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Show TMtT- - J v ! IJT p o pp r e uo:c c; ASSOC. 1327 CITY 04110 SALT LAKE CITY, UTA- H- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1976 Thank You Gov. Rampton For Feasibility Study County Attorney Advises Underway For' Redevelopment 12 Years of Dedicated Service Financial Overhaul Officials in Salt Lake City will conduct a feasibility study to deterk ara north of the mine if Building qualifies for one-bloc- City-Coun- . Governor Calvin L. and Lueybeth Hampton Earlier this year Utah's beloved governor, Calvin L. Rampton, announced he would not seek a fourth term in office. And in November announced he would not accept any good reason for an elected official to serve limited terms. ty expansion under the redevelopment district. Director of the Salt Lake Redevelopment Agency, Michael Chitwood, said that if the area exhibits signs of slums or deterioration, the Redevelopment Agency may purchase the property under a tax increment financing system. Mayor Ted L. Wilson said he would like the city to develop the block bounded by State and 2nd East and 3rd and 4th South. The mayor envisions the area as a southern anchor to the ZCMI Center and other downtown stores. The mayor said he feels development would help entice shoppers to Third South businesses. In addition, he said the area might be used as space to expand the court system and. departments such:, as the legal defender, drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs. The study ordered this week by commissioners was the first indication that they are past the talking stage. Development of the area has been a subject of discussion for several months, but commissioners had taken no action on it. full-tim- cross-checkin- R. Paul Van Dam It was recommended this week, the way Salt Lake County pays its its consultants and bills.-choos- es collects and deposits government money should be overhauled. Commissioners were told, suggestions are part of a seven-poiprogram from County Attorney R. Paul Van Dam and his staff to lessen the potential for criminal conduct bv officials and workers. nt Rep. McKay Announce H AFB Gains Assignment v Representative Gunn McKay said Rampton said, after 12 years of making decisions for the state, those decisions need to be reviewed e appointive post if offered by someone else who can look at President-elec- t them with a fresh eye. Jimmy Carter. by this week a slow and steady Governor and Mrs. Rampton in a A joint job increase in employment will result few weeks will pack their bags, from the assignment of manageleave the governor's mansion and Gov. Rampton said, being goverment and maintenance duties for travel to Australia for a vacation, nor of Utah is a joint job between a the lightweight fighter jet to then return to their old private husband and wife, and added his 12 this F16 base. home; Lueybeth to teach college years in office had strengthened his Sen. Jake Gam, said however, archeology and the governor to family ties. the logistics assignment does not resume his private law practice. Discussing his long years in mean that the jets will This will be the first time in 12 office, on a talk show last week, necessarily be based at Hill Air ultimately years Gov. Rampton will be out of carrined on KUED, Channel 7, the Force Base. the statehouse in midwinter at the Governor said his wife. Lueybeth, Commander of the Ogden Air key juncture when the two legisla- was an adviser and confidante as he Logistics Center at the base, Maj. shared state problems with her. tive branches come together. Gen. Edmund A. Rafalko, said the her has a sounding board, center Using these has been provisional managunprecedented During three terms in office as the states Mrs. Rampton said the governor er for the F16 program since chief executive there are those would come home and talk through September 1974. whose adult life has known no other problems, but she emphasized that Rafalko said, The decision to she seldom lobbied for any parmake the assignment permanent governor. A high school senior in ticular point of view. 1965 is turning his own personal was made because of the rapidly milestone into a Difficult adjusting changing character of the F16 a said had sne Mrs. Rampton program, and the increasing reOpen Administration role difficult time adjusting to her sponsibilities of the systems manGovernor Rampton is the only and added that it ager." governor in the nation who has his as First Lady, a took her about term and a half to The commander added, the dein the home phonfe listed phone find cision role herself. for a was based on a thorough book, the governor said he tried to She I first felt "At said, wholly analysis of the Air Logigistics conduct an open administration. felt I useless. and Centers resource capabilities and Rampton praised the press in superfluous of I was was doing any workload requirement studies conUtah as treating him fairly and said nothing feel I had value. to my way ducted by headquarters of the Air just he didn't try to manage the news, useful into a Force Logistics Command. role. but instead tried to give the press Gov. Rampton, however had high The F16 is designed to have access to him at all times. wife as his and value for her most of its maintenance done in the levpriase The governor added, Tve and work him for adviser to an her Rafalko said. field," leveled and Probably eled with them they in with state. the of some the work will be done at special groups with me. They've been critical, but Not tiresome Ogden ALC. But we will have to not hostile". Mrs. Rampton said the cere- wait and see what the operational As the first chief executive in Utahs history to serve three monial duties of the governorship experience brings before we can determine any added workload. l, (continued on page 2) terms. Gov. Rampton, said there is Assistant County Attorney Gerald H. Kinghorn said, Weve tried to talk with department heads," and added They havent been terribly concerned." Kinghorn predicted, commission orders might develop that concrn. The proposals are results of an investigation of charges against former County Auditor Gerald R. Hansen. He later resigned and served 10 days in jail after pleading guilty to official misconduct. Mr. Kinghorn said top priority to a plan insuring that the county won't pay phony bills. Kinghorn added, claims should be logged in by the commission complete with names, dates and numbers that can be used for .tracing and We believe as things now stand it's possible to initiate a ficitious claim that someone would pay," he said. Mr. Kinghorn said the way consultants are selected is too informal, he added, . . .Provide a procedure for selecting those who act in a consultant capacity for Salt Lake County. . . Consultants should't be paid, unless those tightly enforced procedures are followed. g. TODAYS EDITORIAL ' Give Us The Right To Practice Your Right you have a right to know? you want to have the right to know you feel reporters and editors should be gagged you think the news media has prejudiced individuals suspected and being tried for a crime These are questions all of you must answer in the days ahead. You must decide if freedom is exploited, or if you are being cheated. You were all interested in the Sheppard case. Not long ago it was depicted on TV in a dramatic presentation. This is the story, as you know, of the celebrated Cleveland, Ohio doctor who was accused of killing his wife and newspaper reports were said to have convicted him. It should be noted on the other hand that a newspaper woman was reponsible for his Do Do Do Do eventual retrial and acquittal. Newspaper reporters have been tossed in jail on contempt charges in the last several years; have served jail sentenced because they refused to reveal sources. You read of the case in Boston, Mass, where a Superior Court judge told the reporters he did not want the case of a woman who allegedly killed a police (continued on page 2) EX |