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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1972 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Minimi & Legal New Published Every Pride at Salt Lake City, Utah paid at Salt Lake City. Utah 4 711 South West Temple Telephone Lake 84101 Salt City; Utah GLENN BJOINN, PaUhhar controlled Us publication is mot owned or by any party, dam, digue, taction Second CUss Postage With the likelihood for the passage of a comprehensive surface mining bill continuing to dim in the closing days of the T 92nd Congress, Utah's Senator Frank E. Moss, Chairman of the Number 28 Senate Subcommittee on MinVolume 52 erals, Materials and Fuels was joined by Senators Mansfield, Metcalf and Burdick in pushing through a Senate Resolution calling for a moratorium on the granting of coal leases in the (Continued from Page 1) state of Montana until the Senate action on the legcould utlier more suggestible youngsters are influenced by the islationcomplete next year. availability of amphetamines, alcohol, glue and other Moss said the House passed strip mining bill which deals drugs. stuonly with coal mining differs Psychologists who conducted a survey of 1,000 vistly from the Senate bill to dents in grades 2, presented findings on the cause of the point where compromise this school Island in the abuse llhole in the legislative session is late system. drug The scientists urged a double barreled approach to very unlikely. State officials in Kentucky deal with wide spread drug abuse. and Tennessee charged with suthe of education on danger drugs pervising reclamation efforts in Only through early and the identification of hard core drug users in the their states told me when I saw of this year school so they may be separated and given special help them in February in needed assistance that they can the schools make headway against the problems cre- techniques of reclamation and ated by drugs. particularly in federal assistance in enforcing existing laws. It In the confidential survey, students were asked what appears unlikely that this Conil how and considered frequently, dangerous, they gress will be able to do that, he 364-846- Psychologists vs. Drug Abuse 8-1- ever, they used specific drugs. Alcohol was reportedly the most available and most used drug, the psychologists found. Slightly more than 26 percent of the students queried used alcohol more than twice a week. On the danger rating scale, only 28 per cent of the students considered intoxicating liquor to be slightly dangerous. Marijuana was used regularly by 20 percent of the sample, while only 3 out of 10 students considered it dangerous. Drugs that were labeled dangerous by a majority of the students were heroin, LDS and glue. Forty of the students admitted using heroin regularly and 70 said they sniffed glue. The survey gave credence to the speculation among of home life is a major behaviorists that the make-u- p factor in adolescent drug abuse. Students whose fathers are unemployed or absent from home had the highest frequenty of drug usage. Young people who indicated poverty in the home had the greatest frequency of heroin and glue usage. For the children of professional men, marijuana was most widely used. The implictions of this report are that any programs aimed at prevention must begin in the elementary grades with particular thrust directed toward junior high school students, the doctors maintained. Forest Fuel Accumulation -- A Fire Hazard Successful lire lighters may unintentionally be one cause of disastrous forest lires. Fallen twigs, branches, grass, weeds and stems accumulate year after year, forming a highly flammage forest carpet of dead fuels. Because of the efficiency of fire control agencies, says Science Magazine, forests go without burning the dead fuel, allowing it to accumulate and become a fire hazards. Efforts to find a chemical or biological digester of dead fuels have been unsuccessful, and mechanical chipping and shredding methods are expensive. Other methods have been tried such as crushing, chop slashing and brushing with heavy mechanical equipment. Fuel breaks, strips where heavy fuels have been removed, bre ak up large expanses of brush or timber. Often this area is seeded to prevent erosion, with only a narrow strip in the middle completely cleared. This method precents fire spread, but does not eliminate the hazard of fuel accumulation. Fuel removal through prescribed burning is a con- - JF the Senate Resolution Calls for Strip Mining Moratorium ' A modified version of that resolution was reported from the Interior Committee to the Senate on October 6. This resolution states the sense of the Senate that federal leasing be held in abeyance in Montana for a period of one year, or until appropriate legislation is enact- ed to control surface mining. The Secretary of the Interior has authority to do all that we ask him to do by this resolution. The added impetus is simply that the Senatee urges him to do it now! LEASED GRAPEVINE Salt Lake City is presently setting its sights on new downtown property for parking ramps. This was the announcement this week by Stanford Darger, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Municipal Parking Committee. The two sites will be city owned and operated. The exact sites have not been announced but the Christmas Tree Policy ramps are expecetd to be four BLM level parking units which would Changed by provide parking for some 1,600 Deck the halls with boughs of cars. holly, but dont plan on getting a Christmas tree from the BuGovernor Calvin L. Hampton reau of Land Management this announced the appointment of year. For the past several years the Dr. Harold B. Lamy, a Salt Lake City physician, as a member of bureau in Utah has designated the State Parks and Recreation areas where families could cut Board. The appointment fills a their own trees. But because of by the resignation of program emphasis, manpower vacancy Harold P. Fabian. cannot be used to supervise the cutting of individual trees this Salt Lake County will conform year. to noise requirements from the For the commercial cutting of snowmobiles said. being adopted in trees, bids will be re- other areas Utah. pinon on other the Westerners, County Comin the BLM Fillmore of- missioners have ceived hand have viewed Appalachia fice for 1500 trees in two areas requested their with dismay and plead with the southwest of Milford. Those will legal advisors to prepare an ordinance lowering noise levels members of their delegations to be the on cut trees only permitted to a decline level of halt pending coal operations in this land Utah in 82, the same as in Salt Lake City the West until a carefully oryear. and other areas of chestrated plan involving study to in The years past program use. vehicle of the land ownership pattern, cut to and find families allow natural resources, water, and The 1973 Legislature will find land uses and the sociological their own trees has been very wide nation but prioripopular, and economical impact of. the many places to put an estimated use our this ties year deprevent $27 million surplus it will have mining gargantuan proposed nec- on hand for the next to the of provide can be personnel fiscal year, velopment operations essary supervision. We are sorry according to Governor Calvin L. completed. To that end. Senator Metcalf, that it has been necessary to dis- Rampton. The largest expected Senator Mansfield, Senator Bur- continue the service this year. spending of the surplus will be dick and I introduced a joint Many families made all day or in a proposed new state office resolution urging the Secretary week end recreation outings in building which would cost from tb suspend coal mining activities connection with their use of a $11.5 million to $16 million with on federal lands (comprising 50 BLM permit. Usually they spend a multistoried parking facility. per cent or more of the coal land more time and money in cutting of the west) until such time as The State Board of Examiners trees than they would in the Congress has completed ac- their has made travel harder for state patronizing a commercial tree employees by denying 11 retion on the surface mining lot. quests for out of state monies, and stated the denial as an economy move. The Examiners said troversial method. Critics feel that all lires are disasters, that there was too much refor persons who did not and do not realize that low intensity fires destroy excess quest to need send as many represenfuel causing little or no damage to the forest. Although tatives as the departments had there are advantages and disadvantages to this method, requested. the writer say Is we may be forced to accept them (preA request for Salt Lake City scribed burnings) as the premiums for insurance for the to coordinate its efforts with Salt Lake County concerning whole forest. adjustments has been deMore fire trucks will not solve the problem of dam- salary nied because the city operated aging fires. The only improvement lies in the area of on a fiscal basis and the county hazard reduction. Studies should be begun to obtain on a calendar year. A couple of to data on fuel volumes and distributions, and that there weeks ago the county agreed beneemployees retirement should be intensified efforts to find economical and prac- pay fits in lieu of any salary increases. The county adjustments tical wavs to reduce the fire hazard. will be made at the end of the year whereas Salt Lake City will have to wait until June 30, 1973, for any adjustments. BLM-administer- ed off-highw- 860 Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! ay Doug Borg, general manager of the Salt Palace, said that the Salt Palace parking fees will be raised from 50 cents for all day parking. The new rates arc closer to what is charged by comparable lots. The reason given was that at present day-tim- e parking fills the lot and leaves no parking for persons attending Salt Palace functions. During the meeting the financial picture of the Salt Palace was brought out with the Palace showing an increase of revenue up some 7.6 percent over last year. |