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Show WAY3 SWWS VOLUME 1, NUMBER 7 0J974 08DER DOT. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH Incumbent Announces His Candidacy for County Auditor Position Utah Power & Light Expects Increase in Use of Electricity Utah Power & Light Co. shareholders were told to expect an accelerating increase in the use of electricity in the company's service territory due to population and industrial growth. Addressing some 900 stockholders at the utility's 62nd annual meeting in Salt Lake City, E. A. Hunter, UP&L president, said, "The year 1973 was the year most Americans first became aware of the shortages of energy throughout the world including this country." Mr. Hunter added the nation also faces serious shortages ,of metal, fertilizers and chemicals. There is an abundance of these resources in UP&L's service area, he said, and their development "will require substantial amounts of electric professionally staffed audit division. Hansen also cited the major role of his office in identifying County land acquisition problems and in spearheading the design and adoption of a new land acquisition policy and procedure. He noted that during his first three years in office the County fiscal system has been completely revamped to serve the operational and reporting needs of County government. Gerald R. Hansen, Incumbent Salt Lake County Auditor, Friday, announced his candidacy for as a Republican to the County Auditor post. Mr. Hansen, 4215 Sunset View Drive, is now serving the last year of term having been his first four-yeelected in 1970. Hansen said that the achievements of his first three years in office include the conversion of the accounting and fiscal system to data processing; the implementation of a budgetary planning and monitoring system; and the establishment of a ar "The County Auditor is technically and by law the budget officer. I am pleased with the progress that has been made during my first term in carrying out the budget officer role and in providing the planning and information system that has brought County budget practices a good way out of the dark ages. I hope to finish this important program if I am reelected. I will also continue my efforts to make County budget procedures relevant to County needs and to monitor the ongoing budget for the benefit of the people." Mr. Hansen serves as a charter member of the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum, a task force, as one of six local government officials selected from across the United States to develop audit policies and procedures. local-state-feder- al He is married to the former. Sharon Fair. They have . two daughters. . Hansen is a lawyer, and a graduate of the University of Utah. The Bell System has found a way to reclaim and recycle a widely used plastic that until now has been dis- : sty-ren- , ing heating." UP&L shareholders (who have been attending the annual meetings in increasing numbers in recent years), together with their counterparts who sent in proxy statements, reelected 11 members of the present board and elected Dr. David P. Gardner, president, University of Utah, as the twelfth member of the board. Dr. Gardner succeeds Fred A. Moreton, honorary chairman, past chairman and past vice chairman of the board, who chose not to stand for reelection. Mir. Hunter reported total operating revenues increased from $121.4 million to S132.7 million, an increase of $11.3 million or 9 percent due to: (1) a colder January and February in 1973, (2) a full year's application of the 1972 rate increase and (3) an increase of 16,431 customers. Mr. Hunter said although the firm had an increase in earnings of 18 cents in 1973, increased operating and financing costs were responsible for a drop in earnings in the first four months of 1974. Earnings for the first four months of 1974 were $1.23 compared to $1.38 for the same period last year. Outlining the utility's future construction program, Mr. Hunter reported that major equipment has been purchased and engineering work is well under way for construction of a generating unit in 1978 and in 1979 at sites other than Huntington. He said the company has g ordered turbine generators and 415,000-kilowa- tt steam-generatin- equipment looking to - Plastic telephone housings and up as pellets in Philip Hubbauer's hand after starling through recycling procass HANDFUL OF PHONES ern Electric for reconditioning. Previously, if plastic housings could not be reconditioned (generally after two or three trips through a service center), they were compacted and disposed of in landfill areas. "Now, however, telephone housings can be ground into plastic pellets and fed into a machine that separates the plastic from small metal chips also present in the scrap. Scrap cleaned in this way now can be used by plastic molding companies," Hill concluded. two to three years of additional time is due to governmental regulations and red tape. "This delay is costly and the customer pays for it," he said. Regarding coal supplies for the com- stations, Mr. Hunter said, we own one mine and coal supply contracts have long-terfor the life of our i generating units. "In addition, we have acquired pros- - pany's generating m Thomas Hansen Named Manager of Stansbury Park Country Club power." Mr. Hunter further explained that because of the inadequate supplies of oil and gas to meet all requirements, present and future customers will be using greater quantities of electricity generated by coal, "of which we have several hundred years' supply, as the energy for many of their needs, includ- Mountain Bell Found Way To Recycle Plastic carded. The plastic; made from petrochemicals, is used in telephone housings and receivers, and in other products such as pipe, automobiles and electrical appliances. According to Mountain Bell Public Relations Manager Kenneth 0. Hill, up to 6 million pounds of the used e plastic ( aery lonit rile butadiene anbe reclaimed or ABS) can nually by the Western Electric Co., and reused in communications equip-- . ment or elsewhere. "The recypling method was developed by Bell Labs scientists and Western Electric engineers," Hill said. Western Electric is the Bell System's manufacturing and supply unit, and Bell Labs is the research and development unit. About 22 million pounds of ABS were used last year by the Bell System. It is hoped that recycled ABS could supply a significant part of the Bell System's future needs. "In addition to helping ease solid waste disposal problems, recycling ABS will contribute to lessening the demand for oil. since many gallons must be processed to obtain materials necessary for production of one pound of ABS," Hill continued. "The recycling process has been put into limited operation at Nassau Smelling and Refining Co., a Western Electric subsidiary, and at Western Electric's Nashville, Tenn., service center. Telephones taken from homes or offices for repair, or after people move, are returned to West- .rtnmAv mvo0 iot, construction of similar size units in 1980 and 1981. Coal and water for all of these four units available and committed, he added. "Plans now are to install the 1978 and 1980 units at a new site near Emery, Utah, and the 1979 and 1981 units as additions to the Naughton Plant in Wyoming near Kemmerer, bringing the number of units at that location to five," Mr. Hunter said. Mr. Hunter explained that expenditures for expansion during 1973 reached $110 million the company's construction annual expendihighest ture ever, and said that 1974 's construction would reach $94 million. Mr. Hunter reminisced that not too many years ago when the company determined that it needed a power plant by a certain date, and after determining the location, it took about four years from the decision to build to completion. By contrast, he explained, today it takes three to four years longer about eight years. The . pec ting permits, carried out extensive exploration and drilling, and have pending application for preference right coal leases on 18,000 acres of federal land and have acquired assignment of coal leases on 5,000 acres of state land, all estimated to contain several hundred million tons of coal" Mr. Moreton, a prominent Salt Lake City insurance and businessman, has been a director of UP&L Co. since 1946. Mr. Moreton was presented a plaque by the UP&L board noting his great contributions to the deliberations of the board and to the success of the company. He helped to guide the company from one with $15 million annual revenue to the present $133 million annual revenue. Election of Dr. Gardner as a UP&L director places on the board one of the most articulate authorities on higher education in America. He was named the tenth president of the University of Utah on August 1, 1973. educator developed The 41 year-old his administrative expertise in the University of California system, moving rapidly from alumni field and scholarship director on the Berkeley campus in 1960 to vice president of extended academic and public service programs for all nine UC campuses in 1971. In January 1971, Dr. Gardner became a vice president of the UC system. -- nine-camp- Thomas Hansen STANSBURY PARK, UTAH -Tformer Naval officer and native of St. Paul, Minn., has been named Manager of the Stansbury Park Country Club, it was announced this week by C. Bruce Miller, Terracor Vice President and Manager of Stansbury Park Division.' Mr. Hansen, a Salt Lake City resident the past four years, was sales manager for the Rodeway Inn immediately prior to joining the Stansbury Park Division. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Mr. Hansen was a convention sales representative for Pan American Airways in Washington, D.C. and New York City, however, his association with Pan American ended when he was recalled by the Navy during the Viet Nam War. After being discharged a second time by the Navy, Mr. Hansen worked as a management consultant in San Francisco. He next was appointed Manager of the Jackson Hole Resort Association in Wyoming, then served as Convention Manager at Sun Valley, Idaho, prior to joining the Rodeway Inn. homas Hansen, a Supreme Court Decisions New President For Society of Professional Engineers John L. Probasco was installed as President of the Utah Society of Professional Engineers for 1974-7- 5 at their annual meeting on May 11. Mr. Probasco is a Consulting Engineer in the firm of Bush and Gudgel, Inc. Other officers installed were A. R. Motzkus, President elect, John W. Pritchard, Vice President, Ralph A. Radford, Secretary, and George C. Tolland, Treasurer. The Salt Lake Chapter officers were also installed. George W. Hatch will serve as President, Craig V. Ellis and Richard F. Farr as Directors. Harry E. Bovay, 'Jr., of Houston, President elect of the National Society of Professional Engineers, conducted the installation of the new officers. 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