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Show p I I II J ) T HI 7 ynryy-- p -j y W ft ll y Tramsot By JOSEPH LUNDSTROM Deseret News Staff Writer A measure to establish a transit district authority will be introduced at the special session of the Utah Legislature May 5. At least Max L Rich hopes it will. He is the executive vice president of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. He worked hard to have the bill (SB6) passed during the recent session of lawmakers got it through the Senate, but lost it in the House. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton has agreed that if the Republican legislative leaders are agreeable, the measure will be in troduced again. Rich said. The transit district authority is essential to public transportation in Salt Lake County, and eventually the entire Wasatch Front, Rich, the former commanding general of the Utah National Guard, said. Under the present setup, 17 months are left in which Salt Lake City must find its role in tran. portation. The public present status of Salt Lake the city's only City Lines mass public transportation is six months old system and the result of crises. The crises were a long time As coming, but inevitable. city residents moved to the suburbs, they gave up riding bases in favor of driving their own autos. As passenger loads decreased, so did revenue. To compensate for the losses, the bus firm. Salt Lake City Lines Inc., increased fares. As fares more pass-nge- rs increased, took to driving their own cars. Finally, in 1967, the bus said, "We want company out. The spiral of decreasing passengers and increasing fares was putting the firm in an untenable economic position. On Dec (i. 1967, the citv on- - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Thursday, April 24, B 1969 It's Cold, Moist Air For Utah Deseret News Medical Writer The little girl lay ir. a Salt Lake hospital dangerously ill with a lung infection, and the treatment wasnt working. She had the kind of bug that usually wilts and dies in the presence of a certain antibiotic, but this time the organism wasnt succumbing. If the doctors gave any more of the antibiotic, her kidneys might fail, infection continued its the patient could die. Dr. James O. Mason approved the use of an experimental drug under the circumstances. The explosive infection cleared and the child recovof phase Masons work as chief of infectious diseases at LDS Hospital and assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah College of Medicine. He is a sleuth, seeking causes of inflation in the hospital and eliminating them. Mason also is studying diseases with high frequency rates in the as rheumatic West, such fever. The physician has two doctorates one in medicine and the other in public health. He also has experience in tracking down the causes of diseases. When he was employed by the U.S. Public Health Ser Dr. James O. Mason checks microscope slide for signs of infectious disease. vices Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Mason was to investigate a dispatched hepatitis outbreak in Mississippi. He found the villains, raw oysters, and pinpointed the Gulf Coast spot where they were being harvested a move that protected the rest of the oyster industry. Later, Mason solved a similar mystery in New Jersey, Lut this time ckims were the guilty parties. A native of Salt Lake City, t -- Party Phone Elate Would Go Up 40 Cents By DEXTER C. ELLIS Deseret News Staff Writer Basic telephone rates for a residential line in the Salt Lake area would go up 40 cents a month under a new rate schedule proposed today by the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. The fee for a comparable business phone would increase $1.80 a month. The new schedule, which the company hopes put into effect on May 16, is under study by the Utah Public Service Commission (PSC). A public hearing will be held May 7 at which objections may be entered or telewitnesses phone company may be questioned. SOME REDUCTIONS The new rates, which include reductions in the fees for more than one phone in a home and for such nonrecurring costs as princess are and color telephones, intended to Increase company earnings by $2,094,123. to increase Permission earnings by that airount was granted by the 'PSC several weeks ago. The company had sought a $13.4 million increase. The complicated new rate schedule also adjusts rates toll upward for charges and would increase the basic service charge for installing new phones or other equipment from $4 to $3. IN 9 GROUPINGS The rates are apportioned in nine groupings, depending upon the number of customers in each exchange. The Salt Lake exchange is the largest one-part- y t. SECTION City, Regional Sports Financial Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads B ..1-4- , 14 and thus is apportioned the highest rate increase. The fee for each extension telephone would be cut from $1.10 to 90 cents a month. an exchange is being upgraded to a higher rating due to an increase in connections since the last rate increase in a home with, Therefore, say, three extensions, w'ould actually have its monthly bill cut by 20 cents, since the cut for extension phones would more than offset the basic increase. The basic charge for a line in the Salt Lake area is $6.65, plus taxes. This would go to $7.05, and for a line, the increase would be 30 cents, from $3.03 to $5.35. Tire increases proposed range downward to as little as 15 cents in the smaller exchanges, hut in some instances In these cases, there would be a double increase. The highest increase in the state is 65 cents. This is in the Kays-vill- e exchange which is being jumped from Group 3 to Group 6. In the Bingham Canyon mul Dragerton exchanges, there would be a cut in the monthly bill, due to a loss in phone connections. The increase in longdistance tolls would occur mainly in the middle range. The maximum toll, for calls of 392 miles or more, would Sre PHONE on Page 2 one-par- ty two-part- y 1959. Mason said he was happy to return home from the Atlanta assignment last year, but he plans to do some traveling. A man with his specialty must remain close to disease problems around the world, he said. The weatherman threw cold water today on Utah's hopes for a pleasantly consistent spring, as a storm front of cold, moist air moved into the state from the West Coast. Stockmen's warnings and a weather alert to fruit growers of possible frosts or freezing temperatures tonight were broadcast this morning just as a hard, biting mixture of hail and sleet began to fall in Salt Lake City. Snow mixed with rain was and predicted for today tonight in the valleys of the state, spreading into the south and west by this evening, with much colder temperatures expected. A late spring storm has developed over the Mountain West, the Salt Lake Weather Bureau announced, and will anchor here for the next two days. A deep upper air trough of very cold moist air has moved in from the coast and will spread rain and snow over Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Montana today. While scattered snows will decrease Friday, "no definite clearing is in prospect until Friday evening into Saturday, with a moist westerly flow the weatherman continuing, said. Highs today were near 40 in northern Utah, with lows expected to drop to between 25 and 35. The probability of precipitation will decrease to 70 per cent tonight and 40 per cent Friday. SCORES COMB HILLS FOR MISSING Y. COED PROVO Scores of searchers were back on the mountain early today in an effort to locate a Brigham Young University coed, missing since Tuesday night. Utah County Sheriff Ralph (Dick) Chappie said upwards of 73 persons were combing hills east of Provo, in search of Linda M. Ballard, freshman student from Grand Rapids, Mich. The sheriff said a helicopter from Hill Air Force Base would be requested today to intensify the search. Sheriffs deputies, Utah County Jeep Posse members and. approximately 50 friends of the Ballard girl covert J the steep slopes and craggy cliff east of P,ro-,until d.irk Wednesday, but found no trace of the missing coed. A dog tracking team from Vernal was to have joined the search Wednesday. One of the dogs, however, had been killed in an accident last week and the second was found to be too old for the mountainous terrain, Chappie said. . Deputy Sheriff Keith Bills, who spent Wednesday on the mountain, said the girl borrowed a friends bicycle Tuesday evening to attend a church play practice, but did not show up. B-- 19 19 ..."..-..."...19-2- 8 eom-pLi- a public transportation system for benefit of the public. On Aug. 8, the city signed a contract to pay Salt Lake City Lines $(,230 per month for 24 months, beginning in September. Two weeks later, Union Street traded 10,143 shares of National City Lines stock which it owned, to the National City Lines for 72,500 share.-- , of common stock the Wilmington company owned of Salt Lake City Lines. The city was given the option of buying the 72,500 shares at the end of two years, providing Union Street Sis TRANSIT on Page B-- 2 Cut In Services By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor The Utah Education Assn, today asked the Board of Edux cation to consider shortening the school year. Carl J. Mellor, UEA president, asked the board to consider under what circumstances, in some areas, the year could be shortened. ' The UEA presentation was made in a brief open meeting ! before the board went into an executive session to discuss reports on a personnel controversy at Dixie College. cant In districts which afford to conduct lull school services it would be better to shorten the year and conduct full services than to cut services and keep schools open a full term, Mellor said. What would you do with Dexter leisure time? Snow, board member from St. George, asked. It would give teachers an olhr month of unemployment to go out and get another Mellor said. The time job, off from school is where the male teacher picks up the ability to support his family It would give him an opportunity to earn from someone else, he said. In answer to a question the ... from board Chairman LeGrand P. Backman, Mellor said the year might be shortened 10 to 15 days, but probably not more than 20. He specified this would only occur in districts which couldnt afford lull programs. The State Board of Education has established the school year as 180 days of classwoik. Although Mellor didnt mention salaries directly, salary costs make up about 85 per cent of the school budget with teacher salaries accounting for 70 to 75 per cent of the budget. According to a UEA research report the average salary of Utah classroom he current teachers for school year is $7,037. The average beginning salary for a bachelor degree teacher is $3,291 and the average maximum Is $7,862. The UEA has asked for a crease. $1,000 a year in- Mellor also requested that the full membership of the UEA Board of Trustees and the State Board of Education meet together, perhaps in a daylong workshop, to discuss common issues. Sandra Lizak of Spanish Fork looks over "Queen for a Day" downtown shopping bargains. i r BUY DOWNTOWN Be A Queen 5 f Of Shoppers Merchants will be looking for a queen for a day during a downtown promotion Friday and Saturday. Its the Downtown ping Spree Be the ShopDown- town Queen for a Day promotion, sponsored by the Salt Lake Retail Merchants Association (RMA). Entry blanks for nominat are found in ing a queen today's Deseret News and in advertisements of 27 participating stores. Entry blanks are also available at the stores, and they must be deposited Friday and Saturday. There will be scores of winners, with each participating store awarding a number of $5 gift certificates to winners whose names are drawn from entries deposited said Stanford in that store.P. Darger, RMA secretary-manage- r. Add Your Complaint To Others On File Several months ago I received a card In the mail from a company selling signs. It said to return it if I was Inter ested and a representative would come am! see me. I was, so a Mr. Vance came. The company was the Imperial Display Industries, 1613 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. I ordered a sign and made an advance payment of 50 per cent, or $242. The balance was to be paid on delivery. About a month later, I decided I could afford to pay them off so I wrote to them. I got my letter back marki J "moved, no forwarding address." ('an you locale them or tell me what this Is all about? R.W., Coalville. Were sorry to inform you that you have joined the ranks other people who have had a similar experience. The Kansas City Better Business Bureau reports: Last October inquiries were received (on the above company) relative to its acceptance of orders for signs . . . with advance payment collected by one Art Vance, representing the company. The Bureau was unable to obtain any response to its efforts to secure information on the concern. M A-Now problem? Dial D 6 to 9 p.ffl. Monday through Friday, or writ to Box 1267, Salt laic City, Utah 841 10. of numerous (hern to the driver but only the boots and poles remained. The bus line claim's no responsibility and the recreation dept, says they can do nothing. The place where he rented them wants $33. If the bus is responsible for luggage, why not Mrs. R. L., Murray. skis? Vance could not be located, and a plant in Youngstown, Ohio, where it was represented the signs were to have been made, the phone had been disconnected." As of now the BBBs file has been turned over to the Postal Inspection Service, in KC for investigation. You should add your complaint to it. Bus line refuses this claim, saying its possible your son didnt get his skis on the bus. Skiers are supposed to put their own skis on. Your only recourse, it seems, would be to take this case to Small Claims Court. Better Tuy Small Claims Court I have two apartments, one occupied and one not. The heating bill in the latter is higher than the one I live in. 1 have called the gas company but they dont seent willing to cheek this. Mrs V. T., Salt Lake City. It's All In Billing Procedure 0 .i2,i3 1 to finance UEA Prefers Cut In Year To . ered. one Bedford, Mass., proxsed to the city that it would buy the bus company from the owners. National City Lines, of Wilmington, Del. It was stipulated that the city would underwrite the purchase to the tune of $210,000 r for a period, and that the money was to be used for salaries only. In July, the city accepted Union Street's proksal, again voting four to one. Commissioner E. J. Garn, on July 23, filed a restraining order with the State Supreme Court on ground the money was being spent w .thout public approval. The court dismissed his a few days later on grounds the city had a right DESERET NEWS By STEVE HALE is the buses. On March 12, 196$, city commissioners, voting four to one, authorized leasing the line for one year. But before any formal action could be taken, Union Street Railroad Co., of New two-yea- Doctor Becomes Sleuth In Battle Of Infection That tored into negotiations with the bus firm to purchase the system. But legal questions as to the citys right to do so arose, so in February a friendly suit was filed and the State Supreme Court promptly ruled the city could operate Our soil went to the county recreation ski school and when he came back his skis were not on the bus. He gave - Wrong. Company was willing and did. Seems you dont understand billing procedures. In your apartment you are on the uniform pay plan, which means a flat rate each month no matter how much gas you use. In July, from July-Mabill is brought up to date and you pay the difference. In the other apartmeru you are on a flat reading rate. The meter is read one month and the next months rate is calculated on this basis. When the meter is read again, bill adjustment is made. Any further questions, contact Sam Fowler at the gas company. Hes always happy to discuss such problems. Lack Of Communication I bought a ear stereo from a Richfield shop. It had a guarantee. It developed a short. I took it back and It would be fixed in two weeks. Its been six weeks said they and now he says itll be another while. 1 also found out he'd sent it to a shop in S.L. What can be done to get my stereo back? T.P,. Satina. y Delay was because the Richfield shop didnt give them some necessary dope so they could get correct parts. Theyve written but havent had a reply. The guarantee is between you and the Richfield shop. They are fixing it as a favor to him, and normally they dont fix this kind of stereo. So you can wait until its fixed or come and get it. Meanwhile,1 get to our Richfield man and iron out the delay and the guarantee. (Editori Nofti Were lurry th number ol cane and the volumt at mall make It Impossible to oniwtr every question. Please, no medical or legal stampo or envelopes ts answers cab question!. Don't set at the hours proscribed. Oivo your nemo, eddren and telephone number only fee tiven In this column. Only questions ot general Interest will be answered and telephone cells can be accepted only on the Do-l- t Min phone not for publication but to help Do-l- t Man help you.) In addition a queen to represent the entire downtown area will be chosen in a drawing from names deposited in all the stores. Her prizes will include a $250 merchandise certificate, luncheon and dinner at two Salt Lake restaurants, access to a chauffered limousine and a theater party for herself and five guests to Oliver! Academy movie. Award-winnin- g $110,449 Grant For Weber State Deseret Mews Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Weber State College received a $110, 449 grant from the Office ol; Economic Opportunity to fi- nance an Upward Bound pro- gram for 90 students. The project is designed to give dis-- : advantaged high school students assistance in meeting college requirements. Hurco Industries of Ogden received a $396,864 contract from the General Services Administration for the production of 6,400 crates to be used in handling household goods ot government employes. .. |