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Show I M 7I Mil lI vl 1 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -F- the centers program. not enough, I want are People assurances that the $130,000 it costs the city to keep the center open is put to use, said Greener. The center was originally closed when Greener learned that two county recreation employes at the center quit and hadn't been replaced. Only one worker remained explained. . Swensen argued that the county had a tight budget and had to follow red tape in hiring replacements could have been available immediately. People being there is just not enough, Greener said. 1 am frustrated at trying to explain this point to county officials. We want assurances of programs. The city and county will try to iron out their differences on recreation programming during the next two weeks, at which time Greener will make a decision on the centers future. In the meantime. City Commissioner Jess Agraz suggested a plan be prepared to allow the city to assume full control of the centers recreation program with only fundBy a 10-- 3 vote, the Legislative ing support from the county. Swenson warned that if the city Management Committee ousted persists in attacking the countys Sen. Carl E. Pettersson, involvement in the center, we will as a member of the group. Pettersson, who walked out of take our recreation staff and go the meeting after the vote, said he elsewhere." will ask the full Senate to vote on the issue when it meets in June. The action was another episode in a feud between Pettersson and Senate President Ernest H. Dean, Fork. The Magna senator, who was Supporters of reorganization, how- replaced as Senate majority leader ever, assert that only by thus last January by Sen. Omar B. in an intra-part- y speading the workload and by Bunnell, seat on the Managehis lost providing adequate professional tussle, staff assistance can the citizen-legislat- ment Committee to Bunnell. be preserved. Interim At the opening of the meeting, so become work requirements have Dean recognized Bunnell, and Rep. House heavy, it is argued, that it could Beverly J. White, not be carried by a few individuals assistant majority whip, as voting without their having to sacrifice members of the committee. their professional and business inPettersson challenged the recogof the two new memers and nition interests. of Extensive reorganization the committee voted 10-- 3 to uphold legin islative activity was effected Deans action. Pettersson then walked out. 1975, aolishing the former LegislaHe said he has an opinion from tive Council and Joint Budget and Audit, Legal Services, and Legisla- the Legislature's Legal Services tive Operations Committees, the Office which says he still holds the Foundation noted in a research position on the Management Comreport released this week. Under mittee until the entire Senate votes the reorganization plan, all legisla- on it. He said he would appeal to the tors participate in interim activities relafull Senate during a June 14 special the conducted by previously session to or will take the dispute few legislators assigned tively the Council and the three joint through the courts. committees. All members of the The committee had planned to to also are make assigned Legislature changes in the legislative of the Joint Ap- staff Tuesday, but after two and a subcommittees propriations Committee in a pro- half hours of political gram launched when Utah adopted and caucuses, no decisions were annual legislative sessions in 1970. reached. Sessions in The group did agree to meet years are limited to 20 days and restrictApril 14 at 9 a.m. to study SB218, ed primarily to consideration of which organized the Legislature matters directly affecting the state into its present setup and another budget. organization session will be held two weeks after that. (continued on page 4) citizen-legislato- tern of citizen-legislato- rs rs and limit- ed sessions, although the move to annual sessions in 1970 may be viewed as a step in the opposite direction. Controversy over the reorganization program goes into the larger question, the Foundation notes. Critics charge that expanded involvement of legislators in interim activity is a move toward the full - time professional legislator. 1 New Laws Will Govern Utahns rs . 30-da- Pettersson Will Challenge Senate Committee Oust Possible Reorganization on-goi- 27 Most of the other new laws will 1, 1976, buyers Interior Secretary Thomas Klep-pe- s of Beginning Apriland insulin will have little immediate effect upon prescriptions decision on the Kaiparowits save 4 to five cents on each dollar the life of the average citizen, but a project has been pushed back to they pay for the medicine. notable exception is the Indoor late in April from the previously This is the result of House Bill 87 Clean Air Act, designed to protect expected announcement date of which, along with about 25 other from tobacco smoke in about April 6, the department measures passed during the Utah public places. disclosed in conjunction with resession, beLegislature's On or after April 1, convicted lease of a Park Service report on comes law. budget felons may have up to five years possible impacts of the project. The new law eliminates the sales added to their sentences if a real or Gov. Calvin L. Rampton and tax on all sale of medicine either firearm is used in commissimulted Utahs congressional delegation, in or supplied by a hysician sion of a crime. prescribed meetings with the Interior secre- and for medicine dispensed in a Another new law of consequence tary, reportedly received assurance county or licensed hospital by a from Secretary Kleppe that he under the is HB12, which allows the state pharmascist registered would make the decision in early direction of a engineer to limit the period for physician. April. Also exempted are insulin and which water may be appropriated The final Environmental Impact but not such things as for industrial purposes. Statement was filed with the Presi- syringes, This represents a significant deauditory (hearing aid devices), dents Council on Environmental prosthetic, occular or ophthalmic parture from historic rules regardQuality March 5. There is a mandabeveralcoholic well as as devices, ing water rights. y waiting period for ages. tory A few of the new laws passed by public comment. Thus the first day The sales tax is five cents in Salt the budget session, including a Secretary Kleppe could announce Lake, Davis and Weber counties, of the Utah Liquor Control his deidsion would be April 6, and where is levied to revamp it had been expected then or soon support the Utah Transit Author- Commission, do not become effective until July 1. after. ity, and 4 A cents in other areas of the state. ' Among major bills which became Elimination of the tax will save law earlier are the Takeover DisHealth Utahns an estimated $1.6 million a closure Act and Care Financing. year. Utah Legislature Faces Controversy over the recent reorganization of the Utah Legislature may be just one facet of a larger problem concerning the states basic philosophy on governmental operation. This point was brought out by Utah Foundation, the private research organization in an analysis of the legislative reorganization effected last year. According to the Foundation report, the real issue may be the question of whether Utah should stick to its traditional pattern of limited legislative activity, conducted by of who represent a cross-sectio- n the community. Some legislators have urged extended sessions and the development of career legislators who devote full working time to this pursuit. To date, Utah voters have shown a preference for he historic pat- EX . . to oversee the activities, Greener The Central City Community Center reopened Thursday on a temporary basis, Salt Lake City Commissioner Glen N. Greener said. Greener,, who closed the recreation and social service center, said the facility will reopen for two or three weeks, pending the outcome of negotiations with Salt Lake County. He wants assurances from the county recreation department that a comprehensive program for the center will be established before he agrees to a permanent reopening. County Recreation Director Gary Swensen promised Greener there will be four staff people available to Effective April non-smoke- . Glen N. Greener Public Safety Commissioner j JJww RIDAY, APRIL 2, 1976 Kaiparots Community Center Opens Decision Due Late in April Pending New Programs oversee i. I 1 e, or -- even-number- ed one-fourth-c- 4 Non-Prof- it TODAYS EDITORIAL v Bell Ringing On April 19f 1975, the bells in Boston joyfully announced the beginning of the citys Bicentennial celebration. The date also marked the 200th anniversary of Paul Reveres historic ride, and appropriately, the bell in the Old North Church chimed in. As a young lad, Paul Revere is said to have been one of the churchs bell ringers. His interest in bells continued, and in 1792 he cast his first church bell a rather crude casting with a relatively raucous note. Paul Revere and Sons went on to cast 397 more church bells, most of them smoother and better tuned than the first attempt. Only 100 of those bells have survived in their original form. Throughout the ages, bells have been voices of history. They have pealed in victory or tolled to signal the beginning of battles. They have sounded fire alarms, announced curfews, mourned for the dead and celebrated births. Bells have summoned laborers to their work, given notice when the lord of the manors oven was ready to bake bread, signaled shop owners to open the market place, and announced dinner. Some of the bells that rang out in England when World War II ended had previously sounded to celebrate the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. Some English bells have tolled the death of every English ruler since King John died in 1216. (continued on page 2) . |