Salt Lake Tribune | 1967-11-18 | Page 21

iP w ' "w "' ‘W ' I "I" "W "4 "4I 1 - y w -- r' rri - ir v 10' - r'ii""- 'v - ''' ' - ' "" I ' 4 I V ( ' 1 vaq------vvrR 1 4 ' t ' '' ' ' ' ' 1' 1 r ) Hast'31e: Idle-Fund- s gOkte""""A"' I i 1 1 1 ' ' ' ) - t ililtiriLi": f' Irr'r 1''' LIV - 'I I' r -- "4 : 1""'' ' "r I AN '''L - ' tii'i ks-:::- 1' ''''-r- CiL"'1 - ll "' 1-rs-'' c t : :‘''': - - -- -14- 14 4- r'''''''N ‘41v '''''' ::1444t :: A" ' 'LI ' 1 '' 7" s:' ' ' : E - i i ' r rist- It N - e-- ' -'' l'''''' 5u r ' ( - I :ri Ai r'' -I- ''' ' i 1 ' -- - --- 1 gr---- - ' 1 4 : '''i'41--- Z '''A i A '' - -- ' t I ' N i - I''' -- '' ' 4 4' PN x1"II-r' - ' ''1 4' ' tt - ""4 : i 41 k''7! j) r:r - - a - ? 7I trt dr By Clarence D Williams Tribune Staff W'riter 'h' ' 0 4'- N i' 3F 1 ' - II:: SN)--:' '''' ' ' i 4' '''' ''''''' : I" fk '' ' ' ' i :"" ' k ''' " V4i e : ' : A:4'4' ' ''44!- t''''''' -- P 71 'N - :: ri? $ ' ' Inbutte It experts diseusses Utah liquor laws at University of - SIMI Photo by R t ‘ 5zitt ogalit : eTtibuitc Ends Lengthy Omtroversy Porscbatis Chief Dewey J lulls Barker Jr attorneys George ii Searle G E Bridwell Utah College of Law Panel includes Ally Gen Phil 14 Hansen Commissioner James I all" lit faul Co - room onlv as panel of id' idle-Ind- Niorris owner Thornton D MorE Y Bennion Salt Lake managris and John B er Goodbody and Co Prince account executive Schwabacher - s standing 11ietrit 1 Co - ' - not the purixise of the eonirnittee liam3 on tiohe Minis and not distritatte tto 'Air tho taxing units- When needed" -- 1" i i i notation emphasized al ‘vith S4)1111° i on the partt nt all illIV11)11 planning for "tiled the fundS should be employ ton D ':-- ' I 'tN s inveqinent barrier was broken at a meeting of Cin- Chiiirman Oscar !Janson Jr Co mmissione r Philip R Blomquist C ont Trea sure r Sid Lambourne Deputy County Treasurer Joseph L Fakler William T South an assistant in the county contracts department and a three-mainvestment advisory comnlittee — Thorn- 4 4 '' ' ' 2 "It's ($1t:)5s00011iity 30 ' i" filially mission " k" ' ‘t ri '4 '': - for invested The if ttnits t I reneres t that Illomquist said money periods or litne "‘xe should invest t Commissioner !Janson said '1Ve x Nant hat the continittoe tecomitiencls” t) (I harmonious mee ti ng Friday afternoon Salt Lake County officials and- a committee of financial experts agreed to invest hvo million dollats ill idle (ninny funds Monday The county will purchase Iwo million dollars' worth of 1"S Treasury t Bills paying about $375 per The investment will net per annum the funds are approximately ': 7ft Commissioner caeantestabltheirished that thetor taxing diln't t I In a Ito7 )' (7 - i -- -- '' ' - 11 Over Cointy to Invest $2 MillionI - 41'i ‘-- if ' -4 f 4 - V 744i' " 1 Of - -' 41 Q '‘'t i '''''''''' 4 1' '''''''''''"!:t ' 4 ' ' 0 t w' 1 i - ''"4 j I- : It tck 1' 41 411 '' - 1 :'' ) 7 k ' - lr- ' 1e P- -' t A' wz44''4 ' --- P' - - ''''S r ri iir t ' N I- C- I -i- ‘4- ''' riti le t-t- ' 0' - 1 ) k 4 - ':'? 0- 4 1 - '4 - ' 'I-- 1- 7 '''''''t'44 4' - ii er '" kVri N: ! 7' ' ''t )14 i :')11 j': ) ' ' ''4 "' lk 1 itirr t i ' ' - rff 41'4 o '"'' t I "‘ ''' 47' '4 leo tp S Jo- ' -- A c of : ‘t : It ' ' ' 16- - 1 ' -'V q ' ' )" e" t: At 0 - i'''''" - III 4 ''" ' pt ' to '' 1 i ' is : 1"'i4 - ' a '1-- - ' '' rt "' 4 ' t - A '24: 1 ‘ '' 4 1 '''' ' 1- A: k t -- I - 'kr '17 4- - d 1 ' '''----- '4 ' :'-----: ?) '' "11 4 - ''''ij-LI"-- t i k 102"-- - 1-- ) ":' ltN l '!‘ ' it- 4 :Sr-e- 714 7 '1- '''3' 4 ''' t IL 'It k 7' ' It " Ir ) 1 :' 40 t 1: ' 4 Ili Y 4 4 ' t 4r4k "1 ' r6 J t t b ' ''rl-N4- ' u ttis-'It - ' rt - Li- !t :7:tvt1 ' r- 4 ': 0 TV Today Local News ports Page 2 1 decision culminates many months controversy over whether the county has idle funds and whether they can he Police The of - 2 invested Colbssal Blunder US Policy stirs Farm Bureau In spite of the 1967 farm program debacle which is only one ' in a long sue- cession of colossal blunders the administration remains dedicated to its outmod- ed plans" the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation said here Fri day night Charles B Shuman Sullivan told 111 some 800 members of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation and their wives at the groups golden anniversary banquet at The Terrace 464 S Main that govern merit farm control and pricing programs have failed because no agency or administrator can foresee market changes "Grain and livestock producers will pay heavily in lower prices And income in 1967 because the administration guessed wrong asked for increased production and predicted good prices" he said a bined humane and profit appeal" The banquet was the concluding event of the general convention but Utah Farm Bureau Federation voting delegates will meet at the Newhouse Hotel Saturday morning to vote on programs and resolutions Mr Shuman who has headed the American Farm Bureau since 1954 said "With the farm parity ratio near the De pression low United States agriculture cannot afford a continuation of the curand control rent farm production programs which have the ultimate ()Weetive of making farmers dependent on government payments for a larger and larger portion of their income huge world food needs constituted Criticizes COlit factory That was the consensus reached by a panel of Utah legal and law enforcement officials at a discussion Friday at the University of Utah College of Law on the liquestion "How realistic are Utah's quor laws?" But that consensus was about as far as the five panel members would go in agreement Panel members were Utah Atty Gen Phil L Hansen Salt Lake City Public Safety Commissioner James L Barker Jr Salt Lake Police Chief Dewey--- Fil - com- Nov 30 I 2 3 See Page 22 4 J Madill El Paso Tex Tucson Ariz Perth Amboy NJ Ansonia Conn and Cleveland he said Joseph P Molony Pittsburgh Pa vice president of the Steelworkers is scheduled to attend the Mont Butte rally "We plan to meet so the workers can discuss the strike with union officials and reaffirm their support of the dispute" Mr Madill said High School auditorium will accommodate 4000 "and we're goitg to pack it" Meanwhile the State Welfare Division reported it has provided $184124 in as- Number of days on strike 127 Impact of strike on Utah's economy to date $17371000 Wages lost to date by each striking em- $2481 Time required for each striking employe to make up lost wages assuming 5 cents per hour additional (to the company's original 5 25c BOUNTIFIISarann Feller is offer) 2391 negotiated Time required for each striking employe to make up lost wages per assuming 10c is hour additional years 1197 years negotiated I sistance to 444 recipients directly or indinarectly Involved in the tionwide copper strike The state provided approximately 40 cents of each assistance dollar — for a total of $73650 — and the rest was provided by the federal government Salt Lake County has processed 481 striker applications the report showed accepting 361 and denying 120 (25 per cent) BULLETIN new Saiaries and wages material and supplies treatment charges facilities and improvements freight commissions services etc4 payroll state and focal taxes Based on W3000 per day work week with vers°e wage of "Based on 1316 per hour plus average VII9e InCrOilir of 23c Per hour in originai Company offer also Column Cyprus High School ploye Elmo VV Hamilton Riverton and S Jay Child Clinton Davis County were terms reelected to their second one-yeas president and vice president of the Utah Farm Bureau V Allen Olsen will continue as manager Bennion pm at 7 cochairman Of the Joint Negotiating Committee United Steelworkers of America announced Friday The Salt Lake County session will be one of several scheduled for late in the month Mr Madill said Similar events Will be held the night of Nov 29 in Butte W rols Willis Whitheck at Copper Strike Box Score returns" Mrs 4 lie said the Cyprus "We must move before it is too late to dismantle this outdated and complicated :maze of fruitless restrictions and the way to start is to eliminate acreage allotments marketing quotas marketing certificates and base acreages for wheat and feed grains and let the market system determine our production needs and i discriminatory" "It is illegal in this state to give whisky away" Mr Hansen said Imagine he noted being arrested for giving a drink to someone in your own home "We have liquor by the wink if not by the drink" in Utah" he said Mr Searle who was picked in the drawing to speak second said "Whether we like it or whether we don't we have liquor by the drink in Utah" Rallyof 4000 Copper Strikers To Reaffirm Support of Union ' ' satis- ral!y of some 4000 striking copper workers and their families will be held "It is inconceivable that farmers pro': ducing for the market would have gone on such a wild production binge The tinducement s of government support and payment programs together with repeated references of government leaders to hy the step- rs Saturday Nos ember between now and Dec 20 the extended deadline for paying such taxes The investment committee of Mr Mr Morris Mr Bennion Lambourne Mr Prince and County Auditor LaMar A Rawlings will decide how much of this can be invested in US Treasury Bills andor Bank Certificates of Deposit (CD's) Mr Second Sect ion laws" Unlyersity Eyes how long these county to invest funds just longer the county can hold and these funds of course the more is produced revenue from interest The Invest earned "Sixty days would be great and 90 days even greater" Mr Bennion said Participants in the meeting agreed that it is important for Mr South to set up a definite program with the subordinate units so they won't be calling the treasurer in the middle of an investment period asking for distribution of funds e A and permanent program is the goal of all concerned and the investment of the two million dollars simply marks the begiAnini of the plan "I'm sure there will ' be investable funds throughout the year" Mr Morris ' "Bad laws make bad people" Mr Bridwell said The panel apparently was not concerned with the moral issue the Salt Lake attorney commented since the state is in the businss of selling liquor or the "by the gallon or long-rang- half-gallo- n quart" "Violations of the law are- rampant every day of the week" Mr Bridwell said lie claimed that clubswhich eater to the "establishment" in Salt Lake City See Page 22 Column I - a long-rang- investment program e "we might be able to earn enough interest to cut the mill levy in the various subordinate taxing districts" Special to The Tribune "Lots WANSHIP Summit County of people told me it would be a Tribune Christmas Tree someday and didn't believe it" terpiece rations of the downtown yuletime deco- The tree was planted in 1920 by l'Irs Street's brother Frank Hixson when it was about two feet tall "lie dug it out of the mountains in Weber Canyon" recalls Mrs Street "While it was very young I remember kids jumping over it They broke the top of it and my mother said it probably would never amount to much of a tree possible that my tree will be used as the Community Christmas Tree for Salt Lake City" Hazel Street Speaking was Mrs old resident of this community blue The beautifully shaped spruce in front of her home will be the 1967 Tribune Community Christmas Tree The green giant will be cut Monday morning and trucked to Salt Lake City where it will be erected at its traditional spot in front of The Tribune Bldg 143 S Main Tuesday morning "It doesn't seem it'll be a beausmiled Mrs But now look at it tiful Christmas Tree" Street Experts from the Mel lus Tree Co and crews 'rum Salt Lake Transfer will handle the big task of cutting and hauling the tree from here to Salt Lake a journey of 37 miles It will be accompanied by Utah Highway Patrol escort and Utah Power & Light Co crews This will mark the 21st consecutive year The Tribune pas provided the cen for ' - - - 4 -- M- ' '' - ' 1 I Plans are under way to widen the Jordan River between 4th and fith South near 1050 West J Rex Mackay Salt t Lake County flood control director tr' I said - --- - - Friday Mr Mackay said the project will involve widening and deepening the bend as stream and removing a flood con- part of the county's over-al- l trol program Work is expected to begin as soon as are obtained Mr Mackay said He also noted that Salt Lake City will soon be calling for bids for a new four-lan- e bridge to span the river at 5th South near 1050 West He said the bridge will be 80 feet long and 64 feet wide The structure estimate ed to cost $85000 will replace a rights-of-wa- ill ' P r1 t 8 1 4 t tin i t t 7' l'o 4Ly 't Jr 11: ) K :'& t ii t k y Ili t al g $ I t 1ko 4 T'1' - '''' 2 ' (too-eg 4A two-lan- Ni Nt bridge other county flood control work Mr Mackay said Kennecott Copper Corp has completed constructioh of a project designed to protect the Magna area from flash floods that could come from the Oquirrh Mountains through Little Valley Ile said the company has constructed terraces along mountain watersheds and has built cisterns in Little Valley to contain runoff waters In t e - -- ' - - 3 -- 4 fri " -- " 4T ' v' IA 'Ct ' - - k '17) t er c4:t crews also have the chore of securing the tree in front of The Tribune Bldg Power company Ifundredg of Bulbs Once' in place workers from Electric Sign Co will place the star atop the tree and the big lighting and decorating will get Young bright job of way Crews from the sign firm and the SignCo will put some 400 red and white light bulbs and about 200 new gay decorations Decorating will take place Tuesday afternoon Wednesday and Friday if necessary The big moment will arrive Friday Nov 24 at 7:30 pm when the tree lights are turned on Having the honor of tossing the switch to set the city's tree aglow is Danny Dunn Woodhead son of Mr and Mrs M Vern Woodhead 1958 Claremont Way ° trrAl South) lie was the lucky winner of The Tribune's annual Arbor Day Christmas Tree Grove contest last April His name was drawn from some 3000 entered in the contest in 1960 when the grove was started at the Mt Dell Golf Course up Parleys Canyon under Buried at k - 7440-- t 't --' 4 2 - - - - -' - 710 -- ' US''' ''' ' 11'"r77''--0g:---r- ' A ' !k 4t so Ni' 4441 ' 1-- t' i 2 :le ' l'4471 V 4fa t - i 7''' Grove t ' : ° IIII 4 4 ' ' 4el 2 i : f' r '!0 - f iu' ‘ - i 1!)1 ze44 7 " s"' ' '" As left W aship ' ' - ' - - - - -- - 4 : ' ' - :7 A: 4: -4 - s 1 4 J i admire blue spruce that svill be Tribune Community Christ alas tree et 7 : - ' i - e - 1 ' - ' J ' ) — f L 1 t II - expert Mrs S and Mrs 'Hazel Street T ree ""“' f c 11 -- 45 11- - --- - t- - ' fr - ': Y t ' 16:'- - 46 4:11 - 44 11': ' '' 41 r -- 7: rr : 40-ie- : Tr ''' r--- - gov Copies of the cotipon were buried at the grove A name is drawn annually from a duplicate set of names and this winner receives a blue spruce from The Tribune and the right to flash the lights on the Christmas Tree The fault at the grove will be opened in the year 2000 date the first tree is expected to be harvested at the grove and used as a downtown Christmas Tree Winner of that special drawing will re- ceive a grant of $2000 for the education of his or her daughter - t - ' ' 'Mk?"' t ' - - 4- 1 ' ' by d- simple" he said Yule Season Kimball-Cra- 'Beautiful Tree' Downtown Centerpiece Rt for use Douglas be Mr Morris said the investment problem "isn't as simple as you may think" "It isn't something you can pull out of the air and we don't want to imply it is Flood Project Fort Army" (It-Utah- Not Simple Problem County Outlines of I ge"During the recent meeting with nNal services administration officials I pointed out the property was just adjacent to where the physical education complex is being constructed by the university and that this particular parcel of land is very important to the school for educational purposes" he said ) Rep Sherman P Lloyd transsaid this was the first parcel to ferred to another agency since the fort was declared surplus last summer by the Defense Department Rep Lloyd said the Army motor p04I was in this area and the university planned to use the buildings for maint nance shops and transportation activitiel Mr Lambourne said that by employing another part the said - - Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — University of Utah is scheduled to get 715 acres of valuable Fort Douglas land on which are located 16 buildings Fir4 steps vere taken Friday when theland was assigned tb the Department of Health Education and Welfare for transfer t9 the university "The land is commonly known as the 500 series of buildings which are located on Hempstead Road near the annex" said Sen Frank E Moss (DUtah) "One building number 506 will be moved to Hopeful of 90 Days ' t f Fort Douglas Land Transfer of the larger subordinate taxing collected for them Private clubs which Mr Searle said often operate outside the law have an advantage over the legitimate tavern operations he said Chief Finis said "Law enforcement is caught ih the middle" There are adequatelaws on the books for enforcement he said but "We're wrong If we do it and wrong if we don't Arrestsave been Made and will con- thine to be made "I have to enforce the laws on the books" the chief said 21 Page 10110Milo former South Salt Lake city manager and former general manager of the Salt Lake City Suburban San-- : itary Sewer District will confer with nofficials 961 I (1 South units to determine units can allow the IS Ant ' t 16 daughter of Elbert Eldridge 212 Bayview Dr Farmington was killed late Friday when the ear in which she and four other teen-agewere rkling plunged off Skyline Drive below the Buck land Flats picnie ground about four miles east of here The other four persons not immediately identified were taken to South Davis Community Hospital where all4mdants said two of them were in critical condiwas reported in tion One of the teen-agefair condition and the other was to be released after treatment Tribune Tree to Grace SL ' Point ''God only knows we've got enough laws concerning liquor control in the state' lie said Some of the laws are good and some are bad Mr Searle noted Speaking for the tavern owners he said "As far as we are concerned we are being killed because we are trying to operate within the Attorney George E Bridwell who represents some private clubs in the Searle area and Attorney George who represents some tavern owners Mr Hansen who spoke first commented that the state's liquor laws are "unenforcetble unrealistic ridiculous and us A 'Wild Production Binge' ' By William Smith Utah's liquor laws are not very 1 1 Liiplor Laws Not Too Satisfactory Tribune Staff Writer SI Attacks in -- Panel Reaches Accord on U Morris and Mr Fak ler estimated 50 million dollars received county on property tax collections Mr there will be '' '