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Show I U . 1 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH v . t I MTr J4 maria kr CC3P. V r 4 f 3-- 71 l V 84101 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1974 Mrs. M. P. Thurmond County Comm Ession Approve Named Director Of Salary Adjustment For Officials Legal Secretaries SL Owens Interior Subcommittee Announces Utah Tax Hearings The Salt Lake County Commission this week approved salary increases for the eleven elected officials. In a 1 vote the increases went into effect 2-- immediately. The lone no vote was from Commissioner William Dunn who said that the proposed increases are justified but onyl after the first of the year when the officials are sworn into office. The pronosed increases which will go into effect call for S20.500 a year for the three county commissioners while the sheriff and rounty attorney will go to $19,500 while the six elected administrators, assessor, auditor, clerk, recorder, surveyor and treasurer would go to $19,000. The proposed increases amount to approximately 17 percent increase on the commissioners salaries while the increase amounts to 19 percent on the salaries of the other elected of- ficials. In calling for the increase Cornty Commission Chairman Ralph McClude sain. I feel ve y strongly that officials who served the last two years should receive some compensation. The commission chairman said that the proposal calls for the immediate 11 percent increase with the remainder going into effect January 1. The overall increase for this year amounts to some While the total 9 percent increase will mean next year an increase of $3,000, Commissioner Pete Kutulas said he wouldnt let the election alter his decision. $500-$60- 0. 17-1- The commissioner is up for elec- - Pete Kutulas Commissioner The timing of such t ion this year. could increases prove to be a factortheintwothe upcoming election Mr. commissioners, for Mr. Dunn. and Fdutulas County Personnel Director called the Douglas Thomsen well reason within Froposal Jack executive Christensen, and clirector of the Utah Association odE Counties, noted that the state well as the federal government is decentralizing services as counties to pick up leaving thework loads. Fred Ball, tine larger evn ehtdreeglfaohetvuln secretary of the Salt executive Chamber of Commerce, Lake that the salary would still said leave the elected officials with less than industry pays for co- mparable responsibilities. County Auditor C ci ndidate Olson Feels Service Is Th First Priority e am a Democratic candidate for the office of Salt Lake County Auditor and I believe you can best be served by electing an official to this office who is: An auditor for an auditors job. A specialist, highly trained in the field of governmental accounting, auditing and budgeting I (Continued (D-Arizon- a), P If you have any questions, Alfred J. Olson please call the County Clerks office to help you. TODAYS "V By Dr. Edward R. McKay Chairman, Service Committee Utah Division, American Cancer Society be open until 8:00 p.m. Check the voter card showing your district number, each voter will be able to determine the place he or she will go to vote. - co-spon- sor Guest Editorial be opened in the 582 voting districts in Salt Lake County at 7:00 a.m. and will continue to Hk ings scheduled in Salt Lake City, Provo, and Cedar City, according to Rep. Wayne Owens (Dr Utah), a member of the Subof the committee and to be considered. legislation Utah is representative of the public land states in the west which have large amounts of federally owned, tax exempt (Continued on page 4) EDITORIAL The Primary election will be desire to serve, not for political power, not for monetary value, but for the best interest of the voters. in House Interior Committee Room Congressional hearings on a system of payments in lieu of taxes to states and counties for federal lands will be held in Utah on September 13 and 14 by the Subcommittee on the Environment of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. Chairman of the Subcommittee, Rep. Morris K. Udall will be here for the hear held this coming Tuesday, September 10th, 1974. The polls will A person with an unselfish on page 8i Udall County Clerk Urges All Registered Voters To Vote Sept. 10 procedures. A public servant who will devote full time to the duties of this elective office and not carry on any extra business profession. An administrator who real-ic- s the perimeters of his responsibility and not seek to infringe on tch responsibility of others Mrs. Macel P. Thurmond Mrs. Macel P. Thurmond of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been reelected a National Director of the National Association of Legal Secretaries (International) for 1974-7- 5 by its members in Utah, which includes chapters in Salt Lake and Ogden. She will represent the members from Utah at the NALS Board of Directors meetings for the coming year at Richmond, Virginia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Minot, North Dakota; and Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Thurmond is Adminis-tratis- e Assistant to Governor Calvin L. Rampton and has been a legal secretary for 17 years. She was instrumental in the formation of the Salt Lake and Ogden chapters and has held several offices in the Salt Lake Legal Secretaries Association, incluning three terms as president, and in 1959 and 1962 was selected Legal Secretary of the Year by her chapter. In 1959-6- 0 Mrs. Thurmond served as Fourth Vice President and as Legal Secretary of the Year Chairman of the National Association of Legal Secretaries. ! Tin American Cancer Soviet v lias a vital commit-n- u nt to the future through its research aiul public education efforts but the individual cancer victims of the present are not being forgotten. The Cancer Societys Service Program is a story of individuals: The young woman who was extremely depressed following breast cancer surgery until she was visited by a Cancer Society volunteer who told of the happy, normal life she was leading despite a mastectomy. The little bov with terminal cancer whose dream of seeing a major league baseball game was made a ( Continued on page 4) 72 |