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Show Friday, December 19, 1958 THE UTAH STATESMAN 5' Sen. Slierm' Lloyd Named Utah Senate President b ONE YEAR $1.00 stial!z State Sen. Sherman P. Lloyd (Salt Lake) was named as mission has been named as the 1959 the presiding officer of the Utah Senate to serve during the president of the Salt Lake County 1959 State Legislature Session. Republican Club. Sen. Lloyd was named as Senate president at a RepubliOther new officers named inOffican caucus held last Saturday in the Newhouse Hotel. clude: Frank Nelson of the Councials of the Senate and House and other party officials attend- ty Shops; Rex Mackey who is of the County Superintendent Disposal; Clyde Marsden Sen. Lloyd will.not.be officially named to his position Garbage of the Shops; Jim Petersen until the Legislature convenes on Jan. 12. In past years, who isCounty an auditor in Sid elecoffice; and Les Gillette however, caucus designations have been tantamount to the building engineer in the City tion except in rare instances. and County building. Republican senators also elected Sen. Orval Hafen, (St. The officers were elected last George), who is the retiring Senate president, as majority floor leader and Sen. Reed Bullen, (Logan), as majority whip. Monday in the City Chambers of and County building. Some he Rep. G. Douglas Taylor (Salt Lake) was named minority 50 City attended the meeting to elect leader by the Republican House caucus which was held at the new officials. UTAH STATESMAN The Newspaper Devoted to Good Government P. 0. Box 1586, Salt Lake City Phone EMpire 49 ed the meeting. SUBSCRIPTION ORDER Lam-bourn- es the same time as the Senate caucus. Rep. Charles Welch Jr. (Salt Lake), was chosen as minority House whip. The Republicans did not elect a patronage committee. The major advantage gained by the majority party in either house is control of committee and committee actions. Named to serve as the House speaker was Rep. Sheldon R. Brewster Lake). (D-Sa- Mr. Stott said that the club hopes to have a social event either in the last of March or in early April. The club will, also put on a big drive to boost membership over The main objective of the club will be to bring more unity in the Republican party, said Mr. Stott, le hopes to achieve this through arger membership and more active participation in the club. In addi-;iohe continued, plans are underset-u- p to a 25 member Execuway Committee tive representing all detriments of the City, County and State. V n, 1 Airport Bond I Discussion Slated f ; in SLC persons wishing to practice mediI feel that by having more cine, surgery, osteopathic surgery, we can become unified chiropractic and drugless medicine m our efforts to bring the Republior naturopathy would take exam-- : can party together, he concluded. nations in five basic sciences. These would include anatomy, phy' siology, chemistry, pathology and hygiene. The proposed examinations would be prepared and administered by . a scientists from panel of the University of Utah, Utah State University and Brigham Young University. To insure complete fairness, faculty men administering tests would not know the names or prospective professions of those taking the examinations. The Basic Science Law would not be retroactive, and would not affect persons now practicing in the healing arts field under license. Twenty-on- e states 'already have adopted similar protective legislation designed to guard residents against being victimized by unqualified persons who have little or no training in the healing arts. par-icipati- Name - Address From office, 207 S. Main. At the same time the commission approved increasing the plumbers inspection fee from 50 cents to $1 on recommendation of J. F. Horne, director, county building and inspection department Mr. Home said adoption of the unified building code, published by the International Conference o Building Officials, will make it necessary to increase his staff from seven to 17 to handle the increase work and new divisions which must be set up to enforce the code. A report issued by Mr. Home showed that Salt Lake City building permits issued up to Dec. 1, 1958, totaled $2,424 for a total valuation the earth Mining is vital to Utah's prosperity. In 1957 we were second nationally in copper, silver and gold production, third in lead, fourth in zinc. These metals plus coal, gilsonite, potash, salt and many other minerals 6V4 billion dollars for Utah. Our entire state will benefit from favorable conditions that foster expanded production of minerals in the future. have-produce- on UTAH MINING ASSOCIATION "From the earth comes an abundant life for off" . County Officials Adopt New Building Code future. a non-medic- al Representatives of business, labor and government will discuss apmillion dollar bond proval of a election for Salt Lake Airport improvements. The meeting was called after the Chamber of Commerce board of governors went on record recommending Salt Lake voters approve the bond issue when they go to the polls Jan. 13. The meeting is scheduled today, Monday, at 2 p.m. at the chamber Salt Lake City is the air transportation center of the great Intermountain Empire and facilities adequate to handle expanding air travel and freight business must be made available in order to maintain that position, Oscar A. Glaeser, chamber president, said. Furthermore, with the approach of the jet age the runways at the airport must be strengthened and lengthened, Mr. Glaeser added. Gus P. Backman, executive secretary of the chamber, said the board of governors approved the bond election following an exhaustive study by a special committee o the proposal made with the benefit of analysts advice. Among other things, the airport will be sufficient to amortize the bond issue without any additional expense to taxpayers in the forsee-abl- e Statesman. 2,000. lt Three professional organizations working in the healing arts have added their endorsements to those previously received from the proposed Basic Science Educational Requirements Law, officials of the Utah State Medical Association announced today. New groups endorsing the protective legislation are the Utah Osteopathis Association of Medicine and Surgery; Utah State Association of Chiropodists and Utah State Nurses Association. According to executive secretary Harold Bowman of the Utah State Medical Association, groups endorsing the Basic Science Bill at an earlier date included the Utah State Dental Association and Utah Pharmaceutical Association. Under the proposed legislation. Please send me the Utah Enclosed find $ The Salt Lake County Commission last Friday officially adopter the countywide uniform building code, similar to one which has been enforced in Salt Lake City since 1933. ! of $2,243,747. Salt Lake County was far ahead of this number with 3,649 permits being issued the first 11 months of this year for a total valuation of $43,501,167, he said. 4 d |