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Show ?.? 3-. f i- - County Cutting Down on Budget, Little by Little The county has meanwhile focused on four areas of priority: parks and recreation, $500,000 for land acquisition and development; the highway department, $300,000 for new heavy equipment; the fire department, $200,000 for more fire fighters; and the sheriffs department, $248,000 for 20 additional deputies. $500,000 wont even be enough to build one park," snorted Parks Commissioner William E. Dunn, when asked his reaction to the proposed allocation. The department had originally requested $2 million for development alone, and the same amount for operation and maintenance. The $200,000 for additional fire fighters would only pay their salaries, but would not cover the cost With only two weeks left before of new equipment. I guess we can mandatory adoption, Salt Lake hire these men to fill our two new County's 1976 budget, is being fire stations, and then send them cut down in almost every depart- out naked to stomp out fires," ment. chuckled Auditor Hansen during a This year, the county spent recent workshop session at the Salt approximately $60 million to pay, Palace. Not laughing is Commissioner the bills. But because of a $4.5 million pay raise for all county Ralph Y. McClure, who pointed out employees last July, including the need for an additional $431,000 elected officials, the county faces for four new fire trucks to go along the possibility of falling short in with the fire fighters. The sheriffs department faces 1976 by about $4 million if it of 1975 level same dilema with the allocation the expects to meet the for more deputies. The $248,000 services. The county is seeking a solution. would pay their salaries, but would The most recent plan of attack is to leave deputies without patrol cars. Other department budgets are make blanket cuts in all departments. Auditor Gerald R. Hansen being reduced little by little in d cut of services such as welfare. Early proposes an about 8 percent in all department indications are that in the departbudgets, although the figure is ment of social services, directors open to negotiation depending upon will be asked to make do with the needs of a particular depart- fewer personnel and a smaller ment. In any case, Hansen said, uit budget than ever before. The public is invited to a public would be safe to say" that all departments may be forced to fire hearing Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. in the Salt Palace Little Theatre. some personnel. across-the-boar- Citys Population, Federal Revenue Share Up office. In 1973 the Utah Legislature abandoned the district attorney concept of prosecution for a system single prosecution to be handled by county attorneys. In rural areas, council members explained, the system has worked to the detriment of prosecution because county attorneys were too of inexperienced. Under the standard, the state prosecutor would handle all prosecutorial duties within the state, hiring deputies to assist in prosecution in Utahs various judicial districts. The standard said the complexities and demands of the prosecution function require that Court Administrators Office, should prepare the legislation. No action could be taken before the next regular session of the Legislature in 1977. The council approved other standards in the fields of corrections and police, including a controversial standard relating to the State Industrial School in Ogden. Ernest D. Wright, director, State Division of Corrections, said he foresees a need in the next three or four years for a new youth offender nistration for fiscal 1976 and h trans$500,000 for the ition period in changing the fiscal year start from July 1 to Oct. 1. three-mont- The Utahn said two Utah national parks service projects were cut. Largest was $311,000 for the Glen Canyon Recreational Area. The other was $88,000 for the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. Four U.S. Forest Service projects for the state were cut by the Senate committee. They were the Provo Shrub Research Laboratory, $125,000; Lucerne Recreation Site in Ashley National Forest, $334,000; Mueller Park in Cache Relations Director Roger F. Stowell said that population, coupled with community need and average income, determine the size of revenue sharing checks. year, City Auditor Lawrence A. Jones has planned to use $5,578 million of those funds. Earlier, Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr. and Mr. Stowell submitted planning department figures to the federal govern- ment estimating the citys 1973 population at 180,000. Mr. Stowell credited sending this information and constant pressure" by Sen. Jake Garn, with getting the revision on the population from the Census Burh, eau. Mr. Stowell said that the revenue sharing increase will be shown in checks arriving later this year. Democratic Womens Club Christmas Lunch National Forest, $90,000, and comRep. Gunn Mckay, Senate the week, this that plained Appropriations Committee had cut six Utah projects he was instrumental in adding in the House version of the annual money bill for Interior and related agencies. Mr. McKay said the biggest cut D-Uta- h, Provo Shrub Laboratory Construction, $60,000. The bill now goes to a Senate-Hous- e conference committee where Mr. McKay, who expects to be one of the. House conferees, is hopeful of getting at least half of the Utah projects restored. TODAYS EDITORIAL S V Foreign Medical Graduates the prosecutor be a fulltime, skilled professional . . . who should maintain no outside practice." The standard stated that the states prosecutor's office should be financed by the state and adequately staffed. Legislative action will be required for the change. Third District Court Judge Bryadvocate of a ant Croft, long-tim- e state prosecutors office, suggested that the State Judicial Council or the Utah State Bar Association, through the Office of the State was $2 million from the Intermountain School at Brigham City. He had convinced the House Appropriations Committee that no less than $4.9 million was needed for the school so it could handle 800 students. This was $2 million more than recommended by the admi- Intergovernmental This onu McKay Protests Cuts in Money for Utah Projects Salt Lake Citys population by latest Census Bureau estimates has been increased by 4,704, leading to bigger federal revenue sharing checks. Officials have been told this action lists the citys projected 1973 population at 173,938, still down from the official 1970 census of 175,885 residents. The previous 1973 estimate by the Census Bureau was 169,234. Utah Criminal Justice Council Asks Return to Use of District Attorneys The Utah Council on Criminal Justice Administration this week went on record as favoring a return to the use of district attorneys rather than county attorneys. During its regular monthly meeting the council approved a controversial standard recommending establishment of a state prosecutor's y 72 71 The United States, generally acknowledged to have a doctor shortage, may have even fewer doctors than is widely believed. This situation appears to have resulted from a significant overcounting by more than 20 percent of the number of foreign born and educated physicians who have entered the U.S. health care system since 1965. Foreign medical graduates (FMGs) are especially important in this country because U.S. medical schools in the past 20 years have not graduated enough physicians to fill house-staf- f d positions in hospitals, and FMGs have filled of these slots. A new analysis of the migration to the U.S. of foreign medical graduates, based on unpublished government data, appears in the 31 October 1975 issue of Science, the weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In Rosemary Physician Migration Reexamined, G. Wolf Louis and June Goodman, Stevens, Darge of Yale University, and Stephen S. Mick of the Social Science Research Council of New York, observe that old figures make it appear that the number of FMGs arriving has been steadily exceeding the number of students graduating from U.S. medical schools (except in 1967 and 1968); this has not been the case. (continued on page 2) one-thir- The Womens Democratic Club of Salt Lake is having their annual Christmas luncheon at the Capitol Plaza Saturday Dec. 6 at 1:00 p.m. according to Eueda McCoy, club President. The singing group The Sweet Adelines will entertain. The club plans a bake sale prior to lunch. Bake sale items are needed at the Plaza by 12:30. Cost of the luncheon is $4.00. For reservations call Sally Monson at 4 Donna Parker at or Sunday Anderson at There is free parking for anyone attending the luncheon. 268-654- 4, 467-609- 355-600- 2. |