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Show ' UNIVERSITY OF UTM J LIBRARIES PERIODICAL DIVISION UNTVTRSnY LIBRARY UNIVESIU OF ITAII V i JAN 81966 ; CITY 12 3-- 66 AC 3 I PERIODICALS DEPT. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Commissioners, Auditor Take Oaths of Office at Ceremony j FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1966 Budgetary, Administrative Items On Special Session Agenda Independent Study Zalls for Hikes In City Salaries Salt Lake City Commission A special session of the Utah an independent state college. will have to decide soon whether to grant some $550,000 in annual Legislature will convene TuesStudy an equal division of as two of increases of a result consider number the to and four year state Senate salary day a study of city jobs just com- administrative and budgetary seats to be filled in 1966 general pleted by an independent firm items outlined by Gov. Calvin L. election as provided by the 1965 t hired. Rampton. reapportionment. E. R. Cox and Associates, Ratification of proposed U.S. The governor, in issuing the lired by the commission to make special session call last month, constitutional amendment on the study, reported to the com- emphasized that these matters presidential succession. mission Thursday. contain no intention whatsoever Consideration of state judicial The salary increases are the to increase taxes. district composition and number of judges in each district. result of new job classifications. items the budgetary Originally In a preliminary report E. R. included 24 Consideration of authorizing expenditure requests funds Cox, firm president, estimated in 16 separate for, interim legislative departments and committees. the total hike in salaries will four 1966-6- 7 appropriation cut Permission for range from a few dollars to $60 backs. Liquor Control to take distribution a month. Commission It is expected that some $300,-00- 0 costs from revolving fund rathIn addition, Mr. Cox said, a will have to be found in the er than appropriated operating proposed extension in pay grades states general fund to satisfy fund. for longevity would cost another all the requests. The figure is The governor is asking the $29,000 nex tJuly 1, when it is recommended for the increase to tentative and could be increased special session to reduce the by additional requests stemming State Building Boards revolvbe implemented. 0 from the Legislatures joint apThereafter an additional ing planning fund, eliminate the to $15,000 would be needec propriation committee. Utah Junior College CommisSen. Ernest G. Mantes, Demo- sion appropriation, reduce the each year to carry out the loncrat of Tooele, chairman of the State Industrial Commissions gevity plan. Policemen and firemen in the joint committee, called commit- Manpower Development, and same rank are recommended to tee meetings this week. Training Fund and eliminate adminisin his The same governor, receive the the State Boards Bonding Com.salary. ' Some for firemen and policemen woulc trative calendar, provides missioners building bond servicsession as a the unto a special more month study get up $60 ing appropriation. der the plan. The majority woulc matter. Other purposes of the Where these actions would receive a lesser increase, Mr. session: result in freed revenue, it was Cox said. Examine any flaws, errors or indicated, the money could be inadequacies in 1965 law creat- used to meet the additional need ing College of Southern Utah as cited in the special session call. Delmar L. Larson $10,-00- JAMES L. BARKER, JR. CONRAD B. HARRISON Two Salt Lake City commissioners and a city auditor took their oaths of office Monday and an incumbent commissioner took over a new department. Taking the oath of office were Commissioners Conrad B. Harrison and James L. Barker, Jr., and City Auditor Lawrence A. Jones. Mr. Harrison was reelected. Mr. Barker is serving his first Named to Utah A tty. Gen.s Office term after beating out veteran commissioner Joe L. Christensen in last Novembers election. Mr. Barker will become head of the Public Safety Department vacated by Commissioner Louis E. Holley, who moved to the Parks Department vacated by Mr. Christensen. Mr. Harrison will continue in charge of the water department and Commis- sioner George B. Catmull conLAWRENCE A. JONES tinues in charge of the Streets took with him his secretary and Department. J. David C. Hunter, who will be City Recorder Herman administered the oath of budget director. office. Mayor J. Bracken Lee was not present because of illness. After the oath taking Mr. Bar- Farmers Advised Ho-gens- en The Salt Lake City Commission will be facing some hard problems which will have to be solved. We cant have politics as usual during the next four years. We need statesmen as well as politicians. Mr. Harrison, who presided at the session, said, I will do all in my power to keep city- government running smoothly. Mr. Catmull emphasized that the commission must run the city as economically as possible and Mr. Jones noted that the city would need help revenue-wisMr. Barker appointed Phil W. Dern, manager of Sunset Beach, as his budget director; Mrs. Georgia C. Frank as his secretary and Mrs. Norman Craffos, office personnel. In moving to the Parks Department, Commissioner Holley ker noted that - e. To File Tax Now Farmers who earned at least of their 1965 gross income from farming should file their declaration of estimated tax for 1965 federal income tax return on or before Monday, two-thir- ds Form 1040-Ebe used for this purpose. Jan. 17. However, S Roland V. TODAYS Atty. Gen. Phil L. Hansen this week appointed Delmar L. (Swede) Larson to head his office investigator staff. He succeeds N. D. (Pete) Hayward who resigned to become South Salt Lake Chief of Police. Mr. Larson has been a specia investigator Mr. Hansens staff assigned to the Salt Lake County Grand Jury. He took a leave of absence as supervisor of criminal investigations in the Salt Lake County Sheriffs office to handle the grand jury assignment. He retired in 1963 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after 22 years service. He started his law enforcement career with the Salt Lake County Sheriffs office in 1937. should Wise, Interna District Director Revenue in Utah, said farmers need not file this estimate if they file their final federal income tax return Form 1040 and pay in full any tax due by Feb. 15. Farmers Tax Guide, Publication No. 225, which furnishes more detailed information on the News Preview of subject, may be obtained by con- tacting your nearest Internal Revenue Service office or county farm agent. j Watch for NATO to play a more global role . . . Several Republicans have been the new Urban Affairs Cabinet post . . . Senator Kennedy is shopping around for a top notch candidate for Governor of New York. of-jfer- ed EDITORIAL Red China and the UN Political observers in Washington fear that unless the United States puts its food down firmly, Red China will be admitted to the United Nations next year. Should this happen, it is argued, the UN will lose whatever effectiveness it has today. So far, the opposition to Chinese Communist admission to the UN has been prevented by the steadfast opposition of a majority of senators and representatives backed by the overwhelming will of the American people. Informed sources at the UN report that the State Department has, however, dragged its feet as much as it safely can. This has encouraged the Communist and Afro-Asia- n blocks to push all the harder to bring the Chinese Reds into what was planned as an organization of peaceful states. The refusal of France, the Soviet Union, and a number of small states to pay their dues and assessments to the UN has made trouble enough. So far, the United States is picking up most of their bills and allowing them to continue to cast their votes at General Assembly meeting, though this is in violation of the UN Charter. (Continued on Page Four) |