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Show Thursday, October 4, 1979 Page 15 Stop At The Swap Wondering what to do with that ski equipment you're not going to use? Or maybe you need to pick up a good pair of rock or powder skis, and you can't afford to visit the retail stores in fear of spending your season pass savings. Well, your worries are over! The Park City Ski Swap will be taking care of everyone's needs this Octo-, ; ber 27th and 28th. The Memorial Building, 427 Main Street, Park City is the place for the Swap activities. Whether you're looking for a Paying More, Getting Less Utah has been receiving proportionately less from Federal grant-in-aid programs, despite the fact . that Utahns are paying proportionately more to finance such programs. This was the main conclusion reached by Utah Foundation, Foun-dation, the private research organization, in their latest study of changing patterns in Federal aid. The report shows that Utah ranked 47th among the 50 states in the percentage increase of Federal grants between 1965 and 1978. During this period, Federal aid to Utah rose by 318 percent, per-cent, but the increase was only slightly more than half the national Federal aid growth of 614 percent. For the most part, the states with the greatest increases in Federal aid were also states with higher-than-average per capita incomes. According to the Foundation Foun-dation study, there has been a trend during recent years of awarding Federal aid on a project basis rather than by a set formula. Such project grants have complicated the administrative machinery and have added uncertainty to the budget process of state and local units. This system also tends to favor the larger states and cities at the expense ex-pense of the smaller units which do not have the financial, finan-cial, technical, and lobbying resources to compete for these project grants. At the same time that Utah's share of the Federal grant distributions has been declining, the taxes required to finance such Federal aid allocations have been rising. Utah's share of the Federal tax burden required 9 Jafovi-0. .tjC for these, grant Programs . i rose frdm 0.42 percent In i3ciJlJ' ,um to an estimated 0.48 percent in 1978. As a result, Utah which received back more than $2 for each dollar in taxes paid to finance these grant programs in 1965, now finds that this advantage has been reduced to $1.16 in Federal grants for each $1 in taxes by 1978. Even though Utah still gets back slightly more in Federal aid then it pays in Federal taxes to support those aid programs, Foundation Foun-dation researchers note that it is doubtful that this represents a net gain for the State. They point out that this benefit-to-cost ratio does not take into account 1) Federal administrative costs, 2) state and local administrative ad-ministrative costs,-3) the higher cost of many Federal -aid projects. 4) the lower-benefit-cost ratios of the newer Federal aid programs, 5) . the j undertaking under-taking of projects of questionable value, 6) the separation of responsibility from the raising of revenues, 7) the creation of an unwieldy un-wieldy central bureaucracy, and 8) the- competitive disadvantage of a small state, such as Utah, in securing these grants. Federal grants-in-aid to state and local ;units of government throughout the United States totaled $77.9 billion in fiscal 1978. Federal aid has multiplied by 35 times since 1950 and now accounts ac-counts for 23.4 percent of all state and local revenue in' the nation. Foundation analysts observe that. Federal controls, : which generally accompany these ' Federal dollars, are exerting a correspondingly heavy influence in-fluence on the budget-making budget-making decisions of state and local government. Altogether there are 492 separate categorical Federal grant programs. These categorical programs are directed at narrowly-defined narrowly-defined activities or limited objectives. In addition to the categorical grants, there are five broad-based block grant programs, plus the general Federal revenue sharing program. To participate in the various Federal .grant programs, state and local units frequently are required to follow Federal regulations or guidelines which may be at variance with their own preferences. Recently, the Federal Advisory Commission Com-mission on Intergovernmental' Intergovernmen-tal' Relations reported' that "at least 33 crosscutting regulations routinely are attached at-tached to most aid programs." good buy, or you need to sell your old equipment, your best bet for a score is going to be in Park City that weekend." The way if works is easy... anyone who has saleable ski equipment of any sort (hard and soft goods) should bring them to the Memorial Building Build-ing Saturday morning between be-tween 8:00 am and noon, for equipment registration. Registration consists of sellers filling out tags with name, address and asking price for merchandise (each article must have a tag) . The equipment is then put on the floor to be sold. Sellers should return Sunday between be-tween 5:00-6:00 to pick up unsold equipment or turn stubs in for payment if equipment has been sold. Buyers may come anytime between 8:00amand6:00pm on Saturday or Sunday for the bargains. ' A $1.00 fee will be charged to all persons attending the swap. Children under 12 will get in free. Door prizes include: Salomon Salo-mon bindings, Molnar skis, Scott and Kerma poles, ski bags, goggles and more... Bring the whole family. Ski movies for the kids. Don't miss it! R E S T A U R A N T Best Salad Bar in Town Serving Prime Rib nightly 649-7100 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK FOR DINNER Located in Prospector Square Mi Tl TX mm a worn wm rx ooo ..fe Legal Notice Notice is hereby given of an election for one member of the Board of Trustees of Snyderville Basin Sewer Improvement Im-provement District to be held December 5, 1979. The vacancy to be filled at that election will be for a six-year ; term beginning January, 1980. Candidates must reside within Snyderville Basin Sewer Improvement District and outside the corporate limits of Park City. Only residents of the area of the district outside of Park City will vote at such election. All candidates must be eighteen years of age. Candidates may file for election by filing with the clerk of the district a signed announcement of their candidacy. can-didacy. Such a statement may also be signed by five registered voters on behalf of-the candidate. The last day for filing will be November No-vember 20, 1979. Any person interested in becoming a candidate for the office to be filled should contact the Clerk of the Snyderville Basin Sewer Improvement Im-provement District at the district's office, Silver King State Bank, 1650 Park Ave., Park City, Utah, for additional addi-tional information. Board of Trustees Joanne S. Pillinger, Clerk Published in The Newspaper October 4, 1979 HELLO ... IS ANYONE OUT THERE LISTENING? This is your furnace speaking. That's right ....your furnace. HERE I AM SITTING IN THE BASEMENT. I've been doing nothing all summer but gather a lot of dust. And . . . well ... I think it's about time you did something about it. ANY DAY NOW, COLD WEATHER IS GOING TO HIT. Then you're going to turn up the thermostat and expect me to do my thing . . . keep the house nice and warm . . . on even the coldest days. 1 .. in lilt I 1 II : S NOW DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME. I'll be glad to do it. After all... that's what I'm here for. All I ask is that you give me a chance. Call a heating contractor, plumber, or furnace dealer today and have him give me a good physical. HE'LL CHECK MY BLOWER BELT, MY BURNERS, CLEAN MY FILTER . . . the whole servicing bit. Then I'll be ready to go to work. I'LL BE ABLE TO WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY... EFFI-CIENTLY... and I'll use less energy. Then all you have to do is check my filter occasionally. MOUNTAIN FUEL for nearly Fifty Years People Serving People. I |