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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1974 Page Nina Moss Commends National Governors Conference Efforts Utah Senator Frank E. (Ted) Moss has commended the National Governors Conference for reorganization efforts to improve state communication with the Federal government. Moss placed in the Congressional Record a letter from Governor Calvin L. Rampton outlining the efforts for better communication. Rampton is Chairman of the national conference. In an address to the conference last June, Senator Moss suggested that each of the states have a federal presence in Washington in order to stay abreast of developing legislation which affects the states and in order to have sufficient advance notice of such legislation for the states to make a significant contribution to its formulation. Moss also suggested to the Governors that the conference ought to establish a kind of think tank made up of state experts on sabbatical leave from their jobs to be a resource of new ideas coupled with the states perspectives on problems which the Congress is, or ought to be, addressing. The Senator said he is pleased that the conference is moving in the direction of better communication with the Congress. Governor Rampton told Moss that the Washington staff of the conference is being reorganized to provide more timely, accurate information on State activities and how Federal programs would best mesh with existing State programs. Utah To Intervene In Inpounded Fund Case Utahs petition to intervene in a suit to get the Ford Adminis- tration to release some ten billion dollars in impounded highway funds has been granted, according to Assistant Attorney General Mark Madsen. He told the Utah Road Commission that he has been informed that an order allowing Utah to join Louisiana and several other states in the suit will be entered into the records of the Federal District Court of Washington, D.C.. on October 15th. Madsen said he was confident that the states will win their case for release of the funds. There isnt a single issue involved in this suit that hasnt been successfully litigated before, he aid. He pointed out that every suit involving impounded highway funds so far has been decided in favor of the states The only problemm I really see is ten billion dollars being pumped into the economy all at once. Youve got to worry about that, and the courts have got to vorry about that, he said. Madsen said Justice Department attorneys will undoubtedly argue that releasing the ten billion dollars at this time would be against the public interest, in view of current efforts to curb inflation. Madsen told the commission that the states will argue a motion for a summary judgment in the case in late November, and he expected the motion to be granted. If we win. he said, the federal government wiU be required to release all of our impounded funds. Tf were not successful, some of our highway funds may lapse bpfore we ever receive them. He pointed out that some rf Utahs 31 million dollars in impounded federal highway funds are within two years of lapsing. When if leads the way! Fourteen years ago, when Tom Redmond was asked to make his first contribution to the United Fund as a Kennecott employee, he had no idea he was helping himself. But bread cast on the waters has a way of returning. In 1971 Tom was still contributing with his fellow employees. That was the year they of the total Great Salt Lake Area United Fund. And that was the year Tom lost his sight through an illness. But he didnt lose sight of his job at the mine. accounted for over 10 Almost daily he went to the Salt Lake Center for the Blind, an agency of United Fund (now called United Way), where he learned to disassemble then reassemble locomotive brake valves. When he felt ready, Tom came to Kennecott, and his union, and asked to return to work. Hes on the job again, full time, and performing to the satisfaction of himself and his foreman. And when the call goes out to Kennecott employees to support the United Way again this year, guess whose name will be on the list. Thanks to the generosity of his peers, who make up the largest single contributor to the United Way, Toms working. Utah Copper Bivision |