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Show Statehouse Report Drug Rehabilitation Center Use Sought for Price Job Corps Unit BY C. SHARP The former Job Corps Center Cen-ter south of Price will become be-come a drug rehabilitation center for (he state if an application ap-plication made by Gov. Calvin Cal-vin L. Rampton is approved. Hampton has applied to the U. S. Bureau of Land Management for transfer of the property without charge to the state for the proposed drug treatment and vocational vocation-al training center. It is proposed that up to 220 persons could receive treatment plus classroom instruction, in-struction, skilled training and vocational education. Under federal law, says Kenneth C. Olson, state planning plan-ning coordinator, the BLM could ransfer the title to the state for a project of high social priority. High Priority Rehabilitation of drug addicts ad-dicts lias high priority ind could rate federal grants for the training and treatment, he said. The center has been closed clos-ed since last July. It is on a WO acre tract of land on the west side of U-10, the road to Huntington. A section of state fand lies immediately west of this tract which could provide for future expansion. expan-sion. Appraised value of the center cen-ter is $3 million. It includes a large field house and gymnasium, gym-nasium, baseball diamond, library, four dormitories and facilities for teaching welding, weld-ing, carpentry, auto mechanics, mechan-ics, TV repairing, electronics, electron-ics, operation and repair of heavy equipment, dry cleaning clean-ing and laundering, and secretarial sec-retarial work. It has a central cen-tral heating plant and sewerage. sew-erage. Committee Planned , Bruce Woolley, executive secretary of Rampton's Drug Abuse Committee, helped prepare the application. "The state needs a rehabilitation rehab-ilitation facility because it can help young people in Ihree or four ways," he said. "Not all kids on drugs need psychiatric help and constant therapy," he continued. con-tinued. "Whore they do need this help it is available through the State Mental Health Division. "Where a youngster needs to get away for a 'drying out' period, the proposed center could provide invaluable inval-uable and our committee recommends its establishment. establish-ment. "Keep 'Em Busy" "In the center he could be kept so busy developing him- self educationally and physically phys-ically that he could gain a new outlook. He also could loarn work habits and 'know-how' 'know-how' that will fit him for future employment." When the Kaiparowits coal-fired coal-fired steam-electric plant is built possibly beginning in 1972 at Warm Creek, Kane County, it will not pollute Utah's air or water to any marked degree. This was pledged by executives exec-utives of the companies who will foot the bill for the $500 million facility at an appreciation appre-ciation dinner Oct. 8 in Salt Lake City. "I'm aware that the big challenge for us is that we don't create an abbrasive situation, an irritant to people peo-ple or something that would be harmful to life," said William Wil-liam R. Gould. Three Firms Gould is senior vice president presi-dent of Southern California Edison Co. one of three public pub-lic utility firms behind the project. M. C. Titus, executive vice president of Arizona Public Service Co., outlined a timetable: time-table: A drilling program to last 18 months to two yeans to prove up the coal reserves. This could moan that it will be the spring of 1972 "before we know the extent of ttu reserves and the power conditions," con-ditions," he said. Walter A. Zitlau, executive vice president of San Diego Gas & Electric Co., said, "We are prepared to s.-e Kaiparowits through in the greatest of style." Added Process Rampton expressed hope that Kaiparowits coal for the plant can be run through a process which will reduce it to petroleum by-products leaving a char to be fed into the generating furnaces. Dr. George R. Hill, dean of the University of Utah'3 College of Mines and Mineral Miner-al Industiies, which has received re-ceived grants totaling $1 million for research into such uses for coal, attended the dinner meeting. Such a program could establish es-tablish many by-product industries in-dustries in Utah, the governor gover-nor pointed out. Zitlau said his company alone would have need for all the five million kilowatts of power in the not too distant dis-tant future. Rampton toU' Utah scho;l teachers and administrators Oct. 9 that ? would be ?. wonderful thing if Utah's average av-erage per capita income could reach the national average. av-erage. Below National Average Per capita income her? was $1,300 below the national average last year and It looks like it will be $1,000 below ihis year. It will not be realistic to expect Utah to reach the average salary level for teachers tea-chers until its income rises, the governor warned. Utah's average teacher salary sal-ary increased from $7,377 i: 19C8-69 to $7,950 for the . 1969-70 1969-70 school year, he said. The Mountain States average now is $8,008 and the U. S. average av-erage is $8,800, he said. William G. Bruhn, formerly form-erly of Panguitch, is the new chief of the office of local affairs in Rampton's office. He was deputy secretary of state, the regional administrator admin-istrator of the Small Business Administration in Salt Lake City. With the change in administration, Bruhn was transferred to Cleveland, Ohio, but decided to take the Utah position instead. |