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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES Page Nine FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1966 Utah Higher Education Meet Slated Sept. 7-- 9 at University The 23rd annual meeting- of the Utah Conference on Higher Education, which will take place on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City Sept. 7, 8 and 9, will feature as a major d speaker for the event Dr. L. Medsker, acting chair- Le-lan- man Center for the Study of Higher Education, Berkeley, Cal. Over the last several years he has been conducting national research on changing patterns in higher education. His presentation before the UCHE will discuss the findings and implicaRetions of his Nation-wid- e Colof the Community study lege. Plans for th? 23rd meeting of the UCHE are being finalized Utah Cains Money by the steering committee of Henry H. Frost, president, University of Utah; Dello Dayton, Vice President, Weber State College; N. Blaine Winters, ry-Treasurer, State Office of Education; J. Stewart Williams, Past President, Utah State University; H. Reed Christensen, Snow College; Armin J. Hill, BYU; and Kent Myers, College of Southern Utah. Faculties and staffs of all the Utah institutions of higher learning, both public and private, will join in the three day meeting. General meetings and section seminars will focus around the theme the Challenge of a Change in Higher Education in Utah. Secreta- Farmers Union Concerned Over Food Price Hikes For Planning Economic Growth The State of Utah Monday received a federal grant totalling $45,335 to assist in mapping plans for promoting increased economic development, according to an announcement by Sen. Frank E. Moss of Utah. The funds will be used to support planning activities in multi-count- y districts of Utah t where economic development has lagged and where a program of this type can stimulate the growth of commercial establishments, he said. The Utah State Industrial Promotion Commission requested the grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration, he said. State funds totalling $21,456.00 will be used in conjunction with the federal grant to enable the state agency to draw boundaries y districts for the and to proceed with necessary planning and economic developmulti-count- - ments. . Karl Shisler, president of the h Farmers Union, has Utah-Sout- announced that his organization has been deeply concerned in recent weeks by the large increase in the retail price of certain food products. The increase in dairy price supports on July 1, which was necessary in order to prevent shortages, should have brought no more than a one half cent increase per quart on the retail end. In many cases in this country milk prices have been increased three to four times this amount and attributed to the increase in farm price supports. The same situation is now developing with respect to wheat. One pound loaves of bread have been going up two, three, and four cents at retail levels. The mid-Jul- y wheat price was 49 cents per bushel above the support rate of $1.25. Since one bushel of wheat is enough to loaves produce 68.4 of bread, the maximum rise in retail bread prices justified by the rise in the market would be seven tenths of one cent. Yet, here again, the retail price is being attributed to high farm one-pou- The needs must first be de- termined and then the Industrial Promotion Commission, in cooperation with EDA, can move ahead to bring additional comremerce to the intra-count- y nd he said. returns. The Utah Democrat was a It should be noted that there sponsor of the legislation which is a time created the Economic Develop- chase of lag between the purwheat by the miller ment Administration. Amendsale the of that wheat as and ments, which were accepted by bread at the grocery counter. Congress, gave the counties a Substantial amounts of wheat bigger participating role in con- have been in the hands of milljunction with the state and fed- ers and bakers each time mareral governments. ket wheat prices have gone up. If wheat purchased in June is being sold in bread today, the gion, justified retail price increase would be only one-ha- lf cent, since the market averaged only 34 cents above support in June. Bread containing wheat purchased in May, when the market was only 19 cents above the d support, should be less than of a cent per pound loaf higher than when wheat was selling for $1.25. one-thir- A SURE SHOT Golfer Arnold Palmer, paying Saytribute to the ings Plan for All Americans, say that, like every professional, I like to win. Often victory comes hard and I have. to charge after the leaders. But Anile likes n sure thing and a systematic rnn for his money. Thats where U. S. Savings Bonds fit into the life of myself and my family, he says. There are no missed putts, no drives in the rough in this game of safe savings in the form of United States Savings Bonds. Star-Spangl- ed Lt. Lionel W. Gillette, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leland B. Gil- lette, 3999 Jupiter Dr., recently completed a combat platoon leader course at the Army Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia. National Park. Elk, and other Park wildlife, are most frequently seen in in leadership, tactics of small fantry units, map and aerial photograph reading and Army administrative procedures. in- Lt. Gillette worked for Cobus-c- o Steel Co. before entering the the early mornings and around sunset, Roadside black bears are commonly countered throughout the day. Yellowstone is America's largest wildlife sanctuary. en-Yellows- tone Big Danger in Abuse of Illegal Barbiturates and Stimulants Barbiturates, stimulants, some tranquilizers as well as the new drugs are as great a danger to society as illegal would be wiser. This concern is reflected in the trend of new bills (offered in Congress) to reduce restrictions on the handling of addicts by federal judges and to give the medical profession greater freedom in deciding how to treat them. New laws have already added necessary controls against the lax practices in the distribu- effect, Saltman explains, may be exalting and (as their advocates claim) or tragically destructive, resulting in narcotics. temporary or permanent insantion of barbiturates, amphetSome of these drugs are, of ity, even death. some Even course, prescribed to overcome tranquilizers have amines, and tranquilizers. Even more hopeful, the author pain or disease. Drugs abuse been named as addictive by the occurs when they are taken to Committee on Alcoholism and finds, is the increased activity influence body and mind for no Addiction of the American Medi- on the part of doctors, psychosound medical. or scientific rea- cal Association and excessive therapists, community and reliuse . . . can bring a person to gious leaders, and former addicts son. a An informative description of point similar to drunkenness, themselves in the search for efnarcotics and of the dangerous then stupor, even death, as many fective treatment. He describes some of these newer public and drugs and a survey of the prob- suicides have proved. abusers and are Who the drug lem of drug abuse and current private treatment programs and attempts to reach the heart of why one person and not another the federal facilities as well. The the problem, are contained in succumbs are also discussed. Salt-ma-n approaches and methods in the reminds the reader that, al- former vary, with the emphasis What We Can Do About Drug Abuse, a new Public Affairs though no economic or social on voluntary commitment and Pamphlet by Jules Saltman. It class is immune to narcotic ad- aftercare. Some use chemicals, is available for 25 cents from diction . . . the number of the such as methadone, to help overthe Public Affairs Committee, poor and otherwise deprived come the hardships of withdrawaddicts is highly al and as a method of treatment. 381 Park Avenue South, New among teen-ag- e York, N.Y. 10016. disproportionate to their num- Others stress no chemicals but In spite of some mistaken no- ber in the general population. a facing up to the truth with tions about narcotic addicts, the Many observers point to socio- group support. Still others, parneighborhood projects, public is more or less aware of logical pressures as at least one ticularly emotional offer support, some slum basic factor: bleakness, the hazards of narcotics and other service (medical, opiates. But, Saltman points out, poverty, minority frustrations, professional and social), and and the equally real and destruc- psychiatric, g 'barbiturates to addicts who have which may operate practical aid sedatives) . . . are considered tive forces on and affluent no other resource. stricken poverty more of a threat to their abof unsatisfied adolescent Although it cannot be denied users than even the illegal nar- alike cotics. . . . They are of incalcul- drives, family disorganization, that none of these methods have conclusive answers, there able value in the treatment of and the emptiness of purposeless clearly some success. The fight, been has illness and the management of lives. to insomnia. But, abused as they The big question is still not as Saltman expresses it, hasand traffic are today on a mass scale, they only who? and why? but be against the drug And victims. that reits for On the have become a major drug men- what can be done? educated more a public ace. legal front, the fight against quires on the problem and concerned Amphetamines (pep pills) the drug traffic is being con- about providing the necessary are stimulants. They offer . . . ducted by international, nation- programs to strengthen an easy kind of chemical happi- al, state, and local bodies. In as well as treatness (and) are regarded as less the United States, the Federal ment. won dangerous than other drugs be- Bureau of Narcotics has seizWhat We Can Do About Drug for spectacular cause, except in very large high praise is No. 390 in the Public Abuse amounts, they do not bring about ures of contraband drugs and Affairs Pamphlet series, now in members of physical dependence or with- apprehension of its 31st year. The scries includes . . . criminal rings. drawal symptoms. . . . But these other distinguished titles On the other hand, Saltman many drugs still produce dependence social and economic in the psychological and emo- adds, some medical and other covering problems, health and science, tional sense. The dependent user experts criticize various aspects family relations, and intergroup . . . develops physical tolerance, of the program relations. All pamphlets sell for requiring larger and larger against drugs, including . . . the 25 cents each; a list is available amounts in not very large strict limits the mandatory prorequest. amounts these drugs, too, affect visions of the laws place on upon the judgment in potentially dan- handling each narcotic offender's case on its merits. These proviLife is too short to provide for gerous situations. . . . no a such sions often permit The everything. Choose you must, drugs, judge as LSD, are completely unpre- choice but imprisonment of ad and as you choose, choose only dictable and uncontrollable, and diets, even when he may think the best in friends, in books, in therein lies their danger. Their that probation or hospitalization recreation, in everything! mind-changi- mind-expandi- ng ng (slaep-inducin- law-enforcem- law-enforcem- During the nine week course, he received advanced instruction Army this year. 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