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Show Page Ten FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES SPFHAl WASHINGTON PTOtT Bill of Rights For Consumers By Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Mic- h.) f I .'vj (; For the first time in American history a President has sent to the Congress a special message on protections for the consumer. President Kennedy's message is in effect a bill of rights for the consumer. These rights, the President said, include the right to safety, the right to be informed, the right to choose, and the right to be heard. Our national interest requires that concern for the rights of consumers be a major governmental function. The President said: "If consumers arc offered inferior products, if prices are exorbi-tant, if drugs are unsafe or worthless, if the consumer is unable to choose on any informed basis, then his dollar is wasted, his health and safety may be threat-ened, and the national interest suffers. On the other hand, in-creased efforts to make the best possible use of their incomes can contribute more to the well-bein- g of most families than equivalent efforts to raise their incomes." Recognition that the buyer has rights entitled to govern-ment protection and that the; exercise of these rights is essen-tial to the "efficient and equi-table function of our free com-petitive economy" firmly places the economic emphasis where it belongs on genuine consumer sovereignty. The President, in his message to the Congress, pinpointed ad-ministrative and legislative pro-grams to strengthen the national economy and the national inter-est by improving consumer knowledge, choice, and protec-tion. In that part of his program concerning truth in packaging, President Kennedy referred to the investigation that I have con-ducted during the past year on deceptive packaging and labeling of market basket items. ' Our investigation revealed that the new salesman in the market is now the package. The ! question before us is: Can the buyer get the same kind of basic information from the package that he once could expect from the clerk or store owner? This question is answered by the pack-ages themselves. In many cases he cannot. We learned what every housewife already knows that rational shopping in today's mar-ket is difficult, if not impossible, and this is no fault of the shop-per. Too often the packaging and labeling practices mislead rather than inform. Yet these practices are within present laws and regulations. As a necessary ingredient to the right to be informed, the buyer has a right to know not merely what product is inside a package, but how much of the product is in there, and how much it costs on a unit basis. And the buyer has the right to have this basic information pre-sented in a manner readily seen and understood. Legislation which we hope will make rational shopping pos-sible by securing to the consumer his right to be informed will shortly be introduced in Con-gress. We are cooperating with the President in this effort. President Kennedy's consumer program places prooer emphasis on the rights of the American consumer. Giant Underground Fires Help Petroleum Industry Recover Oil Giant underground fires man-mad- e and scientifically-controlle- d are helping answer the nation's ever-increasi- ng needs for low-co- st energy. They joint the way toward freeing billions of barrels of petroleum which otherwise would remain out of reach. Actually, the "fires" are a burning process in the nature of charcoal briquettes in a back-yard grill but these fires may have a combustion front as tall as a 13-sto- ry building. The technique, described by one engineer as "giving lazy oil ' a hotfoot," is called fireflooding. It is one of several secondary-recover- y methods used force oil to flow when natural pressures and pumping cannot to the job. The development of the fire-floo- d method, used in the U.S. only in the past decade, is told in the current issue of Petroleum Today, published by the Amer-ican Petroleum Institute. In the early days of oil pro-duction, about 25 per cent of the oil in a reservoir was considered ultimately recoverable. Today as much as 80 per cent can be re-covered. Sometimes water or gas. pumped down into an oil-beari- ng formation, can provide enough additional pressure to push the oil into a well. When these methods fail, oilmen turn to fire which consumes only 10 per cent of the oil in the reservoir most-ly the heaviest and least usable portion. The lighter oil is pushed ahead of the burning front, through its layer of rock and into a well, where it can be brought to the surface. The fire is ignited and sus-tained by pumping huge quanti-ties of compressed air down into the rock stratum where oil is trapped. The oxygen in the air supports combustion. The fire can be slowed down or smoth-ered by regulating the air sup-ply. The world's largest fireflood operation is near the town of Taft, Calif., 108 air miles north-west of Los Angeles. The syrupy consistency of the oil found there would have kept engineers from recovering more than 8 per cent of the petroleum through the use of natural underground pressure or pumping. But the fire, half a mile below the earth's surface, creeps through the reservoir, pushing the oil toward 25 pro-ducing wells located on all sides. The oil-beari- ng layer covers an area as large as 40 city blocks. Temperatures as high as 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit are produced to get the oil flowing. The whole process is performed quietly and safely under an insulating mantle of earth. Competition among many oil companies has brought about to-day's fireflood system after years of research and experimentation. Fireflood projects have been con-ducted in California, Oklahoma, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Penn-sylvania, Texas and Wyoming. Army Pvt. Billy D. Peterson, son of Erastus Peterson, 880 Scott Ave., recently arrived in Germany and is now assigned to the 2nd Missile Battalion, 84th Artillery. Peterson, a mechanic in the artillery, entered the Army last August and received combat training at Fort Ord, Calif. He graduated from Granite High School. His. mother, Mrs. Cecil D. Dayton, lives at 1922 So. 14th East. WHEREAS, all requirements of law incident to the approval of said application and making said amendment effective have been met. NOW THEREFORE, in con-sideration of the premises and for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, conveni-ence, order, prosperity and wel-fare of the present and future inhabitants of Salt Lake County, including amongst other things, the lessening of congestion in the streets or roads or reducing the waste, of excessive amounts of roads, securing safety from fire and other dangers, provid-ing adequate light and air, clas-sification of land uses and dis-tribution of land development and utilization, protection of the tax base, securing economy in governmental expenditures, fos-tering the County's agricultural and other industries and the pro-tection of both urban and non-urba- n development and pursuant to the power and authority vest-ed in the Board of County Com-missioners of Salt Lake County by the provisions of Title 17 of the Utah Code Annotated, 1953, it is hereby provided as follows: RESOLVED, that the following provisions of Title 8 of the Re-vised Ordinances of Salt Lake County, 1953, are hereby amend-ed as follows: CHAPTER 30 COMMERCIAL ZONE C-- 2 -1. USE REGULATIONS. (1) (2) Automobile trailer sales or rental or part sales; automobile agency for the sale of new cars, including the sale of used cars provided this use is incidental to or located within the same build-ing as the main business; auto-mobile repair including inciden-tal body and fender work, paint-ing, upholstering or welding; addressograph shop; athletic club; awning sales and repair; and archery shop and range, pro-viding the use is conducted with-in a completely enclosed build-ing. CHAPTER 11 FORESTRY ZONE F-- l -1. USE REGULATIONS. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Mines; quarries; gravel pits, including crushers and con-crete batching plants when the crushers or batching Hants Rre used in connection with and as a part of an operation for the removal of sand or gravel from the parcel of property upon which the crushers or batching slants are installed but express-ly excluding asphalt plants or any type of oil or asphalt emul-sion mixing operations. CHAPTER ?fi AGRICULTURAL ZONE A-- 2 -1. USE REGULATIONS. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Mines; quarries; gravel pits, including crushers and con-crete batching plants when the crushers or batching plants are used in connection with and as a part of an operation for the removal of sand or gravel from the parcel of property upon which the crushers or batching olants are installed, but express-ly excluding asphalt plants or any type of oil or asphalt emul-sion mixing operations. This Ordinance shall become effective and in force on the 4th day of September, AD. 1962, which is more than 15 days after its final passage and approval and upon its publication in a newspaper of general circulation within Salt Lake County. Passed and approved by the Board of County Commissioners of Salt Lake County, this 20th day of August. AD. 1962, Com-missone- rs W. G. Larson and Ed-li- n Q. Cannon voting "aye". BOARD OF COUNTY COM-MISSIONERS OF SALT LAKE COUNTY By W. G. Larson, Chairman ATTEST: Alvin Keddington, County Clerk (8-3- 1) i i ORDINANCE The Board of County Commis-sioners of Salt Lake County State of Utah, ordains as follows: WHEREAS, applications have been received by the Board of County Commissioners of Salt Lake County requesting amend-ment to the maps of the Zoning Ordinance of said County; and WHEREAS, said applications have received due and careful consideration by the Salt Lake County Planning Commission and the Board of County Com-missioners of Salt Lake County; and Book Club Expands Annual Grants to Nation's Libraries Harry Scherman, chairman of the board of the Book of the Month Club, announced that an expansion of the club's annual cash awards to small public li-braries for the purchase of books. In 1963 under the newly ex-tended plan the club will award at least $1000 to one small pub-lic library in every state of the union, for a total of 50 indi-vidual awards: All awards will begiven during National Library Week. For the past three years, the club's grants in this field have consisted of a main award of $5,000 and nine additional ones of $1,000 each, ten awards that were competed for by all the small libraries of the nation. Aided by a committee repre-senting the Public Library As-sociation a division of Ameri-can Library Association the club will hereafter give the main award of $5,000 to one of the state winners and to nine others an increased honorable mention award of $1500. Winners in each of the remaining 40 states will receive awards of $1000, bring-ing the total value of the awards to $58,500. The only stipulation will be that the funds shall be used by each library for the pur-chase of books. The system of small library awards, to towns of no more than 25,000 population, was es-tablished in 1959 by the Book of the Month Club as a memo-rial to Dorothy Canfield Fisher, who served as a member of the editorial board of the club from the year of its founding to 1951. a quarter of a century. The original plan was to make a single award of $5,000 each year, and the first one was pre-sented to to the Martha Canfield Memorial Library in Arlington. Vermont, t aehv Heigw,ofHV.h0 Vermont, the village where Mrs. Fisher made her home for many years. In the following year, 1960, applications were invited from all small public libraries that could meet criteria established by the American Library Asso-ciation. The Public Library Association Committee screened the applications received, and recommenedd to the Club the ten they considered to be the most outstanding. From these the winner was chosen. The $5000 award was given in that year to Preble County District Library, a federation of six county libraries in Preble County, Ohio. The directors of the Book of the Month Club, however were so impressed by the evident need of the other nine runners up, by the dedica-tion of their librarians and the cooperation shown in the com-munities which supported them that it was decided to give each of these libraries an honorable mention award of $1000 each, to be received during National Li-brary Week. , The same procedure nine $1000 awards in addition to the main award of $5000, was fol-lowed in 1961 and 1962. The Yuma City-Coun- ty Library of Yuma, Arizona, won the main award in 1961 and the Jenkins Public Library in Jenkins, Ky., in 1962. The nation wide extension of the awards is a result of the club's experience with the re- - cipients over the past four years. "The main award of $5000 has naturally always been an event of considerable importance to the community receiving it, but each year we have also been deeply impresed by the enthusi-asm of those receiving the run-ner up awards. It has been evi-dent that the $1000 award is not only a healthy boost to the book budgets, but encourages groups and individuals within the small communities to give a great deal of support and assistance to their libraries. "The rationale of this new plan of an award to one small library in every state, always with a chance of larger sums is to provide practical help to the communities. Army National Guard Sgt. Richard W. Baer of 2365 East 2815, is scheduled to participate in Exercise Mesa Drive, a two-wee- k joint Army and Air Force training maneuver, at Yakima, Wash., Firing Center recently. Sgt. Baer is a radio operator in the 115th Engineer Battalion's Hedquarters Co., and Army Na-tional Guard unit which was re-called to active duty and is now located at Fort Lewis, Wash. Baer is a 1955 graduate of Olympus High School. Army Specialist Five Robert C. Brewer of 358 Stanton Ave., recently participated with other personnel from the 8th Infantry Division's 12th Engineer Bat-talion in Main Bridge, a com-mand post exercise in Germany. The exercise was designed to test the ability of 8th Division headquarters units to operate under simulated combat condi-tions. Miscellaneous Notices |