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Show UlilVSRSAL, HICiiCFILJOO BOX 2603 81101 CITY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH County Will Drop Flood Control Counselor and Combine Duties CCP.P. 72 5.71 FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1973 Legal Secretaries Assn. Sponsors Basic Course A basic course in legal secre- Sen. Humphrey Sponsors Bills to Aid Cities in Domestic Problems tarial work sponsored by the Salt Lake Legal Secretaries Asrather than the sociation and the Institute for department Senator Hubert H. Humphrey County Attorneys office. said he will sponsor new legisSecretarial Training, Division of The decision was made by Commissioners Ralph McClure and Pete Kutulas after County Attorney Carl Nemelka said defendants in several condemnation suits contended Mr. McIntosh was not a proper party to represent the prosecution, and Mr. Nemelka agreed. Lone Republican Commissioner William Dunn voted against the firing of the counselor, because he said it strikes at the County Attorney Carl Nemelka The Salt Lake County Commission met in its commission meeting and by a two to one vote decided to fire James A. McIntosh from his flood control spot as a counselor to that depart ment. Mr. McIntosh was hired as a special attorney and was working under the flood control question of future state office buildings unresolved. Another matter which saw much debate and many hours of study and research was on the matter of the third unsuccessful attempt to give floor consideration to the proposed $8 million state purchase of Deseret Livestock Co. property of the northern Utah region. The land purchase measure failed to make it to the floor in a 35 to 35 tie vote, with the Speaker of the House, Howard Nielson, declining to vote on the tie. SB 3, which is the bill for the Capitol Hill areas and the setting up of a commission to develop a master plan for the preservation of the area, was after the House passed 59-1- 1 added amendments directing the commission to look toward sites for future state office construction. The amendment suggested that the master plan shall include h recommendation as to the best sites for future state 21, 1973. Jewell M. Weston, chairman education committee, said the course will be held through May 23 in Room 305 of the College of Business. The course carries three hours of institute credit. Mrs. Kaye Aoki, association president, said the cost is $55, and is for secretaries heart of the governments gov- entering designed the legal field or conerning body to hire special coun- templating entering legal work. sel. Mr. Nemelka took exception Instructors will be legal secreto that point stating that the taries in each parcommissioner has the right to ticular specialized and field attorneys. hire special counsel, depending Further information may be on the circumstances. obtained by calling Ms. Weston This in turn is opposite from at 0 extension 2222, or a previous stand and notation the Division of Continuing Edu-tiomade by the county attorney in which he contended that special counsel may be hired only when Student Selections special skills are needed. As an example he cited the hiring of For Expeditions Mr. Bill Peters to represent the by HEW county assessor for the placing Proposed The Department of Health, (Continued on page 8) Education and Welfares Office of Education has announced a second national competition to select gifted high school and college students who will accompany scientists on expeditions around the world this summer. Scholarships will be awarded office construction, whether it in the fields of astronomy, archshould be on Capitol Hill, at the eology, anthropology, ecology, State Fairgrounds or some other marine biology and geology. Exsite or combination of sites. A peditions of from one to eight $500,000.00 appropriation was weeks will be led by prominent slashed to $100,000 to discourage scientists to research sites in the land acquisition activities. Middle East, Europe, Asia and In other action in the House Central America, and the U.S. of Representatives, the proposed The competition is open to Jordan Parkway was given the students between the ages of 15 go ahead by representatives, and 21, candidates will be sebut the appropriations from the lected on the basis of demon$4.5 million approved by the strated competence and potenSenate $3 million. The bill must tial for careers in science. Evinow go back to the Senate to dence of good health, physical work out the differences be- prowess, recommendations by tween the two houses. community leaders and an essay The Provo Jordan Parkway also will be used to judge comAuthority was okayed after petitors. many hours of debate, during Opportunities to take part in which the claims of proponents the expeditions also are availthat the project would benefit able for other students and the entire state brought re- teachers able to pay their own sponses that counties should expenses. Schools, educational, take care of their own water civic or private organizations pollution problems. wisihng to sponsor scholarships Dsepite the proposed okay for may do so. Expenses average the project to continue, much $1500 per student. opposition to still trying to cut Semi finalists in the competithe program entirely. Rep. C. tion will ge chosen by each of Judd said, I am the 10 HEW regional offices. whole the concept of Final selections will be made against to solve by the sponsoring organizations state monies taking county problems, Salt Lake and the various expedition leadCounty created the problem and ers. Deadline for submission of to clean it up I think they ought applications is March 15, and ' themselves. winners will be announced in Salt Lake City has already April. spent some $2.1 million and The explortaion scholarship Salt Lake County has an addi- program is sponsored by the Oftional $1.5 million in the plan- fice of Education, the Explorers ned county funding for such. (Continued on page 8) of the associations 521-200- n, 581-648- Some Legislative Events Resolved But Many Still Left Wondering The Utah House of Representatives, going into its final days, is now resolving many of the bills present for their consideration, but many people are still left wondering as to the effect or the means to compensate for their justification. This week. on the hill the legislature passed a bill reaffirming Capitol Hill as the seat of state government but left the Education, Univerof Utah, will begin March sity Continuing (D-Ogde- n) 7. . lation designed to save the nations cities from a retreat on domestic problems. Speaking to a joint meeting of the National League of Cities and the U. S. Conference of Mayors, he said he will introduce his resolution in the Senate this week. The proposed resolution will give monies to the cities for their fight against the ever increasing problems of the larger cities and this is designed to heln cities such as Salt Lake. It will say what the Presidents budget does not. It will challenge the Presidents assumption that in a time of peace we actually need a bigger and higher military budget. Senator Humphrey said that he wanted to present an era of retreat on domestic problems like the one that followed the Korean War in the 1950s. Specifically his resolution will hold the budget outlays with the present admininstrations proposer ceiling but would cut the fat from our overgrown military budget with tax reform. Mr. Humphrey said an estimated $10 to $14 billion from reduced military spending could be saved and devoted to pressing domestic affairs in the cities. We cannot let the problems of the 1980s result from the indifference of the 1970s. We must Senator Hubert II. Humphrey seize the opportunities now be- fore use. Little did we know that when the President signed the revenue sharing bill he was also signing the death knell for many of the critical programs which now exist and so long supported and so long fought for by many. Salt Lake City has seen many of the proposed programs which are slated for the cut from federal monies for the continued support. Salt Lake City will either have to give up the programs or seek funding from other sources. TOD AY S . v 4 Girl Scout Week Girl Scouting today is far more than cookie sales and handicrafts. As the nation commemorates Girl Scout 7 millions of Girl Scouts will be Week March working in community service programs such as tutoring of younger disadvantaged children, constructing miniparks on vacant city lots, drug abuse prevention and ecology, to name just a few. GSA is the worlds largest voluntary organization for girls, with a membership of nearly 4 million girls and 070,000 adult leaders. Since its inception in 1912, Girl Scouts of America has instilled in its members the highest ideals of character, service and patriotism so that the girls may become the wise mothers and leaders America needs to growa nd prosper. As one organization pamphlet explains, the many worthwhile activities of GSA reflect the promise of continuous growth and unending service to the nation (Continued on page 4) 11-1- |