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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1974 Page Eight Chamber of Commerce Urges All to Help 'Salt Lake Pitch-In' The Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with schools, churches, radio, newspapers, TV and neighborhood organizations is initiating a community wide clean up campaign the week of May All the valley residents are urged to particiapte in Salt Lake 6-1- 1. chairsays clean-u- p man Fred Mormorency. If every one will clean up litter and trash around his home and business Pitch-i- n, during this week and haul it off to the dumps, it will make as big change in the face of Salt Lake. Plans of the massive effort were revealed by Montmorency, an architect and vice president of the Chamber this week at a kick off briefing in front of Chamber offices. We are using the organization of six neighborhood councils in the city who have designated 50 trash pickup points to be manned by hundreds of volunteers. Othc sections of the city will be covered in subsequent neighborhood drives. More than 100 vehicles, ranging from small pickups to big trucks will converge upon these few pick up points on Saturday morning, the 11th, said another cleanup spokesman, Otis Winn. We estimate that several hundred tons of trash and litter will be moved from the pickup points to the dumps. Both City and County dumping areas have waived dumping fees during the week and both areas will remain open until 8:00 p.m. during the project, he said. May It is important to note that this is primarily a litter and trash campaign no garbage and not particularly tree limbs, branches unless they are trimmed in three foot lengths. Trash must be bagged or boxed and people dumping at other than the designated points will be subject to penalty. About 2,000 students from elementary, junior and senior high 6-- 11 Com. Harm sen Opens Campaign for Post From 2nd District schools will aid in the cleanup efforts. They will pick up litter in are as surrounding schools on Friday afternoon. We also will be distributing information to schools for a long range attitude change among youngsters about pollution and littering. One other aspect of the Salt Lake Pitch-i- n program is the Junk Car Hot Line net work where residents may telephone information about abandoned or junk cars in their neighborhood. An abandoned vehicle team will be dispatched to check out the car and its owner for either permission to remove it or citations It ading to impoundment. The Junk Car Hotline telephone 1 number is and will be in operation from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Commissioner Stephen Harmsen Thursday, May 2 through Saturday, May 11 the exceptions City Commissioner Stephen being Saturday and Sunday on M. Harmsen made the followMay ing announcement of his candiActive groups participating dacy for Congress from the 2nd include the Desert News, Salt Congressional District in Tooele, Lake Tribune, the Association of on April 26: I would like to share with you General Contractors, Chamber members, the Teamsters Union, my deep feeling that our naUtah National Guard, the Motor tion, our state and the RepubliTransport Association, Church of can party need new leadership Saints and a transfusion of fresh new Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y and Salt Lake City School Dis- ideas to solve the serious chaltrict, the Westside Community lenges of the 1970s. We urgently Council, the Peoples Free Way, need men who are willing to Tnc., the Avenues Improvement take a vigorous new approach to League, the Northwest Commu- government because the people nity Center, Capitol Hill Aware- have lost confidence in an outd ness Team, the Eastside dated system of special interest Council and Central politicians and pork barrel politics. Congressional leaders seem City Neighborhood Council. Many other private firms and more interested in foreign junkets and TV exposure than in reporganizations are involved. is tied in resenting their constituents. Salt Lake Pitch-i- n I had hopted that a Republican with a national litter prevention Conidea that invites all Americans candidate for Utahs 2nd to join in the task of ridding our gressional District would come who would speak of country of litter. The project is forward a single issue or atmore than considered by the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce as tack congressional reform. NoI such candidate has appeared. a Bicenteninal Celebration project and will focus this year on now realize that I must take the to the people of Utah. clean up and next year on edu- issue I believe that state and local cational concepts. governments need more confidence and support from the Congress and if we can wrest more power away from the federal government and expand local involvement, we can solve our problems here rather than going hat in hand to Washington. The funding for the project which Dower needs to be returned to he money was to come out of the hands of the people. the capital improvements fund. I am concerned about raging Crellin said Jack City Attorney inflation which threatens to unthat You cannot obligate a fu- dermine our quality of life and ture commission. just this week leading DemBut the newT plan which uses yet ocrats have proposed to fuel the a loan from the city surplus and fires of inflation even further. funnels it through three other I believe that our tax system is funds into the Special Improveunfair and that the low and ment District is legal. Mr. Crel- middle income groups need to lin ruled. be assured that everyone is payOne of the downtown property his fair share. owners threatened to take the ingYou cannot solve problem case to court to slop the project, and social ills by new legislation because he said it was not prop- and spending of more money. erly advertised and adopted.. The Congress must be the watchdog property owners attorney wrote of the adminnstration to insure an opinion and delivered it to efficient and proper government. city officials recent cut in the dynamic Congress is needed project requires readvertising which will work out in the open and new bids. confidence and restore Those cuts were necessary to because it is public doing something trim the low bid of $4.1 million and people are aware of it. to $2.8 million, which the city I want to restore confiand other agencies had allowed dence in the help Congress and in the for the project. Republican Party. I am this day of a candidate for the House Representatives from the Second Congressional District. 328-383- 4-- 5. Neigh-bodhoo- Downtown S.L. Gains Contract For Beautification Project (Continued from page The plan calls for the narrowing the present five traffic lanes to four and allow the sidewalks to stretch 12 feet on both sides of the street to accommodate the heavy pedestrian traffic, special landscaping and a variety of kiosks, fountains and bus shel- ters. Howell Cannon, chairman of the Downtown Development Committee, said, the people of this city will be proud of the results when the project is complete. I think this will be the realization of a dream a lot of people had when they started many years ago. The largest of the hurdles for the project was the financing, which was overcome this week when the City Commission found a method to finance their share of the $860,000 which the city must pay. The hurdle was over the future League of Women Voters Backs More Sales Tax for Mass Transit (Continued from page 1) However, no major city In the U.S. has a complete system. Commerce, Calif., small succity of 10,000, has had a 62. system since cessful Rome recently tried a no-fa- re no-fa- re no-fa- re system and although ridership increased, traffic congestion had remained. Several U.S. cities are in experimenting w'ith no-fa- re downtown areas. Sales tax as a method is the more popular than a property tax. Its advantages are that it is a tax which keeps pace with inflationary trends, it shows a higher correlation between those who pay the tax and those who use it and its funding could come as early as January 1975, terminated by the legislature or by referendum. 'Hard Line, No Compromise' Legislation Urged in Oil-G- as The president of the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association warned this week that federal legislation to be heard when Congress resumed should be fought on a hard line, no compromise basis, if the benefits of a free enterprise petroleum industry are to be preserved. Speaking at the mid-yemeeting of the Association, Cort-lLnS. Dietler said that the p reposed Consumer Energy Act of 1974 would prove damaging to the energy supply situation ard is a hoax that is misleading to the oil and gas producer and consumer as well. He told oilmen from all over the Rocky Mountain area that the proposal which would extend price regulation cf natural gas to intrastate sales of gas put oil production under the same utility type price regulation as gas and would form a federal oil and gas company to compete with private industry would adversely affect the independent producer along with the ar dt , entire industry. Dietler urged oilmen to respond to legislation calling for the elimination of tax incentives at a time when new oil and gas reserves in the Rockies must bo found. In addition he said every effort must be made to resist the inclusion of crude oil price roll backs in the Emergency Energy legislation recently reported to the Senate floor from the Senate Interior Committee. He told the delegates to the meeting that RMOGA and the industrys state petroleum organizations in the region affiliated with the American Petroleum Institute will be merged to improve the industrys ability to resist adverse national and state legislation and communicate to the general public on the energy situation. He said the oil and gas industry can solve the supply situation if given the opportunity without government interference to do the job. Heavy Water Lightshow Will Return to Hansen Planetarium The Heavy Water Light show from San Francisco opens its second annual engagement at the Hansen Planetarium Monday. April 29. Heavy Water will once again floor the star dome with amazing colors, designs, and sounds at 9:15 every evening Monday through Saturday for two weeks to May 11. When Heavy Water visited the valley last June. Tribune Writer David Proctor called In-Mu- sic a program their performance so vivid and alive that if Salt Lake audiences dont beat down the Planetarium doors they have only themselves to blame for missing this unique art presen- tation. Besides the unmatchable hues of their.liquid projections. Heavy Water performers Joan Chase and John Hardham have many new surprises for audiences this year, more art work, more moving visuals and a wild soundtrack featuring top rockers. Using the Planetarium dome as a giant canvas, Heavy Water paints ever changing moods of taste and power. It inundates the sense and transports an audience away from the work a day realm into a surreal world of intense beauty. The journey lasts an hour and twenty minutes but the pleasure and refreshment linger on. The Planetarium star show. Dawn of Astronomy continues on its regular schedule during the run of Heavy Water, with performances daily and shows Monday through Saturday evenings at 8, immediately preceding the Heavy Water performances, which begins at 9:15. The new os gDTD Were about ready to print the new telephone directory. If you need to make any changes in your listing White pages or Yellow call our business office. But please hurry. The deadline issoon. Mountain Bell MW4M |