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Show v WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, OCTOBER V w p p rpp w w i 11,1979 VaSds Hit VJhitesides ScM, DtKgal In The Thousands - troying windows in most classroom doors, typewriters, Students at E. LAYTON M. Whitesides Elementary School in Layton had an extra day of vacation, Wednesday, television sets and other audio-visu- preliminary to the two-daUtah Education Association recess. equipment. y BASEBALL bat was believed used in destroying the typewriters but no other known weapons had been located early Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Stoddard said A BUT IT was no vacation for administration and staff of the school as they tried to pick up the pieces left by vandals who apparently struck the school late Tuesday damage had been caused pretty well throughout the school. Although point of entry hadnt been officially determined, it was thought the vandals might have entered night or early Wednesday morning. Principal Lynn Stoddard said some estimates had put damage at about $10,000 as vandals concentrated on des through some windows. And while no red hot clues had Blaclt Mow Time KIWANIS ELECTS The black widow spider has a reputation worse than its bite, but keep your distance anyway, suggests the Inter- Clearfield Kiwanis Club has elected a new president, Raymond L. Adams, with mountain Regional Poison Control Poison Control Byron Liljenquist installed as vice member unit. president of the Center. 40-pl- CLEARFIELD Some new faces are heading things for the Clearfield Kiwanis Club. has been elected new president RAYMOND L. Adams with Byron Liljenquist as vice president and Gary 0. Barker, secretary and Ben Adams, treasurer. The club recently celebrated its 40th anniversary and includes nearly 50 members from the North Davis area. Golden Stephenson is the outgoing president who will remain on the board of directors. Other board members projects include Smith Page, Laurence Sessions, Terry planned. Restrooms are with along planned improvement for tennis Palmer, Jess Hunsaker, Paul Boggs, Dale Gardiner and LaVoid Robertson. THE CLUB plans to continue community service the including Park on 300 said Pres. Adams. Kiwanis specialists at the University of Utah Medical Center receive a steady stream of calls about black widows each fall when the spiders move inPOISON information North, Some doors as the nights get cooler. playground equipment has The spiders prefer dimly lit basements, window wells, stairwells, garages and woodpiles. been installed with additional DISTURBING THE web of a black widow spider is two small usually an invitation to be bitten. The bite puncture marks surrounded by redness often produces pain similar to a needle prick. All bites should be cleansed immediately with soap and water. Muscle cramps near the bite may begin anywhere from 2 to 12 hours later, with the cramps progressing to the shoulders, back and abdomen. Theyre painful and can be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, restlessness and sweating. The cramps should be treated by a physician or the symptoms could last four to five days. courts. Meetings are held at 7 a.m. on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month at the Country Garden Restaurant, tb 3M Tactical Fighter I'Jing Are Rpg A Variety Of - HILL AFB Some 130 missions and 248 hours have been flown to date by the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing Phantom jets and aircrews in support of a major NATO maratime exercise involving eight nations and now taking place in the Missions flight and the unparalleled cooperation provided by the Norwegian air traffic controllers, Major Moe said. F-- 4 Norweigian Sea. AFTER 44 days of heavy flying in support of Ocean Safari 79, the deployed forces at Flesland Air Station, Norway, are working around the clock to continue to meet the flying requirements of the exercise. We have met or exceeded our planned sorite or mission rate especially in regard to familiarizing ourselves with Norwegian and NATO operations, said Major Tom Moe, 4th Tactical Fighter Squadron deployment project officer of the 388th Tactical Fighter AIRCREWS WILL continue to fly Ocean Safari 79 mis- sions until the exercise concludes on Friday. The largest daily rate was Monday when 37 successful flights were recorded. The unit was plagued last week with more than three inches of rain and inclement weather conditions resulting in a number of local orientation flights being delayed. OCCASIONALLY, the spider wont inject, its venom when it bites a human. The victim will have only local pain that can be treated with a cold compress and does not require medical attention. The mature female is the more aggressive of the species and is most likely responsible for a bite and resultant muscle cramps. She spins an irregular web and then waits for an insect to become trapped. WEVE HAD some super flying weather since SaturWe he continued. day, are where we should be in our meeting flying requirements. Early next week THE FEMALE black widow spider usually has a shiny black body a half inch long, but may be dark brown. The the abdomen most often has a deployed personnel will begin to prepare the 17 Phantoms for the c marking, but other spots of coloring may be present. She has a lifespan of up to 18 months. The male is only half to the size of the female. He dies a few days after mating. F-4-D Trans-Atlanti- crossing. The aircraft will make the 11 hour flight on Friday, Oct. 12. Eight aircraft have been scheduled to airlift support personnel and equipment back to Hill AFB between Oct. hourglass red-oran- one-fift- h at press time, two footprints had been located and were being analyzed. Layton Police Chief LaMar a couple Chard said been found were avenues being checked. A DRINKING fountain was ripped from one wall, eggs strewn about the kitchen and contents of a fire extinguisher released, as well. And papers were in disarray in many classrooms as well as the office area. Assistant custodian Alvin Howard said blood had been found in the kitchen, leading officials to believe one of the vandals had been injured. THE vandalism was discovered about 6 a.m. Wednesday morning by William Bill Barton, head cusodian. Chief Chard said a cash reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest or apprehension of anyone involved. Those having such information should contact the Layton Police Department at VANDALS STRUCK Vae View Elementary School about a week ago, causing window damage, but officials had not determined if there was any connection in the two incidents. Davis School District Bernell Superintendent Wrigley said the Wednesday school closing was the first time a school had to be shut of because vandalism. Police gave us the directive that they would need a good part of the day to investigate and insisted they could not have students until they had finished their review. IN COMMENTING on the I damage he continued, dont know if weve ever had this problem before to this extent. Looking to future possibilities for protection of school property he said, Our best approach is to work with the local law enforcement. If they recommend that we assign personnel (to protect build- ings) then well do whats necessary. IF YOU are bitten by a black widow spider, check with your physician or call the Poison Control Center at or SCHOOL WAS scheduled to resume Monday, tb based aircrews are flying a variety of missions, Major Moe indicated. We are flying air defense missions in support of NATO THE HILL ships and offensive operations against simulated threats on the surface and in the air. "The prime movers in accomplishing the high rate are our maintenance people who have worked additional hours in preparing the s for i t j I I I I I i I ! I I I I S Utah has been receiving proportionately less from grant-in-ai- d Federal programs, despite the fact that Utahns are paying proportionately more to finance such programs. THIS WAS the main conclusion reached by Utah Foundation, the private research organization, in their latest study of changing patterns in Federal aid. The report shows that Utah ranked 47th among the 50 states in the percentage increase of Federal grants between 1965 and 1978. During this period, Federal aid to Utah rose by 318 percent, but the increase was only slightly more than half the national Federal aid growth of 614 percent. FOR THE most part, the states with the greatest increases in Federal aid were also states with per capita incomes. According to the Foundation study, there has been a trend during recent years of awarding Federal aid on a a project basis rather than by higher-than-avera- set formula. Such project grants have complicated the administrative machinery and have added uncertainty to the budget process of state and local units. THIS SYSTEM also tends to favor the larger states and cities at the expense of the smaller units which do not have the financial, technical and lobbying resources to ing recent years. Between July 1974 and July 1979, the as measured by the U.S. Department of Labor ; Consumers price index, rosg by 47.9 percent. FOUNDATION analysts' point out that the above com-- , parisons are for teachers with a bachelors degree. If a teacher who began teaching r five years ago had acquired added academic training, he or she would have received an organization. ACCORDING to the study, teacher salary schedules in Utah were raised by an average of $866, or 7.1 percent In addition, this year (1979-80- even greater salary boost during the period. For example, a teacher with a masters degree and five teachers not at the fop bracket of salary scale also an annual received increment experience averaging another $513 this years teaching experience would receive an average salary this year of $14,024, or $1,236 more than a teacher with only a bachelors degree,; year. Thus, the total increase for teachers who have not reached the top step averaged about $1,397, or 11.3 percent school during the 1979-8- 0 Teacher salary levels in Utah are roughly equivalent to those of the surrounding year. the 1979 Utah Legislature enacted the When states. 1979-8- 0 general appropriations act, it specified that state employees should be percent salary given a 5 increase as of July 1, 1979, but that no merit increase (stan- dard experience ad- vancement) be granted during the 1979-8- fiscal year. tribution, a special benefit not generally available in the other states. When this benefit is taken into consideration, the adjusted amount paid to classroom, teachers in Utah is about T percent above the Mountain THE STUDY shows that a teacher who began a teaching career in 1974 would have received an average starting salary of $7,265. This year States average. STARTING SALARIES in Utah for teachers with a bachelors degree averaged $10,458 this year. This sum the average salary for this same teacher with five teaching years ) increases with experience and added academic training and experience is $12,788. Thus, total salary increases to this r teacher over the period averaged $5,523, or 76 Approximately percent. $3,953 of this increase represents raises that have been granted in the salary an reaches average maximum of $18,139 for & teacher with a masters five-yea- degree. All of these amounts, are for approximately teaching days, or nine month of actual service. Teachers with special duties and those who teach summer schoo receive additional 180-18- 5 schedules with the remaining $1,570 accounted for by annual experience increments. Inflation, of course, has been a major factor in the alcohol Extension Agriculture Engineer Utah State University source that could ease the fossil fuel situation is alcohol or gasohol- -a mixture of by volume. The problem is, how can this new product be maximum performance with gasohol, the tractor could have done as well or better on the conversion. 0 Fuel conservation, or the lack of it, is the big news these days. The news media and farmers are concerned with surplus of farm products and the shortage of fossil fuel needed for the internal combustion engines. As a result, many people are looking for alternative fuels or ways to stretch present supplies. ONE RENEWABLE energy compete for these project grants. At the same time that Utahs share of the Federal grant distributions has been ALCOHOL will raise the declining, the taxes required to finance such Federal aid allocations have been rising. UTAHS SHARE of the Federal tax burden required to pay for these grant programs rose from 0.42 percent in 1965 to an estimated 0.48 percent in 1978. As a result, Utah which received back more than $2 for each dollar in taxes paid to finance these grant programs in 1965, now finds that this advantage has been reduced to $1.16 in Federal grants for each $1 in taxes by 1978. Even though Utah still gets back slightly more in Federal aid than it pays in Federal taxes to support those aid Foundation programs, researchers note that it is doubtful that this represents a net gain for the state. THEY POINT out that this benefit-to-coratio does not take into account (1) Federal should minimize or eliminate knocking in high compression gasoline engines. Cold starting may be a little tractor informally tested in Nebraska produced slightly less power and used slightly more fuel on gasohol compared with lead free gasoline. But nothing was done to the engine, such as carburetor adjustment or timing. Had the harder. Alcohols volatility (ease of which it becomes a vapor) is so high it tends to cool everything down, including the combustion chamber just when you need the heat to fire up the mixture. engine been adjusted for TO START a cold administrative costs, (2) state and local administrative costs, (3) the higher cost of many Federal aid projects, ra(4) the lower tios of the newer Federal aid programs, (5) the undertaking of projects of questionable value. Also (6) the separation of responsibility from the raising of revenues, (7) the creation of an unwieldy central bureaucracy, and (8) the competitive disadvantage of a benefit-cos- t free to billion in fiscal 1978. Federal aid has multiplied by 35 times since 1950 and now accounts for 23.4 percent of all state and local revenue in the nation. and causing difficult hot starting. POTENTIAL safety hazard could be greater with gasohol in that it could erupt or spurt out of the fuel tank when the cap is removed due to a pres- Foundation analysts observe that Federal controls, which generally accompany these Federal dollars, are exerting a correspondingly heavy influence on the decisions of state sure budget-- making ; and local government. ALTOGETHER there are separate categorical Federal grant programs. 492 These categorical programs are directed at narrowly-define- d activities or limited objectives. In addition to the categorical grants, there are five broad-base- d block grant programs, plus the general Federal revenue sharing Federal in the grant programs, state and local units frequently are required to follow Federal regulations or guidelines which may be at variance with their own preferences. RECENTLY, THE Federal Advisory Commission on In- tergovernmental Relations reported that at least 33 crosscutting regulations routinely are attached to most aid programs. starter. beneficial when the engine is fully loaded as the alcohol showed moderate combustion chamber temperatures to prevent overheating. Vapor lock could be a bigger problem, as gasohol is more volatile than gasoline. Excess heat (worse when combined with the rarified atmosphere at high altitudes) can cause the fuel,to vaporize in the gas line and carburetor bowl which then impedes or blocks flow of fuel to the carburetor jets, thus stalling the engine state and local units of government throughout the United States totaled $77.9 various spinning However, the cooling effect is grants-in-ai- d timing, build-u- p in the tank because of its high volatility in hot weather. There also could be more likelihood of fuel leaks, as gasohol may speed up the deterioration of gaskets and some seals used in a fuel system, especially if they are old and not too sound to begin with. A broken muffler, leaky exhaust manifold or missing heat shield can add extra warmth to adjacent fuel tank. GASOHOL should be stored in underground tanks. If you are using above ground storage, locate tank in a shady, cool place, to minimize losses from vaporization, making certain venting is free and open. Avoid tanks, lines, connections and such that contains aluminum oxide and water that forms sludge that could settle to the bottom of a low spot and eventually cause fuel system clogging and other problems. ting adequate performance. To burn diesohol, diesel fuel and alcohol, a higher percentage of our mechanization is involved in the adjustment of diesel engines. There are some problems with diesel engines burning alcohol. Even though a diesel will run on a mix of diesel fuel and alcohol there are problems that make it a less practical fuel than gasohol. FOR ONE, there could be a lubrication problem. Diesel fuel has natural lubricating qualities that keep the fuel in- jection pump functioning properly. Because alcohol is a gasohol-burnin- g engine you need plenty of battery power and a small state, such as Utah, in securing these grants. program. To participate oc- tane rating of fuel which machinery? FEDERAL coolant and such problems if you are not getment, temperature, used? What modifications need to be made in modern A AN INDIVIDUAL should check with his dealership with respect to carburetor adjust- Exercise tests: When choosing a for fitness, test yourself on these: m new kind of exercise . THE LIFETIME Test - Can you continue it for many years? Walking and bicycling are good lifetime exercises. The Solo Test - Can you do it without a whole team of friends? Activities you can fit in whenever you have the time will probably be done more often. The Compatibility Test - Does it fit in with the rest of your life? It is hard to be a dedicated skier if you live in Iowa. The Accessibility Test - How often can you use the necessary facilities? You wont get in much tennis if you must sign up a month in advance at the only court. SLEEP BY Yourself: Sleeping pills should be used only as a temporary and last resort to induce sleep. Pills are not only addictive, but likely to disturb normal sleep patterns. When they are withdrawn, they often cause nightmares and even more disturbed sleep. - STRESS: The whole story of stress how to recognize it, how to handle it, how to live with it, and how to make it work for you is told in this Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Utah health education booklet. A series of 12 articles written by physicians, psychologists, and mental health professionals, the publication emphasizes the friend and foe aspects of stress and offers advice on how to handle it so that it helps us in coping with lifes changing conditions. One of the most dramatic chapters describes what is followed by a commonly called nervous breakdown, special article on learning to relax. To order Stress, call our Public Relations Department at ext. 500. There is no charge for single copies. - HEARTENING PROGRESS: The rate of heart disease is declining in America, largely due to greater public awareness of its causes. The rate of heart attacks has dropped about two percent per year and strokes about three percent per year. The declines began in 1963 for females and nonwhite Americans and in 1968 for white American males. Lower consumption of saturated fats and reduced smoking are credited with the encouraging results. LADDER LIMITS: Move a ladder to the side so you do h not have to yourself to get handyman tasks done safely. Limit yourself with this tip: Keep your belt buckle between the rails of the ladder. over-reac- HALLOWEEN SAFETY: Besides ghosts and goblins, in the Halloween night theres often real danger lurking product. Thes products should not be stored in glass, plastic, or flims metal containers. Small quantities of thes products should be handled i approved safety cans properl marked in a well ventilate place. Avoid pouring gasohol, diesohol, alcohol, or refuelin, near sources of ignition or excessive heat. AS ENGINES of the future are being designed with a cohol as a combination fue many of these problems wi be engineered or overcome But until that time comes, w must take every precaution i learning about a new fuel o the future. alcohol contains oxygen, By DR. VON H. JARRETT es- however, currently pays 5 percent of the employees share of the retirement con- 0 Consequently, the total salary boost to state employees who are not at the top step in the salary schedule was less than half that provided to school employees who are not at the top bracket. (1979-80- According to timates prepared by the National Education Association, the average salary paid to classroom teachers in Utah last year was about 3.9 per- cent below the average of the eight Mountain States. Utah, solvent, some of this lubricating film could be washed away causing damage to the pump. blend the In a diesel-alcoh- Utah Paying More But Getting Less Fed. Aid J teacher salary increases dur- Salary increases provided personnel in Utah this year were somewhat greater than those granted to state employees. This observation was contained in an analysis of teacher salaries in Utah prepared by Utah Foundation, the private research to school 13-1- 5. . Wing. School Salaries Rise Faster Than Statie Employees which when mixed with air in the fuel recirculation process, becomes potentially explosive within the fuel injection syscould tem. Such a damage the equipment or even injure a person. ALSO, WATER could be a problem in diesohol and result in poor engine performance. Injectors could be clogged by the sludge produced if the fuel was stored in facilities containing aluminum. Precautions will need to be made in handling, mixing and hauling are injured or air. Every year many poisoned from eating candy and other goodies given to them by strangers. Children should not eat their treats until parents have had a chance to inspect them. at night, be sure Also, if your youngsters they wear light colors so they can be seen by cars; walk along the shoulder of the road facing traffic if there are no sidewalks; wear makeup instead of a mask to see better; and carry flashlights instead of candles or rs trick-or-tre- jacko-lantem- s. DOES YOUR Skin Need Work?: Skin diseases are the most prevalent occupational health hazard, a recent federal study shows. Although many workers are exposed to harsh chemicals, irritations are often misdiagnosed as allergy. Mention occupational exposure if you consult a physician for skin care. ORGANICALLY GROWN: There is no scientific evidence to show that organically-growfoods differ in nutritional content from those grown with inorganic fertilizers. And organically-growfoods are usually more expensive. On the other hand, many people are concerned about the widespread use of chemicals in our environment and advocate organic methods to reduce the possible adverse effects of chemical pollution. n n KEEP IT Private: Women who live alone should keep the information secret from would-b- e invaders. The National Safety Council recommends using B.J. Smith rather than Betty Jane Smith" on the mailbox and in the telephone directory. And if someone phones asking for the man of the house, says hes in the shower. DO YOU have ugly legs? : Varicose veins are a common complaint of both men and women. When they cause pain and discomfort (beyond that caused by their appearance), varicose veins should be examined by a physician. If left untreated, chronic swelling around the ankles and lower leg can cause irritated skin, tiny hemorrhages and severe ulcers on the leg. POTASSIUM DAILY: Potassium works with sodium to regulate the balance between acids and bases in body chemistry. Potassium is also helpful in controlling hypertension. Foods high in potassium should be eaten as part of a balanced diet. Tomatoes, mushrooms, bananas, orange juice, beef, and prunes are all good sources. |