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Show Pagt 3 THE LEADER-GARLAN- TIMES. Oct. D 14, 1976 Equipment Purchases Arc Dig Factor Shuttle Will Dowels $21,000. Redding pointed out that he currently has 16 deputies, two less than his predecessor had. He said there are only two deputies on patrol per shift on an average day. Sickness or the need to transport prisoners often cuts that number down to one. The extra secretary is needed to provide someone to meet with the public at the jail during evening hours. During these hours the jail is staffed only with a jailer who must remain in the booking area, and a dispatcher. A second area responsible for the proposed increase is equipment purchases. Redding is proposing the purchase of one truck and five cars at a cost of $6,400 worth of additional $37,000; radios, $2,500 worth of crime lab equipment, four paging units for $1,400 and two "handy talkies" for $3,000 for a total of $50,300. "I think the needs we've outlined in the budget are very realistic," Redding said. Redding said one of the big factors in the budget is the "tremendous size of the county" Box Elder County is ten times larger than Weber County and five times larger than the entire state of Rhode Island. The Sheriff said his goal has been to get deputies out of the office and into the field,- -a move which increases the need for patrol cars and increases such expenses as gasoline and Y Economy The communication's budget is proposed at $81,000 compared with $48,750 "I've tried to get them out addressing problems," Redding said. He currently has six cars to do his job with. "You've got to give the man the tools to work with," Redding added. His priority has not been increasing personnel, although overall numbers nave increased somewhat because the county constructed a new and larger jail facility. If push came to shove, Redding said he would rather have the additional equipment than the additional personnel. The sheriff currently has 29 personnel, including himself. They include 16 deputies and the sheriff, five jailers, five dispatchers and three secretaries. Redding feels he has a handle on the costs involved in operating the new jail, but said booking rates are changing daily. A total of 1,295 adults have been booked into the jail to date in 1976.That compares with just 161 back in 1969, for the entire year.Last year, through November, 800 adults had been booked. In fact, things have been so hot and heavy in the jail that it cost the county $1,909 to feed prisoners during the month of September. The jail has a capacity of 28, but gets overloaded at times. A recent roundup of wetbacks in the south end of the county sent the jail population soaring to 37 temporarily There were 18 people in the jail Tuesday, a number that is fairly average, Redding said. Box Elder County Sheriff Art Redding has proposed a 1977 budget of $355,987 for the sheriff's department.... an increase of $78,418 over the 1976 budget of $277,569. The increase is due largely to two areas. One is a request for two additional deputies and a secretary. Cost for the three would be an estimated 77 Fob Stabilize budgeted in 1976. The budget includes $30,000 for equipment.One costly item is a $20,000 recorder which would record dispatch conversations both on the radio and the telephone. Another equipment item is a $5,000 console which would allow two dispatchers to work during peak periods or crises. Creation of an additional frequency for county government operations would cost $5,000. The county jail operation budget is proposed at $67,050 compared to $61,250 budgeted in 1976. Large items in that budget include $20,000 for feeding of prisoners and $39,500 for paying jailers. The Sheriff's final budget is for law enforcement buildings and grounds, and totals $25,250 compared to $16,400 budgeted in 1976. That budget includes $5,000 for purchase of a closed circuit television system for the jail area. Redding said actual figures for 1976 very close or below budgeted figures for the year. The county recently received word they would receive about $730,000 a year from the federal government for of taxes of federal payment-in-lie- u lands. are running Redding said nis proposed Sheriff's budget does not include any pay raises for personnel.Commissioners instructed department heads to leave that matter up to them. The sheriff actually administers a total of four budgets. All will go up if approved by the commission. Commissioners have already promised to reduce the mill levy with part of the money But, part of that money will be sought after by the sheriff to satisfy his budget demands. Predicting that "our next President will be a farmer," Senator Frank E. Moss told a gathering of members of the Farmer's Union that farming today is one of the biggest business gambles in the country due, in major part, to the shaky and wavering economy. Moss met with some 50 members of the organization in the Community Center in Brigham City and told them that farmers always seem to suffer the most during times of economic "boom and bust:' It doesn't seem to matter," he noted, "whether the country's economy is on the rise or taking another nose dive. If the economic trend improves, farmers never seem to benefit quite as much, proportionately, as other business; and when the economy slides, farmers are usually the first to suffer the impact:' He also emphasized his position on balancing the budget and said he places first priority on getting people back to work. "If the unemployment rate were less than 5 percent, our budget would be balanced," he said. The federal bureaucracy must do much more to support the free enter-priz- e system so jobs can come from the private sector through expanding small business. The federal government should only be the employer of last resort. A BRUSH FIRE sweeps northward above the gravel pit on the Deweyville mountain last Friday. National Forest crews moved in to quell the blaze which did little actual damage. Moss also expressed his belief that, with the coming of the new space shuttle program at Thiokol, west of Brigham City, the general economy and employment index of Box Elder County and environs would be better stabilized. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Senator Moss said he felt that the new program at Thiokol would be "...a tremendous boost to the economy and jobs for the entire state but, specifically, for northern Utah." Fire Burns Moutain Side In Deweyville One hundred and ten acres of sagebrush, juniper and grass were devestated by fire just above Deweyville, along, the mountainside a few hundred yards above the canal. The fire was originally reported to Lloyd Robinette, the county fire marshal at 2:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon. fobinette responded with Garland, Honeyville and county fire equipment and personnel. "The fire was actually on Cache National Forest ground and we provided the initial attack until Neff Hardman, the fire control officer in the Logan District, could be notified," s Robinette explained. Robinette and his crew set up fire lines and put out a patrol for nearly half an n hour until the two crews arrived from Boise, Idaho by airplane to the Logan airport and bus to Deweyville. ' At about the same time, a helicopter flown by Clarence Montgomery flew in from Salt Lake City to assist the crews. A base camp was set up at the Deweyville Park and crews were flown up to the fire line from that area. 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