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Show 1 1 i b::: cin SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Annual Jefferson-Jackso- n Day Dinner Slated for Sat., Aug. 25 I j2jSy HosH Seminar The Salt Lake City Commis- sion in an informal meeting this week told Streets Commissioner Stephen Harmsen to get the new rate ready for the billing process. Mr. Harmsen proposed the hike to raise some $4.1. million for capital improvements at the city sewer treatment plants. The plan would drop the sewer rate based on units of water purchased 748 gallons from 15 cents to 10 cents at first. After further study Mr. Harmsen said that rate could be raised to as much as 20 cents per unit if the ap Government Study Commission Hearing August 21 at Highland Bruce S. Jenkins Seminar of ... The Southwest Referees in Bankruptcy (Bankruptcy Judges) will be held at the Hotel Utah, September 13th and 14th, it was announced by Bruce S. Jenkins, Referee in Bankruptcy, U. S. District Court for Utah. Mr. Jenkins has been designated as host chairman of the seminar by Judge Asa Herzog of the Southern District of New York.. He will be aided by Referee Peter M. Elliott, Santa Ana, Calif., and by Referee David A. Kline of Oklahoma City, Okla. Fifty one Referees from the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and the lower half of California are expected to attend, Referee Jen kins said. The Referee Seminar program is chaired nationally by Referee Asa Herzog and is an educational program designed to improve court operation. Referee Jenkins, who has often been a faculty member at Regional Seminars, stated he was proud that Utah had been re-- ( Continued on page 8) in-servi- fJ i 4 r- - I sun r. form of county government, in Demo Womens Club Government Study Commission, to be held on Tuesday, August 21, 1973, 7:30 p.m. at Highland High School, 2166 So. 17th East, in Room No. 125 (Hospitality Room).-Thpublic is encouraged to attend and contribute ideas for the modernization of Salt Lake County Government. The Salt Lake County Government Study Commission, established by law under Senate Bill No. 184, in the general session of the State Legislature, 1973, and by a resolution of the County Commission, is engaged inef-a full study of the nature and fectiveness of Salt Lake County Government, and looking into the possibility of adopting a new tional forms of county government described by the Legislature. The conclusions of Study Commission will be submitted to all county voters for approval. Following this hearing at the Highland High, the next will be at West Jordan Jr. High School, 7550 South 1700 West, August 28, at 7:30. Future hearings and speakers will be announced in all media. The public is always welcome. Questions related to the Government Study Commissions activities may be addressed to its offices in County Complex, 151 East 2100 South, Building No. 4, telephone No. has announced the club will hostess a luan and continental fesbreakfast as tivities. The luau, for all Democrats will be held on August 24 at 231 Concord St. (between 12th and 13th West and 2nd and 3rd So.) . , pre-conventi- evy of 22.10 mills, which includes three mills for the library system. The small reduction in the base level of thie mills reduction would mean in dollars and cents figures that a $30,000 home will bet taxed $114.60 if the property is in Salt Lake City or Murray and $132.60 in other areas of the county. Last year the same $30,000 home would cost the taxpayer in taxes some $124.44 and $137.64. many ceive reduced services from the county. Mr. Olson asked Commissioner McClure if he knew if other counties in the state were facing the same problems. Mr. McClure I McClure responded with, so. The dont think building boom seems to be here in Salt Lake County. The other counties dont have the same kind of construction program that we have here in Salt Lake County. Again referring to the of the budget in mid-yea- r, Mir. Olson stated he dislikes the system, saying, I believe it makes a mockery of the budget process. I believe it erodes taxpayers confidence in county government." re-openi- The adjusted budget is now $54.9 million with $1 in each $3 or some $18 million coming from the federal government. Jack Olson, executive secretary of the Utah Taxpayers Association, said that he was criti ng TODAYS EDITORIAL ce dent, Salt Lake County Bar As- compliance with the Constitusociation, will be the featured tional Amendment which passed Activities Planned Beverly Saathoff, president of speaker at the 25th weekly hear- in the last general election which Democratic Womens Club authorized the to Lake counties County adopt oping of the Salt 328-702- 8. . li-sr- ary Mr. Robert Anderson, presi- e . mid-yea- Formal Adoption of Sewer Fee Approved by City Commission tion. i Salt Lake County Commission cal of a system that allowed regave the county taxpayers a opening of a budget at ittle relief when they cut the Mr. Olson noted that he was tax base to 19.10 mills. happy that the commission could The action set by the Commis- cut the tax base by some 8 per sion puts th base at a 19.10 level cent, but noted that the cut or $19.10 per $1000 of assessed could have been 12 per cent had valuation. The base figure of not the county given monies to 19.10 mills, however, only ap- many of the countys department plies to Salt Lake City and Mur- for operations. Commission Chairman Ralph ray, which have their own Y. McClure said that it is true system and do not help finance a county wide program. that the county could have cut by some 12 percent, Outside of the two special the tax basethe tax was cut that that if area the tax base will be on a but areas would remuch that Democratic State legislative candidates in 1974. Therefore, all good Democrats should be especially motivated to purchase the tickets and attend this worthwhile function. proval ' of the Commission is sought. Residential users, under the Harmsen plan, would pay $3.75 a quarter minimum, the same rate they pay now and one cent a unit after buying 66 units of water. The plan on this basis would bring in some $670,000 yearly. Commerical users would pay 10 cents a unit and the apartment houses would be charged that same rate as residential units as long as they had less than 10 apartments. Mr. Harmsen has said that the needed improvements include a third treatment plant at the north side plant as well as expansion of the sewage plant to accommodate 70 million gallons of effluent a day. Present capacity of the treatment plant is 40 million gallons daily. r Salt Lake County Gives Relief to Taxpayers With Mill Levy Cut en, The new proposal for a change in the sewer rate which would probably have most of the residential users paying the same or smaller bills while increasing commercial and indnust'rial customers as much as 300 per cent were approved for formal adop- t . FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1973 The annual Democratic Jefferson-Ja- enthusiastically promoted by Ron Stanger, promickson Day Dinner will be highlighted this year with the nent Utah County attorney, and appearance of the energetic Sen- Pat Larson, an educator from ator from Illinois, Adlai Steven- Ogden. son III. He has already begun to The annual event is especially continue the proud tradition of important in that the net propublic service that his father had ceeds will be used to support the championed so effectively. The banquet will be held Saturday, August 25th, 8:00 p.m., in the Terrace Ballroom, Salt Lake City. The event is being - r J on at 7:30 p.m. A no host continental breakfas for Democratic women only wil be held at the Little American Restaurant on August 25th a 10:00 a.m. The committee for the luau and breakfast is as follows: Sun day Anderson, chairman; Louise Jorgensen, Bettina Black, Grace Cosco, Liz Jones, Nellie Jack and Zelma Brundage. Astronomical Photography Rosemary Hill, known by astronomers around the advertisements world, now receives a salute by full-pag- e in national magazines. Rosemary Ilill is the University of Floridas observatory located in Levy County. There star gazing in astronomical photography has produced a nitgrogen baking procedure resulting in a five fold increase in the speed of special photographic plates. Dr. Alex Smith, professor of physics and astronomy says the invention has application for the betterment of mankind. The treatment makes the plates the most sensitive known detectors for exceedingly faint objects. The Rosemary Hill process has been taken up and is being used by observatories all over the world he says. The full page ads recently appeared in Scientific American and Science. In this way Eastman Kodak saint es the work at Rosemary Ilill, calling it a baking product of cosmic significance. It describes a new photographic emulsion with excellent signal to noise characteristics. 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