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Show Unlv 141 Tilt Mine Mayors, Council Heads Unite In Opposition Murray Man Sells To Proposition No. 1: Metropolitan Government Using MURRAY. Mayors and town council presidents from both sides of the valley joined this week in a united effort to oppose Porposition 1, the proposed constitutional amendment providing for metropolitan government. The chief representative of nine communities, Including five Incorporated cities and four unincorporated towns, placed their signatures on a document, recommending a "No vote to the proposal and outlining their reasons for opposition. The action came in a follow-u- p to passage of a resolution by the Murray City Commission In mid -- October, an official move which also called for No" vote on the proposal. Mayors signing the document were William E. Dunn, Murray; Henry Beckstead, Midvale; J. Bracken Lee, Salt Lake City; Oliver P. Davis, South Salt Lake and D. Ravell Beckstead, pre-electi- on Sandy. Town council presidents af- Cities, towns, special services districts and Improvement districts may be Incorporated or disincorporated at the will of a majority of the people who have property in the community and, are directly affected. Property owners may choose to annex their property to an incorporated or to disconnect property from a city. The powers and duties of local governments are strictly controlled by the State Constitution and by state law. They have limited authority to levy taxes and to contract bonded Indebtedness. Differences in tax rates within a county arise simply from the fact that some people choose to live where they have a higher number of city services at a higher cost and some prefer to live where they have a lower number of government services and lower tax rates. 2. 'Proposal No. 1 on the ballot would authorize the setvote ting up, by a county-wiof a metropolitan government without any limitation by the constitution or state law of taxing, bonding or other powers, and with the power to take over all of the functions, powers and debts of all cities, counties and districts within the area. There is no privilege on the part of any community to vote to stay in or remain out of the "metro. We believe that the residents and property owners in any area should have this right of choice. Under present law, the people in adjoining areas may consolidate their local governments if they wish to do so. 3. "The chief arguments by de fixing their signatures to the recommendation were Glen E. Kraft, Kearns; Dr. Bruce E. Egbert, West Jordan; Joseph F. Petersen, South Jordan and George J. Usher, Riverton. - The four-poi- nt recommendation, prepared by Mayor Beck-ste- ad of Midvale, was a compilation of resolutions and suggestions offered by the others who signed. Reasons cited for opposition Include: 1. "Under the present system, communities can chose the type of local government and the type of services which they wish to receive and pay for to suit their local needs. the proponents of "metro are that by forming a metropolitan government, taxes can be equalized and we can avoid a duplication of services. If taxes are equalized, then services must be equalized. Either taxes must be equalized at the highest level paid by the highest tax paying units in the district, or the services must be reduced in the whole area. If Salt Lake County were a single metro area, the services of the Salt Lake City Police Department, for exam ple, would be spread out to cover the area and the cost of supporting the Salt Lake City Police Department paid by taxes on the whole area. Everyone in Salt Lake County would pay at least $3.50 per month sewer assessments and water charges averaging about $20 a month. If all obligations of all existing, communities are assumed, the tax levy on a home valued at $4,000, would be about $560. 4. "We stand for that type of government entity which, because of its smaller size, per- - Sf ore Safe Is Found; Loof Still Missing :r;nl Micrrf ilnlnr 1 jrpcnt Lako City, Utah Items Quickly By E-- Want Ads A Do Green Sheet want ads really sell? Ask Samuel Brlnghurst, 4755 raits closer surveillance by the Rainbow Dr. Three weeks ago, a better opportunity a taxpayer, er want ad in the single for him to be seen and beard, a tent for the sold which, in turn, tends to restrict Murray man by 8 o'clock on or eliminate the opportunities Thursday morning. for abuses in public office, inLast week, another single ad tentional or otherwise." sold a shot gun for Mr. BrlngIn conclusion, the signers hurst only a few minutes latert posed this question: "Does each community choose GOOD Winchester repeater what it wants and what it will f shot gun, 32" barrel. $25. pay for, or are we to be brought 'Green Sheet want ads are together under a central authority controlling the Important great tor getting rid of those services and functions of local don't wants" around your government and the cost of such house. They reach 30,000 homes every Thursday government?" morning and they're read by an audience of over 125,0001 You can place your ad in the most widely circulated weekly newspaper in Utah by dialing 266-351. or Or, if you prefer, you can write Box 7J87, Murray. 1 Eagle-Advertis- mid-vall- Work Starts On Rlvervlew Park Location MURRAY. Roadway ey W. rtltJir'u 262-465- 23 Mm m " 1r con struction was started here yes terday (Wednesday) in a re area where the county hopes to have ready for use by mid summer of 1967 a new park. Involved Is the development of Rlvervlew park, located at 5850 So. 6th West, near Rlv ervlew Junior high. Working with heavy equip ment, crews are scheduled to continue the road work through the winter, according to county officials. Scheduled to start next spring is construction for installation of playground equipment, pic nic facilities and ball fields. Final design of the area is to be determined by the County Recreation Board, in cooperation with Murray City officials. Memorial Will Be Held For Former Murrayite Nov. WW. :JS: ON A circular concrete riab placed In Murroy pork through effort! of the Rotary club and Murray City are Roland Davii (right), Rotary preil-deand Bengf Anderson, club chairman of a project to Improve the park area. th 1 1 STANDING nt MIDVALE. A memorial service for Wallace R. (Wally) Haun will be held at Midvale stake center, 425 Jackson St oft Friday, Nov. 11 beginning Progress Being Made On Rotary Project In Park at 2 p.m. jThe Midvale resident, asso elated with Statewide Contrac Police here early Inc. of4 Murray, was tors, a safe taken recovered Tuesday MURRAY. In Green river below drowned Progress toward cent phase of the project was new on Sears store from the Dam an area in Murof followed on Thursday with preseveral development Gorge Flaming Friday, but none of the more weeks ago. His body has not ray park, where a joint effort sentation of a $200 check from than $1,300 In cash and checks of the Murray Rotary club and the Rotary to the city. Appearbeen found. it had contained. f A director of the Chamber of the Parks Department is being ing at Thursday's City CommisThe safe, badly mangled by Commerce in Murray, the late made, was noted this week by sion session for the presentation efforts to get at the contents, were Rotarlans Bengt AnderMr. Haun was also a member of officials Involved in the imwas found near ' the mouth of re the board the of of directors The provement countysite is son, chairman of the project project. Big Cottonwood Canyon on Fri- owned club. and Don Wood. Mr. Wood pre- Completion of the most re Rotary property. Deto day morning, according A tective Kenneth Klllian. search was made of the area in which the safe was found, but none of the contents were lo 4 .Hi in i'fii".. OftOMfcuMM tit t, ttHmtim tl!M I til t fa cated, he pointed out. Valued at $350, the safe con tained a total of $1,314.64, including $365.65 In checks, police said. Police began investigation af ter being notified shortly after 5 a.m. on Friday that a door window was broken at the Sears Catalog and Appliance Store, 900 E. 5600 South. A newspaper carrier, Joe Timer, 1047 E. AREA 5290 South, was credited with HviNQ THI the discovery. Police, in turn, PubUitod Weekly ( 154 S. 4oa eouih In Murray, 8lt Lke County, UUh, by the Murray Println, Co. Second clau poue peid kt Belt Lake City. notified the store manager, Richard McMullin, who revealed Utah. BubwrlpUon rate: MOO a year the contents of the safe. Nov. 3, 1966 Volume 82 Number 52 MURRAY, SAIT LAKE COUNTY, UTAH Thursday, MURRAY. 14-ac- m III time in the middle of the follow ing night, the airline delivered the lost baggage. Where lt'd been, no one knew, but It arrived from the east, not the west There's an old saying that travel Is broadening. They must've had reference to your posterior after several days of watching the scenery pass by your train window. , . Certainly It's no longer true from that standpoint. The modern jets which whisk travelers from place to place do It so effortlessly we've become a spoiled nation. We not only expect to make - trip without de- t lay: we're pro voked when on occurs. Enroute to a recent national press conven- V tion in Oklahoma City, we chafed about 'a poor connection whici us ft caused near-fo- ur hour delay in Denver. Yet 0e elapasd time for the entire trip was still less than nine hours. Just about enough time to journey from Salt Lake to Glenwood Springs by ralL without the lost time In Denver, we departed the Sooner state capital, jetted to Dallas where we had a connection, bopped to Denver, where we lingered another 40 minutes and settled into the Salt Lake airport only five hours after we'd started. Which doesn't leave much time for posterior-broadenin- g. Even if a smiling Branlff stewardess did remark, as we reached Dallas after a "tiresome" 39 minute flight from Oklahoma City, "Some of you may want to stretch your legs; 1" we'll be here about a half-hoHomeward-boun- d, ute ur As we travel, we make almost constant notes. Unlike many tourists, we write 'em in shorthand. Further, we expect our memory to recall the subject with but a word of two of prompting. Which It generally does, once we've figured out what It was we wrote In shorthand. A suggestion which required little recollection was the terse, "lost luggage. If said hell hath.no fury like that of ft woman scorned. But the man who coined that expression had never seen a woman whose clothing failed to arrive at its proper destination. Imagine her pllghtj Women being women, those who attend national conventions are quite perturbed If they're forced to wear the same outfit twice. In fact, they plot endlessly to pack Just the right attire for each occasion. It's the good fortune of we who pay for flights that the airlines have largely relaxed restrictions so there's Bo penalty tor being overweight. the Missus was Anyway, horror-struc- k when part of our luggage came off the plant and all that bad arrived was that belonging to Yours Truly. We checked somewhat frantically, but without success. There was a possibility the missing bags were la Denver. Or Chicago. Or even Pittsburgh. By using Ingenuity and with ft bit of borrowing from ft longtime friend la the oil city, Bette managed quite capably to get by the convention's first day. Some One thing about air travel we learned on this trip was the difference between first class and coach accomodations. Watching the stewas ardesses (stewardl, Berman terms Shelley 'em?) headed for the first-cla- ss compartment up forward, we noted they put down the somewhat battered ' coffee pot they'd used in the coach area and picked up a - shining silver percolater to take up ahead. - " While we're not attempting to give them a great deal of free advertising, we did find Bran Iff s colorful aircraft and uni formed personnel a change of pace. Proclaiming this to be "the end of the plain plane, Branlff has repainted its jet fleet orange, purple, canary, blue, green and brown. Certainly they're the strangest looking airplanes since the 15th Air Force of World War 0 trundled out its B24 fleet in North Africa. The planes, though, are no more colorful than the brightly attired people who fly In them. It reminded us more than any thing else of some of the print lng industry's new fluorescent colors, a dazzling array of shades covering just about ev erythlng in the spectrum. Though It's not as politically predictable as Rhode Island once was reputed to be, Oklahoma has a rather staunch Democratic majority. So it wasn't too strange to hear the story related of the elderly, lifelong Democrat who was on his death bed and summoned not only his five sons but the county clerk. I've decided, he said in a feeble voice, "to change my registration to Republican. Not after all these years, father,' his sons protested. Yep, that's what I'm gonna' do. I've decided If anybody Is gonna' die, I'd rather lt'd be one of them I V While visiting the recently opened Cowboy Hall of Fame, of which Oklahomans are Justly proud, we were gratified to find the records attest to a good many contributions from u tahns. Ifs appropriate our state should be well represented, for the pioneer background of Utah needs take a back seat to none. Though 1ft a long way from completion, the Hall of Fame hat much future potential and many interesting exhibits, par ticularly a rare collection of art by Charles Russell and Fredrick Remington that's well worth the modest admission price. After years 'n years of convention -- going, we're more and more convinced of the truth of a statement made by a middle-age- d fellow publisher! "As I get older, I find it more difficult to find temptation than to resist ltt HUtOjLf Main Sfreef Extension financial Loss From Fire Absent During October In Murray Study Asked By City here this license was Issued to Miriam V. Maxfleld and Loree V. for operation of Van's Jiffy Knit Sewing at 5160 So. State. The commission took under mission. The commission called tor a advisement bids of Gordon Wilcommittee son Chevrolet and Bill Bailey's study by a five-mit named to come up with rec- Dodge Town on two service ommendations on alignment and trucks for the Water Depart ment. construction of Main Street between 4500 South and 5300 South. Also, the commission, at the Appointed to the committee request of Northwest Enginwere Dr. Ralph B.Montgomery, eering Co., authorized con Chamber of Commerce presi struction work to proceed on a basis for the 6400 South dent; D. Howe Mofflt, Salt Lake attorney and owner of property interchange on Interstate 13. In Murray ; City Engineer Donald Spencer; Bengt Anderson, local architect and Don Wood, head of the Chamber of Commerce highway committee. The committee, expected to begin the study immediately, was advised to coordinate their I work with state highway offic- MURRAY. A step toward al leviating traffic congestion on this city's few north -- south streets was made this week, in action taken by the City Com Or-ull- la, an 24-ho- ur MURRAY. Two minor blazes week rounded out a month in which the city recorded no financial loss from fire, ac- cording to Chief Earl Healy. The chief said records would have to be checked a long way back to find an entire month in which no loss was listed. He noted that the department answered a number of calls during the month, but most of them Involved grass and rubbish. On Thursday, the department was alerted at 3:45 p.m. to a train-causgrass fire along DiRG tracks between 5900 and 6300 South. Early that evening, firemen doused burning debris near a construction site at 6200 So. 6th West. ' ed ( "V ' ' ials. Mayor William E. Dunn noted that state financial participation In the proposed undertaking will be sought. He said the city would be unable to handle the project financially without assistance from the state. The City Planning Commission has briefly reviewed the matter and Tickets On Sale Today For 'Dino' At 1 1IIS made the recommen- dation that a committee be appointed to determine the feasibility of such a project. North -- south travel through the city Is currently limited to State Street and 900 East. Other routes pass partially through the city, including 2nd West, which has a slight jog at 6300 South, but continues to 6400 South, about four blocks short of the city limits. Interstate 18 is expected to be opened for travel from the north to 6300 South by the end of the from members of the school's MURRAY. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale today French and German clubs, or at (Thursday) for Murray high's the Murray Music Store. Promotion of the drama is production of Dlno, a three-a- ct drama dealing with psych- being stepped up at the school ological problems of a delin- during the week before the proquent. duction. Plans call for brief The play, directed by Michscenes to be spoken over the elle Prlebe, Murray high sp- Intercom system, cast mem eech and drama instructor, will bers wearing costumes to class be presented In the high school and skits in the school cafe auditorium at 8 p.m. on Nov. teria. 10 and 11. Rehearsals, held the past four Admission will be $1 for weeks following dismissal of adults and 50 cents for students, classes, will be staged with while Murray high students will complete costumes, make-u- p, be admitted on their activity set and lighting on Monday, cards. Tickets may be obtained Tuesday and Wednesday, Miss Prlebe said. Cast In the title role is Rich ard Hamilton, who portrays a young man just released from reform school and the problems he encounters in his attempt to in society. Other major roles are played by Barry Carroll, Ruth Lund- berg, Jeff Fannin, Walter Brooks, Stephanie Camero and Susan Ward. Other cast members Include Allan Mulvey, Sandl Marler, Robert Rackley, Mark Christensen, Shirley Da- vies, Renon Klossner, Ann S ta mos, Kathy Thayne, Shauna Kemp, Barbara Relter, Chris Ann Carroll, Angle Green, Bon nie Ball, Allen Jensen, Dennis Gayley and Mark Whltlock. Handling backstage duties are Maria Oliver, assistant director; Don Clegg, stage mana ger; Scott Winterowd, props and Charlotte Black, make-u- p. More Bike Licenses Later, Chief Reports V -- - i year. Alignment, along with engineering problems and financing are some of the main concerns of the study group the city has named. Only a short section of Main Street exists in the area under study, that being Immediately north of 6300 South, In an area where another study is current-l- y under way. That study Involves the proposed development of two smelter stacks, which were the subject of controversy the put two months. Among other matters handled by the commission, a n A i I I v- - Cr SESSIONS ore a bttouah on Murroy htgh'i Dick Hamilton who, (right), ploying the title role In the school's ploy, "Dino," actually geli truck In ht face a number of timet by Waller Brook, (left), portroying Oino'i folher. Dioo'i brothet, Twy, pWyeJ by Jeff Pannln, loot en at iof diitanct. REHEARSAL f ceded Roland Davis, current president, as head of the local Rotary organization. The Rotary contribution went toward payment of a large, cir cular, concrete "pad," installed by city employes In an area adjacent to and east of the park bowery. The city, in addition to supplying the labor, supplied the balance of materials needed for the installation. , According to Mr. Anderson, the "pad" is the first of two planned for the project area. An existing rectangular-shape- d concrete area Is cornered on the project site. The area Is partially landscaped and includes several picnic tables and a fireplace. The Rotary club has provided 20 man-hou- rs for grading of the site, in preparation for the pad installation. Sketches for the over-a- ll project have been prepared by Mr. Anderson, a professional architect. During the coming year, the project chairman pointed out, the club hopes to duplicate the accomplishments of the past year in development of the site. Eventually, Mr. Anderson said, a structure for concerts is to be erected on the site, facing to the northeast. The proj ect site is bordered on the east by a creek which flows through the park. The possibility of expanding the Rotary project was noted by Mr. Anderson, who called attention to efforts being made by the city to acquire 20 acres of land to the east of the park. Six Wrecks - Auto Mishap Claims Life Of 62 Murrayite, colli MURRAY. A two-c- ar sion in which a Murray woman suffered fatal injuries at 4500 So. 2nd West on Sunday after noon was among a accidents Investigated by police here this week. Dead was Mrs. Ealrmenta Nelsen, 62, 392 W. 4800 South. She was a passenger in a car operated by Rowena Hall Tol- lefsen. 55, 4570 So. 2nd west, who was hospitalized with in half-doz- en juries. The auto was in collision with a car driven by DurkG. Vlsser, 1141 So. 800 East, according to Officer Don Poulsen, who In vestigated. Also injured and hospitalized were Mr. Vlssar, Murla Vlsser, 59 and Mlrjaa Vlsser, 16. Three other accidents on Sun day Included one in which a was injured and passenger property damage was extensive in a two-c-ar mishap at 4500 So. State. Drivers of vehicles involved were w. E. Chamberlain, 136 So. 800 East and Thomas O. Miller, 848 W. 200 South. A passenger in the Utter vehicle, Louise Klsner, 252? So. 600 East was Injured and taken to the hospital by ambulance. Total damage to the two cars was estimated at $1,100. Also on Sunday, a collision at 730 Vine St. involved a car driven by Leslie J. Werner, 386 Saunders and a pickup truck operated by Kelten W. Christ iansen, 1002 E. 5750 South. A mishap at 83 W. 3rd Ave. Involved a pickup truck driven by Gary Beckstead, 10064 So, 1300 West and Harold J. Montoya, Midvale. On Tuesday, an auto operated by Jacquelyn Meads, 6314 So. 440 East, was slightly damaged when It was struck by another vehicle which left the scene, according to police. An accident on Thursday at 900 E. 8600 South Involved cars driven by Betty Bender, 1100 Highland Dr. and Thomas Q. MURRAY. Licensing of bi cycles on a mass basis will be continued here later this month, according to Police Chief E. Ross McDonald, who noted that 830 bikes were licensed at school sites the past two Sat ur days. The chief said he plans to set a date for the next licensing session within the next week. While the first two sessions were held at schools here, subsequent licensing will be conducted at the police ata Hon, the chief said. Police regulars and ra serves, In conjunction with the Murray Jaycees, issued 278 11 censes after inspecting bicycles at Rlvervlew Junior high on Sat' urday. Elgin, 1026 Skyvlew Clr. . |