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Show - March Permits being taken for rapids floating ' $ "j" I i : r T ifl- Dear Constituents, responLeadership A sibilities consumed most of my time during the 43rd Legislative General Rapids, rapids and are more rapids this year for predicted Utah sections of the Colorado and Green rivers administered by the Bureau of Land having the assignment of all house committees for coorSession, dination and scheduling, Rules and Sifting Com- mittee Vice-Chairma- Management. n, Recreationists Executive Committee on Standing Committee and Higher Education Appropriation Committee. The session just completed has been the most taxpayer oriented session I have been involved with. Property tax will receive the largest portion of the $74.5 million dollar tax break, homeowners and renters faring best of all. responsive arid equitable, owners Property being an increase in your your home or dwelling not subject to tax as allowed for in the Constitution of Utah.) I sponsored four bills that gained final ap- proval. HB 231 limiting all taxing units to a six percent increase after and reappraisal assessment increases, taxing districts and county capitol outlay (School simultaneous Action draws to a close for the TIIS Mines basketball team this year. This shot is of recent action at the gym. Overall savings on hospital forms possible It is said that a hospital and debt retirement runs on forms-b- ig forms, levies have previously litUe forms, green forms, been exempt.) HB 250 pink forms, triplicate which was a $350,000 forms. There are a lot of them-abo- ut 300 different apsupplemental forms in use at Utah propriation for an access Valley Hospital. Doctors road to a new $5,000,000 use them, nurses use unit train loading facility them, secretaries use on U.P.s line west of them, patients use them. Levan. Nobody is exempt from HCR 5 which will filling out the ubiquitous become the State Policy form. To insure that all these on Wilderness Review forms are necessary and and Evaluation; and HCR do the job they 4 State Position on that-theNational Price Averaging are intended to do, the for Natural Gas. hospital has a Forms In addition being the Committee. This newly ' House Sponsor and floor created body was apby the admanager of SB 320 which pointed and ministrator is will return 52 million charged with establishing dollars to home owners policy and procedure for and renters until voters all printed forms used make permanent through within the hospital, with a Contitutional Amend- the creation of new forms ment the increase in the and with the disconHomestead Exemption. tinuation of obsolete I have appreciated the forms. It serves as chance to represent our cleaming house for all District 71 and thank you departments, and it keeps for your support. departments informed of Sincerely, changes or revisions Cary Peterson affecting them. The Forms Committee CUSTOM BUILT HOMES Are you interested a new home in Eureka? We have access to in State funded money at 8 interest, with only 5 down. For more information call: R.L. Brackenbury Construction, Eureka; or 433-681- 7, Jeff 798-797- Robarge, Spanish Fork, Utah. 6, Moab, Utah 84532. Fifteen days following the close of the filing periods unfilled dates may be reserved on a first-com- e, first-serve- d To avoid overcrowding on said Paul L. Howard, weekends and holidays BLM director for Utah. parties may want to plan of the a weekday launch. Instead legislative philosophy Homestead Exemption. (That portion of of Land Bureau Grand Management, Resource Area, Sand Flats Road, P.O. Box M, terested in floating the basis. Rangers will not be in issuing permits at the exciting rapids Westwater Canyon of the Westwater launch site. Colorado River should, Floatboating the scenic now plan their trip and San Juan River through request a private permit the Goosenecks now is at the appropriate time. possible with water Private permits are only running about 100 percent for small groups of of normal and expected to recreationists who make reach 200 percent of no financial gain by normal by May. floating Utah's waterPermits are obtained ways. All private permits are free of charge. by addressing a card or BLM this season made letter to the Bureau of major changes in permit Land Management, San filing deadlines in an Juan Resource Area, 284 effort to make the South 1st West, P.O. Box reservation system more 7, Monticello, Utah 84535. Appropriations, Legislative Management Committee, Revenue and Taxation in- 1979 10, The Eureka Reporter Page Six Cary Peterson Comments 1 6 department for a few Lab; and RaNay Friel, cents each. Admitting. The UARCO Company, Ralph Thompson, Forms Committee with whom the hospital Chairman, feels a 16 contracts for many of the percent overall saving is forms, provides a conrealistic through im- sultant who is an member of the proved efficiency, better ex-offic- io inventory control and reduction of time and material. Other Forms Committee members are Julie AdAsay, Nursing ministration; Karma Pectol, Administration; Finance; Adolphson, Louie Paul Kinyon, format. are single, simple Obsolete forms recycled into scratch pads which can be purchased by any design providesas well as the assistance, benefit of experience forms. As forms as printed on press. their overall in producing many of the possible are the hospital Regular checkups for glaucoma urged Glaucoma is an increasingly serious eye disease which occurs most frequently in persons over the age of 30, and affects at least 2 percent of individuals over 40. Thousands of Americans have lost their and sight from glaucoma. are Many Americans have beginning to emerge. The the disease without new Personnel Action knowing it, and unless it of the UARCO a so float trip permit applications popular cannot be reserved more please plan your trip than two calendar months during the weekdays to in advance for any trip avoid conflicts with other planned May through river uses. Private permits for September, explained Howard. Applications for floating this section of the June will be accepted in Green River will be April; for July in May and issued in the traditional so forth. All applications for permits should con- is diagnosed and treated early, it can cause blindness. One type of glaucoma, called chronic glaucoma, causes no symptoms until severe damage has been done. Chronic glaucoma can be detected by the medical eye physician who (ophthalmologist) uses an instrument to measure the degree of pressure in the eye and another instrument to measure the size of the visual field, or side vision. Every adult over 40 should have a test for eye ss relieve popularity, Howard added. All persons planning a trip on Westwater during May should now send first-serve- their application Bureau d apGray-Desolati- on Canyon to Land of Price Management, River Resource Area, 900 North 7th East, P.O. Box to AB, Price, Utah 84501. Utah Tech to offer if Law and the "Layman The Layman and the Law will be the subject of, an weekly seminar beginning March 21 and extending through May 30 on the Orem of Utah campus Technical College at Provo-Oresponsored by the Utah Tech Business Division and The is seminar designed to give lay people the opportunity to meet on a weekly basis with an attorney and discuss various topics of interest and concern with regard to the law. Plans for the seminar were announced by Mrs. Helen Ashton, chairman of the Office Education Department of Utah Tech and in charge of ; arrangements. the pressure. It is open to anyone in is successful Surgery interested, she said, for a most cases, but prompt fee Preof $25. treatment is necessary. registration may be made The major problem at the Provo physicians face in dealing Mrs. Ashton said.campus, with glaucoma is to detect the disease early enough to begin treatment before serious eye damage is done, says the American Medical Association. It is highly important for individuals past the age of 40 to have an annual medical checkup for their eyes. first-com- e, manner. tain two alternate dates Send permit because of the area's plications for m, pressure as well as for visual fields when he or she goes fen an eye-glacheckup. Another type of this insidious eye disease is called acute glaucoma. In this ailment the pressure suddenly rises to a very high level, and the attack is accompanied by serve pain, redness and blurred vision. Most often the patient must be placed in a hospital immediately and treated by surgery to Can- Gray-Desolati- on system used in the past, yon area is always on meets weekly positive results form, designed by the committee, for example, combines and replaces .three separate forms that were required before. The form is Used by the Personnel Department and Mr. Wayne Terry, Department Head, says it will save time, is much easier to use, eliminates the need to make copies and cuts down on the chance for error because committee. filing It will be held from 6 to p.m. on the designated dates in the Business Building, Room 121, of the Orem Campus. Instructor will be P. Gary Ferrero, a practicing Provo attorney and part-tim- e instructor at Utah Tech in the legal 9 assistant program. He graduated Cum Laude from the BYU Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1977. He has written a legal research manual and is currently working on two other publications. Time will be allowed at the end of each session for questions and. answers, said Mrs. Ashton. Movie The Unsinkable Molly Brown", starring Debbie Reynolds, is the movie scheduled for this Saturday, March 17. It will be shown in the film room at Tintic High School at 7 :00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. (Note the change in times). - To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder. Lao-Tsz- e The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. Thomas Paine |