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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1967 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake Gty as second class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1879 4 711 South West Temple Telephone 364-846- GLENN BJORNN, Publisher not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." Number 48 HSLnlO Your Hospital - City of Care -- (Continued from Page One) of the personnel who administer them. The public demands and is receiving more and more of these ever growing ever expanding services. Nationally, in 1945 there were 27.2 million visits to hospital outpatient departments. By 1965 these visits had increased to a total of 95.4 million, an increase of 249 per cent. In industry the addition of more advanced techniques, procedures and equipment is often associated with a reduction of personnel. The very opposite is true in hospitals. Most of the advancements in hospital care over the past 20 years have required more personnel, not; less. Unlike industry the trepd towards the substitution of automation for labor has had little affect on hospitals. This is why hospital costs have risen higher than those of industry. But now more than ever before hospitals must compete with industry for highly trained, highly skilled and highly educated people. Competitive wages and salaries are the key to attracting these technicians and professionals to a hospital and retaining them. With the recent advances in wages and salaries for hospital personnel in all sections of the country, the hospital employee is catching up with his counterpart in industry. This catching up will be reflected in the hospital costs of the immediate future. Nonetheless, taking into account the revolutionary strides in hospital care over the past 20 years, it is not likely that any of us would want to receive 1947 hospital care, even at 1947 prices! Reorganizaion Plans for State Reflect Traditional Reluctance Reorganization plans lor major state government functions adopted by the 1967 Utah Legislature emphasize the traditional reluctance of the people of Utah to concentrate administrative authority in a single executive. This is the significance of the reorganizational program that will soon be under way, noted in a research analysis released this week by Utah Foundation. The Foundation, a private study agency, notes that four state government reorganization bills making sweeping changes in the policy and administrative structure of health and welfare, liquor control, fish and game and natural resources, and promotional, travel, and cultural agencies will all become effective at or before the end of the current fiscal year. None of the changes will materially strengthen the arm of the Governor as recommended by Utah's Little Hoover Commission. Rather they will tend to emphasize the pattern of direct participation by the legislative as well as the executive branch of government in the appointive processes for administration of these agencies. Many people have professed to see a reflection of the natural opposition of a Republican-controlle- d Legislature to a Democratic Governor in the 1967 programs failure to strengthen the position of the chief executive, the Foundation research brief states. However, the pattern of conflict, or at least of strong rivalry, between the executive and legislative branches of Utah State Government was clearly set in the 1966 special sessions when both houses of the Legislature had Democratic majorities. The disinclination to strengthen the position of the Governor was shown by the second special legislative session in 1966. The session was called to non-prof- it implement the Little Hoover recommendations, but instead rejected the strong governor concept by voting to place five constitutional amendment proposals on the November ballot, four of them aimed at strengthening the legislative branch of government and only one of which would have strengthened the position of the executive. Utah voters at the 1966 general elections rejected both concepts, decisively defeating all five proposed amendments along with three additional proposals for constitutional change which had been placed on the ballot by the regular 1965 legislative session, the Foundation points out. First of the 1967 reorganization measures, dealing with the Liquor Control Commission, will take effect later this month. The three other reorganization bills, setting up consolidated Departments of Development Services, Natural Resources, and Health and Welfare, will become opera- O- kie A SID GRAPEVINE David R. Waldron, former Democratic State Senator from Tremonton, this week was apterm on pointed to a six-yethe State Board of Agriculture. In making the appointment Gov. Calvin L. Hampton said Mr. Waldron would take office June 1. Mr. Waldron farms 240 acres of land in the Bear River Valley. He succeeds Alden K. Barteon, Manti, who has served for 17 ar years. Wendell J. Ashton, Salt Lake advertising executive, this week was presented the Silver Medal award by the Salt Lake Advertising Club. Mayor J. Bracken Lee has proclaimed June 3 as Salt Lake City Safety Day. Observance is The departments which will sponsored by the Salt Lake City begin operations July 1st will Public Safety Department, Salt combine existing departments Lake Area Chamber of Comand functions as follows: merce and Central Utah FederaThe Department of Develop- tion of Labor. ment Services (Senate Bill 91) will comprise industrial promoSalt Lake City Commission tion, aeronautics, travel develop- will open bids May 15 for health ment, expositions, and history insurance programs for city emand fine arts. Auditor Lawrence ployes. The Department of Natural A. JonesCity and Howard Telford, Resources (SB 222) will encom- president, Salt Lake City Empass functions now performed ployes Association, submitted a by the State Engineer, Water letter to the commission exand Power Board, Fish and plaining that a committee had Games, Board of Big Game Con- determined the citys present trol, Parks and Recreation, health insurance program does State Land Board, and Oil and not meet the needs of our perGas Conservation Commission. sonnel. The Department of Health and Welfare (SB 235) will comPark Citys Elk Lodge will be prise functions of the existing headquarters for the 53rd anBoard of Health, Department of nual convention of the Utah Public Welfare, Board of Cor- Elks Assn. June rections, Board of Pardons, Indian Affairs Commission, and Truman F. Clawson this week Committee on Indian Affairs. was named to a r term as chairman of the Salt Lake County Planning Commission. Mr. Clawson, executive secretary of the University of Utah Alumni Association, replaces Leland S. Swaner, who will continue to serve as a commiscourt decision to the effect that sion member. the local communities dont have the right to regulate Salt Lake Winter Sports clubs through the licensing pro- Assn, will erect a new ski lift in the Albion Basin in time for cedure, Mr. Barker said. The proposed city ordinance next season. The 5,111 foot long was prepared after consultation lift, rising at a base of 9,200 feet with the Salt Lake County at- to 10,500 feet will have a capatorney and legal counsel from city of 800 skiers hourly. It will various communities, the com- be built by Hall Lift Co. and missioner said. is expected to cost in excess of Under previous laws govern- $200,000. ing clubs, it appears they were permitted to violate Capt. Donald D. Roberts, Salt the laws and little if any effec- Lake City Police Department, tive action was taken against this week was authorized by the them, Mr. Barkers letter said. Salt Lake City Commission to attend a law enforcement school in San Jose, Calif. He was Five Buildings d granted use of a vehicle and $35 expenses. Offered for Sale Five buildings and fencing loA reduction of 15 or 20 emcated at Hanksville Federal Aviation Agency Airport, ployes in the Salt Lake County Department is being Hanksville, Utah, will be offer- Highway as the first notch in planned ed for sale, for offsite removal, by most county by competitive sealed bids, to departments stay within Gerald E. McNamara, Regional newly-pared announced budgets, Administrator of General Ser- Lamont B. director. Gunderson, vices Administration, announced The county highway department today. was cut $100,00 when budget Bids will be accepted until the county budget was reopened 2:00 P.M., MDST, May 25, 1967, a special hearing last week. at in the Business Service Center, General Service Administration, Bidding material may be obBuilding 41, Denver Federal tained from the above menCenter, Denver, Colorado 80225. tioned office. tive on July 1. 8-1- Demolishing the Myth that First Class Mail Pays Its Way S.L. Commissioners Studying If I tell you that when first class mail pays 103 New Locker Club Ordinance per cent of its way and it is still not paying its proper share of postal rate costs you will think me nuts. But thats the way it is. The postal rate situation is a very complex one and since your point of view is a communicative one and since you want it to be accurate, will you continue reading? Postmaster General OBrien, who should know his business, testified before the House Appropriations Sub Committee on postal matters that first class mail should pay 140 per cent of its cost. The reason for this seemingly extraordinary statement is the basic postal rate law which requires that first class mail should recover not only its fully allocated cost but the extra amount representing the fair value of the preferential handling it receives. Postmaster General OBrien says this is 140 per cent. The proposed increase on first class mail of lc makes its contribution 123 per cent of its allocated cost and, therefore, according to the leading authority, it still will not be paying its way. To meet the Postmaster Generals standard, first class should be raised to 2c. Whether this is good judgment is a question for Congress. cent, then it would take a 7c first class stamp to bring this about. Under these conditions, second and third class mail at 28 per cent and 60 per cent are more than paying their share. As Casey Stengel would say, You can look it up. one-yea- i Salt Lake City Commissioners this week were studying a draft of a proposed ordinance to control non profit locker clubs. Atty. Gen. Phil L. Hansen has expressed opinions that the new state law permitting the city to license the clubs does not give the cities power to close them for with licensordinances. ing Public Safety Commissioner James L. Barker said he would propose, at the May 9 commission meeting, that if commissioners approve, the ordinance be adopted. He recommended that commissioners disregard Mr. Hansens non-complian- ce opinions. A measure passed by the 1967 Legislature permits municipali- ties to regulate private, nonprofit locker clubs through the licensing procedure, Mr. Barker said, pointing specifically to Section He said it provides that all class cies, towns and counties grant- But this is the point: if the fair return of first by law and by the Postmasters testimony is 140 per 0. 11-10-- 4. ing licenses under this act are specifically granted authority to adopt ordinances making it unlawful to operate such establishments without being licensed. Despite the provision the attorney general has announced his office will attempt to obtain a non-prof- non-prof- it it city-owne- belt-tighteni- ng |