Salt Lake Tribune | 1962-08-27 | Page 19

e 'T w v w yrt ' non iry Y rnvtTT TF T 7""rr w yrrr T' r J Medics Cite Perils of Local News Features Second Section Space Era Ibe Salt Salt Lake City, Utah Sports Spotlight, TV Fare, Page August Monday Morning 27, 1962 25 Page 19 Panel Ponders Danger Scope By William C. Patrick - Tribune Medical Editor From crickets to fallout from bad Indians- - to bad air and water from the threat of disease to that of drugs to cure it from not enough food to surpluses due partly to use of pesticides that are potentially harmful to people THESE CONTRASTS give 'an. Indication of the environmental changes that have come about' in the transition from pioneer life to that of a mod-- ' ern technological civilization. To help' meet the challenge of the new hazards both potential and real the American Medical Assn, has established a new division of environmental health. , t AN committee of authorities in various fields of environmental health finds that the bright new world rin many ways much, safer and more pleasant than the old is a world of problems, many of which are still far from a solution. Report Urges Utah Make Job Changes U. of U. Survey Cites Need Of Extending Merit Plans By Stan Bowman Tribune Staff Writer Three out of four Utah state employes are happy in their jobs. But more than half ofthe employes of the state are worried about their jobs particularly if there is an ad' ministration change. are but few a the of results These of personnel management survey in Utah- state government conducted by three University of Utah professors. THE SURVEY WAS REQUESTED by the Utah State Public Employees Assn.-anconducted by the U. of U. Institute of Government with Dr. Oakley Gordon, department' of psychology; Dr. Reed Richardson, industrial relations, and Dr. J. D. Williams, political science department, compiling data. 4 The report was released Sunday. THE REPORT NOTES Qhere are many favorable features in state personnel administration in state government including a number achieved in 1961-62- , It approved of the revised job classification plan, salary structure, salary increases, fringe benefits and the merit system in six major state agencies. HIGH MORALE was indiUtah State Highway Department illustration terstate 15 and Salt Lake Belt Route intersection The trumpet type intersection has three ele- cated with three out of four Old Sol delivered another drawn by Herbert M. Fehmel shows how the In north of Salt Lake City will look when completed. vated, structures and one street level access. state employes in a sample attack on Salt withering indifrom an attitude study residents Lake Sunday as the satis-Tiecating they were either temperature rose to 97 deor very happy with grees. . Tie-i- n their jobs. THE HEAT LEFT many Among the persons who left state employment in 1961, the wondering when the summer report said, only 17 per cent sun would realize its time to firmly said they would not bow out and make way for the gentler rays of autumn. work for the state again. OPEN LETTER TQ A Meanwhile the weatherTHOUGHTLESS PERSON: HOWEYER, THE report in- man promised relief of sorts. Special to The Tribune said the boy was missing from dicated shortcomings. No one knows who you He said the high for Monday DRAPER A Utah while indicated that five to 10 minutes when are, but you hit him with a would go no higher is not a complete patronage probably boy drowned Sunday about search was started. The boy cane. . than 92. The '"old Utah the of state type spoils Highway Department working design for the 12:20 p.m. when he fell into a was found by his mother in YOU WANTED to show Interstate 15 and Salt Lake Beit Route intersection north .of it also is not a state which has FURTHERMORE, by Sunsmall irrigation ditch near his the ditph about one block north developed its day afternoon there was a off. So you hit one of the. Salt Lake City shows the use of three elevated structures and systematically home and was swept approxi- of the 1 home, he saidr personnel procedures around smattering of clouds which six new penguins at Hogle one street level access. the mately one block by the murky concept of competitive promised to hide the sun at MRS. BAUER pulled the boy , Zoological Gardens to get TRAFFIC FROM THE NORTH off Interstate 15, accord- merit. waters- odd times during Monday. to swim. bird It the didnt. from the water and neighbors ing to the design, will use a ramp spanning the interstate THE REPORT said While a 92 is by no means a only brain But the injury highway to reach the belt route. PRONOUNCED dead on ar administered artificial respiracool, for most its at least bethandful of except the when struck caused employes you 15 Vehicles leaving the belt route entering Interstate rival at Salt Lake General Hos- tion until a Sait Lake County 97. At any rate, helplgsp bird some 10 days are expected to use a ground level entry coming from the at changes of administration-tra- ce ter than that fall tempertheres to hope, popital was1 Robert Lewis Bauer, Fire Department ambulance ago r--r . well you killed it. their appointment southwest." 4 litical influence, yet more atures are just around the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ed- arrived. THE BIRD died Sunday at corner. emward Tlauer, 13760-30East. ALL FOUR BELT ROUTE lanes will pass over railroad thaq half of the Sheriffs Sgts. George Pazell 6:30 p.m. of starvation, ac(52 Gilbert Sheriff Grant cent) expressed per ployes Deputy tracks west of Interstate 15 on elevated structures. and J. F. Peterson praised Mer cording to LaMar FarnsThe intersection is called a "trumpet type, and is de- concern over job security in curator. assistant lin Anderson, 200 E. J3800 worth, the face of subsequent politiThat in spite of the expert signed for- construction north of the Beck Street overpass. cal change. Only 11 per cent of South, who applied State the Construction said, date, Highway Department to keep it alive. jthe jmerit workers expressed resuscitation in an ef- help is set for 1965. such concern. fort to revive the boy. One out of three " THE BOY apparently fell employes is periodically asked, into the roadside irrigation the report indicates, to make a East and was ditch at 13740-30political contribution, in conswept through a short piece trast to one out of 14 in the of concrete pipe and along the merit group. THE REPORT said, With Assistant Police Chief Ralph a few glaring exceptions, there Drowning Toll is very little exploitation of C. Knudson will call a comUtah mand level staff meeting MonEDITOR S NOTE: Following Is its control into an institution THE OVERLOADING of state workers to perform out22 To Aug. 27, 1932 day morning to discuss plans chores. the fourth and final article of for the custody of the grossly cases on social workers in right political 21 a series To Aug. 27, 1961 for the enforcement of traffic describing the problems are The noted there study deficient, generally those suf- county welfare departments, 30 facing the state In management All of 1961 as they apply to regulations unstate the of 1,422 employes three the burden times the delinbrain the of Institutions for damage. fering early motorists who impede officers merit 4,835 der the and and retarded system on level recommended quent, mentally juvenile and ambulances at the scenes FOR THOSE and others, the court ditch to approx- 111. probation officers, the not under the merit system for of serious traffic accidents. 13640-30is embarking on absence of any facility to serve a total of 6,257 state employes. East, Deputy institution imately By Jerome K. Full Gilbert said. new programs of community juveniles short of commitment also THAT FIGURE does notin-elud- e TH .Tribune Staff Writer The ditch was approximately and a marshaling to the Industrial School all and junior will confer with the office of university placement e 18 inches deep and about two Middle-agethese things have left undamp-enedlh- college children stir listthe Salt Lake County Sheriff the employes. recrea- - of professional talents on fgpf wiHp whorp hft fpll in. to develop mounting enrollment. The lessly is work program. Tor- done of eachchnd. variety! The increasing delinquency the problems at a room of tion building enforcement of traffic regulaHOWEVER, MOST of the New in the state are state-loca- l rate multiplied by an expand- stunning. .Training School. tions at accident scenes to water had baen diverted into a Utah State rein the EXAMPLES listed programs offering spe- ing population is producing an There is nothing for them to which both departments reside ditch a? the pipe and the cial education classes in public enrollment increase of about port and only a few show do, nowhere for them to go. spond, water was approximately only schools, day care centers for 10 per cent a year 150 per there are agricultural inspecTHE DECISION to take acsix inches deep where the boy CHILDREN WITH severe mentally and physically handi- cent since 1952. tors, highway patrolmen, saniare capped children, community was found, the investigating emotional tion came after deputies and intarians, problems engineers, safety THE TREND throughout the officer said. dropped from schools," get in mental health elinics designed spectors, patent clerks, social police complained hundreds of Robert Lewis . Bauer . , . The family have lived in the trouble with neighbors and the to attack mental illness before Public Welfare Commission-operatescience advisers, liquor .store motorists ignored an emerinstitutions is to to jam highFalls in irrigation ditch. home only a few months. police and are kept at home. hospitalization is required. employes, people studying al- gency situation them. Cottage coholism, option-takerambulances and There is no facility ways impede game THOSE EFFORTS are homes in Utah for mentally ill simulating normal home wardens, appraisers, boiler- racing to the scene of a Saturoutinstitutional the changing conditions and controlled children. makers and a prison warden. day night accident at the The Utah State Hospital has look at the hospital in Provo lease into the communities an of southbound U,S. and the school In American 40 West Blvd.) .and of the basic pattern. The (Foothill accepted a few such children. Fork. part Column See Page 20, I They are offering new measure of good management They are unsegregated from Parleys Way. and accomplish- is not how adults by lack of staff or ac- hope, to genuine Sheriffs deputies and city potight the security, hundreds of Utah ments, commodations. but how open the doors. lice ambulance officers defamilies. Student government and scribed as the worst I have But at the State Industrial STUDENTS MAY pass their are ever seen" the complete disreresponsibility is in Industrial the State trend School the Ogden, days at stressed.. Community particigard shown by motorists. for School, without academic or vo- simply toward more of the the injured at the scene of the pation and concern in the afsame. cational training. -fairs of the facilities are enaccident. All this is true, yet the State courage.. though not with of Utah has achieved recently OFFICER ROBERT O. Benuniform success at the three many successes, in dealing with nett, city police1 ambulance TOLL institutions. those who dont happen to fit operator, said a single narrow DAY SINCE THERE ARE- unresolved lane of traffic left open, by societys definition of acceptLAST able behavior. abandoned autos on the three-lan- e problems in transferring the 1 UTAH DEATH U.S. 40 approach to the students or patients between THE STATE Hospital has intersection was clogged by the institutions as their needs new techniques developed KILLED TO other motorists who raced the require. Sometimes it is easier emerging from a new social DATE ambulance to the scene. to transfer a patient between time The average psychiatry. 131 THIS TEAR recRian is his institutions it Sheriffs Lt C. .J, Gunn been in the hospital Jias spent ord, because of an idea in some reported his investigation of markedly cut and the chances KILLED TO front offices that the record is the accident would have been for return to the community confidential. DATE and a useful life are markedly practically impossible without 131 There are even greater probthe aid of 12 city policemen, LAST TEAR increased. crews of two city amlems in the matter .of coordina-Se- e is being The Trainipg-Scboincluding 236 DIED IN 1961 bulances. transformed 'by forces beyond Page 20, Column 4 non-mer- Its Summery Simmery- Utahns became acutely avifare of the nature oj one of them when it was discovered that excessive amounts of radioactivity from nuclear fallout were getting into their milk. . d Infant Dies released Draper In Irrigation Ditch A STATEMENT Sunday bv AMA headquarters in Chicago quoted Dr. Raymond L. White, head of the division of environmental medicine, as saying: As civilization becomes more complex,! so does its effect on the human being. Within the past decade the people of the United . States have come to recognize that our way of life' has generated somev serious health problems problems created by such things as industrial wastes and gases, new chemicals, even new ways of enjoying life. ENVIRONMENTAL health concerns itself with determining just how serious are the' problems, and attempts to point the way to possible solutions. Dr. Millard B. Bethel, former professor of public health at the University of North Carolina, has been assigned to the new division to help contend with the' problems. But most of them are beyond the scope of the individual medical practitioner. THE PRIVATE physician," he said, can treat his patient for a lung ailment, but by himself he cant clear up the air pollution. Thats a job for the community and the nation. "What the individual physician can do, however, is to know what the problems are, where health dangers exist, and to be loud and clear in pointing these out to the community. WHILE PATIENTS will be asking their doctors about the effects of such things as fallout and air pollution, clear answers cannot always be given. There must be much more study and research to find them. Lets look at air pollution See Page 20, Column 5 Penguin Dies After Blow ollte Interstate 15 to Use Trumpet Access Jt non-mer- 0 Police to Hit mouth-to-mout- t- non-mer- . 0 Tieupsat WreckSites Despile Inadequate Facilities Institutions Try to Do Jobs d int d TRAFFIC - ol Loch Dixie Monster Brown Utah Log? Its an A lli G A - T O -R Special to The Tribune ST. GEORGE A real live Utah-growalligator was the talk of this southern Utah town Sunday. -- n CROWDS WERE FLOCKING out to an irrigation reservoir on the farm?)! Romain Sturzenegger three miles south of St George to try to catch a glimpse of the native." Friends only grinned when Mr. Sturzenegger first reported that he had seen an alligator four-fee- t long his sunning itself on nd. He reported the phenomenon. owever, to Dixie College in St, ksof the-ban- Sgfc George Pazell measures the depth of water In Irrigation ditch which .Sheriff took life of small boy Sunday. Sgt. J. F. Peterson, left, and Bruce Bailey watch. i - George' and foun'd unexpected SURE ITS AN alligator. I turned it loose down here four years ago, said Loraine Woodbury, biology instructor and dean of students at the college. Mr. Woodbury said the owner of a reptile show had given the college the alligators' about five years ago. were During the school year-the- y kept in the biology department, but when school closed, it was decided to see if they could - survive in the southern Utah climate. THEY WERE ABOUT 16 inches long when we turned them loose down by the junction of the Santa Clara and Virgin rivers," he said. A little while later a Dixie College group hunting Indian relics in the area came across one of them and shot it. , TM CERTAIN THAT Mr. Sturzenegger has seen the other one by his pond. Its just about a mile from where I turned the two loose four years ago and it has survived all this time. Mr. Woodbury said the alf$tor I? r .t A would have grown to about four feet by this time. ME. STURZENEGGER said he spotted tracks near the pond about a week ago and at first thought they were made by a porcupine. Then, he said, he saw the alligator by? the pond and could hardly believe it He has seen the alligators nose and eyes breaking water ,in the pond several times since then. As long as Mr. Alligator doesnt become a nuisance he can have the reservoir as a home," Mr Sturzenegger said. -- A- .