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Show UTAH p o ? toj 1327 P.T2S3 no:; CITY n( v EX OHIO SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -F- RIDAY, JUNE 18, 1976 Springmeyer, McClure to Face Primary Election Gov. Rampton No Pay Hike Seen For City Employees in Budget dty Honored At Guard Camp is one means a tax hike. The already in the top salary brackets. The fiscal year begins July 1. Mr. Jones has made major trims in departmental capital requests, including severe cuts in police and fire It's been said that everyone loves a parade, and that was certainly true last week at Camp W.G. Williams. White hundreds of families and ' friends watched, almost 2000 members of the Utah National Guard department purchases. marched in review for Governor Calvin L. Rampton, Commander in Chief of the Guard, and Major General Maurice L. Watts, Adjutant General. The guard honored Governor Rampton with a nineteen gun salute. He made said balancing the. com- ing budget depends upon renewal of general revenue sharing and its expected $2.7 million grant. Even then, with a 4.5 mill debt service levy transfer to the general fund and stretched revenue predictions, there will be a $600,000 shortfall. The auditor said, 1 can make it up by using the expected $300,000 surplus this year and trimming some expenses next year." If revenue sharing doesn't receive congressional approval, Mr. Jones Thirty two different units proudly stood at attention while the Governor and General Watts inspected the troops. Governor Rampton was presented with a State and National Flag as a token of appreciation for the service he has performed to the state and to the National Guard in his eleven and one-ha- lf years as Robert L.v Commander in Chief. Ralph Y. McClure Springmeyer Ralph Y. McClure, Salt Lake County Commissioner, was forced into a primary election with political i newcomer Robert L. Springmeyer 1 Jr. as the result of balloting by Democrats June 12. county ' Forty-fiv- e McClure, now year-ol- d sixth his completing yer in office, narrowly escaped being ousted as a to a four-ye. candidate for term to the surprise of Several Democrats. Mr. Springmeyer his Sept. 14 primary election foe, grabbed 66 ar percent of party delegates' votes, or a tally of 442 to 223 votes for Commissioner McClure, according to a tabulation provided by the election committee. Seventy percent of the vote is needed to eliminate a Balloting was held at the Salt Lake Democratic Convention in The Terrace Ballroom, where Mrs. Calvin delegates staying to about 5 p.m. to complete the action. Mr. Springmeyere, 32, former director of the Rgion XII Law Enforcement Planning Agency, urged the delegates to back him in Ma fresh new beginning,and criticized Democratic leadership of the county commission in areas of planning, zoning and minority hiring. who reorganized that the 3) Sagebrush Demo Club Announces Outing Plans events of Cockayne is the year. Chairman arranging for a prominent national speaker. Working with Mr. Cockayne Ticket Promotion Rep. Harold Newman and Vice Pres. Zina McDonald. Assisting on the committee are George Black, Bob Zito, Ed Maryon, Zola Nichols, Beth Inger-sol- l. Rep. D. Leon Reese, Rep. Ennis Starr, and Ted Westwood. The ticket committee are expecting the most successful ticket sales in the Clubs history. Other committies announced by Cockayne: Entertainment, Chairman Bob Jensen, members Niki Zito, and an i Ann Leighty. Refreshment Committee Russ Habbashaw, Hugh Bringhurst, members Marion Evans, and Leah Abbott. Prizes and Drawing Chairman Carl C. B. Smurthwaite, President Alder members Leon Sullivan, Maurine Vance, and Olive Hunger. Charles B. Smurthwaite has announced the appointment of S. ClifMr. Cockayne announced the obford Cockayne, well known Utah ject of this years outing is to Democrate to head the Sagebrush prepare for total victory in 1976. Club Annual Outing to be held at the. Prize Drawing for $500.00 "in "New Hugh Bringhurst Field" at the cash" Grand Prize, John F. Kennedy State Fair Grounds, Saturday AugRocking Chair. Refreshments ust 7th 1976. cents, and Cold drinks-1- 5 This years event promised to be cents. $1.00 Donation. one of the main Democratic political an Hot-dogs-- 20 a Tm very proud to have served as Commander in Chief of the Utah National Guard for the past eleven and a half years," said Gov. Rampadton. Tm even more proud of the Rampton, delivered the keynote a and dress, platform was adopted years that I spent as a member df after prolonged attempts at amend- ..the guard. This win be my last ment with only a quarter, of the opportunity as governor to review Commissioner McClure, ceived the support of the labor caucus, countered (continued on page - the Guard at your summer encampment." Senate President Ernest H. Dean Named to Post . Lawrence A. Jones Salt Lake City Auditor After a secret session in Mayor Ted Wilsons office this week. Salt Lake commissioners said the upcoming $35.9 millon general fund budget has no mono? for pax hikes. Auditor Lawrence Jones explained, that means roughly 2,000 workerswont get customary increases. Im not sure how far the citizens of the city will go without claiming financial irresponsibility. Jones added, to give us 1 said commissioners would probably raise the 4 percent utility franchise tax to 7 percent. "We must adopt a balanced budget," he said. "It means the city is not well off financially. We've known there were problems for a long time, but we didnt have the data until now, Mayor Wihm said. Trying to find money for pay hikes. President James Kleine, In-- . ternational Association of Firefighters Local 1645, offered to have firemen check business licenses when they do routine building on page 3) - TODAYS EDITORIAL Industry Revolution Fails As the nation sidles uneasily into the Bicentennial year, and a presidential election campaign to boot, Americans seem strangely strained between a materialistic smugness and incresing concern to the point of outright cynicism over the ability of government d to govern and support an justice without H. Dean Ernest which an open society cannot long endure. reThe Utah State Senate has What we seem to be confronting in one respect is, so ceived word that Senate President Ernest H. Dean is one of two to speak, the failure of the success of the Industrial ' legislators in the country appointed Revolution. Beyong anyone's wildest dreams, it has, to the NEW COALITION, along via increased production and such unbelievably with Rep. Hannah Atkin of Oklahoma. magical gadgets as computers, spead middle class The NEW COALITION is an status to states and societies worldwide. And those organization representing the National Governors Conference, the improverished nations left on the outside lopking National Conference of State Legislongingly at the show windows of consumer goods are latures, the National Organization of County Officials and the National demanding to be let in and their rising expectations League of Cities & Towns, formed satisfied. for the purpose of reversing the Ironically, the have nations themselves have not present trend of the federal governand local ment to usurp state govonly not found the key to Utopia, they are in critical ernment prerogatives. The primary of being fragmented by their own pressures thrust is' to permit the states more danger load initiative in matters of revenue generated from within. The welfare state has been sharing, social services and other expanded irresponsibly and wastefully but, para- areas in which the state has a better (continued on page 2) opportunity to deal. even-hande- rr ' |