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Show The Arlen Cannon, family, members of the Sky-Larks, stand beside their Maule Rocket, a plane built in Michigan Michi-gan and mostly sold to Canadians for bush pilot work. It is powered by a new Continental 210 hp fuel injection en-. en-. gine. Storehouse Report ... Strike Curbs Min es Valuations; Utilities, Oil and Gas Increase BY.C. SHARP The Kennecott Copper Co. strike which ended April 1, submarined the state's total valuation of mine, gas and oil and public utilities properties prop-erties to a net reduction of $860,000 during the past year. However, a gain of $6.31 million in valuation of public u Ulities properties and a gain of $900,000 in gas and oil properties partially counterbalanced counter-balanced the loss of $8.8 million mil-lion in Kennecott valuation. The hise in oil ana gas properties valuations was from $49.5 million last year to $50.4 million this year. This .was due almost entirely en-tirely to new oil production on the north slope of the Uintah Mountains in eastern Summit County. Valuation Increase Summit County's oil and gas valuation jumped from $430,000 in 1967 to $1.5 million mil-lion in 1968. Other counties slumped in gas and oil property valuations. valua-tions. Uintah dropped from $15.69 million to $15.32 million; mil-lion; San Juan from $31.16 million to $31.05 .million; Grand from $1.04 million to $986,000 and Carbon from $326,286 to $236,180. Total valuation of mine, public utilities and gas and oil properties in four southeastern south-eastern counties as determined determ-ined by the State Tax Com-. mission follows: Carbon County, decrease1 from $22.21 million last year 10 $S1. iminuii una yecu , Emery, increase from $5.47 million to $5.49 million; Grand, increase from $11.71 million to $12.46 million; San Juan, decrease from $45.1 million to $44.48 million. Over-all Increase For the entire state the valuation of all mine, utilities util-ities and gas and oil prop-. prop-. erties was $500.7 million this year as against $501.56 million mil-lion last year. A proposed increase of one cent a gallon in the stale gasoline tax to be earmarked for city and county road construction con-struction and maintenance, was approved by the Legislative Legisla-tive Council Planning and Organization Committee July 23. The state now collects six cents a gallon gas tax and the federal 'government four cents a gallon. This recommendation will be presented to the full Legislative Le-gislative Council which will decide whether to make a similar rcommendation to the 1969 Legislature. Standards Board Coupled with it are a proposed pro-posed reclassification of road' systems as between the state, counties and, cities, and a state standards board for cooperative road construction. construc-tion. Whether coordinating councils coun-cils shall continue to make policies for new combined state departments of Natural Resources, Development Services Ser-vices and Health and Welfare Wel-fare is being studied by state officials. Both the Joint Budget-Audit Committee headed by W. Hughes Brockbank, R-Salt Lake, with Karl N. Snow Jr., legislative analyst, and the Legislative Council Planning and Organization Committee headed by Sen. Dixie Leavitt, R-Cedar City, are studying the issue. The Budget-Audit Committee Commit-tee has met with executive directors of the' three departments depart-ments and now is studying reports obtained from them. Weilenmann Report In his report, Milton L. Weilenmann, executive director, direc-tor, Development Services, said in part: "I do not believe the intend ed objectives of the Utah Development Services , Act can fully be achieved unless a genuine attempt is made by the next Legislatire to reorganize re-organize the Coordinating Council of Development Services Ser-vices more closely along the lines and in harmony with the recommendations of the Little Hoover Commission. "The Board-on-Board concept con-cept as it presently exists' ... is in sharp conflict with sound reasoning and the long' accepted principals of administrative' ad-ministrative' organization." Gordon E. Harmston, executive ex-ecutive director, Natural Resources, Re-sources, wrote: "I feel it is apparent to all that the consolidation effort ef-fort was only a half-step in the right direction and that fnrflipr Ipcriqlntivn stpns will be required to achieve the results desired by the sponsors spon-sors of the bill." Alternatives Several alternatives are being be-ing considered: The six division boards under each executive director direct-or and coordinating council could be made advisory only. In case of Health and Welfare Wel-fare these boards are Public Welfare, Health, Mental Health, Corrections, Indian Affairs, and Aging. Mrs. Virginia Roberts, the chairman of the Welfare Board, recently advocated making that body advisory only. She said continued conflict con-flict had resulted a year ago when the Coordinating Council Coun-cil and the Welfare Board both attempted to set policy for her division. The coordinating comc'I; could be eliminated. The executive ex-ecutive director then would be liaison between the division divis-ion boards and the governor. This was the plan proposed by the Little Hoover Com- The 1967 Legislature did not go along with this proposal pro-posal and set up coordinating coordin-ating councils. Gov. Ramp-ton Ramp-ton opposed the coordinating councils but accepted them as part of the price of achieving ach-ieving consolidations. One advantage of the consolidations con-solidations is that they reduce re-duce considerably the number num-ber of agencies which formerly form-erly reported to the governor. gover-nor. A governor does not have time to keep in touch with more than 150 stale agencies, he asserted. |