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Show 8 STANDARD tanuory 27. 1977 Legislation passed by Congress last year has expanded U. S. Department of Agriculture child feeding activities to include many different kinds of institutions, including child care centers, settlement houses, hospitals and other facilities which care for children. According to Cluff D. Snow, Coordinator for School Food Services, Office of the Utah State Board of Education, his Salinity study public meetings set ... Vona Houtz at national VFW auxiliary meeting. Utah VFW leaders to assist in Washington meet Utah VFW Auxiliary Vona Houtz, of Roosevelt, and Mrs. Howe, Orem, will be key leaders in the National VFW Auxiliary Midwinter Conference to be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D. C., Leaders-Mr- s. February 11-1- Mrs. Houtz, national chaplain, will open and close all sessions with a spiritual message, and assist with Conference programming. $he will participate in a meeting of the National Council of Administration, the official governing member body of the organization. Mrs. Howe, Utah State VFW Auxiliary will be honored for outstanding achievement in attaining state membership goals. As a VIP" President, she will participate in a special Night to Remember festivity for top rankers of the nation. President, LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING IF YOU THINK THE GIRL WHO FLIRTS WITH YOU AT THE MOVIES IS INTERESTED IN YOUR POPCORN. Senator asks BLM for clarification on mining rules Schools lunches are no longer just for schools According to USDA specialists approximately 450,000 tons of salt annually leave the Uintah Basin and enter the Colorado River. That is about 900 million one pound packages. If one was to buy that much salt at todays market prices it would cost approximately 171 million dollars. Where is all the salt coming from? Will the supply ever be depleated? Can it be controlled? Does it hurt anything? Where does the salt end up? Will it help basin soil to get rid of it? These are questions asked every day to employees of the Soil Conservation Service. Some may find it interesting to know that this salt is being put back onto farm land in California and Mexico. As much as three tons of salt per acre annually is put onto that ground. Many acres of prime farmland are abandoned each year. The reduced yields have a direct effect on consumer prices and thus an overall direct effect on everyone in the Uintah Basin. There is a great amount of activity in the Uintah Basin at this time and many changes are in the air. With 208 Water Quality Studies, Central Utah Projects, Salinity Studies and other activities being done, the Soil Conservation District wants to be sure there is some local input and control. Ronald Dudley, Chairman of the Uintah Basin SCD feels it is imperative to have public participation at the three meetings they are sponsoring. On January 27 meetings will be in the Duchesne Courtroom at 10:00 a.m., Roosevelt Moon Lake Building at 2:30 p.m., and Vernal Courtroom at 7:00 p.m. Those attending will have the opportunity to get first hand information and to express this ideas. Officials of the Basin SCD are concerned about the salt problem and what is being done. They have invited representatives of the Soil Conservation Service and of the Bureau of Reclamation to present information on what is being studied and to work with Basin representatives to develop a plan of action. Ideas will be appreciated and Mr. Dudley extends a personal invitation to attend and participate. effort to agency is making an all-oinform these institutions and centers of their possible eligibility for USDA fluid nutrition programs. Such institution include - but are not ft limited to - homes for the mentally E emotionally disturbed, ophan-agetemporary shelters for abused children or runaway children, longterm care hospitals and juvenile detention centers may be eligible. Under these programs, the federal government bears part of the expense for children. This is done through finmi assistance and USDA-donato- d foods. In return the schools or institutions agree to follow federal requirements, which include providing meals that meet USDA standards and serving free or reduced price meals to children who cannot afford the price of the meal. Private institutions may qualify if they -- Duchesne County's Annual m fi i 3 FARM BUREAU BANQUET srcsA New Moon Lake Chapel Just East of Mt. Home Turnoff on Altamont - Duchesne Where: Highway When: Saturday Jan. 29 7:30 p.m. Guest Speaker: . A' S. -- y ,rf Uf i V are non-profi- t. Snow says that officials of institutions which may be eligible for the programs should write him at 250 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, for more information. Substantial portions of the program of state government reorganization proposed by Utah's Little Hoover" Commission a decade ago have been carried out, but the need for ' improvement in the efficiency of government operations is urgent today and wQl probably never end, according to Utah Foundation, the public service agency. private, The idea of reorganizing state government to increase efficiency has been going on in the United States through most of the Twentieth Century, but Many students of government feel that moat or all of the attempts to streamline non-prof- it government have fallen considerably short of their goals," the Foundation pointed out in a research report released this week. Government reorganization is a continuing process, however, and goes on in spite of or perhaps in large part because failures. Continuing population g growth, ongoing inflation, and developments in the science of management and the tools to make it work call for periodic revaluations of even the moat successful programs, the report noted. Less successful effort obviously stand in greater need of of-p- ast rapidly-expandin- overhaur. Utah's Little Hoover Commission was crested by the 1965 Utah Legislature and presented a printed report of more than specific recommendations, to a special legislative session early in 1966. The 196546 study and report represented the reconsideration of Utah first over-al- l government structure since the reorganization of 1941, although a number of important individual changes had been made in the interim. The state aim of the Little Hoover reorganization proposals was to centralize executive xuthority in the office of the Governor, balancing this authority with increased accountability by the state's chief executive. Boards and commissions were to be reduced to a minimum, and the Governor provided with a "cabinet of high level officials serving at his pleasure. In measuring accomplishments of the Little Hoover recommendations, the Foundation emphasized that the recommendations are not considered infallible. Utahns have decisively indicated their rejection of some features of the Little Hoover philosophy. Most of the report's sweeping proposals for constitutional changes-elimin- a- Utah minerals hit record production raw mineral categoriea-fuel- production metals, and ed in value. Petroleum production however, declined in every major producing state. Oil and Gaa drilling in the Rocky Mountain States declined by 18 per cent during 1976 aa compared with 1975, notes Mr. Stowe. According to statistical Petroleum Information reports of Corporation, wells completed in the mountain states number 3,737, 858 fewer than in 1975. Drilling in Colorado lagged by 12.6 per cent, Wyoming had a 23.6 per cent decline and drilling waa off in Utah by 39 per cent. nonmetals-increas- FarmBurcauvBanquctFarmBurcau a, tion of the Board of Examiners, the State Tax Commission, and the constitutional elective offices of Attorney General, State Auditor, and State Treasurer for not been implemented. In example-ha- ve other areas concerning the structure of state government and its fiscal management, the Foundation found substantial progress in carrying out the 1965-6- 6 proposals. Noting that former Governor Calvin L. Rampton had been close to the Little Hoover rcommendations from their inception, the Foundation quoted the Governor as estimating recently-retire- d that 75 percent of the recommendations have been carried out. The major accomplishment has been in the grouping of divisions in to a small number of major departments, Mr. Rampton said. This helps the Governor know what is going on. . .1 feel that Utah State government is now "Manageable", whereas it was heading toward the point where it lyould not have been. The Foundation noted that authorities on government operation warn that results cannot be accurately measured in dollar savings and reduction of personnel but are to be found in long-terstability and more and better service for the tax dollar." The Little Hoover report noted that Utah stale expenditures for the year ended June 30, 1965 were $317.8 million. Comparable expenditures in the year ended June 30, 1976 was $980.9 million, more than 2.8 times the 1965 figure. When adjustments are made for inflation and population growth, however, the an increase was only 28 of a 2.26 year. average Roosevelt City council news Business and decisions of the Roosevelt Council this week during their regular meeting included approving Larry Bagley's going to Salt Lake to lobby against the elimination of sales tax on food products and favoring annexing across the county line. Larry is to present letters to representative Dan Dennis and Robert Clyde explaining the citys reasoning. Roosevelt City has recevied a letter from Phillip R. Thompson in behalf of the Duchesne County School District to permit the city to use the 51 shares of the Schools Dry Gulch Irrigation water during the summer of 1977 with the stipulation the city reimburse the school district for the assessment on said shares. Gordon Harmston Jr. announced the n $60,000 grant from the Funds was approved and is to be used to refurbish the present facilities at the Golf Course. The project is to begin immedia- Gty Anti-recessio- tely. It waa decided by the city council to at the give the temporary back-stop- s Duchesne, Roosevelt Regional Park to East Elementary schooL The city will install the backstops permanently and grade the school ball park. The council has given Larry Bagley the authority to evaluate the placing of city lights on Sixth East and Lagoon, State Street and 3A north and at the airport. After Larry makes a decision, he ia to contact Moon Lake Electric Company to install the lights. Gordon Harmston Jr. and Jay C. Gatos will assess the location of the pressure pump house at the suggested location of Lot 16 on the Golf Course. They are to report their findings to the counciL Phone news items to Everything has an end, except a sausage. which has two." Danish Proverb For The Outdoors Dedication set for Provo Tech 722-5- 1 3 The new Orem campus of Utah Technical College at Provo will be dedicated March 14 with LDS President Spencer W. Kimball as the principal speaker, it was announced today by Utah Tech President Wilson W. Sorensen. It will be a daytime event beginning at 10 a.m., to be followed by an open house and inspection of the campus for the general public and honored guests attending. Although the campus has been partially in use since last fall, it will be the formal beginning of a new era for the college, said President Sorensen. With the recent decision of the Utah Board of Regents to retain the present Provo facilities, Utah Technical College instituwill thus become a the Provo tion, he stated-retaini- ng campus for some studies and student overflow and becoming headquartered in the new and modern campus located on 185 acres in the elbow east of and north of Orem's 12th South. By the time of the March 14 dedication, four buildings will be in use, bids expected or let on two more, tnd further structures in the planning stage. two-camp- 1-- Famous Name Brand DOWN FILLED COATS 30 Born in exceeded the 1975 value of $62.3 billion by nine percent. As was true in Utah, all three of the major mineral Booth Wallentine students represented East elemenlast week at Fort Duchesne. "One-on-On- e tary in the Back row; left to right, Jim Pdtry, Bret Millett, Mike Bowen, Middle row- - Lisa Killian, Suzy Mower, Tonya Cahala, front row, Ronnie Winn, Cindy Campbell, Bret Wymer, not present 4-- H Hurry, while the selection is good! "They won't last long" A record year in Utah mineral production, exceeding the billion-dolla- r mark, contributed greatly to the overall record high achieved in total U. S. mineral output notes Carlton Stowe, & Mineral Survey Utah Geological minerals specialist. The Department of the Interior reported today that total value of U. S. Mineral output reached a record $67.7 billion for 1976. Utah's mineral production in 1976 was domestic Vice-preside- nt --These "One-on-On- e' Government ciency need is a continuing problem The Secretary of the Interior, Thomas S. Kleppe, reports that the 1976 value of Utah Farm Bureau Executive 4-- H when photo was taken was Val Bench. $1,018,161,000. v? ' s, 300 pages, containing in excess of 200 Banquet ? Farm Bureau i Banquet , U. S. Senator Jake Garn (RUt) today authored a letter, to be signed by other western Senators, in which he recommends to the Bureau of Land Management that it make new surface mining miners. regulations better understood by In the letter to BLM Director Curt Berklund, Garn and hia colleagues make two suggestions. First, we believe that the interest of the eountry would be served by a series of meetings in the field to discuss with concerned parties the current thinking of the Bureau aa to the direction the Garn regulations ought to take, the of series this letter states. Following would be it we feel appropriate meetings, for the Bureau to issue the regulations once more aa proposals, with the final regulations to follow 80 or 60 days later. Secondly, whatever regulations are finally adopted should take effect only after the end of the current field season," the letter continue. Senator Garn noted that the rules are now set to go into effect February 5. Since operators are right now contracting for men, drilling rigs and other equipment which will be needed this summer, any regulations changing the rules under which they operate would only cause incredible confusion if they were to become effective for this season. The field season ends in September, and we would therefore suggest that the regulations should be effective October 1. We believe that such an effective date would provide ample lead time for familiarization and adjustment. In order to provide the kind of certainty that ia needed, it is essential that there be a clear statement to this effect from your office and that this statement be made as soon aa possible. Since there is no legislative deadline for these regulations, we feel that there are no barriers to such a statement. Garn said he wrote the letter because, even though the regulations dealing with the reclamation of mined land were proposed December 6, 1976 many miners "are only now learning of the proposal and are unfamiliar with its details. We can hardly expect them to comply with the regulations if a decent effort ia not made to familiarize them with their responsibilities." 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