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Show DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Friday, 20, February 8 1970 1 The former commander of said in Sait Lake City Tnursday that a volunteer Army in America within the next few years U.S. forces in Vietnam By ROBERT D. MULLINS Deseret News Staff Writer The proposal for a complete outside investigation of Salt Lake County finances was accepted today by the County Commission on recommendation of the County Government Improvement Committee. Commission action came on the heels of Thursdays disclosure that checks made Auditor Seeks Funds Lockup By M. DeMAR TEUSCHER and PAUL SWENSON Deseret News Staff Writers Salt Lake County Auditor Glen F. Palmer today called for removal of C. Clark Ron-noas an authorized signa-to- r on .any and all county bank accounts. Palmer made three recom- mendations on county finances handled by the county social services department (of which Ronnow is director), in a letter to county commissioners. A copy was sent to Chief Deputy County Atty. Leon Halgren. Ronnow, meanwhile, made recommendations of his own (as to auditing procedures) and disclosed that the checks cash and made out to on county funds that started the dispute were not used to transact any county business. He said they were used specifically to document irregularities in auditing procedrawn dures. Palmer's three recommendations to the commission asked that: Ronnow be removed as signator on county bank trustee or otheraccounts, wise. Ronnow be instructed to immediately remit, any or ail cash collections he may still have in his custody and control or on deposit to the county treasurer. Criminal prosecution be See AUDITOR on Page 6 B-1- four-yea- out to cash had been drawn on county funds and the counter contention that the checks were cashed specifically to point up auditing inadequacies. Principals in the dispute are C. Clark Ronnow, director of county social services, and Auditor Glen F. Palmer. the The auditor made checks public Thursday and Ronnow responded with his charge that they were made out to docunrent irregularities in the auditing department. Today Palmer called for criminal prosecution of those involved in opening unauthobank acrized multiple counts, and asked that Ronnow be removed as an authorized signator on any and all (See county bank accounts. story, this page). CALL FOR PROBE The county g o v e rnment improvement group, an outgrowth of a by the Salt Lake County Grand Jury, called today for a county probe of at least three areas of county finance. newly-forme- acCounty commissioners cepted the committee suggestion that an investigator be hired to work through the county attorneys office in looking into the Extended Care Hospital Account in Ronnows department, and discrepancies (not shortages) of $4,700 in the recorders office and in the recreation de$600-$70- 0 partment. Theres one thing wrong with ballet . . . . . . Ballet is like ice hockey. You see a couple and you get hooked on them. And Ballet West is in a lot higher league than the Golden Eagles. You will see that if you go up to Kingsbury Hall next week when the Ballet West presents one of its season bits. 'It's the story lines of most ballets that get to me. Take Swan Lake. Its been up among the top ten ever since girls learned to stand on their tippy-toeIts on the program. But can you imagine going home and explaining to your wife what you had been up to if you handed her the story of Swan Lake: . s. any price. address Wes tmorelands centered around the need for a sense of duty by Americans in serving their country. Use That OUTSIDE AUDITOR Lorin N. Pace, speaker of the Utah House of Representatives and a member of the county committee, suggested that an outside auditor be hired to check the entire fiscal structure of the county, to determine if shortages exist and to examine the auditing procedure. If we are to restore public See OUTSIDE on Page 6 SECTION B Eagle Eye For Buys ticket prices for Mondays Golden Eagles Ice hockey game with the Phoenix Road Runners will be available at many downtown Reduced stores in connection with the annual Downtown Washingtons Birthday Sale Saturday and Monday. Because of the holiday Monday, we have made arrangements for participating stores to offer ice hockey tickets for Mondays game at said Jack great savings, Pembroke, president, Retail Merchants Association. More than 30 participating stores will have regular $2 general admission tickets for $1 and $3 reserved seat tickets for $2. Shoppers need not make store purchases to obtain the tickets at these savings. Tickets will be offered on a basis Saturday and Monday. The promotion is a traditional sale for big values, when many stores are clearing odd lots and Christmas remnants, said Stanford P. Darger, RMA na ger. secretary-m- a first-com- UP AT THE LAKE I was up at the lake with Siegfried and a few friends. Old Siegy sneaks up to the lake shore and meets up with Odette. Who is Odette? the little lady would ask suspiciously. queen of the swans, you would answer. Queen of the swans! your wife would ask. Youre putting me on. ' t Odette is under a spell of an evil magician who turned her into a swan. Are you sure youve been swan hunting? the little lady would say. Suddenly a whole flock of swans come in. We were just about to shoot them when Odette stops us, you explain. Then she told us about the whammy the guy put on her. Some guy named Rothbart. Imagine the look on your wifes face when you tell her that all the swans turned into pretty girL and you danced with one. Til bet you did, she would say. City, Regional Our Man Jones 1, 5, 7, 16 1 Theater 4 TV Highlights Sports Comics Financial Maj. Gen. Maurice Watts presents National Guard award to Gen. William L. numbers become large, the society becomes lethargic and The strength and vitality of a democratic society depend on those who participate . . . nonparticipants contribute nothing ard if their he said. The young people in our Army come from a socie unhappy, . . . ty in the turmoil of change. Despite the evident differences of opinion in our own society and despite our involvement in a controversial war, C. Westmoreland. these young people have performed and are performing magnificently. Westmoreland said that See ALL on Page R-- 7 Draft In March d , There's This Swan, See "will be highly improbable. Gen. William C. Westnioie-land- , U.S. Army cluef of staff, was in town to address the 10th annual awards banquet of the Utah National Guard, at which the general and nine Utahns received the Guard's Minuteman awards. It is doubtful that an Army the size of our present force could be built from volunteers, Westmoreland told an afternoon press conference at The cost the Hotel Utah. would also be too great. The graying general, 56, a U.S. military leader for 34 years, postulated that even if we could attract as many men ?s we presently have, we would still need a selective service act for times of emergency. He predicted that in the next few years the armed forces will be putting Teat effort on recruiting more r three- - and men. At the banquet Thursday night at the Ft. Douglas OffiWestmoreland cers Club, presented both sides of the volunteer army argument. Commenting that a presidential commissions report for such an on prospects Army is due any day now, he said that we would hope an Army would be relatively easy to raise. At the same time, we have so many divisive elements in that seeking our society enough volunteers might become quite complicated. And yet it would be a mistake to think we can buy such an Army. Loyalty and patriotism cannot be purchased for 6 1 12, 13 14, 15 first-serv- e Calls 70 Utahns The March draft call for Utah will be 70 men, Col. Richard V. Peay, state director of Selective Service, announced today. By CLARENCE S. BARKER Deseret News Staff Writer He said notices of induction from Utahs 35 draft boards are being sent to the men affected by the fall. Peay said Utah didnt exceed the lottery number 50 in reaching the call which was the instruction from the national Selective Service headquarters. The State Highway Department will advertise for bids Saturday for a $10 million construction job which will be the largest single highway project offered for bidding in Utah. The job calls for 6.25 miles e divided concrete of from highway on new Pages Lane, Bountiful, to six-lan- Wyoming Ranks First in Uranium Desferet News Washington - Lagoon. Blaine J. Kay, state highway engineer, said the $10 million job will be built over a three-yea- r period. It Will be of such complexity and require such integration and phasing of construction .to accommodate continuous traffic that it could not reasonably be split coninto several smaller tracts, he said. This job, Kay explained, will take about $10.5 million of our $16.5 million allocation of funds for the quarter. Bureau The WASHINGTON Atomic Energy Commission said today that Wjroming ranked first in uranium drilling footage for 1969, with 13.8 million feet. Of total' U.S. uranium drilling, 46.2 per cent was in Wyoming. The total drilling in states involved was 29.9 million feet up 25 per cent over 1968. By the end of 1969, U.S. uranium ore reserves were estimated at 97 million tons. The ore contained an av- 14 The next major job to be advertised, he said hopefully, will be a $6 million project to southward from the carry erage grade of 21 per cent or 204,000 tons at $8 a pound when recovered. Point of the Mountain to Lehi. These two jobs will com from north of Ogden plete to south of Santaquin with the exception of a high standard divided road from Layton to Lagoon, he said. e Bids on the n section opened March 24. 6.25-mil- Lane-Lagoo- Page's will be The concrete surfacing is to be 10 inches thick with inside shoulder separated by a median strip from 40 to 64 feet wide. Three interchanges with lighting will be provided Walker and at Parrish, Burkes Lanes, plus overhead crossroads at Parrish and Glover Lanes and at State Street just south of Lagoon. A frontage road is now completed east of existing U.S. 89-9- The new contract calls for See 1-- on Page B--7 HOLIDAY FOR SOME, NOT METER MAIDS Since Washingtons Birthday falls on Sunday this year, the holiday, such as it is, will be observed on Monday. For city, county, federal and state employes it means a day off work, and for most merchants it means a price chopping sale day. Students of colleges and universities will attend classes as usual, but it will be a holiday for students of eight school districts. Salt Lake, Granite, Jordan, Murray, Provo, Box Elder, Carbon and Morgan. There will be no mail delivery Monday, except for special delivery and perishables and liquor stores will be closed. Despite the holiday, parking meters will have to be Salt Lake City Monday. fed in A , SOUNDS LIKE A BRAWL "Sing struggles with Rothbart, but he cant break Hie hold the guy has on him, or on Odette for that matter." , "Sounds like some brawl, if you ask me, your wife will say. So all the girls and Odette turn back into swarms and fly off." Didnt you even shoot one for Sunday brunch? You know your parents are coming over for dinner. You can't shoot a swan you have danced with! And besides we were too busy trying to revive Siegfried. What happened to Siegfried. Did he bomb out? a busted heart, No he up and died on us would answer. you You guys were probably living it up and shot the poor guy by accident." Nope, you would say. He didn't have a pellet in him. He just up and died. "You try telling that alibi to Chief Whitehead and oull get off all right . . . insanity. 7ou know, I've suspected it for some time. You are ready for the funny ... farm! WITS END What we need is more politicians taking a stand instead of trying to gft a seat. of the other district which includes the remaining 26 counties in the state. It is located at 540 S. State, Orem, and the telephone number is By ROGER PUSEY Deseret News Staff Writer The 19th national decennial census, currently under way in Utah with the establishment of two district offices, may go down in history as the cardboard census. Dozens of cardboard desks and filing cabinets have been set up in the two offices for census workers that carry out the economy theme of the Nixon Administration. MONEY SAVER This will save the taxpayers about $400,000. William B. Martin has been appointed manager of the district comprising Sait Lake, Weber and Davis counties. His office is in Building 210 at Ft. Douglas and the telephone number is Claude Lomax is manager William B. Martin, Mrs. Perry H. Collings ar.d Mrs. Arthur L. Ellsworth, from left, set up cardboaml furniture in district census office. Dozens of 50 additional enumerators Martin said in years past, the census was taken by personal visits, but this year hired specially for the census taking, Martin said, will edit t h e after questionnaires theyre mailed in. Each ore will review about 400 questionnaires. things will be different. Questionnaires will be mailed to every Utahn March 28. Families not returning the questionnaire or not reporting some information will get a Eeryone in Salt Lake. Davis and Weber counties is asked to fill them out and mail them April 1 which has been designated as Census Day." OTHER COUNTIES Martin said residents in the comities will reremaining ceive their questionnaires in the mail, but are asked to fill them out and1 hold them until a census enumerator makes a persona! visit. Bureau of the Census officials said the cardboard furniture can be provided for about $8 per working space compared with $30 per working space for rented and borrowed furniture. longer form with questions. About 80 per cent of the families will receive a short questionnaire of 23 questions. 13 per cent will receive a longer form w ith 43 additional questions and five per, cent can expect to get an even telephone call from the enum- erator. If the person cannot be contacted by telephone the census employes make a personal visit. DIRECTIONS Martin said complete directions are printed on every form, but anyone having questions chould call either district office. He stressed that census information is kept strictly confidential and will not be released to any persons outside the Bureau cf the Census. When the census is completed on the d!strict level, the information is sent back to Washington, D.C., and used for statistical purposes. |