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Show c t f alt Sake University of Utah , Library , 12 V s f 1RST, the Individual Vol. 24, No. 29 . Salt Lake City, Friday, July Ten Cents Per Copy 21, 1901 So. S. L. Citizens Approve Plan For Curbs, Gutters, Sidewalks .The reactions of the people interviewed by this paper concerning the proposed Curb, Gutter and Sidewalk Improvements were most favorable. Mrs. Martha Toombs, City Recorder, reported that she had received inquiries from people not in South Salt Lake but adjacent to the City of South Salt Lake, who would like to join South Salt Lake to take advantage of the improvements planned. There will be a hearing in City Hall, 2500 South State Street, at 8 a.m. on the 25th of July, 1961, to ' consider protests or objections to the plan of building about 35 blocks of curbs and gutters within the city. All seemed to know that the city was planning to install curbs and gutters when this paper interviewed the public. Though, some were a little confused as to which governmental body was going to improve the area. Some thought it was the county and one person understood it to be the state. Most people were too shy to allow their names to be used when voicing their opinions. One lady wbuld not admit she knew about it nor that she was interested in the plan when it was explained. Most everyone felt the same, that it was a much needed improvement. We signed the petition about . a year ago, said Mr. Henry B. Mortensen, 208 East 27th South. Mr. Mortensen looked to his wife for agreement. Government Duplicates Why Build Two Transmission Systems When One Will 7 Do. That very apt question has been asked by the Utah Power & Light Company. And it has to do with a matter which is of direct pocketbook inter-- " est to every taxpayer in this country. The story, in brief, goes like this. The Bureau of Reclamation proposes to build a $176 transmismillion, sion system to deliver power from the Upper Colorado Riv- er project to customers in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. This would duplicate, in large part, the transmission network of the highly taxed, investor-owne- d utilities serving that big area. As it is, added Mr. Mortensen, there is barely room for two cars. And look at that crosswalk for the school children. I have .sat here on my porch and watched the children trying to cross here to go to school. The cars just will not stop. If I were a policeman I bet I could give out $500 worth of (Continued' on Page 3, Col. 2) sion Systems When One Will Do? Theres no reason at all unless socialization, that great destroyer of freedom and free enterprise is to be relentlessly promoted in this country while we pose as a champion of a free world. This 27th South is a busy street and there are only two lanes on the street. No one can stop and visit us because there isnt room to park. Nearly all of our neighbors are for it, put in Mrs. Mortensen. We have , noticed that the Gas War boys are putting up signs telling the price of their gas, signs that can be read from about one and one-ha-lf blocks. Guess theyre looking for a test case in court. A friend of ours sent us a PEAstrip from one . . showed This NUTS Linus bedding his blanket. The blanket was labeled, by our friend, Federal Government. cartoon On the registering of fire arms? . . . Can you imagine a killer complying? . . . No, but the private citizen, who obeys laws is the one restricted. Its sorta like the curfew law. Since when did the curfew law bother a robber? We call it mental mankrupt-c- Why Build Two Transmis- y when an administration has to call up the reserves. Real creative thinking. Gives the other fellow a chance to save face by backing down. Our friends house is clear, all paid for. He'd like to finish his basement. Ouch, the increase in taxes. So, more men thrown out of work. The City is now in the process of setting up their eleventh Curb and Gutter District, which will include about 35 blocks of curb and gutter. When completed, if the District is approved by the property owners, it will mean that approximately 75 per cent of the City will have curb, gutter, and sidewalk. It is the intention of the City Council to construct a plant mix road surface similar to those that were installed during the last two summers, at no cost to the abutting property owners. In other municipalities the cost of the roads are assessed against the abutting property owners as a part of the special improvement program. The City Officials feel good about the special improvement program that has enabled the residents of South Salt Lake to improve their property with curb, gutter, sidewalk, street lights, and in some areas,sewers. These improvements are making our City one of the most modem and progressive in the state of Utah. We should like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to the property owners and residents and business owners in South Salt Lake who beautify their premises and are helping to make this area a very desirable place in which to live. IJ . Sincerely yours, J. VERN BOLINDER, Mayor (Signed) City of South Salt Lake ; tax-exem- pt, If, instead of building a duplicate network, the Bureau used the existing utility lines, here, in part, is what would happen: The federal investment (that is, the taxpayers) would be reduced from $176 million to $40 million. Some $1 million more revenue would be produced for the government each year through elimination of heavy line losses that would occur on the Bureaus proposed system. The utilities involved would pay $3.28 million a year in additional taxes, of which $1.16 million would go for schools, whereas the Bureau system would pay no taxes at all. Along with these and other advantages, the cost of pow-.- er to any user would not be affected. My wife and I are for it, he added. I think it would be a big improvement. As you can see it is dangerous as it stands now. In the winter cars slide into these deep dirt gutters. To the Residents of South Salt Lake : . 2 for 1 Mayor Bolinder Writes Open Letter to Citizens Most unemployment occurs between the ears. National Press It takes a wise man to know what the signal is on 21st just and South 7th East. Yes, Sir, switched it again. Now theyve all for its just go, lanes, including the left turn lane and the devil take the hindmost. Its getting so that people are saying, Which fire did you go to last week?" College Out For PECOS, PENDENT: TEXAS, INDE- The assertion is often made that a third of our young people with ability do not go to college, with the inference that all, or most of them should . . . above-avera- ge The fact is that we have 'always had, and should conOr, I specialize in furniture tinue to have, large numbers store fires! of men and women of above-avera- ge mentality in vocations which dont require a college what a Gee, (spelled, G-degree. . . . big sign at the new location of Fehrson Hardware. Educators have repeatedly Next week we are going to indicated that the lack of detry and have a real PRINCESS sire to attend college and prefin the office to greet the tele- erence for immediate pursuit of some trade or technical phone man. vocation (or for marriage) Oh, yes, we are with the accounts for the bulk of the National Rifle Association, and of above-averaquoted one-thiwe are for the right of the citnot attending youth izen to bear arms. You, know, college. like it says in the Fourth Amendment to the constitution. ALBANY, N.Y., TAXPAYER: If a student cannot afford a college educaHey, you cats who like to tion, the solution lies in an pass a law to stop something expanded low-co- st loan fund you dont like. It is against to help him through college. the law for the temperature He can pay after graduation E) rd pay-as-he-g- to rise above 78 in Salt Lake as much Makes County. sense as a lot of them under discussion Why not try to get it passed, you might make out? now-a-da- ys. d pendence on government handouts. Borrowing for a sound investment and, among other things, thats what college is fits right in with the system we live under and are trying to preserve. Nations Agriculture, which is published by The American Farm Bureau Federation, reports that in 1$47 farm operators received a gross income of $34.4 billion, had operating expenses of $17 billion, and realized a net income of $17.3 billion. By 1960, gross income rose to $37.9 billion, but production expenses had increased to $26.3 billion, and, as a result of this inflation, net income had dropped to $11.6 billion. ge oes with the increased earnings his degree helps bring in. . . . College students are supposed to learn initiative and responsibility rather than de One-TJiir- Colleges and universities hold more stock in oil companies than in any other American industry. Market value of these investments is in excess of $93 million. Tax Foundation, Inc. says that the. federal governments world-wid- e real and personal property assets rose to a record $276 billion in fiscal 1960, and Uncle Sam paid a rental charge of $174.3 million in that year. |
