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Show Serials Order of ttaiversity 84112 g.100 citv 5051 mm 5WWERSITY OF UTAH LIBRARIES MAR 15 1974 DEPT. SERIALS ORDER SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 287 U.S. Sues Rims Over Great Salt Lake Pollution Justice WASHINGTON The (AC'CN) of a has filed Department civil suit to prevent a threatened massive oil spill into the Great Salt Uike in Utah and the loss of waterfowl. Atty. Gen. William B. Saxbe said the suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Ogden. Utah, at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the federal Water Pollution Control Act. Named as defendants were Union Pacific Railroad Company, Western Petroleum Distributors. Inc.; and Trov Nipper, of Salt Lake City. . Asst. Atty. Gen. Wallace H. Johnson, head of the Land and Natural Resources Division, said the suit charged that earthen walls of a lagoon containing 1.2 million gallons of waste oil sludge are inadequate to keep the sludge from flowing into the Great Salt Lake and the Ogden Bay Waterfowl Management' Area. Such an oil spill would kill vast numbers of plants and animals, and including migratory-waterfow- remove the oil sludge from the lagoon immediately and to dispose of it in a manner acceptable to the Environmental Protection Agency. The suit also asked that defendants be required to restore the lagoon area to a safe condition. Turned to Stone FLOJiA. MISS. (UPD-Mississi- ppi's petrified forest is the only geological wonder of its kind located in the eastern part of the United States. The concentration of petrified tract wood is within a nestled in the hill country of Madison County. 40-ac- re Supreme Court Decisions State Temporary Order Curbed By High Court - The (UPI) has held state Court that Supreme WASHINGTON temporary restraining orders do not take on unlimited duration simply because a federal court decides not to dissolve it. The court's decision affirmed the ruling of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the Teamsters Union did not have to pay a $200,000 fine when it struck the Sunshine Biscuit Co, in Alameda County. Calif. Nov. 30, 1970. It was the second strike against the company while a new contract was being negotiated. The company had obtained a restraining order from state courts ending' the first strike the previous May. A U.S. District Court Judge declined to dissolve the restraining order, but held no hearing and gave Duty Free - United States (ACCNi residents returning from abroad after u stay of at least 48 hours are entitled to a customs exemption in l, commercial or prevent recreational use of the lake shore. cases of no decision on whether to institute a longer temporary injunction against the strike. Though normally a state temporary injunction expires in 15 days, the union was held in contempt when it again went on strike six months later. , Sincerely yours, Robert A. Miller $100, Publisher Set Safety Rules Planned TV Workshop to Upgrade Offender Literacy - Home Benefit Appoints New Director ' By U.S. supervisors, administrators and volunteers. the sessions held at the Mayflower Hotel were the American Bar Association's Clearinghouse for Offender Literacy Programs, a project of the ABA's Commission on Correctional Facilities and Services, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Workshop sponsors announced here that the enthusiastic response from those who attended this week's session will result in similar workshops this spring and summer for prison literacy personnel in the midwest, south and on the west coast. The ABA workshop speakers pre- sented alternative techniques for teaching inmates how to read. Systems approaches, the use of new reading technologies, and volunteer tutoring programs dominated the discussions. jail literacy program in use at Pittsfield, Mass., was explained to workshop participants by a "student" inmate from the correctional institution there. Another reading technique was presented by officials of the Robert F. Kennedy Youth Center, Morgantown, W. Va. How volunteers can teach inmates to read was explained by officials of the Job Corps and the Mott Foundation, Flint, Mich. A ld Macrate Home Benefit Savings and Loan, of Salt Lake City, has named William F. Macrate a director. The appointment was announced today by the board of directors. Mr. Macrate resides in Long Beach, California and is a general partner of the Macrate Oil Company there. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California. WUHwnF. . . (See details page 4) ABA Unit Holds First A two-da- y WASHINGTON. D.C.. workshop designed to upgrade reading 'programs for inmates in correctional institutions was conducted here this week. The workshop, believed to be the first of its kind, was attended by 85 specialists from 17 states and the District of Columbia who work in prison literacy programs as teachers, The high court held unanimously that a temporary injunction is not extended simply on grounds that .the District Court refused to dissolve it before it would normally expire, unless clear orders to the contrary are issued. Dear Subscriber: In an effort to improve service in an era of rapidly rising costs The Daily Record will change its format effective March 18, 1974. On that day The Daily Record will change its name to the Intermountain Commercial Record and frequency of publication to once weekly. The Intermountain Commercial Record will be published on Monday qf each week and contain all items currently published in The Daily Record. Categories of information will be organized for easy reference. It is our hope. that the new format will provide greater convenience and increase the effectiveness of the paper as a business tool. calculated on the fair retail value in the country where the articles were acquired. most .. , the suit said.- f - Ki 'v. The suit and a motion "for a preliminary injunction asked the court to order the defendants to " THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1974 The ABA's Clearinghouse for Offender Literacy programs also is sponsored by the American Correctional Association and the National Association of Public Continuing and Adult Education. The clearinghouse, launched last August, attacks the high rate of functional illiteracy which often hinders other rehabilitation efforts. Corrections officials estimate that d of the and one-habetween estimated nation's 300,000 prisoners can be classified as functionally one-thir- lf Agency WASHINGTON (UPI) f Lou ftintf DETERIORATING BUDGET PICTURE It is likely the United States budget position will deteriorate for the remainder of this fiscal year to end June NEW YORK - SO. Expenditures will increase substantially, especially with President Nixon releasing impounded funds, and revenues will decline in the absence of new tax measures. Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management & Budget (OMB), sees the Administration falling short of its goal of a balanced budget by from $2 billion (B) to $3 billion. Dealers in government securities are estimating a budget deficit for fiscal 1974 of from IS billion (B) to $10 billion. They say the business slump could be worse than generally expected and thus cut deeply into tax revenues. All sources agree there isn't a chance of a balanced budget for fiscal 1974-7Predictions are the fiscal 1975 budget deficit will double unless new revenues are that of fiscal 1974 easily legislated. 5. The energy crisis pushed the Watergate stories to the back inflation is the major thorn in the pages. But the sides of Americans, The 1973 rate of around eight per cent against an Administration promise of only three per cent confirms to consumers that inflation is "out of control." They are blaming the Nixon Administration. cost-of-livin- g . The major tax reform bill promised last year by House Ways Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, appears to have run out of gas. a committee middle Representative Sam Gibbons, rpader who favors tax reform, is of the opinion that, because there is now so much uncertainty facing business, this isn't the time for the committee to add to it with fundamental tax changes. Up until last month, the White House opposed any thorough tax overhaul. But because of the energy crisis, President Nixon asked for a boost in the gasoline excise tax, or for other energy tax & D-Ar- k., D-Fl- a., amendments. - Citing 16 deaths from fire and electrical shock, the Consumer1 Product Safety Commission has announced it will impose mandatory safety rules on the manufacture of all television sets. The rules are still months away from being drawn up and will be preceded by a public hearing, April at which the whole safety question, including the training and capability of TV repair men,. will be investigated, the Commission said. It said the rules would cover such things as chassis design; materials used in making components and what including plastics made to could be improvements keep sets from overheating. The agency said a study by its area offices last September turned up 916 fires where television sets were believed to have been the cause, with one death and several injuries. But it said a separate compilation, covering all of 1973 and involving 35 incidents reported by consumers or news media, showed 23-2- 4. deaths from television-relate- d fires and two from television electrocutions. Of those cases, it said, there were 20 actual television set fires, five where the set only smoked and one where there were both an explosion and fire. Since last June 18, the agency added, about 140,000 color sets, mostly portable models, have been found with fire or shock hazards. All were repaired or replaced by the manufacturer. 14 |