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Show Moss THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1974 Poge Eight Co-spons- Bill To Repeal Daylight Saving ors Year-Roun- d Estimates Special Bond Election Cost $30,000 Klas, Democratic State Chairman Says Utah Republicans Coverup would add two months by making the time change the last Sunday in February to continue until last Sunday in October. The bill is essentially a compromise between the practice of the last few years and last wind ters experiment with daylight saving time, says Moss. year-roun- returning to standard time during the winter months we wlil avoid the inconvenience and dangers of going about our early morning business in darkBy ness. But, by adding the months of March and October to our regular Daylight Saving Time, we will achieve some energy savings. said the legislation, sponsored by Senator Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, is based on a Department of Transportation study which showed that Daylight Saving Time last winter did conserve energy but that people Utah Senator Frank E. (Ted) preferred standard time during Moss has joined as a the winter months. The DOT of a bill that would repeal year-roun- d study showed a majority of the Daylight Saving Time people thought an eight month (DST) and replace it with an period of daylight saving time would be ideal. eight month period of DST. Instead of returning to the former practice of observing daylight saving tife from April Funds Approved For through September, the new bill In Utah Moss co-spon- sor Projects Resuffeling In County Attorneys Office, Who Coes Where This past week has seen staff reassignments in the Salt Lake County Attorneys office with the changes of many positions. Nick Colessides is resigning as chief deputy, which is an appointive position but wants to remain on the county attorneys staff, and be classified as an attorney three which falls under the merit commission. John Avery, chief civil deputy, a position under the merit commission is about to be named chief deputy. He is also seeking the Democratic nomination to succeed Carl Nemelka as county attorney. The law required that anyone holding a merit position and running in an election must resign or take leave of absence 120 days before the election. If Mr. Avery remained as chief civil deputy he would have to take a leave of absence. R. Paul Van Dam, another cuontv deputy attorney whose job comes under the merit system has taken a leave of absence. He also is seeking the Democratic Nomination for the position of county attorney. Mr. Nemelka said that he also wants to retain Mr. Van Dam on a contract basis to continue work on murder cases he has been assigned. Van Dam has asked the attorney generals office for an opinion on the legality of such a contract. Nick Colessides served as chief deputy since January 1971 and Mr. Avery has been chief civil deputy since August 1971. Facing the two attorneys in the elevation for the attorney post will be David Young, another attorney who headed the Statewide Association of Prosecutors funded under a federal he grant. Mr. Young said that beabsence of will take a leave fore the primary election. and sage Sharp tailed grouse grouse perform their courtship rituals from late March to early May. W. Sterling Evans It will cost Salt Lake County an estimated $30,000 to hold a special recreation bonding election Aug. 13, county commissioners were told Wednesday. Thats $20,000 less than we anticipated. declared an elated Commissioner William E. Dunn, whose recreation department would spend roughly $43 million from the $49.5 million proceeds. The rest would go for payment of election expenses and $6.5 million for the countys share of building the Utah Center for the Arts on the Salt Palace complex. County Clerk W. Sterling Evans, whose office will run the election, said the $30,000 election expenses would include $4,000 for ballots, $7,600 for supplies, $8,400 in salaries to election judges and $3,600 to rent polling places. SLC To Review New Wage Law Which Will See Ordinance Changes Gunn McKay An appropriations bill which will mean nearly $80 million for Utah during the current fiscal year has been approved by the House of Representatives. is Rep. Gunn McKay, a member of the appropriations subcommittee which handled the legislation. It covers funding for the National Park Service, Forest Service Bureau of Land Management. The Geological Survey, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, all fo which have extensive iperations in Utah. A project added in subcommittee by Mr. McKay included SI, 433, 000 for the Big Springs water development to bring water to Roosevelt and other areas in the booming Uintah D-Ut- ah, Basin. Mr. McKay said the committee report on the legislation also conpro- tains language which would hibit the moving of the Intermountain Indian School and the National Indian Training Center at Brigham City without approval of the interior appropriations subcommittee. The Bureau of Indian Affairs announced earlier its intentions to move the National Indian Training Center from Brigham City to Lawrence, Kan., but according to Mr. McKay this wont now happen as a result of the restrictive language in the Salt Lake City officials are review a new wage law which went into effect May 1, 1974. The new law will necessitate significant changes in many of the city ordinances and may create many new problems. All of the city department heads met with Personnel Director Lynn Marsh this past 'week to discuss the federal law and how it will effect their more than 2,000 employees. Mr. Marsh said that the citys ordinances will have to be changed because of complicated provision in the new law which exempt some workers but not all. Basically the law requires the payment of time and one half for any hours worked over a 40 hour week. It also prohibits the use of time off of extra hours unless that time off is given during the same week. The Streets departments employees are now holding more than 3,000 hours of compensatory time for which they can have time off. Marsh said that the time off will be allowed since the hours were accumulated before the May 1 law. However under the new law the time off will no longer be allowed. This will cause many problems in the winter when crews start working long week shifts for the snow removal. Mr. Marsh said, however, that the review will be held as soon as possible for the city wage provision and recommendations will be made to the city commissioners for their consideration. con-pensato- ry (Continued from page 1) form harrangue about the evils of federal spending in promoting inflation typifies the superficiality of this platform. It is absolutely illogical to call for a cut in the federal budget in order to reduce demand, and then turn around in the same platform and recommend allocation of any money cut from the federal budget to the states. The Republicans are very vague about what expenditures should be cut from the budget and what monies should be shared with state government. It is very easy for the Republicans to scream cut, cut, cut, as they often do, but nowhere in their platform do they rise above political platitudes and state clearly what federal expenditures they would cut. In this Republican Platform, the needs of millions of Americans is translated into a callous discussion of balancing the budget. Platform The Republican charges that the Democratic Party has pursued a policy of fractionalizing our society into racial and economic blocs. This is blatantly false. We have encouraged all minorities and social groups to develop their own voices in redressing grievances to government. In addition, the Democratic Party has been a taunch defender of those Americans who have no voice in government. In the 1974 Democratic Platform, we advocate that housing be made available to the poor; that mass transit be made more accessable to the elderly; and that the retired receive cost of living increases in retirement benefits. While accusing the Democratic Party of fractionalizing these groups, the Republi cans have actually exacerbated the plight of the poor, elderly and racial minorities through a policy of callous neglect. Nowhere in their 1974 platform do the Republicans even mention the predicament of poverty, the housing mess, mass transit proposals, property tax reform or any other critical issue afecting the plight of millions of Americans. In fact, the Republican Platform in stating that, Attendance at school is a privilege offered the student, flies in the face of United States Supreme Court rulings that education is a right of all Americans, not a privilege. How can one document be so out of tune with national mood and law? The Republicans, in this platform resort to cheap stereotypes instead of pro posals. Their approach to welfare is to destroy, the curse of idleness. Republicans response to is to eliminate, proabuse drug fligate permissiveness, another exceedingly shallow approach to complex issues and if they werent enough, the Republicans blame Franklin Roosevelt for our problems of deficit spending. The Utah Republican party has consistently attempted to hold itself at arms length from the scandals of the Nixon Administration. In its recent convention the Utah Republican party has shown a similar disposition to activities engage in cover-u- p which are antipathetic to openness in political candor. The Utah G.O.P., however, maintains its consistency in refusing to address itself to the problems of the under priviledged, the minorities, the elderly, and young people in meeting the crushing inflation a of Nixons economic fiasco. down-to-ear- th i I by-produ- ct Utah s Governor Disagrees With Interior Department Water View i (Continued from page 1) by 2000 in the basin of which Utah would need 243,450 acre feet second largest amount next to Colorado. The governor went on to say the oil shale estimate is much, much to small. A more realistic figure would be a requirement of 100,000 acre feet. He also said that the actual allocation of basin water for Utah now unused can supply adequate water for domestic, agriculture, industrial, and energy uses without impairing Indian water rights or transferring water from agricultural irrigation uses. The interior report suggested that particularly Utah and Colorado could alter prediction of water available for energy uses by reassigning agricultural water rights to energy uses. Also at the Western Governor Conference the governor said that better relationships between state and local government is one of the goals he would like to achieve while chairman of the National Governors Conference. There is not doubt that the states have assumed a ing role as part of the federal system. And I feel what offers the best opportunity now is the new coalition group between state and local government officials. re-eme- rg S.L. Commissioners Approve Mill Rate Holding the line the Salt Lake City commissioners set the city real and personal property tax levy at 27.5 mills, the same figure they set a year ago. Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr., said 18.5 mills would be used to support the city's general fund, 5.5 mills would be used to pay off bonded indebtedness and one half mill would be used to provide insurance against citizen lawsuits. An additional three mills will be used to support the Salt ake City Public Library. The 27.5 mill figure is expected to be discussed by Salt Lake County commissioners, Aug. 12, when they set the countywide mill levy. I The Recreational Support Program has been labeled a hugh success according to director Jerry Powell. Youngsters are going to the playgrounds, rodeos, ice skating rinks. The children are making things and serving communities where they can. The program is funded with $32.-00- 0 from the federal office of Economic Opportunity and aims to help an estimated 5,000 economically disadvantaged youth in Salt Lake and Tooele counties find summer recreation. |