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Show Itoteliouso Roport Budget BfiSflcs Are Intensified As IVinrch 11 Adioumment News ly ( Sharp The battle of a IVmo- atic-domini'ted House of ',-'coresen!.it i es and a Ke JjoaMican - dominated Sen- !o is .cc!'. ill.",' increasing- ho! ur developim; : niv-ot as tho date for 'dio mtment. Maivh 1 1. . aus nearer. Meanwhile, both houses , -mated strong eomniit-( eomniit-( fes February 19, draw-, draw-, A r the strings tighter on ills to be considered. Coy. Calvin I.. Uampton i-euieted Feb. 19 that. "llBHS. his .graduated line occupation (.sever. icel tax increase, ohvi-e;4sly ohvi-e;4sly will not pass the -na'e as of now but may ??,o so before adjournment. Q.Tl'.is bill was passed e'oruary li by the House iw'-o'- on a strictly party vr.e with the exception of ' op. Mike Dmitrich, D- lice. who voted acair.st fi. This followed 10 min-Jntes min-Jntes of bitter debate. ' v Demise Flamied Republicans in the Ser.- e were prepared Feb. 19 to kill the bill, but deferred defer-red consideration until Mi iwlay at 1 1 a.m. when the axe was scheduled to be applied. Alternate measures have been introduced by l!e. publicans to raise sums in the runyje of the $3.9 million planned by Uampton Uamp-ton to come from the mines tax. These would hike the cigarette tax from eiurhtj to 10 cents per package and would add ?T.o0 to the m tor vehicle registration regis-tration fee. The $" million mil-lion to be raised would be earmarked for traffic law-enforcement law-enforcement on a population popula-tion basis. Salt Lake County would jret about $2.5 million. Fven if these two measures meas-ures won Senate approval they face sudile.ii death in the House. Sales Tax Speedup SB212 calls for a speedup speed-up in sales tax collections (.monthly instead of quarterly) quar-terly) which would yield a one - time nest egg of about $11 million. Sl!21l would nppropri-ate nppropri-ate SjU'i.fi million from the general fund and authorize author-ize borrowing from various vari-ous state funds to pay for a new state office building. build-ing. Rampton on February 10 announced $l!5l.:?02 in Four Corners Regional 'Commission grants for projects plus $10,770 in technical assistance grants for four more projects. A grant of $UV2,940. will make possible a $1,020, 100, North Finery County water system to serve the area of the new Utah Power & Light Co. steam electric generating plant. North Fniery Project Municipal and industrial indus-trial water will be provided provid-ed for the cities of Lawrence, Law-rence, Cleveand, Flmo and South Huntington: for the U P & L plant and the coal mine in Huntington Canyon. Final approval Is expected ex-pected soon from the Economic Ec-onomic Development Administration Ad-ministration for a ?720, 5S0 giant. The Farmers Home Adiniaistrtaion has committed a S-Oii.SOO lo..n for the project. Moab, which had asked fcr an ?1S,000 planning grant for studies for n Castle Valley Ski area ami recreation center, received receiv-ed ? 11.000. This is to pay for a feasibility study. Master plan and marketing program pro-gram for recreational development de-velopment within tho county. Environcon Inc., Salt Lake City, is to do the work. Water Storage Moab also will receive $7,000 for a study of proposed pro-posed dams on Mill and Pack creeks. Gunni.'on will get $2.-', 000 to help pay for increased in-creased costs of its hospital. hos-pital. Moroni will receive ?0. 000 toward total cost of ?1- 112.000 for a sewage col-Jection col-Jection and treatment system sys-tem to prevent pollution of present sources of culinary cul-inary and industrial water and to allow for expansion expans-ion for a turkey processing process-ing plant. The Kc-onomic Development Develop-ment Administration is to pioviue grants totaling $G"G.200; the Federal Water Wa-ter Quality Agency $217, 979 and the Moroni Feed operation is to pay $147, 761. Iilanding Vocational Fil Blanding will get $17, 770 to hire a vocational education specialist to prepare preliminary engin-eriag. engin-eriag. curriculum and layout lay-out for a proposed vocational voca-tional education school. Piute County gets $23. 000 for an integrated high school and adult vocational vocation-al education program being be-ing sponsored by state vocational vo-cational education leaders lead-ers as a pilot project. Other projects include $254. G02 to Cedar City towards $1,315,775 to be spent for extending airport air-port runways and providing provid-ing lighting, fencing, water wa-ter lines, fire hydrants and a fire house; $ 700 to Teasdale to help pay for a pressure irrigation, system to cos' $235,000; $73,500 towards costs for a $219,000 water storage and distribution system for Jensen, and $15,000 to Salem toward total costs of $50,830 for a new well, pumps and connections. Nine . Mile Canyon Blaine J. Kay state highway engineer, and Paul Gilgen, collector road program supervisor, were scheduled to have met with the Carbon County Commission Tuesday Tues-day night in Price to discuss dis-cuss future of the Nine-Mile Nine-Mile Canyon road from Wellington to My ton. Following the discussion, discus-sion, the State Road Commission Com-mission is to receive recommendations re-commendations Friday February 2G on future operations op-erations of the road. Because the U. S. Geological Geo-logical Survey is conducting conduct-ing studies in the disputed disput-ed border area between Uintah and Grand counties, coun-ties, State Engineer Hubert Hu-bert C. Lambert has postponed post-poned a meeting first set for February 19 to .attempt .attem-pt to solve the problem. The new meeting time is April 14 at 3 p.m. in the Carbon County courthouse. |