Show iR t Y o fir j S r ir i i Y s 1 t f r ri W Wa F N i a aCi a Ci r SY r J r S a- a w r p w BACK VIEW AT THE SEARLE GAS tank battery shows fireman playing water around burning areas to prevent fire The 1975 Uintah County budget was officially approved last week after a specially called hearing Friday for fer discussion concerning increasing increasing increasing in in- creasing Commissioners salaries The budget was approved as proposed with the exception of the library fund which was increased The budget amounts to or less than 1974 All elected officials official were raised to per year with the e exception of the surveyor who will be paid by the amount of work he does docs The Commissioners will work a minimum of 40 hours a week with their new increased salary A percentage increase in salaries and wages was given all other county employees also alsoto to start in January AT TilE THE hearing Friday County Commissioner Chairman Warren D D. D Richardson explained it had become necessary to make the spreading Water was also placed on the non-burning non end of the tanks t to keep them cool County approved wages e increased commission job a time full-time job to be paid the same as other time full-time elected officials County Attorney Whitney D D. D Hammond conducted the hearing in which opponents expressed the feeling the commissioners knew what they would be paid before they were elected and their salary should stay the same while serving their term The commissioners were also criticized for not informing the public of their intentions of a salary raise and ard also not publicizing it better Others expressed the raise as too much too loo soon ON TIlE TIE proponent side it was pointed out the responsibility of running county government had increased and we should not restrict our officials officials of of- with low wages necessitating other supplemental jobs and only time part-time service The hearing filled the county courtroom and lasted nearly two hours l n f f a i 4 a 34 l i t t bay o f a aU ar r r i U a 7 r f 1 y c F Nt r rm m l R t H J F t. t t- t i qI i r l J 1 l rt 1 i V i SMOKE COLUMN from the Woodey B. B Searle barn and corral when a stock watering heater Ignited propane fumes and set off a gas fire which consumed the barn and burned around storage tanks |