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Show I i i MR 000550 SPENCER universal microfilm AVE 141 KEVICW FHONI pieRmont SALT LAKE u NUMBERS Advertising, Newt, Office 4S7-741 Action Adt 9 Circulation 0I 417-227- w 84101 UTAH iu YOUR SUBSCRIPTION HELPS YOUR CARRIER 417-1(1- The Weekly Newspaper Serving The Saif Lake Cify Community CITY EDITION Vol.l No.14 CITY April 21. 19665 Private Road Repairs Too? .. V, - VS?- A I - i 'HSsveD IS, v n . M ' H. . NIELSEN TO STEW IN OWN JUICE? by Jim Baldwin The key to water drainage in Salt Lake County is the Jordan River. Newsmen joined County Commissioners Jenson and Larsen last week for a boat trip down this river which has been cleaned and dredged to handle possible flood waters. The river is in better shape. than it has been in recent years, according to Commissioner Jenson. As these shots show it has its good spots and bad ones. The possibility of boating has been suggested on the River - but as the center of the center of scenic America, its hardly ready for a quiet Sunday picnic. Salt Lake County Sheriff George Nielsen has tossed professionalism to the winds and has adopted medieval patronage as the basis upon which to develop the staff to man the finest jail of its kind in the west. Less than a month ago, a federal expert on penal institutions rated the new Salt Lake County Jail as among the finest such structures anywhere in the western states. But Sheriff Nielsen, apparently motivated by a naked concept of political loyalty, has assigned a (not including kitchen supervision) in command of the new jail kitchen as kitchen steward. Charles H. Skip Foil, 4776 S. 4480 West, Kearns, has been employed at $540 per month to supervise the purchase, preparation and service of foods to inmates of the county jail. Authorities Warn Federal penal authorities warned previously, with Sheriff Nielsen present, that the jail Would lose its high stature unless it was professionally manned. The federal authorities were specific in their emphasis that kitchen help must be professional and well-pai- d. Sheriff Nielsen, proclaiming himself dedicated to professional law enforcement in being particularly qualified to see that our new jail is professionally staffed and directed.... ....has named as steward a man who was fired for political activity from the job of yard foreman in toe County Roads and Bridges Department. Commissioner Marvin G. Jenson fired Mr. Foil from Roads and Bridges, according to Mr. Foil, after Democrat Jenson proposed the name of Republican DelmarL. Swede Larson as toe personal choice of Democrat Sheriff George Beckstead to succeed to that office. Mr. Foil - at that time - declared that he was fired by Mr. Jenson because he had compaigned in favor of then Chief Deputy Nielsen. West Cooking Experience Problems Flare The Salt Lake City Board of Education this week quietly acknowledged the complaints of members of the West High School Parent-Teache- rs Assn the school is something out of the distant past. And part of it, at least, should be tom down. Other parts of it give token service to uses for which rooms and buildings were originally constructed. The Teachers and School Work and the Buildings and Grounds Committees of the board assumed immediate responsi bility for working out solutions to such problems as: The union building was declared a fire trap several years ago. One member of the West High PTA group pointed out that the West High Union Building was constructed somewhere in the 1800s. It was condemned by the city fire department as unsafe. Three years ago the Board of Education observed that it didnt want to do too much with the building because it must but, the PTA spokesman pointed out, in 1964, the Board of Education burdened the taxpayer with installation of a ar roof cm a building due for immediate demolition. The board was told that the building has a tinder dry wooden floor. ...it has open stairways. It has long-sin- ce condemned glass transoms over all the room doorways. On the third floor is an old fashioned fuse box with 20 fus s and no circuit breaker switches in the building. We found some loose boards lifted them and found it was a place for students to put candy wrappers behind the fuse box, the board was told. Wiring throughout the building has deteriorating insulation. The PTA group noted that the legislature exempt boards of education and school buildings from the authority granted to the recently created State Fire Marshal. The board then was warned that such structures as the West High Union Building could result in costly legal claims against the school board in case of fire. That West High School may have been neglected for sometime by the board of education was emphasized by other PTA spokesmen. One woman complained of an inadequate library. Only a smaU percent of the students can study at one time and they cant study because of excessive traffic noise from 2nd West Street. fire-hazard- be razed..... Salt Lake County Highway Work Force Fewer? (Ha!) On February 3 a scant 11 weeks ago....Commissioner Marvin G. Jensen announced forthrightly and with flourish that he would reduce the Roads and Bridges department work force by 39 employees. The announcement was duly headlined in newspapers as an economy ! move. All of which proves the necessity of distinguishing between what a county commissioner says hes gomg to do and what he does. Almost as announced 30 men were terminated from the department (now renamed the County Highway Repart- but 25 new men have been ment) employed or transferred frorp other 25-ye- areas leaving the department only 7 short of the 262 employees cm it payroll on January 31. Along with the February announcement was the estimate of a $200,000 savings in 1966 from the release of the 39 employees. No announcement was made of the The Review learned of replacements. them by an analysis of payroll lists in the County Auditors records. Theyve been accomplished piecemeal, a few every week. Two weeks before the announcement, chi January 15, Highway employment stood at 259. As of Wednesday of this See Salt Lake Page 12 See 'West High' Page 12 I WITH SOME HELP Soon ... Meals On Wheels Meals on wheelsl General Hospital psychiatric Its a fact! The sick, the unit aged, the disabled are to be , The plan is to prepare meals beneficiaries of a brand new in that old hospital kitchen. Idea... meals on wheels to be , The mealswiUbescientifical- -, delivered at minimal cost by ly planned to fit the dietary a unit of the Metropolitan Salt needs of miscellaneous ' Lake Council on Aged. groups, Including the aged, A fit venture, it diabetics and others requirmust rely at once upon the ing special foods. good will and assistance of persons over 55 able to walk numerous Salt Lake Valley to the old hospital building residents to get the project wiU be served a healthy lunch underway and to keep it going. at a nominal cost in a dinIts the baby of MauviaSnow ing room to be prepared and Bradford, coordinator, and maintained there. Sherma Johnson, dietician-directo- r. For the aged unable to leave their homes.unable to preMeals on' Wheels will have pare proper meals...disabled its headquarters in the kit- of any age.. .there will be the chen of the former Salt Lake unique Meals on Wheels... i non-pro- transported from the old hospital kitchen and delivered to the home... again at nominal cost. The project, the first of its kind in the nation, needs HELP! Said Mrs. Bradford: We need an old truck we can fit up to haul the meals in. We need a public-spiritwomens club to come down to the old hospital and decorate the dining room. We need paint, tools. ..we need someone to volunteer to ed restore to service the old ranges left for us in the kit- chen. The facilities, located in the former psychiatric building. help for clean up, paint up and fix- require volunteer-up. Needed are chairs, tables, aU sorts of kitchen equipment for the preparation and serving of hot meals. Its a project. Its not a poverty project. Those havmg the need can order a hot special meal delivered for non-pro- t fit $1.50. Its expected that 400 persons or more will become regular customers of Meals on Wheels. Besides Mrs. Johnsons talent as dietician, the future customers of Meals on Wheels will have the benefit of Mrs. Bradford's background as a health educator. Prior to his cooking experience as Roads and Bridges yard foreman, county records showed, Mr. Foil got his kitchen supervisor experience working as superintendent of the county garage. And, several county and city employes recall seeing Mr. Foil cooking with gas at toe county fuel pumps. Obviously a jack of all trades, toe county records show that before his experience cooking with gas at toe pumps, Skip Foil was getting food experience on toe payroll of Mrs. Nellie Jack as draftsman in toe county recorders office. Just in case Mr. Foil isnt up on cooking chili soup and potatoes for 300 jail inmates - a challenging task for any cot or steward - Juddy has hired Alfons Przybyla, 2995 E. Louise Avenue, at only $400 per month to serve as cook in toe new jail. Its an awfully low salary for an experienced cook to maintain the standards which federal authorities urge be established. Nielsen Campaign Sheriff Nielsen campaigned for appointment as sheriff . on a platform of professional law enforcement for Salt Lake County. On several occasions he boasted of toe professional character of his Sheriffs Reserve Corps ....but now deputies complain that politics has extended even to shatter morale in that organization. turned Skip Foil, yardbird --garage super-draftsm- The use of public personnel, public equipment and public materials to repair a privately owned stretch of road in toe area of the Industrial Center was revealed to The Review this week. That toe work was done on orders of an official high in city government lathe face of a warning that toe road was private property also was told to The Review. A former City Streets Department supervisory officer told The Review that in December. 1963, he was ordered to repair a stretch of Pioneer Road from 21st South to near 17th South near toe former small arms plant. Said toe former Streets Department employee: I told him (a superior In toe hierarchy of city government) that it was a private road. He told me: I didnt ask you if it was a private road. I told you to fix it! The former employee said that he hauled approximately 10,000 tons of gravel from a city gravel pit... .using city trucks and crews, and distributed it stretch of private along toe four-bloroad. The period of work, toe man said, extended through December, 1963, and January, 1964. The project, he said, involved a dozen men. It involved a loader at toe gravel pit a patrol at toe road site, a three wheel roller and operator at toe job, about seven trucks and drivers and a foreman. The gravel, he said, was transported to toe site and spread over toe roadway. The city roller then was used to pack toe gravel. The roller even sat out there for several days and we had to go back out there and get it toe man said. A check with toe office of toe city engineer showed that although there has been talk of dedicating Pioneer Road as a city street or public read, no action has been taken on dedication. The road presently is in serious disrepair and is not being repaired by toe city as a dedicated road. Meanwhile, The Review was told of other aUeged streets department procedures which, if they can be affirmed, may raise questions of proper recording of streets department performance. Until recently, at least, The Review was informed, the State Class C Road Fund has been deliberately tapped by Salt Lake City Government by a padding of toe record on total use of mulch for road repair in Salt Lake City. At me time, The Review was told, four foremen on toe streets department were ordered to falsify the total of daily mulch used by 50 tons per day 50 tons for each of toe four crews. We each used up to 600 tons of mulch a day, The Review source declared, and on orders from above, we were told to add 50 tons to our actual totals of mulch used. The four foremen were told to pad toe record, toe source declared, and added: "I dont know what they did, but I did as I was told. If all four of toe foremen did as they were told, toe source continued, it meant that Salt Lake City obtained additional Class C Road funds based upon up to 200 tons of mulch daily. The road funds, he explained, are apportioned on toe basis of toe amounts of mulch used. ck an kitchen expert, also is being assigned to play cops and robbers. Skip Foil, toe Review has been informed, has been Issued gun and badge to serve Sheriff Judds proud Reserve Corps in supervisory capacity. Skip Foil has been ordered into toe position of Reserve Squad Leader - without training and without experience -to lead volunteers who, for a token $5 per month, went through toe training program which toe sheriff described as being as professional as that received by his deputies. Mr. Foil came to Review attention this week when he began demanding changes in the new jail facility. Demands Change He wants the architect and contractor to install a large freezing room in toe jail to freeze foods. He wants them to install baking tables to cut down toe cost of bread He wanted - but isnt likely to get - an exchange rolls. so he could fry up to 300 hamburgers of stove surfaces on the top of the stove. According to Commissioner John Preston Creer, it appears that Mr. Foil, steward, didnt know that you dont you wrap them in stacks fry hamburgers for 300 persons of five or more in tinfoil and stick them in toe oven and bake them. The Review would observe at this point that Sheriff Nielsen was authorized by toe county commission to employ an extra 40 men to man the new jail. ' Federal authorities urged that toe jail staff be established as a separate, specialized, professional penal staff. They urged that a jail staff classification from top to bottom be that toe created in the County Deputies Merit System jail not be used as a punishment area for deputies. and toe There has been no separate classification jail is being used to place persons Sheriff Nielsen finds to be a threat to him in toe political field in certain areas of the county. Sheriff Nielsen....the professional, educated in penal has forced into jail service those deputies sociology and veteran officers with long field experience in toe west and southwest sections of toe city... WEEKLY CALENDAR Thursday, April 21 EAST MILLCREEK .TAYCEE-ETTELECTION MEETING, 7:30 P.M. at toe Beef- - eateps Inn, 2903 Highland Drive VFW POST 3586 election meeting, 2920 Highland Drive, 8 P.M. SUGAR HOUSE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMENS CLUB Annual Tree Planting, 21st South, 15th East at 9 A.M. ARTISTIC DESIGNERS Meeting at toe Garden Center 1 P.M. UNIVERSITY DINNER CLUB presents University Civic Chorale in the Panorama Room, University Union Building, 6:45 P.M. BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY FORUM LECTURE SERIES presents Alan Lomax at Temple Square Assembly Hall, 8 P.M. OUTDOOR LIVING Boat Show, Cottonwood Mall to April 25. THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, at Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 8 P.M. IF I SLEEP, WHO'LL GIVE ME THE ES MOON? University Lecture at Orson Spencer Hall, sponsored by Channmg Club, 8 P.M. "the Self Neglect GRAND ROUNDS Robert A. Senescu, M.D.. Syndrome, Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, University Medical Center, 10:30 A.M.. COLLOQUIUM: Physics Department presents Dr. A- - w- - Overhauser, Ford See Weekly Calendar page 12 i |