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Show The Daily Utah Clironkle. Openings Page Twelve 1977 oitor Salt Lake County: Don't take this garbage lightly It stinks. And it nerds fixing; the question is, who has the initiative and monojxdy is illegal. The $48 jxt year bill must be paid no matter who pic ks it? the skill to do up your gatbage. "There is no individual choice in For 70,000 Salt Cinmty the pick-umatter. People cannot get out of resident the iMth.ie r said in an situation does indeed smell. Residents the disttict," ot the toiiniv ait Ikii;i; lourd to interview with the Chronicle. supKJit a count) ojx rated garbage According to Spencer, repot ts that nionooly even though it may be ial pick-uwould be cheajxr for them, in some ateas, to use commeic for gatbage residents than cheajxr commercial servite. Actually, the county ate "totally false." He said situation is nothing new the county pit'v-uthat sinte all county residents pay mono'xdy has been ojKiating for taxes to w aiv It isonlv with the ounty's new supfxnt the county land fill legal billing punt (iiuc that the teal tostsof projects,to vhith ate the only would dump Hash, they i!n v( ilia !i ivi I'lciHic ipp.ii' nt to places esscntialk be just as much as eety tavpavct. biingitig into lotus 1)1a thev would paving through the county. UlUKll lollfS Ml. Up tOIIII.INl " I heie is no significant difference in publit and pi ivate t ntt i pi he tost. The .ommunity still must pay Attotding to the tountv's new land fill costs," he said, Currently (lumps are supjxnted through budget protedute. eat h tountv t ourrtv lesiiient is billed $21 eety six the S h i month barge. According to months SI Hi month lor weekly Sjxnce;. dump maintenance costs The SI would still be icquitcd of residents and H'tiodi( tiash pitk-up- . monthly t barge tours an attount over and aboe the paid tost to a fotmetly funded thiough county tommetc ial collec tor. projxity taxes and supixnt Irom the Spencer ited another problem with State Highway Depattment. the commeic ial gatbage toilet tion a The rub comes when you tealie the that residents have absolutely no very real and tangible problem: h make to people pay, or choice in the matter whether as punc icquitcd of their gatbage themselves. individuals or in groups regardless disjx)se c of what they do with their garbage. "No group of itiens has the polic ing M)wer to cnfoite payment if someone Everyone pays the S1H per year fee. in the community tt fuses to pay (the Period. If a pet son becomes comme'cial collector)," he said. delinquent in his payments, after five years his land may le sold to pay his Craned, keeping track of who did overdue gatbage fee. Sine, the county and did not pay would be a pioblem, hasn't teally t hanged anything. and tnete would ptobably le a few People didn't have a choice in paying citizens whose yards would bctomc their property taxes, from which the health hazards because they refused to bulk of the gatbage costs tame before do anything with their trash. But it is the new .xdicy. Monthly, individual not as insurmountable an obstacle as billing for a service that might not be Sjx'tuer paints it to be. needed by some jx ople and that might If Salt Itke County would increase be more economically obtained the stiffness of jxnalties for illegal elsewhere simply puts a sjxrtlight on dumping to$750 from the current the problem. S299, and prosecute; beef up sanitation law enforcement to make A specific bill for unrequested sure residents weren't dumping in services can be much mote irritating their back yards; and then release the than a blank property tax payment, reins of its current monojxdy to the even though residents are not really mercies of the private sec tor, it' would paying much more than they were be doing the citizens of this valley a w ith the old system. A teccnt story in service that would probably never be the Salt Lake Tribune said many of the fully appreciated. first garbage collection If the 70,000 home owners of Salt bills were returned with letters along Lake called with the payment. Some people County look their $iS per year invested it in thecommercial trash the county officials "rotten crooks." and Others said they planned to vote collection system, the result would be officials "out of offite come next S3. 3 million shot in the arm in the election." But there has been more county's private sector, creating jobs and revenue. Even at the probably than talk. unrealistic figure of $2.50 per month Of the valley's commercial trash for all county residents, there would collection businesses contacted by the still be a $2.1 million increase in Chronicle, most said they had received private sector revenue. calls from individuals interested in Certainly, the problems inherent in getting commercial service for their a commercial system would take a neighborhoods or communities. All of little time to work out. But the huge them said they could beat the county's demand and the possibility for profit rate of $i per month. One said he could go a long way in alleviating could make a profit on $2.50 per those problems and creating a month per house if he could do more cohesive system. than 200 houses in a particular The idea deserves more serious location. Another said he could do the consideration than Salt Lake County officials have given it; but the only job for S3 jxr month. But affording to County Public way that will happen is if enough Works Director Donald Stx'ntcr, people jump up and down and attempting to bteak the county's demand it. p Sjx-nce- -- p p 1 c 1 v For our first line of defense of the c six-mon- th Panama Canal, we attack here..." kirk johnson Tags may cause drastic reactions, but we trudge on Well, there's not use silting around crying about it. We'll just have to trudge on, to force ourselves through another year of existence without license plates that say, "Utah: Best of the West!" The new plates, which were to be issued next January, were scrapped last month by the state motor vehicle division after it concluded that the snappy new tags would be a little too expensive and that the piisoners at the Point of the Mountain might not be able to produce them in time. For instance, the slate could require each car to be furnished with a wobbly-heade- d Gov. Matheson doll with blinking light-u- p eyes that work as turn signals and brake lights. Imagine HCHROMCLE Rick Hall Editor-in-Chi- Kirk a divorces and suicides because of the plates decision. Will their consciences be clear when they see children turn to lives of crime and corporate executives resort to alcohol to ease their frustrations about not being able to have "Utah: Best of the West!" plastered on their cars? But then, there are alternatives. There are other means we can use to let the world know how swell Utah is, even if certain channels are closed to us. Johnson Editorial Editor Molly Fowler Colleen Reichert Entertainment Editors Joseph Brockmeyer Copy Editor n Diane Assistant Copy Editor humanitarian, I certainly hope our state officials will be able to live with themselves when they read about the increases in As driving down State Street and seeing every vehicle as a moving tribute to the greatness of this state. The governor's head could be mounted on a weak spring continued on page 16 Fotes-Brewto- Jonathan Clark Business Manager Nancy Etheridge News Editor Martha Wickelhaus Assistant News Editor Jim Smedley Sports Editor Julie Harmon Layout Editor Steve Johnson Advertising Manager REPORTERS: Mary Corporon. Frg McEjimc. Loti Borfvnkhl. Brn Ling. Kjrm Jrrman. Eleanor Han, David Marsh, Linda Otaoo. Barbara Raulr, Diane Myma Bagley. Mark Marti. Rick Could. Anita Jenkins. Marilyn Mitchell. Ann Knighten, Steve Bjrrklie. Bruce Baird. 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