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Show I Ben Lomond Beacon, Jan. 1 2, 978, Page 2 1 Lung Association needs you What do you do about Christmas Seals after Christmas? Thats an important question according to LaVern Parmley , Salt Lake, President of the Utah Lung Association, because many families postpone answering their Christmas Seal letter during the busy holidays. Then they wonder whether or not a donation to the Christmas Seal organization is proper or needed after the holidays. Actually, the annual Christmas Seal Campaign goes on to March 31. More than 20 percent of all Christmas Seal Campaign contributions come in after Christmas. That is the most important part of the fund drive the part that pushes it over the top. Mrs. Parmley explains. We thank all those who have used Christmas Seals and made a contribution this year. We urge those who have not contributed yet to do so now and help in the marvelous work of the Utah Lung Association. 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West of Davis No. Hospital 393-843- 9 to launch an attack on childrens breathing problems, and also rehabilitation of began rural clinical services in self-car- e adults with chronic lung disease. We need extra support now to keep these programs going next year, Mrs. Parmley says. In addition, the Christmas Seal people continued their regular programs of helping lung disease victims breathe easier: teaching school students about lung health; Clubs; helping smokers quit; operating Emphysema training pulmonary disease medical teams; educating the public on sickness prevention; warning about the consequences of air pollution and occupational exposures to lung diseases. Ninety percent of the money contributed in Utah remains here to help Utahns prevent and control lung disease," Mrs. Parmley says. The other ten percent is salt to the American Lung Association for medical research, and nationally directed education programs. A gift to the Utah Lung Association is really a gift of better health to ourselves. Did you know . . . 825-162- Contract authority given Region VIII lower-incom- By Edwin Feulner Today, Charles Longstreet Weltner serves on the bench of the Atlanta Judicial Court. From 1962-6- 6 he served in the U.S. House of Representatives, followed by stints as deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as a fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard. By the standards of the times, he was looked upon as one of the shining examples of the newly emerging progressive South. It was natural, therefore, that Weltner was one of the leading boosters of the Johnson Administrations Model Cities program, intended to rejuvinate decaying inner city neighborhoods. As he explains: It was time to put to work all the precepts of the liberalism of the sixties: saturation tunding, local control, intergovernmental coordination, neighborhood and citizen participation and generally the conversion of goodwill and hope into beneficial reality. Atlanta authorities quickly chose as their Model Neighborhood an area covering some 3,000 acres in the heart of Downtown Atlanta. There could be no doubt in the mind of the most casual observer that if any area needed help, this was it," Weltner writes in the current issue of Policy Review. A total of $173 million was poured into the area on a variety of capital improvements and social programs. Unfortunately, says Weltner, the effort may have been misdirected. One-thir- d of the people in the Model Neighborhood have moved away. The percentage of substandard housing in the neighborhood remains 2.6 times that of the city at of a percent lower than in 1970. Since large, only 1969 welfare expenditures have risen from $3.5 million annually to a projected $5.8 million. The Food Stamp program along with AFDC has increased welfare spending by 13.2 excluding old age, disability and blind assistance. In 1968 33.9 of the work force was serviceunskilled. By 1970 that had increased to 40.7 while the equivalent e level 18.6 remained constant. The median income, based on purchasing power of the 1967 dollar declined from $4,900 to $4,399 real dollars in 1970. Based on standardized tests in education, there is plainly a progression of deficiency, the gap between Model Neighborhood and national achievement widening with each year of school attendance. The percentage of crime in the area to all crimes within the city declined fairly dramatically from yet the crime rate for the Model Neighborhood has increased since then. What really happened in the Model Cities one-tent- h city-wid- tsrri brogan PTYL 4 1968-197- . the Department Betty Miller, Regional Administrator of and Urban Development (HUD), today announced that Region VIII has been assigned $17,373,700 in contract authority for the Section 8 Housing Assistance Low Income Public Payments Program and $3,036,000 for the 1978. Contract Year Fiscal Housing Program during to make up of amount required annual is the money authority the difference between what a lower income household can afford and the fair market rent for an adequate housing unit. The Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program e households provides rental assistance to certified as elegible to receive the subsidy. HUD will provide housing assistance payments on behalf of eligible households in order that they may occupy decent, safe and sanitary newly constructed, substantially rehabilitated or existing housing units. These payments will make up the difference between the approved rent for the unit and the amount the family is required to pay (which is not less than 15 percent, nor more than 25 percent of a familys adjusted income) HUD, in turn, has allocated $3,138,575 in contract authority to the state of Utah( $2,559,850 (or 82 percent) for metropolitan areas and $578,725 (or 18 percent) for nonmetropolitan areas. HUD estimates that the total'amount of $3,138,575 of contract authority allocated to Utah will assist 899 Section 8 housing units. Of that number, 561 are to be rehabilitated units, and 338 newly constructed-substantiall- y are to be existing housing units. These funds are being made available, Ms. Miller said, in order to assist 413 elderly households, 394 family households, and 92 large family households which have three or more bedrooms. Of the total amount of $3,138,575 contract authority allocated to Utah for the Section 8 Program, $1,493,010 have to assist 313 (newly constructed-substantiall- y been rehabilitated) Section 202 elderly units, and units. $268,170 to assist 70 (newly constructed) Section The setaside for the Section Program is based upon the Memorandum of Understanding and negotiations between HUD Section 8 and the Section 515 Farmers Home Administration (FmHA ) Program. In addition, HUD has allocated $542,600 in contract authority to Utah for the Low Income Public Housing Program: $439,300 for metropolitan areas and $103,300 for areas. Ms. Miller estimated that these additional funds will assist 184 public housing units. Of that number, 134 are to be newly constructed units and 50 are to be substantially rehabilitated family households. These funds are exclusive of monies available for Indian reservations. Finally, these funds will assist 92 family households and 92 large family households. of Housing (continued from page to leave a fence in place which he has put across the right of way, to keep his horses in. But the council told him he would have to remove it as it prevented access to the rear of the lots and a bridal path along the back side of the subdivision. He was told the concept behind the Ranchette subdivision was to allow the property owners the use of a place to ride their horses. Mayor McColley suggested, if he wanted to fence the right of way, Mr. Fleming would have to get the Ranchette people to sign a petition in his favor. The proposed plan for Monroe Blvd. was presented to the council by Mr. Lew Wangsgard. He said the location was pretty well fixed at the in wanted to be able . set-asi- Vaccination still an effective treatment Preventable childhood diseases continue to strike, causing the discomfort and inconvenience of illness, and bringing on complications that all too often lead to death or permanent disability. Polio, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis - all of these diseases can be prevented through the simple procedure of vaccination. But they still afflict thousands of children each year, resulting in brain damage, blindness, deafness, paralysis and even death. In Utah an estimated 200,000 school age children are unprotected. 1) tersections of 1700 N., 2100 N. and 2600 N. streets, but could be fairly flexible in between, as the road must curve. The council is anxious to hace this major street planned, so that development in the area will be orderly. The mayor expressed appreciation Commission and stated he was anxious to preserve the separatness of the body. He said, in response to an invitation to the city council to visit the planning meeting, I get the impression, when the City Council comes in, the Planning Commission just sits and listens. We dont get any advise from then that way. for the Planning Mayor McColley reported on a meeting that was held earlier in the week with the state District Road Engineer concerning the upgrading of Washington Blvd. He said that the District Engineer, Jim Deaton, stated that because of the high ratio of ac cidents along this strip, it was the number one priority project for the state, along with the intersection of highway 84 and 12th street. Mayor McColley suggested they have him come to a council meeting where they could get soome public input to push the project along. 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