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Show irgf sa- p- New Detroit Police Department Is Emerging From 4-Ye- - The police DETROIT (ACCN) department of this, the nation's fifth largest city says it is in the midst of a "turnaround" of unprecedented magnitude and scope. The department hopes its effort will help itself and other urban police to collection of evidence testimony. p . and operations The response reforms were assisted by more than needs.- - million in federal funds. According to Police Commissioner Philip G. Tannian. the lime, effort and money invested in improving Detroit police operations over the past four years is just Ix'ginning to pay off, and could set a pattern for other cities with problems similar to Detroit's. lxoklct report, called The "Turnaround in the 70's." outlines what Tannian called "the most dramatic and significant improvements in the history of the Detroit Police Department." "The improvements of the past four years have provided the groundwork for unprecedented community service in the Tannian said. "The depart28-pa- mid-Tii's- ." ment looks forward to continued to in come." years change lie said She developments in the department have set an example for police forces around the country. Among (he effects of the "turnaround" to date are: A massive overhauling of the city's communications system, including fire alarm boxes, emergency street phones, citizen telephone calls for help through implementation of the 911 emergency phone number system and police radio communications. A similar massive overhauling of police patrol operations, including speedier computer-assiste- d response to calls, computer-assiste- Social Security Tax Bite Will WASHINGTON (UPI) - The nationwide energy crisis affects various regions differently, depending on such factors as climate, location of. fuels, and types of fuels used. For' example, both New England and the Middle West must contend with severe winter weather, but the former region may be more severely affected . by the crisis because of its heavy dependence on Arab oil, while the latter may suffer less because of its reliance on domestic coal to meet a large share of its energy needs. The situation in the West similarly varies, practically from state to state, reflecting the shifting importance of the various factors cited. At the same time, the West represents a major part of the eventual solution to the crisis,1 because it contains vast unexploited resources of energy fuels which promise to help bring about the within national goal of several decades. next the Part of the Problem The Pacific Northwest which derives 42 percent of its energy from ten times the national hydro power has already encountered proportion a major crisis because of the impact of a severe drought on (One result: a cut in available power, causing production cutbacks in the aluminum industry.) Although recent heavy rains have eased the drought problem somewhat, this region's foretaste of crisis has been the es. nt Only workers who earn more than $10,800 a year will pay higher taxes this year to finance the 11 per cent increase in social security benefits signed into law on New Year's by President Nixon. The amount of earnings subject to social security taxes raises at once from last year's $10,800 to $12,300. The tax rate of 5.85 per cent paid both by workers and their employersremains the same. That means workers earning under $10,800 will pay no more than they did last year but workers earning more than that pay $5.83 for every $100 in additional earnings. The maximum tax, for those earning $13,200 or more, will be bitter indeed. California, the nation's largest state, is dependent on petroleum and natural gas for 89 percent of its energy requirements, compared with a dependence for the nation as a whole. Moreover, California's con- - nt Utah Supreme Court Decisions (See detail! page 4)' assignment of detective caseloads and control of investigations in progress, and to undercover Joint Committee Course Will Examine Proposed Rules of Evidence i. The proposed Federal Rules of Evidence, first transmitted to Congress on February 5, 1973, were reported favorably to the whole House on November 15, 1973. To give practitioners the oppor-- ' Utah Stars Schedule Wednesday, Jan. 1 6 Indiana Pacers at home. Friday, Jan. 18 Carolina Cougars at Greensboro. Saturday, Jan. 19 Virginia Squires at Norfolk. Sunday, Jan. 20 at San Antonio Spurs. Monday, Jan. 21 Carolina Cougars at home. The game next Wednesday with Indiana in the Salt Palace will be a most crucial one in the ABA western division race as the Pacers have been on a hot streak also. Going into a Thursday night game Indiana had a e winning skein and trailed the Stars by only three games in the ABA west standings. A resumption of Indiana-Utawarfare, of course, means some great individual matchups between Zelmo Hcaty and Mel Daniels, Willie Wise and linger Drown, (ierald (Jovan and George McGinnis, Jumps Jones and Dnnnie Freeman, lion Boone and Hilly Keller, eU-- . This will be only the wroml appearance of the season of Indiana in Suit take. five-gam- Assuming that project construction begins this spring, three years might be required to bring the first shipment to market, and several more years before production reaches its target level of two million barrels a day. Bringing the oil to market involves not e only construction of the Prudhoe the Bay pipeline between e field and the port of Valdez, but port and terminal facilities also. Some estimates of the total cost of the Alaska pipeline project run as high as $9 billion, beginning with roughly $3 billion for the crude-oi- l pipeline, phis perhaps $6 billion more for an associated natural-ga- s line, a tanker fleet, and terminal facilities at both Valdez and destination points in Puget Sound and California. But this may be only the first installment in the , development of Arctic oil resources. Exploration in the Alaska and Canadian Arctic has indicated the presence not only of the 10 billion barrels in the Prudhoe Bay field, but in addition, 10 billion barrels in the neap by Naval Petroleum Reserve, plus 20 billion barrels in the Mackenzie Delta billion barrels east of the and delta in Canada. national proportion.) California's longstanding dependence on auto transport, and particularly the long distances traveled in the average auto trip, 789-mil- state's the vulnerability. The only saving point is the mild Mediterranean climate of the area, which makes possible sharp cutbacks in space heating without creating acute physical discomfort. To meet the crisis, Los Angeles im n posed a " major with limitations plana in late December, . 1" i use r on tne oi eieciric street iigntmg, business lighting (outdoors and indoors);' filf ice heating and cooling, and outdoor recreational activities. Under Phase 1 of this plan, residential and industrial customers must cut their electrical consumption by 10 percent, and commerical customers by 20 percent, of the average amounts used in the 1973. period September Failure to comply may result in penalties ranging from a surcharge for a first violation to power cutoffs lasting as long as 30 days. ice-fre- energy-conservatio- 1 A " of the ' h nation's total proven reserves). non-essenti- underscore one-fourt- A. 1972-Augu- st nt 30-4- 0 Part of the solution Long term: shale oil The Western states will play a Farther away in time is the exrole in the crisis, solving energy deposits major ploitation of the shale-oi- l not necessarily immediately. covering 1 1 million acres in the Green although will come, Help in the short-terhowever, from the coal fields on the eastern slopes of the Rockies, in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and New Mexico, which contain over one-haof the nation's proven coal reserves. These fields account today for less than 4 percent of U.S. production, but recent output gains have been on the order of 20 percent or more a year. The deposits in these fields are largely coal, which is in heavy demand by utility firms for electricity River Basin, where Utah, Colorado and Wyoming meet. The ancient lake beds in this now-ariregion contain the world's largest concentration of about 590 billion hydrocarbons barrels of higher-grad- e shale, yielding over 25 gallons per ton in deposits at. least 10 feet thick, plus 1,150 billion e shale. Total barrels of ' reserves in this region amount to over one-haof the world's shale resources and roughly 40 times present U.S. crude oil reserves. needs As The Federal role in respect to exincrease, energy production. the exploitation of Western coal fields ploitation is crucial, since the Federal s of the will grow apace, although with heavy Government owns reliance on lands; thus Secretary Motechniques, with serious ecological consequences. rton's announcement last month regarFurther short-terhelp will come ding the leasing of several parcels of from increased development of oil land for development has special fields in California, which is the significance. If small-scal- e develop: nation's producproducing state. ment efforts lead to large-scal- e could shale the (Texas leads the nation with daily outprovide tion, deposits put of 3.6 million barrels, followed by one million barrels a day of petroleum Louisiana with 2.1 million barrels and within a decade. Production could also California with 0.9 million barrels.) lead to a massive environmental One possibility is to open up the Elk problem, since once the oil is removed Hills Naval Reserve, at the southern from the rock, what remains is end of California's Central Valley. This pulverized rock with at least 12 perfield could probably produce about cent more volume than the original 160,000 barrels a day within a volume of shale. relatively short period of time, but development may be delayed by Congressional opposition to use of the field for purposes. More oil will be forthcoming soon from California's offshore wells, which The Golden Eagles disappointing loss on home ice Saturday night to already account for about of the state's total production. The Portland left them all alone in State Lands Commission recently perbut still just six points behind mitted drilling too be resumed on league-leadin- g San Diego. the hands of Portland The defeat on at state lands, existing platforms e which extend up to three miles ofunbeaten streak a snapped fshore. This decision ended the for Salt Lake, their longest unbeaten four victories, moratorium declared in early 1969, afskein of the season in the Santer the disastrous blow-ou- t one tie. ta Barbara Channel. (However, the Thursday the Golden Eagles will atdecision did not authorize new leases tempt to get back to winning ways, of state lands, and did not authorize hosting the physically tough Denver the building of new platforms.) Spurs, and Saturday the Eagles will Development is also likely for Federal welcome the Phoenis Roadrunners. and lying further offshore, about 20 Both games are 7:30 affairs and pose miles from the site of the 1969 blowdifferent problems for Salt take. out. Phoenix, Meanwhile, is not as physical as Denver, but has far more g : Arctic oil term tang firepower. Even without Bob Barlow and Wayne Hicks, both As for Alaskan oil, the North Slope sidelined with injuries, the Roadrunners copped three wins last week, indiscovery occurred almost six years and billion of barrels ago, cluding a 5 triumph in San Diego, yet the ten in The Eagles lead the Denver series, still area reserves that proven 1 . and are even with Phoenix remain untouched. (These reserves m d lf : lower-grad- lf three-fourth- d Medical Service (EMS). - A major reform of criminal investigation procedures, including new management approaches to amount to roughly strip-minin- g That's an increase of $140.40 over the previous maximum of $531.80. Ali-AB- A sumption is concentrated in those uses which Administration planners conBuch as sider relatively auto (Private transportation. private autos consume 23 percent of California's total energy, roughly twice the low-sulph- $772.20. area workload, changing acand new crime redisricting, cident plotting techniques, aerial crime patrol by six new helicopters, and transfer of sick and injury "runs" to the new Emergency h Energy Crisis Affects Regions Differently regional-water-resourc- Hit Affluent adjustment of resources to (he and court adin Improvements and ministration, budget-contro- l with personnel management, particular emphasis on recruiting more minority-groupolice officers. Recruiting moves, including new predictive aptitude-tes- t methods aimed at eliminating the "cultural bias" of conventional testing, have helped increase the level of minority recruits from less than 23 per cent of the annual recruit total to more than 30 per cent in the past three years. Total minority personnel have increased from 10 per cent of department strength to 15 per cent in the past three years. citizens. This point of view and optimism were embodied in a recent detailed report by the department on four years of extensive changes in of methods management, to citizen 'Turnaround' ar assignments and their control; consolidation of work and facilities ; and use of specialists to handle better curb crime and serve organization, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1974 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 249 tunity for a hew educational beginning in this basic phase of trial practice, the Joint Committee on Continuing Legal Education of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association will sponsor a Course of Study, Practice under the Proposed New Federal Rules of Evidence, March 1 and 2, 1974, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The course is being cosponsored by the California Continuing Education of the Bar. The registration fee for the Course of Study is $150. This includes admission to all sessions, a set of study materials, a reception on Friday evening, March 1, and two luncheons. For further information, write or call Paul A. Wolkin, Director, or Donald M. Maclay, Assistant Director, Courses of Study, Joint Committee on Continuing tagal Education, 4025 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104. telephone (215) ALI-AB- .'187-300- A m third-large- st Hockey News non-defen- one-four- th 5th-plac- five-gam- high-scorin- 6-- 5-- 5-- 5. e, |