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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1976 Page Two Trees, Shrubs to Beautify Belt Route Borders 1-2- 15 ' f. ' v. the LEASED GRAPEVINE ,10 Amendment for the Aging? (continued from page 1) Amendment, it is reasonable to ask if the aging are really disadvantaged to the degree of needing relief through legislation. Before considering these matters, we might pause to consider the national commitment to the welfare of the population at large. One purpose of the Constitution is to promote the general welfare. Fair enough, yet each word in that phrase needs interpretation and invites particular questions. Does general mean the great majority of all segments of the population, at all times and in every circumstance? Who is to determine what welfare (or faring well) really means, and can government be depended on to rpomote it wisely and fairly? How active, moreover, should government be in promoting it? The whole phrase must also be questioned: Is it possible, or feasible, or even desirable for government to assume responsibility for whatever we may decide the general welfare is? Laws relating to the well being of citizens result not by implementing some grand design worked out in advance, but from successful ad hoc efforts by individuals and groups to overcome opposition and influence law makers. Recent efforts by our elderly and on their behalf have produced landmark legislation. Majorities in Congress must have been convinced that disadvantage did exist and needed correction. In their relations with their government, Americas elders have fared much better in the last ten years than they could have hoped to at any time earlier. Their welfare, moreover, has become a federal concern not only at HEW but in bureaus and agencies in several other departments. The Older Americans Act provides for Presidential Councils for liaison and general overview. Whether the elderly would be better served by a Department on the Aging under a Cabinet-leve- l Secretary is comparable to the question of whether a Constitutional Amendment is disirable or necessary. If Congress has come to view the aging as disadvantaged and in need of legislative relief, so also, and for a longer time, have an impressive number of organized private groups. Some experts in gerontology, the scientific study of the aging, insist that these groups have been more effective in securing aid for the aging than the aging themselves, who, being as diverse as the population at large, cannot easily be molded into a group capable of effective action. The existence of so many groups, all engaged in efforts to improve conditions for Americas oldest citizens, proves beyond question that the aging are not merely indulging a me too- - impulse. The sheer multiplicity of effort, however, may have a distracting effect on legislators, notoriously the victims of many pressures. A thoughtful objective observer might see the desirability of an umbrella organization, large enough to cover all the concerned groups and also the e millions of the aging not now enrolled in associations. No component unit in this conjectural would need to surrender its special super-grou- p concerns and activities, but the more than 20 million strong, would constitute the largest and potentially the most powerful special-interebody in the nation. Once created and operative, this massive pressure group could be expected to push Congress even further along the road to maximum aid to the aging. old-ag- super-organizatio- n, Lt. Oscar Hendriksen, president of Utah Peace Officers Association and Wayne Shepherd, president of Utah Chiefs of Police Association have asked Gov. Calvin L. Ramp-to- n to veto SB50, which revises the base figure on which retirement benefits are paid. A portion of each police officer's lpaycheck goes to the state retirement fund. If the bill becomes law, some of that money never will be returned to the employe. The bill would allow The Utah Department of Trans- tubelings will be planted in holes the state not to consider certain of the salary, including portation will open bids Feb. 17 on drilled in the ground so their deep portions in figuring retirement overtime, a project to make a section of roots will find a natural supply of benefits. on the east side of the Salt Lake water. Valley blossom like a rose. All of the plants will be surThe project will landscape the rounded by a fiberglass mulching Belt Route from to 4500 South. Over 15,000 trees and mat which will permit rain and The need for an additional Salt shrubs will be planted in the moisture to penetrate but will Lake City Court judge and new courtroom space has reached crisis median and interchange areas and inhibit the growth of weeds. proportions, due to increases in fence. along the right-of-wa- y addition to making the free- caseloads and overcrowding at the In The contract calls for 1,315 more attractive, Mr. Larsen Metropolitan Hall of Justice. The Austrian Pine trees, which UDOT way the landscaping will screen city commission agreed to look for said, Landscape Architect Laird Larsen the highway fromthe view of people $5,000 to hire an architect to said are noted for their vigorous will and serve to it living adjacent recommend space utilization within d growth and beauty. as a noise buffer. the existing facilities. Mayor Ted The project will also include L. Wilson promised to find out if deciduous trees, such as Russian is enough money in the there Olive and Common Hackberry, to budget to hire an additional judge provide color and texture, he said. and to establish a committee to look The trees will be watered by a solution to the for a long-rang- e bubbler type irrigation system to overloading of the judicial branch of conserve water. Water will be city government. piped to each tree, trickled through a bubller head which will ensure a Local political candidates intersmall but adequate supply of moisin Federal campaign laws are ture. The system is designed to be ested invited to attend a regional seminar Salt Lake County Sheriff Delmar L. automatic and will be turned on and on those laws sponsored by the Larson announced that 40 new off with a timing device. Federal Election Commission. The red, white and blue patrol cars will Mr. Larsen said all of the meeting will be held on Friday, roads on April shrubbery for the project will be Feb. 20 at the Federal Building, go onto the county's will into service vehicles 1. The go native shrubbery, such as sage- 125 South State, in Room as the same the opening of the day brush, bitterbrush, squawbush, at 4500 S. substation sheriffs new More details about the meeting sans cherry and juniper. The of dozen a About the red, Main St. shrubs will be greenhouse tube-ling- s may be obtained by calling Phyllis will blue be cars white and put into whose roots have been forced Frankel, Salt Lake County Demoaction to patrol the central belt of to grow down long tubes. The cratic Party Chairman, at the county, where a third of county crimes are committed. 1-- 15 year-aroun- Federal Campaign Laws Reviewed at Regional Meeting B-2- 0. 532-659- 5. its campaign would be stripped of all demands narrowly limited to particular within the total. Instead, it would concentrate on what concerns all our aging, and on what is exclusively their Of necessity, sub-grou- ps concern. It would not overreach by seeking privileges denied to other groups; but it would hardly need to. Simply catching up, gaining an equal share of the general welfare cited in the preamble to the Constitution, would be victory enough. Place your trust in Some trust problems a lawyer can solve better than a bank. Some trust problems a bank can solve better than a lawyer. Most trust problems a lauyer and a bank can solve better together. First Security's Trust Department staffs resident experts in investments, accounting, computers, taxation and other trust and estate management related fields. Together we can work out the best solutions for your clients. You shouldn't settle for anything less. Call us for all the details: Trust st Department First Security Dank of Utah, A N 350-536- 1 Member FDJ.C. The Salt Lake City Fire Department responded to 283 calls in January, with fire loss totaling $67,917 and nine injuries. The monthly report showed that 42 of the alarms were false, with 145 termed precautionary. KResiden-tia- l fires resulted in the most alarms with 36, followed by 10 at assemblies; six at mercantile facilities; two, storage facilities, and one, manufacturing and processing facilities. No deaths resulted from fires during the month, the report noted. non-resident- ial Salt Lake City is among cities being considered as a site for the Occupational Safety and Health Administrations (OSHA) training institute, according to Sen. Frank E. Moss. The Labor Department considers the present site in Rose-mon- t. 111. inadequate and the institute must be moved, Moss said. Some of Salt Lake Countys fixed assets are unaccounted for, County Finance Director William Finney has said. He blamed the inventory problem on poor record keeping by past administrators. A prime example of the problem is the recent discovery that the county has been paying automobile insurance on a vehicle that was found completely stripped in a county shops yard. As many as 20 vehicles in county fleet are unaccounted for. 500-vehic- le |