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Show rage Eight FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1974 Moss Announces Launch Date Action Delayed on Triple Trailers By Road Commission Of Experimental Satellite June 1 Utah Senator Frank E. (Ted) Moss said the experimental sat-- i llite (ATS-F- ) to be used for educational programs in the Area is scheduled for launch June 1st or 2nd. The date was mentioned by Charles W. Matthews, Associate Inter-mounta- in Administrator for Applications of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in testimony before Moss Senate Space 1-- 15 Committee. Moss said the satellite has passed its final and most critical test and is now ready for launch. The The State Road Commission delayed action on a proposal to allow triple trailer truck units in Utah until all five commissioners could be present to vote. Final action will probably be taken April 5th at the Commission meeting in Salt Lake City. The proposed regulations will allow triple trailers to operate between Ogden and Cedar City on and between Salt Lake City and the Nevada state line on Triples would not be able to carry dangerous substances and would be prohibited from operating when road conditions were made dangerous by ice or rain. The proposed regulations also specify special equipment to insure safe operation of the triple trailers. 1-- 80. ! (Application Technology Satellite) will become ATS-- 6 when it is successfully orbited. It will be used for about a year for a number of research projects across much of America including one in educational instruction in rural areas of the Intermountain West. Several Utah cities will have ATS-- F Commission chairman Clem L. Church expressed concern over allowing triples in urban areas. Commissioner Sam Taylor agree Senator Frank E. Moss with My decision was based on classrooms participating includwhat effect the size of these rigs rials, instructors and facilties. Enwould have, on the rest of the Heber ing: Blanding, City, ATS-- F After first the the year Pantraveling public. I dont feel at terprise, Kanab, Morgan, is to scheduled be a moved into this time triples should be alquitch and Hyrum. Special pro- new for orbit use experimental lowed in Utah. gramming is also planned for by India. Moss had sought infor- KB YU and KUED in Utah. Otis Winn, representing the This program should be a tre- mation on the possibility of re-- ; Motor Transport Association, has mendous help to rural area placing it with a backup satel- - urged the Commission to place teachers, said Moss. Programs lile. Matthews said today that whatever restrictions they had from a vast area of the nation deemed necessary, including the NASA estimates a cost the of to will be beamed rural school limiting of operating hours, but rooms via satellite making avail- second satellite would be about allow triples to operate in Utah. able a large array of new mate- - $26 million. He cited possible economic benej I triple trailer operation and pointed to triples excellent safety records in other states. Commissioner Wayne Winters said it was clear from the evidence presened to the Road Commission that triples presented no Bids will be opened April 9 opened in March. The April greater hazard than any other at 10:15 a.m. in the Salt Palace tiact has an estimated 372 mil- vehicle. He noted that more for the second prototype oil lion tons of shale in mineable study data was needed on the shale lease in Utah. beds containing 30 or more gal- operation of triples and felt that Utah should allow limited operaAt a bid opening on March 12 lons per ton. The prototype program of the tion of triples in order to gather Phillips Petroleum Co and Sun Oil Co. submitted a combined Department of the Interior, an- that data. Commissioner Winters moved high bid cf $75,596,800 for the nounced by Secretary Rogers C. first oil shale tract offered in the B. Morton on November 28 of that the Road Commission alstate by the Department of the last year, is intended to encou- low triple trailers, but received Interiors Bureau of Land Man- rage development of oil from the no second on the motion. The agement. Two other bids also shale deposits in Utah, Colorado Commission then delayed action April 5. were received at that time: and Wyoming but under controls on the proposal until from Occidental Oil to prevent unacceptable destruc- when Commissioner Ross Plant, Shale, Inc., and $3,770,000 from tion of the environment or other who was ill and unable to attend the meeting, will be able to atthe Geokinetics Group. resource values. Each of the two tracts contain The State of Utah has filed ap- tend. 5,120 acres, according to Paul L. plication with the Secretary of Howard, BLM State Director for the Interior for transfer to the Utah. The tracts are contiguous, state of the lands offered for south cf the White River and 40 lease. The state has agreed that miles southeast of Vernal. in the event title to the lands It is estimated that 265 mil- passes to the state subsequent Aid lion barrels of oil may be recov- to the issuance of an oil shale erable from the tract to be open lease by the United States the in April compared with 244.4 state will succeed the United (Continued from page 1) million barrels from the tract States as lessor under that lease of the Wasatch Front Reand will fully honor all terms dent Council which provides gional and conditions of the lease. the same type of corodination for all cities and counties along the Wasatch Front. Legal Secretaries While serving as Commissioner in charge of the Highway DeSponsor Institute A basic course in legal secre- partment, a Traffic Engineering (Continued from page 1) tarial work sponsored by the Department was established and sidered as part of a special bond Salt Lake Legal Secretaries As- given national recognition. Unissue fire department improve- sociation and the Institute for der his direction, the Salt Lake ments costing several million Secretarial Training, Division of County Recreation Department dollars and money for some form Continuing Education, Univer- developed a master plan for the of solid waste disposal system. sity of Utah, will be given April parks in Salt Lake County. He is now studying the feasibility of Topping the sheriff's priority 2 through June 4, 1974. list is expansion of his adminisJewell M. Westcn. Chairman a bond election to raise adequate trative quarters on the third of the Associations Education money to implement this plan. floor of the hall of justice. Committee, said the course will He feels that the taxpayers will alThe sheriff suggested three be held in Room 303 of the Col- receive the benefit of millions ternatives in a letter presented lege of Business beginning at of dollars savings if property to Commissioner McClure. 1. 7:15 through 10:15 p.m. each could be acquired now instead Move a west wall out about eight Tuesday evening and carries nf as money becomes available feet giving dispatch and records three credit hours. by normal budgeting procedure. room room, intimated cost $64.-00The cost of the course is $55 Salt Lake County developed 9 2. Move that west wall 40 and will cover such topics ac parks, upgraded others and acfeet at a cost (i S322.400. 3. tei minulogy, office procedures. quired additional properties. The Build an addition on the cast Jvil procedures, collections, cor- Salt Lake County Parks Departside of the complex as proposed poration and SEC procedures, ment now consists of 21 parks. Commissioner Dunn graduated in 1965. But inflation will have the court system, citations, etc. from Granite High and the Unicost an from It is designed for secretaries just origiup driven the conversity of Utah and is a veteran nal $600,000 to at least SI entering the legal field or of World War II. templating such a move. fits to April 9 Bid Opening Date for Prototype Oil Shale Leases $25.-012.2- 24 Sheriff Larson Seeks THE SALT LAKE TIMES Changes Pose Questions on Public Welfare Costs in 74 Utah public welfare adminis- responsibility for paying most trators are faced with numerous medical costs and for furnishing uncertainties in 1974. Major program and policy changes altered the basic structure of many public assistance programs. Budgets for the immediate future had to be prepared without any exactly comparable experience to draw on, it is noted by Utah Foundation, the private, nonprofit public service agency, in a research report issued this week. Federal legislation enacted in 1972 but taking full effect on January 1, 1974 is responsible for the program realignment, the Foundation reported. All the 50 states are involved in change, but Utah is among the states facing maximum uncertainty, due to special differences between the state and federal eligibility standards in some areas. Administration and direct cash assistance for three adult programs Old Age Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Aid to the Totally and Permanently Disabled passed from the several states to the federal government Jan. 1. They are now included in a single federal program known as Supplemental Security Income, administered through the Social Security Administration. Aid to Families with Dependent Children, largest single public assistance program in Utah and the nation, wTas not directly affected by the shift in adult programs. It remains state administered and is financed by 71 per cent federal, 29 state funds, the Foundation reported. However, a recent reversal in federal policy has been a factor in markedly reducing the rapid rate of growth in this program over the past two decades. The current federal policy of requiring close screening of applicants for Aid to Dependent Children has enabled Utah to return to its traditional welfare policy of providing for the genuinely needy, but not giving public assistance to persons able to care for themselves and their families. During the period when federal policy required states to accept applicants statements on eligibility without close checking, many fraudulent claims were filed and collected in Utah under this program. While most adult assistance is now paid entirely by federal funds under Supplemental Security Income, states have the needed social services to recipients. Costs of meeting the States obligation cannot be accurately projected as it is not known how large the federal program may grow. An even larger question mark for Utah welfare planners and administrators concerns eligibility requirements, particularly in the Aid to Disabled program under Utah state standards, alcoholics and drug addicts were provided assistance under this program. Under federal standards, alcoholism or drug addiction alone does not qualify an applicant for assistance. Transferees from state to federal rolls who met state standards on a desig-note- d cutoff date June 30 1973 are automatically accepted in the federal program, but persons added to state rolls after the cut off date and future applicants for assistance, will have to meet federal standards for eligibility. It is expected that many persons in these categories will be rejected from federal rolls and again become the responsibility of the state, which can treat only under its general assistance program. This is entirely state financed, with no federal aid. Salt Lake Forum Sponsors Assembly Mrs. Lenore Romney, one of the outstanding lecturers in the United States today, is the wife of George Romney, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She is a born doer, intensely interested in the social and human problems of our time. She is convinced that government and money can not solve these problems, that the real strength of our society lies in people power, and what each of us is willing to contribute. As a person who keeps herself abreast of the current scene, Mrs. Romney will choose a subject that will be current and important to all. The lecture takes place at the Assembly Hall, Temple Square. Tuesday, April 2 at 8 p.m., and is sponsored by the BYU Salt Lake Center for Continuing Education as part of the Salt Lake Forum Assembly Series. Bamaersm I William Dunn Seeks Reelection 0. I First Security can earn you,MM No one individual has time to be an expert in all phases of estate investment and administration. 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