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Show Pilot Plan for Social Services Integration to be Bared Mar. 3 By C. Sharp Details of a proposed pilct program for delivering social soc-ial services programs in the Five County Region of Southwestern South-western Utah will be bared at a meeting in Cedar City Friday March 3. A committee of 21 members mem-bers representing the five county commissions, cities, legislators, the two state colleges in that area, school districts and state staff members mem-bers has devised the program, pro-gram, i Lyman Smart, director, Intergovernmental In-tergovernmental personnal Service Center, State Community Com-munity Affairs Department, said Gov. Calvin L. Rampton will address the Cedar Cit1 meeting at which the pilot program will be acted upon. Programs to be administered administer-ed under the new regional plan are: Family Services (Welfare), Health, Corrections, Correct-ions, Drugs and Alcoholism, Mental Health Indian Affairs and Aging. Want Try-Out "We want to see how this program will work," Smart told Rampton's Advisory Coouncil on Community Affairs Af-fairs Feb. 25 at the State Capitol. If the regionalization program pro-gram is successful and "bugs" are taken out of thj plan, it can be modified and adopted by other regional county organizations throughout through-out the state, he said. It will not be forced down the throats of any county group, he promised. Ivan Malheson, Cedar City, member of the Iron County Commission and of the organizing organ-izing committee for the pilot plan; Marion Hazelton, Mon-ticello, Mon-ticello, chairman of Four County Southeastern Regional Region-al Health Board, and William E. Dunn, chairman of the Salt Lake County Commission, asked many questions at the meeting. .. Decentralization Plan Norman G. Andrus, director direct-or of planning and evaluation, Social Service Department, said his department is committed com-mitted to decentralizing most of its services. Resignation of Allan T. Howe .executive director, Four Corners Regional Com mission for the past four years to become effective June 1, was announced Feb. 25. Howe previously had been administrative assistant to Rampton. Headquarters cf the commission are at Farming-ton, Farming-ton, N. M. Stanley Womer, federal co-chairman, co-chairman, and Gov. Bruce King of New Mexico ,stae cochairman ,said structure of the commission will be studied stu-died during the next four months before choosing a successor suc-cessor to Howe. |