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Show Panel Plans Report On Benefits Cilo TV Tothn Douglas L Parker Tiibune Political Editor legislative subcommittee studying I ctn emeut benefits for the public employe pension system involving some MINX) participants is aiming a By Monday Morning, May 16, 1977 report Dan Nothin MONDAY WASH cj marks the start of National Police Week (take a cop to lunch) . . . Today is also the 153rd Work . . . wonder how the folks at Hogle Zoo are handling the water shortage these the average elephant drinks days from 30 to 50 gallons of water each day He uses up no less than 1 gallons of water with each squirt of his trunk . . . Police recently arrested a fellow m California because he had 56 dogs in his not m a kennel, but bvmg right house m the house Thats a lot of dogs . . Whos the champion dog owner in Utah? Just count the dogs that live in the house. I like this from the current issue of the Salt Lake Optimist Club bulletin "Love simply has to be taken for granted at breakfast In a recent column I asked out loud if President Carter had to have a U S passpoit when he 'raveled to Europe And does he have to come through U S Customs on his return A young Salt Laker, Honathan Howard Magid, has the answers. He checked it out and the U S President has to have a U S passport when he travels out of the country. But its not a regular U S passport its a purple passport and its called a diplomatic passport AND, HE ADDS, the President of the United States does NOT have his luggage checked by customs when he returns home from a foreign journey. Well, I did it again, and I apologize Ive done this same horrible thing for the last 26 years There must be a reason, but I cant think of one AND WHAT DID I do so bad Well, for the 25th straight year I wrote that the Golden Spike connecting the transcontinental railroad was driven at Promontory Point in Utah And for the 25th straight year, the letters have swarmed in from readers telling me that the spike was driven at Promontory Promontory Summit Point is more than 30, miles south of Promontory Summit, and about 700 feet lower. I dont think 1 will mention the Colder. at least not Spike ceremony anymore until next May TODAYS VALENTINE Im partial to trombone players I happen to be the only playing member of the International Trombone I v-- Karl Sen Snow N h Sen. Snow system Jr, retirement subcommittee an- Levi niversary Parsons Morton So, you ask, who was Levi Parsons Morton? He was the 22nd vice president of the United States, thats who he was . . . The average DanTadentiiie surgeon in the United States performs 170 operations a year. I imagine Utah surgeons are with the average . . THE FAMOUS English rock group, the Bay City Rollers are coming to town Do you know how they acquired their unusual name? Well, over in England they threw a dart at a map of the United States. The dart stuck in the location of Bay City, Mich , so they called themselves The Bay City Rollers. Ive been to Bay City, Mich , many times Its a great town In fact, I was born in Saginaw, Mich , right near Bay City. THERES A PIPE and tobacco store m Salt Lake City called Puffn Place . . and Bettys Bra Shop on Main Street had this sign m the window the other day Uplifting Help Wanted ' y notice of withdrawal from the Social Security Today birthdayof June Meeting almost weekly since late March, the panel has taken one step to reject the concept suggested at the last general session that state government give Serious LINE: for a special session of the Utah Ix'gisla- - Paj:' One In Io raitiiiiiii Iiinunl To Roliruus Ln al Nch n Comio Section II 1 R Provo, chairman, has requested Gov Scott M Matheson to include retirement matters on the special session agenda, not necessarily to make modifications in benefits or contributions for the retirement system, but to clanfy the law passed by the general session establishing the study Trust Fund law That provides that the increased pay check contributions required as of July 1 to be deposited m a trust fund unless a special session convenes prior to that date and makes a determination regarding funding of the retirement system Snow said he believes the Sen money, which could total close to $12 million, shouldnt be placed in trust, but isferred as normal to the State ti Tribune Staff Photo bv F rank R PorKhali Retirement Office so it can fill its number of historic structures. Tours were Visitors tour the dining hall of the McCune marked National Historic Preservation fiduciary responsibility of investing the Mansion, 200 N. Main St., as part of visit to a guided by Utah Heritage Foundation and Month. Tours continue through summer. money to continue the actuarial soundness of the system The law, the senator said, is unclear as to whether the escrow money is to be invested to earn interest and whether it involves tying up local government Some 3,000 citizens turned out for a h East, which was renovated into ary Museum, Ft Douglas, and the Fort contributions It further sets out legislative intent that may not prove feasible Sunday tour of Salt Lake Citys historic an office building, the Grant-WalkDouglas Cemetery of a progran. observing as 1205 E according to preliminary statistics South the sites, part Home, Temple, Showers and thunderstorms moved Explain Preservation obtained by the subcommittee, he National Historic Preservation Month of former Utah Atty residence present until wasnt it but across Utah Sunday, Mis Churchill said the intent of the added L of which one Phil the Gen is Hansen, M Alarin BeU Mrs John of Churchill, director late in the evening that some became tour was to "show people what preserthe Utah Heritage Foundation which few remaining examples of Queen intense The vation is and why its important legislative fiscal analysts office the tour, said the turnout was Anne Victorian Shingle Style architecan alarm bell bill during the sometimes rung interests One hit Salt Lake City just after 9 sponsored tour) (the people ture, the Thomas Kearns Mansion, 603 into an indication that people are becomthis sort of thing themgeneral session with a report projecting doing p m , putting on quite a lightning and E of old one the South much more aware and caring a lot Temple, citys that certain selves thunder display and dropping 13 inch of ing public employes, more about preserving historic strucstyle baronial structures, and the starting work in 1975, could retire with rain at the airport in a short period McCune Mansion, 1st North and Main tures She added that she the tours hoped more disposable income annually than However, it did little or no damage and St Major Sites would help keep demolitions like Satur-day- s earned when working with the combionly a few minor electric power outages Other places visited were the Royal Some of the major sites on the tour razing of the Cosgnff Hogle nation of pensions from the state were reported Weix-le- r Mansion and the Bamberger Home on h included the Thomas Quayle House, 355 Palace Restaurant, East, retirement system and Social Security Monday should bring a similar Home. 313 E St , Emanuel Kahn South Temple from occurring again Quince St (140 West), a structure noted The alarm, causing legislators to weather pattern, but with the chance for its Carpenters Gothic style, Home, 678 E South Temple, Bachelor The Utah Heritage Foundation will be react with the escrow and study bill, that showers may increase, particularwhich is m the final stages of restoraOfficers Quarteis, Ft Douglas, Milit- - pioviding tours during the summer was further heightened with a report in a d Ave ly late in the day The extended outlook Wacker , the Home, tion, through the Capitol Hill and South the same period from the Utah Foundacalls for recurring periods of shower residence also owned by the Quayle olei-duY'!- Historic Districts ReservaChuckle Temple a private research organization, tion, of turn the activity through Thursday the around century, family tions for tours should be made through that skyrocketing stating pension child the lestored Eat to dear be Mother to it, which is presently being by finicky the foundation offices at 603 E South Temperatures are expected B-Wacker family; the Oquirrh School, Just pretend its mud 3 Column similar to those recorded Sunday See Page Temple Intense Storm Hits Salt Lake 3,000 Turn Out for Preservation Tour 35u-4t- ar 249-4t- 475-3r- 6, Step Right Up Folks , Heres Yer Sure Cure OND DIS LITTLE PIGGY TELLS 'OS YOU GOTZ DER INGROWN TOENAIL, HOOF'N MOUTH OND DA BRAIN TUMOR ... EAT Z IX GARLIC CLOVES UNO , No Longer Same Show, But Quackery Abounds Assn Thats why Valentine goes to one of the best trombone players in Today's the profession Ben Ivey of Salt Lake City Ben is princi- pal trombonist for the Utah Symphony Hes chairman of the brass, wind and percussion department at the University of Utah Hes played with the big bands, and for eight years w as top trombonist with the U S Army Field Band in Washington, D C And the other day he was selected as outstanding Young Man of the Year by the Jaycees And a Valentine to you, sir SAM. THE SAD CYNIC, SAYS: Now that President Carter is back from- Europe, when' he leaving or China? By Angelyn Nelson Tribune Medical Editor Step right up, folks Get your own little bottle of Grandpas Painkiller Its good for what ails ya This miraculous potion will cure any illness of man or beast Dressed in a black stovepipe hat, the super salesman shouts his pitch from the back of an old horse-draw- n wagon He runs an oil medicine show Thanks to Hollywood, this is the likely image that anyone might conjure up when asked to desc nhe a quack Dr L Kay Gillespie labels such descriptions as a poweiful outmoded stereotype " "You ask anyone what a prostitute is, he can give you a picture You ask anyone what a quack is he can give Me have these you a picture stereotypes M hat w el e finding now is that theyre really inaccurate, Dr Gillespie said Fascinating Report Gillespie should know He spent six months researching cancer quackery m Utah for the State Health Planning and Resource De velupment Office, Utah Department of Social Services The result was a fascinating 72 page report examining the quae ks world m Utah The Meber State College soc lolog ist suid one reason he was originally Di Intel ested in the topic was because everybody talks about I tah s tern hie quackeiy problem, yet no one has ever botheied to examine the quacks themselves beis deviant My speciaPy havior," Dr Gillespie explained "In defense it seems that we simp-lilthe woild by dividing it into them and us, abnormals and nor rr aK y "Mhen we come to make decisions about those that we label deviant--- , he continued, we aso.me that they don't have much influence anyway so we ju't ask the not mats or the people 10 power, what to do about them ( seem-- to me that we do that traditionally, whether we re dealing with piortitutes, delinquents, crimi mils whoe'er Objective View His lesearch goal was to present the quack from an objective, neutral viewpoint He found the problem mo e complicated than he imagined His completed study 'trikes at the veiy core of the general assumptions about quackery His research, for example, por tray s both quae ks and their patients as smeet e, dedicated people a far step from the notion that all quacks aie money hungry crooks who bilk naive'ke atieuts Tln v ie not making that much . p ft money, Dr Gillespie claimed He examined one mans tax returns that showed $24,000 income with an amount that Dr $1 5,1X10 loss Gillespie regards as inadequate, considering the legal prosecution that quacks often face To suggest that theyre in it for the money, he continued, would tie just as ridiculous as to suggest that the doctors aie in it for the money , too No Undercover Action research was con- Dr Gillespie dinted undercover explained his objectives openly to i Sec Page B-- Column 1 None of the u J j (, |