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Show GERARD F. DEVLIN WASHINGTON BEEHIVE Review Editorials Dirksen Utahs Support, Despite MREVIEW ' Lets Squeeze Budget Instead Of Taxpayers The owner of a ten year old, $20,000 home in Salt Lake County paid anywhere from $256 to $387 in property taxes last year, depending on how many of the county's 70 taxing districts provided benefits to him. This year hell pay about $11 more, thanks to the recently announced increase in the county mill levy, to its maximum legal limit of 17.9 mills. Actually the legal maximum is 16 mills, but the extra is allowed for interest and flood control. County Auditor David P. Jones told why in four short, sad reasons: 1.) Flood control levy is higher. 2.- ) Money earned from interest on the civic auditorium bond to pay off part of the interest owing on it, was Intended issue, instead turned over to the civic auditorium board The county commission counted its chicked before hatching on the sale of the hospital. 4.- ) The Kennecott strike meant a decrease in the taxes from the county's largest taxpayer. Two of the four reasons involve issues now embroiled in uncertainty and confusion - the flood control mess and the hospital. At least, Efforts are being made to utilize this last asset by Commissioner William G. Larson in order to cut other costs. 3.- ) Salt Lake County taxpayers will, of course, cough up . . . but not without some grumbling. The parade of bumbling exposed over the last few months give us little confidence that our dollars are wisely spent. In fact we question whether the three man commission form of government, with its divided responsibility and lack of central control or management provides .the taxpayer with any reasonable assurance that his money is well invested. Mr. Jones commented on the multiplicity of taxing units. They are "so irregular and becoming so confused that there are few county taxpayers who actually know what they pay their property tax for and if this trend of creating new districts continues, it will take an electronic computer to compute the tax." We agree. When a group of citizens gets together to create a special purpose tax district their avowed purpose is to keep government close to the people. But the present cross-wor- d puzzle allows intimacy only for those few who understand what's going on in their particular little sphere. In our book that's not democracy. Commissioner John Preston Creer made the statement that the county must find other ways of raising money that the property tax has exhausted its possibilities. We find the statement disturbing. The answerlw not toftnd new ways of Jaising money - but through good management to make the maximum use of the money available. The commission recently appointed a committee to undertake an overall study of Salt Lake County government. If this group is allowed some real teeth, which is not too likely in light of past it might deliver some meaningful proposals. The ferformance, now focused on Utah's government by the Little Hoover Commission could help Salt Lake County. particular the questions of consolidation of services and The matter of tax valuation and taxing districts bears study. In exemption has been long neglected by investigative eyes. But even more vital the question of management and control of the relation of services and cost needs a very close look. In a recent interview the county purchasing agent was defending the practice ofbuying by brand name. He stated that if, for example, the county attorneys office requested a given brand of typewriter, he was obliged to buy that particular brand. Up to a point such a position might be defensible. But if on a particular day the county attorney, the county auditor, the county attorney, the sheriff and all three commissioners all wanted typewriters, maybe of different brands, there is no one person responsible to the people to say "maybe we don't need all those typewriters around here, fellows." Man On The Scene Tells Story WeU the syndicate! experts just can't achieve. Surrendering Mr Miller from his regular duties to make the tour is a real public service. May we offer our congratulations for an excellent and enlightening series on one of the country's major problems. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Day At The Fair, Who Paid? j f J j I j j j j I noticed in the paper the other day that Governor Hampton and the Utah entourage spent a delightful day at the Worlds Fair, visit.ne Washington. attending the Governor s Conference in Minnesota and generally visiting other sights and wonders of the East Along with the governor was his wife. which, in some way or other probably can be Justified because 4 the socul obligations which go with being governor But, can somebody please just.fy to me, an extremely faithful Utah taxpayer, what on earhh the governor's press secretary was doing on the Junket And while they're at it, that goes double for what on earth the wife of the governor's press secretary was doing going on tour at Utah taxpayers expense. Come now, isnt that carrying things a bit too Last week saw the Senate reject the Dirksen Amendment which would have overruled the Supreme Court's decision in the 1964 case of Reynolds v. Sims which states that both houses of the state legislatures should be apportioned on the basis of population. The Dirksen Amendment would have overruled the court's decision through the adoption of Constitutional amendment requiring a vote of both houses. Three times in the history at this nation a decision of the court was annulled by legislative action. This fact throws cold water on the often repeated but thoroughly erroneous notion that the highest tribunal is law unto itself and that there is no way its decisions may be changed. In 1793, the Supreme Courts acceptance of jurisdiction in a suit by a citizen of another state against the state of Georgia caused such an uproar that at the next session of congress a constitutional amendment was roared through both houses. The decision of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, himself a slaveholder, in 1857 denying the right of citizenship to Negroes was abridged by the 14th Amendment. The 1895 decision of the court that income taxes were unconstitutional because it was a direct tax forbidden by Article 1, section Z, clause 3 and section 9, clause 4 was voided by the 16th Amendment adopted during the first Wilson Administration. Dirksen s attempt to return to the status quo prior to 1964 fell seven votes short of the required 23 votes. Both Utah Senators voted in favor of the Dirksen Amendment. The significance of this vote lies in the fact that it indicates that the United States Senate is no longer the same institution that it used to be. Young Turks Inexorably power in the upper chamber is passing into the hands of younger and minded Senators more progressive There are not enough of the so called to carry every issue "Young Turks but the vote on the Dirksen proposal indicated that they have the energy and ability to take on the power elite and occasionally win. And make no mistake time is on the side of the about it youngsters. Inner Circle Lining up with Dirksen were most of the members of the Senates Inner Circle": Majority Leader Mike Mansfield; Georgia's wily veteran Dick Russell; Arizona's venerable Carl Hayden who has served in the Senate longer than any other man in our history; Virginas Harry Byrd and the whole Southern bloc who have held control for a generation; Republican Whip, Tom Kuchel, and Massachusettss amgi;ar senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall. Opposed to the Dirksen Amendment were the veteran liberals, Illinois Douglas, Oregons Morse and Pennsylvanias Clark and, significantly, almost every single Senator under the age of 45 The new breed of suburban politicians, men like Marylands Joe Tydings, Indiana's Birch Bayh and the Kennedy brothers, all not yet 40 years of age, were in the forefront of the struggle. The old guard in the Senate were not wiped out by this one vote and their strength will remain for a long time to come but their day of absolute power is over. In the states, the control by the rural courthouse machine has gone the way of the buggy whip and the handle bar mustache. Proponents of the Dirksen Amendment who are battling feverishly to hold back the hands of the clock argue that political power will now pass into the hands of the big city machines. Power In Suburbs Nothing could be further from the truth. America's growth pattern has not been into the cities Rather, it has been from the cities as well the farms and Continued from Page Cannot Go Dear Sir: . I cannot let statements in Joyce Stouts Portrait of Adam Duncan, August 5th, go unchal- lenged. 1 The blacks in South Africa outnumber the whites by less than four to one and not "about 40 to one as she indicates. 2 Her statement "As an example (of white domination and mental cruelty), Mr. Duncan tells about the practice, common in Southern Rbodetii at that time (1948-50- ), wbef a person was required to report to police if they hit or killed a farm animal along the highway although they were not required to report killing a Kaffir (black African). Such a statement is surely an unfair analysis of a mature legal mind like Mr Duncans. Especially since he claims a "cerebral 'emotional relations rather than an approach to race If Mr. Duncan is reported correctly, this surely must be a case of bigotry In reverse and hardly a reflection of Mr Duncans philosophy "If a Person Values Himself, He Can Value Others, Overlook Differences I don't know how much time Mr Duncan spent in Rhodesia while serving the LDS Church as a missionary (Rhodesia wasn't an official part of the South African Mission until the year after Mr. Duncon's return) but the statement reflects a very shallow acquaintance with this country. Asa Rhodesian by birth, I can't help but resent the Inference that every white Rhodesian regarded or regards the African as an animal This attitude was and is far from common" as the article sugPeople there are like people here Generally they are and as kind as Mr Duncan must have any enjoyed a great deal of South . African and Rhodesian hospi-taliwhile there to substantiate this Yes, there are extremes But may I remind you that while there have been bigots in Rhodesia there have also been the Livinestones and Schweitzers who have done more for the black man there than Mr Duncan is every likely to in Utah If the above is any indication of his "cerebral'' approach to the problem in this stae I W'Hild find it extremely d.fficult to lay too much stock in the rest of the article Sincerely, John G Kinnear fair-mind- ed ty Skeptics beware !!! The people are amongst us. Flying saucers are everywhere Flying saucers have been sighted over Bennion. have been Flying saucers spotted over Taylorsville. Flying saucers have been sighted over Granger. Flying saucers have been sighted Kearns. I know all about flying saucers. I know because I have talked to people who fly them. Not all people can see flying saucers. Not all people can talk to saucer people. I can. I can because I'm sincere. You must be sincere to talk to flying saucer people. I kBow all about them. It all started many years ago. Flying sauIn were cers reported the Bible. Flying saucers were reported In ancient Egyptian hyrogliphics. Every civilization has had specific dealings with the flying saucer people. Our own Utah pioneers had some sad tragic experiences with the saucer folk. You all saucer HOW IT STARTED Dancing in Sugar House Park started last May in an apparently spontaneous manner. The crowds began growing as more teenagers got the word. "The cooperation was Inti tially good, says park superintendent Warren White. The size of the groups gradually increased, until they reached about 1,000. One teenager contacted by the Review denied that the number grew to this proportion -- Mr. White said that the night dancing was cancelled, "There was considerable resistance to turning the volume down on the music and as closing time came, they refused to stop. The watchman turned off the power at the pavlllion, He they moved to the rest room turned off the power there, they moved to another pavlllion. They were racing around and gunning motors." Shortly after the dancing ceased, one church group tried to hold a party in the park. The group had trouble with teenagers "cruising the parkways in their cars, sometimes racing and careening in circles in the parking lot, making accusing comments that we were Intruding on their park. The comments of Franklin K. Brough, Bishop of the Holladay Seventh Ward, who were holding the party were printed in the July 22 Rocky Mountain Review, and finished up "Sugar House Park Is lost to family type activity". Mr. White denies this. He points to his steady stream of reservations for the pavillions in the park But he is concerned about control and supervision of teenagers, vandalism, and the mingling of very young teenagers with older ones. "It is our desire to see the park used to the maximum. I'm not opposed to teenagers using the park - but it must be adequately supervised " What do the teenagers think? They are generally not orgamxed and It is difficult to find a spokesman for them. In discussing the problem with some st random, the feeling was expressed that they dont want supervision, but recognize its necessity The desirability of Sugar House Park is that it is somewhat secluded and sway from the hubub The other alternatives commonly selected seem to be State Street or the canyons "Part of the advantage is socializing with kids from different schools," said one One of the problems is the physical capacity of the park Most of it is in grass, and city commissioner Louis G Holley comments that the terraces are too small, and the lawn can t take dancing Noise is another part of the problem Homes adjoining the park have complained of the amplifiers on the instruments But as Mr Bedburn comments, "It's a loud age'" Apparently an uneasy truce has been But its a truce where established neither official nor teenagers adequately communicate their problems to each other and where sympathy and understanding are near the bottom of the list of motives for action in the park dancing melee know about the cricket infestation. They wern't crickets. They were saucer people from Mars. Martians! Martians have the capacity to reincarnate themselves into anything they want to be. It just so happened that at that particular time in history they wanted to be crickets .. but they didn't count on the seagull. bilities. Conservatives can not have it both ways. They cannot on the one hand decry the growing power of the federal government and on the other hand seek to have the power of the states to legislate negated by entrenched rural lawfrom the "rotten boroughs." makers The defeat of the Dirksen amendment is a signal victory for those who feel that the states ought to be able to solve their own problems. Martians have no knownde-fen- se " against seagulls. Most of the Martians were wiped out as a result of their underestimating the strength of the seagull. But some escaped and flew back to Mars for a strategy meeting to find out what the heck happened and to avoid the same mistake again. And so after much debate and research they decided to come back to earth as members of the John Birch Society. Its true! No, don't bother asking any known John Bircher if he is a Martian. .. he wont admit it. (would you admit It if you were- - a MartiB?7 1 MANY Martians have a maste plan to tae over the world. I have actual documentation that Robert Welsch is a Martian. Oh, he'll deny It. Wouldn't you?? But I have actually talked to turn-co- a. Martians who have had personal associations with Robert Welsch. I have recorded testimony to prove this. But the master Martian plan for world domination is going to fail again .. because they didnt count on the development of Black Flag Insect Repellent in the new aeroseal can. Martians have no known defense against insect repellent in aeroseal cans... good bye Martians ... Poooooof !31!J THE Zig-Zag- Wild Driving s CONTINUED FROM PAGE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 time. Commissioner John Preston Creer says it's too late, according to the county attorney's office Commissioner Creer says that up until April Wiles was selling gas to the sheriff' s department at 27 9 cents per Mr Kimball said that Mr gallon Jack Wiles told him he was dropping the price because the county Yas looking Tor new sources Mr Wiles said the adjustment was due to the confusion According to Commissioner Creer the county fried to find distributors with eight or more stations that were open until 1 A M Wiles has two stations, one near the county roads and bridges garage in Midvale, one on Highland Drive Gas is available at roads and bridges, in bulk for 12 5 cents per gallon But the sheriff s department must have several locations where they can buy gas at any time at a given price according to Commissioner Creer Mr Wiles says he would still sell it at 18 9, the county says we'd love to but we can t and thank you very much off the highway Miraculously, no one was Injured In the accident It could have easily taken the lives of the young boy and girl in the car, as well as other motorists who were unfortunate enough to be cm the highway at the same time A second car in the procession was also involved in an accident near the top of the canyon at about the same time Crowd control was a serious problem on the winding canyon road as scores of curious onlookers stopped to view the accident scene Both of these unrelated incidents could have ended in tragedy fortunately. It was only costly But both were entirely unnecessary and could have been prevented by thinking beforehand, as the photographer pointed out to the boy who "didn't want to get anvone In trouble V Governor Parrpt m's Pose, claims PubluhH bv Nn South tVr S'-- Inr ' park sen, cautious but Commissioner -Louis Holley - no dannnr on he City Attorney Jack . v b LLNSfOPD m vrcn-- J , ,,ffrrr, 'Kr pr.. C if v I trrh t- Tv irvHa S' PSCPiPTtnv PATFOI SIDE C APPIER CCA is sq iare Wrso-- f.,.i 17 177 PO Civ ft.,h 4117 M" Sr nf B-- Fno-rf- l L Grn ??Sj . - Prr-A iraoin V4NAGIc; Fn,Tr,p JOHN Trr a Mrs David Penman defender of the- yrung 1 direction reported that the car attempted to pass another vehicle at high speed, spun out of control, narrowly missing an oncoming line of traffic, righted itself and continued on down the canyon. The couple stopped at the nearest phone to report the incident, but were informed by the sheriffs department that it was too late - the car had gone David mation and help The I tah administrative entourage was the smallest of anv state, according to Pose The governor p,d for Mrs Pa rr.pt on's expenses as well, arcrd.ng to the press t DOCUMENTATION SPACE AUTHORITIEI HAVE Gas Prices Flying Bricks foul' Pose said he paid for all his w.fe's evppnses out of his own pokt and that he acted as the govern' r'sadm.n.strative asstant dunnt he ttash.nrbn trip, su; j.l mg the governor w ith needed infor- secretary many states. Clearly, Salt Lake County is going to come into its own in the next few years. The trend toward control from Washington began and continues because the states have abrogated their responsi- bv Will Lucas and telephone numbers of adult supervisors. One further provision holds that the dancing would be discontinued if there is any trouble. ALLAN L AVESETH 2325 East 2190 South Salt Lake City press secretary, rural conservative districts. Coalitions of such legislators hold the legislative power in their hands in far too 1 addresses Unchallenged far-- EDITOR S NOTE' into the great bedroom communities in the suburbs. Here are the youngest, most Ameriprogressive and most creative cans. We could do worse than letting the balance of power be controlled by this group. If the Senate is never going to be the same, neither is Utah, to consider one of several states. Every state is to a certain extent controlled by powerful economic groups whose spokesmen invariably are members of the legislature from Will Teens Frolic In Park? Beivare I Saucer People Again gests It seemed rather strange at first . . . sending a sports editor to cover the war in Viet Nam. We must admit The Deseret News has proven that the real professional can cover any "story well. Hack Miller's familiar prose has brought some reality to our confusing military operation in that section of Asia which i Fails; Power Shifts To Suburbs . - - . t, nr.rf'Ji |