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Show Jji"'p,"i u'-- r- .4 Million T.F. Shopping By IVAN LINCOLN Deseiet News Staff Wrirer TWIN FALLS, IDAHO -Except for a bottleneck in traffic at Main and Shoshone, the citys main downtown intersection, a sparkling new $2.4 million shopping mail along three blocks of Main Avenue, is garnering wide acceptance at least from shop- pers. You either like the mall or dont. It depends on whether youre a shopper or a you motorist. Similar to, but on a much smaller scale than a mall proposed for the downtown Salt Lake City area, Twin Falls City Center Mall is designed to make shopping a pleasurable experience. It is pedestrian-orientewith broad, attractively landscaped sidewalks. Gazebos, kiosks and an abstract fountain give the downtown area a relaxed, contemporary flair. New light fixtures flood the avenue with a soft glow at night instead of a harsh glare. In a departure from the usual unsightly street light poles, the new lights sit atop modemlooking black metal posts. crosswalks are In several locations along the mall. Traffic has been reduced to 15 miles per hour and only two lanes wide, giving the pedestrians ready access to both sides of the street. Mid-bloc- k Joe Cilek, a Twin Falls businessman who helped spearhead the effort to revitalize the citys shopping most shoppers core, said seem to like the mall once they get out of their cars and on foot. The mall has experienced an influx in motor traffic, partly because of Christmas and sales and partly due to a large number of curious sightseers. But the mall itself was not designed io carry heavy traffic or to get from one side of town to the other that the role of two side streets paralleling Main. City Center Mall is intended strictly for shopper and service traffic. Another problem has been the switch to diagonal parking in some sections of the mall. The street itself has a slightly meandering pattern through the mall area, with diagonal TPjA IT -- r. - t i f ( fr . - CF-- ! tSllstl parking along one or both sides of the street. Traffic is " said. This is particularly evident industries. Lloyd said he finds a dramatic decrease in criticism of In construction peace. Wyoming. E. Allan Hunter, UP&L president, made this point in a talk before a sizeable segment of the Salt Lake business and financial community Friday afternoon at Hotel Utah. Prior to his talk, a film was shown depicting the industrial, educational, cultural and recreational developments in the area served by UP&L. Asked about environmental safeguards at the Huntington Canyon site of the proposed $91 million generating plant, Hunter said that the company is taking steps to assure the preservation of the ecology. ' feels there will be pressure for even higher deficit spending than the $10 billion contemplated in the Presidents budget. Noting that House Republicans will meet Wednesday to choose their leadership, he predicted that Floor Leader Jerry Ford of Michigan and Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois will be easily. However, the congressman believes there will be a stiff contest for the third position, chairmanship of the Republican House Conference. Lloyd Rep Sherman P. Lloyd cites issues ... government policy in Vietnam. Controversy over the war policy is the lowest in years, he stated. Future issues in Congress, as he sees them, are revenue sharing, deficit spending, foreign and military policy in the Middle East and implementa- - Of Rate Boost the rate increase to be sought by Utah Power and Light Co. this year in Utah, Idaho and Doctrine would be compelled to pick up a greater burden of stabilizing UP&L Unsure No determination has been made yet as to the amount of Nixon under which other countries stated. DOMESTIC LIST The congressman said he would place economic issues at the top cf his domestic priority list. I believe the President should be much tougher on industries making excessive price increases and upon unions which demand wages far beyond what is justified by increases in productivity, he of the have given assurances to the federal government that there will be no water pollution. We have two teams, We one from the University of Utah and one from Brigham Young University, studying the ecology of the area to determine what must be done in the construction of the plant to preserve the ecology, he said. Hunter noted that the studies will determine such matters as the height of the stacks at the plant. We wont put out any objectionable effluent, he said. Hunter said total revenue of the has been company increasing at an annual rate of about six per cent for the last 10 years. He predicted that sales would continue to increase at this rate. LIBERAL VIEWS The current chairman, John B. Anderson of Illinois, is under attack because of his liberal views. He faces a stiff from Samuel Devine of Ohio, Lloyd said. However, the Utahn said he is Anderson, supporting explaining: I believe the Party must offer an umbrella to Republicans of all shades of opinion. One of his early tasks as Congress convenes Jan. 21 will be a meeting with the Commission on Presidents the observance of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations. He is one of four House members on the Commission. RED CHINA challenge Final recommendations will be adopted, including U.S. action on admission of Red China, he said. I personally feel we must prepare for this eventuality, although the time is premature this year. Also, Rep. Lloyd, as chairman of the House GOP Task Force on Labor Law Reform, will chair a heariig preliminary to introduction of the Presidents labor law legislation, which he will The time is overripe for modernized labor legislation in the interests of the general public, Lloyd said. SECTION B 1, 2 2, 3 3 City, Regional Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads . Only one business was relocated on the mall itself hv Macies Shoes. Maurice Cole and his wife. Macie, the store formerly featured primarily western boots and shoe repair. The business operated out of a temporary location during construction of the mall and just before the Christmas season moved into a new building cross the street. The inventory also was expanded to include a full line of western apparel. U 4'' - - .- ' c: .3; .SJ I Til'; i 'w Modernistic tion el a .v Lloyd Finds Concern Over SST, Employment Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd, Utah, who has been taking soundings around the state for the past two weeks, said he finds that the SST (supersonic transport) is a matter of high concern among the populace. Most of the noise is coming from environmentalists, said Loyd. The SST has become a symbol of pollution to them. Llovd also finds considerable worry among Utahns over rising prices and about further layoffs in defense industries. Unemployment will be a 1972 campaign issue, he AN ' o one-wa- y I. - ) ' when it began contemplating the mall. There already was a large amount of behind parking immediately many of the Main Avenue stores. More parking was provided through a cooperative Urban Renewal project with several firms razed and I Ji tj U I :. V f ! L - . 2 gazebo offer shade and seats for shoppers at new city mall. frequently held up momentar- fly while motorists wait for another driver to back out of a parking space. a But Twin Falls found itself in very fortunate situation ment; call for a study of taxing procedures in the state; redistrict public health services (Senate Bill 36); ask that county. welfare boards be given more authority; endorse single prosecution for all felony cases, placing authority with the county attorney rather than district attorney. In other action during the business session, Emery County was named winner of Imthe annual Landscape Award. Wayne provement Rose, Utah State University Extension Service, made the presentation. elections Friday nights advanced Todd G. Wester., River Heights, member of the Cache County Commission for eight years, from vice president to president of the UAC. He succeeds K. B. Olsen, City, Box Elder County Brigham clerk-audito- r. Truman Bowler, Washington County commissioner, was unopposed as vice president. He advanced to the position after serving during the past year as secretary-treasureWeber County Treasurer David Duncan was elected r. secretary-treasure- r over William E. Dunn, chairmen of the Salt Lake Count Commission. Beulah Peterson, Wayne County was named lady vice president, defeating Estella Emery County recorder. She succeeds Ann O'Brien, Carbon Countv recorder. Buv-ma- Immediate n, past president Olson and Mrs. OBrien auto op the downtown economy will come this spring and summer when the shopreturns to picture ping normal. mails effect There is no more landscaping yet to be done and the fountain, a ical point along the mall, will be in operation. Ive heard a lot of comsaid ment on the fountain, Cole, Lets just say its dif- ferent." Another new face on the mail is Sterling Jewelry, previously located on Shoshone Street. of Howard Allen, the jewelry store with his brodier, Charles, said the City Center Mall was a definite factor in their recent move. I believe are as impressed w'th the mall as on the Cole, commenting effect of the mall. said. If the Christmas season was any indication, its going to be wonderful. It was time somethmg was done downtown. If its no more than putting a new face and a new back on the buildings, its an improvement. He said the real test of the the Jrical people, said Alien. He said the mall was a real chore in the construction phase nothing like Twin Falls hau ever experienced. (Rather than construct the mall in stages, the termines the appropriation of beneficial all water, with use as the primary guideline. kleally, Utah needs an environmental clearing agency which would make recommendations based upn an impact report. This would simply mean that instead of a number of agencies, each fule state filling its assignment, often at crosspurposes with one another, that one state agency would determine whether the total result would be in the total state interest. one Clyde said that overall agency looking at the would total public interest criticism much alleviate sometimes leveled at agency entire t.ree-bloc- area was k closed off, literally dug up See TWIN FALLS on Page B-S Low son why we cannot also have By HART WLXOM Environmental Editor Utah has failed to take adequate steps to protect its outstanding recreational and aesthetic waters such as Bridal Veil Falls, a veteran Salt Lake City attorney, and special consultant to President Nixons National Water Commission said today. Edward W. Clyde, who also is the legal counsel for a number of the states largest industrial and irrigation interests, including the Central Utah Project, this week completed the first phase of a requested study plan for the commission. While consumptive recreational and aesthetic and specifically prouses vide for them in our state he said. government, The general public has already unofficially recognized recreation as a beneficial use of water. States should now officially do so by adding recreation to their water codes. However, they must do more than that. They must spell out the specific type and of protection recreational and aesthetic uses in tne public interest, Clyde added. Under state law, the Utah Division of Water Rights de SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH use of Saturday, January B 1 16, 1971 OF GAMBLING LAWS several anonymous complaints County area, the Utah Liquor Control Commission issued warnings Friday to 80 private, nonprofit liquor clubs about gambling on premises. Sharp M. Larsen, head of the commission warned that liquor agencies will be removed from clubs if gambling is detected. these Weve not pinned down any clubs at all will a upcommission, were just reminders that we, as hold Utahs laws, Larsen said. .He said gambling suspected machines. was in the use of Idaho Man Grateful To Rescue Volunteers group. He also will give $700 of communications worth equipment to the Pomerelle Ski Area to be used for help in matically become members of the board of directors. Also elected members of the board were Cal Black. San Juan County Commissioner; Pace, Summit County Reed clerk-audito- r: Clifton G. M. Kerr. Box Elder County assessor; Ed Watson, Tooele County attorney; Delmar Larson, Salt Lake County Sheriff and Fred Malan, Weber County surveyor. Holdover board members are James Yardley, Garfield County commissioner; Marion Olsen, Cache County commisClifford Blackham, sioner; Sanpete County commissioner and Marguerite S. Bourne, Davis ccunty recorder. In a law enforcement departmental session Friday afternoon for county attorneys, Robert P. Anderson, director say, It is the law,fhere is much less chance he will be accused of acting arbitrarily, or without cause, Clyde said. Clyde, who has made many beof such recommendations fore law conferences throughout the country, said that times are changing. Many of our water laws were written at a time when to seemed be resources inexhaustable, and our goals See WATER on Page 2 Take Personal Inventory Of Actions, Says ABA Aide By GORDON KIRBY Deseret News Staff Writer Utahs lawyers and judges Friday night were urged to take a look at themselves and inventory their performances in a time of social storm and confusion. Speaking was Leon Jawor-sk- i, Houston, Texas, presidentelect of the American Bar Association. He spoke at a banquet at Hotel Utah attended by some 300 members of the Utah State Bar and their sewives. It ended a ries of meetings and seminars conof the bars vention at the College of Law at the University of Utah. day-lon- Vem Cox, Twin Falls busi- nessman and father of James Cox, 30, said he has sent $100 each to the Mt. Harrison Snow- mobile Club and a ski patrol r administrators. When an administrator can B-- CLUBS REMINDED BURLEY, IDAHO (AP) -The father of a man caught in a snowstorm shortly after Christmas has shown his appreciation in a big way. single-purpos- DESERET NEWS water remains as the dominant use in a desert state such as Utah, there is no rea After receiving from the Salt Lake-Davi- s for recreational and aesthetic values in live streams, scenic waterhe falls, natural habitat . . said. Guidelines should be stated, which will assist the state agency in charge of water appropriation, in providing for extent future rescue operations, he said. James Cox spent 20 hours on Mt. Harrison in subzero temperatures when his snowmobile became disabled. He was the object of a wide search. He eventually walked six miles downhill to a farmhouse. cannot describe Words how Janies and I feel about the fine efforts made by these volunteers that night under extreme conditions, the senior Cox said. g Near him at the speakers table was former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Clark, who earlier in the day addressed bar members during a luncheon session in the universitys Union Building. The challenge facing lawyers today is unlike any previous one, Jaworski said. It is not brought on because of the war, or the state of the economy, or racism, or the in- crease in crime. Rather, he declared, the challenge arises from an attitude formed in recent years among young and old, of all races, that it is unnecessary Enforcement Planning Agency, reported that Utahs $1,953,000 grant under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act will be used for improvements in prosecution, in the courts and correctional activities. Distribution of funds to date has been 43 per cent for correction, 40 per cent for uniformed police and sheriffs expenses, 16 per cent for courts and prosecution and one per cent for miscellaneof the Utah Law Iftf ous. C 0 u n ty attorneys are benefiting from the act in various ways, Andersen said. For example, a member of a county attorneys staff could receive $600 to attend a prose- cutors school if tiie county matched $400 as his salary during the training period. in our society to be unwaveringly respectful of law. This attitude is the spawning for ground disobediences of laws which g . . . Opposed By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor PTA By The PTA opposes the proliferation of agencies. g One thrust of the conference, she pointed out, was the need for extending vocational education into the junior high and elementary schools. The change recommended by the governor would, in effect, require the schools to deal with an additional agency, she said. a During the conference, score of educators, businessmen and parents emphasized the necessity of improving vocational education. Two ideas were stressed over and over: If vocational education is on Page B-- 2 See VO-Eday-lon- The Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers takes excto Gov. Calvin L. eption Rampton's proposal for creating a new State Board of Vocational Education. Mrs. Glenn C. (Bruhneild) Hanni,' state PTA legislative director, stated the position Friday at a Crucial Issues Vocational on Conference Education at Olympus High School. In a message to the Utah Legislature earlier this week, Rampton proposed that the State Board of Education be stripped of its role as the State Board of Vocational Education. He proposed it be replaced by a new uoard composed of thiee members each from the Sate Board of Education, State Board of Higher Education- and the Manpower Planning Council with the state superintendent of public instruction acting as the new board's executive officer. The action, in effect, would switch responsibility for vocaan from tional education State board elected (the to a Board of Education) board of nine members, the majority of which six is appointed by the governor. Rampton said the move would give better representation to all interested departments . . . The state PTA feels rcsiwn-sibilit- y for vocational education should lie with the State Mrs. Board of Education. Hanni said. It is the PTAs responsibility, she said, to let our legislators know how we feel on this issue. Creating another agency would just add to the confusion.'' Mrs. iiannis statement was supported by Mrs. Russell F. (Lila) Bjorklui.d, state PTA Todd G. Weston president. heads counties group cieate confusion, i strains the rule of law as never before. he continWe lawyers, ued, more so than any other See ABA on Page B--2 State Vo - Ed Board semi-annu- 'Let Countses Choose Government The Utah Association of Counties today endorsed proposed legislation, including an amendment to the State Constitution, that would allow counties to choose optional forms of local government. Adoption of the resolution came during the closing breakfast business session of the UACs 49th annual convention at the Ramada Inn, 1000 S. State St. The county officials from throughout the state also resolved to: Limit tax exemptions for veterans after World War I; support the proposed half-celocal option sales tax; support payment of justices of the peace on a salary system; support the principle of revenue sharing with local governments by the federal govern rides pa a The move iOuld she only said. D Slide Cuts Ski Road BIG COTTONWOOD CAN- snowslidc rumbled down a mountainside a mile below Cardiff Fork here today about 1 p.m. laying down a white expanse 150 feet long and 8 feet deep. Although Utah Highway 152 was blocked by the slide, no one was known to be injured. The road was closed to traffic until further notice. YON More A than 2,500 youngsters were participating in a Salt Lake County tccreation ski school above the slide area ".hcn the avalanche struck. Ti e slide occurred about 7VJ from the miles canyons in an area called mouth Circle O. to the slide said no one was in the path of the wall of snow Witnc.-se- s that it appeared when it camp down. |