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Show t Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1978 Intermountain poison control center provides free service to Utah What would you do if of. your children has eaten wild mushrooms your had just eaten a growing in the yard? handful of prescription Increasingly Or suppose one idents of Utah and three-year-ol- d res-drug- the Intermountain University of Utah from the College of rnacy course. Since The then it has become a area are picking up the Medical Center, Pharmacy. was round the clock. The center was manpower phone and calling the Intermountain Poison established in 1971 provided by students operation receiving enrolled in a phar- - lot) calls er day, Control Center at the with voluntary p Earnings records should be checked said recently. limited time in which can be covered by persons earnings errors nings social security for over record is very im- corrected, Smith said million 170 men, portant. That record people should check and chil- will be checked when a their record every women, dren are kept at person applies for three years or so. A to determine free post card form for Social Security ifbenefits the each person worked this purpose can be Headquarters, identified by that long enough in jobs obtained at anv office. If a persons own persons name and covered byand social to records do not agree social security security the amount with the amount shown number, Gerald Smith determine on the social security of benefits. earnings representative in Because there is a statement, he er she Ihe record of ear- Price should A call the Price social security office. social Give the the number, security periods of employment involved, wages paid in each period, and the employers name and address. If Forms W'-pay slips, or other proof of unreported wages is available, they should be included. A persons earnings getting higher beneiits record does not show later on. Contact the Price the amount of taxes he or she paid. It shows social security office only the amount of for more information reported. about earnings Benefits are figured from the amount of earnings reported, not from the amount of taxes paid. Smith said it is not possible to pay in extra taxes with the idea of records, aspect earnings or aUiut of any social security. The office is located at 10 N. Carbon Ave. The office is open weekdays, Thursdays, a m. to 4 p.m. except from y Horn per Hoorn airs the tape about once a month. The center also is poidays a year. In 1978 the self inflicted center handled 20,216 sonings. The services of the calls; in 1977 the volume increased 27 center go beyond crisis percent to 25,000 calls. treatment. One of the Another increase of 21 objectives is comlercent is expected in munity education. The 1978, when the center center distributes will receive apliterature and holds meet31,000 informational proximately and at schools oison inquiries. ings area community Lake Salt residents can contact die center by dialing 5812151; the line for state-widalls is (800) The staff at the cerder includes six toll-fre- e e 062-422- c piolessional phar- macists and a team of Commercial banks are not allowed to pay interest on checking accounts. But Walker Banks new Checkbook Savings comes pretty close. Heres how it works: Tell Walker Bank you want Checkbook Savings. Well open an individual or joint checking account and savings account for you. When you make deposits, you deposit funds only to your checking account. Walker Bank transfers all funds to your savings account immediately. As you write checks, Walker Bank automatically transfers only enough money from savings to checking to cover the amount of the checks. e x e n t information of change and data. We want to orga- Every month we mail you a combined statement showing all checking and savings transactions, including a summary beginning and closing balance, along with your cancelled checks. Walker Bankard Check Guarantees Service, in conjunction with Visa or Master Charge, provides overdraft protection for your Checkbook Savings checks, should you need it. Is Checkbook Savings for everyone? Checkbook Savings is probably not for everyone, and so we will continue to offer our regular savings plans, certificates of deposits, Money Market Certificates, and a variety of regular and special checking accounts to meet your needs. The number of transactions and your savings balance each month will determine whether Checkbook Savings will be advantageous for you. The . These funds remain in your savings account and earn 5 daily interest. Jt Wal ker Bank 1' ) C -- educational service is free to anyone who can called program Although the center pharmacy students Officer Ugg." It is who answer phone represented by a small calls in poisoning sticker with a picture cases. They try to of a policeman the toxic indentify covering his mouth substances and either with his hands. Under the family program, suggest treatment or refer the the childs parents primarily an information and referral service, it is also insome in volved research. Dr. Anthony H. Temple, director of the center is currently involved in a study of a hemoprofussion, method of removing toxic substances from the body by running the blood through a column of activated charcoal. Temple is is victim to a doctor or take him around the medical facility. to house various About 80 percent of places where harmful the poisoning cases substances are stored can Ire treated in the and place an Officer home because of the Ugg sticker on them. Veltri and the center toxicology training of the center staff and the have worked with the amount of resource theatre University information available department and Into them. Of those cases structional Television a serious enough to to produce of Officer require emergency videotape have and or Ugg care loom it only hospitalization, three victims have nationally. He says the television program died. The vast majority of the calls we get are not of a serious with the biophysics department to find an alternative working to the use of kidney or the machines patients own kidneys distributed sub- toxic clean to the from stances blood. the center. The value Defense plans exercise of the service is not necessarily in saving participate says Dr. nature, C. Veltri, Joseph associate director of Civil Carbon County will in a lives, but rather statewide test of the getting early treat- civil defense warning to system on Oct. 25, ment to vicitms decrease morbidity of according to an anpoisonings, not so nouncement made by much mortality. Joseph A. Delpha, that Of the 80 percent of the cases that were treated at home, at least half of them would have had to go to an emergency room to be treated if they had not called us. And Director. The outdoor sirens will be sounded. In an actual attack, a three to minute five tone means wavering should go people immediately to the since the average nearest public fallout emergency room visit shelter or take cover in costs between $40 and the best protected $60, the center is location in their homes helping to decrease or place of work. health care costs. People would also be The most common in- encouraged to turn on cidents are accidental their radios and listen poisonings of children for i n under the age of five. emergency These account for formation. During this about 79 percent of the exercise, however, the calls received by the public is not expected center and usually to take any action. occur while the toxic The exercise will product is in use by an begin with a message most from the civil defense The adult. common type of toxic National Warning substances involved in Center located at the poisonings are North American Air broadcast a special message when notified by the Warthat ning point at The exercise to be held is to provide Civil Defense a Checkerboard exercise is in Checkerprogress board means that the exercise is for a simulated attack on the United States. stations Radio KOAL and KAHB will Checkerboard the exercise has begun. In a real emergency, the stations would also their receive notification from the major news wire services. Radio and television stations of the area, in an effort to help broadcast emergency have information, formed an Emergency Broadcast System (EBS). The primary EBS station could also receive notification of a local emergency from the mayor, police chief, or civil defense director. The EBS station would then broadcast the cleaners Defense Command emergency i n followed and by Headquarters near formation and other Colorado medications Springs, EBS stations would Colo. In Carbon the plants. The center also County the message message if necessary. household handles some drug will be received Patrol overdoses, amounting Highway to about five to seven Dispatch Office, which percent. In those cases is the warning point are for this area. victims the The referred to a local warning crisis intervention message, which will center. About 9.4 also go to nine other percent. In those cases western states, will crisis intervention inform the recipients -- practice HERE WE COME! The Utah Transportation Commission is bringing its annual State Transportation Wednesday, October 25, 1978 at 7:30 p.m. in the Monticeilo High School cafeteria, 55 North 2nd West, Monticeilo, Utah. Now is your chance to share regarding Utah's transportation. Please plan to attend. In fact, clip this advertisement and save it so you'll be sure to remember. your views the for warningin operators point following their procedures in notifying other points in the system. It is also to important periodically quaint Planning Meeting to Monticeilo this year. Topics ot the meeting will include highway, rail and air transportation plans for Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan Counties. We are hoping to receive input from you the public, on present and future transportation in this area. The meeting will be held Checkbook Savings Pricing Schedule i national look for trends in poisonings and provide consumer get an audience education to specific areas in a state where together. The center is also a poison problem is says working on a second developing, year family education Veltri. nization -- 5, c i essential Your checking account always shows a zero balance. All of your money is held the highest in your savings account where it earns Daily Interest currently this of for bank interest rate permitted by law type. savings co- arrang-men- t with other regional poison control centers for the ef-- f e The convenience of a checking account. The earnings of a savings account. a developing operative the reac- public with the system. The general public is not expected to take any action in response to the exercise. Historical meeting set The history of some Helpers buildings and the meaning of a historical district will be discussed at a meeting Oct. 24 of the Carbon Chapter of the of Castle Valley Wilson Martin, Historical Society. historical preservationist State for Utah Historical will be speaker at the meeting which will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Helper Civic Auditorium. Society, Pruda Trujillo, president, said letters will be sent to downtown Helper property owners inviting them to the meeting. Everyone interested in history and historical preservation is invited to attend. |