeks. The states of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Mex-ico, Montana and Nevada are suffering severe economic econ-omic losses, not only from cuts in personal income and retail and wholesale sales, but also from substantial sub-stantial reductions in the flow of tax money that supports numerous essential essen-tial sendees. . . Few Sessions . "Major. . bargaining sessions ses-sions have been all too few. We believe that a much greater effort on the part of both parties is essential es-sential to reach a settlement. settle-ment. We urge the appointment appoint-ment of a fact-finding committee t0 study effects of the strike on the national nat-ional inerest and the character char-acter of the negotiations and recommend what, if any action should be taken." tak-en." Three Republican senators sena-tors favor immediate invoking in-voking of Taf t - Hartley Act cooling off provisions. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, Utah, planned to introduce a resolution to this effect Monday. Sens. Paul Fannin, Fan-nin, Arizona, and Gordon Allott, Colorado, were co-sponsors. co-sponsors. Governors of the five jmajor copjper jprodilcing states met a second time on the strike situation Aug. 24-25 in Las Vegas. They sent a telegram to President Johnson asking for appointment of the fact-finding committee. William E. Simkin, director dir-ector of the U. S. Mediation Media-tion and Conciliation Services, Ser-vices, said there are still "a great many avenues to be explored before the president pre-sident might invoke Taft-Hartloy Taft-Hartloy 'provisions." Criticize Resolution A statement from the Joint- Union Nonferrous Bargaining Committee criticized cri-ticized Sen. Bennett's resolution. res-olution. "As long as the major mining companies feel there is a .possibility of 1 1 10 government intervening interven-ing with such an injunction, injunc-tion, they will make no effort to bargain seriously with the unions," the committee com-mittee said. A Kennccott Copper Corp. spokesman replied that his company had not "encouraged, requested or otherwise acted to obtain federal government intervention. inter-vention. The company prefers pre-fers to resolve its differences differ-ences with its labor unions un-ions across the bargaining table," he added. Sen. Moss declared that the copper strike might hold the fate of collective bargaining. It would be "tragic" if that process were replaced by some form of compulsory arbitration," arbi-tration," he said, urging 'both labor and management manage-ment to redouble their negotiation ne-gotiation efforts. More Slashes Meantime, welfare costs are beginning to soar. Possibilities Pos-sibilities for increasing the four per cent budget slash imposed 'by Gov. Calvin Cal-vin L. Rampton will threaten threa-ten as long as the copper strike continues. A proposal from Gov. Rampton that land valuation valu-ation raises specified by the State Tax Commission in Wasatch Front counties he spread out over a four-year four-year period was received cooly by a group of county officials Aug. 22. On Aug. 25 the Tax Commission announced it had countermanded 800 cuts in land valuations made this year by the Utah County Board of Equalization (County Commission) Com-mission) attempting to erase er-ase increases ordered by the state. ( "Each of the property owners has been notified that the reductions will not be allowed," Vernon L. Holman, Tax Commission Commis-sion member, said. Hearings Hear-ings will be held in Utah county for all who want to protest. Voters to Decide Remaining to be settled at the polls in November, 1968 is whether taxpayers want to amend the slate's constitution and allow valuing farm lands on a basis of their values for fanning rather than their fair cash value. :- -:f The first Negro to serve on a Utah state policymaking policy-making board, Mrs. James H. (Bettye B.) Gillespie, ffliverdalo, Weber county, was appointed by Gov. Calvin Cal-vin Rampton to the State Merit System Council on Aug. 26.' She succeeds V. LeRoy Johnson on the board which determines employment employ-ment policies for state employees covered by the merit system. Mr. Gillespie is president of the Ogden Branch, National Na-tional Association for the Advancement' of Colored People. U cf U Graduate Mrs. Gillespie is a graduate gra-duate of Ogden high school and cf the University of Utah and has done postgraduate post-graduate work at Howard University, Washington, D. C. She is a member of the League of Women Voters and the First District Juvenile Ju-venile Court Advisory Board. -x- Alcoholism is the Num-ibeiA Num-ibeiA One social problem confronting Indians, La mar Really, of the U of U Graduate School of Social So-cial Work, declared Aug. 21. Arrests among Indians for crimes connected with alcoholism were seven times tim-es the national average, eight times that of the jvhite population, three times the Negro and 13 times as frequent as among am-ong persons of Chinese ,and Japanese ancestry, fMr. Beatty said. lie addressed the American Amer-ican Indian Alcoholism Workshop in Salt Lake City's Newliouse Hotel. 14 Indian tribes were represented repre-sented at the session. Newsman Appointed William A. Dunn, associate asso-ciate business editor of the Deseret News for the past five years, was appointed ap-pointed associate director of the State Industrial Promotion Division Aug. 24. .' - '"' H -A. , S . ' . : f i - f: - . I - . .' N ... I Ll ' j Young Moab seamstress, Miss Kathy Wilson, models mod-els shrimp colored wool dress which won the style dress review in recent Grand County 4-H Exhibit. She will now model the attractive costume in state competition, slated at the Utah State University, next month. Miss Wilson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Wilson, of Moab. " . T" ; -. i a ... - .. w . J - .. j. - - ' '. ' " . . - . " - : "' . ; J i' . . -i ! . ; ; i i - - Young 4-H riders pose with ribbons and trophies won at recent horse show at Canyonlands arena. Shown are, left to right, Deanna Bates, Shatvna Zu-ielt, Zu-ielt, Susie Tangren, Linda Halverson, Bill Gentry, Sherry West, Joan Crist and leader, Wynona Dalton. Awards w ere as follows : Showmanship at Hal-ter.r Hal-ter.r trophy, Joan Crist; ribbons, De-aima De-aima Bates, Linda Halverson. Western -. - . -. - - - - m-w I ." - ' v i r - ' v r s . . ' v-:.-.:i'i iJi:- "; . ; ; 8 U tj ( K c--' ?;. '.. - Marilyn Reeder, RN, Allen Memorial hospital' nurse, accepts first copies of childrens magazines from young contributors. con-tributors. The "Ehisy Bakers" 4-H Club sold food -items at. a bake; sale . recently to purchase 1 year subscriptions subscrip-tions to "Children's Friend," and to "Highlights" for yotCTg patients at the Horsemanship trophy, Linda Halverson; Halver-son; ribbons, Shauna Zufelt, Deanna Bates, Joan Crist, Susie Tangren, Sherry West, Ray Dowd. Reining trophy, tro-phy, Shauna Zufelt. Pole Bending trophy, tro-phy, Susie Tangren ; blue ribbon, Sherry Sher-ry West. Cloverleaf Barrels trophy, Bill Gentry. Key Hole trophy, Joan Crist. 1 (T-I Staff Photo) hospital. The young cooks and their leaders, left to right, are: Brenda ', Bailey, Jaydine Munsey, Mrs. Marlene Bailey (leader), Debra Carlson, Sue Ellen Nordfelt, Janet Marsing, Mary McFarland, Rebecca Munsey, Mrs. Lula DeLong (leader), and Olivia DeLong. t i |
