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Show Thursday, November 8, 1979 Page 12 Tow Job N ew Shop For Vehicles Park City's continuously expanding fleet of city service ser-vice vehicles soon will have a second home. Now under construction is a new $333,000 city maintenance shop which will supplement the service of the old shop by Utah Radiation No Greater Than In Rest Of Country The amount of radiation to which Utahns are exposed today is no greater than that of other Americans living at similar altitudes, according to a study recently released by the U.S. Department of Energy and received at the University of Utah Medical Center. The report, prepared by the Environmental Measurements Measure-ments Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, says that external radiation exposure rates in Utah are fairly uniform throughout the state and are comparable compar-able to the mean exposure rate for the entire United States. Open air radiation or the total radiation that would be received by an individual standing at a particular site at a particular time was measured at more than 150 sites in 56 different cities and towns in Utah between June 5 and July 3, 1979. One purpose of these tests was "to determine the residual resi-dual levels of fission products. prod-ucts. . . in soils as a result of nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site during 1951-58." The DOE report states that "although about 20 years have elapsed since the cessation ces-sation of these weapons tests, it was felt that C S P S 3QE SEE CMDIDE- Park City's newest restaurant is now booking holiday parties. For any gtotips or i persons please call . -0- Anderson Lumber. The new shop, located just east of Mt. Air Market, boasts eight vehicle storage stalls, two 5' by 30' grease pits, vehicle wash stall, and heavy duty hoists with enough room left over to valuable corroberative data could be obtained by examining examin-ing the residual levels of certain long-lived radionuclides radio-nuclides still present in Utah soils as a result of fallout." The recent tests determined the amount of radiation being produced as a result of cesium, strontium and plu-tonium plu-tonium in Utah soils. The results in this report deal only with cesium. Strontium Stron-tium and plutonium radiation radia-tion were also measured but it will be several months before the results are available. avail-able. For residual radiation from aged fallout outside the body, cesium 137 is considered consid-ered the most dangerous as it can penetrate the body, according to Dr. Charles W. Mays, research professor of radiobiology at the University Univer-sity of Utah Medical Center. "Radiation from strontium and plutonium can enter the body only through the food chain," Dr. Mays said. The tests measured the radiation coming from both naturally occurring radioactive radio-active materials and radioactive radio-active materials left in the soil as a result of fallout from the open air atomic tests at both the Nevada Test Sites in the 1950s. It also recorded the radiation received as a result of past Soviet and 3BE BE I Q V. n '' - store everything from vehicle ve-hicle parts to road base and give the city water crew new office space. Completion of the L-shaped building is scheduled for sometime this winter. City Chinese open air nuclear t. sting. While the DOE report concludes that radiation rates are fairly uniform throughout Utah and are comparable to other parts of the United States, Utahns receive about 50 percent more radiation from cosmic rays than in most other parts of the country. This is due to our higher altitudes. The DOE report shows that Utahns receive between one and four millirads of radiation radia-tion per year from fallout compared to between 37 and 56 millirads per year from cosmic rays. This means that presently there is no danger of significant exposure to radioactivity in Utah as the result of past nuclear testing. tes-ting. "This data from the Department Depart-ment of Energy confirms an earlier study done by the Utah State Division of Health and says once again that Utah today is a safe place to live and visit," Governor Scott M. Matheson said. "While the DOE report says that there is no significant danger due to radiation at the present time, it does not answer the questions as to what the exposures were during the testing and what the results of that exposure . . . OOPS i.'..v.''riirA'....-.-,'i. JIM WHIT PLUMBING Sewer. repair. & remodeling new constructions . 649-9497 I Manager Wayne Matthews says all of the city's service equipment, except transportation, transpor-tation, will be moved to the new facility. City buses will continue to be stored and serviced at the old maintenance mainten-ance shed. might be," Dr. Mays said. "Dr. Joseph L. Lyon, associate assoc-iate professor of epidemiology epidemi-ology at the University of Utah and co-direcotr of the Utah Cancer Registry, recently published a study which shows a 2.4 fold increase in leukemias in some Utah children during the testing. Dr. Lyon and other scientists as the University Uni-versity of Utah presently are preparing a research proposal pro-posal to the Federal government govern-ment for a definitive, long-term long-term study of the possible effects of low-level radiation as is believed to have occurred in Utah and adjacent adja-cent states during the period of the Nevada tests," Dr. Mays said. The recent DOE study shows that the highest radiation radia-tion rates were measured in Beaver County and western Iron County. The lowest were in Logan, Cache County. Coun-ty. These higher levels are due "in general, to greater amounts of all of the naturally occurring nucle-ides nucle-ides or radioactivity-producing materials," the study said. The highest single exposure rate measured was on a private lawn in Monticello which is located near an abandoned uranium mill. Carnival Smashing Success Marsac School's annual Halloween Carnival was termed a "smashing success" suc-cess" by organizers. More than $2,000 was raised to benefit the elementary and middle schools. All tickets were sold out during the first hour of the event and had to be resold several times to accomodate all the carnival goers. The biggest moneymaker was the raffle which pulled in more than $1,200". ,4.,,, . .. SUBSCRIBED & Water. - . 1 amn Two proposals for a towing service were presented to the city at last week's City Council meeting, and Cliff Reid of the Kimball Junction Chevron was awarded the contract. City Manager Wayne Matthews recommended the council accept Reid's proposal pro-posal because it offered the city less responsibility in the collection of fees. The other proposal was presented by local resident and End Run owner Tom Hurd. Hurd's agreement included billing the city every month for services rendered. The city then would pay him and be responsible for collecting delinquent impound fees. Under Reid's proposal, he would collect all the monies himself, releasing the city from that responsibility. Reid intends to lease about one acre of ground near the landfill east of Park City to be used as an impound lot. He will screen the area with a fence to hide the impounded im-pounded cars. Reid told the council some of his problems in the past were associated with complaints com-plaints about his unsightly impound lot at Kimball Junction, and the fact that many local residents seemed to have difficulty repossessing repossess-ing their cars from the junction. He said if the impound lot was closer and screened from view, many of the problems would be solved. Councilman Richard Martinez asked the proposed hours of operation of the impound lot, citing agitated tourists who might not be able to retrieve cars during the night. Matthews responded re-sponded that the one-year contract specifies hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. all week, and closed Sundays, but modifications modifi-cations could be made to accommodate such cases. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Wednesday Evening Meeting Public Warmly Welcome 7:30 p.m. 2524 Lucky John Drive 649-7264 Well I lost and I'm disappointed... To all who tried to get me back on the City Council I say "THANKS" Particularly I want to thank those who believed in me 4 enough to support me with funds which paid for my f advertising: (in alphabetical order) ir'Capson, Morris, McComb Charles E. Sellier, Schick Sunn Classic Productions, Inc. Jack Sweeney Councilman Bob Wells noted the Park City resort recently purchased a tow truck to move illegally parked cars on resort property. pro-perty. He commented that the resort has had difficulty in the past with skiers parking their cars on access roads around the resort, backing up traffic. He suggested sug-gested the resort tow truck could police the access roads in addition to their parking lot to help keep that area clear. The council discussed the problems associated with that arrangement, including a skier returning at the end of the day unable to find his car, and likely calling the police. It was suggested the license number of the car could be kept on a list with the parking lot attendants and also called into the police. City Attorney Mike McCoy noted federal courts have upheld that cars are considered con-sidered property and can't simply be removed without violating due process of law. He added that standards must be established allowing a car to be towed only in an emergency or after reasonable reason-able effort has been made to locate the owner. Matthews responded that during the winter cars are generally impounded because be-cause they are illegally parked and interfere with city snowplowing, and every effort would be made to first find the owner. The council unanimously voted to award the towing contract to Reid, and to deputize his drivers so police won't have to be called before a car is taken away. The council agreed towing is an inconvenience to everyonethe every-onethe car owner, the police and the towing service. 649-7747 Michael McComb 4 car repair r- NOW Datsun Toyota Volvo Saab Honda Mercedes Benz BMW Volkswagen Porsche Kimball Junction AMOCO NOW OPEN Michael McComb 649-9981 . vvj,.i,v.r'.c.- .'..o.- car repair - - - - --- -' ELEANOR BENNETT OPEN VT V i V 171 eJI 3Q 3QE 3Q |