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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES LETTER TO THE EDITOR Poge Three FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1972 the loans were made, yet tion Student Government Sec- National PTA Opposes Tax Credit for Private Schools Utah Code Annotated, provides the following re- Day Proclamation striction on such loans: Student government will take No such loans shall be made the spotlight next week both in unless the same is secured by a Utah and all over the United The National PTA this week erate.t he public schools will suffirst lien upon improved real States with various activities deestate or established water rights, noting National Student Govern- reaffirmed its strong opposition fer when public money goes to nor in an amount to exceed forty ment Day and Student Govern- - to public money being distribut- - private schools, directly or inpercent of the cash value of such ment Day in the State of Utah. ed t(? any institution other than directly. The National PTA believes that securities at the time the loan is Utah Governor Calvin L. public, tax supported schools. The cause concern for the the by made. has a school Rampton right of the signed proclamamember organiza- to be selective nonpublic In an opinion letter by George tion declaring Sept. 30 as Stu- multi-millio- n of its students P. Parker, Attorney General, dent Government Day in the tion was the recent hearings in often forces the poor, and the the House Ways and Means com- black, as well as children with dated June 15, 1931, this matter State of Utah. of Funds to be Held in Trust for Earlier this month President mittee in Washington, D.C., on special needs, into the public 16141, the Public and Pri- - school system. As more parents the People, was interpreted and Richard Nixon issued a similar I vate Education Assistance Act of are encouraged to send their clearly defined as follows: proclamation. 1972. If the bill would children to enacted, In signing the Utah proclamaUnder the Enabling Act of schools, of students in the general public becomes less the State the United States grant tion Governor Rampton noted, provide parents it elemen- willing to provide adequate suped certain lands to the State for that schools have the responsiand a port for public schools. schools tary secondary specific purposes therein men- bility to foster program in which to of credit their $200 against Mrs. Kimmel has urged all the up tioned and the various grants the spirit, skills and compeBy Joseph Jody Elder were accepted by the State un- tencies essential to an effective income taxes for tuition paid to state PTA legislative chairmen to voice their opposition to H.R. der the solemn conditions that leadership and citizenship in a those schools. ??AN OMNIPOTENT new This would 16141. JVhen we begin to flex legislation LEGISLATURE?? they would be public lands of democratic society can be deto to a amount loss revenue in our the State and would be held in veloped. muscles, things start hapThe current power struggle for trust for the of million the $790 government pening. After the U.S. Postal Additionally, the Governor more domination and control of of for the people andfordisposed at funds time when a year per Service last October failed to local and which urges, governments purposes Utahs government by the Legnot are and in increased, consider the National PTA fabeing were granted (Article 20 of communities and educational ' islature will be decided on No- they cut for cases are to join in appropriate many being the vorably for a commemorative Consequently vember 7, 1972. A yes vote on the Constitution). is charged with the activities to highlight, revitalize needed programs in the public postage stamp in honor of our State Proposition (I) will be one more duty to faithfully perform that and encourage wider participa- schools, said Mrs. Walter G. 75th anniversary, we dropped step in handing over to the Leg- trust. To properly out the tion in their particular forms of Kimmel, National PTA Coordi-nto- r thousands of letters in their lap. carry now elective of Legislative Activity. She We got the stmp in January! islature, powers trust the State must see that the student government. held by the people. referred specifically to the veto In the earlier proclamation proceeds derived from the sale recent of the How can the proponents of of the granted lands go to the declaring a National Student Congressional for the Department Gas Find Announced the recommend (1) President or permanent funds Government Day, Proposition perpetual appointment of an auditor and created; that the funds are in- Nixon noted that one of the of Health, Education and Wel- By Mountain Fuel legal counsel when it already has vested and that only the interest clearest lessons of the past dec- fare. Roger S. Plummer, Jr., presiMrs. Kimmel explained that it an aditor and legal counsel pro- is used for the support of the ade in America is that students dent of Champlin Petroleum Co., vided by law standing by on a common schools, university or want and deserve an appropriate was assumed in the hearings that a subsidiary of the Union Pacific e basis? (Sec- college as the case may be. Un- voice in their own affairs, and non public schools will raise the mandatory announced this week that Corp., Utah der the constitutional guaranty, that education can be better tuition at least by the amount and tions 67-3the Brady Unit No. 1 well curof the $200 granted the parents. Code Annotated) The answer is these perpetual or permanent when they have such a voice. We believe this to be indirect rently being drilled by Chamsimple, the Legislature doesnt funds cannot be permitted to sufto schools, she plin as operator for a group conwant these State officials elected fer loss and must not be diverted the then of aid University proposed sisting of itself, Mountain Fuel added. by the people with duel respon- to any other use. To make good Utah Medical Center. The legislative program of the Supply Co., and Amoco Producsibilities to the Legislature and this guaranty, an incident of the 1959 In the (ChapLegislature National PTA has for many tion Co. in Sweetwater County, to the People of the State of trust hereinabove referred to, law above ter years stipulated that federal Wyoming,to has encountered what Utah. It wants two new depart- the original fund must always and 86) amended the all funds and funds for the education of chil- appears be a commercial disments, namely, AUDIT and LE- remain intact. Conversion of the assetsappropriated of the Miners Hospital for dren and youth should be used covery of both gas and oil in the GAL SERVICES, which it can money in the fund, through insame the purposes. Up to June I only by public boards and de-3- Nugget formation. dominate and control. vestment in mortgage loans on 1970, cash contributions of con- Although tests results so far It is obvious that the Legisla real estate, into land cannot and $592,044.81 have been made to partments. The PTA has are encouraging, further drilhng ture doesnt want its fiscal affairs must not impair the original the University of Utah from the sistently opposed any legislation into and testing will be required to channel would that money and those of the various State de- fund. Miners Hospital Land Grant schools and for the determine the full economic sigFurther support and confirma- Trust Fund principal account partments, institutions and agenreasons same has opposed the nificance of the discovery. d cies by the peoples tion that Land Grant Funds without any provision for its re- use of vouchers in the schools. Champlin and Mountain Fuel independent auditor, or the laws were received in Trust for the turn. At a time when the need for are each owners of 41.25 percent it enacts challenged by the peo- People of the State of Utah was amount of federal funds is working interest in the well and of Article violation direct In ples independent lawyer. Here given regarding the Miners VI, Section 27 of the Constitu- large so clear, it appears to be most Amocos interest is 17.5 percent. again, the reasons are simple, the Hospital Land Grant Funds by tion, the 1937 Legislature can- unwise to divert needed revenue The foregoing percentage interLegislature doesnt want these Attorney General Joseph Chez celled and authorized the Land at the federal level into non- - est also applies to a joint interest kind of data and facts exposed to under date of August 30, 1935 as Board to convey title to mort- - public schools. Because a dual area surrounding the drill site follows: the public as secur-- 1 system is more expensive to op-it- y aggregating 13,700 acres. Under provisions of the En- gaged properties held Recorded Losses of Land out of Land made loans for Grant Trust Funds as of June 30, abling Act the State of Utah was Grant Trust Funds to the three 1970 granted 50,000 acres to be sold $1,092,593.82. the proceeds used for the following private water comand Cancellation by the Legisla for the sum of $1.00 each: ture of Land Grant Trust Funds establishment of a hospital for panies disabled miners. By further pro- Senate Bill 114 for $3.00 $1,772,743.80 Central Utah Permanent transfer of Land visions of the Enabling Act and Mortgagee Water Company $350,203.73 Grant Reservoir Trust Funds to our State Constitution it is prothe Utah Water and Power vided that the principal sum re- Senate Bill 115 Piute Reservoir ceived from the sale of these Mortgagee Board $203,421.87. & Irrigation Co. $1,300,272.56 Permanent transfer of Miners lands shall constitute a permanand only the interest Senate Bill 175 Hospital Land Grant Trust Funds ent fund used Carbon Water for the establish- Mortgagee may be to the University of Utah ment of this hospital. The lands $122,267.51 Company $592,044.81 of Three Cancellation Total sold the were under supervision $3,660,804.30. TOTAL Senate Bills the $1,772,743.80 Article XX of the Constitution of the State Land Board andwere 7 of the Article Section received therefor X, monies Public Lands, Section (I). The Utah Star art providing a ntw, Land grants accepted on deposited by the Land Board State Constitution. (School funds All All lands of the under two funds. One was desig- guaranteed by State) terms of trust. convenient service far fan residing outside be School Funds shall as the Miners nated Hospital public or may have been, State that of Salt lako City. Tha bait way to inwro guranteed by the State against hereafter be granted to the State- Principal Fund. This designaof less or diversion. action was made for the purpose ardor wall in yourself a loot roiorvotiofi il to by Congress, and all lands two Trust of Grant Losses Land the in convenience keeping quired by gift, grant or devise, funds advance of gama lima via mail ardor. in an effort to Funds occur in rather insignifiseparated from any person or corporation, each year and it Simply writs to tha Salt Poloee lax Office, or that may otherwise be ac-- 1 comply with the mandates of the cant amounts for burden no be financial would and Star Avenue and Wait Temple Street, Salt quired, are hereby accepted,lands the Legislature to replace them declared to be the public The Legislature, lake City. Utah S4101, and ardor the number biannually. of the state; and shall be held in its in failed has responhowever, of seats desired and indicate for what triTheabove losses 'of $1,092,-- 1 which all interest and earning of sibilities and allowed these losses order payable Fund would accu-the- y to accumulate to the staggering game. Enclose check or money 593.82 were sustained because the Principal distnbu-withosums shown above. were made on dry land mulate and tofrom which in ta Utah Stars. For last minute requests, call sura has now made the State be were Since ng tions Pay even a probability that and ticket will the Stars office. costs Miners of the Hospital, the land plus of some 18 million dollars the water ature (Chap-th- e in its treasury, the Legislature .eld until 7 p.m. the night of the game. whch TewYhc payment ex-of- terIn 1957, the Igis constituits all fulfill now should 187) appropriated loans. Appraisals were accrued and accruing under tional responsibility, a solemn nues high in many instances, Grant pledge and condition for Statewere made on lands the Miner's Hospital ofLand U ah for hood made under the Enabling covcrST wUh sagebrush and to the University equipment, furnish-?cx- t Act, and get the money back in vegetation. No pre- - construction, wa! made that the land had ings and the operation of a Re- Trust for the People of the Stale iver been cultivated at the time habilitation Building as a unit of of Utah. 65-4-- 2, non-publ- ic non-publi- c, non-prof- ion full-tim- -1 67-5-l-(- 6), non-publ- ic 0, non-publ- ic post-audite- ut 355-289- reve-trcme- ly |