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Show Page Two UTAHS FEARLESS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Qua Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah 711 South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher Thu publication is not owned or controlled by my party, dan, or corporation." Volume 56 THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1976 364-846- 4 clique, faction Number 31 10 What Has Happened to The Printed Word Budgeting and Sunset Laws Studied Zero-Bas- e tion request before the legislative body. Unless the agency's worth is sustained through this reexamination process, programs and activities can be eliminated or curtailed. Presently, budgetary procedure in most governmental units require that the spending agencies have to justify only the increases in their budgets above the level of the preceding year. Sunset laws, which are a coun- budgets, are terpart to zero-bas- e another technique to force regular review of government programs. Under the sunset approach, agencies and programs have fixed termination dates. Unless the agency can justify its continued existence before the legislative body, it is automatically eliminated. Thus, by setting specified expiration dates, lawmakers are compelled to reexamine and reenact or reject every program at periodic intervals. Foundation analysts point out that during the past few years approximately a dozen states have enacted zero-bas- e budgeting and In sunset laws. addition, legislatures in at least a half dozen more states are examining the concept. In all likelihood, the zero-bas- e budgeting concept also will be considered by the Federal Government when Congress convenes in . oboverlapping, duplicative, and and solete government programs, to take the necessary steps to prune such deadwood from the budget. They also advance the following arguments: It is a technique frequently used by private business to control costs. It makes every program and activity of government stand on its own merits. It provides the basic information needed to rearrange program priorities. It provides a means for identifying and consolidating or eliminating programs that duplicate or overlap each other. zero-bas- e long-rang- e . e zero-bas- zero-bas- zero-bas- e e Tracy-Collin- non-reade- LEASED it is the Many governmental units across of the proposals claim that cut to government costs the nation are examining the pos- best way more and better nnH citizens budggive sibility of adopting.zero-bas- e dollar. Critics, tax eting and sunset laws as a means of service for their that controlling rising government on the other hand, maintain in. sounds good costs. This was reported by Utah while the idea of mountains will it research generate the Foundation, theory private never additional paper work and agency. work in practice. Zero-bas- e budgeting is a techni- actually budgetProponents of zero-bas- e que where government departments and agencies periodically ing and sunset laws contend that .his action is needed to identify must justify their entire appropria- (continued from page 1) crop of college freshmen. In an attempt to raise students to a literate level, English and journalism departments are adding remedial courses in the basics: grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence construction, and reading skills. What has happened to the printed word? Is it being replaced by visual images? Need we be concerned if reading and writing skills decline? Persasive voices like those of Gallup and Walter Cronkite say yes. budgetGallup expresses doubt that a generation raised in Opponents of that maintain laws sunset and ing front of TV sets will be capable of performing the government agencies would bog intellectual feats of earlier and more literate generadown under the added work load that would be created by periodic tions." And CBS newsman Cronkite sounds the reviews of programs and activities. warning that viewing television for news of the world Included among the arguments preis not enough. sented by the opponents are the following: . .obviously television shouldnt be the only pri' It would greatly lengthen and mary news source, Cronkite was quoted as saying, complicate the budgetary process. a person must read, a newspaper to know what It would require addedstaffing of is going on. In that area, television and the newspaper budget personnel in the executive office and the lgislative budget definitely supplement each other." body. It would hamper planNot all the blame is being or should be attributed to ning. television. Educators are accused of permitting lower It would create delays which standards in elementary and secondary education, and January. to the Foundation re- might impair the work of limitedAccording time legislative bodies, such as are parents and the public are criticized for indiffererence port, the popularity of in many states including to reading and writing skills. These skills are budgeting and sunset legislation found Utah. the past few years has been considered less important than in the past, Gallup during The Utah Foundation study conprompted by rising expenditures notes. and growing governmental bureau- cludes that the final evaluation of The new techniques have budgeting and sunset It is likely, one must ask, that the young person who cracy. been developed to reappraise and legislation is not yet in. The report has not developed a reading habit by the time he has weed out those government pro- notes that the technique has much activities that no longer potential merit, but the experience entered college will never acquire the habit? Surveys grams beandneeded or those costs to date has been extremely limited have established the correlation between reading and may exceed benefits derived. as to how the concept will work in the clearly skills: who students spend very little time writing The Foundation study oserved actual practice. reading are less likely to develop writing skills than that experts are divided as to what can be accomplished by those who read more. Legal Secretaries budgeting and sunset laws. Backers If reading and writing skills are recognized as Meet essential elements in education, those who are Salt Lake Area The Salt Lake Legal Secretaries speaking out inalarm should be heeded, and steps Association held its monthly dinner should be taken to restore these skills in young people. Accountants Set meeting Thursday, November 11, Helping children achieve a balance between the Date For 6:00 p.m at the Fort J?76. Meeting is not and viusal word a to the Officers Club. Douglas image problem printed The Salt Lake Area of Guest speaker was Ms. Vee be dealt with by parents alone. Educators and National Association ofChapter Account- Carlisle, a member of the House of ants will hold a meeting Tuesday journalists must share responsibility. and an assistant Representatives night, November 16 at Coys Res- vice president in charge of the Newspaper readership has not kept pace with taurant in the Rodeway Inn, Salt Womens Division of 10 five to television viewing in the past years. It may Lake City. Social hour will begin at Services Departmentthe ofConsumers 5:30 p.m.; dinner will be served at Bank and Trust actually decline when this generation of p.m. Roldand V. Wise, District Representative Carlisle Company. reaches maturity. But one promising development has 6:15 spoke on Director, IRS will speak on Whats women have in problems obtaining been the appearance of newspapers in the classroom. New at the IRS. credit and loans. Not only is the newspaper being introduced to children who may never before have had a paper in their hands, it is also being used as a teaching tool in other disciplines ranging from arithmetic through social studies. A national Newspaper in the Classroom (NIC) program, sponsored by the American Newspaper Publishers Association, is widely supported by newspapers across the United States. If the declining literacy rate is to be turned around Where thousands and students are to be trained realistically in of listeners enjoy citizenship and informed about government, parents, educators and journalists must support programs of concert music and can "mandate nature. this accept the Together, they news every day! a free press, and in doing so, restore from history the stature of the printed word in American society. "... the rs dial GRAPEVINE Gov. Calvin L. Hamptons administrative assistant, Michael T. Mi- has been named transition to assist in the changeover to Scott Mathesons administration. Michael Graham, finance Director of the Matheson for Governor Campaign, has been chosen to work with Miller in the transition. Matheson is being provided some space in Room 116 of the State Capitol which is the planning coordinators conference room. The Telephone number will be ller, officer 533-431- 1. . Salt Lake City commissioners this week signed a contract with the state for a beautification project for five blocks along on Salt Lakes west side. The state, using fedeal funds, will spend an estimated $261,000 to plant grass and shrubs on north side from 9th West to 14th West. Mayor Ted Wilson said, We are happy to work with the state on this project, It will do a lot for that area of the 1-- I-8- city. Presiding Judge Calvin Gould said judges in the Second Judicial District probably will vote this week on whether a grand jury will be impaneled in one of the three counties in the district. The district judges heard testimony during secret sessions last week from witnesses in Davis County. Meetings were held in Mogan County, but no witnesses appeared. Judge Gould said. Purpose of the meetings is for the judges to make themselves available to persons who have testimony they 4rish to give in secret. The judges will decide if a grand jury is necessary. City Treasurer Joseph L. Fakler said this week, Salt Lake City so far this fiscal year has earned $500,000 in cash profits due to investments. Fakler said the profit is commendable because it is nearly the amount earned last year at this time, while interest rates have fallen. Fakler said the city now has $29 million invested in various banks. He predicted that the close of the fiscal year would find Salt Lake City with a profit of about $2,000,000, the same as last year. ' Four of five City Commissioners agreed this week to exempt two newly created positions at the Salt Lake City International Airport from the city's salary structure. The exemptions were granted over the objections of Streets Commissioner Jess A. Agraz. The jobs are for a director of operations, paying $25,000 a year, and an assistant director of maintenance, paying $23,750. Agraz objected on the basis that the airport expansion project would require the expenditure of nearly $100,000 for. project management. The commissioner wanted to know why the city should spend more. Mayor Ted Wilson, who supported Gains, said the positions were crucial for airport operations. Dr. Lyman J. Olsen, state health director of the Utah State Division of Health has formally requested an opinion from the Attorney General's Office on questions raised by the proposition banning addition of fluoride and other medications to water supplies. The request was made in the form of a letter this week signed by Dr. Olsen. The request was the result of a meeting last week between representatives of the State Board of Health and the Attorney Geneal's Office. |