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Show 't FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1975 Page Eight Performance by Choir and Symhony Set for 1976 Joint1 Utah Airport, Airways Program Cited By Pilot Association The dates for the presentation of a sperial Bicentennial work performed jointly by the Utah Symphony Orchestra and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir were announced by the Utah Bicentennial Commission. The performances, the first time the two world-famou- s groups will have ever appeared together, are scheduled for the Summer of 1976. Included in the schedule is a sunset performance at one of the nations most famous and scenic settings, Zion National Park in Southern Utah. The performances are scheduled for Salt Lake City at the Tabernacle, Saturday, May 29; in Logan Tuesday, June 1; in Oyden Fridaf, Jcne 4; in Provo, Wednesday, June 9; and at Zion National Park Friday, June 11. The work will be performed under the supervision of the Bicentennial Commissions Festival Committee and its chairman Victor L. Brown, Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, and its vice chairman Dr. Keith M. Engar, chairman of the Theatre Department of the University of Utah. The announcement of the dates for the joint performance culminates months of preparation and groundwork by officials of the Utah Symphony, Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Utah Bi-- ! centennial Commission. All three organizations worked to finalize and formally approve the dates. Music for the Choir and Symphony is being composed by Dr. Crawford Gates of Beloit, Wis. Dr. Gates, who is music director of the Rockford Symphony composed the music for Promised Valley. a musical which was presented for the first time during Utahs Centennial in Department of Transportation to raise special aviation taxes even higher, to pay or an even larger federal airport and airway pro- Standards for receiving federal aid for airports make construction costs so high that states and localities go it alone in many cases, according to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, which is calling for reductions in federal spending on aviation projects. The go it alone list includes gram. AOPA is urging its members to ask Senators and Representatives to orce FAA to retrench drastically and remove the special taxes entirely. Utah. Were not trying to stop deFederal airport aid is first velopment, Monroe explained, collected in taxes and then doled because the public interest and out by the U.S. Department of welfare a national sysrequire Transportations Federal Avia- tem of airports and air traffic tion Administration (FAA), ex- management. But we are inplained Robert Monroe, a vice sisting that the federal governpresident of AOPA. ment return to those basics Speaking for AOPAs 180,000 which the taxpayers can afford. members, Monroe said: FAAs reducing federal waste extravagant standards and prac- andByextravagances, general tax tices are just one reason why we revenues can necessary are urging Americans to demand basics at less provide cost to the taxthat the federal government go Back to Basics for the Bicenten- payer and without special taxes on pilots and passengers. nial. Any localities and aviation Utah is an excellent example of the kind of basics we are talk- groups that feel they must have expensive and bigger facilities ing about. general funds can Responding to a survey by the faster than should bear the them National Association of State provide Aviation Officials, the Utah Divi-- : additional cost of those extras sion of Aeronautics reported that themselves, he declared, AOPA seeks to eliminate all airport and airways projects can be completed at less ex- example of federal waste and exwhich go far beyond pense by not being hamstrung travagance, with FAAs requirements for the airport program alone, Monelaborate engineering, adminis- roe said. He charged: federal The government trative procedures, and their $ wasted trying to ailure to recognize any product or procedure not covered by the velop a replacement for be- phone communication lines book. tween FAA facilities. The The state uses components, ac- - gram had to be cancelled. For one radio navigation aid, cording to the divisions report, VOR station at Salmon, Idaho, but most engineering costs are a eliminated by using state airport FAAs scheme cost $471,200, By involving the compared with a cost of $186,000 engineers. it. community and Utah Pilots As- - if the state were to build The least expensive airport sociation, through donated labor,comcontrol tower built by FAA and actual cash outlay by the recently by munity for the installation is investigated General can You Accounting eliminated. grcsss ' cost $189,220 while GAO the benefit to a small fice towers cost- found five non-FAcommunity. There are many other in-- ! ing from $23,000 to $128,000. AOPA is calling upon Congress stances elsewhere in Utah and in to a number of other states, notably give civil aviation the miniOhio, said Monroe. They prove mum. Weve seen enough of that we pay a terrible and un- FAAs maximums to know that necessary price or letting the theyre ruinous. We dont want he said. d or need them, federal bureaucracy set Utah citizens who know standards as a precondition or redistributing our money about their states excellent proMonroe said gram will join our Back to . In Washington right now, Con-- Basics for the Bicentennial is being asked by the U.S. fort. Im confident of that. ; ! ; 13-milli- on pro-FAA-appro- j high-qualit- y, I j Con-practica- Or-hestr- a. 1947. Of-appreci- ate i A Business activity in Salt Lake City increased by 10 last year, according to a study just released by Utah Foundation, the private research organization. For the state as a whole, the overall gain in business volume amounted to 11.8 during 1974. A large part of the increased dollar sales volume in 1974, however, was due to inflation. According to the report, the average increase in the cost of livWhen ing last year was adjustments are made for this use in the onsumers price index, the net gain for th stat was only This record, however, 0.7. still was considerably better than the experience of the entire nation, which last year registered in an overall decline of 2.2 personal consumption expenditures stated in constant dollars. The Foundation report shows that gross sales in Salt Lake City, as measured by local optax collections, sales tion to amounted $1,161,130,000 during 1974. This compares with total business activity of $1,055.-690.00- 0 in 1973, $773,315,000 in 11. 1970, and $641,432,000 in 1967. The total increase in business volume between 1967 and 1974 in Salt Lake City was equal to entire 81.0. Throughout therose by business state, activity same 119.5 period. during this accounted of course, Inflation, for much of this gain in the dollar volume of business activity. Between 1967 and 1974 at 47.7 rise was recorded in the consumers price index. Some of the largest percentage gains in business activity last year were recorded in the smaller counties of the state. The report shows that the 1974 in- two quarters of 1974. More than half of all business activity in Utah is concentrated in Salt Lake ounty with half of the Salt Lake County total located within Salt Lake City proper. During recent years, however, there has been some shifting of business activity away from the central business district to the suburban areas. Between 1967 and 1974, for example, the dollar volume of business activity within Salt Lake City has risen by compared with a 188 of in the suburban gain areas of Salt Lake County. The movement of population from the city into the county along with the construction of large shopping malls in suburban areas are cited by the report as major factors responsible for this business shift. 81, Room Tax Increase Of One Percent Sought By Local Promotion Board page If the past eight years. The 1.5 per cent tax was put in effect in 1965 and weve been operating on that ever since. "Hotels are being built in this city not because it has a good climate as some think but because weve expanded the tourist industry. The 1975 legislature authorized counties to double the tax to three percent to finance their tourist programs. Budget predictions for 1975 show that the Salt Lake County activities groups anticipated roughly $300,000 from the tax towards their $425,000 budget. Meanwhile Salt Lake County Auditor Gerald Hansen said a legal question has come up con(Continued - i jD-Ut- ah ! 'Continued from page 1' both male and female. But the law allows courts to continue child support payments in divorce cases to age 21. The new law says majority is reached automatically on marriage. The decision in the case was decided in our court before the Supreme court spoke said It was some kind of a test case. Chief Justice Henroid said that until he receives the decision from the Supreme Court he will not comment further. The decision will contain short instructions telling us what The question for the week is that of would a 60,000 square foot office building near the State Capitol be more palatable to those who oppose constructs of a large facility. This quesHen-roition was raised this week by Gov. Hampton in a letter to the Capitol Hill Commission. He suggested construction of a small office building from the Capitol Plaza Cafeteria. The Governor said that when the present state office building was planned a four story edifice oppose the to do. cafeteria was included. Although Supposedly however the Su- the building was not included in preme Court will direct the Utah final plans Rampton said the pilCourt to determine which age lars under the plaza were 21 or 18 should be the upper strengthened in case another structure would be built. limits for child support. d. 4 om if its printing dial ef-gre- ss U.S. Supreme Court Hands Down Decision On Legal Age To Utah f-- n. gold-plate- I Business Volume Increased 10 In Salt Lake City Last Year in creases amounted to 64.1in Dag27.8 Ducesne County, in Uintah gett County, 27.2 Carbon 20.4 in County, cerning a recent State Tax comin 20.0 Piute County. County, missions opinion which said Foundation analysts attribute counties must use an authorized executive director of the many of these gains to stepped-u- p one quarter sales tax or lose the State Department of Developenergy exploration and de- entire local option sales tax. ment Services, and a member of velopment in these areas. the Utah Bicentennial CommisTotal sales volumes throughsion. out the State equaled $4.2 billion . .. Moss Told of Public last year, an increase of 11 notes that 1973. The study over Service Jobs Funds the percentage gains were mod364-846the first half of the 4 Being Restored Utah est during rose sharply in the last Senator Frank E. (Ted) Moss, year but was notified today that public service employment funds are being returned to Utah by the Department of Labor, Office of Manpower. After the state received an original authorization of nearly $3.4 million under Title Vi of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, the amount was cut back a few weeks ago by $805,000 and reduced the state total to $2,559,848. He squeezed it a little was came up with sloe and This action extremely detrimental particularly to the gin, which isn't gin at all. It's a refreshing fruity taste, Weber and Davis counties area well worth the chase. where people had already been hired under an original authorSenator ization was reduced, Moss noted. I am pleased that the Office of Manpower has begun to restore those reduced funds with an amount of $470,-00slightly more than half the reduced amount, and I will continue to push for the remaining $336,000 to bring us back to the original amount of nearly $3.4 Let Me Boston be your bartender million, he announced. This new amount brings the He makes mote fine liquor products states latest total to $3,029,000 than anyone else in the world. . . and Senator Moss insists Whiskies.Vodfca.Gin.Rum.Scotch.Brandy.Cordials.Cocktails. Utah needs these funds in order to continue this emergency em60 Proof. Mr. Boston Distiller, Boston, Mass. 1874. ployment program. Funding for the preparation of the major work came from two grants, one from the Utah Bicentennial Commission, and another from Milton L. Weilen-roan- lly SALT LAKE TIMES qaQHD(SE)iaia(M 0, |