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Show I Damaged UP&L got 33 million rate incroosQ A Sickness and A gwtt The Utah Public Service Com- mission Thursday granted Utah Power and Light Co. a $33 million approxinterim rate inrrease--a- n imate 5.12 percent increase in the utilities annual revenues intheUtah jurisdication. The increase is effective June 1. The interim increase is subject to refn. id if the commission decides it is unjustified after a full round of hearings is completed. The order directs the company to spread the Interim rate increase on a uniform percentage among all classes of By Oackie Williams Another medical emergency that can occur from body heat exHeat cramps will occur with sweating posure is heat cramps. Heat cramps are usually identified and low salt replacement. by a painful muscle spasm of the arms and legs in persons who otherwise seem to be in good condition. The cramps are usually The only manifestation of this condition. If other signs and symptoms exist beside simple cramps, then the problem automatically becomes classified as heat exhaustion and should be treated as such. Heat cramps are not threatening, however, they can be painful Treatment is drinking a dilute salt solution and incapacitating. salt in a quart of water). This is the only table of (one tablespoon effective treatment for this condition. Ice packs may be applied to the affected a to the affected limbs to relieve pain. The muscles will cramp again unless water and salt loss are replaced. The patient should continue to drink plenty of water over the next 24 hours. Further increased salt intake is not usually necessary . Next weeks article will discuss heat exhaustion. The second ward Relief Society held Relief Society this week for the hospital patients. These meetings are a pleasant addition to the daily routine and we very much appreciate the efforts of the ladies in both wards. THE MORE THAN ONE COMPANY rd customers. For the average residential customer without electric space heating using 544 kilowatt hours per month, the increase would be approxim ately $2.40 per month. For the customer with space heating 1,442 kilowatts per month, the average increase would be approximately $5.58 per month. In January, the utility filed a request with the Utah Commission for an additional $92 million in annual reenue. A substantial portion of that request, in addition to the general inflation, is related to the recovery of the balance of investments in the utilitys new Hunter Plant third unit which has not previously been fully included in rate base. Another portion of the requested amount is related to new company facilities such as the new 20,000 kilowatt geothermal generating unit at Roosevelt Hot Springs. UP&L serves some 430,000 Utah electrical customers. AGENT Lee Insurance Agency Your elements and formats. Its the most massive records conversion and data processing endeavor In the history of American business, said Len Hedberg, General Manager for the Consumer Sales and Service Division of AT&T Informaton Systems. As a point of comparison, "Hed-ber- g said, the recent modernization of 36 million Social Security records took about five years. Nationally, we will convert nearly twice as many accounts in a little over one-thithe time. The conversion includes more than 2.7 million customers in seven western states, including Utah. With a data transfer of this magnitude, it's almost inevitable that some customers will have questions about their bills, Hedberg said. We'll respond to each as quickly as we possibly can. Customers leasing one or two telephones from AT&T will receive a bill quarterly. Those leasing three or more, or having monthly charges of $12 or more, will receive a bill each month. Mountain Bell will continue to bill customers for local service and long distance calls handled by Mountain Bell and AT&T. Independent Insurance Agents Insurance For All Your Needs Hornet Auto tLlfe tFarm Business t Let Us Fit One of Our Major To Your Carriers Insurance Needs Insurance Special ALMOST DONE: Kevin Long sprays the planter boxes with oil before placing the finished boxes on Main Street for the businesses who purchased them and will plant flowers and take care of them. Divestiture complicates phone billing procedure CRADLE NEWS Wade and Kim Lister are the proud parents of a baby girl. The little miss was bom June 2, 1984. She weighed in at 9 lbs and 2 oz. Utah's business residential telephone users will Beginning June 4, and receive separate bill from AT&T for all leased telephones at their homes and businesses. The charges are not new - they are simply separated from the old phone bill and mailed in a separate envelope. Previously, all equipment charges for leased telephones were included in monthly bills from Mountain with charges for local and long distance telephone ser- Bell, along vice. With the restructuring of the Bell System, in January, 1984, ownership of leased telephone equipment transferred to AT&T Informaton systems. As a result, AT&T is required to send separate bills to those customers who continue to lease. Conversion to the AT&T billing system has already taken place in California, Nevada, Washington and The remainder of the Oregon. country will be converted in stages over the next 18 months. The conversion involves the transfer of more than CO million customer accounts, 120 million telephones and 200 million records. Information must be gathered from 26 different billing systems, 87 revenue accounting offices and 52 each employbilling data centers ing a variety of hardware and software, as well as different data Gomputors can guide management A computerized herd management program (HMP) designed by the DHI (Dairy Herd Improvement) Computing Service is available for dairymen to increase their management Ned L. efficiency, says Zaugg, Extension dairyman, Utah State University. The HMP helps with management tasks including: (1) health diagnoses and treatments, (2) routine vaccinations, (3) body weights (estimated or actual), (4) reasons for removal from the herd or causes of death and (5) breeding activities. Zaugg said each month the computing service produces reports indicating what action the dairyman needs to take with which heifers in order to achieve the standards and goals that he has set. These reports resemble those currently available on the milking herd. They include heifers to check for heat, carried calf, sire groups days health analysis, heifers by weight, heifers by age, heifers by month due to calf and an individual calf page listing all information available on each calf at certain ages Zuagg noted the HPM can help achieve seven objectives: Assist the dairyman to manage his replacement heifers, reduce redundant reporting of pedigree information, minimize the effort required of the dairyman to enroll new heifers, allow the dairyman to set goals and standards for his heifer herd, produce reports to initiate action to achieve the goals set, record significant events for management analysis, compile statistics needed to evaluate herd management. Job Opportunity SECRETARY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS. Full-tin- e, Gradmonth contrart. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: uate from a standard senior high school or equivalent G.E.3.; previous secretarial experience, preferably in a public -- relations oriented office; typing 50 u.p.m. and shorthand of 80 w.p.m. desired; good spelling and grammar abilities preferred; experience with dictaphone and micro computers preferred; must be dependable, punctual, neat in appearance and have the outgoing personality to meet and communicate effectively to the public. DESIRED STARTING DATE: July 1, 1984. SALARY: Grade 11-- 1, $10,596.00. Applications must lie submitted to the Southern Utah State College Personnel Office, Cedar City, Utah, 84720, no later than 5:00 p.m. June 15, 1964. Applicants must schedule their own typing and spelling tests at Job Service before the closing date of June 15, 1984 An Equal OpportunityAffirmative Action Employer veve -- ""N Hill facIPi EFFICIENT. the past decade Hah Iov r Lt- - bail five now power plan more than doubling its generating (apcicity-- o moot a growing demand for on electricity. Our latest one, the 400 rnegawat Hunter Third lm went 3 Murder Bna! to aim br From g ground stream last summer. inspection million about and to build 4)0 co,t took 32 months Expensive'' Yes. But if we were only as efficient as ih avor-jg- i g a lull utility, the price tag would have ben much higher By B&.E Mi I ' million y saved year ahead of the industry of umdvsis planning and Efficiency entered every phj'-w to , n de Our engineers and contractor' pull man; rt ngm from " dV.ng irn and expense m engineering previous plants off the belt Then they designed and applied t,ne avir. tec hruquo'. map unique m rrn ns lower labor , 0 rtere-- t tier tu the industry Shorter v ;..p. i n i tre costs. These savings b re hi h o: !r tor w o c .at t. a more I'ov.r If-- a is ibaf, Efficiency 4500 our people Thev merit a goon word for the safe return of women's of my late wife, which came up In shortly after tier demise. the fim-hin- ao-rag- HI He c -- i! To ilOEEIGia -- y -- on-tr- for three guns which were taken van on t fie night 1 was taken to Beaver Valley Hospital for a heart Also from & LIGHT COMPANY my attack. Positively no qustions asked. Signed, r in m-tor- PET. COL. WILLIAM RAIS0R re Greenville, Utah Not puhl,'hed a! ipforner expense c |