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Show Salt Laker Heads U.S. Bonds Drive, Officials Named - Mr. Dean R. (Dick) of. Western Lueck, Electric manager Companys. area, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, will serve as volunteer chairman of Utahs Share Utah-Idaho-Monta- na in America 69 Savings Bond drive. Mr. Luecks appointment, ma Mr. appointment, made by Secretary of the Treasury David M. Kennedy, has been confirmed by Glen R. Johnson, National Director of the U.S. Treasurys Savings Bonds Division, who wrote that we appreciate your willingness to serve and believe you will find it a stimulating and rewarding experience. The new chairman will succeed James O. Cummings, Utah area manager of The Boeing Company, who has just concluded a highly successful year as volunteer head of Utahs bond campaign, according to Kathleen Meikle, Utah State Director of lhe Savings Bonds Division. We are indeed fortunate to have the volunteer services of such outstanding local industrialists to lead our Utah endeav-rs- , Director Meikle stated. In accepting the appointment, Mr. Lueck stressed the need of increased bond sales to counter Luecks Last year, this column reported on a progressive highway traffic sign inspection program developed by the Connecticut Highway Department. Utilizing both day and night inspection teams, the Connecticut program was the most advanced wed heard of. Arizona Now another state has instituted a' modem' highway sign inspection program designed to prevent death or injury due to missing, improper or damaged highway signs. We just cant afford the luxy sign ury of a inspection program anymore, says Carlie Bowmer, traffic civil engineer of that states Highway Department traffic engineering division. Bowmer feels an effective inspection system is necessary to provide a high level of service to the states motorists, and also because of the increasing number of cases where courts are finding governmental bodies responsible for accidents caused by missing: damaged or improper highway signs. When found negligent, many local and state governments have been held liable for damages sustained in such accidents. Implemented late last year, the Arizona program calls for visual inspection of each . horse-and-bugg- -- i once-a-mont- h signs that are of the 34, 000-plu- s the departments responsibility. In any given three-montperiod, two daytime inspections check" for missing and damaged at signs. A third inspection for checks reflective night brightness and readability. Inspectors utilize Arizonas excellent milepost marker ' system in reporting which signs h or replacement. need These markers, located along intervals, highways at help pinpoint inadequate signs on a master map. Repair or re placement is effected with a minimum of error and delay. Most states dont have regular sign inspection programs. But in Arizona, its part of a sign mans the only programmed duties way to make sure the program is done right, according to Bowmer. Were not aware of a single case (in Arizona) where a miss ing or deteriorated sign was de termined to be a factor in a fatal traffic accident, says Bowmer, Were ahead of the adding, now and we intend to stay game repair one-mil- e . nflationary pressures in the economy and protect the value of the dollar. Buying Bonds and Freedom Shares is the best way I know of for the ordinary citizen to help both himself arid his country, he said. Its a safe and rewarding way to save, and every dollar goes directly to work for a stronger America. Committee - appointments, plans and goals for the Utah there. drive, which will reach its peak during the spring and summer Sign seen on a Maine farm months, will be announced in fence: Hunters dont shoot lhe near future, according to Anything that doesnt move. Its Chairman Lueck. probably the hired man. Mr. Lueck was born in Denver, and after high school joined the U. S. Navy, serving until April 1948. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a Bach, elor of Arts degree in economics, tnd earned a Master of Business Administration degree in 1954. He began his career with Western Electric in June 1954 as a staff trainee in California. After advancing to other positions in the company and a years service with Pacific Telephone. & Telegraph, he was named manager, of Western Electrics Salt Lake City Service Center in June 1964, assuming his present position January 1, 1967, Mr. Lueck is active in civic "ffairs and is president, Junior chievement Beard of Directors; n the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the United Fund; president of the Stanford Alumni Club of Utah; member of the Salt Lake Rotary Club and the Presidents Coun .cil, Chamber of Commerce. He married Gene Belshaw in Stanford, California, in 1957. They have a son, Dean, and a daughter, Janis, and live at 4950 Sommet Drive, Salt Lake City. More Than Meets the Eye soothing antiseptic relief for CHAPPED LIPS htty Bruce, 6, Pontiac, Mich., sounds sound to her twin brother, Michael. But, she was bom with an open spine and cant walk so welL Michael has no problem walking, but he was bom with heart defects. Both receive regular evaluation and treatment by d ,Dr. Bonita B. Sullivan, shoWn here at the March of Birth Detacts Canter at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ! ' Page Nind FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1969 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Dimes-finance- WIND OR SUNBURNED UPS FEVER BLISTERS, COLD SORES. New Methods of Insurance Urged to Meet T oday's Needs Ever since August 1965, when be opened and existing busithe inferno in the. Watts section nesses cannot expand, or even of Los Angeles burned the need survive. for social change into the conWithout insurance, buildings sciousness and conscience of are left to deteriorate; services, . . America, voices in many walks of life have called for new methods and procedures to assure the continued availability of insurance protection in city center. On August 1, 1968, former President Johnson signed into law an omnibus housing bill which contained provisions for ah imaginative partnership of the insurance business and government to solve this problem. The new law provides for federal reinsurance against losses resulting frcm civil disorders, and also spells out how- urban property owners will be assured fair access to insurance. Many newspapers, government officials and insurance industry spokesmen were quick to laud the new program. The support of insurance people was a logical development since many influential members of that industry had been asked to serve on the Presidents panel' which studied the relationship between Americas urban unrest and the unavailability of insurance in Certain center city areas. ' The Presidents National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Areas made an intensive study of insurance in the nner city. In its report, entitled Meeting the Insurance Crisis of Our Cities, it called for the approach carried to fruitation in the hew legislation. Insurance, the panel found, is essential to revitalize our cities. It is a cornerstone of credit. Without insurance, banks and other financial institutions will not and cannot make loans. New housing cannot be constructed and existing housing cannot be repaired. New businesses cannot - ' Riot-Af- fected . goods and jobs diminish. Efforts to rebuild the nations .inner cities cannot move forward.. Communities without insurance are communities without hope. Both the report of the presidential panel and the completed legislation lean heavily on insur-ance industry-pioneere- d methods of making insurance available to city, property owners. The Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Plan envisaged in the panel report and made part of the legislation is a logical extension of the Urban Areas Plan. Indeed, it was the voluntary, Urban Areas Plan which made the first dent in the problem of providing insurance in the cities. Under the Urban Areas Plan, property owners could find out exactly what repairs were needed to bring industry-formulate- d their properties up to standards for the issuance of a policy. This feature of free inspection remains the key part of the FAIR Plans. Actually, the concept of a federal partnership with private in: dustry to solve certain insurance problems is neither radical nor untried. . . Even in this omnibus housing bill, the joint approach is applied to another problem area, that of flood insurance. Providing insurance protection against rampaging waters was always a problem because the man on the hill had no desire to buy such coverage - and without his participation the rate payable by the man in the valley became prohibitive. A separate part of the housing bill approaches this flood problem through a partnership of government and the insurance Safeguard Your Vision, Governor Rampton Given Membership Set an Eye Check If you are 35 or over (even if you are not, someone close to you Is) this is must reading. And it is especially must, reading for family physicians. Whether you know it or not, you could be a victim of glaucoma second only to cataracts in if you do causing blindness not insist that your family physician include a routine tonometry lost in your annual physical . :heck-ups- . ' A tonometry test reveals to the physician an increase in intra-cula- r pressure, which is one of Governor Calvin L. Rampton was presented with an honorary membership to the National Rehabilitation Association on Tuesday, February 18 at 10:30 a.m. in Room 210 of the State Capitol Building. Dr. Gary Q. Jorgensen, President of the Utah Chapter of NRA and Director of the Alcoholism Clinic at the University Medical Center presented the award. The NRA has a record of 43 years of service to the handicapped and those who serve them. The oldest voluntary rehabilitation organization in the country, it is a leader in the development of the concept of rehabilitation and in promoting voluntary and public programs to rehabilitate the handicapped. An agent of social action, NRA cooperates with organizations concerned with services to handicapped children and is active in research and training activities. The Utah Chapter is presently working to sponsor an Explorer Post and Girl Scout troop for disadvantaged youth and is involved in setting up new rehabilitation activities in Utah. he first signs of chronic simple laucoma. According to Dr. John E. Scott, deputy Chief of the Neurological 'nd Sensory Disease Control Program of the Public Health Serv-c- e and James E. Fulghum, Jr., Public Health Advisor of the Program, a tonometry test should be an integral part of every phys-'ca- l examination on patients over he age of 35. In an article titled Questions and Answers on Tonometry in fhe February issue of Medical Times Magazine, .these two eminent authorities leave physicians little room for not making a tonometry test as routine as test- sterilization, calibration, and anesthetics. ing a patients blood pressure. In conclusion, they point out Not only do they recommend the type and care of the tonometr- that the American Academy of the few min- Ophthalmology and Otolaryin-gologutes required for the test, its recommends that family higher yield in discovered cases physicians perform this test. At of chronic simple glaucoma (2 the same time, they exhort ophout of 100), but also they include thalmologists to assist in answers to specific questions on y-instrument; y |