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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1969 Huge Market Spurs Research On 'Next Generation' Pill THE SALT LAKE TIMES CnMud mti Tbt Suit Ukt MMit 6 Utd Stm PnUitbad Barry Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postaffice at Salt Lake City as second class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1879 4 711 South West Temple Telephone GLENN BJORNN, Publisher 364-846- "Tbit publication it not owned or coatrollrd by any party, clan, clique, faction Number 29 Volume 49 Forty million Americans in the risk" category dictate continued, even frenzied, research for improved birth control drugs and devices, a University of Utah professor of obstetrics and gynecology says. Dr. Irwin H. Kaiser, head of the obstetrics gynecology at the Salt Lake City medical school, told a medical meeting He noted that the present (Contained Pigs Ons) array of oral hormonal contraent 1960 decade has occurred during the past four years. ceptives (the pill) and (IUD) has been the years 1960 through 1965 the consumer price index effective devices and acceptable, though rose at a rate of only 1 per cent to 1.7 per cent per year. none is free of potentially seriSince 1965, however, prices have been climbing at an ous complications. Both types, he added, are used by the female accelerating rate 2.9 in 1966; 3.2 in 1967; 3.9 in 1968 at times remote from intercourse. and an estimated 5.5 in 1969. medical teacher The study points out that although prices have risen The Utah these agents out that pointed during the past decade, personal incomes have increased have introduced new psychologiat an even faster rate: Per capita incomes, in Utah, how- cal dimensions to sexualto conthis However, he added, ever, have not been rising quite as rapidly as those for duct. point, though they have had the nation as a whole during recent years. As a result, wide acceptance, there is no inclear evidence thta they have it is expected that the increase in Utahs per capita any major impact on acceptcome for 1969 may fall short in matching the price that had able moral attitudes. One thing will occur this year. Particularly adversely affected by is very clear, he went on, is that rethe rising price trend of recent years are individuals with they have aided in a marked rate. the of birth duction incomes. fixed de-patrm- ent Sharp Rises in Living Costs tern intra-auteri- In dollar Foundation analysts note that efforts to control the present inflation began approximately a year and a half ago when Congress and the Administration adopted restrictive fiscal policies to curtail large federal deficits and to slow the excessive raite of economic growth. This was followed several months later when the Federal Reserve Board began applying measures designed to limit the supply of money and credit Thus far, the combination of these fiscal and monetary brakes has failed to bring inflation under control. While there are a number of signs indicating that a slow down in the nations economy is imminent, die cost of living is continuing to rise. Most economists maintain, however, that the present inflation will be brought under control after the economic medicine taken has had sufficient time to work. The Utah Foundation report points out that one of the results of the present inflation has been a temporary improvement in the short range jstate revenue picture. Utahs tax system, with its emphasis on the sales tax and the individual income tax, is particularly sensitive to price and income changes. As a result, recent state revenue receipts have surpassed earlier estimates and projections. The report warns, however, that as general prices rise, the cost of goods and services purchased by the state also must rise. Usually higher expenditures are postponed only until such time as new appropriation requests are considered. These may wel be more marked than the revenue rise. The present inflation, therefore, may be creating additional long range financial problems for the state and local units in Utah. Passengers on a Spaceship The late Adlai E. Stevenson, statesman and politician ne the The next generation of contraceptives, produced to satisfy the needs of an apparently ever growing market, likely will be a minidose form of progestin. This agent, he said, will not affect ovulation or menstruation but apparently has its effect in the cervix (neck of the womb). He added that this continues the trend in hormonal contraception away from the female pituitary and the ovaries. Dr. Kaiser said that this same trend may produce drugs for the male which will inactivate sperm in the seminal fluid without changing testicular function. His capsule view of the future of contraception includes: Suppressing fertility in the female without side effects Rendering semen infertile and not affecting libido or secondary sexual characteristics Generating male and female infertility over long spans of time which can be reversed temporarily when conception is de- sired I EASED i i Yss d b ds - j Funding for demolishing dangerous and dilapidated buildings in Salt Lake City is the main problem facing the city, Paul G. Grant, assistant city attorney has advised Mayor J. Bracken " " ' Lee. It is necessary for the City Commission to establish a small fund for this purpose or to investigate the possibilities of using city employees to do the work, Mr. Grants letter said. A half cent increase in the local sales tax would make possible hiring of more policemen and firemen in the city, a Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce official said this week. B. Z. Kastler, Jr., chamber vice president in charge of the government and public affairs told council members, ing experimentation on postcoi-t- council, Our first in governdrugs and agents which cause ment is lawobligation and order. abortion so far has produced He said local law enforcement nothing of practical value. officers are doing a fine Job considering the manpower available but the area is becoming more attractive to criminals because have scientists suspected the of a shortage of officers. i man himself. Dr. Kaiser noted that continu- al Only in recent years many ways in which human beings, by their numbers and technological achievements, are beginning to threaten human existence. A part of this threat stems from ignorance of the nature of the life sustaining forces of earth, plus a stunning lack of perception.of the real meaning of what we are pleased to call the population explosion. Dr. John H. Rediske points out that If one could compress all geologic time, the 4.5 billion years since the earth was born, into one year some startling facts regarding the recently of life on this ball of rock would become evident Let us assume the earth is bom on the first of January. It is May before single celled living organisms appear in the warm sheltered coastal waters. In the first week of December the primeval forests rise from the low lands. Twelve days laiter dinosaurs are roaming the earth and the first mammals appear the day after Christmas. At 10 p.m. on December 31st primitive man makes his appearance. The pyramids are built a minute before midnight, Fifty seconds later Christopher Columbus discovers America and we enter the Industrial Revolution about one second before the New Year. These words of Dr. Rediske show how brief mans existence has been. He goes on to show that in spite of this briefness, man is multiplying at a rate and creating conditions that can terminate his sojourn on earth in a matter of seconds, geologically speaking. Again, he uses a dramatic analogy. To place population growth in an understandable framework, he compresses the 2000 years from the birth of Christ into one 24 hour day and here is what he finds, beginning Sunday at 12 midnight. There are some 190 million people on earth at that At 7:48 Monday evening, nearly 20 hours later, the population has doubled. It doubles again only 2 hours and 24 minutes later, and again in less than one hour, and yet again, at 11:36 p.m. the population doubles for the fourth time since Christ was bom to yield the present figure of approximately three billion people. Twenty-fou- r minutes later, at midnight (the year 2000) it will double for the fifth time and six billion human beings will inhabit the earth. By the year 2070, at the same rate of progression, the earths population will be an inin-sa- nt. once said, We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say the love we give to our fragile craft. Anyone who has seen the remarkable photos taken of the earth by the crews of the Apollo spacecraft must humbly acknowledge the prophetic truth of Mr. Stevenson s words. From 200,000 miles or more out in space, the earth appears to be a body of transcedent and fragile credible 25 billion! beauty. The astronauts called it the good earth. Mr. ooOoStevenson intimated it is a fragile earth There is no easy road to education. Even students supporting life as man knows it on a finely balanced combination of in aCalifomia school for strippers complain that it's a cosmic circumstances that are slowly altered hard being by grind. : - Utah Road Commission may be compelled to close Parleys Canyon to heavy trucks in an effort to avert more accidents involving the big rigs. It has the authority to do so, Henry C. Helland, state highway director, said this week following the fourth accident involving a big trailer in the canyon where road work is underway. The lower part of the canyon is closed to all traffic. Vehicles are detoured through Emigration Canyon at Mountain Dell. Some of the truck accidents have oc- curred before entering the tour and some on it. de- The Army Corps of Engineers has warned that continued building in flood plain areas along th Jordan River in Salt Lake City would be putting new construction in the path of eventual flooding. In addition continued development along the river would increase the hazard of flood damage in other parts of Salt Lake City because it would restrict flood water flow and increase flood crests. City Commissioners are being asked to designate a five member advance planning board for Salt Lake International Airport. Advisors for the airport recommended the planning unit be separate from the city planning and zoning department. Airport Manager Murray A. Bywater suggesed the board because no organized group now specifically plans development and improvements for the airport. The board will include the airport manager, city engineer, his engineering architect, the hired airport architect and a ant to be named later. consult-- .' International Nickels Creighton No. 9 mine shaft is the deep- est continuous mining shaft in the Western Hemisphere, 7,137 feet down. Rock temperatures on the; shaft wall may range from 40 degrees at the surface to 110 at the bottom. .. t . |
