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Show The Paysan Chronicle, Payson, Utah THURSDAY, MARCH The Air We Breathe Continued from page 6 H. WHAT WE FACE TODAY. Our Salt Lake Committee is hampered by the very basic fact that our Utah problem is essentially one extending along the Wasatch Front from roughly Brigham City down through Nephi. Our air doesn't follow County lines or State boundaries. Like the State Board of Health, our lines of Health, our City - County Committee is limited in 'unds so that up - to - date technical data is not available. When the 1962 Legislative Council study was being made, Salt Lake City dust and particulate data was available only through 1958; United States Public HealthSer-vic- e dust - fall data and most of the data on weather inversions, meterology, population counts, oil, gas, coal and fuel consumption was available only through 1960. While much of the information assembled by industry was made available to the Legislative Council, it must be remembered that the industrial networks are primarily maintained for and limited to specific conditions and are not too helpful on an over-a- ll basis. City-Coun- ty Consequently last Februarys of th: League of Women Voters could fairly conclude that Evaluation of the air pollution situation in the Salt Lake Valley is hampered by lack of knowledge. Although there is documented evidence that unacceptable levels of some air contaminants do occur at times in Salt Lake City, present sampling does not identify all the pollutants and in no way identifies their sources. Plans of the State Department of Health to expand its sampling network are hindered by lack of funds. It is questionable, whether, until these two needs (adequate funds and requisite data) are met, any prudent action can be taken at this time. report Last December Congress inthe Federal Governments role in smog and air control which began in 1955. Until then the Federal Government limited its program mainly to sampling, research and technical assistance. Nowthere is the familiar pattern of a new program awarding grants-in-ai- d to State and local air control units. It is the old story again where State and local authorities, restricted financially, and often lacking coordination where multiplicity of interests are involved, have failed to do the job; and so Uncle Sam with its apparently unlinrrted tax revenues is filling the vacuum. The new Act enables the Department of Health Education & Welfare to focus research on the still unsolved problems of motor vehicle exhausts, and of sulphur-conta- creased mi 16, 1967 nated heating fuels, which have created serious problems in major cities such as Chicago and New York. Also, because in many areas States are not much bigger than our Counties-th- e Federal Government is now granted limited enforcement powers - primarily in cases involving interstate air pollution. Utah has now taken advantage of these new Federal funds, under amendments of S.3112 signed by the President October 15th, 1966; and by scrounging the Board of Health last July matched and received a modest $20,000.00 Federal grant. This should enable the State Department of Health to complete in approximately eighteen months time an Inventory of our sources of air pollution. It can, hopefully, employ the nucleous of the staff necessary to enter effectively the air conservation control field - as distinguished from the work it has heretofore undertaken in the strict public health areas involving radioactivity and other specific contaminants. It is in a position to assume the leadership and furnish the information and know' - how which such groups as the new Salt Lake County and City ,oint authority need. Parenthetically, perhaps it is just as well to say here and now that the negative results of air pollution research and studies can be most comfcrt-in- g and effective. Data assembled by the State Board of Health to date has indicated no injury to the health of citizens of the State of Utah from air contam'-natio- n. Further, the corrective steps taken by Industry have reduced to a minimum any adverse effects to animal and vegetable life, as well as property damage, with automatic machinery to adjust any damage which unavoidably occurs. It should also be mentioned that while our Wasatch Front inversions are to some extent comparable to those of the Los Angeles smog situation, there are definite distinctions and differences. Oui worst conditions have been short of those at Los Angeles at best. Our Weather inversions tend to occur primarily from October to April when the sun is low, while the Los Angeles inversions occur in the summer when the sun is high with atal tendant effects absent in Utah. Further, it must be remembered that visibility or mere emission quantities are not in photo-chemic- themselves More so are the physical effects at place of contact, even if the atmosphere then Clean. Inotherwords, appears scient- ific knowledge and know-ho- w not merely the are the keys-an- d laymens observations. III. WHAT SHOULD WE DO? All this does not mean for a moment that we should become rapi7M73nn n7pr Bag or Bulk YOU CAN SAVE MONEY! Spread your fertilizer with our pull spreaders Tote Bins available Spreader Service with Excellent Driver Prescription Mixing "10-33-- 0" in our State of Utah. Again, the public objective always has been and must be: to keep Utah from ever reaching a situation anywhere near that of the Los Angeles smog, let alone Lon Jon or Donora. And so we suggest the following program as one which is practicable and within our economic ability to ostrich-lik- e maintain: 1. Enactment by the 1967 Legislature of further Air Conservation Legislation to support the role of the State Board of Health beyond the present mandate, which is merely to make studies and submit reports. This legislation could be modeled along the lines of our Utah Water Conservation Act, which has proved progressively effective over recent years. Formal recognition of the State Air Pollution Advisory Control Beard would be helpful. 2. A m dest State appropriation with availabe matching Federal funds will then permit (a) Taking of an inventory to identify sources of contamination. (b) Development of Practical standards for our own State, which with reasonable effort and expense could be mvt by the cities, counties, motor vehicle owners, and others, including industries, concerned. (c) Continued coordination and cooperation by the many concerned in the o v e a 1 problem under appropriate leadership. Air Conservation Control in a very real sense basically involves all of us. Each trash and garbage fire, furnace, automobile and plant, as well as each of us as individuals, are actual or potential contributors. There are inbuilt possibilities for expensive duplication or w a s t e of effort, to be avoided, along with intemperate and hasty action. Among the following unsolved problems in the Greater Salt Lake Area to be met if we are to limit particulates in the air we breathe, r-- are 1 the following: (1) dures for disposal proceof oil re- March 17 deadline for filing for 67 Feed Program March 17th is the last mav file applications to take part in the 1967 feed grain program. Claude Hunting, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, points out that only growers who participate in the program will be eligible for price support on their 1967 crops of corn and grain sorghums. As last ear, the support is made available through rt loan, purchases, and paunents. Except on small farms (farms with bases of 25 acres or less) and some farms with larger bases wnere no feed grain is to be planted, no diversion payment is available under the 1967 feed grain program. The price - support paiments (30 cents per bushel for corn and 53 cents per hundredweight for grain sorghum) may be earned on the projected production from an acreage up to 50 percent ol the farms total feed grain base bv planting corn or grain sorghums. The national average loan rates are $1.05 per bushel for corn and $1.61 per hundredweight for grain sorghum. If the grower wishes, he may at the time lie request signs up -- - an advance pavment of one - half of the total estimated price support and diversion (for small farms) payments to be earned. The Chairman urges farmers who are interested in taking part in this vears feed grain program to call at the ASCS count v office as soon as possible, since there are only five working days left before the signup deadline, and signing up is a necessary first step in program participation. Applications may be filed any day finery wastes. (2) A practical tailings pile stabilizer to prevent wind -- borne dust. (3) Effective and practical procedures for control of dust in gravel pit operations. (4) A practical means of controlling pollutants from the automobile salvage industry. (5) Prevention of burning in community dumps. (6) Prohibition of use of any but approved type incinerators for stores, apartment houses, hospitals, etc. (7) Prohibition of back yard incinerators. (8) Effective dust control on mulch plants and large com- mercial plants. coal-burni- ng heating (9) Completion of pending measures at Kennecott and Vitro - Chemical further to curtail industrial emissions. (10) Careful check on development of effective measures to control automobile emissions which are a major source of pollutants yielding PVj - Vi m i no fYVwri ti cl jt this must be done on a Statewide basis, when and if prac- tical, effective prevention devices become available so that a meaningful enforcement program can be placed in operation. 3. In the relatively few cases where cooperation and compliance is not forthcoming, there should be enforcement of the Utah air standards by local, or if necessary, State action. In this connection it should be remembered that the civil remedies would still be available; that there would be no impairment of local initiative; and that the proposed new State legislation could well include a pernvt system requiring new industries to submit for review plans for adequate air control equipment and procedures. To protect the air we breathe in Utah will require the common sense of our citizenry patiently to distinguish between fact and fantasy; to avoid wasteful and overlapping efforts, and punitive measures; price-suppo- Industry, Bus. pays 51 of Co. Property Tax Owners of commercial and industrial propert paid$5,542, 228 or 51.00 jc of the total property taxes charged in Utah County during 1966. This compares with property taxes of $3,725,046, (34.28 of the total) on residential property, $909, 427, or 8.37, on motor vehicles (passenger automobiles and trucks), and $665,879, (6.13) on agricultural property (farm real estate, farm buildings, machinery, and livestock). These were some of the facts brought out in an analysis of the distribution of the property-taburden prepared by Utah Foundation, the private nonprofit tax research organization. For the state as a whole, the analysis showed that 51.5 of total property tax burden was borne by owners of commercial and industrial property, 34.99c by residential property owners, 7.4 by owners of motor vehicles, and 5.7(7 by agricultural property owners. The Foundation report indicates that total property taxes charged in Utah County- during 1966 amounted to $10,867,523. This represented an increase of $53,584 or 0.509c from the 1965 total and was $2,689,889 or 32.89rc above the level of 1960. Throughout ttie state, property taxes rose 2. 2 between 1965 and 1966, and increased 44.2 since 1960. These increases have been the result of three main factors: (1) mill "The Professionals " and the tempestuous beauty they invade Mpx co to rescue from a bandit leader, are. left to right Burt Lancaster Claudia Cardinale as Maria Lee Marvin Robert Ryan and Woody Strode Also starred in the Columbia Pictures release, in Panavision and colo- The 3, lc per month for each dollar you still owe. A taxing money problem receives prompt professional attention at your credit union. Per ton bulk DRAINAGE EOT UTAHrCONCRETElPIPEl See your Branch Manage , Almon llarmer ...CLAUDIA CARDINALE te PROFESSIONALS Kill SHOW SATURDAY 1 p.m. HOY AND Till: PIRATES TUESDAY IS LADIES NIGHT WiHT-l&FHLTOH- H offersyouJhejnosLcompIctc Fertilizer L MIXINGIDELIVERINGZSPREADING atlowest costjeaturine IMBMb j See yourjntermountain Association Branch Manager fl-iiVr-i- ' j j i j ' Ti Spanish Fork and Springville INTERMOUNTAIN FARMERS ASSOCIATION RALPH BELUMY .IF YOU HAVE A credit union for a tow cost loan and LEE MARVIN ROBERT RYAN JACK PALANCE . see your CONCRETE IRRIGATION BUST UNCASTER m mamiophr Available at our bulk plants at 0 Shut t5W MARCH 15 thru 21 W1:i:k sol-die- ts You never pay more than $70-4- 1TUi4& Professionals' Sot agauint Mexico's tin Indent baekgiouml, a lusty, thoroughly satisfying drama of heroic action and high adventure has been fashioned in "The Professionals, which opened yesterday at the Huish. Theatre. Written for the scieen and iluected by Kichaid Brooks m Panavision and color by Teehnieoloi , this brawling, entei taming new him stais Huit Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Hubert Kyan, Jack Palance, Ralph Bellamy and Claudia Caidmale. The Columbia Pictures release rate increases, (2) new prolecounts the efforts of four to the tax rolls, perties added of foitune fo rescue the and (3) valuation adjustments. beautiful young wife of an Schools continue to receive Ameiiean millionaire held in the bulk of the property tax a Mexican bandit desert stronghold. The would-h- e rescuers must receipts, according to the report. State and local taxes for pit their expert knowledge and the support of schools amounted cunning in battle against a band to $7,859,273 or 72.32 of all of some 160 skilled guerrillas. also overcome an even property taxes imposed in Utah They must crueler the rugged, watenemy County last year. The county-levieerless and towering wasteland Monday through Friday. Office in property $953,656 mountains of northern Mexico. hours are from 8:30 a.m. to taxes (8.78 of the total), muniHow they eai ry out their mis5:00 p.m. Signup deadline is cipal taxes were equaled to sion, employing raw courage as March 17th. $1,930,098 (17.76), special well as every artifice and the Through March 9, 1967, district taxes amounted to special skills of each individual farms in the County had been $117,063 (1.08), and bounty "professional, makes for an extaxes totaled $ 7,433 (0.07) signed up under the 1967 feed hilarating action film that in 1966. grain program, with intended sweeps along with the fury and diversion of about 650 acres. School taxes (both state and impact of a desert sandstorm. Lancaster plays the demolition This includes the 20 percent local) accounted for nearly 65 expert of this tight little band of diversion necessary to qualify of the total property tax load professional fighting men, an adfor participation, and the adthroughout the state in 1966. venturer with a swashbuckling ditional acreage diverted for Taxes imposed by counties were for the ladies who takes appeal payment. equal to 19 of the total, munitime out from his bravura agilicipal taxes amounted to 13 12 ties for amorous dalliance with taxes by special purpose disClaudia Cardinale, as the temtricts were equal to about pestuous beauty. Marvin stars as and bounty taxes accounted for an Army veteran, expert with all manner of small arms, who only slightly more than 0.1 leads the band with cool coinage. of the property tax total last year. Robert Ryan is the profession- al with horses, a former cav- alryman who cares for the horse- flesh that must transport them F15UEZMEN, MANV YEAKA AGO, TEIEP TO over mountains and waterless ocusrs WAkP OFF COL DS BY desert, while Woody Strode is STLL OO GCEAT PAMAGE TO CLA6.PIW& TO THlK CHESTS the fourth member of the fight- RANGELAND GRASS AWP AGRICULTURAL A LIVE FISH CKOPG EACH YEAE-- - MOCE THAN ing quartet, an expert tracker and bounty hunter, a man with520 MIL UOW WOTH IM TM ALONE EXTENSIVE out peer in the use of the lariat, PEATICIPE CUtMICAL LONTEOL knife and Ralph ACE PPOOPAMS rCEQVENUy Bellamy stars as the ruthless ME CEWMzy TO PROTECT CEO PS American millionaire, who rEOM TOTAL PESTEUCTIONknows exactly what he and is willing to pay any price to get it, and Jack Palance plays while still insisting upon approthe colorful guerrilla leader, a priate attention and action to seasoned veteran of desert cam- achieve oar atmospheric adepaigns whose last desperate bat- objective tie is against the professionals quate protection of our health seeking to return from Mexico and our property. This objective the gill they have rescued, with could well be spelled out as a Director Richard Brooks has muniand public State, County the action boiling in The kept To propreserve, cipal policy Professionals and has managed tect and mprove the Air ReThe largest flag in the world to inject a great deal of suspense sources of Utah so as to prois the Stars and Stripes anas well. His taut and muscular mote health, safety and welJ. L screenplay is based on a novel by by displayed nually fare; to prevent injury to huHudsons store in Detroit, Frank ORourke, and Maurice man health, plant and animal Michigan. The flag is 104 feet Jarres film music is a decided life; and to promote the com235 feet and weighs 500 lbs. asset. by fort and convenience of our inhabitants and to the greatest degree practicable, facilitate The CREDIT UNION UMBRELLA MAN says the enjoyment of the natural attractions of the State, consistent with maximum employment and full industrial development of the State. Utah has a unique history of struggle to achieve and maintain this objective. It m 'st and will continue to take appropriate action to this end. excellent for sugar beets, alfalfa, com, peas and other crops Just micolor. are Jack Palance as the guerrilla and Ralph Bellamy as Miss Cardinale s wealthy, aging husband. Richa-Brooks directed the f Im from his cwn screen-p'a- y Maurice Jarre composed and conducted the music for The Professionals. by When you use the right amount of USS Fertilizer on your pasture you can expect Your tonnages should more More Tonnage than double resulting in greater stores of feed for your livestock With the application of over Higher Protein USS of lbs. acre 120 Nitrogen, crude protein levels should increase by 2 to 3ao above normal. Due to the Improved Herd of the forage, your value nutritional improved will calves and yearlings grow faster and will Cows have higher conception be healthier rates and drop larger calves Well-bein- See your local USS Fertilizer dealer He help you toward greater profits from your irrigated pastures and other crops II UsS Fertilizers OAev'4- |