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Show 'Pollution Suites priority' BY PETER GILLINS Senior Editor Governor Calvin Rampton regards re-gards air and water pollution as the highest priority problesm facing fac-ing the state of Utah at this time. In a speech Monday morning in the Union Ballroom which began Challenge Week, Gov. Rampton outlined the state's pollution problems and said the people will v have to pay for their control through an increased price of goods. "The people of Utah want to do something about the problem. but they don't know what," he said. "People want the pollution stopped, but they don't know who to blame and they want to maintain their own right to pollute." pol-lute." Easy on East Bench "It's easy to say, if you live on the east bench, that we should close down Kennecott," he added. "However, ruining the economy would not allow us to meet other problems." The governor said pollution controls must be flexible enough to maintain industrial development, develop-ment, but at the same time pollution pollu-tion must be kept down and even rolled back. He added that Utah's pollution standards are more stringent than those of the federal government. "Our top priority is to build without destroying," he said. The governor said only 1 .6 percent per-cent of the state's budget was being spent on natural resources compared with 27 percent for public education, 23.6 percent for higher education, 7.94 percent for social sevices and 3.45 percent for government overhead. He said that for a long-time state spending priorities have been in education. In the 50's and early 60's money was spent on primary and secondary schools to handle the surge of war babies. When the war babies reached college age, spending emphasis switched to higher education. Emphasize Social Services "The 1971 legislature saw another an-other change," he said, "a change emphasizing social services and welfare." The governor said he expects a great change in Utah education in the next decade including an expansion ex-pansion of high school programs to include liberal arts courses now offered in the first two years of college, a three-year bachelors degree de-gree and a three-year medical program. pro-gram. He also said the vocational schools will increase in importance. import-ance. "Only 10 percent of money for education goes to trade schools now," he said. "This will increase to 30 to 40 percent." "Higher education will grow much more slowly," tire governor t : 1 c . ! if - : : " , ' i I I t f '' :( Gov. Calvin Rampton discusses "Priorities in Utah," as a keynote to Challenge Week activities which began Monday. Rampton: 'Pollution takes priority' (continued from page 1) added, "and will probably level out towards the end of the decade. dec-ade. There will possibly be a period of no growth in higher education." During the question period the governor was asked what he thought of the Cal'.cy decision. He replied that he thought that a first degree murder conviction was "ridiculous," and that the sentence sen-tence of "life in prison was too much." "I think he should have been tried," he said. "I think he acted as the average soldier would not have acted." The governor added that though he had not heard all the evidence that the jury had heard, the facts suggested that Calley acted in the "heat of passion" which would justify a manslaughter man-slaughter charge. "There are other officers who should also be tried," he said. |