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Show 1 1 rr,2S3 ;; co o v u EX r OX 1327 P o Cl TV 01110 'Su 4 .! 4 s t ? 4 - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. 1976 Professional and Managerial Two Women Named to Black Workers Receive Pay Raise Council Salt Lake City commissioners following the advice of the consult-ants report tenatively agreed this week to raise salates of profession- al and managerial city workers up 10 percent by Jan. 1. It will cost the dty an additional $182,676. The action will affect 384 the citys 2,014 full-tim- em- - e ployes. Fire fighters below the rank of lieutenant or policemen below the rank of sergeant will not be given a raise. The fire and police unions, which mostly represent employes, below those ranks, have loudly a five percent across-the- board wage hfr granted all em- earlier this summer. Union representatives said the raise was so small it was an insult. During the June budget session, pnwimigsinnpra said they did not grant more than the five percent for . two reasons. First, the city could not afford it; and second, the consultants report said that non- - Because of an unsettled revenue picture, the raise is not guaranteed the 384 persons. But Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr. he believed the revenue pic-t- o ture by January would accommo-date such a raise. Commissioners decided to with-o- f hoId final approval of . the salary hike until later this year just in case revenues are lower than expected. The increases were suggested in a $20,000 study completed earlier this summer by Kay Associates, of California. The ten percent general-proteste- d lower than raises recommended ty the Kay study, but commission-ploye- s ers aid they could afford no more, How much of the 10 percent each person will receive will depend on hw far behind the salary norm the authors of the report have deemed that person to be. But commissioners said that none the 384 will receive more than the 10 percent. The wage increases will vary, they said, between 2 and lr managerial employes were paid on 10 percent. a par with most in the western The while city employes who probably United States, professional will raises are tecnical, profes- get low. too were salaries sional and managerial. Ballot Titles Chosen For Fail Election Ballot titles for initiative referendum petitions on fluoridation, budgetary procedures and recall have been proposed by the State Attorney General's office, and will appear on the ballot this fall. Michael L. Deamer, Assistant Attorney General, proposed the titles in response to a request from Secretary of State Clyde L. Miller. Deamer proposed the name Freedom from Compulsory Fluoridation and Medications Act for an initiative which would prohibit the State Board of Health from adding fluoride and other medications to any water supply. It would prohibit fluoridation or other medication of any public water supply except when authorized by an iniative petition approved by the majority of those using the water. .The .name proposed for a law . ar Judges Want To Be Under Commission As A Whole ') S' annual budgimposing five-yeet ceiling of $915,300,600 beginning with 1977 is, Budgetary Procedures Act Ceiling. It would also require the state to phase out all receiving of federal revenue by 1983 and would require budget surpluses to be used to decrease state' debts. After state debts were paid, a tax reduction schedule would be adopted. Deamer suggested that an act authorizing the recall of any public elected or appointed officer, by registered voters of the district from which he is chosen be named the Utah Recall and Advisory Recall Act. The proposal would also authorize a special election to replace any officer as a result of a recall petition signed by a certain percentage of registered voters. Petitioning city commissioners, Salt Lakes six city judges want to have their branch removed from the authority of the Finance De- partment and placed under the commission as a whole. The judges have occasionally been at odds with Finance Commis- sioner Jennings Phillips Jr. on requests for how money should be budgeted in the judicial branch, They have argued that the judid- ary is a separate governmental branch, yet they must plead for permission to buy items such ias stationery. City Judge Floyd Gowans and Gibson earlier this summer 7 appered before commissioners to recommend they be showed more leeway m spending the budgeted amount for thejudicial branch. It has been the practice of the commission to have the judicial budget submitted by the Finance Department, rther than by the judicial branch of city government on its own behalf, the petition says. The judges said, In addition, the finance commissioner has either assumed or been delegated the authority to approve the judicial budget prior to its submission to the City Commission for final ap-Rob- proval. Advisory Governor Ramptons Black Advisory Council has two women at its head for the first time since its inception. . Mrs. Alberta Henry has been reelected as council chairperson. She has been a member of the council since it began and has chaired the group for the last year. Mrs. Bonnie Rogers, executive director of the Salt Lake branchof the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is the new vice chairperson. The formation of an Advisory Committee on Education for Black Students authorized earlier by the Sate Board of Education was also anounced by the council. The general purpose of the committee is to advise the state board on policies related to the improvement of education for black' students in Utah. The committee will also be serving as an advocate for the educational needs of black students and be a vehicle for communication between the State Board of Education and the black community. Committee members are Donald L. Cope, state black ombudsman; Mrs. Henry, Dr. Davis S. Summers, Mrs. Dorothy W. Mitchell, Gary L. Ashley and Mrs. Berniece Benns. The council also is working to appoint a committee to consider problems the black community says it is having with the criminal justice system in Salt Lake City and Ogden. . Moss Hails Judges Decision to Continue Air Service to Cedar City Senator Frank E. Moss commended the decision of a Civil Aeronautics Board Administrative Law Judge who recommended that a request by Air West to discontinue service to Cedar City, Utah and Page, Arizona be denied, Senator Moss said he was de- -' i lighted to learn of Judge William A. Kane Jr.s decision which he said supports his own previously-state- d opposition to any discontu-anc- e of service to the two communities. Senator Moss submitted testimony in Cedar City on March 17 during the hearings, and has opposed the attempted deletion of service by Hughes Air WEst. If Hughes Air West had delivered the service it promised in' its original application, it would not be in the position today of saying that the service which it delivers is unprofitable, Senator Moss said in his March statement. On promise to deliver service, Hughes Air West received a certificate. It has failed to deliver that service and it should be compelled to deliver that service. . Moss noted. Moss said Judge Kane ruled that both Cedar City and Page are extremely isolated from the national scheduled air transportation system and that the government has . TODAYS EDITORIAL Avoid Another 'b Bond Election in Near Future The Salt Lake County recreation board had advised the Salt Lake County Commission that it should not attempt another recreation in the near future. The county lost a bond election issue in August of 1974, but recent urgings by Salt lake City Mayor Ted Wilson to seek another one had prompted commissioners to again consider the possibility of another try in 1977. However, Commissioner William E. Dunn and recreation director, Gary C. Swensen both warned the recreation board that the public was already critical of tax increases, and that the climate for another bond attempt was not a favorable one. Mr. Swensen said that the need for a bond making it possible to acquire badly needed recreation land and develop new park areas was very real, but that he felt the bond issue would be turned down by the voters. In recent days the county has had to create two special taxing districts t provide funding for planning and garbage services to unincorporated areas of the county. consistently held that needed air services, to small communities with fedshould be maintained if eral subsidy support, necessary where the community has not other reasonable link to the national transportation network. The judge ruled that, cost notwithstanding, the public convenience and necessity requires that air service to both Cedar City and Page be retained, Moss said. The judge also made it clear that he felt the carrier should improve its service. New Concept in Care of The Terminally 111 Hospices, home for dying patients that emphasize care of the person over treatment of an incurable disease, are gaining increasing recognition and acceptance in the United States. According to Constance Holden, writing in the 30 July 1976 issue of Science, the weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has sent out requests for proposals from groups interested in forming hospices. What NCI is looking for is up to half a dozen such facilities in various parts of the country, modeled after the prototypical St. Christophers Hospice in London, founded lo years agao by Cicely Saunders, which has become, says Holden, something of a mecca for health professionals interested in terminal care. . The ground rules of the hospice philosphy are that pain must be controlled and that isolation must be eliminated. Spurning the traditional hospital reluctance to routinely use large quantities of addictive Dr. Saunders staff administers continuous doses of analgesics, sometimes using what is (continued on page 2) pain-killer- s, |