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Show Feb. THE CITIZEN B 1972 24, Politically Speaking By JOHN CORLETT Statesman Political Editor If the second session of the 41st Legislature can be described as one that Just cant bring itself to action as some legislators of both parties privately believe, she blame must primarily attach to the Joint Committee. Finance-Appropriatio- Franklin Soil Conservation District w Report .to the Idaho Soil Conservation Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture through the Soil Conservation Service with ixr memorandum of under standing. Robert Hull, Chairman The Soil Conservation District Board by law is to provide leadership in conservation of tile soil and the soil resources of the county. For the control and prevention of soil erosion and for the prevention of damage from floods and eedimenit, we will need effort from fjtl farmers in using the best soil protection methods to accomplish the needed erosion prevention. Our present board consists of the following: Robert Hull Stewart Dutlars Verf Christensen Kay Andersen 'Von Atkinson Stephen Hinckley 'Weldon McGregor The board is interested in provkfing help to any farmer on pollution problems. . t v : I 5?'S- - CONSERVATION 2.218 acres 1,699 acres 13,230 acres 8,259 acres 1,060 acres 12,730 feet 1 no. 5,198 feet 29,624 feet 14 no. 375 acres Chiseling and Stibsoiling Conservation Cropping System Crop Residue Use Franklin County. THE HELICOPTER used bo spray in TMroar ggj erodes f echummmt'. i Inc., Owners. 1,365 156 feet acres 4,759 feet 707 acres 1,019 2,490 2,824 1 acres feet acres no. 166 3 STATEMENT FINANCIAL FRANKLIN COUNTY Printed SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT 1971 By Von Atkinson By Stephen Hinckley Trcasureton Modern Farm Eqnipmeni Phone Preston Heiicoptens Deferred Grazing Irrigation Ditch lining Disposal Pollution Irrigation Field Ddidh Irrigation Pipeline Sprinkler Irrigation System Irrigation Water Management Diversions (dryland) Land Leveling Drainage Pasture and 1 1 ayland Management Pasture and IlayOand Planting Livestock Pipeline Proper Grazing (range) Spring Development Structures for Water Control Trough or Tanks Application Dryland Pastures HESSTOH EQUIPMENT HcCULLOCE CHAIN SAWS West Oneida PRACTICES APPLIED Brush Control - HBMHAND 1971 Rural Environmental Agri. Program Services Resource Plans aUl and ! FOR New District Cooperators Oooperators Services Oooperatons Services (times) Conservation Plans Conservation Plan Revised Groups Served Groups Serviced (times) . 852-11- 75 Printing of the RC&D appliI am more convinced the cation was completed. farther I get into my pasture The application was preprogram that pasture gives sented twice to leadership the best land use cash return. groups. I am converting from dryAt Elder, Oneida, land grain to more seeded and Cache Annual Sponsors One unit seeded pastures. Franklin County was in 1969 was pastured in 1971 meeting, and present meetand in figuring an average accepted are ings being held with the yield for barley the return on State DevelopOammanity d more. pasture was ment and 'Planning Affairs With reductions of livestock Agency to complete the apnumbers on the national for- plication for the State of ests ranchers should look to converting grain land to pasture as a source of feed to keep livestock numbers up. Checking account January 9 225.94 1, 1971 INCOME 1971 one-thir- Concrete fad COVE CONCRETE Phone 852-045- CO. 6 Irrigated CACHE VALLEY LIVESTOCK AUCTION Cache Valley at Preston. Idaho SALE EVERY WEDNESDAY AT l'):OOA.M. We consign livestock every day at our yard for our Call weekly sale in. By Weldon McGregor northern 852-072- 2. WELL BUY OR HAUL YOUR STOCK CACHE VALLEY LIVESTOCK AUCTION Serving Idaho, Utah, Wyoming IMoatana and NEW AND FULL SERVICE BUT PROGRESSIVE AS CONSERVATION. . LET US SEHVE YOU. First Hanb & Trust PRESTON BRANCH of PHONE 852-21- Idaho Pastures Range Cleveland The Franklin SCD placed emphasis on starting a brush control program in 1971. Some 2,000 acres of range land was sprayed by Helicopters Inc. We have 98,000 acres of range land in Franklin County, much of it needing to be sprayed. We hope to encourage all ranchers to improve this valuable resource by deferring grazing the year after spraying, putting in cross fencing to control grazing, develop springs for adequate stock water. We May plan a range tour about 15, 1972. LAND LEVELING SUB SOILING BACKH0E - - -- 801 ection. BUT AS ONE Republican leader told me, ,h(xw do I know how much the budget should be since I did not listen to justifications presented by the agencies. The joint committee this year seemed ready to set a record, not only in creating a system that provided it with information that made it more knowledgeable than at. any other time, but in getting the appropriation bails to the mid-Februar- y. This officer, a former state senator, questioned all of the state agencies in such a manner as to provide the committee with answers to sticky problems. The agencies answered the questions during the hearing schedule. FOUR VOLUMES of material were obtained from the agencies and made available to each member of the committee. I have never known this committee to be so well informed on the requested needs of the states departments and institutions. floor. Instead, the committee has that record and the legislature, immersed only in trivia and such "emotional issues as repeal of the criminal code and imposition of a Perhaps the information is too much for the committee, bounty on coyotes, is likely to on past the 60th legwhich for so many years has continue islative day. looked at budgets strictly numerically and did not equate numbers to people and their needs. blown $1,621.11 EXPENSE 1971 Audit $ Salaries Supervisor meetings Newsletters Annual dues Newspaper subscription . . Postage and office supplies Educational programs Election 10.00 170.00 222.40 211.20 300.00 4.50 80.49 . instituted. It was legitimately concerned with some proposed salary increases for the next fiscal year which exceeded the 5.5 per cent guideline of the National Wage Board. But there werent enough of those to slow down he entire budget-makin- Instant Installation Every Size In Stock Satisfaction Guaranteed HANSEN GLASS AMD Ph. g S5S-1K- PAINT 7 Prastofl 25.00 16.00 Total $1,040.23 ASSETS JANUARY 1, 1971 First Security subordinated note $7,000.00 three-fourth- can mares everything like it was before Lewiston Stale Bank well. 00 248-2- The Fanner's Friend... The AID Man can help. FRANKLIN COUNTY GRAIN GROWERS, INC. N.W. King and Sons PH. Total 1.524.93 Lewiston State Bank savings account By Kay Andersen 735.71 account Checking 75.00 Preston Camera Desk If you had a bucket that File cabinet s of its water lost Stewart Ruttars by the time you got to the Treasurer destination, how long would you keep it? For years, pastures have been planted on poor land, not too well manYOUR BANK IS AS NEAR AS YOUR MAILBOX aged and over grazed, and as a result, low returns. When Yon Bank at A good grazing program should be on the best lane in the handiest place because it is possible to return more than any other crop and with PRESTON PHONE 852 - 2850 much less expense and labor. There is also nothing that will LEWISTON, UTAH build and improve the land so FOR YOUR FARMING NEEDS SEE US LEWISTON, UTAH The committee late last set some general fund budgets and will get into the public school budget without seeking direction from the caucuses. But I venture that before it proceeds too far, the members will want that dirweek did $ 310.00 In any event, the committee 500.00 seemed to dread that It must 250.00 somehow reach a decision on 561.11 the budgets and delays were Advertising State allotment County allotment Interest on savings the-Bo- Solid construction is a the Senate of the committee otoaded that it needed time lo do a good job, the truth is that it spent two weeks slipping its gears over salaries and extraneous questions. THE INTERIM Budget and Fiscal Committee, which includes the members of the joint committee, spent the period between final adjournment of the first session and the beginning of the second :n trying to work out a procedure that would speed up the appropriation process. It lured a legislative fiscal officer who Worked extremely hard in working out a schedule of hearings and meetings that would allow the joint committee to complete its budget work by no later than Although CONSERVATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS : TIIE COMMITTEE ently made a tentative gion to try and keep within what is known as a continuation budget, or within expenditures necessary to keep agencies going along at their present level, plus growth, plus inflation. But even this will require from to additional taxes. I cannot understand the committee, armed with i of the information as to needs, does not first sit down and try and reach an agreement on a tentative budget based on those needs. Then it can decide on priorities and can start reducing the overall budget to meet an arbitrary After preconceived figure. that the budget can go to the caucuses for oanstderatian. 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OK7 .u. i.,i Protection for your car, your home, your buslneie, even your life POLLUTION STRUCTURES W.R. While Company LAND BANK LOANS We Give Yen Long Term Credit for Prepayment A Being Without Farmer Phone 852-214- 5 ALL TYPES OF PLASTIC, CONCRETE, CORRUGATED METAL PIPE AND CONCRETE Call Penalty Preston, Idaho J. P. Garner, Mgr. HEADGATES LEE REDINGT0N Phone Preston, Idaho LOYAL 852-065- 5, m HANSEN 59 SOUTH STATE, PRESTON |
