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Show DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Monday, vNB s v' ' s ... April 21, 1969 B1 ' ' ,; ; ,s, "V:'V'' ringent Action ' 0yf, , Urged T IHIcsBt Park .Vandalism Vandalism, beer busts and littering reared their ugly heads again over the weekend in Sugar House, Liberty and other city Cabana dressing rooms stand in water at Silver Sands. Crashing waves, driven by gale winds, pound beaches. Rising Lake, Wind Threaten Resort By JOSEPH T. LIDDELL Nw Although Great Salt Lake appeared peaceful and serene over the weekend, fierce salt water breakers slashed over the beaches Friday and drove resort operator John Silver 100 yards landward. A two-forise in the lake level since last summer and gale winds from the' northwest twice last week have caused extensive damage on ot the beaches. waves destroyed half a dozen cabana bath houses and several picnic tables and inundated an 1,800-fo- ot section of beach. Despite this, a handful of tourists still braved the winds to enjoy their lunch at the resort Friday and more were out over the weekend as the weather quieted and temperatures rose. The cafe and souvenir shop at the beach operated as usual during the gale while trucks and other vehicles dragged refreshment stands and other movable buildings up t h e to safety. Although the lake condition has caused a major upheaval, Silver said he had worked ;out a deal with Salt Lake wide County on a beach strip further shore- to relocate resort He predicted that the lake rise only a few more inches in the next two months, ; ; would 'minimizing further danger to BUDGET-AUDI-T other cities of Salt Lake Citys size to determine effective'V. V , ness of their park programs. Vreceived The commissioner added emphasis last summer in patrolling city parks when 'C littering and vandalism occurred. Barker said he encountered disgusting arrays cf trash and smashed benches while jogging through Sugar House Park this morning. He reported the incidents to police and to Harrfeon. The problems of the large souvenir shop shows beach inundated by lake level rise and wave action. crowds particularly rowdy g appear to teenagers on us again now that earth structure. The winds drove water to to the level of 1957-8- , when The lake level has reached the base of Saltair which had Saltair closed permanently spring weather has wanned J. an been left high and dry by the and was donated to the Utah up, Police Chief Dev-ehigh due to excepWe are Fillis Commisand level lake the Recreation Park over reported. tionally heavy precipitation 'receding d to take care of the past winter, plus heavy sion. years. combrine all the investigations needed runoff in streams feeding the The .wind-drive- n Lake climatologists See GATES on Page 3 See LAKE on Page B-- 2 lake. pared this spring's condition View from stairs at Deseret News Staff Writer ment. received substantial increases to cover salary increases and the addition of two new district judgeships. Sizable increases also went Boiiiiinmiuiiiuimmmiiiiniiuiiittniiiiinma SHOP TIL TONIGHT i HUlIKilllUlltUnSiUUUlIQllllhilUiKUilllUUI Appropriations to the Highway Patrol and its checking stations were increased sub-stantially to allow both divisions to move to a five-dawork week. Funds were proy vided to employ about 22 additional troopers. ' Appropriations will support several new services and activities while expanding others beyond normal work load increases. 4 NEW PROGRAMS The Department of Agriculture will undertake four new programs. ' A $21,000 was made to appropriation expand technical assistance to farmers. Funds were provided for a poultry inspection program and HB124 autho beef rizes promotion problem? Dial p.m. Monday through Friday, or writ to Box 12J7, Salt Lako Gty, Utah 84110, Ask Any Agent N I have not been able to get insurance so I can drive a car. I have heard that there is high risk or assigned risk insurance. What are the facts and how do you get it? D.C.M., Salt Lake City. The assigned risk program involves each insurance company taking an equal share of high risk drivers, including very' old and very young drivers, or drivers with bad records. You can apply through any reputable insurance agent. The applications in the West are administered through a San Francisco bureau, by state, and are assigned by the bureau to companies operating in that state. This company must keep the policy for three years unless your record becomes extremely bad. After three years you can reapply, if your situation is unchanged, and you will be assigned to a different company. Get In Touch With Garage I have received several letters from a credit association saying I owe bill to a tire coirfpany. It is not listed in the phone book and they cannot supply an address or a name. I never heard of these people and cannot find them. They are F.D., Salt Lake threatening to sne me. What can I do? City. Do-I- t Man finds it hard to believe that you could not have found out the name of the company which says you owe J30.18. He did by calling the credit firm. You now have this information. Get in touch with George at the company whose address you have been given. . . hard-presse- . B-1- DIGEST to the public Safety Depart- it 6 to 9 be.des-cendin- his beach operations. We will remain open, Silver vowed. Even while he spoke, waves crashed into the beach boat harbor, sending spray 15 feet above the top of the stone aral By CLARENCE S. BARKER Appropriations made by the Utah Legislature from the state general and uniform school fluids totaled $200.2 million, an increase of $28.5 million or 16.6 per cent above estimated current fiscal year expenditures. This is disclosed in a digest of the sessions appropriations being mailed today by the of Committee Budget-Audstate legislators, executives and administrative agencies. GAINED MOST Public education and institutions of higher learning were the prime beneficiaries. Increased state support to locai school districts will cost the state an additional $15.5 million in the next fiscal year, 17.4 per cent above current spending. General fund support for colleges and universities was increased $5.7 million, or 16.5 per cent above current estimated spending. total. Most of appropriations ing $6.3 million for acquisition and construction of buildings and building repairs will also go to state institutions of higher education. Both legislative and judicial branches of state government Hoy - u '69 Appropriations Up $28.5 Million 1969 Dial IMAM Harrison said he is checking 700-fq- ward action to halt the offen- scs. Today commissioners were considering erecting gates to control the parks. Also, a question of banning beer and other alcoholic beverages arose again because of extensive littering of beer containers about the parks, Barker said. Im told that similar cities outside Utah are effectively reducing these undesirable problems since the prohibition of alcoholic beverages and control gates were implemented, Barker said. Gates would be closed, barring park users during night time and peak trouble hours, according to control programs for fait being considered Lake City. ,) Deseret News Staff Writer Crashing parks. After viewing the results, Salt Lake City Commissioners James L. Barker Jr. and Conrad B. Harrison considered stringent supported by a head fee on slaughter of cattle. A sheep promotion is authorized by HB316, supported by an increase in the maximum mill levy on sheep. Appropriations to the Tax Commission include $240,000 for an expanded land reappraisal program, $120,000 for a land classification program or of farm land, $92,000 for a new program for the audit and appraisal of Inventory, and funds to build a new branch office at Tooele. LIQUOR ENFORCEMENT The Public Safety Division also was given $300,000 for a law enforcement program. The Board of Bonding Commissioners is authorized to See APPROPRIATIONS, B--! program liquor SECTION B 1, 2, 13, 24 City, Regional 3 Theater 4-- 7 Sports Financial 8, 9 i Comics TV Highlights Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads 10 11 13 14 13-2- New School Post For Ex-Uta- hn Dr. John W, Bennlon has been named superintendent of the Brighton Central School District in suburban Rochester, N.Y. Bennlon Is the son of Dr. M. Lynn Bennlon, superintendent of Salt Lake City schools. John Bennlon, 32, will take his new position July 1. Currently he is assistant professor of educational administration at Indiana University. Teachers Stick To Strike Guns LAS VEGAS, NEV. (UPI) Thousands of students were turned awav from class today as southern Nevada teachers voted during a mass meeting to hold firm in a strike action for higher pay. More than 2,000 teachers met at the convention center and agreed in a loud voice vote to continue the strike until an acceptable solution is found. Another mass meeting was scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday to review any action by the legislators or the school district during the day. Teachers walked out of the classrooms Friday, staged a mass march on the Las Vegas Saturday and held Strip firm today despite attempts by the school district to break the unity of the Clark County Classroom Teachers Associa- tion. The district announced late Sunday that schools would be open today, but warned par- ents that students might be sent home if teachers did not show up lor work. Only a few teachers reported to their plassrooms. And a few others were turned away by picket lines which were thrown up at numerous schools. Most cf the 67,000 southern Nevada students were sent home. A district spokesman said four or five schools out of 86 schools remained open today, all of them in outlying areas such as Boulder City and Moapa Valley. Teachers are demanding a starting wage of $8,000 a year, a 100 per cent hospitalization plan and a voice in the selection of curriculum and textbooks. Currently the starting wage is slightly more than $6,000 a year. , Cleaning, Spraying Enforced How can we get action to have a chicken farm at 70th South and 2300 East taken eat? Flies and filth breed here. E2S., Salt Lake City. Complaints about this would fill a library, says the county board of health. But, farm has been there for many years; before any homes were in area. The owner wanted to sell out a few years ago to someone when wanted to put in an theater, but area residents objected. He also had a chance to sell out to a shopping center. Same objection. The health dept inspects this regularly and insists on cleaning and spraying. They will continue to do so. out-do- No Cause For Action At 3200 S. Main in a field west of Main there is a field with two black horses. I know they go weeks without water and are very thin. Can you help? I have horses of my own and can tell these are starving. J.H., Salt Lake City. Well, Sir. Do-I- t Man does not dispute your knowledge of horses, but the County Health Dept., (even though this is not a health dept problem) did take a look and find no cause for any action." I ordered $14.85 worth of vitamins from a New York firm. They cashed the check. Ive written four letters and no word. It has been over two months now and I want my money back. C.G.F., Springville. You have an apology and a refund. (Editor Norn W.'r. wiry Km numtr oil end th. mHrni f null mtk tt (mMfslBl to iiuww vtry uHm. Pmm, m nwdlcij r bnl uuMllon. Dm't mm itompi r ulMMmiO nvlopi n answtn on nly k atom I thh column. Only wraollora of mti Intornt will k nwrad and totopftM oil on k kcopttd only on St Do-I-t Mm yhon at Hit kouro neoKribod. Olv your namo, addrot and tolopftono numMr not tor suMlotiM kut to holy Do-- tt mm mis yuu.) - Railroad IB milder Ricked Up Mails, Rolfs By DOROTHY O. REA Deseret News Staff Writer Ninth of a Series You are in the Central Pacific Shops in Sacramento one morning when you' see Mark Hopkins the elusive member of the Big Four. ! As a young journalist, you leap at the chance of a possible interview with this quiet man who avoids publicity with a passion. He Is going about picking up nails and bolts dropped by You cant build a workmen. railroad with wasted metal, he tells you. You will rememlier this, years later, when the thrift of Mark Hopkins leads to the establishment of a department for the salvage and reclamation of worn and discarded materials and lucrative sales of scrap. He doesnt tell you much only that he was considered an old man when he arrived in San Francisco at age 36. The gold rush is a young mans game. So is the buildand the ing of California West. By the time the Central Pacific was organized, Hopkins was 49; Collis P. Huntington 41; Charles Crocker 40, and Leland Stanford 37. But these cld men had a lesson to teach Young Califor- nia. One of your contemporary journalists writes: The projectors of the Central Pacific Railroad completed it, and today control and manage it. They did not let it slip out of their fingers . , . What is more, although only merchants, totally inexperienced in railroad building and railroad managing, they did thel work so well that, in the opinion of the best engineers, their road is today one of the most thoroughly built and equipped and best managed in the United States. These . . . Sacramento merchants who undertook to build a railroad through 800 miles of an almost uninhabited country, over mountains and through an alkali desert, were totally unknown to the great money world. . . . Their was pronounced impracticable by engineers of project reputation. ... At the end of 1868 even before Central Pacific reached Promontory Summit you note that Mark Hopkins reports a Central Pacific profit for the year of some $1,250,000. As you think about Mark Hopkins, you realize he always affiliates with people more venturesome than him self. This quiet, soft-spok- who became the railroad magnate. Some said the Hopkins family buried at the Mark in Hopkins mausoleum Sacramento were not really man doesnt make speeches, seldom grants interviews and seems happy to dwell in the shadow of his flamboyant Stanhis relatives. partners, Huntington, As a journalist, you accept ford and Crocker. Being a partner isnt new to the records kept by historical Hopkins. As a youth he was groups, even though such recand ords are sparse. It is recorded partner in Hopkins N.Y. that Mark Hopkins was of PuHughes in Lockport, Soon after coming to Califor- ritan stock, born Sept. 1, 1813, nia in 1849, he went in business at Henderson, N.Y. His busiin Placerville, later teaming ness career started when he up in the wholesale grocery took the Job of clerk in a merbusiness with E. H. Miller Jr. cantile firm in Lockport. He married his cousin, In 1855, he Joined Collis P. Huntington as a merchant in Mary Sherwood, in 1854. He Sacramento and remained a vas a man of simple tastes member of that firm until his pud loved to tend his own vegetable garden. After the comdeath in March 1878. In the frantic battle for his pletion of the Central Pacific, wealth following his death, main offices were moved to San Francisco from Sacramrecords were lost or obliterated. Claims were made by ento. For a long time after the some that the man who was a merchant in New York was move, Hopkins remained in a ienmA Mfirlr ttnnMne iwi small rented outage scar and Leavenworth Sutter Streets. He paid $35 a month for rent and continued to have a backyard garden. his Meanwhile, partners started building their mansions on Nob HilL Mrs. Hopkins brought the pressure to bear which resulted in a Hopkins mansion near the Stanford mansion on the kill. Mark Hopkins didnt live to see the big house completed. He died on a company train in Yuma, Ariz., where he bad gone to get relief from his rheumatism. After his death in March 188, the house was completed and used as a residence for a time. Eventually the life became the first home cl the San Francisco Art School. Later, all of San Francisco would look up to Nob Hill to see the glowing lights of the famous Mark Hopkins Hotel, now standing on that site. 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