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Show Statehouse Report . . . $20 Million Monorail Travel Mow Planned for Salt Lake City Riders BY C. SHARP A $20 million high speed .monorail network around downtown Salt Lake City, complete with a transportation transpor-tation center to be financed financ-ed by revenue bonds, was envisioned Sept. 7. Utah Gov. Calvin L. Hampton presented the plan at the third annual meeting cf the Federation of Rocky Mountain States in Albuquerque, N.M. Ashley Carpenter, Salt Lake arcihtect, showed preliminary pre-liminary sketches of the center to U. S. Secy, of Transportation Alan Boyd. Mr. Boyd said the plan is Ibold and imaginative" and could make Salt Lake City a "transportation model." mo-del." The Union Pacific railroad rail-road station at South Temple Tem-ple and 3rd West would become the hub for air, rail and 'bus transportation. transporta-tion. It would include a helinort. 3 Minute Trip From this center the monorail would whisk passengers pas-sengers to their planes at the municipal airport in three minutes. Another -monorail system sys-tem would run from the center to North Temple, east to State, south to 4th South, west to Main, north to 1st South and then past the Salt Palace civic center cen-ter (now under construction) construc-tion) back to the travel center. Parking space for 5,000 automobiles would be pro vided above the present U. P. Tracks. The plan was developed by the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown PHanning Assn. Dr. Robert A. Nelson, director of the Office of High Speed Transportation, Transporta-tion, Washington, D. C, promised that experts from his office will evaluate eval-uate the proposal as to feasibility and cost. Customs Office ' Utah's bid for a U. S. Customs office in Salt Lake City came before the federation Friday when it gained support of other Rocky Mountain states. . Nearly 70 Utah industrial indus-trial and political leaders attended the sessions. Absent was Gov. Jack Williams of Arizona who is miffed because the governors gov-ernors of the other states have failed to support the Central Arizona Project lo give Arizona more water which would have to come from the Upper Basin States: . Water and- the Central Arizona Project, wore not discussed a.t the conference, confer-ence, however. No Hanssn Cuts? While other state agencies agen-cies supported by general fund money are sweating out how. they will absorb a four per cent budget cut imposed by Gov. Rampton, the state's attorney general, gener-al, Phil L. Hansen, is unperturbed. un-perturbed. "We - are doing nothing , about the four per cent spending ' reduction. We will operate within the appropriation ' authorized by the Legislature," he said. Mr. Hanson explained that he 'believes that despite des-pite laws giving the governor gover-nor power to trim budgets to meet revenue, constitutionally constitu-tionally the three-member Board of Examiners is the orily agency able to impose im-pose these cuts. "But if tin? money isn't there we can't spend it," he said. Receipts Down Meantime the Tax Coin-mission Coin-mission reported that sales sal-es tax collections from July 1 through Aug. t31 slumped by .01 of a per cent compared with last year. Sales tax remittances for the two-month period were $13. 8G million as compared with $13.87 million mil-lion a year ago. Gasoline tax collections, another barometer, look better. They stand at 4.G per cent ahead of those a year ago. The copper strike, begun be-gun July 15, remained at a stalemate last week despite de-spite high level talks in Washington, D.C. 18 Unions Secy, of Labor Willard Wirtz and Secy, of Commerce Com-merce Alexander Trowbridge Trow-bridge met with the "Big Four" copper producers and 18 unions. Secy. Trowbridge estimated esti-mated that the nation has enough copper for normal needs for the next few weeks. He said he did not know at what point he might recommend use of government stockpiles if the strike continued. Union officials said the total number of workers idled will swell to 50,000 before the end of this month as1 more contracts expire. The newest No. 2 man in a consolidated state department de-partment is Keith P. Larson, Lar-son, coordinator of administrative admin-istrative services for the Department of Health and Welfare. Idaho Native Mr. Larson is a graduate gradu-ate of Utah State University Univer-sity in business administration. admini-stration. For the last nine years he was a building contractor in his native Preston, Idaho. A Nephi justice of the peace, R. Norman Green-halgh, Green-halgh, got tough Sept. 1 and sentenced two men to six months in jail and fined fin-ed them $125 for destroying destroy-ing highway signs. Shooting and otherwise destroying highway signs costs the state many thousands thou-sands of dollars a year in replacement costs. Impairing Impair-ing or destroying the signs also endangers lives. FROM MINNESOTA Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cleveringa are enjoying a visit from their parents this week. They are Mr. and Mrs. William Christians, Chris-tians, of Worthington, Minnesota, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cleveringa, of Jasper, Minnesota. Th3 visitors have enjoyed tours of the area, and plan to return to their homes this week. |
