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Show Pag Tlmes-Thursda- Jun 17. 1982 y. EDITORIAL AND OPINIONS Floxibla schedules mHatch Citizen 's help needed Edilor. MAGNA TIMES: The people of Utah are now likely aware of the Federal governments decision to provide $6 .5 million to fund a definitive scientific study of the possible health effects of radioactive fallout from the atom bomb weapons testing program in the 1950s. The University of Utah Medical Center, with cooperation from Utah State Universitys Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinarian Science, is proceeding to undertake this study. We will attempt to use all of the professional skills at our disposal to perform this study thoroughly, accurately, and with prudence in the use of these considerable funds. It is hoped that we will have the cooperation of ' Increase for veterans spark productivity. indeed their Utah citizens. cooperation will be required in order to conduct the study properly. The scientists who have been selected to undertake this study appreciate the confidence which is reflected in their selection and in the award of the necessary funds. W e also wish to acknowledge Governor Matheson and Senator Hatch, both of whom played major roles in informing W ashington of the importance of these studies. Sincerely, CHASE N. PETERSON, M.D. Vice President for , Health Sciences University of Utah Health Sciences Center Boost for ailing industry WASHINGTON. D.C. Senate House conferees on the Urgent Supplemental Appropriations for 1982 today reached agreement on a $3 said billion housing stimulus program which Senator Jake Gam will give the ailing housing industry an immediate boost. Garn said the conferees agreed to all the provisions included in the but Senate version of the bill sponsored by Sen. Richard Lugar the $5.12 billion funding level was cut in half. The housing plan would provide $2 .5 billion for construction of 200,000 new homes. $400 million to buy current inventories of new housing and $100 million for mortgage subsidies in high interest areas, Garn said. The compromise provides that the funds for new construction be committed by January 1. 1983. and the homes must be substantially completed by November 30. 1983. bill for the Garn said the housing stimulus legislation is not a bail-ohousing industry as it has been labeled. It will help more than a small group of homebuilders. It will also assist lumberjacks, plumbers, contractors and many other small businesses related to the housing industry. Garn said the subsidy program would enable home buyers to receive up to four percent subsidy on their mortgage interest rates. The Senate bill provided the $5.12 billion to the homebuilding industry over the next five years and would have generated 400,000 housing starts immediately, he said. The House version would have provided $1 billion and generated 60,000 to 70.000 housing starts immediately. Garn said he is hopeful that the bill can be enacted as soon as possible in e shot in the arm in order to give the ailing housing industry a recession. of current it will out the nation the lead hopes solution for the problem of the housing There is only one long-terindustry and that is a significant decline in interest rates,he said. In the meantime, however, something must be done to assist housing. families with gross incomes of Under the plan, low and medium-incom- e Growing Equity $30,000 a year or less would be eligible for reduced-rat- e Mortgages of up to $67,500. The rates on the mortgages would be reduced by up to four percent , but not below 1 1 percent. If the market rate falls below 12.5 percent, the program would cease, Garn explained. A homebuyers monthly mortgage payment under the Growing Equity Program would increase .75 percent of the mortgage amount each year, with the increase applying to the buyers equity in the property. A family with a $65,000 mortgage would expect to pay an additional $40 a month after the first year. The subsidy would be repaid to the federal government whenthe home is sold or refinanced. However, the repayment would be limited to 60 percent of the net equity or the amount of the governments assistance, whichever is less, Garn said! ), ut iHeport bv Servitor Orrin Hatch Why does David Steelman, an employee at the Dugway Proving 1 work week? Grounds, like a four-daIm a computer programer, and I find that the continuity of a weekend is day makes me much more effective, he said. "Plus a three-da- y a great advantage. Another Dugway employee. Virginia Harris, agrees. I can get so much more work done. she said. When Im working on big reports which is the case more often than not the extra two hours aday often means I can ' get a report done a week early . Virginia also dtes the benefits of a long Weekend. "We are so isolated there, she said. We cant take care of personal business on our lunch hour it s not like we work in the IRS center in Ogden. There is no way to do those things unless you take leave which costs the government money. David and Virginia are not the only Utahns who like the work week. Many people are entering our work force today who need flexible schedules, especially women and men with young families. Six hundred of those people including David and Virginia signed a telegram I recently received encouraging my support of the extention of a plan that allows federal employees to work on a flexible schedule. The plan originally began in 1978 as an experimental means erf deterwork schedules were worthwhile. Virmining whether tually every agency that tried the plan, including Dugway and 1 ,500 other agencies that employ 325 .000 people, has responded that they are. The four-yeexperiment found that appropriately designed and controlled alternative work schedules were beneficial to the agencies, their employees, and the public. Production and service in the agencies improved, and costs remained constant. Employee morale and job satisfaction improved as weD, which, if happy workers are hard workers, ought to please U .S . taxpayers. In light of those findings, I took the advice of David and Virginia and their associates who signed the telegram and supported a successful measure to extend the plan. Since that extenstion expires this summer, I also sponsored a bill to change the program from experimental to permanent. The Reagan administration has endorsed the plan, which allows federal employees to work flexible schedules only when agency supervisors rule that such schedules can improve productivity and service without in-- : creasing costs. A permanent flexible schedule- - would be especially advantageous in Utah, where we have a high percentage of federal workers; but, if the schedule sparks as much productivity and efficiency as David and Virginia say, perhaps U.S . taxpayers have the most to gain. y al ar ts a. A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower." Kin Hubbard 15, 2 p.m.. Utah State AFL-CI2261 S. Redwood Road; 7:30 p.m., St. Marks Social Hall, 231 E. 100 i, South; 7:30 p.m.. Congregation 2435 E. 2760 S. June Kol-Am- The public forums are sponsored by Utah Clergy and Laity Concerned, Utahns for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze, MX Information Center and Womens International League for Peace and Freedom. For more information call Jackie Meyer 582-435- 7. Taxpayers misunderstood 524-596- 399-443- MANKIND 60? NOT MUCH FURTHER THAN 5000 8.C.' HOWEVER THE HUMAN RACE IS MUCH OLDER AND THERE IS GROUND FOR BELIEF THAN MAN EXISTED INTWE EASTERN HEMISPHERE ASEARlV ASTUE 4 GLACIAL PfPlC'(P80UT400CqvgSj Insurance bids are due back ir our office on or before August 25, 1982 at 5:00 p.m. This insurance is for a one year period. y s BRENT E. HUISH Magna Woter Manager tm II. 17. M. INI 375-290- Utah. Sheriffreport given .Burglary reported at 2783 So. 7730 W . erf loud music, filed at 34 12 S.7895 W. 7 :Deputies responded to a keep the peace call. 7 .Possession of controlled substance, reported at GS L beaches. 7 : Assault at 8849 W. 3185 So. reported reported by deputy. reported at 7581 W. 3500 S. Domestic problem reported by neighbors . Theft reported at KCC mine and concentrate. . vehicle reported at Butterfield Canyon. Plate glass window broken by kids, reported as property destruction. li Theft reported at 2684 S. 7200 W. : Vehicle burglary reported at 3390 S.7495 W. 1 1 :Burglary reported at 2907 Breeze Drive. : Attempted burglary noted at Dyches Drug, second alarm in two days. : Report of vandalism at8181W.1530S. 1 2 Two men arrested for possession of controDed substance. assault at 3622 Patriot Drive 7405 W.) aggravated attempted 6-- 6 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- 9: 6-6-6-- 6-- Education Week, Aug. Developing the Whole Person is the theme of this years BYU Campus Education W eek and of the other LDS Church Educational System Education Week programs scheduled this summer. Preparations for the BYU Campus are in Education Week. August the advanced stages. In addition, Education, Week programs are being held at other locations throughout the western United States and Canada. In addition to the four-da- y program on the BYU campus, four three-da- y are Week programs Education scheduled in other Utah locations this year: Salt Lake City, next Tuesday Cedar through Thursday (June next through Thursday City, Logan, June Saturday (June 1. 4 ; and Clearfield. June Education Week programs sore more than 68.000 students annually. Nearly 20.000 participants attended last years campus Education W eek at BYU and more are expected this year, said Ken Robbins, coordinator of Education Week programs for the of Division BYU Continuing Education. They will be able to choose from among nearly 800 classes ranging from Creative Outdoor Living to Tax Planning and Social Security. They will also be able to sample a wide variety of on and off campus educational and entertainment acas well as enjoying tivities, recreational facilities available at 24-2- 7, ): ); 29-Ju- ly 22-2- BYU. participants from all over the United States, and even from outside the vacation plan Many country. schedules around it. Last year, a Payson, Utah couple celebrated their while 55th wedding anniversary attending . the weeks events. A honeymooning couple from Tacoma, Washington spent the week at BYU. One woman traveled from Auckland, New Zealandto attend. When" Education Week began 60 years ago. no fees were charged. The effort, program is not a money-makin- g Robbins explained, but it does have to break even financially. The $14 fee charged for this years program will cover 14 hours a day worth of classes for four days. For less than $70 he said, visitors can spend a week on campus with Education Week admission, food and lodging paid. The 1982 Education Week will have 170 faculty members teaching some 915 hours of classes in 15 buildings. There are, in fact, so many options that one past participant likened choosing among them to trying to get a drink out of a fire hydrant Robbins commented. event at In addition to the four-da- y BYU, Robbins noted. Education W eric programs are offered in locations ranging from Western Canada to Phoenix, Arizona. While these do not have all the facilities of BYU, nor as many classes, the courses and events they do offer are just as high in quality as those on the Provo campus, he said. Some of the same courses and faculty members are featured at these programs. Robbins said those interested in about the further information Education Week programs, either at BYU or in their own area, may write to the Department of Education Week Programs, 285 Hannan Continuing Education Building. Brigham Young University, Provo. 84602,- or . call (B0D378-208or They may also contact the Education Week Coordinator of a local LDS ward or " stake; ; y. The programs are operilb those 14 and ove. 'whether they are Mormon or hot, who .will observe LDS moral Standards and refrain from smoking and drinking while in attendance, Robbins said. There has been a substantial inAnother feature of this years crease in the number of tax returns be will program received in the Ogden Service Center campus kind of birthday fete a Celebration." from taxpayers who send their to mark the 60th anniversary of the records, receipts, cancelled checks, of Education W eek at BYU etc, and ask the IRS to figure their tax beginning in 1922. Celebration. scheduled in for the current and or prior years. It Center August 24 at 8 :30 should be noted, however, that Ogden the Marriott will several popular feature p.m., is a processing center only, and is not or including the groups, performers staffed to prepare tax returns. It seems that many taxpayers have universitys own Ambassadors. misunderstood the instructions for Young In addition to Celebration, the week Form 1040 and 1040A that set forth several other en- the conditions under which IRS will will include events. tertainment Among them will figure an individuals tax. Center be the BYU of Theatre Department employees will make the actual tax and Cinematic Arts of the production the taxpayer computations provided You Cant Take It W ith comedy lively line items has filled in all the necessary You, by George S . Kaufman and Moss on the return, but the center cannot Hart. and an records out individuals sort Campus Education Week draws center a the but return, prepare cannot sort out an individuals records and prepare a return. Basically, the instructions state that those who use Form 1040 and want IRS to figure their tax should fill in the and 1 that apply to lines from VUCUtAMiTlMCC 4 them. Those who can use Form 1040A 9124 W. 2700 S. AMgno. UT 14044 lines from need to fill in the applicable 01 From this informat ion placed on 4 the return by the taxpayer. IRS will Published overy Thursday then perform the actual tax comfor mail at second Application 4 putations to determine the refund or class postage rates is pending at balance due amount. 4 Magna, Utah. Taxpayers are advised to carefully 4 Postmaster may send address 4 read the instructions before sending in change to any returns for the center to figure the 9 24 W. 2700 So.. Magna, Utah tax. These instructions are found on 4 4 4 page 3 of the 1981 instructions for PEGGY A DAMS 4 inof the Form 1040 and on page 13 Editor 4 structions for Form 1040 A. ST AHLE HOWARD J. Ogden Service Center is not staffed to prepare tax returns so they must Fallon, NV 4 send back to the originator those 4 returns and related items that flo not 4 contain enough information to figure Yearly subscriptions are vl.00 the tax. Since this can cause delay in $ 0.00 outside Utoh receiving refunds, taxpayers are 4 urged to be sure their returns have Member Utah Press Association the necessary information before USP$ sending them in to have IRS figure the 4 tax. -- world-travelin- g . . 6-- 24-2- 7 - 7 378-621- No negativism wanted 1 - 1 325-51- 4 4rt 0 anti-Wilso- rvfM ''WW w vea DID VJI1AT? Why not : 1? 1 share the Hours 1 04 MonFrf (Mail slot in Door) and let us help you tell of a blessed event in your life. Pictures enhance a story, and we have caught a cold, been robbed, been gypped, been married, bought a car, been visiting, been arrested, had company, been courting, house a photographers ailable. you hove died, moved, loped, told out, been bom, had a baby, good news with your neighbors. 9124 W. 2700 S. av- - lost your hair, ' gone bughouse, stolen anything, been in a fight, gone to Church, sold your hogs, cut a new tooth, been snake bitten, had on operation 4 4 9 4 4 4 9 4 4 Or don anything at oil Phon or Writ: MAGNA TIMES 4 4 2. . Speaking specifically of the recent Pro-Lif- e PAC to buy advertising space in order to run some n ads in the Salt Lake City newspapers. Leavitt said: We dont need them here, we dont want them here, and we have tried our best to discourage them from .coming to Utah. Senator Hatch, who served on attempt by the jectionable. Leavitt commended the discretion shown by the Newspaper Agency which handles adCorporation, vertising for the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News, in not accepting n advertisements. the in Leavitt continued saying: Sometime ago. I declined, on Senator Hatchs behalf, to join with our opponent in writing to the various newspapers and television stations because we believed that the media was responsible enough to decide for themselves whose ads should and shouldnt be accepted. I believe that this incident demonstrates that we were correct in assuming that there was not a need and that it was not our place to tell the media whose political opinion they should allow to be expressed." anti-Wilso- organizations. We wish such groups would stay out of Utah. ' 4 4 4 4 4 Pro-Lif- expenditure independent 4 4 9 4 4 4 4 4 the advisory board of the National e PAC. resigned last year, not because he disagreed with their prolife positions, but because he found many of their campaign tactics ob- Michael Leavitt, campaign manager for Senator Orrin Hatch, today requested that Hatch supporters refrain from making any contributions to independent expenditure campaigns and instead make them through the regular authorized Hatch This camcampaign committee. onset has the from position paigns been that we simply dont want these outside groups coming in and running their own negative campaigns, said Leavitt. We have a 12 point lead and will win this race without the help of 38-6- HOW FAR BRCK DOES HISTORY OF . 6-- m Today there are 40.000 Hibakusha, the Japanese word for the surving victims of the atomic bombing of Most Hiroshima and Nagasaki. of continue to suffer after-effecatomic disease known as burra-burrFear of genetic defects due to radiation has prevented many from marrying and from having children. On Monday. June 14. 61 Japanese travelers returning from the U.N. Special Session on Disarmament in New York, will arrive in Salt Lake City. Among these Japanese visitors will be Hibakushas. According to Rev. Tony Watkins. Coordinator of Utah Clergy and Laity Concerned, the Japanese visitors have a special interest in Utah because of the thousands of Utah residents who are radiation of victims poisoning resulting from nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada test site. Rev. Watkins further stated that we are all psychological and spiritual victims of the nuclear arms race. Public forums will be held to discuss the plight of victims of the nuclear arms race and ways of removing this peril from our world, according to Rev. Watkins. The Japanese visitors will discuss their unique perspective on nuclear war and the movement which collected 45 million signatures on petitions to the U.N. for complete elimination of nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Following is a list of public forums which will be held : June 14. 3:30 p.m.. Press Conference, Hotel Utah. Room 250.: 7 p.m., Buddist Temple. 211 West 100 South. More than and their survivors 6-- one-tim- Utah clergy concerned payments. Before the change, an individuals pension was subject to in Utah and elsewhere will be getting reduction each time social security increased. Administration larger Veterans Pensions for veterans and survivors pension checks next July 1 the result of a 7.4 percent increase in the under the old plan remain fixed and payable at the rates in effect in 1978. government s cost of living index. Some 1 .9 million VA pensioners are But those rates are protected against affected in some way by the cost of reductions that would otherwise result from cost of living increases in living index, said Douglas Wadsworth, director. Salt Lake City VA their income from other sources. Old plan recipients may request Regional Office. Pensions are paid to veterans transfer to the improved plan at any totally and permanently disabled from time, Wadsworth pointed out. The circumstances unrelated to their agency will carefully review each military service. They are paid also to application to advise applicants to survivors of veterans who are in need. choose the plan which works to their Unlike compensation paid to those personal advantage. With the new increase, a veteran disabled because erf military service, pensions are affected by income from with one dependent and no other income will receive $6,980. But each other sources. The 600.000 who will get increases additional dependent will add $903 per this month and payable July 1 are year. For further information, telephone those who are receiving benefits under the improved VA pension the Salt Lake City VA Regional Office 0 in the Salt Lake City plan inaugurated by Congress in 1979. toll free 3 2 in in Ogden. The plan links VA pension rates to area, and Provo in elswhere social in security adjustments SALT LAKE CITY 600,000 veterans : 9124 W. 2700 S. Magna, UT 84044 250-565- 6 "We want th Nows" |