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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1968 Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postoflicc at Salt Lake Gty as second class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1879 711 South West Temple Telephone 3648464 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation.1 Number 52 Volume 47 America Finally Waking Up (Continued from Page One) In the past year weve seen signs all over America that people are beginning to understand her message. As examples he cited: An Arizona dairy cooperative last month took a full page newspaper ad protesting use of DDT on neighboring farms; too much milk was unsaleable because DDT levels were higher than the amount permitted by federal inspectors. Lower, but still detectable, amounts of DDT are found in human mothers milk, the U.S. Public Health Service reports. The American Beekeeping Federation reported to Agriculture Department officials this spring that they were suffering alarming losses from pesticide residues. Crops that depend on bees for pollination can thus be destroyed by pesticides intended to protect them. Heavy losses of Coho salmon at Michigan hatcheries attributed to DDT washed into Michigan waterways from urban areas with elm tree and mosquito control programs ,was one of the reason that led more than fifty Michigan cities, including Detroit, to halt DDT spraying this year. A biologist, in the March issue of Science magazine, reports widespread damage by DDT to the plankton that is the basic food source of the sea, and that also supplies 70 per cent of the oxygen in the air we breathe. The problem with DDT, dieldrin and the other pesticides of the chlorinated hydrocarbon family, is that they retain much of their lethal quality for as long as ten years or more. The result is that continued applications lead to accumulations of the poison far higher than the safe amount permitted for a single spraying. Other pesticides, such as Methoxychlor, Malathion and Sevin are highly effective when applied but become harmless in a few hours or days. DDT is popular because it is well known and inexpensive. The expense of safer pesticides would presumably be less if handled in the volume DDT producers now enjoy, he said. The Society also favors other forms of insect control where possible. Introducing natural enemies, such as the mliky spore program against the Japanese beetle has been one successful one. Prompt pruning and burning of diseased portions of elm trees including roots is another. Farm Bureau President Asks Approval of Spending Cuts The president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation has appealed to Congress to accept the proposed reductions in current and future federal spending provided in the report of the Senate House Conference Committee on Tax Legislation. The conferees have proposed a cut of $6 billion in federal spending during fiscal 1969 and a reduction of $10 billion of new spending authority requested in the fiscal 1969 budget. In addition, the report calls on the President to propose specific legislation under which $8 billion of previously approved unused spending atuhority would be rescinded. The reductions in government spending are both meaningful and necessary, Elmo Hamilton, VMH Appearance Ed Ames has put down the htachet' and picked up Valley Music Hall and its great. Ed Ames, one of todays most talented entertainers, will appear at the Valley Music Hall for 3 performances June 7 and 8. Appearing with Ed Ames will be the fabulous comic Pete Bar-butt- i. In front of any audience, Ed is a phenomenon, for the versa- tile actor singer has succeded in a particular area where most of the super stars failed. The husky baritone, whose current recording hits are "Who Will Answer and My Cup Runneth Over has bridged the mysterious gap between teenagers and adults. Although he can offer no factual answer for his success, it is a fact that when he stands before an audience and sings a love song, there is a romantic spell -- Deaths The current fiscal situation calls for action to eliminate the strong inflationary pressures. At this time we oppose any increase in taxes which is not matched by a prior and equivalent reduction in government expenditures for the duration of the tax increase. The Farm Bureau president said the reductions in federal spending proposed by the Senate House conferees include a proposal to reduce federal civilian employment to levels of June 30, 196. This would result in a reduction of 321,183 government workers from the 2,687,500 fede- ral civilian employees previously anticipated by the end of fiscal 1969. After meaningful cuts in expenditures and in new spending LEASED GRAPEVINE A general fund budget of 0 for Salt Lake City for the fiscal year 1968-6was approved this week by the Salt Lake City Commission. A public hearing on the budget, which represents an increase of $462,525 over the present fiscal year was set for June 26 at 10 a.m. The hearing also will consider the separate department budgets. The general fund budget was presented to the commission and recommended by City Auditor Lawrence A. Jones. $13,-631,00- 9 authority are instituted the Farm Utahs largest gen- Bureau can and will support a eral farm organization, said, not' temporary 10 per cent surtax on Salt Lake County Planning and only does the $6 billion expendi- corporate and individual in- Zoning Commission this week ture cut this year represent a comes. realignment of 4800 The conference report provides approved substantial turn around form acSouth between 1300 and 1700 E. celerated federal spending, but for this revenue measure to be- Douglas H. Campbell, planning the reduction and repeal of the come retroactively effective to said the proposed redirector, basic spending authority will Jan. 1, 1968, for corporations alignment will have the road carry the thrust of this slowdown and April 1, 1968, for individuals border a planned 28 acre flood in federal spending into 1970 and and to expire June 30, 1969 for retention reservoir on the Big both. subsequent years. Cottonwood Creek. He noted that the official votReductions in federal spending the of member coupled with a tax increase will ing delegates Consolidation of the Salt Lake Farm Bureaus at the annual help to control the present inCity and County health departmeeting of the American Farm flationary situation which has ments would require a substanBureau Federation in December, aggravated the brutal cost price 1967 had adopted this statement squeeze in which the nations tial increase in the countys apof policy with the full support farm families are now caught, propriation to avoid deterioration of present city health standof the Utah Farm' Bureau: he said. ards, Dr. Richard J. Nelson, city health commissioner, said this June Dairy Month Chairman Named Gil Iker, Salt Lake branch manager for Cream O Weber .Dairy, has been named general chair(Continued from page 1) man of the June Dairy Month in Utah. tion of some 200,000. Mr. Iker will direct a wide The record of 1967 gives us the first appreciable improve- range of activities aimed at imment in this respect that has pressing on Utahns the value, taken place in more than a dec- uses and benefits of milk and ade, said a Travelers spokas-man- . milk products. The satisfaction that gives Dairy foods remain the Amermust be qualified, however, for ican publics best food buy and it will require many more years June is the month that the dairy of consistent betterment before industry emphasises this, said we can claim any genuine prog- Mr. Iker. ress toward the conquest of a Utah milk has consistently won stubborn and tragic problem, he Honor Roll ratings from the said. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Adverse weather was not an he said. This is a high compliment to important factor in 1962 or 1967. Records shew that some 80 per Utahs dairy industry and its cent of the fatal crashes occur- products, he added. red rn clear days and dry roads. Dairy Princesses, Utah girls The remaining 20 per cent were who have been selected on the in fcg, rain and snowy weather. basis of beauty, personality and knowledge of dairy products will be he casts that weaves an unbeprominent in the industrys lievable spell in the hearts of June Dairy Month activities. These milk drinking lassies h's fans. U.S. Highway the president of Gil Iker Ed Ames Schedules . week. Dr. Nelson, in a letter prepared for present ation June 7 at a joint meeting of city and With Chemicals county commissioners, reviewed Animals use chemicals as a problems involved in the prodefense, an attractant, and some posed consolidation. times as a growth inhibitor or Russell N. Neilan has been growth promoter, according to Professor Thomas Eisner of Cor- promoted from contact represennell Universitys Division of Bio- tative to contact officer for the logical Sciences and the New Veterans Administration in the York State College of Agricul- state, according to Elmer Smith, ture . regional manager. Dr. Eisner reported on the The Salt Lake Womens Reway of organisms receive and give signals by means of chemi- publican Club in a meeting Moncals recently at a meeting of the day at 2 p.m. in the Hotel Utah American Association for the will receive the highest award Advancement of Science, given by the National FederaHe said that communication tion of Republican Women. The Salt Lake Club, directed by sight, sound, or touch has been studied previously, but by Mrs. Zenda L. Hull, will be little study has veen made of the given the diamond award plaque chemical signals that unrelated by Mrs. Mildred McKay, presispecies used to communicate to dent, Utah Federation of Republican Women. each other. . When a skunk sprays his disagreeable chemical, Dr. Eisner University of Utah students said, he is telling 'his adversary met briefly with New York Gov. to take off. This is a defense Nelson A. Rockefeller Wednesuse. day morning during a stopover Insects detect signals from in Salt Lake City by the Repubplants through their fragrance lican presidential candidate. or disagreeable odor and respond Salt Lake City is willing to let Some plants, inaccordingly. Lake County take over the Salt evercertain and ferns cluding recitys Alcoholic Probation progreens, produce compounds lated to insect hormones. These gram and operate it, with a $15,-00annual contribution from compounds are presumed to prothe tect the plan by upsetting the city, the City Commission decided this week. development of insects that feed the commission had Previously or live on them. suggested the city continue the Also, Dr. Eisner related, cer- program if the county would tain plants protect themselves match the citys annual approfrom being crowded out by other priation of $15,000. The city would have been under plants by releasing volatile com- program direction of Commissioner James pounds that wash in the ground L. Barker, Jr. around them, inhibiting growth of their competitors. Salt Lake City Commission has approved sale of one million dollars will make many public appear- for in geenral obligation bonds expansion of Hogle Zoologiances to tell the story of why cal Gardens at what city officials dairy products are vital to good consider a remarkable rate of 4.1842 percent. nutrition, Mr. Iker said. 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