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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1973 Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal Newt Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah 711 South West Temple Telephone 364-846- 4 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Publishes "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation Number 26 Volume 53 March of Dimes, National PTA F Holds Quality of Life Conference the A discussion on the tine art of parenting as a compelling new field of medicine will be one of the highlights at the Rocky Mountain States Quality of Life Conference, October 15 to 17, in Denver, Colorado. by the National PTA and the National Foundation March of Dimes, the conference will emphasize the importance of adolescent family We also will life education. stress the importance of making sure this education comes early enough and is sufficiently comprehensive to assure the quality of . young people's lives," said Mrs. Romine Foster, conference moderator and National PTA vice president from Region' I ' Program topics and speakers include Adolescent Parents and Their Infants," Grace Olivares, director, Institute for Social Resources and Development, University of New Mexico Thought for Food," Mrs. John Cacheris, program director, Dairy Council of Arizona; and Pattern in Parent Education," an hi school education program for unwed adolescents. One of the highlights of the day will be a rap session with school age parents and their professional advisors from Denvers Aurora High School." Students also will have time to talk about what they would like to learn concerning family life and living," she said. Co-sponso- red ssahio Anniversary of Darkness (Continued from page one) have soon forgotten the importance of energy to their lives. All around New York City in the years since that day, whenever plans have been put forward to build a new electric generating station to supply the growing demand for energy, opposition has generally arisen. Whether the fuel to be used was oil, coal, nuclear or falling water, there has been tooth and nail battles with the environmental groups and others which have delayed and sometimes totally frustrated construction of power generating facilities. Many of these would have improved rather than harmed the envrionment around them. The same story has been repeated in practically every secetion of the country, and so, even in the Pacific Northwest, long a region of abundant power resources, brownouts, blackouts and power rationing are now being talked about. Still, it is generally the rule that every obstruction is thrown in the way of the siting, licensing, construction and operation of even the most carefully engineered and environmentally compatible power generating facility. No one heard the alarm from the subways and elevator shafts of New York City, and no one sees the approaching shadows. In the interest of being able to function as a nation, we may hope that not too much time is spent looking for a scapegoat or pointing the finger of blame. We may hope that more time is spent formulating and adopting constructive national energy policies to solve the problem that is spent investigating the actions of major oil companies to find out if they are holding out a few tanks of gasoline. It is said that most people learn only by experience. The question now is getting to be, how much experience do we need? We have an opportunity to demonstrate that as a nation we can learn from past mistakes and thereby more constructively guide the course of future events. i From Leader to Beggar If Mrs. Foster will open the second day session with a discussion on PTA People Power." Dr. , Joseph Butterfield, director, the Newborn Center, the Childrens Hospital, Denver, will moderate the afternoon general session, The Arts of Survival. The session will feature The Evolving Science of Life," by David L. Rimoin, Medical Genetics, Harbor .General Hospital, Los Angeles, California, and Adolescent Medicine," by Dr. Henry E. Cooper, director Adolescent Center, and associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Medical Center. On the final day of the conference, a teen panel from the Denver area will be moderated by Dr. Earl Reum, activities director of the Denver School System. The panel topic is Health and Family Living Education." PTA People Power will be emphasized during the concluding session which features discussion of the topics, How Does PTA Mobilize.. Community Resources for Action? and Impressions and Implications for PTA Action," by Mrs. Douglas Gormly, New York PTA leader; Priorities in Parenting," by Elaine Whitelaw, director, volunteer services, the National Foundation. Dr. Effie Ellis, program consultant, the American Medical Association, will speak on Human Potential the Chal- - Utah Educators Further Careers With United Nations Program Seventeen teachers, especially of Science and Social Studies selected for special qualifications, including camera skills, will be conducted on a private diplomatic mission to East Africa, following a sendoff at the UN Plaza, December 22. They will report to the Unietd Nations Environmental Secretariat in Nairobi, confer with world leaders, engage in cultural exchanges and intensively field study ecological problems of concern to Africans and Americans. To help make this vivid to students and community groups, the educators will be given special instruction in candid and wildlife photography and recording, and taught how to produce sound-slid- e documentaries to quality standards. While in Africa, the group will select a natural resource conser vation project through which Americans may express their environmental concern, in cooperation with Africans. Thus, the Cameraides" will be able to offer students and adult audiences concrete opportunities for involvement in protecting the ecosphere. The group will spend 23 days in preparation abroad, (curtailment is possible.) Individuals will cover their share of costs, which including the years counsel totals $1777. This is tax deductible, if anticipated cooperation is given. Incremental credits are in prospect. According to Dr. Walter D. Talbot, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Utah educators, if Interested in participat- we in the United States continue to engage in one of our favorite national pastimes bickering over the finer points of the ecology question much longer, we will find ourselves powerless to tackle the real problems ing, should write to: Friends of Africa in America at hand: providing enough energy to sustain and nourish 330 South Broadway this nation in the years ahead. As Mobil Oil Company Tarrytown, N.Y. 10591 spokesman has explained, The more time we lose talking about this countrys energy crisis the more dangerous bark upon aggressive development of potential energy that crisis becomes. such a possibility will remain Time is something which we have very little of, yet resources to their fullest, we waste it listening to the emotion-lade- n rhetoric of the in the real of fantasy. uninformed instead of getting on with the important developmentof energy, a project which, by the way, can be accomplished with minimum impact to the environment. Even under the best of conditoins, it is a lengthy process. It takes five years to develop an underground coal mine. Two years are required to develop an oil field dial offshore. Now we are beginning to feel the consequences of humoring environmental extremists for so long and it hurts. Domestic oil and gas reserves lie dormant, nuclear power plants exist only on blueprints in many areas and not a single refinery is under construction in the U.S. Unless we formulate rational, comprehensive, long range policies immediately, this nation will be reduced from a world leader to a beggar, pleading for any energy scraps the rest of the world deigns to throw its way. If we em- - Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! LEASED GRflPEVINl v y A five man Salt Lake County voting machine delegation will go at Salt Lake County expense, to California where they will observe a voting machine system in operation. The county is considering purchasing a number of voting machines to facilitate annual election in the community. Making the trip will be County Clerk Sterling Evans, John Klas, Kent Shearer, Dexter Ellis and Harold Schindler. Salt Lake City will host a military National Security Seminar, according to Captain Robert L. Wells, director of the Seminar school of the industrial College of the Armed Forces. Seven National Security Seminars are held in the country each year. Salt Lake City has hosted the seminar before with the last time being in 1959.. Environmentalists are a little happier this week and the representatives of the Sierra Club and the Interior Department said after a meeting that the Kaiparowitz coal fired steam plant is unlikely to be built on the original site in southwestern Utah. The rumor is. that they are not going to abandon the building of a coal fired plant but are now looking at alternative - sites. The Central Utah Reclamation Project appeared to be in danger this week after being severely cut back by Interior Secretary C. B. Morton because of conservation and National Forest objections to ite impact on trout streams in the Uinta Basin area. Senator Frank E. Moss said that Reclamation Commissioner G. C. Stramm has agreed to elimination of all irrigation water from the Bonneville Unit of the project and reducing the water to be produced by 25 per cent. Salt Lake County will take time out on any further industrial bonding to set guidelines, the Commission said after their Commission meeting this week. At the suggestion of County Attorney Carl Nemelka the three-ma- n commission indicated that immediate action will be taken to set the policy which the county has lacked up to now. In the past the Commission has approved county bonding for three firms. . The revenue sharing check for Salt Lake County will be delayed for failure to complete government forms. required Salt Lake County was to have received some $1;733,019 from the federal government. We had a small problem figuring out the allotment for the county. We submitted the forms about two days ago and we should be getting the check any time now, said Salt Lake County Auditor Gerald Hansen. Action on the recommendation of Deputy Treasurer Meredith Paulsen, Salt Lake City Com- missioners approved the raising of their car allowances by $35. Presently each commissioner and the City Auditor receives $150 a month car allowance. |