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Show r f r. ) a 72 3-- 7 1 eiui SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH S.L. City Auditor Lawrence Jones Reports City Will Have Surplus the Salt Lake City International Airport financial operations. The Public Safety department was in the black this year. Mr. Jones reported We took protective measures. You could say that the surplus was man FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1975 County Democratic Central Committee To Meet August 21 The next meeting of the S.L. County Democratic Central Com mittee will be held on August 21st at 7:30 p.m., in the City Commission Chambers of the City County Bldg. The meeting will be chaired by Senator Ma-roJensen of Senate District 1975 Demo State Organizing Convention Slated For August 23 Central Committee members, adopt the state party Resolution :and to transact any other busi- ni No. 6. Candidates for the City Commission and Mayor races will have an opportunity to speak. We still have some dishes and other items left from the July 26th rally in Fairmont Park. Any persons wishing to claim the belongings please call Salt Lake County Democratic Head5 30. or Kristi quarters at All other city department Heisel at ended the year in the black. The parks department ended the year made. The auditor gave credit to Public Safety Commissioner Glen Greener for help in holding spending to a minimum. He said that in December of 1974 he predicted the two department would close the year in the red for the fiscal year ending June 532-659- 268-185- 5. with some $63,000. Jones creditored wise and opportune use of federal funds for the surplus. Lawrence A. Jones City Auditor He said the Comprehensive Salt Lake City auditor Law- Employment Training act for the rence A. Jones this week report- city some $880,000 during the ed that preliminary figure show fiscal year. Of course use of those funds that the city will end with numerous conditions but black. in the carries roughly $400,000 Mr. However Jones said that as in the case of the Finance and his office has not tabulated all Parks department they can be revenues earmarked for the gen- used extensively. Total expenditure for the fiseral fund and the auditor predicted that the $400,000 surplus cal year added to $30,409,000 will be reduced to $105,000 in where as the amended budget reads $30,852,303. Still Hones unappropriated surplus. The figure represents the citys said that difference will likely general fund excluding the Salt shrink to the neighborhood for Lake city Water Department and $150,000 surplus. International Women's Festival To Be Held At Liberty Park - Gay McDonough, chairwoman announces the International womens year committee of the Governors commission on the status of women is sponsoring an Internationaf Womens Year Festival at the Liberty Park bandstand on Sunday, August 24th from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to bring their picnic, their family and their friends and join us in celebrating International Womens year. Around the bandstand and on the lawn various womens organizations from throughout the state will display materials and information and women artists will exhibit and sell their work. Childrens activities (games, arts and crafts, etc.) will be provided by child care agencies: and there will be music and dancing for all feat of legislation or influencing to enjoy on a program beginning the action of any state officer, at 7:00 p.m. agency board commission or council. Also contain in the opinion is Ardell Miller Demo that a person belonging to an Stalwart To Celebrate organization such as the Utah Education Association who mere- Eightieth. Birthday Mrs. Ardeli Miller, who has ly. pay his dues to belong wont have to pay the $10 register as served the democratic party for a lobbyist even though the or- a number of years will celebrate ganization might do some lobby- her eightieth birthday at an open house on Saturday, the twenty-thir- d ing. of August. However a member of the The open house will be held UEA who goes to the legislature at Robidoux Road, 8356 South to lobby directly will have to 2984 pay the $10 registration fee ac- four East, Salt Lake City from until seven p.m. cording to the opinion. The family of Mrs. Miller reVolker said it would be unreasonable to conclude the Leg- quest that no gift be bought. islature intended every person Five and a half million boy who belongs to an organization and girls between 9 and 19 arc that might do some lobbying Americas participants in should pay the $10 fee since it largest youth organization. Supisnt a revenue producing meas- porting their efforts are a half million volunteer adult leader, urer. The fee if only intended to the men and women of the Cooperative Extension Service, the cover the cost of processing the National Service Committee and some 60 business donors. paper work, Volker stated. Assistant Attorney General Calls Lobby Act Vague, Inconsistent The Lobby Registration.. Act .passed by the recent 1975 legislature is so vague and its provisions so inconsistent its not wonder attorneys arrive at different conclusions. This is the statement made by W. Wright Volker, Assistant Attorney General to Robert Hansen, Deputy Utah Attorney General. Mr. Volker was asked to review two previous opinions on the act since Lt. Governor Secretary of State Clyde L. Miller employees, questions who should register as Lobbist. Mr. Volker said that his interpretation will permit a more practical application of the act but until it is tested in court I doubt that any interpretation could be given it without a considerable degree of uncertainty. According to the interpretation of Mr. Volkers a person who must register as a lobbyist is one who receive contributions or compensation for the purpose of influencing the passage or de 4-- H, 4-- H John II. Klas . State Democratic Chairman John H. Klas Utah State Democratic Chairman this week announced that the 1975 Democratic State Organizing Conven- tion will be held Saturday, August 23, at the Terrace Ballroom. The convention will commence at 1:00. p.m. with regis-- t tration of State Delegates to be- gin at noon for the transaction of the party matters. The main matter of business to be conducted at the convention will be the election of a State Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. Other matter of business like- -' ly to come before the delegates will be to approve the State ness as may come before the convention. Those candidates who have filed with the party secretary for the office in accordance witli party bylaws are for State Chairman John H. Klas from Salt Lake City for State Vice Chairwoman, Marion Peterson, Saline and Alice Jensen of Orem for Treasurer David L. Duncan, Ogden and for Secretary Rep. Beverly J. White, of Tooele. Rumors are still floating around that some might draft candidates at the convention for some of the offices. Other events which will be held in conjunction with the state ' convention " ' will be a " pre convention no host breakfast for all women to be held at the Tri Arc Travelodge in the Prospec-o- r Room. This event will be hosted by the Salt Lake Democratic Women. There will also be 'a political eadership seminar for county chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons in the Salt Lake City Public j Library at 10 a.m. Another date to keep in mind for the upcoming calendar will be September 19 which is the date for the Jefferson-Jackso- n Day Dinner which will be held at the Terrace Ballroom. Keynote speaker for this event will be Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii. ! TODAYS EDITORIAL Parents Should Know Approved Each year women and children parchildren die from ticularly asphyxiation. The tendency is to think that practically all of these fatalities occur in summer, usually as a result of mishaps in the water. The truth is that an appalling number of suffocations occur in winter as well, from home fires difficult to control because of the cold, and from accidents that occur within the home because children are cooped up inside, get bored, investigate places and things they normally would not think about. Parents should take these safeguards in winter: 1. Keep all combustible materials and potentially inflammable items out of childrens reach and plainly marked. Make sure the flues of g fireplaces .50,000 men, wood-burnin- (Continued on page 4) |