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Show Review Editorials M?inREVEW : February 4 , 1965 fnpr To The Victor . Washington by t - The Highest Exam Grade spring rituals, out. The abuses that lead to flower funds should be eliminated, but not by going overboard. The real answer lies with a higher respect for top caliber elected officials. Which comes back to greater participation in politics ... from everybody. Why Tackle Madison Avenue This Session ? nal 5 Elected Growl Over Merit Proposal (Continued From Page One) ence of a reasonable order, misconduct, inefficiency or Inability to perform duties satisfactorily. Appeal from dismissal is provided. The bill also would attempt to halt political coercion by stating' no . county officer or employee shall coerce, attempt directly or indirectly to coerce, command, advise, or solicit any to officer or employee lend or to contribute any part of his salary or compensation or anything else of value . . . for any political purposes." . . .... SALT LAKE COUNTY Com- chairman Marvin Jenson recommended a more mission (Continued From Page One) la though to be still opposed to bending, and this la proving a catalyst tor those who are opposed to this type ct state debt. The state building board's recommendations concerning needed state buildings have been most effective In sup- as have In Srt at bonding, citizens on the Board of Regents at the University of Utah. The building board states that the state Is presently in need of $88 million for necessary construed oo. The board has designated the most crldcal $85 million needs In accordance with the Governor's request. cent lf The present sales tax which is earmarked one-ha- for building, produces about $9.5 million per year. There are those who say this expenditure of nearly $20 million per will effectively meet the state s critical needs, without a crash bonding and building program. The proponents of bonding contend, on the other hand, that the state is actually falling behind, rather than catching up, and further delay will also result in Increased expenditures due to expected Inflationary trends in future years. THIS YEAR'S LIQUOR -- BY -THE - DRINK - BUT - IN-- A -- BOTTLE bill, is probably the sessions biggest conversation piece. Every session has a bill which is easily uncontroversial or derstood, spicy, and debated by virtually everybody, and for most citizens this one bill becomes the be-a- ll and end-a- ll of the entire legislature. In the rather dim past, the piece has been a bill to leg- alize betting on horse races or to place special taxes on chain stores and, of more recent years, Sunday Closing legislation to outlaw trading stamps. This year it is the inconceived bill to geniously amend the liquor laws to allow for the sale of a drink in a bottle, adding a bottle tax of two cents for the benefit of the uniform school fund Principal arguments for the new legislation are: (1) the present legislation is either too confusing, too Lttle respected, or too meagerly supported to be properly enforced. and (Z) maximum beneficial expansion of Utah s tourist business, so important to the states basic economy, depends upon private invest - that recreational areas, which substantial Investors ' can be offered more encouragement by the possibility of profit from liquor sales. The new law introduced into the Senate would not allow liquor sale outside the original container. It would, in effect, merely enable licensed to sell liquor at retail (purchased at wholesale from state liquor stores) in single drink sized bottles. In the case of wine, the entire bottle could be sold at the table. Since this column is written nearly a week before publication, it is Impossible to predict what developments might have occurred on this potentially incendiary legislation, but for the first few days after Introduction at least, it was significant to note that objections on grounds of religion and morals had not been officially announced by of recognized repersons ligious authority. day-to-d- ay presents the area in which is located the former NavalSup-pl- y where Depot complex, freeport will have major Impact, is handling the key bill on the floor. He is also cosponsor of a bill introduced by of Tooele Senator Mantes which would be more restrictive than the original Barlow bill The more restrictive bill would make an apportionment of the January 1 inventory on the basis of percentage of sales ordinarily to be made outside Utah, and there would be no exemption of the percentage to be sold in Utah, even though all of the specific January 1 inventory might move across the state hue It is estimated this would save about of the inwhich would ventory tax otherwise be lost The idea of freeport which is designed to help Utah compete more favorable with other states in competition for new industry, was so well com mumrated to and accepted by" one-thi- rd of the merit system to apply in some professional areas such as auditors and building inspectors but he drew the line at a blanket program. Complaining that the proposed bill is too broad, he said, "If you get to the point where comyou appoint a merit mission and they make the decisions, then you should the merit commission and let them appoint the county commissioners. He questioned how prospects could be tested for the numerous laboring jobs in county government. Freeze Jobs, he said, and all you do when you change county commissioners is move two or three people out erf office. When people elect a comthey charge him missioner, with responsibility for doing a good job. He cant take the responsibility without authority to make changes. If I were selfish about It Mr. Jenson said, now would be the time to start a merit system since almost all county employees are Democrats. Mr. Jenson says he wishes to preserve the concept of local government as the closest and most responsive to the people. Mrs Clyde B. Jensen 2345 East 3700 South George Housewife Carpenter to restrict it has to be made legislator of unusual independence. Pro Utah, Inc., has not announced which of the bills It supports, although It has given official approval to the widely supported urban renewal idea with which this legislature will deal. NOT MUCH IF ANYTHING, is happening yet to the preconversation, legislature Two FREEPORT LEGISLATION was approved by Utah citizens who voted the Constitutional amendment last November. However, it is up to the legislature to adopt the specific language which will exempt from the property tax all those goods within the state on the tax assessment date of January 1, which will move across state lines, within one year. Senator Haven J. Barlow of north Davis County, who re- limited version by a in by Goverparticipated nor Rampton, pertaining to change of the state's election laws. Utah has both a convention and primary election to cull out candidates before the final November elections. Most other states have either one or the other, but pot both. It would seem that Democrats could be served fully as well by the elimination erf one or the other In Utah, but that is not now a very good political possibility, so the responsibility is to make the present system as workable as possible. widely-hel- d Bill Moulton 4143 Marquis Way Salesman Yes, mainly because they're unrealistic. They hinder the traffic of people into the state who like to drink. 1117 No, I don't. I think a change promote more drink- would ing. . East Boswell 7200 South I'm against liquor. I don't we should have liquor where you can get it easily. think miscon- ceptions about political campaigns are: (1) campaign expenditures can be completely controlled by legislation, and (2) length of time In which a serious candidate campaigns ca n be controlled by legislation As to the first, the expenditures which are seen by the public, like an iceberg, do not show the whole picture. Leg- OPINION, PLEASE? DO YOU THINK UTAH'S LIQUOR LAWS SHOULD BE CHANGED? L wsi.nrv.mwim to 50 percent. bill which, reportedly, stands a "pretty good chance is the one to allow full tax deduction of exploration expenditures by mining industries, eliminating the current law limiting deductions of expenses for this purpose to a total of $400,000, with an annual limitation of $100,000. A 3.7 MILLION FOR UTAH Should President Johnson s proposed $1.5 billion education program be enacted this year without any significant cutting by Congress, it will mean an estimated $3.7 million per year for the state of Utah. According to estimates made available by the Office of Education, the major portion of this aid would come from Title I of the bill, which would provide about $2.4 million to Utah for the education of children of low income fam- ilies. THE REMAINING PORTION would break down this way: about $700,000 for supplemei tary education centers and services, about $600,000 for school library resources and instructional materials, and slightly over $100,000 for use by the State Department of ed died. Another difficulty confronting supporters of the bill this year is the sound performance of the U S. economy. In con- trast to their really sorry siAs with most federal aid tuation several years ago, the programs, this money wiU go two industries are generally directly to the state departstrong this year. When things ment concerned, in this case are going well, it is just education, which willthendis-burs- e that much more difficult to the money to Individual school districts which apply pass this kind of legislation. In fact, the demand for zinc for aid with the assurance is strong enough this year that that the funds will be used for a new move has been made improving the quality at eduto authorize release of about cation in schools serving 150,000 short tons of this areas metal from the national stockThus Title 1, the hear to( the pile for sale on the open marJohnson plan, is an application ket. Though there is some of the impacted aid formula supporters with a new set of standards: dispute among over the amount of zinc needinstead of the number of chiled to alleviate the short term dren from families of workers shortage, the prospects for on government installations, this measure are good. it is the number of children Not so for a measure refrom poor families. The standards set for school questing the release of 100,000 tons of copper from the stockdistricts applying for this aid pile for loan to primary proare not highly exclusive. Unducers. Even basically symder the plan any public school pathetic persons are hesitant district that had 100 "poverty to release the copper for loan, stricken' students or whose as they point out that a change student body was at least 3 in the price of copper could percent composed of such stuproduce either a squeeze on dents would be eligible for the producers (should prices grants. It is estimated that go up- - or a windfall for prithis includes from 85 to 90 vate industry (should prices percent of public school dismove downward.) tricts. Another perennial measure which came up again this SOME ADDITIONAL INTEyear is a Wyoming-sponsore- d RESTING statistics connected bill to Increase to 90 percent with the proposed bill came the amount of mineral royalfrom the officeof Utah'sDem-ocrati- c ties returned to the states Senator Frank E. from mineral lands controlled Moss this week. An ingenious by the federal eovernment. Moss aide figured that the more then $3 million injection of federal aid will constitute between a 3 and 4 percent addition to what Utah is now spending on schools. Even more Ingeniously the aide, citing an authoritative foundation study of state and federal taxation, pointed out that the bill would greatly aid low income states such as Utah by returning to the state almost twice as much money Want to do something as Utah's taxpayers will pay nice for a tiny tot? in federal taxes for the proIf that youngster is going to have a first birthday gram. has Moss, incidentally, soon, plan now tj underline signed up with a number of the date by including his Senators to photograph in a brand-ne- w J other the bill in the Senate. Confeature of the Rocky Moun-- 1 tacted at his office early this tain Review. week, he predicted "prompt It's free! Starting Feb- ruary 11, each week s crop-- ; action on the measure. Subcommittee hearings on the bill of southeast Salt Lake one-- g year -- olds will appear in the x will start next Tuesday. low-inco- Rcvieiv To Spotlight I j Review. If you have a child whose birthday falls between Feb-- 1 ruary 7 through February f 13, bring the tot to 2278 East 4800 South directly f j across from the Review of- Lice for a tree photo- - ) graph No appointment is f I necessary He may not notice it new but in years hence f he 11 thank you for includ-- 1 ing him among southeast Salt Lake's better known! citizens at an early age. I And, of course, relatives be interested in a I t might 1 clipping or two. ; Rocky Mountain ( I are incurred in primary election campaigning, in which candidates cannot help but provoke expenses turmoil. The 1363 legislature moved the up from primary election y Utah September to August, winch was a step forward, but major expenditures of little general public benefit are still made over the many months of the primary campaign. Most states having primary election systems get their primaries over witli by June at In such case, the latest. both the political party and its candidates can wage meaningful campaigns against the other party, and the senseless waste of long 'prim ary cam- - creased A SIMILAR BILL was introduced in the 88th Congress, and in the Senate for example, it was reported out favorably by the predominantly western Interior Committee. But the bill, because it is also a tariff measure, then had to go before and eastern-orientFinance Committee, where it i dar intra-part- the Western States Association of Land Com- i sympathetic missioners, group if there is one to be found, could agree only that the state share in royalties be in- Tiny Tots islation might control newspaper advertising for example, but cannot control the vital expenses of organizing and personal campaigning. As to the second, politics is a full time job just like any other profession and any responsible candidate for major office knows that campaigning is not controlled by the calenMajor fund ) Even protection for domestic producers of lead and zinc by tying import quotas to the performance of the American economy. When the economy is performing well and there is an increased demand for the two metals, more imports are allowed. However, should the decline, economy import quotas will go down too, thus making what backers call "a reasonable portion of the domsecure for estic market domestic producers. ds bill which would virtually eliminate tv and radio advertising for tobacco and alcoholic beverages has been placed in the hopper in the state House of Representatives. Its HB 83, and we think it confuses the function of law and law making bodies. It would limit any tobacco or alcoholic beverage advertising (including beer) on tv to one still picture per minute, without so much as a nudge. The history of governmental attempts to control sin is dismal, but the attempts never cease. We make no case for or against these products because, we feel they are a matter of personal choice and conviction. We think that would also be an admirable stand for the legislature. have already been introduced The flexible import quota bill for the lead and zinc industries is perhaps the most familiar metals measure in the works. It has the backing of almost all the western legislators, including the Utah delegations in (he House and Senate But it is opposed by powerful eastern and midwestern forces in Congress and even its supporters admit the bill will face "rough going. The bill, in effect, provides Its an old story . . . abuses in the system bring reform, which in turn introduce new abuses, because the reformers go too far. SB 87, the proposed County Employees Merit System bill looks to us like a case in point. Our primary objection is that if you elect a man to fulfill a responsibility, he should have the authority to do it in the best way he sees fit . . . or else dont elect him. We agree that a mass turnover in county jobs is bad, it means retraining and considerable expense. We also agree that getting rid of good qualified people just because they belong to the other party is often wrong. But many elected officials have caught on to this fact. And an elaborate system of examinations falls far short of the goal of getting the best man have found this for the job. Both businesses and husband seeking co-e- A li it is not amended tobnng the percentage due to the states down, to say that this measure faces rough going is a wild understatement This is because raising the percentage to 90 percent would require elimination of the reclamation fund. (States now get 37 12 percent, the federal government 10 percent, and the rest goes into the reclamation WesWASHINGTON, DC. tern legislators and the mining industries are guiding for the annual congressional battles over a series of bills to help the industries And the list of measures is sure to grow as the year moves on But several major bills, some of them brought up every year with the regularity of . . non-crimi- Ben Forg ey ? su wqji Mrs Lynn W Brown 2877 Delsa Drive Mgr, Skyline High cafeteria No, because Salt Lake should remain without liquor over the bar We shouldn't be l.ke othpr states We were organized differently and our whole background is d.fferent from other states, so we Mrs W 3683 South A. Clark Laurel Crest St. Housewife state yes, it's nearly of prohibition Too many people are getting around the law and we re not getting the tax revenue we should collect " Cottonwood Mall don't know There should probably be sore changes but I restrictions too I think selling small bottles in restaru-an- ts is okay. Published by Great Weeteri News, Inc , 2265 East 4CK South, P.0 Box 17J77, Sal Lake City, Utah 84U7, Phow 6 Member of Utal 278-286- State Press Association, MANAGING EDITOR JOHN B. LUNSrORD Entered at second class mat at the post office at Sal Lake City, Utah, under th act of March 9, 1878. Pub. Uahed every Thursday. ter 3853 South 1030 East Mgr., Flagr Brothers "Definitely a Joe Childress REHEW Coerce employees into to the 'flower contributing fun'1? Thats never done . do it again. one thing weve and well never SUBSCRIPTION RATE OUT. SIDE CARRIER DEUVER1 AREA - - 3 00 per yeai SUBSCRIPTION RATE WITH IN CARRIER DELTVER1 AREA- - - - -- 83 00 -- nr vi |