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Show Utah Plan for U.S. Welfare Called 'One of the Simplest' I B DONALD H MAY WASHINGTON CPU Of all the welfare revi-sioplans piled high on committee desks in Congress one of the simplest comes from Utah Since 1976. Utah has required welfare recipients who are able to work to do so, or thev get no welfare check "The work ethic in Utah is probably as high as anywhere in the nation. said Norman Angus depu director of public entitlements for the state who outlined the system last week to Sen Daniel Moynihan D-Y at a hearing held bv a welfare subcommittee N Y at a hearing held by a welfare subcommittee Angus said employable welfare recipients in Utah primarily adult men and women with children of school age are required to accept employment job - ' CORAL THEATRE " " ... OUKANrOI III ' .'iir.ing or to lake part in a community as a condition of receiving welfare work project The work projects are conducted by 300 sponsors slate and local agencies and nonprofit organizations ranging from school systems to the Salvation Army Welfare applicants who do not succeed in finding a regular job must work 96 hours at these sites to quaiifv for puolic assistance In a recent 200 pe"-pipenoc! Angus said ere assigned lo worn projects During the same period 1 300 people left the program including 222 who failed f work the re quired hours Without extenuating circumstances. Angus said a person who does not complete the required work ends up witn his welfare case marked closed And what happens to them''' asked Movmhar. We don t know said Angus Utah has 13 000 welfare recipients New York City has million Moynihan said such vast differences may mean Utah's plan has little relation to many other areas But he told Angus "I wish the Washington bureauracv were not so fearful of vou h 1 e TT - SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Ted Himstreet. who survived a purge of many top state officials appointed by former Gov Calvin Rampton, has resigned as state personnel director Himstreet submitted his resignation Thursday, telling Gov Scott Matheson he wanted to work in some other part of state government after leading the personnel department for 14 years Himstreet, who was Salt Lake City bureau manager for the old International News Service, served under Rampton for his three terms and stayed on two years under Matheson. while several other department heads lost their jobs under the new administration The resignation is effective Dec rmm ONE NIGHT ONLY WEDNESDAY 1 7:15 ' 31 STARTS THURSOtY 3 DAYS ONLY! THURS. FH, NOV, 22 4 9:00 P.M. ' .nnnnnnnn, This condition resulted primarilv from the division s aifficultv in determining precisely the amount of funds still available to Be spent as they approached fiscal year end. Jciirn aiu in an audn released Friday He said the blame for deficit spending rested cn rxith the division and the state Finance Depart- ment Jensen recommend that the division improve the quality and reliability of its own acounting records curately to more acdetermine the of money available to spent at any given time He also recommended that the Finance Depart ment mon"or the money spent by each section within the division to make sure they do not spend more than is available Only some sections of the division overspent in fiscal 1977, but when all sections were added together wound the division up in the hole. Jensen said Money was deducted from the division s fiscal 1978 budget to cover the overspending Dision officials said they are now using a ledger system that will give then i bettei idea of Ul!fti V''Im'! 'J KENNETH TUCKER li one of eight scientist involved Id bee research at the I S Department of Agriculture Bee Breeding Center at Baton Rouge, La. Here he examines the queen, at left, and the drone bee at the resea. h center ederal scientists there are try ing lo breed the ideal bonev bee lhat will live longer be more resistant to disease, more productive and less readv lo sting (UPI Telephotoi F Scientists Redesigning Bees To Boost Their Productivity - In a pastoral setting BATON ROUGE. La (UPI) squeezed between a Mississippi River levee and tracks of the Illinois Central Railroad, federal scientists are trying to breed the ideal honeybee. The importance of bee research is made more apparent by a few statistics: More than 90 crops grown in the United States depend on bees for pollination Alfalfa alone requires two or three colonies, or hives, per acre for proper seed production. Bee colonies containing upwards of 100.000 bees are worth 20 to 40 times as much for their pollen as for the honey they produce To meet the agricultural demands about 50C tons of live bees are produced for sale each year in the United States, mostly in the South and in California. A Louisiana legislator, promoting adoption of the bee as the state insect in 1977, put it this way. "If there were no honeybees there would be no research scientist at the Bioenvironmental Bee Laboratory in Beltsville Md One pollen substitute, made from soybean, already is available commercially Shimanuki said his center also is testing a derivative of whey, cotton seed meal and other protein sources such as powdered milk or eggs Shimanuki said bees already are being threatened as former fields are turned into factories, highways and subdivisions, and mowing gives way to spraying weed killer along roadways "We have to find ways to manipulate the populations of bees so that we can build them up faster, and build them up in areas that we couldn't otherwise use," he said. "This is why we are looking at substitutes." In addition to being an irreplaceable field hand for the nation's farmers the bee is increasingly valued in the United States for its honey and beeswax, and in Europe for pollen and a residue called propolis. Bee venom also is being studied as a possible source of new drugs. Calvin Bessonet, president of Louisiana's largest honey packing company, said in recent years his business has increased about 20 percent a year, parttrend and partly ly because of a because of increased demands from the Middle East. Natural food eaters prefer honey to refined sugar both for taste and health reasons. It is a regular part of the diet of Middle Easterners who can't get enough of it at home. About 30 percent of the 2.5 million pounds of honey packaged each year by Bessonet Bee and Honey Co. goes into jars with Arabic labels. The cosmetic industry uses a million pounds of beeswax a year in beauty aids. Several years ago pollen tablets went on the market in Europe, promoted as an elixir for youthful vigor and selling for about $5 per hundred. In the same category propolis, a gummy residue used to fill cracks in hives, was promoted in Scanc dinavian countries as having and regenerative qualities. It sold for about $300 a pound. back-to-natu- "The advantage of using selected stock would be uniformity of productivity, hopefully at above average levels," said Kenneth Tucker, one of eight scientists involved in bee research at the breeding center. For the experiments, the center has a bee yard with about 30 colonies. Other yards with 20 to 50 colonies in each place are scattered around Baton Rouge to ensure constant supplies of stock without O EM shows PG 9:15 m I I I camun square flOKaLhl- I H WW II - I Mfiv ' bieVIeieieII jEilr BfWw ' ! Provo. Utah- - Page 35 life'- stock. VxR iEiEiEiEiEir THE HERALD i SALT LAKE city The l'tah Division of Historv was 120 981 in the red for fiscal 1977 state Auditor Richard Jensen says agriculture." k But bees are relatively frail creatures with a lifespan that is cut short if they are forced to use their stings. They are susceptible to disease that can rapidly wipe out an entire colony This is where the current research comes in. Scientists of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bee Breeding Center near here are working to develop new types of bees that will live longer, be more resistant to disease, more productive and less ready to sting. The search led long ago to a technique for instrumental insemination of bees. Now the scientists are experimenting with freezing of bee sperm to develop banks for maintaining production of the best HChevy Chose 1978 I PI arusw A 18 overbuying how much thev have left to spend SIT Novembei in amount Personnel Director For Utah Quits Job Sunda fjk M M anti-bioti- too much inbreeding. "There is some inbreeding degeneration," said Tucker, who is trying to develop a more docile bee "We are dedicated to the premise that we want productive colonies with as little defense as possible, to maximize production and at the same time colony work." The center periodically imports bees from other areas for tests, and has even experimented with Africanized bees from South America, the notorious "killer bees" of films and novels. Semen from the bees was imported in the early 1960s and used to impregnate queens at the center. Tucker said. There were several successes but the tests were dropped amid reports the bees were attacking people and animals in Brazil. "If it has influenced Louisiana stock it has been in ways other than strong colony defense," Tucker said One of the problems in developing a gentler bee. said Tucker, is it should not be reduced to the point that it is no longer able to defend the colony against ants or other bees. hybrids He said the center has produced three-wathat made "reasonably good bees, but is still in developing methods to reliably measure Fined for Shooting Windows of Church Utah has A BRIDGELAND, (UPI) been fined for shooting out Houston, Texas, man the windows in a church full of people. The Duchesne County Sheriff's Office said Willie G. Jackson and a boy were arrested after shots were fired through windows of the Bridgeland Mormon wardhouse Thursday night A jeep posseman attending a church banquet chased the two and apprehended them. Jackson pleaded guilty Friday to discharge of a firearm from a vehicle, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, possession of marijuana and public intoxication He was fined $420 and given a suspended jail sentence. The was refered to juvenile court which will conduct a trial on Monday y deeply-involve- productivity and the other desireable IBBPiWB 1 Horeenanw I nr ILLl . 2:15 4:45 7:20-9:4- fj- - 5 Bp li GOIN' " I Saliaip if MI 1 T BE25!SSJli2LlJIlliiBPS I CARILLON SQUARE 1 awl fl fc 13M f 41721 I I I B BH While USDA scientists in Baton Rouge try to make a better bee to maintain America s food supply, others are trving to ensure food supplies for the bees "As people may want to take pollen away from the bees or as pollen becomes contaminated from the environment, or as agriculture changes, as we get more highways and buildings, we need what we call a pollen substitute." said Akchiro Shimanuki. I bt I cmniCDC SALT LAKE CITY A (UPI) preliminary hearing for a Salt Lake City man accused of killing a Bountiful Jeep Posse member has been continued until Dec 1. The delay, granted Fri- - a Mt fill f 4 Dine in Elegance During The Thanksgiving Holiday. 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"There is the possibility that no matter how much selecting we will do," Tucker said, "we will not go beyond the capability of the bees we already know." 374-;5- 0 AND 4iQ N B00PM INPHI'VC |
