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Show Federal Spending In Utah County reject Discussed Orem-Geneva Times Thursday, June 19, 1975 Federal outlays made in Utah County during the 1975 fiscal year totaled $86, 852,000. This fact was reported by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization in an analysis of Federal Outlays in Utah. - ' ' Federal outlays include all Federal spending for salaries (civilian and military), retirement and other employee benefits, Federal purchases and contracts, grant-in-aid to state and local units, and other Federal Fed-eral payments made to institutions and individuals. The fiscal 1974 expenditure total is equal to $551 for every man, woman, and child residing in Utah County, and is the equivalent of 17.4 of the total personal income of all inhabitants of the county. By way of comparison, total Federal outlays out-lays throughout the state during the 1974 fiscal year amounted to $1,613,669,00 and were to equal to $1,389 per capita. These Federal expenditures in Utah last year were the equivalent of 32.4 of the state's total personal income. Foundation analysts emphasize that while these Federal programs and activities may have a stimulating effect on payrolls and local economies, they sometimes some-times can prove to be liabilities rather than assets to state and local government operations. This is especially true in the case of programs which create large increases in-creases in Federal employment with no corresponding increase in taxable wealth and income within the private sector. Previous Pre-vious studies have shown that, on the average, aver-age, individuals in Utah pay only about one-half one-half of the cost of necessary state and local government services, with the remaining half being borne by taxes on business and industry. Another part of the Foundation study indicates that Federal budget deficits and increases in the national debt tend to take money out of the state of Utah. As a specific example, the report shows that a $70 billion Federal budget deficit could result re-sult in an annual $11.9 million drain from individuals and business firms in Utah. The study points out that in fiscal 1974 ceived only $37 million in Federal in terest payments, an amount equal to 0.18 of total Federal expenditures for interest on the national debt. On the other hand, Utah residents paid about 0.42 of all Federal taxes collected to finance Federal activities and programs during the 1974 fiscal year. According to the Foundation calculations, if the Federal Government incurs a budget deficit of $70 billion and this deficit is financed by new debt obligations bearing an average interest rate of 7 , the interest obligations of the Federal Government would rise by $4.9 billion per year.' Since Utah pays 0.42 of the Federal taxes, Utah's share of this added cost would be approximately approxi-mately $20.6 million per year. Based on the 1974 experience, individuals and institutions in Utah might expect to receive re-ceive back only about $8.7 million in added Federal interest payments from this increased in-creased Federal debt. Thus, the net effect ef-fect of a $70 billion Federal deficit would be an annual outflow of $11.9 million from the people of Utah. Moreover, this $11.9 milliom annual drain would become a perpetual per-petual item unless the Federal debt were reduced at some future date. National degense is the largest single area of Federal activity in Utah. The Foundation study observes national defense and international interna-tional relations account for $636 million, or 39.4 of all Federal spending in Utah. Income In-come security payments (social security, public assistance, unemployment insurance, retirement benefits, etc.), the next largest area of Federal spending in Utah totaled $400 million, or 24.8, Other major Federal Fed-eral outlays include commerce and transportation trans-portation - $132 million (8.2), natural resources and environment - $93 million (5.8), veteran benefits - $79 million (4.9), health - $74 million (4.6), and education manpower - $68 million (4.2). The proportion of total Federal outlays made in Utah has been declining during recent re-cent years. In the 1969-70 fiscal year, for example, Utah's share of all Federal outlays out-lays amounted to 0.61. By 1973-74, Utah's share had declined to 0.57. (This is the first of a series of six stories on the Central Utah Project, a major multi-purpose water resource project authorized autho-rized by Congress as part of the Colorado River Storage Act in 1956.) Water has always been a valuable valu-able commodity in Utah, the second se-cond driest state in the nation. Even the earliest accounts of U-tah U-tah history emphsize the scarcity scar-city of water. When the pioneers enterd Utah, their initial activites centerd a-round a-round the conservation and careful care-ful use of limited water resources. They built dams and irrigated the parched desert valleys to grow the food they needed. With water being so scarce, a fact that is hard to believe to many people living along the lush green Wasatch Front, community decision-makers recognized years ago the need for a complete program of conservation. The Central Utah Project, a massive water resource project is a culmination of over 50 years of research, planning, water agreements, compacts and apportionments ap-portionments , to help 12 Utah counties solve their water needs. The project encompasses tunnels Great Q I LakA FamingGorBe 4 iL-JL XsALf'tAKE CITY t I DELTA I I w a Lake Po.vgII BONNEVILLE UNIT of the Central Utah Project. the year. Water that now flows down the streams of the Uinta Mountains as snrin? run-off and nnr nf rhn aqueuuwt., uauib, vuut., anu state will through the Central pipelines and a complex network utah projectbe divertedto Uinta of water rights and environmental Basin and Wasatch Front where considerations to solve a simple u is desperately needed for a basic need for water theough 2020. burgeoning population. Thiswa-Not Thiswa-Not only is water scarce n t will then be made avaiiabie uuui, out wuai uiue uieie u for mwi industrial and remains in the mountains in the lurm oi snow uurmg wmier In ndrtitirn tn the heifer iikam months, then rushes down the o utah,s water supply the Cen. tral Utah Project will provide strams in a torrent only three months of the year. Some of it in regulated amounts throughout Utah Water Conservancy District. The project is being built through federally appropriated funds of which 91 will be repaid by Utahns through water sales, tax revenues and electric power revenues. re-venues. Nonreimbursable cost consists of recreation, fish and wildlife, flood control and related costs which provide benefits to the general public. Future articles in this series will detail the development and progress of each of the Central Utah units. agricultural uses. flood protection, newirecreation Indian Leader Guides Students of the state. Antiquated water storeage by leaders ofTheChurchofJesus plans designed before Utah was Christ of Latter-day Saints. He ne quarter of the population it became a member of the church is today are now being put to rest in 1958. with tho 'Prpnare tnr tnmnrrnw is stored, much of it flows out areas serving hiking, boating, and fishing enthusiasts while providing provid-ing pollution-free hydroelectric power. . For planning the development the project has been divided into Nationally, said Dr. Sawyer, Dians in the Central Utah Proiect v , -I T fu" fc cu only four percent of Indian stu- Cen ral "M?5" M Indian students need heroes of their own race to emulate according accord-ing to a leading authority on Indian education, and Indian students at Brigham Young University have found just the type in a new faculty facul-ty member. He even has the name of an old American folk heroTom Sawyer. Saw-yer. Dr. Thomas E. Sawyer, coordinator coor-dinator of Indian programs at BYU, was featured this year in the Indian student newspaper, !'The Eagle's Eye." as an ex- ample worthy of emulation for all Indian students. His career has led him through a variety of top executive positions in private industry and he has served in the highest echelons of state and federal fed-eral government. At BYU Dr. Sawyer is responsible respon-sible for coordinating all Indian programs on campus and monitoring moni-toring Indian students in the programs. pro-grams. He said he also spends a v9rtmftiiittja imti (Ei HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher; Published every Thursday at Orem, Utah. Office and plant located at 546 South State Street. Mailing address; P.O. Box 65, Orem Utah 84057. Subscription price: $4.50 per year. Second-class postage paid at Orem, Utalu lot ot time counseling students on all aspects of college life. There are over 500 Indian students at BYU more than at any other university uni-versity in the United Statesand they are involved in a wide variety of programs. Dr. Sawyer, whose father was a full-blooded Cherokee and his mother Irish, is an excellent example ex-ample to the Indian students because be-cause of his success. Early in life he determined to be successful and go to college. "Several instances of white ridicule ridi-cule during this time served to strengthen my determination to be a successful Indian," he said. That motivation resulted in an engineering degree from UCLA, a master's degree in economics, a doctorate in clinical psychology Florida State, and advanced work in public administration at the University of Southern Cali-. Cali-. fornia. During his career, Dr. Sawyer assisted in the design and development de-velopment of the life support system for the Mercury space capsule and led the design effort ef-fort for the Gemini and Apollo space capsules. He has worked with the Indian people as deputy director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and with members of the White House Staff and senators during his involvement with the Domestic Domes-tic Council of the President's Council. "Although I had accepted a position at three times the salary in 1974, I came to BYU because I was impressed with the Indian program and the number of Indian students here." He added dents who enter college eventually event-ually graduate, But at BYU 20-22 20-22 percent of entering freshmen graduate. "We want to double that," he added. In addition to his duties at BYU Dr. Sawyer serves on the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, as a special consultant to the Secretaries of Interior and Labor and on the boards of several nonprofit non-profit organizations dedicated to the betterment of Indian people. He, his wife Joyce, and their four children reside in Orem. The Central Utah Project re cognizes that the key to wise water management in Utah is to capture and store in reservoirs destructive spring run-off then release the water down streams unit, Uintah unit, Bonneville unit and the Utah Indian unit. The gigantic undertaking is being constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and being administrated by the Central NOTES 'N QUOTES For those people alarmed over the antihandgun drive gathering momentum in this country, some more statistics have been published pub-lished that will be of interest. Statistics used by Senator J mae s McC lure of Idahobelie ve the contention that handgun ownership owner-ship leads to more homicides. McClure pointed out there are 40 million privately ownedhandguns Six Students To Attend Convention Six students from Utah Technical Techni-cal College at Provo will attend the national Phi Beta Lambda leadership lea-dership convention June 23-25 in Miami, Florida, and four of them have earned ; the right to compete in the nationalbusiness skill contests con-tests staged by the convention. This was announced recently by Mrs. Annette Thomason, Utah Tech business instructor and faculty fa-culty advisor to the local chapter of Phi Beta Lambda, national college business fraternity. Utah Tech students who will compete in the national contests by virtue of their record in state competition include: Jean Trip of Lehi and Diane Bastian of PleasantGrove, members mem-bers of the winning vocabulary-relay vocabulary-relay team (the other member is from Utah State University) in the state Phi Beta Lambda competition. com-petition. Mr. Norma "Buffie" Joiner of Spanish Fork, first place in accounting in the state. Scott Bushman of Orem, third place in the state in date processing. pro-cessing. Miss Tripp has been chosen to represent Utah at the convention as the outstanding Phi Beta Lambda member in the state this year, said Mrs. Thomason. She graduated this spring from Utah Tech with an associate degree as a legal secretary. She was state historian for Phi Beta Lambda during the past year. Miss Bastian, also a spring graduate withanassociate degree as a legal secretary, was president presi-dent of the Utah Tech chapter of Phi Beta Lambda during the past school year. Mr. Bushman will return to in the U. S. Last year, there were 10340 homicides committed with handguns nationwide. That means 2100ths of one percent of 'privately owned handguns were used to commit murder. Looking Look-ing at it from the other side, 99.98 percent of private handguns were not used in the commission of a homicide. Utah Tech next year as a major in accounting and date processing. pro-cessing. He was editor of the Utah Tech student newspaper last year. Mrs. Joiner was treasurer of the local Phi Beta Lambda last year, has already graduated with an accounting major, and plans to graduate this August in data processing. Others making the trip b Florida Flori-da include Carol Ann Walker of Orem, who will be Utah Tech president of Phi Beta Lambda next year. She is aiming for an associate degree as an executive secretary. Also going will be Barbara Roundy of Oasis (near Delta) who will be club vice president next year and is planning plan-ning an associate degree as ale-gal ale-gal secretary. Mrs. Thomasonwillgoalongas faculty advisor for the group. Somebody Cares! Cares if you are new in town and feel kind of lost; If you've just added a new son or daughter, to your family; If HE has finally asked you to become his wife; If you or someone in your family is .elebrating a very special occasion oc-casion ... Who? Call. 225- 6173 x " v. . v. DO YOU KNOW. School lunch programs cost $19,153,33 7 in 1973 - 74 and$66.94 on a per capita basis. Piute and Millard have the state's highest costs with $114.05 and $101.40 respectively. The school lunch program now costs 12 as much as all outlays for instruction, in-struction, and over 4 times the total cost of administration. Average contract salaries of classroom teachers isnow $9,146, or -$1,016 per month for time actually worked. Total teacher salary costs now amount to $115 million. By districts, average teacher salaries range from a low of $7,630 in Daggett to a high of $9,810 in Tooele and $9,697 in Washington. 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