Deseret News | 1974-10-16 | Page 21

' -;&- - --7 .. p.- -- - --ref4m.- " ''''' "16 ;,.,A "".".1""1""..s xle,, vA, 7 - - 4ro..4110.f" :414ro-Wr-' , r Pt, Fi r eptipoT, 6DVAT M ?..; 1 MOSER DriERET NEWS, WIDNESDAY, 16, 1974 - Rainmaking no joke F - Ey Gordon Eliot White Deseret News Washington emesponient Copyright Deseret News 1 1974 WASIaNGTON - Federal goveloment scintists say they now have the technology to bring rain inc reaces of areas of the U.S. such up to ten percent to drouth-parchoas the Colorado River Basin or the upper Midwest. d i Such emergency was tried three years ago, during drought disasters in Texas, Oklahoma, alai Arizona and it rained, but despite belief by local residents in the test areas that the seeding was successful. such tests have not been repeated In drought areas except in a tew small projects under research projects. cloud-seedin- ot 1 If the techniques develivie in the West over the last years had been used in time rainfall might have been fields in Kansas, Iowa, and brought to drouth-struc- k ,.. g g I According to the bureau, the federal Fre RAIN KULL disaster n City ls 'new' ,,,,, ,,,,,,f .-- , - &)nW.0,dr'' 1,, - rMain Street LJTciLi open again I ':oottei',e'RG,Vet44-0"''''IK!C:,e-i- e. r)441114;2!i;4-- 1,69 ""Frr0;',31 ie,',';;; .ir By Suzanne Dean Deseret News staff writer ; '' ,107,1k , r w iltWVPr ---', - .4 k .......goor..----- ; - ..,.pdhew ..., - ' ....:: , .., ;:r ..,,"". tet , projects first phase. Underground work, the lowering and paving of the street cloA!orative. mid-bloc- :4 are o,Wieti.W. , , . ' .7 . .';' :' ,....:,,,-41- ,w - .,'' ,,,, , , .,- Copingte DeGet et News I Wide variations revealed a survey of prescription drug prices in Utah raise the question of how pharmacists in set the prices they'll charge. And, many pharmacists contacted in the Deseret News survey felt prices should be the shopper's least important consideration in choosing a drugstore. James Dr. 1 r - 7 ---. , -- , - ., - Main Street to the pedestrian instead of the automobile. "We can build a Solt Palace and do - he c.2rything to L,ttract isitors,Now we are getting our front. door. our front living room, dressed up to properly receive these people." Whon the street is reopened, two lanes will -. - - " ,.. 0010;061.i.v.4. .. 1,;,,......:-;;- ,,,,ivi, , iV. .- , ,.., .' ., B .,,:1 i ' iil 'WO ' , , :.: ....:.''''''''.. .,: '' i;411 ..... .44.4111".",) ''''''.f ......' :., :!::''' , s ...ale.. 4c1 4 ;3 vs', f. .: ' .,,... .'lf:::.X ' y i, i,or: .., ,, K.: I404,i0;.4.v.;.; '',' Plq,..74,!,04.-.;-.--ti.;:st6-- ''..,...ae.:, ..?: ......,::', ,V,, itt:...4..1:,,i. VA , ..0...'Vt ',' It,"""44::',"':, 1 ; . , Pst,-1- .-. ,; : f.., :,.... ' ..A.i r ' ' , a4., 47',A.,41'141(r.4."44":0-. k ' - : 51:;:a,7::it:;;:-rf',:- t?ti " AFFiT1...,,,:,,V:.;41.. )......,,,. .P.t .,,, t......: gt ;',, !Et l' :947....i,-1.-;;VP.klii.;..4.4:- '''''''''''''.1';;;;;;:i 7 -- il ::.'.::':;.;'. tretl ....te :,::,..::,:,, :,:l:!::..:,..,': l' 'A '.0 ::',,:::;.1 7,,,,s , -- :.': exelsgibar,,tlag. 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Bought direct, the pills would cost $5.10, or $4.85lti in lots of 1,000, and $4.56 in 5,000. in addition, McMahon said, further discounts are often ,, eille 2 Utahns nominated Two Utah women have been nominated as officers of the National Council of Wemet at the council's 43rd biennial meeting which opened today in New York City. Belle S. Spalford, a formf!r president of the National Council of Women. has been proposed as an honorary memner of the NCW-- executive conimiltee Florence S Jacobsen, currently a memher-mt-larg- e of the executive committee, has been nominated as third vice president of the women's organization. Mrs. Spafford, who headed the committee which revised the NCW constitution and bylaws being considered at this meeting, was recently released as general president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Saints after 30 years in that post. Christ of Latter-da- y Mrs. Jacousen is currently chairman of the NCW committee on child and family. She was released in 1972 as general president of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association of the LDS Church after serving for 11 years in that position. , , s . , , , , , ,:,44,,w., ,,. ; , . ..f7A4-4- ,,,,,i., , .1.,,t,..--,- Dixie &Ater bc,pc: she'l win this Ccrningrenoe at tfo., Deseret News Food 'n Crafts Fair, ,., ),,, 2 Want to quit smoking? new program to help people quit smoking, geared assistance if necessary, will be toward long-terexplained Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the YMCA, 737 E. 2nd South. Beneficial Life Insurance Co. will buy the new tower of the ZCMI Center to house its offices, the company announced today. The announcement, was made at a noon Smith, Beneficial presiluncheon, by Douglas dent. served a dual purpose, to The luncheon announce the purchase of the building and to celebrate the company's achievement of $2 billion of life ineurance in force. Beneficial will pay $12 million for the upper 20 floors of the tower. The first six floors will be managed as part of the downtown ZCMI Center and will have shops, parking areas, and other facilities. B-- 2 Get some tips Pointing to the progress of the company in the past four years, company officials said, "We've outgrown our present quarters and are anticipating continued growth," in explaining the need for the new building. They noted the firm achieved the first billion. dollar level in 19'O after 65 years of operation. The next billion has neen reacheo in only tour years. "We've doubled our sales force and are licensed to operate in 38 states including all of the West and in life insurance Germany. We're one of the oldest .eonipainea in iLt Mounialu WestSpeakers at the luncheon in Hotel litahs Lafayette Ballroom were President Spencer W. Kimball of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints and board chairman of Beneficial; N. Eldon Tan 7,cr and Marion G. Romney, COUiliCICTS in the First Presideney and nice chairmen of the board. Smith, the firm'a president. welcomed eivic, business and church leaders to the luncheon along with home office employes. Special award a were presented by Jay B. Hoerocks, senior vice president. Donald A Rowberry and Wayne Haws were honored officials of the firm that purchased the policy that carried Beneficial past the $2 billion mark. Their company ls Dare, Ltd. The new Beneficial home office will be ready for occupancy in four to five months, officials said. Presently, the installation of cast stone facing is bang complotod and iinternr fini0 work is bolder way. on food in crafts 'fhousands ot doliars worth of prit,es, ideas fol. prepanng tabu, tentpung tivctiLs and tipb highlight the Deseret News Food ,ri Crafts Fair. event. beginning Oct. 24, will be held 'in The three-dathe Salt Palace from 4 to p.m. each day. There Lno for admittance. charge Among the prizes is a Corning 3 plus 1 smooth-torange with a digital clock, start and stop timer, an oven cleaning cycle, appliance outlet and many more leaturei;, The range is provided by Cp.,..11 E. Chytraus Co. p In addition. a Whirlpool Trash Masher compactor from Huish Distributing Co., a Gibson refrigerator-freeze- r from Wells Distributing Co., a White Genie sewing machine from the World of Sew, and a Hardwick will be Oven away gas range from Stmell-Patersoduring the fair. The appliances will be part of the Millet Kitchens display that will be used by leading home economists from the American Lamb Council, Utah Loef Council and Norbest Turkey for nightly demonstrations. Major food demonstrations will be presented at 7 p.m. and the major prizes will be awarded at that time. Mini dernoutrations ler food and crafts will be staged at 4, 5 and 8:15 p.m., according to Craig Stepilenson. master of ceremonies. the program :mn offering tirc nutrition is AVinnifred JarOine, Deseret Nrws food edir and pre6ident of the 14.4' SuLtit.lon Council. n sf.-- e icENEFICIAJ Called CigarEX, the prograna will be directd by Dr. Dale A. Suicistrom, a Salt Lake City psychologist in private practice. Sundstrom emphasized that CigarEX, an outgrowth of a similar program in other states, provide "a place for them to go for as long as they need to. " "American Cancer Society statistics indicate five Out of six who do try to quit on their own fail because thee have been no long-terprograms," Sundstrom exp- Word was received WALES ABERYSTWYTH. t,:lay by officials of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints that a missionary from Salt Lake City , ... was killed in a car accident here , Tuesday. .: : 4:1 El Garth Vin ton Pierce, 20, son of Mr. ond Mrs. Ephraim Claire Pierce, 1860 E. 3600 South, - Page 6--2 ( o .:3!:ttlf":4::;;::;Tia:1:4).1:. , indristif::tn gthe car he was collided with a truck. His companion, Elder Daniel Lee Drew, Mesa, Ariz., was ,'''1:)'4'.. seriously injured and was has- , . i))),;) pitalized in Wales with a brain p concussion and lacerations. 12:7 Elder Pierce was a graduate Eaditilliallitt of Olympus High School and Elder attended the University of Utah pricr to eritering missionary service on July 21, 1973. 1.1)1n I3 . ccI , . ire , 5th grade readathon were Two of the three ll.s 'riting and 'rithmetic OLsen's n fifth 2?, Gar while in students aside taday put 981O S. ciiopmAni vIenientA Eve and a half hours of East, concentrated on reading it. ,, , r The marathon. designed to get the students more interested la reading, started at 9 a.tt. and zontinued until 3.20 p.m., with a lunch break and OCCh2l011R1 rest breaks. Olsen said the class lacked interest in reading and the students themselves suggested the marathon after hearing about one at another school. During the two weeks of preparation for the day-l- c reading stint, the students became "really enthusiastic," Olsen said, and even the slowest reader in the class decided to join in the project. for such things as the student Prizes 'Jill be award-ewho reads the most pages, who stays in the marathon longest, who makes out the best report, etc., Olsen said. , five-minu- te r '45 , itk:- ! d FPNV Lia ,7.,:t mat ro' our slip is showing... A tItalline error toe the dice!ilferi from the proper agemy in th awry of a 1st plane iast week. The said "CAB team locates plane," etc. 3t bikoiaf.1 have been a "CAP team" etc-- . who latind the wreckaee near St. George. Tit:s mibtake waa called to the at:ention of the Desemt News ombucsmAn t ct-tZ- one-lett- hie g-..'7- 7 i I" ,. Cra;h kills missionary high-ris- e pays the . m . st , A lained. "CigarEX uses group dynamics to help people learn about their habit and get rid of it. Most important, it will be a permanent program so they'll always have a place to go." Sandstrom hopes to expand the program throughout Utah and Nevada in coming months. By Arnold Irvine Deseret News business editor A second method is the "professional fee," in. which See PHARMACISTS. See REMODELED on Page Beneficial to buy 7rmi ttlwar available for large volume purchasers. "The bigger you 4re, and depending on how eifbciently yon buy. you can take advantage of tremendous discounts," he said. McMahcz them are a variety of systems used to mark up drugs. One is to mark up eadi item a certain percentage of its cost to the Pharmacist. This raises the price of s':ugs very little, "bet the person who buys mere pays more toward the overhead withota probably receiving any more services," he said. the customer traffic from Capitol Hill to and south Main Street. Those cars must turn right at South Temple. However, South Temple traffic can still travel east and west past th2 monument Besides four lanes of traffic, Main Street will have parallel parking on both sides. south-boun- d 1 y 4177,Ram, 4,00 ' ...,.t. - ,,ars. , ..,,,....igtt.,.,-,'V,i- , X ! -- allow traffic to paNs in each direction, noted aughn Croft. project mangel far the Ci:y Engineer's Office., Autos will be able to drive across the k aavei s (the blocks containing inlani I iles shaped like cells), Craft noted. The base of the Brigham Young monument has been widened. cutting off north bound traffic from Main Street to Capitol lid! - c7c, - :. :. ..., i.t;:,,,,,,,,;,7.,,,,...ttmttwmstqak.,;..,.....,.,., ,,,,,,,:,A., ... :,7.1!......,,,,,.,4.3F,...,aosetwxia ,..., .z IP ''''''. 11""I't,.-2,,,w. - - ,, i Not I ,,. '' ' . ' ,,, ! :! ,, A' ,,.,., 1:21,-- - 1'..C7' 'y 4' ...it g'" t '.,:.. : ,. ., Wil 00.4r!..,?m,-4,-..,,e- .. ''''4 ;'Z',:14.0,1,,,,,,,,,,,. ....".t.. '',. ' s4car,-, '' '''''' 00'' It, ''''; 4, :. .""r4tgntsitlt,R.. 'A'ii!'''"' ,, li)w-co- -- - . - c Deseret News photo bv Don M Groyvon. cn.et phOtogropner the producing company. For example, 100 pills might cost $6.12 locally. But, , '' setters were rushing to finish honeycomb designs on Main Street before the ribbon cutting deadline. Tile stock will vary, depending on bow much they biAzi- at once and whether they buy from a local wholesaler or are big enough to buy directly from i'AvvEvicadzIL----..e.-..14e...- ' .,r, cbtituatcgtipSwAls,.:, :; .:f, :' ,,,,,,,,, ..,,,,,,, D. McMahon, --- ,,-,---- t .1- ' - ,' ' ''. ...." Nephi. ' associate professor of applied science at pharmaceutical the University nf 1..:tah end teacher of a drug marketing cnursc, said volume is one factor in pricing. The wholesale cost at which a pharmacy buys its '"'-' ' .', This is the last of a two-pa- rt series exploring the prescription drug market in Utah. Deseret News correspondents throughout the state surveyed prices and interviewed pharmacists to find the range of prices, and some reasons why they vary. Correspondents who participated included Reed Madsisr., Pichfirild; Mary Ann Nitlsv,, agan; Arv a Smith,.Price; Marjorie Wriateott, Randolph; Jim Robinson, Cedar City; Rick Bassett, f)gden; Marion Behnoln, Venial; Les Perry, Provo; Janet Wilcox, Blanding; Flo Munson, Fielding; Hannah Brown, Brigham City; and Arlene Montague, 1974 , ,rr, ', ..K,.EmActi;... .;...:. :;-Aoa.- .- :,...,,,..........,..:,..,, ,, ' . , le. "- : . ..., :;, 44),kr - Ate,' , '"' I .. ' 't w'.'--'' .: ''"" '''' qt:41k " ..,,ü:!1 , - ..7445.4 la A.- - , ..,,4,11614.,: ::, 4,.. N.,t4r.doki,4': -- :'''"!:77,:'.:;:,;.. s;,:t." ,or , ,,,;- .....: ..:,,,,:410.;es..7...,,,r,,,es,,,trOvereerss -- ' ,,, ma' - I'V'llr.rjl:J .:!'Iiyo .t.g5- L city officials pondering Environmental Protection Agency requirements related to the Main Street Beautification Project. The EPA wrote a letter to Mayor ;take Gam two months ago askini for a project report on the various EPA provisions, including one to raise parking meter rates following the work on Main Street. City traffic engineers have recommended the increase in rates in order to keep all day parkers from using meters which .ibould be uLea by short terta shoppers. However, finance commissioner Jennings Phillips saik: hez still net r.. who is in cnarge of mete' t ()Etc sure if the rate should be increased at all. He added that the city may nave to go aloug vain the EPA requirements after the entire Main Streot job between South Temple and Third South is complete. In the meantime, assistant traffic engineer George Gerth said the 36 meters to be installed on Maio Street between South Temple and First South will feature the mai , , ' ',- , -' -t- ne,"41,tofi. .. ' .c.k-- 4' o Alee9,,,,,etVrirte , ,,;:...;',10.60 i , ,,- -, p, :,:,.,;:f :, ,:4,;,(1....4:.. ''...11-4- itia.q.N.0,0to,vote ".4trg',..,FIT.,,-, e' ' ". ,,,,.... E, rivaglea4.404 tr.r ',.'0,11,121.; ''"'''' , '. ' . .,, ---. - . '; 7 .....46,.. :'.. - ,..,- - ''' , 101. ,......,"""A.1.74"......:" '.n'"4',e.:,-4'.- ,,.'"r::1 ' ., 4 Price least crucial, pharmacists say By Mary Lubben Deseret News staff writer , - 4,4A , r r ' ea.....,fak ..... tO.,:,40': 1:totioostO .' ' ' 0,,...,, ev-- , oaa. , V simew.,! 41rhosex,r4.4.0,1)0004 0.,V-'0,- w.$0' ,. inished. WorkeN were on the job at 3 a.m. today painting stripes on the street. Other workers spent Tuesday and this morning cleaning and chemically sealing the stone and tile blocks on the peflt,strian crossings and clearing. terials and debris fram the street. "All in all, construction has gone very .well- said Howell Cannon, chairman of the Downtown Planning Commission. 1 i'aink we can be very pleased with the work Gibbons and Reed has done wider the a late start an shortages of liandiap of materials.- Cannon said the project is at last scaling -- .., 7":::7...C.-.; : :...,,4...,,,,,, ,,:.,7,,3..xr....:.,.,,,,,.,,,...,, ' ' ':: .:7 .::: ' ' N'..0',' tk . ,'sles-'1,0,,,..7,....;: I A .,,,,f ,o: ::,:s1: and crosswalks k ,,. ... ,....,.::.,,,,,...,,,,:,:: ' !!.., ' , - A.411 - t: The wieition of whether or not to raise parkir.g, meter rites in downtown Salt Lake Citji is still being asked by tqf ka;- Aiwa ,c,alaaa 4 ww, 44 ; , - - .4:e1101-1- t ig Feed the meters on Page B 2 , i 1, ..;:t - ,.. . ., ;,....;;;;. , twillmegoosib4ie , "ANo!,, .: 1",,i 1,!!;1:', 9P1'04";44' ,, "' qv. .;71."..1 14'44 . '61,1:.1,t, ".'. Reopening of the street signaled complelion of the most complicated parts of the , -' - '4 e.1k" - ' 4,' ,:'::: i .,,,,. s:...7' '.t,,,,... ''''' .,, - I 1. ,...,,,r ,:v ,..??.gt,. ... ; .::. :.,,.....,,,!:"...,,,.r:7.... , ,,,,,.; ''' ..o.o......iI'. ., ,., , ".440Itiel..:,, '.'"03' '4,4:',,' tI',4',C,nx,:,i,T.;.1. O.Avx, .co,fot ' :"" .:.',..,',;!:, Street from 14 Sr401) to South Temple, closed since July for a construction and beautification project, was reopened today. Mayor Jake Garn drove the first auto through the narrower pedestrian-oriente- d M , ' 10"; 17-1- r!,... t7r. . e , 14;,...,ii 04.itifii4. N,,. ... ..,- .,..., " ... .--, ,. ,:t"--..- ' .1 ,.. ,..46,,r Pf Today in the West J .z., c F., assistance adranustration considered wag cloud seeding this year in drought areas, but it abandoned the idea because the agency believed it we Oready too late to help crops at those areas. Apparently the failure to move into an operational cloud seeding program alter nearly Iwo decades of research resulted from a lack of congresaioruil authority and money, cerinliente4; by unknown legal problems and at least anticipated opposition by environmental groups. James Kerr, of the division of research in the Bo rc of Reclamation said the bureau's research under Project SasWATER succeeded Se era! yeart ags in discovering the specdic conditions required for soccessful cloud seeding using silver iodide crystals. Kerr said a ".ieeding window'. could be predicted that would deliver reliable rainfall increases of about ten percent. after deducting losses from evaporation, groundwater percolation, and other causes. "We know the mechnnism which works," Kerr told the Deseret News. "And our data shotas that proper seeding increases rainfall downwind as far as 200 miles," he added. Ile said none of the Project SKYWATER data has shown any decrease in downwind precipitation Mexico. So efficient have cloud "seeding" techniques become that Bureau of Reclamation scientists say they can of usailie water in the produce an additional acre-foColorado River for a dollar and a half. , t::t .'t.'....., NEe,? Nebraska. where lack of moisture severely k:amageil corn, wheat. and soybean crops this year. If the bureaus estimates are correct, enough pure water could have been added to the flow of the Colorado River to satisfy the demand of Mexico at a cost, of $2,Z25,009, corocared to $250 million authorized by Congress this year to build complex projects throughout the Colorado Basin to provide fresh water for delivery under the 1942 water treaty with B Businass Sports 4 - , , ;