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Show -- TTi' A r , 'rM i w - p r S LEAVITT TOPPLES, GARDNER STILL SANS o w way The county attorneys office formally settled one point of contention between warring factions in the ty It building city-coun- ud Jeiita ttpiore itretai, utldpilc trouble spots when flood SAURY 'RacerA ainst Sprin gT haw Salt Lake Countys flood control program was officially declared leaderless yesterday but efforts to prevent vater damage this spring picked up speed any- Csrdser i '$ & Ut. ruled that commission chairman Marvin G. Jenson does have the right to fire the county's flood control director but a quorum of the commission is required to name a new man. The ruling means flood working to clear and clean mountain streams Tasks are handled as recommended by the flood priorities committee, he said The priorities committee is the other disputed point between Mr. Jenson and director Ray Leavitt topples from his precarious Meanwhile, heir perch apparent David Gardner is wading the streams sans salary. It's not likely that Mr Gardner or anyone-- will be put on the payroll until a third man is appointed to break the deadlock between Mr. Jenson and fellow commissioner William G Larson Jenson Commissioner said he expects work clearing the Jordan River channel will be completed within the 30 --day deadline set to beat the spring thaw. Also, he said, crews are Mr I arson ioner I ar.-o-n citizens Commisssays a 50-m- an advisory committee should be directing flood control activMr Jenson mainities tains the priorities group was named to replace the advisory board With the demise of Leavitt and the priorities committee run ning the show, Commiss- ioner Larson is apparently divorced from all contact with emergency flood control efforts THE STATE is also getting into the act although it doesn't really have the money, it's standing by to advise and cordinate And the U S Army might also to the tune of help $50,000 per stream if necessary. Army Corps of Engineers W. F. representative McGregor thinks, "The critical projects are the Cottonwood streams. Get ting water through them to the Jordan Is the big prob- lem." He said all local resour- ces must be exhausted be- fore federal help would be available. THE COUNTY PLANNING Beard will be asked to help avert future flood crisis, Commissioner Jjaeon said Real estate this week. developers In some areas earned his wrath. He said in sevdel arwaC devel- opers hai eoverwtAatural ravines oTepesSt bridges so SMll they clog, ' heavy flood waters. tewewe t NES 278-286- Circulation & ADS 278-286- 0 6 t: ,! rmoiii llatrh 4, Southeast Salt Lake's Community Weekly Newspaper 2265 East 4800 South Vol. X No. 9 llOTD The two most historic of the 1965 Legislature will be (1) the official entry of Utah Into bonded debt, and of the (2) the Congressional Districts. History has also been written by the action of presenting to the people at the next general the proposition of whether to call a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution The Legislature would be also making a footnote to history by the Legislature again, this time In accordance with the decree of the U.S. Supreme Court. nts In the sweet name of charity, the endless tussle for the public's buck resumed this morning before the Salt Lake City Commission. The city's governing board scheduled the public session to study proposals for halting or limiting fund solicitations within the city The question was dredged up again recently when city commissioners then quickly first denied reinstated permission for a - INTO TJTBT WIT made easier by the fact that GOING virtually every other State is already in debt, and the entreaties of the various State institutions was at last despite acknowpeople ledgement by many close to the facts that, though slowly, Utah is catching up on the backlog of building needs at the present rate of spending The final coup was delivered by the endorsement by the Utah Legislative Conference of Business and Industry, the basic roots of which are Republican. There have actually been a few proposals before this session of the Utah state legislature to decrease taxes! F ew of them have any chance, except freeport and this tsnt "golhg to mean teach to the" average man In the way of direct savings on his annual return Most of toe bills regarding taxes and there are some 50 of them talk about Increases. The most Important one, with toe greatest chance of pasgagu Is House BUI U, The n would (Continued on Pare or divided according to toe dictates of a budget committee. Groups affiliated with toe large national research orhowever, say ganisations, doesn't produce group-giving ng oom-numi- GEA Protests t . I Extra Work Day DEMOCRACY IN ACTION Becky Joan Ricci and Fred Shepherd watch Utah legislatures run the state government. The Granite Education Association flexed Its muscles s bit Tuesday night, March 2, winning an extra day-e- ff far teacher and bringing the nujnbey cf school days down to toe state required minimum. . As toe result of protest from toe classroom teacher! organisation, toe Granite School Board amended tts school to allow one extra day of vacation at calendar for 1965-6- 6 Christmas and bring to total teaching days down to 180. Tbs 'GTNyiilected .because the district had tentatively schedule, v - days of school this veir. wtlls Bis stats board of education- requires a minimum, of 180 days In which students are in actual attendance. t is the last of a series dealing with the facts and fables cf Utah's Folliquor regulations of lowing is a round-u- p laws governing the sale and consumption of alcohol, what s happened elsewhere and the opinions cf groups who have studied the problem During the twenty -- f.fth century B C a Chinese emperor dictated a complete prohibition against alcoholic be- verages Disobedience cost the loss of one head He did not succeed Liquor came back to China as it has. in one form or another, to most every society and to every country Atempts to control it watch over it or completely abolish it continue The great experiment in our country bega with noble nopes m 1918 and failed with a lesson learned I At Jeopardy Halted Youngsters from senior, Junior and elementary schools throughout toe state have watched the democratic process Inaction. Taking their tour of toe capitol Monday, and Tuesday, March 1 and 2. were approximated 900 seventh and eighth graders from Olympus Junior High School. Listening attentively, students and their teachers visited the legislature and caught the hotly contested debate on capital punishment Edward C Campbell, state guide for toe past four years, explained the history of the 49 -- year old capitol building and showed the teenagers a sample of the majestic structure's 210 rooms ' The students are always concluded Mr Campbell Parents of Granite School District students well-behav- - plaintive cry F ather, dear father, come home to us now-- ' -- - set up a complex series of liquor control laws They vary from complete freedom to prohibition in one state, M where it only works in certain sections The tourist-rich Mississippi Gulf Coast are sports opn here in direct violation of state law pi, In the mid-thirti- es the pro- blems were thrashpd out and 39 of the state legislatures nea'ly avoided the nasty decisions by creatine a new wrinkle called local option The 1935 Itah Legislature's battle was influenced bv the unique conditin of a large majority cf the population cf the state believing liquor was sinful on tne oasis of a religious doctrine Utahn's generally "were convinced that complete prohibition would not work, having been the thirty-thir- d and clinching state in ratifying national prohibition repeal As a result a compromise evolved with the multiple aims of preventing the return cf the saloon, encourtemperance, avoiding aging bootlegging, and increasing the public coffers At least one or more of these motives apply m all the other states to varying degrees Seventeen states have monopoly over liquor sales, control mostly because liquor is cognized as a good source of In eleven public revenue states, sale or commonly liquor -- by -- thedrink -- - is prohibited These include four monopoly or stae controlled distribution states. Utah NorthCarohna, Virginia and West Virginia and seven license states in which pack re- age liquor is sold by indivi- dual businesses: Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas The monopoly states are generally along the Canadian border or in or near toe deep South North They include Carolina, Utah, Virginia, West Vermont, Virginia, Michigan, Montana, Pennsylvania, Wash ogton, Ohio, Oregon, Marne. Wyoming, Idaho and Alabama states have provision for local option-whe- re counties or municipalities may vote on whether they wish to have liquor sold From the 10 year or not period from 1353 to 1363, 9,701 such elections were held in the 33 local option states effecting 48 million people Of those elections, 35 million in drmkine areas decided Thirty-nin- e :...i 1 Double Olympus Junior High scholar tour ststr legislature. TOPIC its close the individual states in an attempt to forever- still that in 1933 ' u After Prohibition , Compromises This . Christmas vacation will begin at toe close of school Wednesday, December 22, inorstead of December 23 iginally scheduled. Z) SUMMARY OF UTAHS HOTTEST 4 t i Southeast students are learning history the easy way by watching it happen. Since legislature convened in January an average of 500 students per day have filed through the hallowed halls of toe state capitol conflicts had telling effect as did the advice of the present Congressmen, Republican Lawrence Burton of the first district and Democrat David King of the second The prospects of both have been Improved by the action of the Legislature It can be said therefore to please both Deand Republicans, mocrats particularly in the Districts presently represented by the increase toe income tax from between one to five per cent to between two to seven and one-ha- lf tier which THE STORY OF RE is not strictly a one, as most political partisan of the major decisions of the session have been involved political factors to be sure, but both parties were involved in the porural-urba- door-to-do- Southeast Students Watch Laws Enacted de-gra- ce litics collected $89,000 more from National Foundation of the March of Dlmea than It had contributed. When an epidemic In 1952 saw 600 cases cf polio in Utah, he said, funds in from other chap- enough money. Theyre dejxnired fending toe right of toe Individual to contribute to toe Local, Independent certified ' charity of his choice. public accounts audit March of Dimes books, he continued. Conflicting viewpoints between the humanitarian organOf toe neartv $90,000 antidi ated from Salt Lake County isations: MARCH OF DIMES presyear, 25 percent goes to ident Elmer J. Smith told toe toe National Foundation for cent. basic research. Of toe baRocky Mountain Review that To toe average man this huge research efforts, such lance, half is used locally for means about toe price of a as toe March of Dimes rearthritis and birth defect search that conquer eXjUs, treatment centers; toe rest good new suit. 1 s used b v toe national or The fifthly with an annual wouldn't be poaslb qr income of $8,000 has been, voluntary he-l- to ganisatton fur education - ssrwScss, research paying $94.40 per year to tw forcing etl state. Theyll now pay $148.0(1 sing or Inadequate. , , grants to universities and col- i He pointed out tou tkh, (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 2) between 1938 and 1952, had large, area health association to conduct a fund campaign. The same familiar arguments prevailed. On one hand. United Fund proponents urge with funds then group-givi- Tax Drop ? Not A Chance ! . r- 1965 Teachers Balk, VS. FUND LONERS UNITED by SHERMAN - to stay that way and seven and lf million .dry souls in one-ha- 3 519 separate elections cast About 700,000 dry .votes voters switched, rather than f.ght from wet to dry, and about 4 millTip 'switched the other way In favor of ttf argument fir minimum control is the degree that their drifting does not bother the publirlat large and insofar as it is a personal matter maxim so free- dom should be allowed in accord with our s'tnety s belief in individual and constitutional freedom Of late, in Utah, there's a growing opinion that decreased control over liquor might provide investors with bet'er promise of prof ts in tourist resorts Opposed to exended dstn-butio- n are those who feel that increased availability would lead to greater consumption and that the protlems associated with alcohol including drunkeness, driving public while intoxicated, alcoholism ran and drinking bv minors be controlled t,. limits on distribution Do limits on distribution by law actually effect consumption or the problems associated with alcohol Without a detailed and exhaustive sudy it would probably be .mpossible to tell Conditions among every culture varv and facts are few it may be 10 p- - ss ble to ever tell w.th ' uracy fme sign.fi rant st jdy which dedt with this qjestion was taken by New York s blue r bbon M .reland Comm issmm Thev were charged m 1961 with shidvirie changes in that sta'e s la They looked over conditions s'ae bv stae and lon- Wasatch first thought that law, consumption and problems did have a relation, then decided: at will no ger suffer toe double Jeopardy of contributing twice to charity solicitations. The school board voted Tuesday night, March 2, to ban all fund drives via school children. As one board member expressed it, "There are so many drives now that they are beginning to exploit the children Parent contribute anyway "at borne Charity solicitations should be conducted on an adult level " Individual board members reported they bad received numerous complaints as the result of the practice of sending home envelopes to collect funds for fund drives Junior Red Cross solicitation will be permitted because students participate m the projects of that organization The original impression that the presence of tins particular kind cf legislative control - prohibition c selling - bears an important or significant rela tionship to the rate of al rohol consumption is seen to be misleading Not only are there numerous exceptions to the apparent relationship, but wither factors, primarily re gional pos.tun, are seen to tarry far more powerful explanation for the presence or absence of such controls Analyses of the impact of d. flerent types of sales control legi slation on alcohol consumption among the different satc s very clearly suggests that it is a factor at little and perhaps of no importance at all " Signal Okayed Yes, southeast motorists school children, there 11 be a traffic light at 4430South Wasatch Boulevard sometime and soon That was the somewhat uncertain prediCtun of Salt Lake County commission chairman Marvin G Jenson yesterday The installation cf the traffic signal has been okayed Now, motorists and parents of students crossing at the intersection, can start counting the days until the l.ght is put Into operation r. |