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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1976 Page Two I Inflation, Unemployment Lower Next 6 Months The Publics Right And Need to Know! (continued from page 1) with the right to know what our public officials are doing with the responsibility entrusted to them. Election to public office is both an honor and a trial. It is an honor manifested by the faith the voters have shown in a successful candidate. But it is a trial of that candidates inherent honesty, ability and willingness to serve his constituency. Legal publications must be, and are, required by law . . . not just permitted at the option of the public officials. After all, taxpaying is not optional either! The keystone of success and progress of our subdivisions of government is the publics confidence in them, and the weekly and monthly actions and expenditures, published in a newspaper, are the absolutely necessary seeds from which such confidence grows. Operating in the light of full public knowledge earns for the competent, honest, elective or appointive official, the approval he deserves. If he or she is doing a good job, the public has a chance to know about it and quickly will recognize the fact. Legal publications put the full facts before them . . . facts in legal publication form that say, Are there any questions? The public must understand that required published reports of schools, cities and counties are no more an implication of suspicion or distrust of public officials than is the requirement that books be kept, and that they e audited, and most public officials, appointed or elected, know that they are in office to serve the people and not to rule the people. Why legal publications in the newspapers ? The answer is not debatable! Home town papers, both daily and weekly, go into over 90 per cent of the homes of the community and area the newspapers serve. Readership studies show that any given issue of these papers is read by from 75 per cent to 95 per cent of the members of each subscriber family. Recently in South Dakota, a professional newspaper survey conducted by the School of Business at the University of South Dakota showed that 68 per cent of the readers reviewed the legal publications in the newspapers. This, mind you, in comparison with the number of people who go to the Court House, City Hall of School District office and ask to look at the books. This should prove the fact that the books are open does not begin to satisfy the peoples interest in their governmental affairs. It is the duty of every Legislature in every state to protect and promote mandatory legal publications, without qualifications, local options or exceptions. In turn, the publications required by law lay the foundation of a healthy structure of confidence, appreciation, participation and heightened interest in public affairs. This is essential if our local public institutions are to do the job that faces them in the years ahead with maximum security, effectiveit is imness, and efficiency. Simply speaking perative that we protect . . . the people have a right and need to know! tax-support- ed tax-support- ed Bankers in Utah expect the Concerning Utah's inflation, 54 state's unemployment rate either to of the bankers think it will increase taper off or remain stable during by April 1977, while 4 say it will the next six months, according to a decrease, and 41 of the bankers recent mail survey about economic believe it will remain the same. conditions conducted among Utah Almost identical figures were found for the national inflation rate. Bankers Association members. Fifty percent of the bankers A similar trend is forecast for the believe Utah will have an annual national employment picture, alto 5 inflation rate of 3 by though most bankers predict the 44 of bankers while the Utah unemployment reate will be nextapril, On the say it will be 6 to lower than the national average. of bankers 35 the national level, Bankers also estimate that inflawill be 3 to inflation believe tion in Utah will be lower than the while 58 of the bankers it will It all has to do with bumps per second, according to Frank S. Crawford, the world's foremost Corruga-hor- n player, who demonstrated his art at the meeting GRAPEVINE v d The opening of from 21st South to 6400 South and 3rd East in Murray opened this week. Workmen simultaneously removed all barricades to the new $40 million section of a freeway that eventually will be a belt route through Salt Lake Counsay be 6 to ty. The new section has interOnly 15 of the bankers see the changes at 21st South, 35th South, stock market declining during the 47th South, Redwood Road and The final interchange has an next six months, while 49 foresee p p at State Street, an of the bankers a rise, and 36 and the re3rd at will market temporstock East, predict the from State Street. main the same. ary p bankFifty seven percent of the ers foresee a slight increase in of the interest rates, while 19 bankers believe interest rates will An estimated 20 percent of decrease. Utahns eligible, have received swine flu immunizations since the Property prices will increase 5 to 10 over the next year, accord- program started Oct. 1, state ing to 87 of the bankers. These health officials said this week. Dr. rates will be higher than the Lyman J. Olsen, Division of Health national average, say 46 of the director, said more than 158,000 believe had received their flu shots and bankers, while only 13 property price increases will not another 118,000 does of vaccine have been given to local health keep pace with the national level. departments for distribution to private physicians. Dr. Olsen said, We consider this an excellent BIRTH DEFECTS for the project". beginning RR FOREVER. long-awaite- 8. national average. However, a majority agree that the inflation rate will increase at both the state and national level. An upward swing may be in store for the stock market, while interest rates are expected to increase slightly. Property prices will increase 5 to 10 over the next year, accordinf to speculations of those surveyed. Many bankers believe property prices in Utah will rise at a faster rate than the national level. The following tabulations for the statewide survey, which brought nearly a 70 return, are compiled in concise percentages for each question. Forty two percent of the bankers say Utahs unemployment rate will decrease, 49 expect it to remain the same, and 8 see the unemployment rate increasing! On the national level, unemployment will decrease, according to 48 of the bankers. Twenty one percent of the bankers predict national unemployment will increase, while 49 of the bankers believe it will remain stable. Three fourths of the bankers say Utahs unemployment rate will be lower than the national average. 10-mile- , 5, 8. 5. on-ram- off-ram- on-ram- UfllESS VOU HIR mRRCH OF Dimes of the Acustical Society of America in San Francisco early in November. Putting a short piece of flexible brass pipe to his lips, he blew into the mouthpiece, and out of the small bell at the other end came delicate, pure notes that danced above the audience like faerie music. Crawford is not only probably the best Corrugahorn player in the world but he is also the inventor and sole manufacturer of the Corrugahorn, a new kind of wind instrument that comes in three basic types: the guble, the neck horn, and the slide Corrugahorn. Corrugahorns would seem to be his life, but Crawford has another identity, as professor of physics at the University of Californias Berkeley campus and research scientist in astrophysics at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The Corrugahorn really came about because of intellectual prodding by his freshman physics students. Three years ago he became fascinated with a childs toy called a Hummer, a thin, yard-lon- g piece of flexible corrugated plastic that when whirled about produces a wail mournful enough to make dogs howl and strong men fall off the wagon. He took Hummers to his class. At one point, he had everyone in class whirling Hummers. dial ... Whirling Hummers th- eLEASED Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day The Utah's tourist industry is plagued by a number of problems, but mostly by lack of planning. Dr. John D. Hunt, chairman of the Institute for the Study of Outdoor Recration and Topurism at Utah State University, reached this conclusion after a series of workshops held statewide in the past year to identify problems and goals. Hunt said, althouth the travel industry is big business in Utah and other regions of the country, it is characterized by poor planning, lack of cooperation and lack of realistic goals. "Programs are developed, tried, discarded, reused, and adjusted with little or no evaluation." Utah will soon receive a grant of $80,042 to continue a program to identify and swiftly prosecute violent habitual criminals. The grant is being awarded by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. According to Law Enforcement Assistance Administrtor Richard W. Velde, the money is to continue the career criminal defense services program of the Legal Defender Association in Salt Lake City. Department heads in Salt Lake City have submitted a "shopping list" for more than $11 million worth of projects for federal funding. But, city commissioners are skeptical about getting all the projects funded. Commissioners indicated they don't expect to get more than a few million dollars in federal public works money being made available. Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr. said "This is a Christmas List," and "Im just not very hopeful." Phillips explained the money will be distributed first to cities with high unemployment, and Salt Lake is comparatively low in that regard. Applications for the funding included $2.8 million for reservoirs, $1.8 million' for a parks department shops building, $1.8 million for a parking structure, $1.8 million to remodel the courts building, $1.84 million for sidewalk and street projects, $866,000 for storm and sanitary sewer improvements and $388,587 to update traffic signals. |