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Show - 4A DESERET NEWS, WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY 2, 1974 Editor's note This Is the second in a scries of profiles oi Utah environ nentaiists. There is a big push today Joseph Bauman Environmental Specialist IJhink the posture of the country right now is energy at any once, and 1 think that Utah is going to have to pay the pnee unless ue can somehow protect ourselves. d low-sulf- lober as the environmental rep resent ative on the General Technic? Mvisory Committee of the Office of Coal Research. The office, within the Interior sponsors Department, research en new processes for coal gassification, using coal . In Utah we have enormous reserves of coal. And we have extensive reserves of oil Continued from Page were opposed. f1 rC percent for" and "against. Mrs. Coles said prvent development supply much of the tion of electricity, shale oil. that if Utah is smart it will pass stringent legislation to require reclamation of mined lands, to control industrial stack emissions, potential water pollution, disposI think al of spent ml shale and the rubble from coal mining. standards are not adequate to begin with, she continued, and now they are going to be disregarded in the name of energy crisis Once the standards are relaxed, she added, the chances of having them reinstated are almost nonexistent. Federal environmental really restoring the mined lands. And it should probably reflect a more realistic cost of use of Utahs water allocation to produce that power for California Such protective legislation, however, will only be passed with the greatest fiddiculty, if at all, Mrs. Coles said. dairy herd Lindon farmer V Farmers, named Ann Rowley Davis, 36, of Brigham City its Young Homemaker of the Protestants gave him only a percent vote of confidence with 64 3 percent turning thumbs down. Other religions expressed percentages Mrs. Davis has four children ranging in age from seven to 16. She is the wife of Leland E. Davis, a Thiokoi employe. Other winners in Farmers competitions Young were: Ray George, Kanosh, second place Young Farmer of the Farmers Associa- The competition winner has been farming six years with his father. Robert, and runs a herd of 150 cows. The herd has won honors for milk production. Meanwhile, the Utah Young Homemakers Association, which is holding is convention concurrently with the Young A LAS VEGAS, Nev. federal judge in jwash. AP) Tacoma, has been assigned to t a x hear the case of vasion-conspiracy for- mer Howard Hughes aide John Meier, court sources said Friday. Judge George H. Boldt was assigned to Nevada by 9th Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Richard Chambers. He was assigned to the Meier case by U.S. District Court Judge Roger D. Foley of Las Vggas, who withdrew from the case because his brother will be a principal government witness. The tnal probably will be held in Reno, although Meier was indicted by a federal grand jury here Meier was named along with three other men in a j3n. 14 indictment charging conspiracy and tax evasion in connection with the sale of some $8 million in mining claims to Hughes. The others Anthony Hatsis, 47, and James P. Cowley, 45, both of Salt Lane City, and 59 Robert Los Kahan, Angeles, were charged only with conspiracy. It was the second time Meier, 40, of Delta. B.C., had been indicted in connection with the sale of mining claims to Hughes. date has been set for raignment or trial. No First place award for Young Farmer Chapter of ihe Year went to the Bear River while the Weber Chapter, took second place. Chapter Dunng today's convention session, the Young Farmers were scheduled to hear from Denver. George Spencer, Colo., executive vice president of the American Cattlemens middle-incom- Wallentine. executive vice president. Utah Farm Bureau Federation. ar- who are for local government modernization, concluded that such a central planning office would merely coordinate, rath- er than manage internal plan- ning of various departments. 0 4.3 3.6 5.6 11.3 28.4 33.0 25,6 25.4 Party 45.1 29.0 25.0 44.8 41.7 the in Sex ($10.000-$20.09- 21.4 36.7 10.0 15.5 7.0 31.6 5.2 50.0 16.7 16.7 3.1 6.2 0.0 5.7 25.0 With it Republicans, was percent favoring his work and 34.2 percent expressing disapproval. 59.6 Party adherents American had only a slightly better opinion of the Presidents ability than Democrats. Their percentages were 25 and for and against 75. 4.8 5.9 21.1 16.0 36.7 29.3 42.2 31.7 Indicates only direction opinion, too small to be significant. 8.2 4.2 Mate Female high- 76.7 percent opposed. Sexwise, the results mirrored the overall totals with little difference between males and females. House defeats ranch purchase bill Continued from Page the ranch is located. ' teacher trainees to staff the district's three elementary schools. Southern Utah State College in Cedar to City supplied one student teacher out substitute the round faculty. Only three elementary school princiand pals, two high school principals some secretaries remained on the job to the help the newcomers in running had completed schools. (The principals the identical institute at SUSC last summer). The student teachers appeared to blossom with the freedom. no We have had r free reign handcuffs and as a result have been able to do ?, lot of things and try some said Mary Jane exciting techniques, Wink, an graduate assistant Irom Richfield. student teachers really These expect the students to produce; some of the regular teachers are going to have to hurry to keep up with their students when they come back, she added. ! was very surprised and favorably impressed with my first exposure to rural schools, said Deborah Stilmar,-Washingto- ate D C., another graduassistant. I found some very good innovations here. and educational techniques said the Winkei only could forsee she possibly disadvantage from the program is that when teachers do their actual student teaching under a supervising teacher, they won't have the same latitude Miss Beaver High Principal Ivan Rowley said the program has proved more valuable than regular student teaching in A some daily evening respects. seminar has allowed ihe otJuv m teachers to interact with each ether, he noted. bill that The provides counties within public transit districts may arrange a referendum. allowing voters to decide whether they wish to imcent sales pose a tax in order to inaugurate free bus rides in their area. h tonal veto if the matter w statute declared unconstitutional the U.S. considered cal. criti- Supreme Court. It allows abortions during the first three months of pregnancy, but requires that they be performed by licensed physicians. The amendment was placed hy Sen Donald G. Brooke. Lake, after Sen. W Brockbank. Hughes Lake, had pointed out the The abortion law replaces a by After that, abortions must be performed m h, -- ratals and in the later stage-- of pregnancy they are permissible only to preserve the life or health of the mother. the Opposition to the measure has been led by an ultra- Representatives dosed at 3:25 p.m. Friday after legislators began receiving abusive and threatening anonymous calls for having conservative organization The switchboard into of Utah House was ordered passed the land-us- planning e bill. Speaker Howard C. Nielson, stopped all incoming calls after Rep. Rita Urie, Lake, stood up in tears and told her colleagues she had received slanderous and threatening phone calls. Security personnel at the said lawmakers Legislature have received threats of retribution, including physical harm to their families, if they did not vote against the bill. , Rep. Harold T. Newman. he received a phony call warning that his critically ill mother was moD Kearns, said ments away from death. Newman said he checked with the hospital and found her condition unchanged. He said the call was an attempt to get him out of the House before the bill came to a vote. Mrs. L'ne said the callers, who refused to identify themselves, got through to the floor by claiming it was ar. emergency call. The last time the House switchboard was closed was in 1969, and for nearly the samo reason. At that time representatives received abu- sive calls in protest of an act with dealing prescription drugs. The controversial Land Use Bill (SB23) has been passed by both houses of the Legislature, but the lower chamber "cut its heart out, said proponents. On a straight party line vote republican members of the House amended the bill, removing sections giving the state power to force counties to participate in a statewide land use plan .. .UUiiMlw AIM whose members have packed The Senate passed SJR2. the new Executive Article to after an the constitution inserted was amendment which would permit legislators to call themselves back into session to override a guberna- - - School FiHBSt (Poce, Porrctt) nance Bill Provides stote appropr.a-Eotor public educo of S177.67B300 ton to be distributed on formula of $560 per weighted pudiI unit. House passed S8 134. goes to Senote. Heoim snd Welfare MB26 (C. Bloc, Nemeiks, et ol) Provides exclusive responsibility witn the stole far fund'ng and making mcdicol services avoilabie to eligible ond under Social Security persons Medicare. House possed goes to Senote. H6?4 (Reese, Johnson, et ol) Provides children that handicapped who are not self Supporting, regard of under msurobie shall be age iss the same cnna.tions as any childrer of insured under 28 veers on state hea'th House msurgnee policies. nossed Senote parsed ooes to governor. Lend Use $823 (Pettersson. Leavitt, Snow) Acoroprafes $612 000 to finance ochvitres nf a Sloe Lend Use Com ''ssion House caused with omend meats 55 20-- goes back to Senate Natural Resource SBH (Brockbank. Dean, et at) Prvviaes that water conservancy d'S t'lcts rrny levy up tg two m'S Of danger represented by line-iteveto authority in the new executive article. He said it was unlikely, but that a governor possible, could nullify or materially change an appropriations bill veto. In this by a case, the Legislature should have an opportunity to come back into session to ovemde the veto. Brockbank reasoned. line-ite- The amendment specifies that thp president of the Senate and speaker of the House may poll the membership after a session ends and then s call them back if or more of the membership are two-third- in favor of the special session. The session would be limited to five days and lawmakers could act only on the vetoed item. Richard C. Howe Lake, predicted the ovemde provision had nailed the coffin of the amendment I believe we have bitten off more than the voters can chew. And I predict that next November they will throw' it back at us." he told the body. The Land Use Act was returned to the Senate for consideration of amendments which one representative said had converted the alreadv-weameasure into a bowl of mush Sen. galleries during debates. The measure was sent back to the Senate for further action on House amendments. Legislative calendar ULUS PASSED Abortion M838 (Judd. Horvv, e ol) Amends oborlion low to allow abortions to be performed by physicians within first 90 doys of pregnancy. must After abortion be that, performed in hospitol. Senote passed 1, goes to governor. Appropriations -S834 (Alack. Brooke) Appropriates $8 million from surplus to Bicertcnn cl Corrmr.T.on f,nd $6 million for a culturol arts center in Salt Lake City and the remainder to other prciects in tne stole Senote pc'sed 25-- 4 aoes to House SB38 Suopiementot (Gotten) of Sl.QiSlOuO to covrr appropriations investment to'ses ot Utah $toe University House ano Senate concurred n compromise amount, goes to governor Business Regulations Renstrom, (Howe. Mechom) Amende the Bu'mtsS Ccrpo'oticn the domestication ct (or proviOng torpor ohnns oiQ "Oily incorporated m Dossed House countries foreign 58 gjes to governor Commendation SJRtft (Buckner Pugh. Dean) Commends Utah the Stadentbodv President Council for its octiv.ty in the Utoh forming IntercoHegiote Asgoes to sembly Senote passed House Condolences Condolences on SJR12 (Pugh) of the death Jennie Hughes ot W Sen. Brockbank, moher House passed tn Hughes Brockbonk unonimous voice vote. Consumer Affairs corrects HB4 (Irvine) typographical error in the Utoh Consumer Sales Practices Act. Senote passed 2ND 8 goes to governor. Education SBJ9 (Leavitt. Dean, et ol) -Changes Stote Board of Higher Education to State Board of Regents. House possed Senate passed House passed 6618, goes to gover-no- r sufficienglv - House switchboards close to stop abusers "Let us not be accused of by wasting while recovering our coal and shale, Rampton told officials of the three states. A-- 3 s the House votes approval. Passage of the transit measure climaxed several years of effort by its sponsor, Rep. Samuel S. TayLake. lor, Regarded at first as not much more than a joke, it gradually picked up support and was overwhelming ap. The Senproved m the Hou-eate gave the bill 17 votes, two more than needed. two-third- I The Legislature, which officially goes out of business at midnight, still had a heavy agenda before it today as it recessed for lunch. Included General was the bulky Appropriations Bill and the Public School Finance Bill. Yet to be considered in the House were SJR2, the new Executive Article to the State Constitution, and SJR3. another proposed constitutional would which amendment, local permit the state o to lend their governments credit for the purpose of expanding industry. These two amendments will also go on the ballot next November if other resources At other sessions of the conference, an official of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) said a recent study in a area of western Colorado shows as many as 50,000 underground nuclear blasts could be used to recover shale oil. A-- e The governor said energy companies must understand the optimum use of the land is necessary and that the needs of people, water, the environment, growth problems and money all have to be considered. Switcheroo was success Continued from Page 51-6- Over 60 The split was naturally wide along party lines. Now those firms are bacx and paying enormous amounts for lease rights they .ould have had relatively cheap a few years ago, he noted. Members of the Salt Lake County Government Study recommendations e earning range gave him est marks. He noted that dialling for domestic oil had dropped than half in the past decade while oil firms relied on the plentiful and cheap Middle East reserves. About six years ago, oil firms were courting the states of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado for leases and development of shale lands, but dropped us like a hot potato in 1968 when oil was discovered on the Alaska north slopes. Rampton declared. Planning office, iopic of debate formulating those while ability, Companies seeking to recover oil from shale should seriously consider the in situ (in place) process, the governor urged. This involves the use of underground heat, possibly nuclear blasts, to force the oil out of the shale v hile it is still underground. The chief executive faulted oil companies for lack of or even domestic oil producplanning regarding shale tion. for that matter. Associtation and Booth Commission, 0 3.3 4.3 5.4 11.8 15.5 43.6 47.4 36.6 22.2 40.8 0.0 Continued from Page The lawsuit against the Interior Department was an attempt to shake the land loose something that would not be necessary if several previous Secretaries of the Interior had obeyed the law, he said. In regards to mining of shale, Rampton said the state was not about to go ahead without proper protection of the environment and land." city-coun- -- 41-3- 34,1 3.8 Shale development may lack the water The question of how a planning manager or coordinator would work with internal plandening units in partments of a new Salt Lake City and County Council form of government was debated this week. Judge assigned 30-4- 0 7.1 5.8 6.8 A-- tion. 9 ing was among those with a grade school education and those with "some college or Mth a college degree. contest. Association, from the 18-2- When broken down into edu rational levels, his best snow- Rampton says second place, speaking 5200 rn Age pro and con of 22.6 and 71 percent, while those with no religion gave him the worst 13.8 score of any group 82.8 in favor, percent against. nine-yea- beautification awards: snd Roger Burt, Corrinne, first place and Tim Christensen receive I f iuvv Southeast Southwest 29 9 r He said a study showed that 1969 was the peak year for married coeds. That year, nearly 13 percent of the student body were married women. Last year, the number was nearly down to 8 percent, he said. Year. Nilson, second place, will . Uian full-tim- e Henefer. first place and Rex Young Farmers Salt Lake Jfl- A " wevrrt 53 6 percent TVrt i lit. The number of married women PROVO (AP) attending college classes is dropping, says a Brigham Young University researcher. Howard director of institutional Campbell, research, says there are more single women on the school campus, but fewer married women in classes. Year; Lamar Richins, Mr. Wright Cache &B.E. Weber, Devi A-- 1 with classes, 6YU says gets state honor xrrfctv . i, Area Democrats rated him poorly only 20.2 percent favoring his performance, while Fewer wives attend Wright. 26, a member of the Timpanogos Chapter of the .1 I think the power we send there should be priced to reflect the cost of really cleaning up the stack emissions, She has lived m Utah for the last 18 years. "When we moved out here I felt like this is the place, this is home She has been environmentally active for about 25 years, belonging to several organizations. Utah County dairy farmer, William Wright, was named Utah Young Farmer of the Year Friday night during the 31st annual convention of the Utah State Young Farmers Association at Ramada Inn. . Iiif Pm not against providing power for Los Angeles, for example, but I'm against providing cheap power for Los Angeles. The wife of University of Utah mathematics professor William J. Coles, mother three (Jeffery, 16; Katie, 14. Deter. 12), in 1963 Mrs. Colts was the first woman to earn a Hi D. from the universitys College of Mines and Mineral Industries. She is within a few months of getting a second doctors degree, this one in clinical psychology. Lindon, -- iiir TOTAL 64 3 she thinks there is no way Utah could of these reseive;,. They will be used to country's power needs, through generagassifiction of coal, petroleum frurrs -- Statovido poMGnffaQCS slips in Utah poll shale " production of liquid fuel from coal, treating solid coal so it bums more cleanly. "I dont think that Utahns she are aware of it yet, but Utah is going to added, have to bear environmental impacts far beyond what would be required if we only had to worry about supplying energy for ourselves. i research to meet the t. The prediction comes from Mrs. Joan L. Coles. I357-3rAve., who was appointed In Oc A in coal energy crisis, she said. The Office of Coal Researchs budget has soared as. the energy crisis tightened $20 million two or three' years ago, $45 million last year, $120 million next year. More and more, coal seems to hold promise of staving off an energy bunt-ouwe !t's one of our most abundant hydrocarbons have trillions of tons. As an interim energy source, I think that we must use it. Ry Runs President ot any price' 'Energy , toiotion instead of one mil os at present. House possed 5M3 11. goes to governor. SJR11 (Fmlinson, Block, et at) Uroes the federal government to provide odeouote funds for occess roods to sources of energy Senate passed goes to House. Pensions $B3 (Buckner, Peftersson) Provides weekly benefit of $50 for ond permanently disabled totally Persons miurpd before March 5 194 House passed 59 016, goes o governor $B9 (Jeffs, Snow, Bowen) Limit. Soc-oSecurity offset to pobiiv soMv Houre pensions to $120 a month possed 65 6 2, goes te governor SB19 Mobile (Rees, Dean) Poromedtcs Act. Species what medicol aid may be performed tv met in porcmedlcs at Occident scenes House pasd goes to Governor Revenue ond Taxation SB2t (Howe) prozifi' u for failure to Day sWe income tor Senate passed goes tn moj e $840 (Leaviit, Howe, Mechom) -Allows certo n relief in tiv use ot net losses by corporations whose fiscal years ended dufmo 1973 in figuring their corporation franchise foxes. Senate possed 23 0 6. goes to House SJR9 (Brooke) Directs the Utoh Legislative Council to examine the wisdom and eauiiy of the existing property tox system in Utah Senate passed goes to House State Affairs 5331 (Brockbonk, et ol) State Money Mcnogement Act. consolidating all stote funJs wth stote treasurer, of fyoes investments prescribing permitted ond Setting minimum inter-esrates oliowed House and Senate passed with amendment, goes to gov ernor 5JRJ (Clyde, Jenkins, Mechom) Amends Executive Article of Const tu tor lieutenont governor tion provid-nand allowing state treasurer ona auditor to succeed themselves. Senate 28 01. Dossed goes to House. SJR) (Snow, Black) Aments Constitution allowing state c' local to lend their credit to governments expand orivote industry .n the stote Sencte passed 207 2 goes to House MB27 (Irvine, Redd, et el) Indemnifies officers ond employe, of public entities ogoinst claims instituted ogoinst them for octs or omissions during their employment occurring 6M0 4 goes to Senate House Transportation HB13 (Taylor) Authorizes local tronsd disgovernments containing tricts to impose on additional one fourth ennt sales tox to fund a transit system uoon approval in referendum. bv voters Senate ' goes to governor - patd BILLS KILLED Agriculture Allows (Hoff, Stephens persons to slaughter pevdry und ti other in than places slaughterhouses it the meat is for exclusive use of owner end his fam.iy House KHied LegtsJa?ure Amends ConHJRJ (Hofcansen) stitution to raise legislators per diem to $15 $25 from House expenses killed 2? 399. - lt k One of the major bills of the session, the Money Management Act. was signed with a flourish by Senate President Warren E. Pugh. Lake, and the gold pen presented to State Treasurer David Duncan The bill now goes to the governor. Also sent to the governor were bills: Changing the name of the State Board of Higher Education to the State Board of Regents. Allowing water conservancy districts supplied by the Upper Colorado River Project to double their mill levy to two mills. Providing for intensive training of firemen to serve as paramedics in a manner similar to that portrayed tn the televison show. gEmergeney." Making it mandatory for insurance companies to cover handicapped children on the same basis as other children included under a group health policy. Raising to a minimum of the weekly disability bene-ut- s of persons disabled prior to March. 1940 . Limiting the social security offset wr. public safety |