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Show FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1973 Poge Eight Girl Scout Troop Has Antelope Island Causeway Will Be Improved, Cost $1.8 Million The State Road Commission has opened bids on a project to build a permanent road linking the Great Salt Lake State Park on the north end of Antelope Island to Syracuse in Davis County. The apparent low bid of $1,894,000 for the 10 mile project was submitted by Parson Asphalt Products of Ogden. The official engineers estimate' was $2,330,715. Three hundred working days are allowed for completion. The project will build a new road over the old weatherbeaten causeway. Terms of the contract include moving more than 3.3 million tons of fill to raise the causeway four to five feet over its existing level. In recent years the water level of the lake has risen tremendously, often flooding the road during storms. The new road will . be sufficiently above the water line to insure that it will not be flooded even during the spring run off or during bad weather. With these improvements the full development of the State Park can move forward. Davis County began its initial dredging for the causeway in 1964, with the vision of creating new access to a new area on Antelope Island. Since these first few years the pauseway has required constant attention because of the rising lake waters. In 1967 the road was added to the . Ceremonies for New U. S. Citizens State Highway Network for development as access to the new Great Salt Lake State Park. Since then, the Highway Department, Davis County and the local communities have provided men, trucks and fill materials in attempting to keep the causeway open. Many attempts have been made to obtain funding for the necessary improvements for the cause way, but it was not until this year when the State Legislature appropriated $5 million for improvements to the Great Salt Lake State Park. Half of this money was earmarked to provide a permanent road across the lake to the island. Last spring the Highway Department agreed to loan up to $150,000 to the State Division of Parks and Recreartion for maintaining the causeway above the water until the money could become available for this contract. Before the contractor begins his work, on the causeway a recent break, 2.7 miles for the Syracuse shore, must be repaired . New Landscaping For Cedar City LD.S. gressmans office. A critical comparison between "original and "modern Mormonism Vol. 1 - "The Milk Vol. 2 - "The Meat John Thomas, Director of Congressional Action Services, the committee on the methods used by the chamber to effectively promote their views on legislation. Members of the Legislative committee who attended were: Robert L. Lemman, chairman, Consolidated Electrical Distributors: Humphrey G. Black, Black Electrical Supply; J. L. Thomas, Pole Line Distributing Co., and Robert S. Barrett, Barrett Electrical Supply Co. NAED President Harold A. Baynes, Baynes Electric Supply President Co., Inc., and Past ad-dres- ed CHURCH ($2.25) ($2.75) Available from "The Watchmen" P. O. Box 11773 Lake Salt City, Utah 84111 I people who care about the elderly in our community, and want to help make their Christmas a little brighter. These people care enough to go the extra mile to help the less fortunate have a merry Christmas. Below are a few who have called the Ombudsman V. Lucile Hutchings, and are willing to raise money or aid in any way they can to help others at the Christmas season: Amos Bronson, chairman of the Friday group at Friendly Neighborhood Center along with the support of Doug Roberts, the chairman of the Thursday group, held a very successful bazaar. The Senior Citizens who attend the 5 day a week programs at the Center were most responsive and they now have money to brighten the day for some of the senior citizens who have no family and desperately need help. Mrs. Sunday Anderson, chairman of the VSSC CVery Special Senior Citizens) of Jordan Jr. High School is working to do something to bring some Christmas joy to the forgotten Senior Citizen. PAL Toastmasters have volunteered aid to help reach the elderly person who has given so much for many years to build this country. This is a continuation of the Christmas project that started last year where groups were able to make lonely senior citizens lives brighter. If you know of such a forgotten elderly person, please contact the Ombudsman, Senior Citizens at 328-70or Friendly 7 center at Neighborhood for the eligibility referral forms. The Ombudsman, Mrs. Hutchings, is having an open house and invites all senior citizens to drop in during the day Friday, Dec. 21, at Room 406, City and County Building. In addition to the light refreshments and the chance to get acquainted, there will be drawings for free gifts during the day. 43 487-366- A federal measure which received President Nixons signature this month has rescued the Utah school lunch program from financial distress, reports Cluff Snow, Administrator of the Utah State Board of Educations Division of School Food Services. We are pleased to learn that President Nixon has insured the survival of our child nutrition programs. With the upward sweep of rising food and labor costs we were not sure how long our complete school lunch program could continue at the present level of funding. The new legislation, H.R. 9639, will pump nearly five and made by the Interior Department now seems to show that the need for more oil in the United States outweighs the possible ecological damage and is ready to go ahead with leasing at least on a tentative scale. Oil companies, however, will be required to protect the environment as well as possible, and the early leases will be limited in scope until mining and production processes are proven out. Nation's Legislative Process AND THE Are you aware of a senior citizen who will be alone and forgotten this Christmas? There is a special group of outstanding (Continued from page 1 ) ment the ecology movement came along and became powerful enough to make shale oil impossible to proceed with because of the effect of strip mining the various methods may have on the environment. Most of the opposition to shale production in recent months has been because of the damage the mining would do to the landscape. The study which has been U.S. Electrical Distributors View FUNDAMENTALISM -- Survival of Utah's School Lunch Program Insured by Federal Bill i Bids were opened this week by the State Road Commission for the largest highway landscape screening project ever undertaken in Utah. Miya Brothers of Ogden was the apparent low bidder at $314,738. This cooperative project will include planting nearly 1,700 Austrian pines and a variety of from native plants along North Cedar City to the South Cedar City limits. There will be 3900 feet of pipe used to carry the water, which Cedar City will The Legislative Committee of provide to more than 4100 water the National Association of Elecbubblers. Virtually every plant will be watered individually, trical Distributors journeyed to which will aid in conserving Washington, D.C., to view first hand the nations legislative prowater. A unique feature, of this job cess. at the will be the use of tubelings to Committee members metWholeaid the plants during their early National Association of Distributors and were salers establishing period. Tubelings briefedand on pending legislation are a mesh wrapped around the to and of importance plant root with soil to facilitate heard how they distributors can participate planting and encourage the roots effectively in the legislative proto develop downward. This is the first time tubelings cess. The Legislative Committee was have been used in' a large scale how NAW functions in entold projects such as this. It is hoped or discouraging legisthat a higher plant survival rate couraging will result, providing more at- lation. Steps in passing legislatractive landscaping in this area. tion, from introduction to being signed by the president, were outlined as well. Committee members observed MORMON a typical hearing, saw Congress in session and visited a Con1-- 15 Go the Extra Mile - Remember A Senior Citizen at Christmas Utah Becomes Part of Oil Shale Lease Exploratory Programs i , Participating in the naturalization ceremony Nov. 29, Girl Scout Junior Troop 247, Valley Neighborhood, performed the flag ceremony and served refreshments for the 200 candidates for citizenship. They serenaded the new citizens with a familiar refrain, "Whats More American and assisted Daughters of the American Revolution to honor them. Mrs. George P. Weiler, leader of the troop, has given her Girl Scouts an unique learning experience about the naturalization process. Under the guidance of Mrs. Lucy R. McCullough, the Naturalization Examiner, U. S. Immigration, Naturalization Service, the girls have conducted projects illustrating each step in the exciting adventure of becoming a naturalized citizen. They have finger printed each other and found character witnesses just as though they were seeking their own citizenship. It has been a five week program, climaxing with the naturalization ceremony. THE SALT LAKE TIMES John M. Waltersdorff, Tristate Electrical Supply Co., accompanied the committee during their visit. IRS Studies Deferral Payments on Livestock The Internal Revenue Service has announced that it is currently considering the tax consequences of contracts providing for the deferral of payments from the sale of livestock between marketers and owners. A Revenue Ruling will be published on this matter upon completion of the review. In connectoin with this review the IRS has withdrawn a private letter ruling issue in September 1973, which approved a particular transaction of this type. The withdrawn ruling applied to deferred payment contracts for sales between livestock market corporations or their separate dealer corporations and the cattle owners. The ruling held that amounts payable to livestock owners under such contracts are includible in the owners gross income for the taxable year the amounts are paid, or otherwise made available to him, which ever is earlier. Because this matter is now under further consideration, taxpayers who enter into this kind of transaction do so without any assurance that they may be able to report the income from the transaction in a later year. - Are Biggest Support of Utahs Ski Industry Non-Residen- ts one half million extra dollars in the Utah program. This represents a 20 per cent increase in federal funding. The major, provision of the law will increase the reimbursement rate from 8 to 10 cents per meal, retroactive to July 1 of this year. Most schools will be provided with extra funds to cover the increased food and labor costs suffered in August and September. In addition, the measure calls for long range planning in the area of child nutrition programs. A national study is authorized to determine what it really costs to reach all children. Presently three are some provisions which apply to all children, other provisions which apply to the poor and still others that apply to the near poor. The purpose of the study will be to define programs costs in order to clarify these provisions. (Continued from page 1) If you think time heals everyare at the point where we must thing, try sitting in a doctors realize that skiing is big business office. in Utah, and if we are to have excellent ski resorts well have to share them. Without the non resident skier there would not be ski resorts of the caliber of Snowbird or Park City or any of the others in Utah. A profile of the 97,000 skiers in Utah during the last season shows him living in cither California, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming and New Mexico or the eastern seaboard. The average nonresident earns in excess of $15,000, with a third of them in the $25,000 range and he stays in Utah 6.3 days. The spent $24 per day for his Utah ski vacation while the resident spends $7. More than half of all non resident skiers come to Utah by air and they travel in parties of two or three and spend an average of Departures: $60 per day per party. Jan. 26, Feb. 23, Apr. 20 The Utah Travel Council will to spend $82,000 in advertising this attr.net those Murdock Travel, Inc. of bulk that spent 14 South Main St year, with the Sein magazine advertising. Salt Lake City, Utah 0 lected television markets arc (801) now also purchased in addition to cooperative advertising with t any ski resort in the state. out-of-sta- non-reside- te Mexico nt Tom ir non-residen- ts 521-785- |