Rocky Mountain Review | 1965-01-28 | Page 4

V t ) L 0 3 Review Editorials Washington telnlalatit J- --' January 28 4 by BcnI'brget; Tbs D. C. long, difficult legislative pull has begun for tbs bill to pant Utah title to disputed lands the Great Salt smrounding Laka Tbs bill. Introduced during the first days of the new Senate session bv Democratic Senator Frank E. Moss, was submitted in the Hons last week by Moss Democratic counterpart, Representative David King. Both King and Moss remain optimistic about the bill's chances, despite the long, sometimes labyrinthine, always hazardous route it must travel before final approval. There are many places where a relatively small, strictly sectional measure such as this d. could get But an aide to King said this week that the congressman expected the Interior Department to issue a non commltal report on the bill, one fovoring a legislative settlement of the long -- simmering conflict. This should open the way to favor-aid- e committee reports on the measure, which was largely written by the Utah State Land Board Until last summer, the Interior Department had been hostile to the state's claim to the more than 600,000 acres mineral-ric- h of potentially land below the meander lines of the lake. Since then, several meetings have been held WASHINGTON, WHAT'S IN A WORD? 66 Professionalism 99 Sense Or Slogan ? What ts a professional? At an Olympic tryout meet, its a bad guy. Ob Qm coocert stage, Its a rood rvy In rafaraoc to a woman or shaoy reputation, It a another story altogether Tuesday moraine oa the floor of the Utah State Senate the word "professional" garnered some LITTERS TO assured. A party support ranking past In county ogvern-me- at opens vast bor lions for the politically ambitious. .Uaklnf the job particularly to the brave tantaluinf at --heart, the new man will walk into a delicate bd potentially rewardlnf situation. Marvin Jenson made his first bid for county office two ago by boldly G. Larson In a Democratic primary alec tl on. As the incumbent, Mr. L arson must have found the defeat parthard-foug- ht icularly bitter. ill If erupts again, the new am an will Inherit the bal Ill-w- choice portfolios with hie former rival. Tha juicy roads md bridges department and responsibility for the sheriff's oftce wll ba two of the assignments up for grabs. Just who will gwt the Job, however, Is anybody s guess. Tbs string of rumored contendere is growing by the minute. Those seeking the third seat ut the sommlsslon table face two ? .y K Tka Mmy JM Witt Uc &! 40 . Holes For Sale! by WiBUcm I'm gonna buy thole. If snot every day that one gets a chance bole.. ..but alas, the federal government has to purchase given me the opportunity . a golden opportunity to buy a bole. The government, as you well know, has recently deactivated the airforce base at Roswell, New Mexico and surrounding this strategic base are twelve huge boles The holes were dug at government expense to bouse missiles. These wonderful underholes were used erwly....you know??? Just crawly and all sx cited and litground silos and now they re tle beads of sweat pooped out e$pty. They're just sitting all over me . I just had to e ...these beautiful govfour lettv sit down ernmental holes . empty Giy typewriter and send off an imgantic yawning, gaping abyss s mediate communique to the .. waiting for me went to bead man 1 mean Each bole costs tberovern the top daggle 1 wtcAs the Semeet something like all million dollars to dig They cretary of Defense,' Robert Strange Me Namart a letter go down some ISO feet aid at least SO feet across. Doesn't urgently requesting what in the Sam Htll be planned to do that aound like a wonderful with those holes out there. bole? And I offered him my bid. Well, I don't know bow you All right, so I didn't offer feel about hotel ...but I get $11 million for his old holes. very axel ted about them When I saw that the government was No, but I did offer him what I considered to be a fair price gonna deactivate them I got all for them. You know how It is with 'deactivated and 'phased out government surplus!!! ' So I m waiting now for my answer to the rather frwtic lea I male to Robert.. Mr Me am ar a. What if he lay a, Yeah, let the kid have 'em Wouldn't that be Just too much??? I yUblUM by Greet Weetera could start right sway on my News, toe., USS East 4S0C plan to bring back the original north, p.o. Bon mm, amt birnity to the boles. First of Lehe City, CUK NOT, Phase all, I would put up huge bill m-tM- t. boards outside key metropolMember of VU itan areas advertising my new Btske Press Association. economic endever "Come tee MANAGING EDITOR my holes.. 2S cants a head JOftN B. LCNETOND I II make a million! Entered e Merced elui matThee I could offer separate ter at toe poet ode et Belt boles for grotv Small politLake City, CUk, edr toe ical party could pkld secret c xocus s down set of Marek , Wf. there and no threat being Invaded by the every Ttoredwy. oct- - press Or Individuals who Inst for a few day s solitude CDS CARRIER DC LTTE IT could rent ooe far long an -00 AREA SI per year that wonthey wanted Ot'MCremON RITE WTTB-I1 derful ? Gen, heps Me IlCABBIES DCUYIIT mira writes me aooa . -AREA- - - - M 00 per peer u tbr . Body UmtaiA REVM7 1 . Pwb-l.eh- ed d msccmaR rate d N ,'fa't u y t shirt to even if no mailing was Involved, was becoming too expensive. The League of Women Voters of Utah is fully aware of how costly it Is to print and distribute renting materials, and Is accordingly In sympathy with the purpose of the change. In the course of a legislative session, the League tries to follow, with some care and to keep Its members Informed on the progress of legislation on a variety of subjects Included in the League's program. We therefore Invested $25 In the subscription service. Larson. major hurdles X$eet4 farmer sessions it was tha custom of the state leg-- el supply free copies of proposed legislation on request This has now been replaced by a subscription servlet, under which, for $25, one la entitled to have mailed to him copies of all bills Introduced in aitber House. KNo doubt tbs reason far the change waethatfree service, In First is tha county Democratic central committee, Instructed by law to certify six men from which the two remaining commissioners may choose. Next, of course, the candidate must win the okay of both Mr. Jenson and Mr. start reluctant to proves Dear Sin V ance of power as on Important Issue. At the same time, ba could reasonably expect important department assignments if commission chairman Jenson Should they fail to agree, the Governor would make the selection from central committee recommendations. Central committee chairman Wayne L. Black said Wednec day that tha group would convene as toon as Is convent entlv possible to pick six candidates. ' Ive beard several names mentioned he said, "but until they apply lbs all Just Idle talk. Will cCommisslooeraJenacn and Larson be able to settle on s final choice? lb a do reflection If they have different viewpoints," chairman Black said, "but both art experienced political leaders. I have every confidence they U be able to make a joint appointment of the third man The Democratic party s clean sweep in November actually complicates the job. There are no anxious losers left over from the general election to reward. The eventual eventual appointee could easily come from the fringes of the Democratic circla. The Jab Is wide open, Mr. Black said, Anybody and everybody Is welcome to submit sn application. Plant To Move (Continued from Page 0 valued In excess of $390,000 began at the present site this week. Repairing and trucking the machinery to the west tide will cost $15,000 and taka an estimated 60 days to accomplish. Voicing strong approval of the county change was John M Wallace Jr., chairman of Cottonwood, Incorporated. "We re very happy and delighted the plant is moving, aid Mr. Wallace. "We abd a suit against the plant but lost the case last year,' be continued. "Now we hope the county will see to It the area Is recontoured. ' Although residents Ire got county officials hot under the collar, their constant protests bad little to do with the plant leaving kapf residents had nothing to do with the switch, vowed Commissioner C. JV. Brady, Jr., la charge of the county roads rad bridges de- partment. "A mulch plant is sat as nice as a $60, 000 home on a- -, aalch Boulevard, be added, "bet people meat reallsen gravel pit Is ae economy to (be cowty." The commissioner said the move wll cut costs ty com- bining tbs malch plant with the west -- aide pave! pit Lauarence Utah's Republican congressman, have Just been appointed to posts on the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, through which the bill must pass oo its way to floor actioa. Senator Moss, a member of the public land subcommittee of the Senate Interior Commihas promised early ttee, bearings on the bill In the Senate and this week said he anticipated that the subcommittee will hold public hearings on the measure In Utah sometime this spring One of these is Senator Moss' now --familiar proposal to establish a Great Salt Lake Monument on the National western part of Antelope Island. Other bills introduced in the Senate and worthy of consideration by the House, Include the bill proposing a Golden Spike National Monument at In Box Elder Promontory County; that to establish a Glen Canyoa National Recreation Area surrounding laka Powell in the countlei of Car-fieKane and San Juan, and the ooe to create a national recreation area surrounding Flaming Gorge Reservoir In legislators here, Utah and Wyoming. Moss has also lntorduced a bill to clarify a complicated THE EDITOR question of land ownership at This Is The Place Moou-me- nt State Park. The bill would transfer title of the some 4? acres to the Utah State Park andRecreatianCo-mmlsslo- n, which has managed the park since 1957 tmder assignment by the Utah Legislature. The question arose xs to the Legislature s authority to do this, the land being originally covered by a 1945 federal government permit to waits arrival of the bill in the normal course, the meaUtah. sure may go through third reading In either house and be finally disposed of. COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS Now, we have no use for copy of bill unless we can have In addition to tbelr Interior it In time to tell ourmembers about It so that they. In turn, Committee slots, King and can tell their legislators bow they feel about it ff they are Burton each received other so Inclined . A copy of a bill received too late Is so much assignments as the House orwaste paper - and we accumulate waste papa at a frlgbten-rat- e ganised last week. The Demoof speed. who cratic Congressman, cannot even anticipate the delay by going up and picking four Save upwhen heyears seniority 19 our copies at the Capitol. The price of a subscription resigned to run does not include duplicates, so if our copies have Just been for the Senate was assigned s it In the mall, we have no choice but to possess oour souls spot on the Government Operand perhaps futility. patience ations Committee. This sigThe other shortcoming relates to the fact that many nalled the predictable end of persons may be Interested in only a single legislative prohis lmprbbable try far s place posal, or perhaps only a few but certainly not In all. Copies on the powerful Appropriaof Individual blUf are, to my knowledge, simply not available; Committee. tions Burton, If they are, we have not been so advised. But $25 does seem entering his second term, was a rather outrageous price to pay far one copy of a single given a desirable seat on the bill, or even for copies of ten bills, where nothing can be Agriculture Committee. (Continued on Page 6) Burton, o ld, League Aroused: State Tardy Delivering Legislative Info Brady Moves Up Pm Representative side-tracke- intriguing connotations It became, in effect, a slog an a slogan being a ward or phrase whose very pronmatcemeat has an Immediate m afloat impact rising almost above scrutiny The occasion was a debate on the frequency d legislative sessions. The mafic ward Issued from both sides of the aisle to stgiport the arfument artnst annual sessions. Two able, conscientious senators Democrat Frank Brownlnf from Ofden and Republican Charles the spec tor of special Interest with the onslaufht of professionalism. Welch of Salt Lake-f- ear Senator Brownlnf feels that Utahn's are neither ready to accept annual sessions, more pay for the lert slaters, or professionalism. , what, we wander, is so bad about professionalism la politics? While we have the hlfhest retard for the men and women who assemble every year to make Utah's laws at a personal sacrifice, and while were opposed as anybody to feeding at the public trough -- - we don't mind paylnf for value received. Professional politicians? Perhaps that's exactly what we need; Professionals who make fovwrameot a career and caa prosper by doinf so. It seems to as quite desirable to be represented by men who are committed to public office and must perform well or lose their post at the next election Would the professional politician fall prey to special interests? No more or less so than the amateur. when the votes are counted, the man Elections aren't won by cater inf to one or two special froups with the majority is the ooe who takes office We ree that Utah isn't ready for a full time leflslature But we also concur with Senator Eyrcn Hampton s observation that there Is too much quantity and too much complexity for any legislator to lntelllfently absorb mid difest in 0 days Utah's fovernment is big business, and for the board of directors to meet once sod project the needs for two years is, we believe, archaic. The annual session is a dead issue for now But the alternate budfet session, embodied in SJR 12 and proposed by the Governor should be passed. (Continued from representatives of the state, land hoard and Interior offiwith productive recials, sults. The bill should be helped by the fact that both King and Our brief experience has revealed to us at least two serious shortcomings In the system. One Is that the copies of the bills are evidently allowed to accumulate up to a point, and than are ssntoutlnbnlk This means that while the sUbaerftMr t 0 0 t 0 UTAHNS IN TOWN There were other Utahns 11 In town for the Inauguration be KV by SHERMAN LLOYD (Continued from Page b Court, some U. S. Supreme legislative leader are saying there will be no voluntary : of the Utah State Legislature. It will choose rather to have a three-ma- n federal court do the job by force. Granted that the pr -lent si tuition la Insupportable as a permanent proposition because It results la of some rural population. However, In this period before amendment to the UnltedStatesCon-stitutio- n, there is no alternative to reapportionment and this creates understandable bitterness In the rural areas. Again, In the matter d of the two congressional districts, many rural legislators want the Salt Lake County congressman to . rmweseet some rural coimties also. Thera exists steeling that a congressman from Salt Lake woo't concern himself with rural problems. This Is largely a mis --conception conIt creates rural-urba- n --- but flict. Still another rural-urba- n skirmish could develop from to repeal the any attempt Laka County) will be required to prevent open wounds detrimental to the Interests of all Utahns. TAPE RECORDING In 1959, the Utah House of Representatives supported an from the Utah State Historical Society and began tape recording all sessions. The senate turned down the appeal partly an the ground that such recording would Inhibit discussion and debate by those Tba though possessed of good brains and common sense, had less than golden tongues. , Now, six years later, the senate has also agreed and every word uttered on the floor will now be tape recorded for future generations appeal Thus, two records are now available In each house. One Is the daily journal whose are so sketchy as to be of little or no value other than to officially record motions and votes. Total tape recording, 00 the other hand will leave records cf value to historians and perhaps to lawproving legislative yers intent, to students and hobbyists but will be too voluminous for ready use by the law. The repealer Is part of the Democratic program and supported by the Governor, but many user. rural Democrats could be general national Congress, the to expect oppose the repeal. every word spoken has the op In 1961 , a minor miracle in the state senate, when the Democratic majority was xlbe to unite all Democrats, both urban and rural, back of aa "agency shop ' bill passed the senate, but failed la the bouse, where the ocrats could not produce tjoc.' load pf lmotu om Qe ;arrr ocrets could eat prodace Oils kind of unity In the larger body between the Bitterness rural and urban legislators could nm much deeper this that existing between the members of apgntoar political parties and it would not be connection healthy type This Is Theft responsible and effective leadership ta txXh Houses (which ire both led by legislators from Saif rlght-to-wo- rk u d LW portunity of correcting hla remarks fr om the galley proofs before they are Anally printed. This means that dls -- arranged thoughts spoken in shattered may appear as grimmer, rich, beautiful proee In the written record. Members of tLw Utah Leg- islature do not have this opportunity of correction thus, the tape recorded history of the Utah sessions will be much more human and much saltier though perhaps not so at times as a scholarly corrected record would per- mit Between the sketchy dally journal and the complete recording, a more helpful recon more helpful a cording, record would be an accurate and comprehensive record of the proceedings In greater depth than the present journal, but trimming off the which will be present in the recordings. THE GOVERNOR'S PROGRAM, cMAng TAX for increases in personal Income and corporate franchise taxes, some others, Is not plus unique to Utah. Former GovJohn ernor Anderson of rnor John Anderson of Kansas points out that during the past 10 years, while there have been two general Federal tax reductions, both state and local taxes have rlseo consistently. As an example, we can point ton bars to Utah that the farmer two percent sales tax was raised by a half cant In 1961. and at the same time local government expenditure was government was authorised to levy another half cent. In 1963, the sales tax again went up another half cent A few years ago, the severance tax on oil went up from ooe percent to two percent. Governor Anderson points out that in 1963, total state and local government expenditure was $64 billion annually, whereas the federal budget for civilian purposes was only $30 billion, although nearlv $100 billion over -- all. By 1970, he states the total state and local government expenditure will reach $ 1 20 billion annually and will surpass the combined military and civilian federal budge which by that time will be $110-1billion. - sides the some 300 members of the Tabernacle Choir. I these others, Though presume, were less noticeable and, I hope, had an easier time getting here. Many visiting Utahns were among the 115 guests at a mostly Democratic breakfast held In the New Senate Office Building on the morning cf the Inauguration. Some of the guests: President Hugh B. Brown, First Counsellor to Presldmt David O. MacKay, of the Church of the Latter-Da- y Saints; David S. Turner, former president of the Utah AFL-CIGeorge Hatch, president of KUTV; David Trevlthlc, postmaster of Salt Lake City; Robert H. Htnkley, of Eden, prominent broadcasting Industry executive; Air Force Major General Jack Thomas, new of Washington; Mrs. Esther Peterson, assistant secretary of Labor; Douglas Simpson, a Utah farmers union official; Wilfred Moyle Burton; president of the L. D. S. Mission in the Eastern Atlantic states and of course, Governor Calvin Rampton, and Democrats Moss and King with their ' Wives. 15 Although Utah' Demo- cratic administration is advocating a spending program entirely in line with campaign promises, the warnings of excessive txxatioo are coming from the Democrat appointed by the Senate Democratic President to be chairman of the key commute of the legislature the appropriations committee He Is Senator Ernest Mantes of Tooele Senator a snoeeerfal acMantes, countant turned best seaman vas once claimed by Republi-coHa first commanded attention when, during his first session, be moved Into the Hotel Utah Motor Lodge rather than return to nearby Tooele each night, and la his Lodge room worked at the legislative books from early morning ntil late every eight. Any legislator who warts to stay 19 and study state government with a hard working, dedicated sad experienced student, can always Cad the light burning late in the M antes room. ns PLUS FOR TOUREM called many times of tourist program promoting Utah In the nation's capital.. I'm still waiting. But while I wait, there are some consolation prixes floating around. The Utah float. Inaugural parade variety, for one. But until the real thing comes along, I'll get xlor with this bit of Information, tar which I thank the office of Senator Wallace Bennett The November Issue of "Vacation Land America'' put out by the U S. Travel Service featured Utah with a cover photo. In color, of Dead Horse Point, and 1 story inside Among the lovely pictures Inside there were shots of This Is The Place M ooument, Southern Utah's canyon country, and Delicate Arch Pretty good. Wide readerGreat pictures Bat, ship there a pinch and I guess there always will be The msgailne, printed in German, was distributed in Germany, Ewitxerland and Austria. Settling' Ski Utah! I have 2