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Show MR SALT PALACE: PART FOUR SPFFfFR 00055 UnIVFRSAL MICROFILM 141 SALT PIFRWHNT AVF LAKF CITY UTAH 84101 Fierce Rivalry For, Conventions Editors note: The main attrsctlon of the proposed Cirie auditorium is the convention trade. In this fourth of a series the Review explores the hard realities of the convention-yettin- g game, and Salt Lakes chances. Salt Lake City Is racing against time to get ground broken for the construction of its new Civic Auditorium Complex., .and is the race, the prize is booming business from conventions ana trade shoes.. All ours at an Initial cost af.$17-milli- on. When the auditorium complex opens its doors to conventions and trade shows, it enters into stiff local competition with the Hotel Utah, Hevhouse HoteL Utah MoteL The Terrace, Tim World Motel and several other local taxpaying private enterprises catering to such events. Such competition should be a snap.. .and the complex should win hands down over private enterprise...but there Is tougher competition. The local facility will enter national competition with more than 1,300 auditoriums and arenas for the privilege of accommodating some 900 national conventions having more than 1,500 delegates. The Salt Palace will be in competition with hundreds of additional major ipotel and hotel facilities which have been constructed in convention cities to accommodate thousands under a single roof. There are those convinced that Salt Lake City lacks the character of a convention city. There are those who are convinced that progress for Salt Lake City might lie in either of several directions, while facing up to the fact that we Just arent situated to compete in some national areas. Promoters and producers of conventions and shows have pointed out that geographically, we simply are not located to attract the customer to some types of events. In other areas of the show business, were simply not big enough to attract the product. Weve mentioned before that we have an alcohol problem, Cf some forty convention managers solicited, all but two or three made it clear that Utah Liquor laws would result in rejection of this city as a convention site. Of the forty, two or three indicated that liquor laws would not influence their choice at all; a tew suggested that all other facilities being equal, the convention would go to the city with liquor by the drink. The remainder were firm: Serry. No liquor by the drink; no convention for Salt Lake City. Jim Lowe, director of the American Society of Association Executives, Washington, D. C., a veteran of ten years with the Association Department, U. S. Chamber of Commerce, told the Review that availability of alcohol is taken for panted now In scheduling conventions." Mr. 'Lowe told The Review that his organization, composed of the men who select convention sites for major organizations, likely will never bold its convention in Salt Lake City. Like most organizations, Mr. Lowe said, the Society of Association Managers meets where it will be of convenience to a large number of the members. There are too few members in your area." Good service is a prime consideration for a convention site selection, Mr. Lowe pointed out... and good service includes availability of liquor. Mr. Lowe said that most conventions will be scheduled where the entire schedule can be accommodated within a single facility...in a hotel or a motel. There are, of course, those very few very large conventions where combined facilities are Impossible under a single roof. For these few, Mr. Lowe said, the convention type center is a necessity. The vast majority, however, want food, lodging, meeting facilities all in the same building. Having Mr. Lowes convention in a city ....San Francisco this year. ..gives the host city a premium. Local convention managers can move in and solicit a return visit by each of the members with the group he represents back home. In Las Vegas, meanwhile, a natural convention city, a civic auditorium this year accommodated Just two of the major conventions. A dozen or so smaller ones, to be sure... but only two of the giants in the $6-- 12 million installation constructed without placing a burden on the taxpayer. ..paid for by room taxes and parking fees. By far the majority of Las Vegas conventions, recent visitors to that city were told, are scheduled In the Vegas strip clubs, some of which accommodate up to 3,000 guests with site. wine, women, song, gambling and lodging on (Continued on page A2) . REVIEW PHONE NUMBERS 10t Advertising, News Office 487-740- 1 Action Ads 487-227- 8 Circulation 487 1 8 1 9 YOUR SUBSCRI -- HELPS YOUR CAR The Weekly Newspaper Serving The Salt lake Community Vol.li1 No. 21 May 26. 1966 JCH Rental Demands Irk Utah Guard SecornGv Leons Rental demands on the Utah Air National Guard for use of facilities at Salt Lake Municipal Airport may result in loss of the Installation plus loss of $3 -- million In federal expenditures to Salt Lake Valley. Salt Lake Airport Advisory Council has Includes First Air Pollution Control urged the City Commission to support a rental increase from $1 per year to per year for GANG use of the airport facility. MaJ. Gen. Maurice L. Watts, UtahAdjutant General, has warned that if the rental is imposed the UANG facility may be relocated at Hill Air Force Base. The Guard installation at the airport, Maj. Gen. Watts reminded, benefits the Salt Lake City local economy by federal support of approximately $2,961,548 per year in payment of salaries to full time employees, drill pay for National Guard members, gasoline and oil used in flying operatlons --and supplies and equipment procured locally for use - pf the National Guard. $40-thous- Sometime next week each Salt Lake County commissioner will receive a foreboding stack of paper about four inches high. It is doubtful that any of the three commissioners will take die stacks home for bedtime reading... they re the new ordinances for Salt Lake County. They will, though, study the parts that pertain to their departments, and comment on some of the more controversial areas. The stack Is the result of about two years of work by deputy lawyers in the county attorneys office. In the past Salt Lake County ordinances have bea spread around In a variety of loose amendments and hidden appendages. The main advantage of the new ordinances, according to Gerald E. Nieison, chief deputy attorney, Is to collect all die ordinances into one well organised 'Volume.' Vt There Will ' commission, sidents. . . - v T" be several new ordinances, provided they are passed by die some of them important to die lives of Salt Lake County re- - For die first Time die County will have an air pollution control law, which prohibits Individuals and businesses from contaminating the air with smoke. The new ordinance defines dense smoke as smokstoo thick to see through -and says nobody can put smoke that dense into the atmosphere. The proposed laws also contain a section on civil rights, rifling primarily with public accomodation. This new ordinance does little, however, that state or not federal laws do do. existing Also for the first time die county ordinances may contain a conflict of interest clause tor county officials. As now written this section reads No county officer or employee shall be financially interested in any contract mde by diem in their official capacity, or by anybody or board of which The ordinance would also forbid officials to have a they are members. financial interest in any county purchase or sale. In addition the new law ' would prohibit a county officer from being with five years prior to his accept- -. tog office employed on a substantially full time basis with companies negotiating to do business with the county. Keith Roark, Olympus: "If some public activity doesnt come about, then a private one like the one atShady Lake last weekend will take its place. Barbara Morrison, Granger, "When I see a police car it means trouble. I stay but to others Its an attraction. ay, Shnnpml In C Warshaw Drops New Store Plans Maurice Warshaw announced this week land Dr.) for development. that he has withdrawn his interest in a On June 25, 1965, Capson Investment shopping center on a Co., 331 East 4th South, filed applicaproposed tion with the Board of County Comtriangular piece of property across Highland Drive from the Cottonwood Mall. missioners to have the land re zoned from 2. "I had options on most at die land Residential R- -l to Commercial I told them that if the land could there, Mr. Warshaw told the Review, "and when I saw the opposition from the be rezoned, said Mr. Warshaw, "that people in that area; when I discussed I would like to get In (on the developtheir objections with them, I withdrew ment). He emphasized that the application for my options. Mr, Warshaw declared that "I am not rezoning was not his application. And, as interested at all now in the project. I a member of the County Planning Comam not interested in having quarrels mission, he did not participate in any with people. I want to be a good mervoting on the rezontog application. chant and a good citizen. 1 do not want Mr. Warshaw said that the proposed to be irritating people, he said. . shopping center would have Involved a Mr. Warshaw said that he was aptheater, a few small stores and a Warshaw store of 120,000 square feet proached some .time ago by people interested in development of the land for But, because he is 'considering the commercial purposes. Those .business feelings of the people in the area, people were looking for a location in (Continued on page A 2) South and High- that vicinity (near 27-ac- re C-- m Chief Dewey Fillis: Good Samaritan Law. What we need is a Warren White: What you need for your dances is a good high fence. Teens, Police Air Gripes, Solutions Every summer some kind of conschools and local government. frontation occurs between the police and Much ofthediscussioncenteredaround the teen age population. It may be violent the events at Sugar House park last year. or It may be caustic. One occured on Mr. White said Sugar House park wouldnt Tuesday afternoon and It was neither . . . be open to dancing this year. The move, in fact it was reasonable and quiet. he explained was preventitive - not The arena was a classroom at Olympus retaliatory. Mr. White said he felt the High School where a newly formed Salt trouble last year came not from the teens Lake Valley Youth Council metwithSalt but from older people barging in ... and Lake Police Chief Dewey Fillis, Salt Tate die only protection from that was a County Sheriff George Q. Nielsen, Jr., high fence, or the safety of the great inand Salt Lake City parks superintendent doors. Warren White. County Commissioner Can we police ourselves asked one John Preston Creer was there as well to young Highland High student. If you are keep the ball rolling. big enough, suggested Chief Fillis. The question before the bouse: How Sheriff Nielsen pleaded for more recan teenagers have fun this summer, spect toward law enforcement officers keep active and stay out of trouble? . . . . dont cheer when they slug a Unfortunately when the dust blew ovar policeman. and everyone went home the air was full All four county and city officials of very good generalizations, but few recognized that some activity must be available for teenagers, but saw the need specific ideas. Everybody agreed that police were for limits and boundaries. human and that teenagers were too. Commissioner Creer told the group Even that seemed like a sound basis for it was their responsibility to come up with the ideas. Presumably his implicabeginning on both 6ides. The new council, composed of repretion was thaWits the job of the officials sentatives from every high school (the to approve or disapprove. He also sugnumber to be decided later this week gested the use of the school buildings or early next), has been formed to during the summer for teen activity. That the teens come up with their own give the young adults of our community a voice in the formation and application ideas seemed to end the meeting. Some of the restrictions that govern them, of the group might have had the feeling establish more effective and beneficial that the officials might be there to disrelationships between the schools of this approve, to find reasons why their ideas community, and promote increased comight not work. Chief Fillis noted our operation between the students of these primary task Is to protect you. .... Review photographer Mike Edwards thought he caught a burglar with his new but It was only a Salt Lake City fireman practicing ladder telescopic lens entry on the buildings being rippehed down near first South and Main. Police Cadet Program i tt Cap and gown could very well become the Symbol of excellence for the Police Department of the future In Salt Lake City, if City Commissioner Jim Barker can continue with development of a three-pha- se education program now nearing completion. Jim Barker met again this week with representatives of the Police Department and the University of Utah to implement the police cadet system. Steps were taken to bring veteran officers into a program of continued education at university level. And the University asked for avenues through which social study scholars might receive practical training as policemen. City Police are ready to call in late June for candidates for a Civil Service Commission supervised Cadet program that will involve police department employment under a four-ye- ar university education program. As that phase of the program nears reality, University, Police and City Commission representatives are talking of upgrading those officers already on the force by making available to them a series of university courses. Dr. Robert E. Ashpole, lecturer in sociology and social work, introduced a third phase in the education program. He wants students in social work to receive practical exposure to actual service in Police Youth Bureau, Police Reserve Corps and other available assignments. The students would benefit by the full police training course and police reserve corps assignment.,..for university credit. It is a new concept by Dr. Ashpole to create practical internship for students in the various fields of social work. Progress toward adoption of a police cadet program, Mr. Barker told The Review has passed through the Civil Service Commission, where rules and regulations and standards have been drawn. Change of city ordinance to add the Cadet classification requires only insertion of the word 'Cadet in the present police classification ordinance, Mr. Barker said. Beginning in June, youths 18 years of age will take competitive examinations ....written, oral, physical, agility, etc. to earn appointment as one of the first six Cadets in the local police system. (Continued on page A 2) Did You Know? that during January not only does Utahs temperature drop drastically, but so does the marriage rate. Last year 1,260 couples married in June (the peak month) compared to 439 in January. Also last year there were 2,895 divorces and annulments in Utah. Cruelty was stated as grounds for divorce in 78.8 percent of the cases, Bigeta was listed as grounds for annulment It 26.6 percent of the cases. In Its recommendation to the City Commission, a recommendation endorsed by City Commissioner Louis E. Holley, the Airport Advisory Council proposed a lease at per year. The proposal was made in a resolution in which it was noted that the UANG ocof airport cupies and uses about property adjacent to the landing field. Also used are some 31 buildings belonging to the airport ami other buildings belonging to the Guard. The Advisory council estimated value of the leased property at $1 --million. Activities of the Guard, the resolution points out, have become global and more a national than a local responsibility. The resolution notes that all other airport tenants are expected to pay fair rates and charges for facilities or for services 10-y- ear 80-ac- res provided. .There seems to be no logical reason, the resolution concludes, why the Airport should not break precedent and subsidize a branch of the Federal government The resolution was adopted May 5 and for- -, warded to the City Commission and the Adjutant General. In response to the resolution, Maj. Gen. Watts pointed out that in addition to the $1 per year for parking of planes and use building facilities, the State of Utah CIt yays per year for use of runways and taxi ways for flight operation. Maj. Gen. Watts declared that the $12,-0- 01 per year rental paid for use of the facilities by the UANG at the Airport does not represent the only advantage accruing to Salt Lake City. Since 1947, Maj. Gen. Watts points out, cm behalf of the Guard, Utah and the Federal Government have Invested approximately $3,232,000 in construction, extension and main tal nance of the facilities used at the airport. For the fiscal year 1966, Maj. Gen. Watts continued, Utah and the federal government will spend approximately $53 -- thousand for maintainance, modification, repairs and improvements of je 512-thous- and M facilities. Maj. Gen. Watts wrote that Project' ed reorganization of the Air National Guard and the U. S. Air Force Reserve might jeopardize the continued status of the Utah Air National Guard if adequate facilities cannot be guaranteed at a reasonable rental rate. The study of facility requirements might also result in the relocation of tin Utah Air National Guard at Hill Air Force Base if the cost of retention of facilities at Salt Lake City become pro- hibitive. Maj. Gen. Watts urged Mayor J. Bracken Lee and the City Commission to renew the federal lease at $1 years. per year for 25 VS In consideration of the lease renewal, Maj. Gen. Watts said that the Guard would agree to exclusion from the new lease of land now situated north of the present county road; would negotiate the contract on behalf of the Guard only without Inclusion of conditions for use by other agencies should need for the Guard (Continued on page A 2) ' Murray Water Tastes Better Its amazing sometimes how far people will go just to avoid paying four bits. Mr. A. J. Sharnborg spent hours chi the phone finding out how much every water company in the valley charges for water connections. He spent several afternoons with Murray City Commissioners ....And when his water bill came with that $1.50 fee, because hes convinced that $1 is a much more fair fee hes forgot about that 50 cents. We changed the 1936 rates to 1964 because we were losing money. Commissioner Clark L. Cushing stated. After 45 minutes of debate in Murray City Commission meeting May 23, Mr. Sharnborg was still not convinced. In a desperate attempt to end the debate, Mr. J. E. Wahlquist stated: "We have better water than most people, so we have to charge more. -- |