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Show .. s v1b W EEHIVE Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth Vol. 4 No. 31 Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 254 August 2, 1973 Salt Lake County Government Study Commission A Study Dn Futility Salt Lake County Government An Interim Study Commission Evaluation The first article in this series, covering the meeting at Kearns High School on June 26, emphasized that members of the study commission are not all of one mind, and all of them are conscientious citizens trying to do the job specified for them by Senate Bill 184. However, an objective observer must concede that the return from hours of work input is low. Several contradictions exist in structure and outlook of the commission. For example, the study commission majority have officially rejected the county commission form of government, because they say it does not provide for separation of powers administrative and between legislative functions. At the same time the study commission makes a decision or order to hold a meeting and take certain actions at a specified location (which is legislation) and then proceeds to carry out this decision (which is administration). In this way it functions as a true commission itself. Yet this is a form which it rejects. No record exists in the form of minutes of the commission showing objective proof that the commission form must be rejected as categorically unsuitable before proceeding to select a successor to this form for Salt Lake County government. With reference to minutes, Robert's Rules of Order specifies that minutes shall show the record of action taken and should not record who said what or suggested a certain thing which was not acted upon. On the other hand the study commission's minutes are quite long and do record much of the detail of who said what and describes things not acted on. While the record tapes might well be saved for reference matter purposes, requiring members reading should be those records of action taken. In a court of law, our system of jurisprudence provides that inadmissable evidence may not be recorded. It is further provided that the court may instruct the jury regarding possible decisions based on evidence given. In many cases the court will instruct the jury to find a defendent Ml UTAH INDEPENDENT 2459 Major Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Second Claaa Postage Paid at. Satt Lake City, Utah It is therefore carcinogen. Dr. Albert Schatz has received important to minimize our total honorary degrees and titles from daily fluorine intake A more five universities. These include extensive use of compost can two Doctor Honoris Causa help us do that because it has a degrees. He is the one who very low fluorine content. discovered the wonder drug Eutrophication and Cancer streptomycin which was the first Nitrogen and phosphorus in effective means of treating tuberculosis. With colleagues in chemical fertilizers have been Chile, he developed a new receiving increasing attention method of treating human because these elements are cancer that has aroused world- responsible for certain cases of wide attention. His chelation eutrophication. This is a problem research in soil science is also that occurs when some of that well known throughout the nitrogen and phosphorus is world. The science books he has leached out of the soil and ends written for schools are up in ponds and lakes. considered Nitrogenous fertilizers are also outstanding by for educators in the U.S. and other responsible This is a methemoglobinemia. countries. Because of the important disease resulting from high Schatz concentrations of nitrate in food contributions which-Drhas made in medicine , dentistry , and drinking water. Much of that and many other areas, we feel nitrate comes from fertilizers. that his views on fluoridation Bacteria in the gut convert merit the most serious nitrate to nitrite. Secondary and consideration. tertiary amines which are formed when food is cooked, react with nitrite to produce nitrosamines. . CJ U . M THIS os m w n t-- m h O H rH rH a n r eo H a Hoho U OS OHM H cj ci fcrf Jpjhl W ! M OS uCJ H r-CD ft CJ REPORT DISCUSSES These members : ' the of study for eliminating commission in inefficiency government while at the same time calling for an elected council and mayor e basis for serving on a nominal pay. This situation is anomolous, because any objective member of the study commission or outside observer can see that members of the study commission have much less time to devote to this part-tim- one job.A natural corollary of e situation in is that the paid governance adminstrators or bureaucracy this part-tim- inevitably become the government, displacing the effectiveness of elected officials! When Mr. David Evans, chairman of UTEGO spoke at Hillcrest High on July 10 he told the study commission that UTEGO favors and will support certain ideas pertaining to structure and management form of a new county government. ' Because UTEGO is the near ancestor of the study commission and still has coercive powers through its influence in local and state government, such explicit expression of what it wants from the study tends to limit governmental criteria upon which the important function and necessarily have achieved less than would be true commission can base its if they worked full time at this decisions. This is especially to be Continued On Page 10 commission . A Ul Dr. Albert Schatz not-guil- ty based on the evidence provided. In the works of the study commission however, as in the work of UTEGO, a defendent (County Commission form) can be found guilty by majority vote or popular sentiments without any record of proof of guilt.. Allegations alone appear to be sufficient evidence. This is tantamount to deciding the sex of a kitten by majority vote, regardless of the facts in the case. Another anomolous situation is seen in the advocacy by some are carcinogenic compounds which may be certain kinds of pollution caused resporesponsible for human by chemical fertilizers. It also cancer. considers how these problems of Soil by may be minimized or avoided by Contamination using compost instead of Fluorine chemical fertilizers. Particular The use of superphosphate attention is devoted to fluorine fertilizer creates another kind of contamination, because this element, which is present in problem because of the fluorine it contains. The application of phosphatic fertilizers, is a health hazard. That is why the Swedish 1000 pounds of superphosphate Parliament,' on November 18, to an acre adds approximately of fluorine. That 1971, revoked the law allowing 17.5 pounds 7.5 ppm the about increases by communities to fluoridate their of the soil to drinking water. Fluorine is, fluorine content thousand among other things, a plow depth. One pounds of rock phosphate add about twice as much fluorine. In two 1970, Soviet soil scientists reported that "regular application of superphosphate the during 35 years increased a in of fluorine content sftil in and chernozem plants soil. that on They grown result this concluded that may in a decrease of ... productivity of several crops, particularly maize. Their report directed our attention to fluorine as a contaminant of soil, of water passing through that soil, and of food grown on that soil. We then found that, in 1946, Robinson and Edgington at the U.S. of Agriculture Department . reported that fluorine accumulated in every one of four New Jersey soils fertilized with superphosphate for 23 to 40 years (Table 1). The increases in fluorine content of the surface ls soils and ranged from 36 to 96 and from 13 to 39, respectively. The average increases for the four surface and and 25, subsoils were 64 respectively. sub-soi- The Wisconsin concluded that scientists when phosphate fertilization is carried on over many years, very considerable quantities of highly toxic fluorine will have been added to the soil. "The fact remains,' they stated, "that dangerously high concentrations, of fluorine are possible in the drainage water from field bountifully supplied with phosphate fertilizer." Their "data, they also said, "raise the question whether our present system of soil fertilization with phosphates fluorine-carryin- g may lead to a contamination of drinking waters to a point where they may become dangerous to human health. Food of Contamination by Fluorine Robinson and Edgington, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, studied the amounts of fluorine in 28 plant products grown on a "Virginia. ..soil... supplied with for about 15 liberally super-phospha- te years. They parsley' both considered spinach and young poke shoots' to be fluorine because these accumulators plants contained 28.3 and 42.3 ppm of fluorine, respectively. Lettuce and contained 11.3 ppm fluorine. Despite these high findings, they concluded "that there is very little chance of fluorine contamination. Japan, Okamura and Matsuhisa reported an alarming In increase of fluorine in some common foods grown in the district of Aichi in 1965 compared to 1958. Their findings are presented in Table 3. During that seven-yeperiod, the fluorine content of pumpkin, green tea, watermelon, and lotus rhizome increased 429, 575, 831, arid 976, respectively. Table 4 shows the total daily fluorine consumption in the district of Aichi in 1958 and 1965. Within those seven years, the per capita fluorine intake from ar Continued On Page 8 |