Show Many Firsts In Utah In 1 97 The year 1972 produced many historic changes in Utah it was noted by Utah the nonprofit public service in a year-end review released this Outstanding were recorded in both fiscal and non-fiscal REAPPORTIONMENT of the always a controversial was accomplished by the 1972 and for the first time legislative district lines were made to cut across county boundaries in This is in direct violation of a provision of the Utah but made necessary by S. Supreme Court decisions which were held to supersede state constitutional The Court edicts support the one theory and permit only limited variation among legislative districts in total The Utah providing a twenty-nine-member Senate and seventy-five-member appear to be within the guidelines set by the IN voted for the time in They participated in the election of Utah's first third-term another historic milestone of two-term governors have run for office in but none of the bids has proved successful at the Utah old and approved all of four proposed constitutional amendments which were on the ballot in One of them revised an entire article of the Utah Constitution the the first time that an entire constitutional article has been affected by a single This was made possible by passage of the amendment to the Utah Constitution at the i last previous general in OTHER constitutional amendments approved in 1972 restrict the granting of bail in certain felony eliminate the requirement that cities of the first and second class operate as separate school and give counties the right to choose among a number of forms of In the area of state Utah recorded record collections of income in 1972 and ended the fiscal year with record surpluses which appear certain to be far surpassed by the surpluses in major funds which will be available ut the end of the current of June ESTIMATED surplus for the 1973 fiscal year will be about The Foundation noted that legislative state and economists generally were concerned test the very abundance of state funds should lead to extravagances in 1973 appropriations which could become M problems if they la programs which be continued in uS nearly normal income rose 1 1 M cons across the dation V THE COST of to but at a slower rate than la jj Education the No l item of 46 percent followed and public M the report |