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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES I Combined with Tbn Salt Labe Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the poctnffice at Salt lake Gty as second class nutter August 23, 1923 under the act of March I, 119 711 South West Temple Telephone 364 464 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 GLENN BJ01NN, Mdkfaer "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, dan, digue, faction Number 39 Volume 48 New Hazards for Astronauts and Motorists (Continued from Page One) space cabin during an extended trip. Such a person should be eliminated from manned space flights. The analytical instrument, called an automated gas chromatograph, was likewise employed to analyze the breath of heavy smokers, who exhale nigh levels of carbon monoxide. The surprising discovery was that these people tend to continue exhaling carbon monoxide at high levels for up to six hours after they stop smoking. If such a smoker continues to be exposed to higher than normal levels of carbon monoxide while driving on a freeway, his alertness may be affected, and he may be exposed to a health and a safety hazard. The automated gas chromatograph is capable of measuring carbon mpnoxide and methane at levels down to .01 part per million parts of a total gas mixture. The respiratory measurements are made by having the subject breathe into a special plastic bag and attaching the bag to the analyzer. The device analyzes the contents of the bag automatically with a reliability of 99.99 per cent. The device was developed as an automatic analyzer for ambient air. The fact that it can also measure the contents of respired air was not a prime purpose of the system, however, it is apparent that the unit may serve as a valuable diagnostic tool ; THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1969 Page Four . New Director of Symphony Schedules Medical Care Services Contemporary Concert Bruce A. Walter, M.D., M.P. Utah Symphonys second pair H., has been named Director of of contemporary concerts of the the Bureau of Medical Care Servi- season and scheduled for Kingsces, Utah State Division of bury Hall Thursday and Friday, Health, as announced today by Jan. 23 and 24, at 8:30 p.m. G. D. Carlyle Thompson, M.D., The contemporary concerts, Utahs Director of Health. He now in their tenth year, are a will fill the position held by John joint presentation of the. UniverWaldo, M.D. sity of Utah and the Utah SymDr. Walter, a native of Seattle, phony. Washington, received his M.D. Conducting the concert this in 1951 at the University of year will be Associate ConducWashington, and his Master of tor Ardeen Watts, who, together Public Health degree in Hospital with Musical Director Maurice Administration in 1962 at U.C.-L.A- . Abravanel, has selected three He had previous experience exciting and beautiful works. In in Utah from 1954-5when he contrast to this seasons first pair received a National Institutes of of contemporary concerts which Health Research Fellowship to featured music written in the study blood clotting and lymph- current decade, this weeks proomas (tumors of the bodys lym- gram includes modem works phatic system) at the University which have already established of Utah Medical School. their place in the worlds symDr. Walter has had experience phonic repertoire. as Instructor of Medicine, UniConcert opener will be Benjaversity of Southern California; min Brittens Four Sea Interand Chief of Medical Staff, Des- ludes from his very successful ert Hospital, Palm Springs, Cali- opera Peter Grimes, composed fornia, where he was engaged in in 1941. This work depicts the the private practice of internal atmosphere of a little fishing vilmedicine. His public health ex- lage in four of its moods: dawn, perience has included duty as Sunday morning, moonlight and Public Health Medical Officer the storm. and Medical Consultant in charge The concert finale will be Danof Medical Care Studies, Cali- ish composer Carl Nielsens fornia Department of Health. He Symphony No. 5, which was comes to Utah from U.C.L.A., completed in 1922. Nielsen is to where ( he was on the faculty as Denmark what Sibelius is to the Director, Program in Hospi- Finland and what Grieg is to tal and Health Facilities Admin- Norway. Six months older than istration since 1965. Sibelius, he has much in comDr. Walters work in Utah will mon with him; his music seems include the direction of the Di- more akin to the spirit of the visions responsibility for the late 19th century rather than to Medicare and Medicaid programs the 20th, having adhered for the (Titles XVIII and XIX) in the most to the classical form. state. The Bureau he will head It waspart Mr. Nielsen in the 5th also plans, in cooperation with Symphony, however, who introstate and local groups, the con- duced the first instance of struction of .medical .facilities in and free rhythm, Utah, offers consultation to im- which has become such ' a vital prove patient care in existing fa- part of present day avant-gard- e is cilities 5 the LEASED GRAPEVINE Tourists from surrounding states which traveled through Utah by automobile spent about $37 million in the state. The report by J. David Rose, Director of the Utah Travel Council, also reported that the number of tour-it- s was up, that 3,181,394 persons traveled through the' state, from June 15 to Sept.-15. Utah Attorney General Vernon B. Romney has named four new assistants to his staff, they are: Homer Holmgren, Paul E. Reiman,- Bill Thomas Peters, and Stephen C. Ward. .. Four or five more bills may be added to 9 which Salt Lake City has already sent to the Utah Legislature. One of the newer proposals will be for persons to surrender their drivers license in lieu of bail when cited for traffic violation. One other includes a measure for the legislature to make the proper draft for Salt Lake City to up its present sales f tax cent. one-hal- . . The out-goin- Johnson' Admin- g istration caused a great stir in the State of Utah with the ex- pansion of Utahs Capitol Reef and Arches National Monument. The action was labeled by Senator Wallace Bennett as A last gasp attempt- to involve a f. lot more land in the West. The expansion of the Johnson administration. will include 49,000 and responsible for music. Utah licensing of hospitals and This contemporary pair of con- acres to the present Arches Monument and a total of nursing homes. certs will appeal both to students acres to the Capitol Reef 215,000 and the general public alike as National Monument. was demonstrated by the enthul Now for . Apply siastic response to the concerts Salt Lake County Commission Government earlier in the season guest conhas ducted by Lukas Foss and to the agreed to reschedule their Summer Jobs twice a week meetings and add contemporary concerts last seaSenator Frank E. Mosst an executive session. The change son. announced Jan. 13, that Tickets are now on sale at the will be from the present schedthose desiring summer jobs with Utah Symphony box office and ule cf meetings on Mondays and the Federal Government must ZCMI Downtown and Cotton- Wednesdays to meetings on Wedapply by Jan. 30, 1969. Senator wood. For these concerts a spe- nesdays and Thursdays with the Moss said that applications can cial student price of $1 for any executive session to. meet on be obtained from any. Post Of- available seat applies. Tuesdays. The only objection of fice or Civil Service Office and the change from open commisshould be filled out and mailed sion meeting would tend to be to: Summer Employment Exami- way, Logan, Moab, Ogden, Pan- - the feeling that the Wednesdays nation, U.S. Civil Service Com- guitch, Price, Provo, Richfield, and Thursdays meetings would mission, 1900 E Street, N.W., St. George, Salt Lake City, only be rubber stamp meetings for the tuesday executive sesWashington, D.C. 20415, no later Tooele, and Vernal. than Jan. 30, 1969. The Commissions but Commissioner Hunt sion will then schedule examinaU.S. petroleum companies have has strongly ; stressed ' that no tions for all applicants. increased their financial aid to such thing would happen. Those properly registered be- higher education in recent years. fore the Jan. 30th deadline can Nine oil companies increased The Salt Lake Area Chamber take the Civil Service examina- their support to universities and of Commerce has appointed tion in the following Utah cities; colleges by more than 41 percent Roger O. Porter, a native of Beaver, Cedar City, Delta, Dug in the 1963-6- 7 period. Idaho, as public affairs' director. Mr. Porter h?s replaced Lee Jorgensen who has been proreduced the carbon dioxide inthe soil and also reduced moted to manager of industrial the proportion of rainwater going through the soil and development for the chamber. Mr. Porter was a 1965 graduate water. of political science from the Unientering ground Scientists infer that ground water and river water versity of Utah and had been the of the Rexburg Standard contained higher concentrations of dissolved minerals editor md Journal Newspapers .since do . , 1 - Na-tion- Clams 'Finger' Man Small freshwater dams are mutely proving what most of us have suspected since studying ancient history in school: man has been playing hob with his environment for centuries. The Atomic Energy Commission has been studying the quantities of trace elements in clam shells. Current investigatoins suggest that the quantity of these elements deposited in freshwater mollusks may be used to show changes in chemical composition of the surface water brought about by man s activities and changes in the use of land since prehistoric times. As part of its research, the AEC studies the potential bioenvironmental effects of radiation to determine the movement, fate and effect of manmade radioactivity in the natural environment. The AEC has been analyzing contemporary, clam shells and those from the prehistoric Indian shell heaps along the Tennessee River for their strontium, barium, magnesium, manganese, sodium and potassium concentrations. With the exception of sodium and potassium, the quantities of the other trace elements were 50 to 100 per cent greater in the prehistoric shells than in thp shells of mollusk species currently in the river. Since the deposition of these alkaline earth elements in shells is proportional to their concentrations in the environment, the river waters in prehistoric times are judged to have contained more of those dissolved elements. It appears likely that the concentrations of these earth trace elements are the result of changes in the landscape resulting from colonization. Prior to the arrival of white settlers, this region was heavily forested. The carbon dioxide combined "with the ground waters and formed carbonic acid which dissolved the carbonate rocks of the area, thus putting the trace elements into solution. The cutting of the forests for lumber and farming . . non-radioacti- ve . (D-Uta- h) , - . . Rex-bur- g, - to 2,000 years ago than they today, thus the 1967. abrupt shift to an agricultural economy from a forested Technical' David Hooper, landscape resulted in significant changes in the disposi-toi- n son of Mrs. Sgt Ruby Hooper, 105 of certain chemical elements in the environment. South Temple, is on duty at Bien A knowledge of these changes is important to the Hoa AB, Vietnam. Sgt. Hooper is an air operamaintenance ana improvement of the biological produc- tions supervisor. Before his ar--. the environment for the benefit of man, since the rival in Southeast .'Asia he was tivity of assigned at Travis AFB, Calif. requirements of an. increasing population for food and He during the Korean recreation are dependent upon maintaining a desirable War. served He is a graduate, of South ecological balance,of nature. Sevier High School in Monroe. L 1,000 |