Show county officials of ficiala hear request for more home rule nearly members n including cl most of uintah county officials heard W 11 johnston Joh naton president of thc jhc national of county of fici ficiala als urgel urge a i return to the home rule concept bolgov 0 government f the occo occasion was tile annual convention of utah state association of county officials held thursday and friday of last week at tile the newhouse hotel in salt palt lake city mr mcjohnston johnston urged office officials alotto j to change tile the present strong trend toward centralized government back to home rule lie ile sold said that the trend was due to the failure of state ani and local governments to adequately discharge their responsibilities each time we turn to tile the bleie or national government for a service that we could provide locally we weaken all levels of government we continued on page 8 0 home rule continued from page 1 the local unit by decreasing Us its authority he sold said for example ho he continued we are aware that far too many American sare killed or maimed on our highways each year we at the county level can do much to correct this by building botter better local roads improving highway h s a f e t y measures strengthening local loc al traffic enforcement and adopting up to date traffic codes other speakers included gov george D clyde mayor adael F stewart of salt lake city lamont lament B gunderson salt lake county commas commissioner and dr george W soffe utah state board of health |