| Show B4 LOCAL The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday January 19 1992 I - Golden News Is Good News For Utah Senior Publisher -- - -- Hospital Dead Less Likely To Go Through Autopsies' f- - individuals 50 and over but Mr Cherry also hopes to attract younger readers so they can become acquainted with the issues society will face as the aging THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SOUTH SALT LAKE — Clair Cherry is banking on the aging baby-boogeneration to boost circulation at The Golden Age Senior Newspaper when they begin reaching 50 in 1995 1 baby-boo- I 50-plu- c narrow-minded- tion throughout Utah has climbed from 18000 two years ago to 25000 current subscribers Mr Cherry would like to have 50000 subscribers The newspaper is targeted to t 49 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE - A generation ago autopsies were performed on more than half the people who died in US hospi- A 1 : 'k tals -- r Today that percentage has 't 1 dropped to 13 said George Lundberg a pathologist and editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association Utah is no exception In 1990 10 percent of the Utahns who died had autopsies according to the latest data available from Utah Vital Statistics In 1968 — the first year the state recorded autopsies — they were performed on 20 percent of the deceased Autopsies were more common years ago because agencies accrediting hospitals required them said Edward Klatt University of Utah Medical Center director of autopsy "They believed that by doing autopsies medical professionals could figure out why people were dying and that would make treatment better" Dr Klatt said "Also autopsies are a good teaching technique" Accrediting agencies no longer require autopsies but research hospitals try to maintain a higher than average rate To support their teaching program University of Utah Medical Center maintains an autopsy rate of 30 per- 110KNEMONOIS f4 f 1 f 1 - --1 - 14— The newspaper staff is small: Mr Cherry editor Miriam Murphy office manager Laurel Prisbey and three ad salesmen Contributing editors offer stories on a voluntary basis Senior organizations and individuals located around Utah regularly contribute articles but the paper does not hire any reporters or photographers Golden Age is a private nonprofit newspaper published in cooperation with the Utah Division of Aging and Adult Services which publishes a monthinsert entitled "Old ly News is Good News" s t 4 t 1 - -° I - - - -- 4 --- I The hottest topics include health care long-tercare whether Social Security is intact and euthanasia Mr Cherry said But Golden Age readers also read about less stressful topics They learn about travel financial planopportunities ning arts and entertainment and area restaurants d - 't -- mands services "We have 350000 people over 50 in Utah" said Mr Cherry who has published the 16- year-olnewspaper for the past three years "And the baby boomers who began in 1945 will be approaching 50 in 1995" Not all businesses realize the market potential of senior citizens said Mr Cherry He finds some companies hesitant to advertise in a paper geared to the population "Some have shunned it They say they are not interested in that market" Mr Cherry said "It shocks me that they could be " so But others are realizing the number of people 50 and over is growing and that the seniors have money to spend Circula- - de- generation m - '' -- - - -- II ) -- -' f p-- - i t -4 --- z Jc — tr ' -- 1 t —- - - - 1 i -- r— t —I - ''' —- - — -' -- e ' - 0--- 4 - - - S1 -----k - 1 ' - -- -04 - - 11 - — 7 - -- '' ' --- crs ' Al HartmannThe Salt Lake Tribune Publisher Clair Cherry envisions a golden age of newspapers In Utah for seniors as baby boomers turn 50 years old in 1995 four-pag- e Passing UDOT Bill Will Cost Us Jobs Say Commissioners Jonsson By Dave the last year was met with immediate alarm in Price and Cedar City Between those cities 26 positions — most of them engineers — will eventually be phased out "But nobody will lose their jobs" stressed Mr Findlay on Wednesday "Reductions will be through normal attrition like retirements and transfers" Service to local communities will not be eliminated as construction management materials testing and roadway design are consolidated at Richfield Mr Findlay and UDOT Comptroller Max Ditlevsen told the committee Mr Ditlevsen said UDOT will avoid $13 million in personnel costs by better utilizing services of existing engineers and not having to hire new engineers when roadwork increases With southern Utah freeways completed most large new construction jobs will be in northern Utah highway THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Emma Kuykendall and Mark Justice don't like the Utah Department of Transportation's southern districts' consolidation plan The pair county commissioners in Carbon and Emery counties respectively made that point last week to Utah lawmakers "I'm asking you not to approve it" Mr Justice told members of the Transportation and Public Safety appropriations subcommittee "This will cost us jobs — our neighbors our friends" said Ms Kuykendall UDOT's plans to consolidate three functions in the department's three southern Utah districts will cost up to 31 positions over the next several years explained Eugene Findlay UDOT executive director The plan announced several weeks ago and in formulation for ' ' : Mr Ditlevsen added that the consolidation involves only 31 of 414 jobs and not one maintenance position will be affected But local officials aren't convinced it will be painless "I sense there is no appreciation for distances" Mr Justice told the committee It is closer from his Huntington home to Salt Lake City than to Richfield he pointed out He opposes shrinking staff : Ir Adjustable Finest Wood : 'W N I liSiiiiiiicii 4 19 PI' 11 is ev ftle 111 Guaranteed - 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