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Show O t fm at -- Debris Gets Blame In Floods s Special to The Tribune ments homes - I N (la I - Flooding of base15 in approximately yard was caused by the Salt Lake ( 'ouiity Department of Highways and flood Control's refusal to keep Bingham free Creek Natural Water of fences, weeds ami debris. West Jordan Mayor Bruce G Egbert said Sunday '.VEST JORDAN oral New ;ui(t Right--of-Wa- 1 H-- aj'r ( ( omic. - A Monday Morning. Jul Hi. '17:! x ectii.n It SIGNAL AHEAD y ' Blames Contractors f - "'' '& ' A A t Wr be LINK: The Suit Lake Planned Parenthood organization is advertising for a deputy director The job pays 11.000 per WASH 1 right-of-wa- : A" s,.. , si right-of-wa- area "The Dedicated County Mayor Egbert said, was built to county flood control specifications. The city has no right lo trespass or tell those priv ate citizens to remove . 'Matter of Law' year And a Salt Lake resident wanted to apply for the poi- lion. He had all the qualifications. But the last minhe ute decided against submitting his application Dan Aalentine , LJLL2 The Old West isn't dead. At least, that is what modern motorists on modern near He's the father of eight children, with another on the way! A man shouldnt complain too much about having a wife around the house. She doesn't cost too much. latest survey of the Agriculture, a wife 20 and 34 only eats a week (even at she gets cheaper as "r buses carried, mere 3 .385 .Olio passengers (Of' course, buck in 1948. the city buses operated on Sundays') a AND DID VOL' know that 511 out of that's half the every 100 Americans never read a book compopulation pletely through after leaving school'. (So who's reading all the dirty books everybody's complaining about?) According to the latest issue of the Salt Lake Rotary Uub. Fred Ball executive vice president of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, recently attended a Rotary luncheon at Chapultepec. - I , It is a question receiving by no moans a uniform response from Utahns interviewed who have been involved in financcampaigns. Their attiing presidential tudes range from a belief all taxpayers should be required to give a contribution through taxes to a distrust of more government involvement. ' T A ,'mr fm fcLwJb - And it is a question that jVfaZojA Dr. Nabors That's great: Parking tickets are raised from two to three bucks in the Salt Lake downtown area, there's no water coming out of the water fountains on Main Street, and Fred's eating lunch m hapultepec. Mexico, with the Rotary tmMm - 'I Mr. Richards h , fl: ; (lull' ABOUT TALK tough, young Tom his V.ad- - is tough Tom F.nds is -u.im'er vacation in Sat Lake City. 1: he visited Vernal with his irmly and lie caught a ratilc-nak- c. broil;,';it home, and he friends when the n: lie to 'one- w ill in subse- Air. I orv tieorge S 325.000 in the quent months receive more attention from Congress reacting to Watergate-connecteinvestigations concerning campaign financing and what many see as the initial failure of the government's most expansive effort to date toward the optional public campaign financing $1 income tax checkoff. The pressure rising toward campaign rereform tends to mock the port of a presidential commission on campaign costs, but leaves it no less This commisvalid in original scope: sion hopes the American people will come to regard contributions to parties with the same serse of obligation they display toward contributions to educational and charitable institutions." money contributions." he explained. But he believes, given a chance, the allowance for taxpayers to check off $1 in federal income tax owed to the party of their choice can do the trick. This year was the first year of the checkoff, with the money to be applied to the 1976 election. A rtcent Utah Poll, conducted for The Tribune, indicated slightly more than 10 percent of Utah voters exercised the option to contribute this wav. If we are ever to extricate ourselves from the political mess we are in. the only way is to change the system. Let every man give a buck and eliminate entirely the opportunity for influence peddling." said Charles Nabors Jr. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett. recently calculated that little more than $3 million had been raised nationwide through the checkoff. Presidential campaign spending for last year has been estimated in the neighborhood of SS0 mil- Nabors, a university professor, led the Utah campaign la.-- t year for Sen. Dr. Mr. Black McGovern, raising more than stale last year by direct mail appeal in what he said included contributions mainly less than $10. d Mexico. -- right-of-wa- y If necessary, he said, he would go so far as to support direct public appropriations to political parties. I. get twitchy thinking of such a step, but consider the alternative of more scandals in big lion To Dr Nabors there are th.ee princi pal reasons the checkoff system wasn't supported widely. 1. There was public apathy, which he believes can change. 2. It was misunderstood with many persons thinking it would cost them an extra $1. 3. The contribution was obscured with a separate form required, which Air. Nabors said shouldnt be necessary. I can't see why a presidential campaign couldnt be conducted between S15 to $18 million in costs, Dr. Nabors said. Other suggestions of Mr. Nabors included the possibility of placing a $50!) limit on all contributions from everyone for any office, requiring certain advertising media time to be given free to candidates, and limiting presidential campaign spending to whatever is obtained from the checkoff. A counterpoint was struck by Ellis R. Ivory, real estate investor, who was the state finance chairman for President Nixon's campaign last year. He cautioned against a congressional reaction for campaign financing reform that would result in tacking a law that See Page Column 1 B-- Valley Cities Seek Help In Disposing Two years ago Mayor Egbert said 750 was cleaned up . feet of the again. 1 is that same 750 feet that, filled with debris, couldnt hold flood waters Saturday night. "We warned the county they should take the fences down because of flood said. We danger." Egbert Mayor couldn't do anything because we have no authority to act. It's in county jurisdicand we pay mill levy to keep it tion clean." Pipe Being Laid Mayor Egbert said between 2200 West and 271)0 West and 8500 South, pipe is Its a being laid in the by the county golf course, right-of-wa- y If we are to extricate ourselves front the political mess we are in, tlie onlv wav is to change the (campaign financing) system. savs Democrat Charles Nahors Jr. Tribune Political Editor And did you know that in the year 1048. Salt Lake City buses carried 4u milLast year, the city lion passengers' u;, hewing sake bit him was an unidentified "cowboy astride trusty steed staying away from the auto herd." Parker Should the taxpayer directly pay for political campaigns? 111 -- found out Sunday as they sped on the freeway. There, just above the roadway. 3965 South By Douglas L. $ . A HILL 35 to 54 years old eats Mill worth of food weekly, and a wife 55 'ears and over consumes a measly bucks worth of food every seven davs. the Podner! v, Fund Reform Splits Utah Politicians 1 He brought Tliat-a-wa- Right-of-Way- ." "Urn not trying to pul the blame on the county. It's just a matter of law. If the city could have gone in and helped Saturday night, we would have." Mayor Egbert said when the water was put in 10 years ago at the time the subdivision was buitt it was constructed three feet deep, eight feet wide, with sloping banks. It was put in according to county flood control specifications, he said. Tribune stotf photo bv Tim Kelly They Went Tlu reason: According to the L.S. Department of between the ages of 12 worth of food today's prices), and she gets older. . Mr. McGlochhn also blamed contractors. whose "pour planning" methods didn't take into consideration potential flooding problems But. Mayor Egbert insisted that Saturday night when the water came down the water in high volume, carrying 'debris, it couldnt get through the Bingham Creek. So. it spilled over the flooding homes in the T'f Nothing Serious MONDAY disagreed. Basil R McGlochlm. superintendent. Salt t.ake County Department of High-wav- s and Flood Control, said West Jor- dan citizens are to blame The buyers of the homes in the subdivision in the area of 8660 S 320(1 West didn't examine the drainage of their lots when they moved into the area, lie said IiiL'c On Dan Valentines flood control official right-of-wa- thc-are- The runs from the Jordan River to Birgham Canyon under county jurisdiction. Despite the cause of the flooding Saturday night, flood victims received little relief from the city or the county. Mayor Egbert said he received about eight calls and would have received many more but he has a new telephone number. The city helped one women whese basement was flooded. Mayor Egbert said it was because she is a widow. It wasn't our responsibility to help the people, the mayor said. It was the countys responsibility. The county apparently didn't see it that way. Maxine Anderton, 8276 S. 2700 West, said she called the Salt Lake County Department of Highways and Flood Control and was told West Jordan was not in county jurisdiction. right-of-wa- y ' -- lie was rushed to University Hospital nat the where it was determined snakebite hadn't affected Tom at all but the snake died I Talk about tough . . ''v friend Bob Bills. Jr., says shouldn't complain so much in the column about raising the parking tickets to :; to help pay for new courtroom facilities in Salt Lake City. He reasons: "When the new S3 tickets begin, there will be a great need for extra courtroom space to tala- care of i'll the folks who won't pay 'em"' . I lODAVs valentine collective Valentine is acto all the talented people who are tors and backstage folks alike making the Ctali Sliakespearean Festival in Cedar City one of the groat if, tourist attractions iW of our state. think a The Cedar City Shakespearean company is rapidly becoming one of the best companies of its kind in the entire and they give an extra touch nation of cultural class to our slate. . And they do good : They not only put on Shakespeare but they put (which anyone can do) so it on the way it should be put on people can envy it. and come back for more . . group of A mi a Valentine to nii-t- s aM SAM, THE SAD CYNIC, s'. YS: it will cost Salt Lake City shucks, that s only courtroom facilities half a million S3 parking tickets! An architect estimates Sl.5flll.0n0 to build new Of GroAt ing Mountains of Garbage By Jack Fenton Tribune Staff Writer modern railPicture a string of way coal cars. Each is 48 feet long and weighs 30 tons. Each is earning 85 tons of garbage and debris out of Salt Lake County. Ridiculous? Maybe. But. something has tons of to be done with the solid waste generated every day around the valley So Salt Lake County and the area are nine cities in its asking tiie I niversiiy of Utah to help them form a solid waste management board to solve the problem. it should be By May ready to tel! local governments how to improve their garbage collection and disposal operations to handle population growth put at 25 percent every 10 years, explained County Commissioner Pete Kutulas. in charge of the countys garbage disposal program. 1.000-1,50- 9 1 $29,000 Study Cost of a study leading to the university's recommer 'ations is $29,000 $12,000 in cash and the rest in services from the local governments, Mr. Kutulas said. Bills, based on population ar.d running from Altas $7 to the countys $5,998 contribution, will be paid from a $60,800 Environmental Protection Agency grant, he added. "Current annual expenditures for solid waste management in the county amount to $3 million to $4 million." explained Dr. David Eckhoff of the university's civil engineering department. He will work as the board's technical adviser "Allowing for increased population and inflation, tins means something in the range of $50 million will be spent in the : 1 stent to be evaluated. He called for a system, probably coordinatmanagement Problems facing the valley s waste collection operations are typical of a lack ed by the county. Like the nation's other metropolitan of management and technical practices, areas, the valleys three landfills are in he noted. essence open dumps. not sanitary landCollections are routine but equipment fills. the engineer said. He predicted too inconsiand operational practices are problems for future generations unless solid waste disposal needs become part of a coordinated land use plan. X f-- ' Commissioner Kutulas believes tie al- SgSfijL .. ready knows some of the things the study will show. So why spend the Hfck.; money? Because the study will back us -- f up." he explained. ' "Maybe we should use bags instead of 'T" cans. A lot of time can be saved. You .......... don't have to put the empty cans back. A Tone gunman walked away from And youll never get a garbage man who Bobs Magazine Comer, 360 S. State. Sun- doesnt bend cans, even if you pay him day afternoon with about $70 in bills after he pulled an automatic pistol and told an Mr. Kutulas also wants to know what kind of trucks should be used for garemploye I want all of it. About 20 minutes after the 3:30 p.m. bage pickup. Should they be loaded from And can the job be holdup Detective Floyd Ledford arrested the side or the rear? a man in connection with the done by one man or will it take two or robbery at the Cinema Theater. 35 W. three? Buried Right Away 300 South. What should be done with the garbage Det. Ledford made the arrest without incident after a routine check with thea- after its picked up? Right now its burter manager Bill Rekouniotis, 715 Oakley ied as it conies from the truck. But tires St. (1240 West), who told him a man work their way to the surface and bed matching the description of the gunman springs cause pockets that eventually had just entered the theater. collapse. Mr. Kutulas said the county is negoThe roboer had quietly entered the ; magazine shop and bought a candy bar tiating with Utah Power and Light to dry before he accosted employe Bob Trosper and burn one part of solid waste in its furnace with nine parts coal. "That mix with the order to Open it up. and it would burns cleaner than After spurning Mr. Trospers offer of be cheaper,"' the commissioner noted the change in the till with a terse. To Sait Lake County Commissioner Waste must be chopped up before it hell with the change, the robber strolled Pete Kutulas says landfill garwest on Exchange Place, still holding Ihe can be burned. But it should be ground in it the landfill before in his hand. goes bage areas in Salt Lake County anyway. up gun next decade. he said. s Jr' Gunman Takes -3 i i Cash, "f&T'TT- - f Suspect Caught " r . r ... - JT;: f A 3? all-co- are actually no more than; open dumps. Study is feeing readies for effective disposal methods. |