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Show Universal Microfilm Corp Box 2608 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 5-1 Published weekly at 125 W. Center St., Midvale, Salt La ke Conuty, Utah. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Midvale, Utah 84047 under the Act of March 9, 1878. Subscription rate, $2.00 per year, 5 years $5 in, Utah. Volume 37 Thursday, December 17, 1970 Number 51 Nolan Olsen heads Alpine club for 1971 Nolan Olsen, 529 Roosevelt St., Midvale attorney, has been elected president of Alpine Country Club for 1971. Other officers of the club, which are elected by the board of directors, are: Dean Smith, West Jordan, vice president; Brad Gardner, Sandy, secretary; and Harry McTague, Brent Gunderson, president, and Lon! Andersen, historian, of Jordan High school student body present a stack of letters asking for the release of American prisoners in Vietnam to Milton Jensen, whose son, Maj. Jay Jensen, is a prisoner of North Vietnam. In background, Prin. Sherman M. Crump beams approval, noting that almost every Jordan student responded with a letter and also raised $25 for postage. Mr Jensen, who thanked the students warmly in a short talk over the school communication system, said he will take the letters personally to BYU where they will be added to other Utah letters and will eventually become part of an estimated 10 million letters from U. S. citizens to be presented to North Vietnamese delegates to the Paris peace talks. Lions project Fork, treasurer. Completing a year's term as president of Alpine is Fran Haun, West Jordan. 2 justices complete Weber State seminar Two justices of the peace in Salt Lake County Geral-din- e Christensen of West Jordan and Warren D. Cole of . . . Midvale graduated Dec. 2 after completion of a course at Weber State College. The course, which also carried two college credits, was a justice of the peace seminar in police science offered by the Department of Continuing Education at Weber State. A total of 26 Utah justices of the peace received their certificates at the graduation from Justice Crockett of the Utah Supreme Court. Christmas light judging this week Homes in Midvale have ta- their traditional glow that makes the city appear to be a Christmas village. From M appearances there are ken on This 'n Thai By Jay Overheard on Main St.: not those who lie a- wake nights who succeed . . . it's those who stay awake "It's ur Awards will be presented to the three individual home winners by the Lions Club. with more homes more Christmas lights this year than ever before. The annual Christmas lighting contest sponsored by the Midvale Lions C lub is being judged this week and winwill be announced before ners Christmas. Homes will be judged in three categories, most brilliant, most decorative, and the best novelty display. One street in Midvale will also be judged as Christmas Street can't help but wonder if pure coincidence, or if planned, when the dailies carried on same day stories of James Barker's scheme to com- the L. bine all law enforcement agencies in the valley and the Salt Lake police being in trouble for arresting a citizen AFTER ie had paid his fine. Perhaprs Mr Barker is smart enough to realize that if Midvale and Sandy were in charge, such embarrassing things would not happen . . . perhaps. More likely, however, Mr Barker is figuring on having Salt Lake City run the whole show, and with Mr Barker in charge of the Salt Lake police, this becomes a nice power play on his part. In view of the record of law enforcement in Salt Lake City, one has to admire Mr Barker's nerve, if not his logic, in inviting all the good, efficient, little police departments to give up their smooth-workin- g, low-co- st, personal- ized police service in exchange for Salt Lake's expensive, inefficient, impersonal, perfunctory type of service. No thanks, Mr Barker, we don't want any. Draper collision injures girl, mother A 11 head-o- a.m. counly budqel voted Tuesday jj w collision about, Tuesday at 11800 South 5th East, Draper, injured two persons. Wendy Savage, 5, was seriously hurt and her mother, Mrs Charles Ray Savage, 600 East 11900 South, Draper, was less ser- I A colossal county budget of $32,600,000 was approved by the county commission Tuespublic day after a one-hocloshearing and a three-ho- ur ed session. The commissioners trimmed $3,147,000 from the budget requests, but predictions ranged from one to three mills increase in the tax levy to cover the record budget. This year's budget, also a record one, is $28,775,000, and the tax levy is 13.05 mills plus special levies which bring the total levy to 18.6 mills. The legal limit for counties is 16 mills. ur 1 Dr. Rodney H. Brady iously injured. . . . Sandyite takes HEW job Dr Rodney H. Brady, former resident of Sandy, has been named assistant secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for administration and He succeeds management. James Farmer, who recently resigned the position. Dr Brady, 37, was appointed by HEW Secretary Elliot L. Richardson, and takes over the important position Dec. 22. He has been In Los Angeles for five years and was a vice president of Hughes Tool Co. Prior to this he was vice While we're on the subject of Salt Lake, we'd like to add a few words about the mess at the Salt Palace. On a recent evening we went in for a performance at the Salt Palace and caught a blizzard. For two blocks before we got to the Salt Palace parking lot, we got Into a traffic jam that anything we have ever seen anywhere. Intersections were packed full of cars and nobody could get out, and traffic was backed up in all directions. Semaphore lights are useless in such a situation, and of course there was no traffic officer r n To Washington on jack-knife- of a consulting firm he organized in Cam- president which bridge, Mass. The former Utahn is a graduate of Jordan High and of the University of Utah. He also graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He is the son of Mr & Mrs Kenneth Brady, and a brother to K. M. , Joanne Frandsen, all of Sandy, and Lindsay, Cottonwood Creek area. Dr Brady and his family will move to Washington D.C. after the holidays. At current assessed valua- tion Salt Lake County gets about $940,000 from each mill of property taxes. Commissioners Oscar Hanson Jr. and Royal K. Hunt, both of whom end their terms on the commission Jan. 1, voted for the budget, and Comm. Philip R. Blomquist, voted holdover, against. Blomquist was in favor of a higher budget. louncilmen, legislators agree on vital p rolblsirns Midvale council members and legislative representain principle tives agreed Tuesday evening on such items as additional sales tax, metropolitan government, Utah Transit Authority, a county-wid- e police department, welfare, and keeping government, as close to the people as possible. Reps. -- elect LaMar Vincent and F. Mort Bagley conferred with Mayor Joe Maz-urand the city councilmen for an hour and found themselves in agreement on almost every point brought up for discussion. Both representatives agreed to work in harmony with the council on all municipal problems. Vincent expressed opposition of metropolitan government in any form, and Bag-le- y declared that "you gentlemen are thoroughly capable of taking care of Midvale, and Pll back you up." All felt that the Utah Transit Authority law was not fair an to " - . r!V- - : ' : . r r v If I y I ! : w. i w. I . .,prA. . ' ' ' ;! i, - f 4 I S. 1 " ed ; :: iy' i f h fll - on duty. Eventually, of course, the themselves unmotorists tangled things and got out. One big problem, we then learned, was that the Salt Palace was collecting parking money from incoming cars, making change for $20 bills, etc., instead of just giving everyone a ticket and collecting on the way out, the way the other parking ramps Midvale 2-- yc v i 'r.rt rJ j-- : 1 ( ; v rr., . . "i r v- " n f. v' iV -" v,J . Students at the Jordan Valley Center in South Jordan had a snow sculpturing contest last week and the first place winner is shown here along with the students who participated and their teachers. Students are Kevin Webb. Duane Covington, Raymond Lucas; teachers are Marilyn Jensen, Linell Krichbaum. of South Salt Lake, and that buses sit on Midvale streets for seven hours of idle time each day, at a cost of $21 a day. The council was asked by Mrs Maynard to install flashing amber lights as a warning to traffic at the school on E. Center St. to protect children from traffic. Midvale Meadows subdivi- sions No. 1 and 2 were accepted on recommendation of the city engineer. Purchase of a $10,000 bond for Mrs Linda Stewart, part-tiworker in the city office, was approved. The council accepted aplat which contemplates construction of a new Second Ward LDS Chapel on the Bailey and Pepper properties east of S. Allen St. and south of the line of Heather St. A new ordinance on rabies control was adopted. This orwill be uniform dinance throughout the county, except that Midvale will keep Its present schedule of dog license fees. The planning board recommended adoption of 2 zoning instead of R- -l on property near Midvale Junction. Trie council took the matter under advisement before seta date for a public ting hearing. Cemetery rules were revised by defining "local" as a person residing In or owning real property in the Midvale city limits, and authorizing three council members be appointed to the cemetery committee. J. Donald Poulsen, presently head of that department, noted that there is presently $9,740.35 In delinquencies on cemetery lots which have been purchased but not entirely paid for. The new Continued on page 9 me C-- and Sandy, and councilmen suggested possible amendments. Both representatives felt that welfare has been mishandled and agreed that everyone must produce in order to receive, which will require vocational training. Council members noted that in the past they have had no communication with legislators and felt they were left "in the dark" on many issues which concerned them, including UTA, which they believe would not have passed if there had been proper communication. After a long discussion following a report on Utah Transit Authority by Councilmen Jed Wasden and Casper Nelson, the council voted to accept Plan No. 1 on a vote, with Mazuran voting yes to break a 2 tie. Plan 1, as offered by UTA calls for the bus route to enter Midvale at 7600 South, turn onto E. Center St. to Main St., then use Price and Hansen Sts. as a turnaround and returning over the same route. This plan would cost Midvale $5,736.20 as its share of the $415,667 local capital grant plus $1,139.49 for the first year's operation cost, a total of $6,875.69. In its vote the council modified the plan, pointing out that, because half of State St. in the bus route the county, should enter Midvale at Center St., and that the turnaround is the bus company's problem. Costs are to be revised accordingly. Midvale was advised that its representative in the UTA board is Atty. Don Hammill 3- -2 do. Inside the Salt Palace, where it was nice and warm and there was no blizzard, there were lots of officers wearing Salt Lake Police insignia. Wonder why they all have nice soft inside jobs, eyeing the mini -- skirted girls, instead of putting on their weather gear and working out in the blizzard where they could do some good? Experiences like this are our basis for saying that the Salt Lake police department is inefficient and bureacra-tl- c instead of being a police Continued on page 9 this chain-reactiEarly morning freeway traffic was slowed to a walk Tuesday by A and truck trailer, apparently accident on the Wasatch St. overpass. d, unable to stop for a previous accident, pinning a pickup truck Midvale street against the bridge railing and almost pushing it off onto the Patrol troopand South 9000 to backed Highway was Traffic below. up nearly normal traffic. and restore the to clear hour an than highway ers took more $32.6 million days." We t was t was , Bernarr S. Furse Bernarr Furse elected by educational planners Bernarr S. Furse, administrative assistant, office of the Utah State Board of Education, lias been elected to the board of directors of the International Society of Educational Planners. The honor comes In recognition of Utah's efforts in educational planning, Mrs Furse said. six-mem- Furse, who lives at 41 Coolidge St., Midvale, is presently serving as president of Jordan district board of education, a position from which he will retire on Jan. 1. He has also been on the teaching staff of Jordan school district. The election came during the semi-annu- al Institute for State Education Agency Plan- ners, Nov. 10 and 11 In Alexandria, Va. In attendance were representatives of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and 30 states. Mr Furse also addressed the final session on "Making Planning Operational in the State Education Agency." Mr Furse served as the Utah coordinator to the eight Rocky Mountain States Designing Education for the Future project. He later was named project director for the seven - state Comprehensive Planning in State Education Agencies project which was a 2 12 year effort. As a result of this work most states now have educational planning units modeled to varying degrees on the Utah plan. Most of the money used for these projects were federal funds from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. ISEP was founded to further the specialization of educational planners. It consolidates and reviews available information about educational planning for its members; encourages the development of training programs in the field and provides a forum for the exchange of information on this new and emerging educational speciality, Furse said. |