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Show Sunday. April 6. 1980. THE HERALD. Provo. Provo Police Plea for Help Unanimously Supported By ROD COLLL 11 Herald Staff Reporter From the highest levels of the Provo Police Department to the patrolmen on the streets, demands for additional manpower are almost unanimously supported. The biggest controversy in the police demand? for added strangth are a heavv number of calls per officer each year and a lack of backup in emergency situations in the city. The figures for 1979 show Provo is number one among 10 cities surveyed with an average of 371 calls per officer, which is well ahead of last place Salt Lake City with onlv an average of 295 per officer. One week ago, a wage and manpower committee from the police department presented their demands to the Provo City Commission. It included two wage proposals and a request of 14 officers be added to the department. Although the city commission has not made a decision on the wage demands, there is a meeting scheduled for Thursday, April 10 between both parties to hash out an agreement. Several patrol officers talked to the Daily "Herald Thursday and say there is still a high deal of emotion concerning the demands, which if are not satisfied, could produce a sickout by several officers. Officer Michael Mock said there are many days when he is on patrol when calls are backed up for several hours with the nearest patrolman almost five minutes away. "Just the other night there was a fight on Center Street and I already had two of them arrested but the backup didn't arrive for a good minute and This may seem like a small amount of time but when you consider an officers life is at stake, time is critical." He indicated that while a backup is not needed in all police calls, the severity of crime seems to be increasing. "It has gotten to the point that almost all of our arrests are multiple busts which requires two officers." he said. "I fully support the demands by the committee and both issues must be addressed by the commissioners since in the past we have taken it in the shorts on wages," he stated. Mock said with calls being stacked up, an officer does not have the chance to write a good report or carry on an investigation on an accident. He added there is a "good chance of a sickout" if the demands of the committee are not met to a one-hal- f. certain degree "To be honest about the situation there is a chance of this happening." he said "In the three years I have been here this is the first time I have seen a majority, especially those who work patrol, united." Patrolman.Greg Duval said not only is there a lack of manpower to cover emergency calls but even routine action by police is hampered by a lack of officers. Commenting on what might happen if city commission failed to meet police demands. Duval said. "I know of no organized effort for a sickout but we are thinking about it " Another patrol officer, Toby 0 Bryant, said the demands by the wage and manpower committee are "timely." He said the most volatile police call is a "family fight" which produces a great deal of uncertainty and stress for an officer. "In many cases by the time an officer has responded to a call like this and solved the problem, the backup is just arriving," he said. O'Bryant said one recent case he remembers which had no police backup was a traffic accident near Utah Valley Hospital. "I was the only officer there and I had to handle the accident investigation and direct the traffic. This requires a lot of time and another officer should have been there to control the traffic to avoid another such occurrance." He said the threat of a "sickout" is more real than people think. "There are some folks in the department who are really talking about it." Sgt. Gary Miner who heads traffic control in the city said the real fear of every patrolman is a lack of backup. "We are in a situation now, and it is not uncommon, to have a sergeant to be the only one on the road available for any given length of time." The Provo Police captain who was quoted in Tuesday's Herald as saying the manpower shortage was "exaggerated" took issue with the article saying he was referring to the Sunday incident at the Star Palace disco when a fight occurred and not the entire manpower issue. "I fully support the ideas of the manpower committee and I definitely think we need 14 additional officers to shore up the force on backup calls." said Capt. Max Littlefield. "While I may have said the manpower shortage was being overstated and we were jumping on the bandwagon. I was simply referring to the Sunday incident where we sent three officers and not the efforts of the committee which I wholeheartedly support," . 4 Utah Congressional Delegation Proposes Clean Air, Water Bills - i "Over the years," he said, "I have argued that a set of national standards could not possibly take into account the many particular circumstances that occur in local situations. I have consistently argued that locally elected officials should have the power to make adjustments in the national standards to take those local circumstances into account." Garn said no member of the Utah delegation favors relaxing environmental standards to the point where human health would be endangered. "The legislation we are introducing very clearly states that no facility can be permitted to endanger health and safety. That principle must be kept intact." The Utah National Guard s 142nd Military Intelligence Co Linguist i. the only unit of its kind in the U S Army, was officially expanded to battalion size today according to Major General Maurice L Watts. Utah adjutant general The units 220 Guardsmen are language experts who spend their two week summer camp periods everywhere from Germany to the Orient doing intelligence work for the Army's Intelligence and Security Command Ninety-sevepercent of the unit are returned LDS missionaries who mastered their language skills while in the mission field This pool of language experts is the reason the unit was organized by the Utah Guard in 1960. Its continued demand by the Army's top intelligence agency resulted in the expansion Battalion headquarters and "A" Company will remain in Salt Lake City and second Company will be headquartered in Provo with a detachment in Ogden Gen Watts said this will allow the unit to take advantage of the language experts at BYU and Weber State College respectively real-worl- d Members of the Intermountain Branch of the American Society for Microbiology elected Dr. Robert W. Sidwell president of the branch for 1980-8and Dr. Bill B. Barnett secretary - treasurer for the same The microbiologists held their annual meeting on the Brigham Young University Campus. The Intermountain Branch of the society encompasses microbiologists in university, hospital, and industry from Utah, southern Idaho, and the Las Vegas area of Nevada. The organization is a subsidiary of the American Society for Microbiology, which is a major U.S. scientific society devoted to the advancement of all phases of microbiological research. period. Dr. Sidwell is currently research professor in the Department of Biology and in the Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences at the university. Dr. Barnett is research assistant professor in the Department of Biology. National, Local Educators To Convene at XU' by TV view it on a large screen. Following presentations by national figures in higher education, participants will be able to take part in a ques- University of Utah President David P. Gardner will host a regional section of a televised national conference on current issues in higher education on Tuesday, April 8. The program, sponsored by the American Council on Education, will be beamed to audiences in various parts of the United States via closed circuit satellite transmission. In this area, the program will be picked up by KUED and relayed to the Social Work Auditorium where participants will tion and answer session with the presentors. About 50 policy makers, planners and key administrators from colleges and universities in Utah, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada are expected to attend the session at the U. A buffet luncheon will precede the teleconference which begins at 1 p.m. "Spring Parade of Gems " Timpanogos Gem and Mineral Society blue bag official-jlookin- DEPOSITS AS LOW AS Original Jewelry, !on ' programs is in- ortchanged based on icensus counts. Ric Medina is manager of a census district en- compassing 300,000 on 6 month Time Certificates 11, 12 peo- in the heart of the Los Angeles barrio ! home of an estimated 3 million Hispanics. He "said the job can and will ! be done, but not easily. J "We expect a lower "mail return than other districts The return mail average nationwide will 80 probably be about 75 to " he said. percent effective annual yield) (14.75 & 13 Orem Campus 1200 South 800 West, Orem i Passbook Savings Earn To Up ANNUALLY 7 (7.19 effective annual yield) interest carried daily from date of deposit and paid quarterly. All accounts protected up to a maximum of ten thousand dollars by the Industrial Loan Guaranty Corporation, a private corporation which is not an instrumentality of the state of Utah. All SHOW TIMES Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ! evitably be $1000 & Gold UTAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE !Estrada of the Mexican Jof the U.S. government so high Hispanics will 14 MINIMUM at red white and " said Esther ;they are, saying distrust in the race for financial security and we have more than one plan for you. NEW RATES! g Defense jAmerican Legal and Education Fund. The group plans to chalcensus lenge the .1980 'results, no matter what IIILMEID ON including census takers, "Hispanics won't open their doors to someone an What's a Gaod Savings Plan Worth? ANNUALLY ment types carrying UNITED THRIFT and Mi APRIL jn East Los Angeles. And there is growing concern jthe 1980 census may not provide the answer. ! The aliens are natural-J- y suspicious of govern- SaverslChoice One good plan can put you barrio Spanish-speakin- g Annual Twenty-fir- st Artifacts, etc. LOS ANGELES (UPI) - No one knows how many illegal aliens live in the United States' biggest s pansion will open up about 70 new posi Hons for prospective Guardsmen who Smithing, Rocks, Gems, Minerals, 'r- There are 865 ipwu-- of trees native to the continental United Slates, including a few imports that have become naturalized i that they now reproduce themselves in the wild state The oldest living trees in the world are reputed to be the bristlecone pines, growing on the and crags of California's White Mountains Some are estimated to be more than 4.60U years old The oldest known redwoods are about 3.500 vears old USU Faculty Named Head Society for Microbiology Silver Census Problem Revealed want to put their language experience to work in support of country as well as The battalion is commanded by Lt Col Richard C. Roberts and has sections specializing in 26 separate languages or dialects Col Roberts noted that the ex- n Passion Play Seen Creating Debate West Germany (UPI) -OBERAMMERGAU, The Oberammergau Passion Play enacted every 10 years is arousing unintended passions this year that are political and artistic as well as religious. Every decade since the 1630s, the Bavarian village has performed a play depicting the suffering of Christ and his death on the Cross. The tradition arose after 1632, when a wandering mercenary brought the plague to the village straddling the river Ammer where it cuts through the stony Alpine foothills. 25 age 142nd Guard Officially Tagged i D.C. The Utah Congressional ; WASHINGTON, delegation today announced introduction of legislation which would require an easing of federal water air pollution requirements that threaten to force Jnd if the public closure of a factory or business health will not be endangered. ' The legislation consisting of amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Clean Air Act - was introduced simultaneously in the Senate and House by Sens. Jake Gam and Orrin and Reps. Gunn McKay and Hatch (both pan Marriott. The amendments stipulate that if the governor of a state advises a federal agency that a plant or facility will be "adversely affected" by pollution requirements "to an extent that a closing will be threatened," or unemployment greatly increased, he requirements must be modified or withdrawn, In the case of the Clean Air Act, the governor would propose a State Implementation Plan revision emission limitations which establishes tor the plant. For a area, the SIP must demonstrate "reasonable further progress toward attainment and maintenance of ambient air quality standards." In either case, the proposed legislation says "the Administrator shall approve the revision." 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