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Show Page Eight i FRIDAY, FEBRUARY to the Utah State Highway De- partment. Project actions and public hearings will be advertised in the legal section of local newspapers and news media will be informed through press releases, drawings and photographs. As each project is announced and comments are received, the Highway Department will maintain a file that will be open to public inspection. As in the past, Mr. Helland continued, public hearings will be held when a proposed highway bypasses or takes right of way in a community either incorporated or unincorporated. This has usually been in the final design of a project or within a year or two before construction actually begins. Under the new policy, public hearings will be held or the opportunity for public hearings will be afforded for 'any project which requires additional right of way, changes the function of connecting roads or streets, or will have a substantial social economic or environmental impact on an area Two public hearings will most likely be held: (1) to consider the broad corridor through which the highway must be built and its potential impact upon the area; (2) to consider the roads detailed design and the .impact upon citizens directly affected by the project. Groups and agencies placed on the master mailing list will be asked to specify their particular category of interest. These cateuser.V Mr. Helland emphasized that gories are: 1. Stage of Preliminary Engiany agency or group whose public or civic responsibility is asso- neering (a) notice of (b) notice of public hearciated with highways and their improvement may apply to the ings. 2. Geographical Location of highway department to be placed on. the mailing list. An applica- Proposed Highways - city, town, tion to be placed on the mailing county, region, statewide or a list may be obtained by writing specific highway. . . pro-gram-min- g; Series Explains New Ways To Save Money on Taxes (Continued from page 1) The IRS has no announced, official policy on what it will allow for charitable contribution in the event you are unable to . substantiate the fact that they were made in the amounts you claimed. In the past, however, it has been known in certain districts to attempt to limit charitable contribut ions which a taxpayer cannot substantiate to $78 a year ($1 a week for church donations and 50 cents a week for miscellaneous charities.) , Your charitable contributions must have been made either in money or property. Stocks pur- chased for $200, for example, but worth $600 when donated to your church building fund last year, are claimed as a $600 dona- tion. Contributions must be claimed for the year in which they were made. A $10 charitable donation made by check and mailed as late as last December 31, should be claimed on your return due on or before April 15, even though it did not clear your bank until January 5. You cannot deduct contributions to friends and relatives, political organizations or candidates in 1968, social clubs, labor organizations and chambers of commerce. The market value of blood donated to the Red Cross or a hos- - pital blood bank is not deductible. Neither is the value of the time or service given voluntarily to a charitable organiza- tion or agency. You can, however, deduct out-o- f pocket expenses in donating such services. For example, if you regularly drive volunteer donors to a Red Cross blood bank in your car, you can deduct a taileage fee of five cents a mile as a charitable, contribution. Reasonable expenses for meals and lodging while away from home on volunteer service for a charitable organization are also deductible. Tuition paid to a parochial school for your childs education is not deductible as a contribution. It is a personal, nondeductible living expense, according to the IRS. Contributions to a nonprofit cemetery, where the funds are irrevocably dedicated to the perpetual care and maintenance of the cemetery as a whole, are deductible. Not so contributions for the care of a particular grave, crypt or burial plot, however. In certain instances, to cover donations to charities receiving their support from the general public, such as churches, educational institutions, and hospitals, medical research facilities and college endowment organizations, as much as .30 per cent of your adjusted gross in-. tax-exem- pt THE SALT LAKE TIMES 1 Mitchell Melich Named to Interior Post Highway Dept. Seeks Greater Public Participation in Works To ensure full public participation in the development of highway projects, the State Highway Department is anxious to receive specific comments from individuals, civic associations, public advisory groups and public agencies who will be definitely interested in a particular project. Individual citizens will be informed of projects through newspaper notices and will be invited to express the comments at public hearings. Civic associations, public advisory groups and public agencies through the delegated agent will be placed on a master mailing list and will be informed as the highway project moves from the drawing table to the final public hearing. These projects include Interstate System freeways as well as major improvements to city streets, primary and secondary routes. Our purpose in informing the individuals, civic associations, public advisory groups and public .agencies is to strengthen and expand the means by which a planned project may have a broader and more expansive discussion, said Henry C. Helland, director of Highways. Agencies and groups on the master mailing list will be asked that. for each proposed project to comment upon a wide range of factors that may affect the community, region or state. These factors would include the social, economic and environmental effects of a planned highway on the community and the possible benefit or loss to the highway 28, 969 Utah attorney and former State Senator and Republican NaMitchell tional Committeeman L. Melich this week was named solicitor for the Department of Interior by Secretary Walter J. Hickel. Mr. Melich's appointment must be confirmed by the Senate but no objection is expected. He has the endorsement of Sen. Frank E. Moss, Democrat, as well as Sen. Wallace F. Bennett and both Republican representatives from Utah. Sen. Moss, after a visit from the former Moab and Salt Lake attorney, said he would be happy to support his confirmation. Mr. Melich served in the Utah Senate from 1943 to 1950. Utah Power and Light Joins In Nuclear Power Facility Utah Power & Light Company this week that it has joined with Gulf General Atomic of San Diego, Calif., and 36 other investor owned electric utilities to advance development of the gas cooled fast breeder reactor nuclear power system. In making the announcement, UP&L President Allan Hunter said the breeder reactor has a great potential for future generation of low ccst power. supported the development of advanced technology at Gulf General Atomic in programs starting in 1958. It was among disclosed the original group of Rocky Mountain and West Coast com- panies that backed the early de- velopment of the high temperature gas cooled nuclear reactor, the most efficient nuclear power system in operation or under construction in the U.S. today. The addition of Utah Power & A breeder reactor nuclear sys- Light to the program raises the tem creates more fissionable fuel number of cooperating utilities than it consumes, thereby reduc- to 37, and financial support by ing fuel costs. While many nu- these utilities and Gulf Atomic clear fueled generating plants in now exceeds $4.2 million. Work the nation today produce elec- is directed toward a GCFR proBoard of Governors tricity, techniques have not yet totype or a reactor experimental developed to make a breed- facility and will include the reEducation Resolution been reactor er a reality a,nd one im- search and development and enA resolution urging authoriza- portance of the breeder concept gineering design work for the tion be given the State Beard of is that presently known eco-- ; facility. The program will Education to grant special disfissionable fuel reserves compass fast reactor core design tribution units in recognition of are not sufficient to meet the land development, systems and urban area problems was adopt- nations future nuclear power component developments, and ed Tuesday by the board of gov- generation supply. 'safety analysis. ernors of the Salt Lake Area Mr. Huner said the gas cooled i We greatly welcome and Chamber of Commerce. represents an im-- ; predate this participation of the system In the report committee mem- portent approach to develop- - Utah Power & Light Company bers said they recognized the ment of a reactor system with in Gulf General Atomics ad-aspecial problems of the Salt Dr. important approach to devel- - vanved power programs, Lake City School District in opment of ' a reactor system' with ;de Hoffman said, meeting the schooling needs of a an exceptionally high breeding In addition to the utility prochanging type of school enroll- gain of new fissionable material gram, Gulf General Atomic is ment, particularly in the Central and resultant low fuel cost. carrying out GCFR work for the The gas cooled fast breeder U.S. Atomic Energy Commission City area, as well as the need to act more vigorously to prevent reactor (GCFR) system has the and with the Swiss Federal Inschool dropouts and to encourage potential to create (breed) 50 stitute for Reactor Research. previous dropouts to complete per cent mere fissionable fuel their school opportunity. than is consumed in its operation. Pioneer Monument conthe report Mr. Hunter said the program They support, tinued, recommendations made will carry out selected research Land Studied The Administrator of General by personnel of the Salt Lake and development and initiate City School District which pro- design studies to establish the Services Administration has asvide for special financing of the parameters of an experimental sured Sen. Wallace F. Bennett unusual costs in the Salt Lake gas cooled fast breeder reactor that regional GSA representaarea. tives will visit Salt Lake City power system. & Utah Power Light presently if necessary to investigate the Employment Shows a has total generating capacity Senators request for transfer of of over one million kilowatts 156 acres of land adjacent to the Upward Trend Despite weather caused in- generated in hydro and in fossil Pioneer Monument State Park. creases in initial and continued fuel steam electric plants. The Sen. Bennett earlier urged the claims for unemployment insur- company and its subsidiary, the Administrator, Lawson Knott, to ance, jobs made available by Western Colorado Power Com- approve the transfer) with at Utah employment security of- pany, serves in Utah, southeast- least the western 40 acres gofices totaled more than 1,000 ern Idaho, Wyoming and south- ing to Utah without charge. The Utah lawmaker pointed during the week ended Feb. 22, eastern Colorado. The companies now participat- out, Transfer of this land as a reported the employment securing in the Gulf Central Atomic historic monument rather than ity office. A year ago, for the same week, program represent some 30 per as a recreational park could save cent of the total investor owned the State from having to pay for job calls were only 556. Initial claims, influenced by generating capacity installed in one half the fair market value of the land. This is feasible under layoffs in sugar processing, in- the United States. The Utah Power & Light has existing law. creased by 231 over the week of Feb. 15, to reach 1,209. Weather was also a factor. Co-spon-sor Continued claims, now 4.16 per cent of all workers covered by state and federal unemployment insurance laws, increased slightly over the week of Feb. 15, as job placements and industry reSenator Frank E. Moss of Utah was the providing of $310,000 calls lagged behind the build up has announced through his Wash- last year for construction of an of initial claims. ington office that he will co- all weather road into the Glen The seasonal down turn in un- sponsor two Senate bills dealing Canyon Recreation area on Lake employment, expected within with the Four Comers Regional Powell. This move also freed the next few weeks now depends Commission. state money which was used to on weather. The two bills would amend the improve access to the beryllium Regional Development Act of mining development in Millard chari1965. One bill, authoried by Sen. County. come can be claimed as a the tangible benefit table deduction. Jennigs Randolph of West VirAlthough ' In the event your contribution ginia woudl extend the life of from the Commission to Utah took you above the 30 ppr i nt the Act. The other, sponsored by has been limited, officials of the ceiling, you are entitled tv. carry Sen. Edmund S. Muskie. of Maine Commission are conducting imover the excess as a deduction would broaden the uses to which portant studies and surveys that on your return for the 1969 tax grants from the Regional Com- will soon be the basis for addiyear. It would well be worth missions could be used by the tional important action.I have supported the concept while, however, to consult your various states. The Four Corners Regional of regional commissions from the local Internal Revenue office, a CPA or other qualified tax au- Commission is one of five which beginning. It is most important thority on the proper procedure are in operation in various parts that multi state areas which are of the country and are affected lagging behind the rest of the for filing this years return. which This carryover privilege country economically be given by the legislation. next Sen. Moss pointed out that the help to catch up. The next two over five the can be spread years, applies only to contribu- Four Corners Commission was years will be most important in tions to organizations and insti- created late in 1967 and has not proving the worth of the contutions supported by the gen- been fully staffed until recently. cept. I look to the Four Corners We have had only one major Commission to get into action eral public. It does not cover contributions made to most pri- accomplishment from the Com- with a number of income buildmission in Utah up to now. 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