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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1960 Page Five Committee Rates Pollution as Major U. S. Water Problem A Public Health Service report to the Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources shows that pollution is one of the principal water problems fac-ing the nation in the years ahead, Sentor Frank E. Moss said this week. Senator Moss is a member of the committee which is studying the nation's future water needs. Printed under the title Pollution Abatement, the report is Part II of a three part report on munici-pal water supply and pollution problems being prepared by the Public Health Service for the committee. The Senator emphasized the following points made by the report: "It clearly shows the growing magnitude and importance of the pollution problem confront-ing the American people in their search for enough clean and safe water to meet growing require-ments in the United States. "The Public Health Service points out that even construction of the backlog of municipal sew-age treatment plants now plan-ned will find streams and rivers in 1980 still carrying 232 times the pollution allowable for water supply under present conditions of stream flow. "Neither sewage treatment plants nor water supply treat-en- t plants can now satisfactorily remove certain new types of pollutants, such as household de-tergents, insecticides and radio-active contamination. "Streams are now receiving about twice the pollution from municipal sysetms alone which the State Sanitary Engineers es-timated in 1955 that they could then carry and still be acceptable as water sources. "In addition to the increased volume of wastes, the report ex-plains that postwar technology has introduced many new types of pollutants, such as synthetic organic chemicals and radioac-tive contamination, increasing use of garbage grinders, newly-identifi- es viruses and other dis-ease producing organisms, weed killers and fertilizers, increasing stream temperatures from ex-panded use of water for indus-trial cooling and many others. Hazards are presented not only to public drinking water but also to fish and wildlife resources." "Utah has its own serious prob-lems created by lake and stream polluaon ,and I pointed many of these out during the recent Sen-ate debate on the so called Clean Water Bill which many of us fought for to more nearly do the job of giving American uncon-taminat- ed water." The bill passed both houses of Congress, but was killed by the President's veto, an action which the Senator called "incredibly short siehted " Utah Sportsmen Win Big Game Trophies Two northern Utah sportsmen were awarded first place honors this week by the Boone and Crocket Club, official record keepers of all North American big game trophies. First place medals and certifi- - cates of award were presented to Jack W. Way of Ogden and Wil-for- d Zaugg of Clearfield. Way rated his first for taking the largest moose of the Shiras or Wyoming species to be killed on the North American continent during the past two years. The animal was taken during Utah's first moose hunt on the Hayden Fork of the Bear River. The ani-mal measured 6 feet 9 inches high at the shoulder. It's twelve point rack measured 52 inches. First place honors went to Zaugg for the largest trophy ' mule deer to be taken in North America for the same period. The animal, a four point, was taken in the vicinity of Echo on the last day of the regular sea-son in 1958 and had an antler spread of 31 inches. Awards are based on total points obtained through various measurements of the .antlers. Both animals will be recorded in the permanent files of the club and will rank among the top ten trophy heads for their respective class. The acquiring of culture is the developing of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. Jesse Rpnnpt.t. Moss Co-sponso- rs Bill To Continue Air Rescue Service Senator Frank E. Moss this week announced that he is a bill to maintain the Air Rescue Service of the Air Force. Current plans call for cutting back the service in the zone of interior from six squadrons to two, one stationed at Hawaii and one at Florida. The bill would establish by-law a service tha is now main-tained by the Air Force. Senator Moss said, "Our wide areas and rugged terrain make an air rescue service important to Utah and the entire West. Considering the rapid growth in private flying it does not seem that units stationed at Florida and Hawaii could possibly cover the needs of the Western United States and Alaska. "Of course, it is always desir-able to reduce expenses by elimi-nating expendable services and perhaps air rescue can be han-dled through some other facility at lower cost, but we in Utah must carefully consider the ef-fects of the elimination of Texas and California air rescue groups of the Air Force. This bill will get all of the facts before the Congress." It states that the mission' of the Air Rescue Service is "to provide, maintain, and operate search and rescue facilities for the purpose of rendering assist-ance to persons who are in dis-tress as the result of military and non military aircraft accidents." The service is directed to co-operate with other rescue serv-ice, including the United States Coast Guard. By mid-yea- r the Air Force pro-poses to inactivate air rescue squadrons at the following: El-mand- orf Base, Alaska; Hamilton Air Force Base, California; Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts; and Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas. I 'oducedzt 1 Long John Scotch is Glenugie, Scotland J I exclusively by the distinguished old firm of Seager, flf if I Evans & Co., Ltd., founded in 1805. It is favored the few?ff I I WOrldoverforitsdelicateScotchflavor...andlightness! P'f? I 100 Scotch Whisky Distilled, Matured And Botthd In Scotland rrss l i 86 PROOF BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY- - DREYFUS, ASHBY & CO., INC, N.Y., N.Y. COLE U. 5?. IMPORTERS. If It's Printing . . . Call EM 4-84- 64 S.L. School District Spends $34 Million For Capital Outlay Since end of World War II, Salt Lake School District has spent a total of $3421 1,975 for capital outlay. Last year the district spent $1,261,777 for cap-ital outlay purposes. These facts were reported by Utah Foundation in their 1960 edition of the Statistical Alpha-bet of Government in Utah. This 65 page reference publication is a compilation of the most wanted and most frequently used data pertaining to the government and the economy of Utah. The Foundation abstract shows that all forty Utah school dis-tricts spent a total of $181,344.-74- 0 between 1945 and 1959 for capital outlay purposes. During the 1958-5- 9 school year, capital outlay expenditures in Utah amounted to $26,851,844. In order to finance this huge capital outlay program, many districts raised part of the need-ed funds through the sale of bonds. The Foundation publica-tion shows that the total net in-debtedness (after allowing for sinking funds) of all forty school districts at the end of the 1958-5- 9 school year was $55,841,979. The report reveals that Salt Lake School District had a net outstanding indebtedness of $2,-244,0- 00 at the close of the 1958-5- 9 school year. |
