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Show 1974 Page Eight FRIDAY, OCTOBER Committee Confident Of Support For The Land Use Act Commissioner Kutulas Asks Commissioners To Hear Charges PLUS ii The Protect Land In Utah Sensibly (PLUS) Committee was formed less than a month ago, but public response to the Committee's efforts and the Utah LLand Use Art has been very good, Tony Mitchell, a member of the PLUS Committee told the Sertoma Club. We feel confident support is building for the Utah Land Use Act, Mitchell said. The voters are realizing that private property rights are protected in the Act and that it is a planning measure and not a regulatory one, he said. Mitchell is director of the Utah Higher Education Consortium. The PLUS Committee is receiving several requests a day for speakers on the Land Use Act and many requests for copies of the Act, he said. We are encouraging voters to get a copy of the Act and read it for themselves, Mitchell said. The need for land use planning in Utah is clear to most Utahns. The fact that the Utah Land Use Act was passed by a Republican controlled Legislature and approved by a Democratic Governor demonstrates the broadly based support there is for it among those who have really found out what it is all about, Mitchell said. We are convinced that when the voters learn the tremendous amount of work that has gone into the Utah Land Use Act and what it will do to prevent our state from being exploited by unplanned and sometimes unscrupulous development, we are confident they will support it, he said. Dr. Charles S. Peterson, Logan, has been selected to write the volume Utah: A Bicentennial History in the Bicentennial book series The States and the Nation. The announcement was made by William T. Alderson, director of the prestigious American Association for State and Local History. W. W. Norton & Co., will publish the 51-volu- well-know- winning historian of the Civil War, writing for Michigan, Wilma Dykeman for Tennessee, and Joe Frantz (well known for The American Cowboy: Myth and RReality) for Texas. The 51 -- volume series covering every state and the District of Columbia is being produced through grants provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Support for the project os a major part of the Endowment programs to provide good reading for the public for the Bicentennial of American Independence and to develop resources in state and local history. Dr. Petersons Utah volcme will be an interpretive essay, characterizing the peoples of Utah historically and showing i he relationship of their history, their experiences, their applications of democracy and their values to those of the nation as a whole. The former director of the Utah State Historical Society is amply qualified for the task. He holds degrees from Brigham Young University (B.A. 1952; M.A. 1958) and the University of Utah (Ph.D. 1967) and has works produced award-winnin- g A Portrait of Lot such as Smith. Mormon Frontiersman and Take Up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing Along The Little Colorado River. Traffic Court Loophole be drafted to amend the law to prohibit the expungement of a driving record within one year for serious violations, such as drunk driving, automobile homicide and having a ocntrolled substance in the vehicle. He atao intends to draft legislation to change the law that provides for sealing of records of convicted persons, but doesnt allow the same privilege to those who have been charged and not convicted. Utah Highway Dept. Orders Lights Turned On Freeway Access Di- rector Blaine Kay has ordered the lights turned back on at freeway interchanges in the Salt Lake Valley. Crews from the Utah Power and Light Company are reconnecting some 377 lighting fixtures at interchanges on and in the valley. The were lights among a total og 1455 luminaires which were turned off last fall because of the energy crisis. Kay said the lights were being turned on because of the changed public opinion regarding the energy crisis." He said relighting of the Salt Lake freeway interchanes is only the first step in a series that will hopefully end with all of the interstate lights throughout the state He said that being in November the freeway interchanges In the Bountiful, Provo, and Ogden areas will be relighted. resulting in a total of some 780 luminaries being put back into service this fall. Kay said the remaining 665 fixtures, which are generally in rural areas, are planned to be 1-- 15 me set. Dr. Peterson joins the ranks n of such historians as Bruce Catton, Pulizer Prize Aid Urges Plugging Utah Highway Department ... 1-- 80 Dr. Peterson is currently professor of history and the director of the Man and His Bread Mu- seum at Utah State University. Since 1971 he has been associate editor of the Western Historical Quarterly and is widely known for his work as director of the State Historical Society where he was also editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly. A former Utahn. Russell is a member of the national advisory committee for the project. Mr. Mortensen is now assistant director of the Archaeology & Historical Preservation Division of the National Parks Service. ed. Mor-tense- n, re-activi- ted approximately a year from now. We believe that this plan for reactivation is one that will adequately service the public interest in both safety and convenience, and will still make a contribution to the continuing needs for reasonable conserva-- 1 tion of energy, he said. Commissioner Pete Kutulas Salt Lake County Commissioner Pete Kutulas asked fellow commissioners to hear the charges and his responses on charges leveled against him and his department after a recent audit. Kutulas asked the commissioners to hear and decide in an open meeting the charges and innuendoes from a recent audit and report. Kutulas said that he was preresponse paring a to the charges against the Salt Lake County Flood and Highway Department. The commissioners agreed to hear the charges and responses. The charges issued by Gerald Hansen, county auditor, specifically says that Basil highway and flood misused certain funds director, and was responsible for abnormalities in the running of the department. Commissioner Kutulas claimed the response will justify or prove untrue all such charges. Mr. Kutulas said that his response will show the matters under a true light and if following the presentation the other two commissioners decide procedures should be changed they will. point-by-poi- Charles Peterson To Write Utah History Freezone is for corns that hurt Absolutely painless. No dangerous cutting, no ugly pads or plasters. In days, Freezone eases the hurt...safely helps ease off the corn. Drop on Freezone take off corns. Fp2KI REMOVES CORNS AND CALLUSES ! G-r- C II, nt Mc-Cloch- in, FHE SALT LAKE TIMES County Treasurer Sends Notice To 9,000 Added To New Tax List Sid Lambourne Salt Lake County Treasurer Sid Lambourne said the county will be mailing about 160,000 notices this year which is up by approximately 9,000 from the past year. The property taxes, one of the major sources of income for government and special district taxing agencies, are due by the end of November. The amount of tax each home-ownpays is determined by an appraisal of the property and an assessment on a certain percentage of the property value. Most of the private property in Salt Lake County, according to Allan Witt, Utah Foundation, is assessed at about 15 percent of the value, even though the state law says it should be 30 percent. This year the county treasurer said that the assessed valuation er V, V, ar V re-sear- The first geothermal leases in Utah issued by the Department of the Interiors Bureau of Land Management have been sent to Phillips Petroleum Co., Del Mar, California. The nine leases, which are effective October 1, were issued as a result of competitive bids -Ppolv ed by BLM July 30. Paul L. Howard. BLM state director for Utah, said Phillips Petroleum Co. was the successful bidder on nine of twelve tracts. The company bid was $798,859.61 for geothermal leases on 18,-871.- 13 acres. LeLases still are tobe issued on three other tracts offered in the July 30 bidding. Their issuance is Dending approval by Geological Survey and the BLM Fillmore ristrict office of the successful companies' plans for exploration. Successful bidders on those three tracts were Getty Oil Co.. Union Oil Co. of California and A. L. and William L. McDonald. erty is $1,082,924,459. Individual taxes vary with districts but Salt Lake County residents should feel lucky that their property is still a couple of years away from a reappraisal program, which is under way on a statewide basis. The Utah State Tax commissioner has been reappraising property on a continuing basis and has completed the work in about 17 of the 29 counties. The reappraisal has been bringing the value of property up to current levels, usually increasing the amount of tax bills. Witt said that the valuations will change to an assessment of about 20 percent of the property value when the state completes the reappraisal program. Salt Lake County residents will probably be the last on the state's reappraisal list. 4 Salt Lake Broadcaster Wins National Public Service Award Salt Lake City broadcaster Edward A. Yeates, of station KSL-Thas won the 1974 American Optometric Associations public service award in journalism for a television series Division Chairman on vision. recNamed At Utah Tech The annual competition Donald E. Matthews has been ognizes outstanding articles and named division chairman of gen- broadcasts in vision in the four eral education at Utah Technical categories of newspaper, magradio and television. WinCollege at Salt Lake, announced azine, Utah Techs Pres. Jay LL. Nel- ners receive an inscribed medallion and $500. son. Yeates, director of special proMatthews previously was acawon the jects for KSL-Tdemic dean at the Stevens-Hen-egfour-part award for a series on College in Salt Lake, a research from in aired Utah, school now discontinued. He eye ioined Utah Techs teaching staff July, 1973, through June, 1974, during KSL newscasts and on last year. The new division chairman the Dimension Five program. also has been a teacher and high One segment, on a breakthrough school principal in Idaho, and in developiny an artificial eye, distributed nationally by "resident of the Cassia County was CBS-Tand by Television News Education Assn. Matthews has been a member Incorporated. Eye research covered in the of the board of directors and a district commissioner of the Boy series included a glaucoma testScouts of America, and a mem- ing project at the Utah Biomedber of the library accrediting ical Lab; the artificial eye at the University of Utah's committee for the Northwest Association for Secondary and Institute of Biomedical Engineering; and the eye bank at the Higher Schools. Matthews replaces Calvin B. University of Utah Medical Stewart, who has returned to Center. A journalism graduate of the teaching at the College. Geothermal Leases In Utah Go To Phillips Petroleum Company of the Salt Lake County prop- rh University of Utah, Yeates has been involved in commercial broadcasting for the past eight years, primarily as a writer produrer of documentaries. His programs have covered slch diverse topics as the college athletic program; traditional beliefs of the Navajo Indians; college unrest; the energy crisis; handicapped workers; and a new rehabilitation program for senior citizens. Other winners in the 1974 optometric journalism competition were Colleen Simmons, a freelance writer from Caddo, Okla., in the newspaper category; and Robert N. Eastman, assistant general manager of radio station KWMO in St. Louis, Mo. Judges of the broadcast entries represented the National Association of Broadcasters, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Southern Illinois University School of Fine ArtsMass Com- munications. 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