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Show THE SENTINEL TburwUy.Octi.iMi Pigt Opi ni in A V Ours JUL l'MWVIK)Gt5lH0U5flMI) W.J. employes represent city well at convention West Jordan Councilwoman Betty Naylor dropped by the Sentinel offices to praise the "tremendous job" several city employes and a West Jordan resident did at the recent Utah League of Cities convention held in Salt Lake City last She was rightfully proud of the fact mat West Jordan seemed to be at the conven"over-represente- tion. Judge Geraldine Christensen a workshop entitled "Judicial Systems Overview and the Role of a Judge." City Attorney Stephen Homer was a featured speaker, addressing "Case Law conducted COD d" UCflD '"- -' IV riiie ? RiDicuiousfWiriijoflDW? X fx if on enm ffiirt? - -- M V Commission Presiding Officer was RflPHOFf City Planner Blaine Gehring. SCHOOtOF Liberal Gehring also spoke on housing alternatives and mobile homes. Terry Holzworth, Salt Lake County Flood Control director and a West Jordan resident, was the presiding officer in the Public Utilities session. Speakers were selected from municipalities maun -- 10 GRADUAL! u. VOUROCAOeMIC The words from nKVt wra iu -- &ffflMUt01 ttmpoucnoNTQ UMOaeUfTTHB. I KNkr IV ITXLf 1 BfeETuJAVIN0 ENGLISH 8- 6- with them. Yet for years we have seen the government assume functions that traditionally have been left to the private sector. Government agen- AL kchWNG im sub-divisi- Mid-val- - VaNty , West. Jordan a song in a famous Broadway musical -"Anything you can do, I can do better; I can do anything better reflect the feelings than you" in private enterprise many people would express to their counterparts in the federal government. In most cases, I would agree cies needing servcies ranging from printing to clean Uundry need not go to the Yellow Pages to get a job done when they can more easily complete it within the cond fines of the bureacracy. be could tasks that performed by private industry, Editor: There are two sides to every Editor: stay, so here's ours: We feel we haven't violated the Yesterday, I left my position as law any more than the people who Salt Lake County Commissioner to It seems join the management of the live on Diamond Drive. truck that a can park American Express Company's that they vehicles that and lbs. new Salt Lake office. During the grosses 18,000 on the in 15 feet length past sixteen years, I have had the are over as they privilege of serving as Mayor of street in a that reads no ordinance an Lake Salt a as and passed Murray City vehicle over IS' long shall be County (Commissioner. The joy mat I have received has parked on the street in a submade my decision to step down a division in West Jordan. If Sherm is so worried about the . difficult one. Serving in an elected of the greatest safety of those children, be should office is one those people privileges which a person can enforce the law on also. in felt have. The satisfaction I have My son was driving down serving the public and the conDrive when a child darDiamond fidence the voters have shown in behind that truck. out from ted me has made it easier to deal with child that One may not be so day the criticism, difficult and un' lucky : iv popular decisions and frustrations We don't mind dropping our mat come with these jobs. I appreciate those with whom I trailer some where else and have worked in the City and Counparking the tractor in the ty government, the citizens who driveway as long as we don't have elected me to serve there and to drop it too far away from the those that have helped with my house. Things get stolen. election campaigns. I particularly Sometimes trailer load and all. The reason we started to put up appreciate the support and 'Don't vote for Sherm Monson sacrifice of my family. I wish my colleagues and suc- signs' is that he wouldn't even let us cessor well. I look forward to bring the trailer home to do some He says we can take working with the community in the repairs on it where else and have the exciting process of bringing the it some But why pay someone done. work operations of American Express we can do the work ourwhen else to Salt Travelers Cheque Division selves for less money. Lake County. Also the hole out here on the Thanks to all of you. (which a child riding his street, s William E. Dunn bike hit it and was hurt) was blamed on our truck. It wasn't our truck, it was the City of West Jordan digging up a water line. It Editor, wasn't filled in properly. e The best interests of the As a matter of fact, 2700 West City residents should be the has been a truck route for years. most important consideration of Before we bought this house, Mr the city council. What does the Stockwell (who was the Chief of widow do who has just had her Police at that time), told us that rent raised because the small we could park our rig out front, apartment owner now has to purthat it was the ideal place. So chase a business license? Why we parked our truck there for a don't we stop spending rather and a half, with no bad year than raise taxes? What is going to results. Our rig, when parked out happen to us when we no longer front, leaves the children plenty of have money to pay higher water room on either side to walk down : bills? Instead, why doesn't the the street, and the rig is a good 90 ' water company cut back? I see no feet from either side street coming reason why our water meter on 2700 West. needs to be read by two people My husband came in Wednesday one in a running pick-u- p and one night from New Mexico. His tongue walking. I would say some new was so swollen that he didn't have .Voices need to be heard on the city time to drop the trailer at the at council. the Safeway parking lot. Se he sRonn Cowley brought load and all and put it out v Midvale front. I took him to the emergency center and from there they took him by amubulance to the Cottonwood Hospital. I asked the ambulance driver if he would tell some officer when he got back, why our truck was out front. By the time I got Jordan Valley Sentinel parked home at 2 a.m. we had a ticket on MidMk Sentinel, Inc. our windshield. CtatiMini the Mirnlt Statin Mtklf wmm The officers have told us they ataMnkM- a IMS, publnkM' twj Tkwjiqr kj Stntntl Hmsmmo t 12S H. Ctnttt Stittt, Hrfnfc, Utan MM 7. don't have to enforce the law on MW7. Pataafcr Scnri nMna cnMgti In Tni Mm every one. So we feel they are Swtunt M lot 121, M. UU 14047. unfair and we feel they being Suburlptlon Rat yxr ia Stat el Utah should enforce it on everyone that Rat Smior CltiiMi J" yar In Stat Of Utah is in violation. If this city keeps up this way of David C. Godfrey James M. landart living, we may as well move to Russia. s Lavonne Palmer by Senator Orrin Hatch arts Update Land Use." The Planning Yours r s throughout the State. Councilwoman Naylor was pleased with the fact that so many West Jordan employes were invited to participate. She added that it was indicative of the quality of people working for the city. We agree. Congratulations! Tin Eleven-thousan- 40 years ago... Queen of the West Rebekah Lodge 22, Midvale, held an entertainment Monday for the soldiers at Ft. Douglas. Among the 69 present were 40 soldiers from Ft Douglas. The evening was spent in playing cards and dancing. They were under the escort of the morale officer, Lt. C. . best-know- LSchloss. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs Einar Dahl, Mrs A. J. Bolliger, Mrs Lawrence Ray, and Mrs Jessie Allen. Refreshments were in charge of Mrs Martha Brown, and Mrs Dora Lee. Extension of carrier service by the local post office was announced this week by Postmaster MelvinLind. Mail will be delivered twice a day to S. Grant, Oak, Church.and the west end of Wasatch, in addition to the regular carrier routes now serving Midvale. Federal approval of an extensive project, involving $21,816 for the improvement and extension of eight school buildings in the Jordan district, was received here Wednesday by Darrell J. Green-wel- l, state WPA administrator. The project, sponsored by the Jordan School District will cover general repair work at Bingham junior, Jordan high, Midvale, Lark, Copperfield, Granite and Draper school buildings. An apartment for a custodian will be erected at the Bingham High School. , Jordan district as sponsor.w ill spend $12,869 for materials and equipment rentals, while the labor will be furnished by the works project administration. Mr and Mrs J. D. Bateman entertained at a party at their Sandy home Friday evening honoring the birthday of their son, Orrin, a member of the Utah National Guard, who was home on furlough. Mr Bateman returned to his post at San Lis Obispo, Calif., following a furlough. The fourth annual art exhibit of the Union School has been moved forward from next May to October of this year, according to the prinicipal, George Barton. The Union art exhibit is fast n in becoming one of the the intermountain region, and has been well supported by Utah artists in the past. ' Col. Richard I. Crapo, member of the army reserve, has returned home following release from the service. He spent a year at Headquarters Reception Center, FLOrd, Calif. His wife, the former Maxine Stowe, and son, Ronald, have been making their home with him at Monterey, Calif . 20 years ago... The annual activity sponsored by the Bingham Chapter of the Future Farmers of America is the Harvest Ball held at Bingham High gym. Music will be furnished by the Harold Rindlesbach orchestra. There will be a queen contest held during the week with eight contestants running from sponsoring clubs at the school. Candidates and clubs are as follows: Myra Locke, West Jordan, speech; Stanlie Sullenger, Copper-toFFA; Ernestine Vigil, West Jordan, FFA; Mary Louise Jones, Copperton, Boys Club; Pat Nokes, Riverton, Girls' Club; Pat Jones, Bluffdale, Key Club; Claudia West Jordan, lettermen; n, But-terfiel- Margie Susaeta, d, Copperton, Minerette; Sally Gillam, Lark, scholarship. Committee in charge of arrangements is Lynn Palmer, Glenn Dansie, refreshments; Kelly Oakeson, Dale Phillips, and Fred Allen, queen contest; Clyde Parry, Van Palmer, and Gaylen Meyers, advertising. Adviser is Ralph Jensen. Lt. Col. Barney D. White was congratuled by Brig. Gen. Homer W. Deifer, Seventh Division artillery commander, after he was decorated at a ceremony at the Korean front. Col. White, former commanding officer of the forty-nint- h Field Artillery Battalion, was awarded the Legion of Merit Medal for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services. Lt. Col. White, a veteran of 14 years' service, joined the Seventh Division in September, 1950, and has received many honors and decorations for combat experiences. Happy at his return home are his parents, Mr and Mrs Reg White, Sandy, his wife and three children. high interest rates, excessive regulation and limited markets now face the unpalatable irony of supporting their own rivals; as taxpayers, they are feeding the hand that bites them. The return of those 11,000 functions to private hands would not only eliminate that irony, but would produce three definite advantages for America. First, the government would get the same services at reduced cost, due to an incentive largely nonexistent in federal circles: the profit motive. Contract-hungr- y private firms would trim $3 billion off the $19 billion now spent on services performed by the government, according to Small Business Administration estimates. Second, private industry would benefit from the increased business generated by the influx of billions more into the economy, and the entire economy would be strengthened. Third, government workers and resources would be freed to concentrate on tasks that really require governmental attention. Eliminating unnecessary fun- ctions from the job list of govern- ment would allow it to devote itself to formulating policy, maintaining defense, enforcing laws, and the other things government does best. These three reuslts are the aim of a measure Senator S. I. Hayak-w- a introduced after the Office of Management and Budget and the General Accounting Office recommended that reliance on the private sector be delineated as government policy. Senator Hayakawa's resolution states: "It is the policy of the United States to rely on competitive private industry to supply the products and services it needs : 10 years ago... 15-da- y 30yearsago... costing $19 billion, are now being done by federal employes, according to government estimates. The assumption of those tasks by the government is nothing more than competition for private industry. Businesses already coping with inflation, Seven seniors in Jordan district high schools have been announced as Merit Scholarship this year. Bingham High School has three Jordan, two, and Hillcrest and Brighton one each as semi-finalis- ts semi-finalist- s, follows: Bingham High, Daniel T. Crane, son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Crane, Riverton;' Dee Oviatt, son of Mr and Mrs Arden Oviatt, South Jordan; David K. Swenson, West Jordan. Brighton, Steven R. Burt, son of Mr and Mrs Richard Burt, Cottonwood. Hillcrest, Mark A. Besendorfer, son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Besendorfer, Midvale. Jordan, Dan O. Enniss, son of Mr and Mrs W. D. Enniss, Draper; Kem E. Robinson, son of Mr and Mrs Clay Robinson, Sandy. whenever competitive industry prices are available." That resolution can be illustrated with an example from Salt Lake City. While many federal facilities run their own food service operations, the lunchroom in Salt Lake's Federal Building is run by Fred Schmidt of South Ogden, who leases some space and runs the business for himself. The result is good food at reasonable prices, no worry for the building manager, no ed competition for the other eating establishments down- -' town, and a profitable business opportunity for Fred. That's the way it ought to be done nationwide. The advantages are obvious for Fred, his customers, his competitors, and the American taxpayer. |