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Show FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1969 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Utah County Officials Favor Direct Election of President Nixon and Cabinet Ready Work For Progress of Nation Studentpower1 To be Used in Utah college students talents really lend themselves to ere ating jobs for other people At the first meeting of the new industrial and economic through cabinet and the newly elected A straw vote poll taken at the vote tabulation systems includUtah-IDE(Indevelopment card those of Utah President Richard M. Nixon an type convention using punch statewide ing Executives dustrial Development electronic on a stepped-u- p and Lake ballots scanning county officials held in Salt Jan- embarkment at their heard Association) balcount counters inflation was that curb to shows they paper campaign City Jan. held in business meeting uary Votronics Cubic elecof business. the first matter lots, like the strongly support the direct Salt Lake City. President Nixon presided over tion of U. S. presidents by pop- system. for the oath Speaking was Bob Hulling-horst- , an early gathering ular vote. Secretary of State Miller is a representative cf the of office to be ' administered to of the 108 county chairman of a special committee Eighty-fivofficials polled in the survey fa- currently studying the updating Western Interstate Commission 11 of 12 cabinet 'members. The vored the elimination of the of state election laws and voting fer Higher Education (WICHE) sole exception from the anHe explained that 75 students nounced structure of cabinet present electoral college system. procedures. can will spend this summer actively members was Walter J. Hickel, machines Votronics The The Utah county officials were an to ballots 2,000 engaged in economic and indus- whom the Senate has not conalso asked if they would like to process up see the voting age, lowered to hour and provide both paper trial development programs in firmed as secretary of the incoage 18, and responded np by a tape totals for each precinct on 13 western states. WICHE is of terior. At the same meeting the spot or in a data processing ordinating the Department Charles W. Yost was sworn in margin of 60 to 45 votes. Economic Devel Commerce fed and be can format that third as ambassador to the United Nadirectly to questhe In answer funded Administration a centralized into computer. opment tions and Robert P. Mayo as budtion in the survey, they indicated counters have vote Votronics program. get director. Mr. Mayo reported support for a national presiden Of the 75, 6 or 7 students are that his work is on an effort tc tial primary. The vote was 60 been used successfully in elections since 1964 and have a rec- eligible to work for either state cut the federal budget sent to for and 45 against. The election survey was con- ord of high speed, accuracy and or local development programs Congress by President Johnson. President Richard M. Nixon , The main possibility that the ducted on paper ballots and reliable performance. In the 1968 in Utah. A future Utah-IDEcounted by the Cubic Votronics presidential election, the ma- meeting will determine which budget cut or reducing would Other members of the Council machine on display at the con- chines were used in 12 Califor- agencies will utilize the intern come from the easing or elimi are the vice president, the atnia counties and counted 20 per program this summer. Training nation of the 10 percent income vention. torney general and the secretae desk-sizcent of the statewide vote. The the students, helping fill the need surtax. Mr. Mayo and Mr. Yost ries The Votronics unit, a of housing and urban develdevice which counts paper system was also used in Deshutes for industrial development' pro- will act as cabinet members in opment. Former Utahn George ballots electronically, is not cur- County in Oregon and in the fessionals, and assisting the everything except official posi Romney is the cabinet member rently authorized for use. in Utah Massachusetts communities of agency in which the intern works tion, according to President in charge of the urban developSharon and Randolph. solve a specific problem are the Nixon. As has been the nicknam ment committee. Others of the under present election codes. devices have Votronics The of State However, Secretary goals of the program. ing of cabinets in the past Presi Council are secretaries of transserious or a failure had never to upa dent Nixon has labeled his cabi- portation, health, education and Clyde Miller reports bill elecin error any net as a working cabinet. La date the election laws dealing programming labor and agriculture. beled as such because of the fact welfare, with voting machines is now be- tion. Where the equipment has Utahs County Road the hand that they started at 8 in the As stressed by President Nixon ing written and should be intro- been used in place of Defined System and ballots and his cabinet they pledge to duced in the legislature within counting of paper morning. streets roads All and public precincts have been consolidated, The President will meet next help cut the inflation in the the next four to six weeks. or state as cut the not administered been costs have election by will . bill said qualithe Miller Thursday for the first time with country and to campaign to outside and federal 40 as much government percent. the Urban Affairs Council, dify the newer more sophisticated discities and towns, incorporated rected by Daniel P. Moynihan, bring dissenters into policy and improved beyond a primi an assistant to the President. cussions, not freeze them out. tive state are known as county B roads and are administered by the governing officials of the county. There are approximately 20,350 miles of county roads Sen- crime rate, and second, how to of which 910 miles are on the WASHINGTON, D.C. Federal-aiSecondary system. has eliminate the causes of crime. ator Frank E. Moss The Inventory Section of the his resolution 'This can be accomplished State Department which would establish a Joint only through organized study maintains Highway a inventory complete Congressional Commission to In- continued from year to year. It of all county B roads. vestigate Crime. Fourteen other is my opinion that this analysis can best be accomplished Senators joined as During the 90th Congress the through the creation of this Joint County Recreation same resolution was introduced Commission, Senator Moss said. in the Senate by Senator Moss The Utah Democrat said the Dept. Reorganizes and in the House by. Rep. Claude Committee would serve three Briant Stringham Jr. was House The Pepper, purposes, first direct the atten named Jan. 17, as Chairman of Potential new hazards for astronauts and automopassed the resolution 319 to 12, tion of the Congress to valuable the Sat Lake County Recreation but no action was taken by the information which might other- Board. Mr. Stringham, a member bile drivers have been revealed in breathing studies aided Senate. of the Murray 'School District wise escape its attention. a new analytical technique of extreme sensitivity, it by Senator Moss said, I recogserved has of Board Education, could Committee Chemical Society. Second, the nize that the primary responsi- consider of the Recrea- was reported recently to the American as of the merits many the bility for controlling crimes rests proposals to combat crime which tion Board for the past year. He Although it is normal for people to exhale about with the states and local govern- are C. Brown. The suggested by experts in succeeds Keith resides at 325 one part of methane gas with every million parts of ments, not with the Federal Govnew Chairman endeavor. certain individuals appear to be methane proernment. But it has become in- many fields of breath, Utah. Clark St., Murray, be would creasingly clear that if crime in Third, the Committee ducers and exhale up to 30 times that much, said Robert Mrs. Jerry Landa, 2150 on information of a unrepository our society is to be brought Ave., Salt Lake City, was K. Stevens of the National Air Pollution Control Ad- der effective restraint, the Con- all aspects of the crime problem, members in their chosen to serve as Board minstration. gress will have to act respons- available to all and in commit Mrs. Landa represents work individual local states and assist to the ibly Methane, which is natural gas and a good cooking the Salt Lake 'City Board of Edcommunities in the improvement tee deliberations. The Congress Panel. fuel, is very difficult to remove from air. For this reason of their efforts to establish and could draw upon the expertise of ucation of the County The County Recreation Board an astronaut, if he turned out to he a methane producer, maintain law and order, this body in the preparation of crime combat If we are to fresh proposals to improve the oversees all Recreation and Park would tend to build up dangerous methane levels in a effectively, in my judgment we effectiveness of crime control ac- programs of Salt Lake County must determine- two things: (Continued on page 4) Board. and is a Moss said. Senator to the curb tivities, how present First, A - A 15-1- 8, . e . - Moss Introduces Resolution to Establish Crime Commission TODAYS EDITORIAL d (D-Uta- h) New Hazards for Astronauts rs. and Motorists (D-Fla.- ). Vice-Chairm- an Sun-nysid- e Vice-Chairma- n. I - 1 non-politic- al |