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Show Pag Eight Conference Report Moss Joins Effort to Increase Funds to Fight Water Pollution Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah said he will join an effort in the Senate to increase the funds provided for the important fight against water pollution. Senator Moss pointed out that the Congress in 1966 passed a five year program to combat the water pollution, but has failed to provide the full amount of money each year since. This year, the House passed an appropriation of $600 million, $386 million more than the Nixon Administration requested. An effort to increase the amount to $1 billion failed in the House by two votes, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts is leading the fight in the Senate to approve the $1 billion, and I am supporting him in this move. The 146-14- 8. sewage and waste treatment For Four Corners Adopted by U. S. fa- cilities. Even though we in the Congress have not provided adequate funds many of the states have gone forward with aggressive, and long term pollution abatement programs, and they deserve our support. I am delighted with the public awarenes of pollution problems which is evident in the country. During my years in the Senate I have worked for pollution control measures, and it is encouraging to see the increasing support coming from the general public. This support is resulting in the increased importance such programs are receiving in the Congress. The nation wil benefit from this increased interest, Senator money would be used as matching grants for such projects as Moss said. Increase Aid to Poor Nations Economic Committee Advises Policy Com- The Research and mittee of the Committee for Eco- nomic Development (CED) has proposed that the United States increase the flow of public and counprivate aid to low income to one amount equal tries to an per cent of national income by 1970 and to one per cent of gross national product by 1975. In an 81 page StatementDe-of National Policy Assisting velopment in Low Income Countries: Proirities for U. S. Government Policy, the panel of US busniessmen and educators declared that the U.S. foreign aid program has been reduced to the point where it is now utterly inadequate tothatthe tasks present and opportunities Income low in the themselves under Commitments countries. are Act Assistance the Foreign time at at a lower level than any since the inception of the Act in 1962, and the appropriations request for this purpose submitted by President Nixon for Fiscal 1970 continues the down- Labor Department Assures Bonding Of Prison Trainees ward trend. Unless this trend is reversed and unless public assistance can be augmented by increased private investment, the U.S. will have lost an historic opportunity to achieve what can well become a decisive advance in the economic and social modernization of the emerging na- tions. Accordingly, the CED statement makes the following recommendation: We believe that a good basis for planning the future annual flow of official and private assistance of the advanced countries including that of the United States would be one per cent of national income initially, and ultimately one per cent of GNP. By 1970, an increase from the 1968 level of 0.79 per cent of national income to one per cent should be feasible for the total flow from the United States. Beyond 1970 the flow of resources to developing countries should increase at a rate that would permit the target of one per cent of GNP to be met by 1970. The policy statement emphasizes the strategic role of private investment in promoting development and warns that under present conditions it is unlikely that the flow of resources from the United States and other advanced countries can reach the target of one per cent of GNP unless private investment shows a sizeable in- Utah and Wyoming prisoners in the U.S. Department of Labor prison training programs will be given bonding assistance if needed after they get out. Secretary of Labor George Shultz crease. announced this week. The Department is testing the idea to see if it will help reduce the return rate of released prisoners who fail on the outside because of their inability to get a job. Seventy five prisoners are now in the Labor Department sponsored training at the Utah State Prison at Draper. The Wyoming State Prison at Rawlins is now training 60. Over the nation, the programs funded under the Manpower Development and Training Act are providing job skills to about 2500 inmates. Each of the projects has been THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1969 : Work Experience Approved for 94 Utah Youths Work experience for 94 Utah students in the Neighborhood Youth Corps will be provided in a project of the Manpower Administration announced this week by the U.S. Department of Labor. The project is at Salt Lake City where 94 youngsters will be given work experience that will enable them to remain in school. The Labor Department will pay $47,360 of the Salt Lake City project's $53,650 cost. The youth will be assigned to part time jobs, principally in the school system itself as assistants to teachers, kitchen aides or custodial aides. assigned a professional bonding certfication agent. His job is to review cases to determine if a bond is necessary, if the ex prisoner is eligible, if the job is suitable and if the employer is eliFame due to the achievements gible. He also cancels the bond no when it is longer required, of the mind never' perishes. based on his follow up studies. Propertius. Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah said the conference report on the Regional Economic Development bill was adopted Friday, which carried a modified version of the two Moss provisions. The conference report as adopted included $100 million to be divided evenly between the five regions for transportation uses. This would mean $20 million for Four Corners to be used exclusively on the development and 'planning of roads. This money is in addition to the sum authorized for training, grants and other functions of the commission, he said. The report carried a firm allotment of $255 million for all five regions, with not less than 10 per cent and not more than 25 per cent to be allotted to any one region, with all money appropriated to carry over until expended. Roads are very badly needed in the Four Corners area, ' and this will mean a great deal to the economic development of the area, he said. Sales Jobs One-Da- y Influence Report A total of 1,234 job openings listed with Utah employment security offices during the week ended Nov. 8 was weighted with one day sales jobs in the Provo area, and verification of openings previously filed in Salt Lake offices, reported the employment security office. The week before jobs made available totaled 910. Initial claims for unemployment insurance, at 944, were not significantly higher than the week of Nov. 1, but did exceed the year ago weekly total by nearly 200. Some 5,900 continued claims filed were off 178 from the week of Nov. 1, with the decrease reflecting return to work of coal miners after a brief shut down. The current volume of continued claims for unemployment insurance is 2.15 per cent of all workers covered by state and federal unemployment insurance laws compared to 2.20 per cent the week before. A year ago, the insured jobless ratio was 1.98 per cent. The agricultural season was winding up with completion of the sugar beet harvest and potato harvest in southwest Utah. More Than 100 Computers Control Apollo Communications A world wide communications network, controlled by more than 100 Sperry Rand Univac computers with a value exceeding $60 million, stands poised and ready to serve as the communications lifeline between Apollo spacecraft and Mission Control at 'the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. The computer controlled NASA communications network is an integration of three major networks including the Manned Space Flight Network and is the overall responsibility of the Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md. The network will have the gigantic task of processing the continuous stream of messages between the spacecraft and Mission Control, from countdown to final recovery. It consists of a network of ground, sea and airborne tracking stations designed to collect, process and act upon vital information flowing between the Saturn booster, the Apollo space craft and Mission Control. The Sperry Rand computers, products of the Univac Federal Systems Divisions headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., will augment the network, which consists of three major message switching and communications processing systems: The Remote Site Data Processing (RSDP) systems at 14 global ground tracking sites and aboard four Apollo Instrumen-tio- n ships. The Automatic Data Switching System (ADSS) centered at the Goddard Space Flight Center, The Command Communications and Telemetry Systems in Houston Principal function of RSDP systems, where 48 Univac 1230 Computers will be to accept, record and transmit data originating from the spacecraft down data and compute and issue commands to the spacecraft up data. Up information will be communicated over an ultra high frequency radio (Apollo Unified S Band) link at a rate of 2400 bits of information per second. Communication between ground tracking sites and Houston, via high speed communication links will occur at the same rate. In the case of down data, senors built into the spacecraft will continuously sample . the pressure and temperature inside the capsule, its atitude and Falconry Regulations position in space, and on manned missions such physical facListed by Board tors as the astronauts respiraUnder provisions of a recently tion, heart beat and temperature. issued falconry proclamation the Such data will be transmitted residents of Utah may now le- to ground stations at a rate of gally practice falconry in the more than 51,200 bits of inforstate. mation per second. The proclamation allows any In addition, Univac 1218 comperson having a valid falconry puters held over from the license to capture and keep in Gemini program will control captivity certain native hawks radar antenna pointing positions or to purchase and possess other the flights. hawks imported into the state. during The principal Automatic Data mammals and Switching Systems facility at birds, plus upland game species, Goddard utilizes multiple Unimay be taken during the period vac real time computers, many of Aug. 31 to Jan. 31 of each times faster than the Univac year. Falconers releasing their computers used in Project Gemfalcons at game birds or game ini to communications animals must have a valid hunt- over new relay speed data lines. high ing license in addition to their For Apollo, Univac 418 computpermit. falconry ers, located at widely separated ' Any peron interested in fal- overseas switching centers have conry should obtain a proclama- been installed to provide addition for full information on how tional stepped up computerized to pursue this sport message handling capability for the network. The end of doubt is the beginMessages arriving at Goddard from remote stations will be ning of repose. Petrarch. Non-protect- ed read by the 494s, formatted, checked for validity, automatically assigned a priority, and immediately routed over new extremely high speed communications lines to the two 494s at Houston at a rate of 40,800 bits per second. These computers, which form the heart of the Command communications and Telemetry systems, serve as the super clearing house for the handling and routing of all communications between Mission Control, the remote stations, and the spacecraft. Radiation Accidents Handling Explained A reminder that, despite the extremely good safety record in developing the uses of nuclear energy, preparations must be made to enable nations to deal promptly and effectively with the consequences of radiation accidents was given at an international meeting in Vienna recently. Prof. I. Zheludev, director of the project, reminded partici- pants that in the period immediately following the discovery of x rays and radium little was known of the harmful properties of radiation, and the personal sufferings of many of the pioneer users of these new tools provided much basic knowledge of the effects of ionizing radiation on the human body. When the release of nuclear energy became possible, a cautious attitude was adopted and great emphasis was rightly placed from the very beginning on safety. Rehabilitation Unit Charts Meeting The annual meeting of the Utah Chapter of the National Rehabilitation Association will be held Friday, Nov. 21, at the Rodeway Inn in Salt Lake City, according to Chapter. President Dr. Gary Q. Jorgensen. Keynote speaker will be Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Artificial Organs, University of Utah Medical Center. His ad- dress entitled Artificial Organs in the Seventies will be delivered at a 6:30 banquet. LaMar Buckner, president of the Buckner Insurance Co., Salt Lake City and Nyla J. Cole, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Utah Medical Center, will be the featured speaker at the afternoon general session. Victor B. Cline, Ph.D., John Schieving, ACSW, and Mrs. Colleen Martin, R.N., will address concurrent sessions scheduled for late afternoon. Attending the meeting will be members of the Utah Chapter as well as other lay and professional persons from throughout the state who are interested ini the rehabilitation of disabled in- - Slope That Slab When designing a patio to adjoin house walls, many landscape architects specify a wood deck because it avoids the- rain drainage problems sometimes fund with paving. If paving is used, be sure to slope it away from the house one eighth inch per running foot, more if the soil is clay, the house has a basement or a hillside rises beyond - the patio. ' |