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Show 3CX 26U3 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH June 10 Set for Salt Lake County Democratic Nominating Meeting 3 euai CITY FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1972 Streets Commissioner Urges More Equitable Tax Table 53 More Utah Firms Given Job Contracts For 85 Job Trainees City Funds Earn $885,277 in Interest Fifty three more Utah firms are hiring and training 85 hard core jobless persons under the industry government Job Opportunities in the Business Sectors (JOBS) program, the U.S. Department of Labor announced. The JOBS programs are being funded with a total of $147,814 in Labor Deuartment allocations said Frank A. Potter, Regional instead of the earlier announced date of June 3, which conflicted Com. Stephen M. Ilarmsen with the opening date of fishing Keynote Speaker season so the convention date Salt Lake City Streets ComJune 10 has been set as the was changed to June 10. missioner Stephen M. Harmsen date for the Salt Lake County said that sewage rate should be Democratic Nominating Convento City Employes adjusted to reduce the cost to tion. The convention will be held widows and those in smaller at Carpenters Hall beginning at Receive Back Pay homes. the hour of 1:00 p.m. Salt Lake county employes will A sewer tank study has been Salt Lake County Democratic receive retroactive pay for July, Chairman Robert Moore will co- 1971, Salt Lake City commission- completed showing the alternate methods of equitable payments. ordinate the convention. ers decided this week. to recommend Im not Registration of delegates will Mayor Jake Garn said pay- any change going in the rates until the begin at 12 noon until 1:00 p.m. ment of the money, totaling water department goes on the Convention call will be $141,417, woud be made to each in September. (The by Louise Jorgensen, Sec- employe on June 30, a day after computer water department collects the retary of the Salt Lake County the public hearing on the fiscal sewer tax on water bills and will Democratic Committee. Greet- 1972-7- 3 budget. on the Salt Lake coundo However, it is possible that ty billing ings will be offered by County computer.) Commissioner Ralph Y. McClure. the budget may have to be reI believe some persons, widReports of committee activities opened to transfer funds from ows and those in smaller homes will be given by the committee one account to another, but I are paying too much tax while chairman, the report of rules dont think so. business and commercial and order of business committee, Previously, the commission others, are paying less. Jack Lunt, chairman; report of voted an increase in salaries for establishments The proposed new rates should credentials committee, Dr. Daryl employes in varying amounts to lower for some and inMcCarthy, chairman. Report of be effective Aug. 1, 1971. Origi- crease charges it for others. elections committee, Leonard nally the raise was to be effective July 1, but wage price conCosco, chairman. Honored guests who will be trols during Phase 1 of the Wage Want to Have Your present at the convention include Price Freeze prohibited the ret- Says About Senator Frank E. Moss, Gover- roactive raise and commissioners nor Calvin L. Rampton, who will voted to move the date to Aug. Vocational Education? Utahns who have ideas about be the keynote speaker of the 1 of last year. vocational education and how it convention; Secretary of State Salt State of Utah Building should be will have an opportuClyde Miller, Carl Nemelka,Jera-dean and Lake County Attorney; nity to register their views with the Utah State Board of EducaMartin, County Recorder. Warehouse Facility A $215,000 warehouse is being tion. The State Plan for VocaNominations for Salt Lake two-yecompleted in June beneath the tional Education will be reviewCounty Commissioner seat promises to be the most 5th and 6th South viaduct to ed by the body, competitive race. County Com- house combined operations of Friday, June 9, 1972. The public missioner Ralph McClure is the the Surplus Property Division of will voice opinions on the docuonly candidate seeking the four-ye- the State Finance Department ment at 2:00 p.m.. Board Room. county commission seat on and the Excess Property Division 14th Floor, University Club the Democratic ticket. There arc of the State Board of Education. Building, 136 East South Temple, State Finance Director Her- Salt Lake City. four candidates seeking the posicommission bert F. Smart said his departFederal law requires that citition for the two year seat. The announced candidates ment is paying for the warehouse zens be able to review the plan arc James Dooley, John Delaney, on land leased for 20 years from and make suggestions about it in Pete Kutulas and Quentin Wells. the State Highway Department. a public meeting. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton sugState Senators and Legislative Copies of the plan will be selected of Board the State be that also available through the Division of gested candidates will which Vocational-TechnicEducation. proHigher Education, at the nominating convention. to own Hall. its establish of Board Education, Palace Assembly posed surplus Utah State Salt Convenbo consolidat13th Floor, University Club property division, The Salt Lake County 10 new ed into the operation. tion has been moved to June Building. Governor Calvin L. Rampton pre-sene- td ar nine-memb- er ar al Manpower Aodministrator, Denver. The JOBS program is a joint effort of the Labor Department and the National Alliance of Businessmen to enlist private industry in providing jobs and training for the hard core unemployed. The program operates on a hire first, train later basis. Funds are furnished to help employers offset the cost of on the job training, related education, job coaching, orientation, and minor medical care, where needed. Hiring the largest number of trainees under the current Labor Department funding in Utah was Albertsons of Salt Lake City. It will hire and train seven grocery clerks with a $13,986 allocation. The enrollees will start at $2.50 an hour and receive $3.75 on completion of seven weeks of training. The hiring effort is being done with the cooperation of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 537. U. S. Rockwool Co. of Salt Lake City will hire six insulation installers under a $8,268 contract. They will receive $2.50 an hour to start and $2.75 per hour at the end of six weeks training. Hiring four trainees is the Doctors Professional Exchange in Salt Lake City under a $6,636 contract. Employing two trainees in Salt Lake City are the following: Sugar House Awning and Paint; Reams Great Western Meats; Wells Tannery, Inc. Comm. Jennings Phillips, Jr. ' With more than $20 million in idle funds invested, Salt Lake City will have received $885,277 in interest during the first five months of 1972, Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips, Jr. said. He said a report from City Treasurer Joseph Fakler shows current city investment in time certificates of deposit (in banks and financial institutions) and Treasury Bills (federal government securities) totals $20,929,-62so-call- ed 4. Current interes rates have di- Inter- minished expected yield. est rates have dropped nearly one half, compared to a year ago. We used to get in excess of 6 per cent on these investments, now were getting only up to 3 per cent. The invested money, he said, is in secific trust funds, and can not be spent for city operations or in eliminating deficits in department budgets. TODAYS EDITORIAL v Y Aliens and Jobs One of the reasons so many Americans are out of jobs is that many of the aliens who have flooded into this country in recent decades are holding jobs illegally. The Administration has proposed legislation punishing employers who hire such aliens, requiring that they have eligibility proof before hiring. The House subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization recently held (Continued on page four) |