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Show PTA Sees DESERET NEWS, K. CHAFFIN By LAVOR Deseret News Education Editor A teacher J negotiations act or perhaps several will come before the Utah Legislature which convenes next week, even though members of states the - family- do not education agree either on its need or its content. This was apparent Wednesday at a PTA legislative study meeting held at state PTA headquarters, 1037 E. South Temple. Dr. Daryl J. McCarty, executive secretary of the Utah Association, defended a bill the UEA has Education submitted, to weve got arguing that have rules. NOT PERSUADED Dr. Walter D. Talbot, state superintendent of public instruction, declared, Im not persuaded that a negotiations bill w'ould help. noting that districts with the most formal written agreements or; impasse resolution have had the most difficulty reaching agreement. Darld J. Long, executive secretary of the Utah School noted Boards Association, our association would be opposed to a law on negotiations. Rep. Georgia B. Peterson, Lake, said the Legislature would get at least six bills on negotiations covering nurses, firemen policemen, and other public employes. She asked whether bne bill could cover all public employes, including teachers. FULL AIRING Mrs. Lila Bjorklund, state PTA president, urged PTA members to become informed and joined Talbot and Long in pleading for the full airing of public issues. The UEA bills provision for g drew binding the most discussion. Talbot suggested that if a bill is passed it should provide for settlement of the next years contract before the current contract expires. This would call for completion of negotiations in the spring. PROVIDE PRESSURE McCarty said there is no pressure at that time to get the job done. Neither boards of education, teachers nor the public really get concerned until the first day of school, he said. Binding arbitration would provide such pressure, he said. Both Talbot and Long said binding arbitration would take decision-making- " power away from boards of education where it now legally is vested. It would take away their authority without relieving them Talbot said. of responsibility, Talbot and Long were emphatic that negotiations be conducted in full view of the public. All issues should be printed or shown in the media, Talbot said. . lt ard I h ": !w in s ' .Cr . rmr V' JSijtl.ty'ii summer, emm 1' plastic, metal and wood just like the ones Howard makes for a living. Howard Koser, Bountiful, News Bureau Washington WASHINGTON - Sources na- dose to the Republican tional committee said today that Richard Richards, former Utah state Republican chairman, is in line to become the professional head of the (immittee, under Sen. Robert Dole, Sen. Dole is apparently to be named chairman when the CiOP leaders meet here Jan. 1?. Richards, defeated b; Gunn McKay in November for the First District House seat in Utah, served as Republican dampaign activities director in 1969 and early 1970. He is 5 in chariot with sign, has winter race He lost his legs at 16 under a train near Barstow. Calif. It was during the 1930s and Howard, like many others, out of was just bummin, work and roaming the coun try. native of Idaho, he was way to California looking for crop work. A on his While vliing the Artificial Limb Company in Salt Lake City to get his own artificial legs he developed an Fit-We- ll Utah Dairy Firms Excellent To Pay $185,000 Water Two Utah dairy firms, defendants in a civil suit that claims they fixed prices and rigged bids bn dairy products, have agreed to pay the federal government $185,000 in settlement of the suit. C. Hi-La- INCLUDED NOT Mitchell. Mitchell said the agreement ana a proposed consent judg- -. ment forbidding the two firms from fixing prices, submitting collusive bids and allocating sales territories in the sale of dairy products were filed in U.S. District Court in Ogden Wednesday. PROHIBITIONS Under the proposed consent and Federated judgment, are prohibited from entering into agreements with d distributors of dairy products to fix, raise or stabilize wholesale or retail prices or submit collusive bids. The stantial City and is a subpurchaser of dairy products. Mitchell said the proposed judgment may become final in 30 days. Winston F. Fillmore, assistant general manager. Feder- ated issued Dairy this Farms, Inc., statement the settlement announcement federal government operates Hill Air Force Base, Deseret Test Center, Veterans Administration Hospital and in School Intermountain former administrative assistant to Rep. Laurence J. Burwho gave up his seat in an unsuccessful bid to unseat Sen. Frank E. Moss. ton, Richards appointment was reported as part of a compromise which Sen. Dole agreed to to satisfy Republican Senate leaders who objected to a national chairman. part-tim- e SenSen. Hugh Scott, ate minority leader, had said the committee post demanded more time than a senator should spend away from the chairman Former Senate. Rogers C. B. Morton, virtually abandoned his House R-P- homemade chariot. Artificial legs don't slow him. : Outlook Continued front Page B-- interest in the work. Hes been at it ever since. The firm, he explained, makes limbs for all kinds of for many different people needs. Some have lost a limb in an auto accident, others in 60 bePickets were stationed at the refinery ginning at 8 a.m. Supervisory personnel are continuing operation of the refinery, a company spokesman said. Office, warehouse and transportation employes are not on strike. The striking operators are members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, AFL-CI(OCMV). Husky refineries in Cheyenne and Cody, Wyo., also are closed by the strike, with a total of more than 300 workers idled at the three plants. The strike was postponed for 24 hours Tuesday after definite progress had been reported in the negotiations on a new contract. But Larry Schieck, chairman of an OCAW negotiating committee in Cheyenne,- said talks Wednesday failed to lead to a settlement of the various problems. elevation, snow surveyors measured 74 inches of snow1 with 23.3 inches of water. This is the deepest snow at the location on Jan. 1 since were measurements started in 1953. At Silver Lake near Brighton, 61 inches of snow containing 18.2 inches of waer w'ere measured. This is the 8,0C0-fo- rec-ord- Dog Besieges County Home Provo Canyon Hoad Delayed B-- Uintah-White-roc- The close-mouthe- State Highway De- Treasurer Named partment should make alternate road designs, including Health Group one which would widen and straighten the existing road, such as was done with the road through Daniels Canyon in Wasatch County. Richard Kinnersley, State Employes Association executive director, has been appointed treasure and a member of the board of trustees of the Group Health Association of Utah. Kinnersley said the group will investigate a program c. high qualitv health care. He said the association would try to cooperate and coordinate its activities with other prepaid group practice programs, with the aim of improving availability of effective health care .services. ADOPT LAWS New laws and regulations have been adopted by the federal government pertaining to effects on environment and ecology. A new road sign through Provo Canyon should not be offered as final until it complies with such federal laws. Public hearings should be held in Provo, Orem, Heber, and other places to inform the public regarding the proposed road, the alignment selected and how the road might change the environment of the canyon. INCREASE SPEED Firmage sa' I that construction of the new road through Provo Canyon, which might increase the speed limit to CO miles per hour, would save only approximately three min- utes in travel time. State Sen. Dean C. Chris- said Gov. tensen, Calvin L. Rampton had told him just this wreek that a proposal to build an improved road through Provo Canyon began as far back as then-GcJ. Bracken Lee. Christensen said Rampton stated the federal government had asked for three alternate routes, including one through Provo, one through Echo, and a third through Emigration Canyon. Christensen said the goverwas not nor told him he going to push this road down the throats of any of the cit izens in Utah County. The governor said he would prefer an improved highway through the canyon. Christensen said. State Sen. Ernest Dean said state elected officials are to the devery sensitive sires and wisnes of Utah County citizens. "We can be as strong as we need to be in this or other matters, Dean said. Continued from Page es to make their homes and rear their children, Smith farmers benefit the rural said. economy and the rural societGov. Calvin L, Rampton ywelcomed the conventioneers Thirty-seveper cent of and declared that the wool our operating loan funds go to industry has not faced more farmers 35 years old and serious problems since the he said. Smith said younger, very early 30s . . if then." FITAs Puild Our American "Not only are wool prices Communities program on down, but land prices are dethe junior and senior high school level is encouraging pressed. Rampton said. He also noted that the price of young people not to leave wool in terms of real dollars their rural homes. is the lowest since the turn of Supposedly, our population the century. will increase by 100 million Promising to help the people by the year 2000. Acwool beleagered growers, this commodating many perhis message to said Rampton sons would require that we the Utah Legislature would build 500 new Salt Lake cities of a propose the creation new time or that a during .State Division of Agriculture city every three weeks. Marketing Promotion, similar A highly logical alternato industrial promotion agentive would be to offer career cies. opportunities end quality of Smith presented the Peterliving in rural communities sons with a plaque. Other trithat would help our present butes for the San Pete County and future population choose came from Gov. Calvin the more rural areas as plac- - family L. Rampton; Clarence A. Anderson, state FHA director; yde K. Cox, Sanpete County supervisor; Dole Anderson, a representative of New Holland and Paul Co., Equipment Dyreng, director of Dairy in Centerfield. In a press conference earlier Wednesday, Smith said 400 communities in Utah need A eight-hou- r average oxiin waste disdant level limit of .15 parts improvements per mdlion was adopted by posal and water systems. The price tag on this for the Utah Air Conservation Committee in a meeting Utah runs to nearly $63 million, he said. today. Dr. Grant S. Winn, UACC PLAY CATCH-Iexecutive secretary, said the We are playing a catch-ulevel is aimed at controlling ballgame because the rural air pollution from such sources as automobile exhaust areas have never received and open-ai- r Other sufficient' attention to their burning. he said. problems, such as hydroemissions, oxito carbons. tend increase s Smith said 15,000 rural dants, so bv setting a safe in Utah are now sharing the state will also control in FHA loans, and some 56 of oxidants at. .15 ppm. communities in the state have he said received loans and grants to Dr. Winn said the matter of develop or improve water and sulfur dioxide, which sewage disposal. hundreds of Salt Lake Valley New legislation just enacted residents to a hearing on Sept. by Congress will greatly ac11. would not be discussed at celerate this program, he this meeting. said, "particularly ir Utah hi'- time we are At priwhere so many of your rural for a marily pieparing communities depend on required public hearing on revenue bonds to pay severa1 other pollutants, as outlined by the Department of off these loans. Health. Education and WelHOUSING CREDIT fare. toward establishing a Smith said the Nixon Ad- - f Wasatch Front Air Quality ministration has made avail- Region, Winn added. able $1 billion more B- -l n .15 Limit d Adopted P p fam-Hie- hy-lev- drew - pt than the 75 Years Ago n Utah Utahs industrial interests have mounted an aggressive Campaign to change the opinwho ion of some Easterners ffeel the next stopping off point after leaving the Mississippi is San Francisco and tjiat the area in between is a desolate, unproductive,- arid - and backward somewhat Wasteland. O. C. Madsen, immediate past president of the Utah Manufactures Association and Divicomptroller for the Utah sion of Kennecott Copper Corp., said today that Utah Has many natural and and way of life which will draw industries to the state if properly the Utah highlighting speakers At Work Day ceremonies at the Capitol. Fullmer H. Latter, past president of the Utah Federation of Labor, AFL, spoke on behalf of labor durof ing the noon festivities, part Diamond of Utahs nine-da- y Jubilee celebration. What Utah needs at this moment in history is more growth in private, said. Madsen industries, Only half as many persons per capita are engaged in manufacturing in Utah as in the United States as a whole, - - LI Mr. Madsen ywJ Mr. Latler g Madsen noted. If the state can sell Its natural attractions to bring in more industry, we can prob- - ably double the number uf products manufactured in our state in the next decade, Madsen said during a colored slide presenation. Only two of tlie states largest employers are private federal industries; government largest employer. is tlifT' the is Government industry the it for because state good inindustries support brings and federal employes pay income, property and sales taxes. But better yet is private industry which, in addition to having all of these advantages, pays taxes on investments and profits, Madsen said. Purchasing by Utahns from local manufacturers results in a respending within the stats of almost 60 per cent of every dollar, while purchasing from manufacturers results in only five per cent being respent in Utah, he explained. Latter, in recounting the history of organized labor in the states praised founding fathers, who formulated laws for protection of the working man. Utah has had a long history of organized labor, beginning with the formation of Typographical Union No. 115 in 1868, the labor leader said. It was chartered as Deseret Typographical Union No. 115 and is the only affiliated local union in our state that has stayed continuously organized to this day." At statehood in 1896. the Utah Federation was formed and later changed to the Utah Federation of Labor. Latter called for continued efforts iif the tradition of our forefathers to protect the rights of the labor force. increase m Utah, a' three-folover five years ago, he said. Currently we have approxi- mately $30 million in housing, loans outstanding in Utah. . Utah, ... J tr J; I one administration in' previous housing credit to rural fami- lies up from 40,000 to 120,000 homes. In fiscal 4970 FIA made $7 million in housing loans 1 was concedes, I let someone els ride them. 1970, Aide Says ent-an- ee were second or third greatest in the last 26 years. At the upper Farmington snow course, near the mean. "If hpy want to buck " be too $15 Million In AT HUSKY OIL PLANT fUtoh At' Work Bay Celebrated Madsen . Rural Utah Loans: today. l City By Howard savs a man who has lost a limb has the edge on someonp who has not when it comes to making and fitting artificial limbs If a man has lost a leg he knows what it's like," he says. NORTH SALT LAKE Approximately 60 operating employes at the Husky Oil Co. refinery went on strike V duties while he was head of the national committee. A decision on filling the number two GOP slot was not final today, but Richards, who has been in Washington vas thought to be recently, the most likely choice. He built up a reputation as a har professional without ideological bias, during his earlier work with the committee. Insiders there said today they expected Richards back, d on but were just what his duties would be until after the committee leaders meet with President Nixon next week. industrial accidents. Vietnam veterans, although much of their primary artificial limb work is done at a veterans hospital, come to the firm for when their replacements limbs wear out. WORKERS STRIKE have expressly denied all allegations in the suit, but, like many other businesses and individuals, we have been placed in an unfortunate position where the cost of defending ourselves in the courts third highest Jan. 1 measurwould be far more costly to us s ement on the course since than a settlement.. , : began in 1935. ' Snow measurements on the head of the Sevier River in southern Utah are 214 per cent ui average, and Virgin River measurements are '223 ' Ann Norman, 628 W. 3705 per cent of average. Most other areas .of the South, told sheriffs deputies she was chased into her house state are near 200 per cent of Continued from Page l by a stray dog. She dropped a average in snow depth, except fives of the highway through cack of groceries in the on the Logan River (166 per the canyon should be made. cent) and the process. (150 per cent). drainages Highway plans should not About 20 minutes later, a Reservoir storage is well daughter, thinking the dog above average, except for be analyzed until the use of had gone, went out to retrieve the railway line from Provo to Pineview, which was drained the groceries and was also to allow construcHeber is settled. purposely chased back into the house by tion, and Moon Lake, which the dog. Systematic traffic surveys has a low carryover from lat should be taken showing the The dog had disappeared summer. f load i h traffic e r Thirteen reservoirs s fs spectrum over an when deputies major in Utah contain 161 per cent arrived. extended time. This survey of the average Jan. 1 storage. should not be confined to peak The report was prepared by period traffic counts on selectEob L. Whaley, snow survey ed days of the year. supervisor, SCS; a. L. ZimSCALE MODEL in e r m a n, hydrologist in CenForecast River A scale model should be charge. ter, Weather Bureau and Ted prepared showrg significant Arnow, district chief. Geologitopographic and geographic cal Survey. features of the canyon. We Another defendant in .the suit, Beatrice Foods Co., is not a party to the settlement, according to Atty. Gen. John other Brigham ISSUES STATEMENT Nelson Day said Federated Dairy Farms, Inc., must pay $115,000 within 60 days while Dairymans Association must pay $70,000 in three years. U.S. Atty. in The fact that Howard is such an active competitor in chariot racing circles should be proof enough that he made it, but he does a lot more than just race. He owns two thoroughbred horses in addition to his ouar-te- r horses, and when he isnt chariot racing hirmv'f he has a jockey out somewhere racin'' his thoroughbreds. There rcnlly isnt much Howard hasn't done or wont do. He is an avid deer hunter and fisherman to pack into the High Uintas on a fish;ng trip. Never far from his horses, he even breaks if they arent some of them s Richard Richards In Line For No. 2 GOP Position Deseret rn , mud-covere- d racers. Hes there 5 ' V Bountiful. hed be just as amazed as anyone else who knows Koser. Howard Winter weekends can be found ripping around a track snow or behind two of his three quarter horses trying to get to that finish line ahead of the other too, eating dust, cracking his whip, bouncing around in a tinv homemade chariot. ' No, there arent any opposwith giant in'' hcr blades piotruding from the wheels of their chariots bent on destroying the good guys. Its wild and exciting but its all in fun. The difference between Howard and the many other chariot racers in the Mountain West is that the legs he stands on while in that tiny chariot arent the ones he was born with. Theyre made of sj I He has also discovered that he is in a much better pos'Hon to help someone adjust to the loss ot a limb than someone who has not. "1 oftPn go up to the hospital to talk with people who are despondent," Howard sajs. and they usually end m '.!;e it i" ' aying. Tf you with two legs gone. I can surety make it with only j of Koser Chances are t i r By DENNIS READ Deseret News Staff Writer Ben Hur, the legendary cnarioteer of old, could learn a couple of things from How- 7 B Artificial, Mis Seeds Mery Heal Mis Legs Aire Teacher Act Due Thursday, January 7, 1971 While Utahns continued their elation over their newly statehood, newsproclaimed papers of the day 75 years ago started turning back to less spectacular news. The big item on Tuesday, 896. was the 23.000 Jan. fire which killed one person and "destroyed a large portion" o! the mining town of Mercur in Tooele County. Readers chuckled over a story saying thar the great John L. Sullivan had been knocked out a second time in a fair fight." The pugilist had been hit from behind by a billy goat. Art patrons made plans to visit an exhibit by J. B. Fairbanks at his studio on I "ion Block, and theater goers looked forward " "Romeo and Juliet pei formed by the Orpheus Club at the Salt Lake Theater. Oificials announced fha plans for a "gravity sewet system in Salt Lake City haw hit a snag but they expected to continue with the project. d When asked if the declining trend in the number of small L farmers will continue until J, only large farms are left, Smith said young families , that ran get a break and cet starred can usually make it. Some of the family-typfarms are the most efficient. e Travel Aide Retires f ' t Mrs. Evelyh G. Agutter, Xtravel clerk for the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station, Sait Lake Cit;?! has retired after 25 years of federal government service. |