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Show f Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1971 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Self Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Luke City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake Gty as second class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1879 711 South West Temple Telephone 3648464 Sait Lake Gty, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher " This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, dan, clique, faction or corporation." Number 38 Volume 50 u Winter Feeding of Game Birds (Continued from Page One) Feeding of wildlife in winter is one of the oldest and most discussed problems in game management. Most conservation agencies agree that winter feeding is neither biologically sound nor economically feasible. Most game birds are able to fend for themselves during the winter if they have suitable habitat. Winter feeding, even in good habitat, causes concentrations of birds which exposes them to predators and facilities the spread of disease. The best evidence that winter feeding is unnecessary is the fact that the pheasant population in Utah has survived for several decades without an artificial feeding program. In localized areas, populations have diminished over the years, but this is attributable to deterioration of the habitat. Defining Terms The Monongahela News, published by the Monon-gahel- a Power Company of Fairmont, West Virginia, has defined the terms blackout and brownout as understood by an electric company. It says, A blackout is properly defined as a massive power interruption affecting a large area and a large number of customers. Blackout is usually caused by a major failure of generating equipment or transmission facilities. The most massive interruption in this country was the cascading power failure in the Northeast in 1965 which began with improper relay action in Canada. The chances are extremely remote that there will ever be a repetition of the events which resulted in this blackout. Brownout is a confusing term because, as often used by the press, it implies a noticeable sustained general decline in the ligh tlevel, which would result only from a major reduction in voltage. Such a reduction, which would have to be 10 percent or more, would not be permitted to occur, rather, load would be shed on a selected basis. A brownout would occur during a period when an electric utility asks custmers, particularly large industrial and commercial customers, to curtail their use of power. The term brownout, therefore, reflects a lesser use of power in a number of different applications. Much was learned from the massive Northeast power failure in 1965. The electric industry has created entirely new systems of power pooling. Sophisticated equipment and new operating procedures have been put into use. The brownout is one of the procedures now used to assure that blackouts dont happen. t A Miserable Fate As a matter of cold fact, competition in the market place has done more to hold the price line than any contrivance of law or regulation imposed by legislators anxious to protect consumers. A brief dispatch from Spokane, Washington, tells how food retailers in the region have been forced to absorb a large part of a wholesale price increase in order to maintain volume sales. Another food industry spokesman, Clarence 6. Adaray, president of the National Association of Food Chains, reports that Retail food at home prices have gone up less than almost any major item in the Consumer Price Index. During the 1966-7- 0 period of rapid inflation food chains as a whole suffered almost a 30 percent reduction in net profits due to the inability to pass along cost increases as fast as they occur I Public Welfare Shows Gains In Utah Financial Picture Public Welfare, in Depression days the No. 1 area of Utah government expenditure but playing a compartively modest role in the 1950s and 1960's, is reassuming steadily growing importance and constitutes one of the biggest problems to confront the new Utah Legislature, it is pointed out by Utah Foundation, a private nonprofit public service agency. Utah legislators will face the task of substantially increasing funds for public welfare in the face of limited revenues available from existing sources, while acting under threat of a Federal court order to at least meet increases or have one of its major programs declared ineligible for Federal . funds. A Foundation research report, analyzes reasons for the sharp increases in public welfare costs, which led to a deficit in the 1969-7- 0 fiscal period and threatened still larger deficits in 1970-7- 1 before the Governor ordered emerlate last year. gency The largest problems developed in two programs, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and Medical Assistance. Numbers of AFDC recipients which had been increasing at an average rate of 9 per cent a year from 1960 to 1967 and had accelerated to an average of 11.4 per cent a year from 1967 to 1969, spurted to an increase of 22.2 per cent in the one year 1969-7the Foundation report notes. Total cost of public assistance grants under the AFDC program increased even more rapidly, 26 percent in the year. Medical assistance also increased sharply both in numbers of recipients and in costs which went as much as 50 per cent above the previous years figure. Part of the increase, the Foundation points out, is a reflection of the general rise in medical costs, to private patients as well as to those on public assistance. Much of the unexpected steep rise in welfare expenditures was caused by liberalization of federal eligibility rules, particularly in the AFDC program, and in liberalizing action taken by the cost-of-livi- cut-bac- 0, ks ng ' -- Ik ! I EASED 1969 Utah Legislature with re- gard to welfare eligibility. While most of the changes were effected in 1969 and all of them were in operation by their full impact was not felt in time to give planners and budget makers a sufficient idea of the magnitude of the overall result to permit adequate proviWhat had been sion for 1970-7to be liberal projections thought of the trends fell far short of reality. Deficits accumulated in 1969-7- 0 were $136,700 in public assistance and $572,500 in medical assistance, counting state funds only. When federal matching funds were added, the total deficit. was almost $2 million. An Attorney Generals opinion that departments of state government could not over spend their legislative appropriations came too late to prevent the 1969-7deficits, but when it deficits appeared that 1970-7- 1 would be even larger, the governor felt compelled to order reductions in the level of spending to keep within appropriation limits. It was planned so that the 1971 Legislature could take the emergency action to restore the cuts if so desired. First reports after the reductions were put into effect indicate that the present program will stay within limits of the appropriation for public assistance although there is no assurance that a further accelerated growth of the AFDC program will not go beyond this projection, according to the Foundation report. A three judge federal panel has already issued an order, giving the State of Utah a time limit five days after the adjournment of the 39th Utah Legislature or five days after the effective date of corrective legislation, whichever is earlier to bring public assistance grants up to required levels, with the alternative of facing a court order which would restrain the use of federal funds for the purpose of Utahs non conforming AF-Dprogram. GRAPEVINE mid-197- 0, 1. 0 A including merchandise and operating costs. During the last three years the food chain industry has earned approximately one cent on a dollar of sales. What is true of the food industry is true, to a greater or lesser extent, in all retailing. No retailer, large or small, chain or independent, if he wishes to remain in business, can do less than resist the upward pressure on prices brought about by inflation with all of the resources at his command. This is the way of competition in a free market. Yet, we hear talk by the politicians to the effect that there needs to be more regulation of the marketplace. This would mean political management of prices of everything we buy. It would be hard to imagine a worse fate for consumers. A 38 year old trucking execu- tive this week was named executive vice president of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. Fred S. Ball was chosen to succeed Max E. Rich who resigned to become executive vice president of the National Rifle Association in Washington, D.C. Mr. Ball will assume his new duties Jan. 25. He has been the general sales manager of IML Freight, Inc. . . Utah Education Assn, trustees will elect a successor to Nyle C. Buxton to serve as president when they meet Friday. Mr. Buxton died Nov. 28 of a heart attack. Ted May, director of Salt Lake County Building and Zoning Enforcement Department, resigned from his post this week. He had served one year. Both Mr. May and his new boss, Finance Commissioner Ralph Y. McClure, emphasized he had been asked to stay on the job. But the department said he would resign on Feb. 1 to accept a post in the mortgage loan department of Tracy Collins Bank and Trust Company. Mr. McClure; wgs. to recommend that Darrell Maynes, a veteran of 10 years with the department, be named director. - Salt Lake Countys Personnel Department and Merit Council must stop giving legal advice or face court action, County Attorney Carl J. Nemelka said this week. In a letter to personnel di- rector Douglas E. Thomsen, Mr. Nemelka emphasized that his office is the legal advisor to the county commission . . . and Salt Lake County ; . . and it is my intention to operate and perform the duties of this office. This means the Personnel Department should not give advice on the law even if it pertains to personnel and Merit Council matters, the attorney said. Payments totaling $109,846 to two firms were approved this week by the Salt Lake City Commission. A second partial payment of $64,255.75 will go to Iverson Construction Co. building additions to the North Concourse at the Salt Lake City International Airport. An eighth partial payment of $45,591 will be made to the Intermountain Construction, Inc., for work on the small ani- mal buildings at Hogle Zoological Gardens. dial 860 Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! i Plans to modernize two corners across the street from the Salt Palace were endorsed this week by the Salt Lake Model Cities Agency. Calling for the action were Director Charles W. Akerlow, who said endorsement will give the city a better spot on priority lines for federal funding. City ordinances requiring fees on continued violations of city weights and measures standards were ordered this week by the City Commission. 5 |