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Show Water projects (Kolob), parks approval likely The water projects and parks proposals in the Governor's bonding legislation will probably get the legislature's approval' Representative Represen-tative S. Garth Jones said in a report to the Record this week. Widespread support, however, is not shown for the "buildings" proposal and bonding to improve state highways, Jones noted. "The water projects portion of the package is the right philosophical decision for the state to make at this time," Jones said. "It definately has the most support from the legislature. And, of course, that is important to us because of the Cedar City-Kolob water funding in the bill." In the parks aspect of the. governor's gover-nor's proposed bond is about one-half million dollars for the Iron Mission State Park. Support for that measure is not as strong as for water, but will most likely be okayed, Jones indicated. in-dicated. Jones also squelched reports that the State of Utah was planning to financially help in some way the striking miners in Carbon County. "My only response is that the state will not, cannot, and doesn't want to go to Carbon County to aid the miners." Jones stated. "It is legally wrong, philosophically wrong and we will not do it. If the governor took funds for that purpose he would really be called on the carpet. The state is not in the position of helping people on strike." Jones said support of the governor's proposed two cent tax increase on gas "is running about 50-50." He said he personally still sees some areas of . inefficiency in the state offices of the Department of Transportation which could be corrected first. "Personally I oppose the tax increase," in-crease," the Republican representative represen-tative said. Right now the bill could go either way. A measure introduced by Jones to increase vehicle registration by $5, with funds returning to cities and counties for road improvement, is being received well, he said. "I supported the idea, Jones explained ex-plained "because the money goes back to the local government for the construction of roads. My overall evaluation of the state's highways is that the local roads are in worse shape, and they need it." |