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Show Page 2b Garn to Kleppe , Intervene Nature Lovers Unite! Mountain and art lovers may be able to find each other this summer in Snowbird, if Dean Anderson's dream comes true. Anderson, director of master planning at Snowbird Corporation, has incorporated the. Cliff Club, with hopes of creating a 'social, recreational and artistic club of both Utah residents and hotel guests. We will be trying to include films, cultural activi ties, symphony concerts and University classes as club activities, Anderson Explained. We believe in using the mind and the body,' he added. Anderson said he hoped the club would get off the ground this summer, and eventually include a winter ski club as well as summer hiking and art club. U.S. Senator Jake Gam is asking Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe to intervene Personally to prevent the fate ?a as Pk8uel Kaiparowits from befalling the Alumet alunite project in Southern Utah. Iii a letter to the Secretary, Senator Garn says that since coming to the . ey elf-destr- ac when broken! Senate, he has been frustra- ted in his attempts to broaden the economic base of the State of Utah and provide new jobs for Utah by impractical envir-onmental review processes. The alunite project would Yet we are being held up for at least another 18 months by the environmental impact review process. The project has risen in cost by $33 million dollars since July of 1974 and the corporation, has committed $650,000 to envi-to- r . accomplish two things, Sena- Gam said. First of all, it would cut down our 95 per- dependency on bauzite from outside the United States to be used in the production of aluminum. So there are sound national, industrial and defense purposes for having the plant. 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Truman Ave. 467-947- . 3 J fear we are quickly reaching the point in this I . country where even large, financially sound businesses will have second thoughts about undertaking projects in which they are forced to embark upon costly, unrea-aion- e sonable environmental review processes. Risk & Insurance Management the Most Successful Crime Arson, Of interest may be the fact that in more than 30 percent of Arson is running rampant the incendiary fires of over today, a fact that is evident in $100,000 in size, the source of many insurance company ignition involved two or three claims. For example, during simultaneous or closely-time- d just the first four months of fires. Another important fact last year, arson cost one insurance carrier an amount revealed in a recent study by that is equal to the total the Factory Insurance Assocamount of losses attributed to iation was repetition of arson arson during the entire year of fires at a given location. Of 1974 . And this figure is 175 637 incidents studied by the FIA, 116 involved repetitive percent of the 1973 total. Industry wide, the dollars: fires. Time intervals between paid out are enormous. An these fires included the folestimate of $1.5 billion of the lowing range: within one day, $4 billion in fire losses occur-in- g 9 percent of the repetitive fires in 1974 was attributed to occurred; within two weeks, arson. Roughly speaking, that 32 percent occurred, and withis one of every three fires. in six months, 59 percent of Arson is clearly big business. the repetitive fires occurred. It Many insurers feel that part was also found that 75 percent of the reported increase in of the- incendiary fires involincendiary fires can be attri- ved storage areas including buted to more sophisticated buildings and yards. Railroad investigative methods used by cars and trailer trucks were fire departments. While im- also vulnerable to incendiary proved investigative techni- fires along with vacant buildques have placed more ques- ings. What can be done to stem tionable fires into the arson category, there has still been the spread of arson? An an alarming increase in incen- extreme measure was effectively used in Guatemala. By diary fires. According to the National law, if a persons property, Fire protection Association, burned and if the owner had fires of known or suspected an insurance policy, he was have thrown into jail. Even though incendiary origin increased 205 percent in the it worked, (arson in Guatelast ten years and 1,157 per- mala stopped almost immedcent in the last twenty years. iately upon passaige of the law) it would be much too Accordingly, the dollar amount of these losses is. impractical to implement in staggering. Over the , past the United States. 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