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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1972 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Sals Labe Mining 6 Legal News Published Every Friday at Sals Lake Ciiy, Utah Second Gass Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah 711 South West Temple Telephone 364-84Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 64 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher controlled owned or not by any party , clan, clique, faction or corporation March of Dimes Assists Regional Newborns With Starter Grant On behalf of the March of Calvin L. Dimes, Governor and Mr. Elmer J. Smith Rampton a awarded $5,000 startofficially er grant to the University of Utah Medical Hospitals InterNumber 42 mountain Newborn Intensive Care Center. Dr. August L. Jung, the centers director received the check. Governor Rampton is the Honorary State Chairman and Mr. Smith the Salt Lake Chapter Chairman for the voluntary health organization. Dr. Jung stated that, The March of Dimes funds will be (Continued from page 1) used as seed money to develop demonstration projects throughgovernment into various phases of the insurance business. out the intermountain The insurance industry is another of the foundation stones Fifteen per cent of all region. infants is born born ill of are in the region, of economic independence. a major source private and one percent of them are capital for the reconstruction of cities and the growth of critically ill. The center concerns virtublanket furnishes of a over It protection itself these sick children with industry. states of Utah, ally every home, business and individual in the country. throughout the Nevada and Idaho, Wyoming, Not a wheel could turn without the protection of insur- Montana. Our conof area prime ance. For these reasons, the insurance industry, in all its cern is the critically ill group in and ecoin we of is are and arch the a now, cooperation branches, political keystone of nomic liberty. This was made only too clear in an address with the obstetrical services conour the hospital, extending by Paul S. Wise, president of the American Mutual cern to the expectant mother Insurance Alliance on the broad subject of The Federal who is considered to have a high of having birth difficulties. Governments Increasing Hole in Insurance and Risk. riskWe have received referrals His remarks are of concern not only to those in the insur- and requests for assistance from Close Relationship Between Political and Economic Liberty It ance business to which they were directed but also to which means anyone who owns an insurance policy virtually everyone in the country. Traditionally, insurance, because of its essentially local nature, has been a state regulated industry. Rut, as he observes, The federal government is involved with the insurance business in many different ways, influencing public policy and private decisions pertaining to insurance and to the handling of economic risk. Mr. Wise gives speciiic instances of the burgeoning role of government in the insurance business. He envisions proposals calling for federal standards in the workmens compensation field and even attempts to nationalize the workmens compensation system. If this ever becomes a reality it would remove one more insurance market from the private sector. Denial of access to markets has occurred in the past at both the state and federal levels. At the federal level, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation has held captive the crop insurance market since 1938. The enactment of Medicare and Medicaid likewise encroached upon the health and disability insurance markets. The preemption of our markets by the federal government looms as an ominous cloud on the horizon. It makes little difference whether we are regulated by the states or by the federal government if we have no business left to be regulated. The point of all this is not how it may affect the insurance industry as a private institution, but in the long run, the manner in which it would affect the public interest. When government assumes the role of insurer, it eventually becomes the economic master of those it insures with the taxpayers footing the bill. Moreover, the wisdom of the present course toward greater federal regulation of insurance as a substitute for state regulation may also prove to be a disservice to the public interest. There is.no reliable way of knowing what federal regulation of insurance would be like. Rutt he performance of federal regulatorl agencies in other fields does not give me much comfort. I suspect the hidebound federal regulation is a major contributor to the financial plight of the nation's railroads and airlines and the problems of power and energy shortages with which we are now confronted. Of the future, Mr. Wise said, I see an urgent need for those of us who operate in the private sector to do some hard thinking about what is the proper role for the federal government, the state government and the insurance business in handling economic risk. Our ultimate role depends on our ability to demonstrate to government and to the public that we can provide certain services more the medical community throughout the region. We hope that the March of Dimes Grant will help us demonstrate to other major grantees how great our need is for expanded facilities and personnel to develop these badly needed referral, training and information sharing programs. Dr. Jung continued, We intend to use these funds to further h Program develop our which is basically a consultive and training program and has already assisted many area hospital, physicians and nurses to increase their abilities in the care of the sick newborn. Grants of major proportions are needed to develop our center to its fullest potential. We are now reaching full capacity with the existing facilities. Since our inception in 1968 our case load has grown from 61 to 280 patients a year. We still need funds to add several much needed personnel, to establish a monthly publication for the purpose of disseminating the critical life saving information that we are developing, to expand facilities, and to increase the number of emergency transportation units. Out-Reac- Utah Power and Light to Convert Auto Fleet to Burn Liquid Gas er & Light in the use of LPG in vehicles is its clean burning properties which meet future pollution standards now, thus helping to eliminate a major source of air pollution in urban areas resulting from incomplete combustion of oil and gasoline. Mr. Broussard said the pilot program would include a representary of various types of vehicles including passenger cars, pickup trucks, vans and heavy trucks and equipment. He said the conversion cost would be relatively small for each vehicle including labor. He added that if the operating efficiency is better in vehicles utilizing liquefied petroleum gas as is indicated by the reports from other users and if the maintenance costs are reduced as expected, the costs of conversion can be quickly recovowners. ered by savings and the company Propane is transported and will lock toward more extensive stored as a liquid under low pres- use of the fuel. The future of sure. When released from its stor- LPG as a widely used fuel for age container, the liquid imme- cars will also depend on the diately vaporizes. Some of the ad- availability from the petroleum vantages expected by Utah Pow industry. Utah Power Light disclosed that it is initiating a pilot program to convert part of its automobile fleet to burn liquefied petroleum gas as fuel in an effort to reduce air pollution. Recognizing that most air pollution in urban areas is caused by the exhaust of internal combustion engines, D. L. Broussard, UP&L vice president, said the pilot program is a part of a continuing effort to improve the efficiency and value of its overall service to the communities in which the company serves. Mr. Broussard explained that liquefied petroleum gas (propane) is a clean fuel which has been used for internal combustion engines almost as many years as gasoline and has been used successfully by a large number of automobile and truck fleet the 11ASSD GRAPEVINE as president and chairman of the Salt Palace was McCown E. Hunt. He was elected for the 10th year. He was elected in 1963 and served as temporary chairman for two years. Others elecedt were O. Thayne Acord, vice chairman; James R. Hogle as treasurer; and Franklin D. Richards, a member of the executive committee. Also to the board were Mr. Acord, Mr. Hogle, George Hatch and Merrill Nelson. Re-elect- ed re-elect- ed Even the Mayor must ask for permission before he can ask Such was the case questions. when Mayor E. J. Garn won ap- proval from the other members of the City Commission to ask Utah Attorney General Vernon Romney as to the extent of the amount of liability insurance the city must have on the Salt Lake City International airport. Commissioner Harrison had asked for the permission to raise the liability from $10 million to $25 million, but the city attorneys office then advised them that the city need not carry $10 million because it was only liable for $100,000 in insurance. & efficiently and more effectively than anyone else. For its part, the public must eventually understand that private insurance and the insurance industry arc mainstays of the U.S. economic system upon which rests the future of political and economic liberty. Salt Lake City is being sued by Jelco, Inc., for damages to Jelco properties near the airport. A suit seeking $4,246,000 has been filed in U. S. District Court. Jelco claims it is the owner of land located west of the airport and says it planned to develop the property and alleges Salt Lake City has made plans, drawings and other documents that show the property of Jelco, Inc., is within the expanded and enlarged Salt Lake City International Airport complex. The United States Supreme Court ruling that states may not enforce a residency requirement for welfare recipients will not affect Utah. Utah has not required residence of one year for persons receiving welfare assistance for more than three years. This practice is based on a previous ruling of the Supreme Court and merely supports the ruling. With the Civil Service Commission to place under its juris- diction the jobs of five civilians will permit the Salt Lake City Police Department to establish a new civilian components division. J. Earl Jones, police chief, said the new division will have a director, a secretary, a bomb technician and supervisor and coordinator for the Public Safety Mhlctic Program. Examples of the civilian component units that iave taken over technical areas and police responsibilities, arc the school crossing guards. non-professio- 860 Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! The Childrens Service Society installed Sam Shapiro is president for the 1972 year. LaVar Tate was elected as vice president. The society formed 88 years ago is a private volunteer child welfare agency which handles adoptions and foster child care and works with unmarried parents. of Utah |