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Show DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Wednesday, October 21, 1970 B 1 By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN The Deseret News Education Editor An City May Resubmit Downtown Plans For HUD Funds appro of priation for operation of the college and university has been system for 1971-7- 2 recommended by the staff of the State Board of Higher $54,686,300 states Education (SBHE). Dr. G. Homer Durham, commisisoner of higher education, said today the recommendation will be submitted to the boards Budget and Finance Committee. The committee has scheduled hearings with representatives of the states colnine leges and universities Thurs- By JOSEPH LUNDSTROM The $54.7 million iigure includes $1,272,300 for operations of the SBHE and programs it administers directly, and $53.4 million for the nine schools. The $53.4 million is $6.9 million less than the $60.3 million The recommended budget anticipates a total enrollment increase of 2,683 students (6.3 The competition among the really great concert pianists must be getting keener. Theyve taken a cue from baseball pitchers and are using a facsimile of the spit ball. Its illegal in baseball but perfectly above board in the musical whirl. If two of the artists were competing on the same stage, the judges would have to give them a saliva test. The musical suit ball wa developed by Gary Graff-mathe former child prodigy who has developed into one of the top seasoned pianists of the world. Gary plavs a concert at the de Jong Fall on the BYU campus tonight as part of the Community Concert series. Gary discovered that a glissando was sharper and much smoother if he wet the end of his thumb first. Harold Lundstrom, our man in music, explained that a glissando is the ranid sliding movement the length of the keyboard. All pianists do it to impress the audience. It makes piano playing finder licking good! n, COMPLETED RUSS TOUR Garv has spent the last couole of days at Harolds home practicing for the concert. He recently completed a Russian tour including Siberia. He said that Henrv Stemwav, president of the piano firm, sent him a wire as'ng him to get in touch with him at the New York office as soon as possible. He Ww Garys itinerary to the minute. Two exports serve Noscow. One is fo traffic to the West. Fnrriist! is snoken tvere. The ott--r pJrnnU: sprps Siberia and China . . . poNs past. No Fr"1,vh is spoken. ws at the east airnort when the teleoram cau'At un with him. It was impossible to send an answer because of the laneuae barrier. After Garv arrived in Minsk, he was met hv a coloa music bff. The officer nel of the Russian Army had heard Garv nlay . . . met him in New York. He ... also snoke English. , It usually takes a connle of days to aef a call through from Russia to New York, but the colonel pulled stnnws. A Hrl friend named Olga worked for the a bit of hriherv . . . flowers . . . telephone ech-noreandv . . . and the call went through in just a couple of hours Remrnhof, Wonry Stein wav knew Garv was in Minsk, hut the telephone bit went something like this: This is New Yonk calh'n" T nndnr. Thpn. "This is callTHs is West London cilin West Perlm. Wc'-Moscow. This is Teri'n Bpr1in East ing Then the final operator, This is Moscow calling ' ' Minsk. p. WITHIN 1 BLOCK One other stipulation is that the credits must be used initially on a projecet within one block of the Salt Palace, according to City Streets Commission George B. Catmull. Meeting Tuesday afternoon with the Downtown Development Committee, Catmull explained that the city "has a very good chance of acquiring the credits, New HUD officials appear to be more friendly toward Salt Lake City since the regional offices have been moved from San Francisco to Denver, the commissioner added. A modified downtown improvement proposal that will include a specific project will be submitted by the first of the year. HUD has until. March 10 to grant the credits. If the credits are not granted by then, Salt Lake City will lose out altogether, according to Catmull. SUPPORT CITY The Downtown Improve ment Committee voted unanimously to support the city in seeking the credits. Commissioner Catmull also See CITY on Page B-U V. Av-v- , . ?v ' y. vv , , ' individual schools, pointing out that these figures will not be firm until budget hearings are completed. EELOW AVERAGE The commissioner pointed out that appropriations per e college student in figUtah, based on 1989-7ures, are about 28 per cent full-tim- 0 Utah's Tax; Base Is Decade Sees Some Double , tri y fel-i'o- . ,vTtN;4;c n't? 1 Tihfc. i - JLfH ' 11 ! fe All of the major taxes in Utah were raised substantial-- , ' ly during the past 10 years which is news to almost ! nobody. e But a study just released Utah Foundation gives an overall picture of the significant changes which occurred during the 1960s. Tax increases were enacted by every regular session of the Utah Legislature in the past 10 years, with the exception of 1967 and 1970, the report notes. by-th- w ix x l rate increases doubled State sales tax between 1960 and 1970. SALES TAX Chyirclhi Inlistoirv On1 Exhibit A special open house Family Night for the C.C.A. Christensen Mormon Historical Art Panorama will be held Tuesday night in the University of Utah Fine Arts Museum. Parents are urged to bring their children to the open house, sponsored by The Des eret News and the museum, to see Mormon history' por- is a collection of paintings by other prominent Utah contemporaries of Christensen, early Utah Mormon artist. The artists include John Willard trayed in paintings. Open house hours will be 7 to 10 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Regular museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays.. Also included in the exhibit - Clawson, Henry L.A. Culmer, Charles Eisele, John Hafen, Alfred Lambourne, William Warner Major, George Martin Ottinger, Lorv Pratt, Lewis A. Ramsey, George Henry Danquart Taggart, and Anthon Weggeland. The Christensen exhibit, a group of giant paintings depicting different scenes in the history of The Church, recent- ly returned from a five-wee- k showing at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City. Individual Income tax doubled in the lowest bracket and raised 20 per cent in the higher brackets. Overall increase averaged between 45 and 5C per cent. Corporate income tax increased 50 per cent. doubled. Cigarette tax Liquor excise (school lunch) 16 Motor fuel tax plus per cent. Property tax increased mill rates boosted an average of 28 per cent. OTHER STATES Building Funds Tactics In meeting by Fran the Salt Lake County Development and Promotion Board. He said the Convention Bu-- , reau is handicapped in bidding for conventions because Deseret News Staff Writer Some of the Palace To Ask following discussion Haun, chairman of ' By MAXINE MARTZ included: Moss Hits provements budget for construction of additional "vitally needed' meeting rooms at the Salt Palace. The decision was made at the boards regular monthly, $1,570. x&r The Salt Palace nas $105,000 left in this years capital improvements budget and plans to use this money for purchase of telescoping, collapsible bleachers on east and west ends of the arena and to modify bleacher sections on the north and south side of the arena floor from 6 to risers. The improvements will increase viewing ability from the arena floor and reduce maintenance problems. 12-in- WOUNDED SUSPECT NABBED IN POCATELLO Campaign Cecil Flumer, 55, an Alabafna resident, was found hospitalized in Pocatello, Idaho, and charged with the $555 robbery Saturday of Loves Jewelry Store, 161 S. Main, Salt Lake City. A complaint charging Flumer with robbery and grand larceny was signed today by Sgt. Don Lyman, detective division, Salt Lake City Police, before City Judge Maurice D. Jones. Bail was set at $25,000. The tobbery occurred about noon and the owner of the store fired six or seven shots at the fleeing robber. He commandeered a passing automobile, which he later abandoned in Liberty Park. Hospital spokesmen said a bullet had entered through his nose and lodged in his sinuses. Frank Sen. E. M o s s, angrily renewed a charge Tuesday that his opponent, Rep. Laurence J. Buris engaging in ton, extreme gutter-typ- e politics. h, pens Despite the number of tax boosts in Utah the past 10 years, the overall increases have not been as great as those in many other states, the Foundation notes. While total state and local taX collections in Utah grew 91 per cent between 1960 and 1969, they increased by 107 cent throughout the per nation. Rapidly rising governmental costs are blamed for the in- -, creases. Utah spent $283 million in 1960 and $621 million in a 120 per cent gain. ; Utah was able to minimize ; its ta increases by budgeting balances and surpluses accu-- ; mulated in earlier periods, by borrowing, and by using one-- . windfalls time resulting 1969, See TAX on Page B-- U ; Goldwafer Stumps Utah for GOP Vote He wants control of the na- - ; tion in the hands of conservative people, he said. We havent had a real liberal in Congress for 40 years, and by now, even the liberals mijst -know they are bankrupt. PREDICTS WAR By DOROTHY O. REA Deseret News Staff Writer 12-1- r RANKS 43RD When part-tim- e enrollment is considered, Utah ranks 43rd; in appropriation per student, Durham said. This budget would only let us stand still, Durham said.- -' Institutional requests were; Dur-Se- e substantial and slid, COLLEGE on Page B--li on V 'v 3-- 5 i data Up Sharply SECTION ' Only-Sout- Dakota, New Hampshire, Mississippi, North Dakota and Oklahoma appropriate less per student, he said. U t a hs appropriation for 1969-7- 0 was $.,114, compared with the national average of r The Salt Lake County Civic Auditorium Board agreed Tuesday afternoon to request $250,000 in its 1971 capital im- below the national average. In a ranking scale, Utah ranks 45tn among the 50 states. budget provides a 7.7 per cent increase in faculty salary accounts and an approximate 5.5 per cent increase in other areas to adjust lor inflation and rising costs, Durham said. Durham did not release proposed '7 ! Air Crash The ' ; '' At a press conference in the University Club, Moss said Burton broke a promise that the latter would remove objectionable ' television and CONTRACT DEADLINE Henry in New York and Gary in Minsk heard the radio advertising connecting This work has not yet been entire bit. Moss to Moratorium rioting ' ' must out for and bidding put and flag burning last year in Right after the local operator said, Ready with of limited medium and large 31 be under contract by Dec. the nations capitol. size meeting rooms. your New Vnrk c"U, Gary, without too much imaginaor funds revert to the countys tion, said Hello. The senator also said BurBUDGETS DUE general fund. ton is falsely charging that Then Henrys voice . . . Who is this calling? The board, which had ear-Se- e Salt Lake County CommisMoss voted to soften the pensioner Philip R. Blomquist PALACE on Page B-- ll FORGOT TFE PIANO alty for use of marijuana. informed Palace officials that MAIN CONCERN Prior to his Russian tour, Garv traveled South they must submit their past comfor acdue to had someone In request budget However, his main concern, America. Argentina, forgotten on deliberation missioners told newsmen, is a televihe hall. B the for a quire piano Nov. 4. Budgets for this and sion spot which shows filmed Just prior to curtain time, the lights went out. other scenes of student rioting and county departments ; Candles were lit, but the concert had to wait. Just secmust be set Dec. 15, he said. the U.S. flag while a burning ..1-5- , onds after the piano arrived, the lights went on again! 11, 20 voice in the background which Budget requests were due City, Regional 1 Our Man Jones Oct. 1. They brag in Argentina that they have the most he identified as Burtons Political Pot efficient power service in the world! it said he thought states that Moss sent a teleBlomquist 8, 9 Financial would be "unpardonable to let the gram 'congratulating WITS END 11, 12 Obituaries millions of convention dollars rioters. 12 go by the wayside for lack of , Weather Map Remember when going for a dip meant you were The senator angrily reit9 Ads Action rooms. broker? stock to meeting your erated Tuesday that the only going swimming and not over telegram he sent was a carefully-worded document which went from his office in Washington to Jeff Fox at the University of Utah, Tom Brown at Brigham Young University, Byron W. Graham, Weber Donald R. Eberle of the chairman said a second College, Neil Gruwell at WICHITA, KAN. (UPI) -F- crashed Oct. 2 in the Colorado be called. Utah State University, John Wichiwhile Rockies Colo., testified hearing might into the carrying Georgetown, ederal hearings Louis M. Adm. Retired and Lyksett at Westminster, Omar coaches State crash of a Wichita State Un- ta that he saw the plane in flight players, a member of the Na- Kader, Provo, and John Heinz-maThayer, Utah with to a fans game that while two chartered or minute for a plane iversity and tional Transportation Morgan. killed 30 persons, including 13 State University in Logan, workirg on top of his house. and Board (NTSB) Safety PURPOSE, SPIRIT football players, opened today Utah. He said it was 3,265 He estimated the plane was chairman of the inquiry ' It endorsed the purpose with the chief investigator pounds overweight. flying at 1,000 to 1,500 feet board, said Tuesday night, It and airthe he said which above spirit of the Moratorium testifying ground, Abbott said 24 gallons of oil appears at this time, we might and being in the craft was a ton and a half were added to the aircrafts is at an elevation of 8,500 feet. have highest tradito have a second tion of the constitutional overweight. two engines at Denver, its session. He indicated WashHe did not witness the of citizens to petition rights tne before the site. be flight Russell J. Abbott of the Nacrash. ington might refueling stop their government for reddress He said the hearing on the tional Transportation Safety across the mountains. He did was the first of four Eberle of grievances . . . was was if this Wichita excessive. not State told federal Board the campus panel say to testify bewitnesses Moss was told by a newsground no evithe Martin 404. could safely being held on comparatively He said, however, two surviving football fore. that the Burton organizaman of notice because intershort or 44,900 dence of malfunction pounds, including carry took the stand. tion apparently had informaand feel. nal failure of either engine, players public interest a n d depassengers, bagg-g- e tion that the telegram was in the Even before1 the federal partmental interest was noted by his investigatBut he said the plane carSee MOSS on Page B-- ll See HEARING on Page B-- ll panel opened the hearings, ried 48,165 pounds when it ing team. I I , f Bin 44,282. s.f Palace project (actual cost was $17 million). Under congressional authorization, HUD can allow 25 per cent in federal credits on the $15 million. The Musical Spit Ball t ROLLS INCREASE , Palace. The federal government recognizes $15 million in construction costs on the Salt XT G-'r- v TUESDAY final recommendation to be forwarded to Gov. Calvin L. Rampton and the 1971 Utah Legislature is expected to be announced at Tuesdays meeting of the SBHE. - Under HUDs auspices, Salt Lake City has earned $3.75 million in federal aid credits for construction of the Salt cujAmir ANNOUNCED A cent), from this years preliminary count of 42,411 to per JlTU.U!J!fI,lI!!Wl!mii!l Salt Lake City Commissioners will decide Thursday whether to resubmit a proposal to the U,S. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) for federal partcipation in downtown improvements. HUD officials have, within the past few days, urged Salt Lake City to resubmit proposals that w ere turned down last year. OUR LIAM cent, more than the $44.2 million state appropriation they received for the 1970-7- 1 academic year. It is anticipated, Durham said, that the recommended appropriation would constitute only about 43 per cent of the total expenditures for the Utah State System of Higher Education (USHE) for the 1971-7- 2 term. The remaining amount will have to come from student fees, federal grants and contracts, probate gifts and other sources, he said. recom- the institutions requested. It is $9.2 million, or 20.7 per day and Friday, Urban Affairs Editor million $54.7 mendation is subject to approval or amendment by the committee, Durham said. . PROVO Charging that the present Congress is the worst Congress I ever served with, Sen. Barry Goldwater, and 1964 presidential nominee, swept through a whirlwind series of campaign meetings in central and southern Utah Tuesday. There was a press conference at KBYU-Tfollowing a brief appearance at the conof the traditional clusion Brigham Young University Founders Day Assembly held in the Smith Fieldhouse. ' At noon. Sen. Goldwater keynoted a public assembly in front of Utah County Courthouse. He came to Utah to support the candidacy of Rep. Lausenrence J. Burton, atorial candidate; Richard Richards, running for First District congressman on the Republican ticket, and Rep. Sherman P. .Lloyd, in the Secseeking ond Congressional District. ' Goldwater and Burton appeared briefly at Nephi, Richfield, St. George, and Cedar City. The senator predicted that World War III will begin when Russia and Red China starta war over who is going to take the place of the United States in world leadership. He told the public assembly there is a great division in America between the patriots and those who want to disarm, isolate the nation from the world, relinquish world economic leadership. He said Americans voted for a change in government ard wanted an America to be proud of, in which patriot pm is a virtue to be proudly worn. -- ' Sen. Barry Goldwater . . . whirlwind tour I want to help change the national Congress so it will oe with President Nixon and not against him. The people voted for a change of government but Congress wont let the Goldwater changes come, said. I need Laurence Burton as a colleague. I KICKED IT WIDER t Sen. Goldwater said he had no quarrel with Vice President Spiro Agnews appraisal of media. communication His remarks were long overdue. He opened the door and I See GOLDWATER, Page B-- 2 . |