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Show Page Eight FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1971 Local Government Reform Sure To Get Legislative Attention Taxpayers Assn. Offers (Continued from page 1) Dixie Leavitt, City, drafted some interim proposals, but the committee found itself thwarted ni examining other alternatives. Municipalities should be permitted to initiate annexation of adjacent unincorporated areas, with hearings and sufficient resident approval, the committee advocated. The law now allows only residents to initiate annexation proceedings. Urban counties, such as Salt Lake County, have a crazy quilt array of municipal boundaries between unincorporated areas, giving rise to duplicating or over lapping special taxing districts, or islands of land annexed to R-Ce- Friends Committee Criticizes Federal Desegregation Plans The federal governments $75 million Emergency School Assistance Program, proposed to aid in school desegregation, was criticized in a report issued this week by six private civil rights organizations. The promise of the Emergency School Assistance Program has been' broken, they declared, adding that, funds that were appropriated by Congress last August to help desegregated public schols have been used for general school aid purposes unrelated to desegregation. In many instances funds have been granted to school districts that are continuing to discriminate against black children. The organizations primarily involved in the preparation of the report are American Friends Service Committee, the Delta Ministry of the National Council of Churches, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc., and the Washington Research Project. The report on the Emergency School' Assistance Program represents the first part of a major project by the civil rights organizations, assisted by other groups, to analyze and evaluate the progress of desegregation in south this fall. A second more comprehensive report on the extent and quality of school integration will be isued in several weeks. The first report is being issued . SPINET PIANO. Will sacrifice to responsible or terms. Darty in this area. Cash Write or ORGAN. Also ELEC. Credit Mgr., phone Tallman Piano Organ Stores,' Inc., Salem, Oregon 97- CONSOLE 503-363-570- 308, (1-- 8 5) Statehood Da Gathering Hears Plea for Utah to Sell Self The Utah Taxpayers Associathis wek presented its State tion nothing. (Continued from page 1) Every industrial prospect that It has also given stimulus to Spending and Tax Score Board visits Phoenix is taken to see Dr. Durham said these other the cry of double taxation, comparing what has happened states Arizona State University, its enhave been succesful in atwhere city dwellers pay a tax in Utah in the ten years since school, library, art tracting industry because they gineering fine for their municipal services, and 1960. art galleries, Citizens can expect this load have made their resources, vis- is the School of centers. Where then pay a tax to the county for Engineering loit to provide similar services to to increase even further if spend- ible. Why should scientific-electroni- c cated at Brigham Young Univercomplexes crowd around sity? The areas that may not be incorpo- ing requests are not pared to the University of Utah? bone by the legislature, they Route 128 (Massachusetts), Palo Utah rated. State University? How and called on the taxpay- Alto, Los Angeles, then look for know? Annexation cannot be con- said, many ers from all over the state to sites in Dallas or Phoenix when Now that Utah is no longer the sidered, as a method for solving contact their lawmakers to pro- they expand unless it is because major urban problems, report- test further increases in taxes. the leadership of Texas and Ari- crossroads of the West, because most ed the committee. Nevertheless fly over unless they In the short period from 1960 zona made such a big thing of have people to come the ability of local government to 1970, the combined take from their new graduate schools and need to be a here, there will to intiate the annexation of urgreater effort excollections, and from, their output of scientists and en- pended to make ban fringe areas, in counties just state tax taxes Utah visible to has jumped from gineers? property the industrial to prospect, accordexperience growth $199 to $447 million, or 125 per beginning Utah has had two schools of to the Commissioner. ing There in the unincorporatde areas may cent, they claim. engineering for 80 years and are priorities to fix, alternative In ten years, property taxes three since 1950. Phoenix (Ari- courses to provide a means of. preventing chart, and decisions to climbed 77 per cent, fuel zona State University) graduated be have further expansion of problems. if the Diamond Annimade, and gas tax collection have gone its first engineers in. 1960. The marked versary today, is to mark up 79 per cent, individual and Dean and President are ex officio the forward march of useful, corporate income taxes have members of the Phoenix Cham- knowledgeable, Utah - centered shot up 218 per cent, and sales ber of Commerce by demand. people. tax collections 217 per cent. Total Utah state spending in the period between 1960 and E. 1970 has gone up from $174 to Franthree year term on the San nearly $461 million, or 165 per cisco Reserve Banks Board and cent. The watchdog organizahis redesignation as chairman of tion claims that part of this has the Board and Federal Reserve been funded by state taxes and (Continued from page 1) Agent for the San Francisco Re- part by federal funds. However, day at 9 a.m. serve Bank in 1971. The Board it all comes out of the same Transferred $250,000 from In other action, the commisof Governors also renamed S. the sion: capital improvements budAlfred Halgen, senior vice pres- pocket. to two-onthe Salt Palace account State population since 1960 has get Voted to reverse its ident and director of the Carna- gone up but 19 per cent, from to for pay so remodeling work. Mr. McClure balloting order tion Company, as deputy chair- 890,627 to 1,064,631. would vote first, followed by Let a contract for installaman for tile coming year. UTA said that a bigger slice Mr. Blomquist and the chair- tion of telescoping bleachers in Appointments to the branch of our income is also being used man. the Salt Palace arena to Safeway board include: taxes. Since 1960, Utahs per for Products Division of ATO, Salt Lake City: By the Board capita income has increased but cal Raised salaries of nine politi- Steel of Inc., appointees. Milwaukee, Wise., on a of Governors appointed John 52 per cent, or from $1,968 to Discussed of bid low changing meeting $285,944. The low bid H. Breckenride, President, L. L. times from $2,997. Wednesand Monday was $51,000 below the $222,388 Breckenridge Co., Twin Falls, To aid the legislature in mak- day but took no action. Idaho to succeed Peter Marble, ing cuts, the association set up Scheduled swearing-i- n cere- estimated by engineers. Two Nev. ' from rancher Deeth, By a list of questions that should monies for chief deputies of the other bids were $237,389 and the1 San Francisco Board - re- be asked of the all requests for other elected officials for Tues $247,780. appointed Roderick H. Brown-in- , public money. Is it necessary? president, Bank of Utah and Can we afford it? What will it Roy W. Simmons, cost ultimateyl? Is the request president, Zions First National the result of wide publil deBank, Salt Lake City. Royden mand, or just of special interest G. Derrick, president and general groups? How will it affect basic manager, Western Steel Co., Salt liberties? Does it place too much PATE Lake City, was appointed chair- power in the hands of one indiic. 0ACK TO man of the branch board for vidual or group? 1971. The responsibility of the citiTIMES zen does not end with the elecnow to call attention to prob- tion. It. merely begins there. If lems before additional E.S.A.P. the legislators are to really repfunds are distributed. Grants are resent us, they must know our allocated on a quarterly basis desires. They cannot know unand school districts have re- less we tell them. Our responsiceived only the first of their bility, our duty, is to contact our elected lawmakers and present payments. The report documents wide- our problems to them. Our bigtaxes. This man is well known spread misuse of ESAP funds, gest problem is high FOR HIS POLITICAL ACHIEVE-V- O , and discrimination against the MENTS BUT DID VOU KNOW black children in districts that Onset of Winter ' 1 THAT HE INVENTED A HEMP the under MACHINE, A PLOUGH, A have received grants WALKING STICK . . . AND THAT unconscionThis is Cuts Job Openings program. HE INTRODUCED INTO THE able in any federal program. It Tied mostly to an early and U.S. OLIVES, RICE, MERINO is particularly so in one designed severe onset of winter weather, SHEEP, CAPER PUNTS AND THE ELEVATOR? to bring an end to discrimination initial claims for unemployment WE MEAN educaT " and promote equality of insurance benefits totaled 2,186 thomas Jefferson. tional opportunity. OF COURSE. for the week ended Dec 26, an The report is based on visits increase of 804 over the week this fall to nearly 300 southern previous, said the employment school districts which have re- security office. ceived ESAP grants and analysis Ordinarily, such a volume is of 358 approved grant applica- not reached until the first of tions. second week in January. It concludes that large numTO HAVE ... Continuing claims, also influbers of participating districts are enced by weather, increased AND TO HOLD! engaging in discriminatory and from 10,222 for the week of Jan. AS. SAVlNGSBONDS 3UVEPS WILL BARN other questionable practices 19 to 10,983 for the week just INTEREST which should have made them ended. THEIR SERIES E BONDS The current ratio of continuineligible under federal civil F HELD TO MATURITY of covapthe to workers MORE THAN EVER. all rights law, provisions ing claims limit which unemered by state and federal propriations bill TSSSSSSSSffg ESAP and program regulations ployment insurance laws is 3.8 developed by Health, Education per cent, compared to 3.54 per THE and Welfare Department. WAY TO SAVE MONEY, cent for the wek ended Dec. 19. asin295 29 ESAP In only of Last year at this time, the sisted school districts monitored sured jobless ratio was 2.98 per by the civil rights organizations cent. less than 10 per cent was no Jobs made available, affected WHAT IS.,, evidence found of practices that by a short workweek and severe A SNAIL'S PACE"? would raise questions about eli- weather totaled 430 for the week AMLE EVERY THREE WEEKS I ...A gibility to participate in the pro- of Dec. 26. For the same week in 1969 they were 305. gram . Federal Reserve Bank Names New Members to its Board Annual appointments to Boards of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and its four branch offices, effective Jan. 1,' 1971, were announced this week. Heading the list of appointments by the Baord of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of O. was the Meredith Wilson, president and director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Calif., to a Score Board on Spending in Utah THE SALT LAKE TIMES William Dunn is Elected Count Commission Chairman e ted WSBrn Tmrrr. Y-neolith- t iiffliaimn MULTI-TALENT- ED |