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Show The Enterprise Review, September 29, 1976 Page 6b Village Inns Add Restaurant to Sandy Hub A $325,000 Village Inn Pancake House Restaurant is under construction at 837 East 9400 South, Sandy. According to Kenneth Webb, territory director of operations, the new restaurant is scheduled for completion in December, 1976. The 5,000 square-foo- t space will seat 160 customers. Village Inns Sandy restaurant is its seventh in Utah. The chain operates 110 Denver-headquartere- d presently restaurants in the country. Webb said management chose the 9400 South location because it is in one of the three shopping areas being built in Sandy. Jack Kerbs of Draper is constructing the building. Village Inn is leasing both building and land from John Price Associates. THURSDAYS LA CAILLE NOW OFFERS FINE COUNTRY DINING THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY EVENINGS AND SUNDAY FOR BRUNCH Industries Look to Coal as Gas Supplies Dwindle Continued from page 3b Mountain Fuel supplies from its own wells 30 percent of all gas it sells. Another 45 percent comes from wells in which it has part ownership and about 25 percent is purchased from Northwest Pipeline and other suppliers. "Gas from our own wells runs about 30 cents, compared to $1.80 for gas from Potter said. Obviously it Canada, benefits everyone for us to continue drilling. Utah can continue its present rate of industrial growth if incoming industries continue to be the smaller ones (smaller than Kennecott or Geneva Steel), Potter We are careful to add only those stated. industrial users who need gas in order to conduct their business, and cannot use Potter said. another source of fuel, These customers have high priority with the Federal Power Commission, and their service would not be curtailed in light of a shortage. In addition to searching for new wells, he said. Mountain Fuel is also considering the possibility of obtaining natural gas from Industry' Attraction The availability of natural gas in Utah has been listed as the number one reason for the two latest industrial entries into the state, Safelite Industries and Campbell Filter Company. These two firms expect to initially hire a total of about 220 employees. In contrast. Business Week has estimated California has lost about 76,000 manufacturing jobs since 1971 due to the states dwindling gas supplies, and a gas shortage could cost California up to 800,000 jobs by 1981. Compared to most other places, Utahs gas supply is in very good shape, says Dale Zabriskie, : director of public Cities like relations for Mountain Fuel. Phoenix and Denver cannot even hook up new residential users. Plans for Prison Expansion Prove to be Expensive Utahs state prison pop- ulation is approaching the rated capacity of the prison, and preliminary studies are under way for an additional 250-uninstitution. At the yieservatwrt We such processes as coal gasification. think coal gasification will be technically feasible and cost justified within about 20 years. We know we must eventually go to coal gasification, but not until the year 2000, Potter said. it same time, Utahs probation and parole staffs are carrying loads far heavier than those recommended by national authorities, and there are plans to increase the number of agents. Both of these programs will be expensive, it is pointed out by Utah Foundation, the private public service agency, in a research report released last week. The public rightfully demands to be protected from criminals, but inevitably is faced with the cost of providing that protection, the Foundation notes. The proposed addition to the existing adult prison is being studied by the State Building Board at the request of the Utah Board of Corrections. Detailed cost estimates have not yet been made, but on the basis of studies recently made by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and by the State of Colorado, the cost of a modern 250-un- it prison may be expected to run from $9 14 million to $10 14 million. The existing prison has a capacity of 800, and estimated replacement cost at todays prices is $30 non-prof- it million. A study recently com- 141 Pierpont Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 1 (801) 364-770- pleted by the John Howard Association of Chicago, under contract with the Utah Office of Legislative Research, reports that the average load for Utah's probation agents is three times the figure recommended by national standard. The Howard report recommends adding 200 more probation-parol- e agents to the 66.5 (full-tim- e equivalent) now employed, within the next two years. Cost of doing this would be in excess of $2 million a year, the Foundation points out. Utah correctional authorities think the Howard recommendation is unrealistic, and proposes a more modest program that would reduce the agents workload 20 the first year and work toward meeting national standards over a longer period of time. Revolutionary changes in thinking on the subjects of prisons have developed within the last few years, the Foundation notes, and many penal authorities now are convinced that prisons cannot successfully rehabilitate a significant proportion of their inmates. Some authorities recommend that prison programs be directed rather than at rehabilitation. While all penologists do not agree with the new concept, there appears to be - near-consens- us on twro points: 1) that rehabilitation is much more likely to occur in the community under and probation parole prothan behind grams prison walls; and, 2) that some convicted criminals cannot be placed in the community without serious danger to society, and must be confined in prison as long as the law permits in order to This protect the public. indicates probably need for expanding facilities both in prisons and in probation-parol- e programs. Continued on page 8b |