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Show Committee Approves Moss Amendments Utah Would Get $30.3 Million In Year of Revenue Sharing Utah would receive over $30.3 million from the federal government during the first full year of operation of the Administrations revenue sharing proposal, Rep. reSherman P. Lloyd, ported. The Utah Republican said a Treasury Dept, report estimated that out of an annual distribution of $5 billion among all states under the plan, the Utah state government would receive $24.7 million, with local governments sharing in over $5.6 million. Of the amount paid to local government, cities would get slightly over $3 million while county units would divide $2.6 million. Revenue sharing would extend federal assistance to states and localities without conditions, and every county, city and township would be included directly in the allocation of funds, Rep. Lloyd said. Use and distribution of the money would be determined by local needs and priorities. He said funds would be distributed on the basis of population, with adjustments made to reward or penalize states depending on their efforts in taxing the incomes of their citizens. Within each state, the allocation of revenue sharing funds between state and local governments would be based on the relative importance of each unit of government in the collection of total state and local general revenues. Rep. Lloyd said the Administration had asked for $500 million to begin the program last fiscal year, but Congressional committees have not held hearings on the bill. The $5 billion figure on which the Treasury Dept, based its esti- R-Ut- ah, On Ouray Refuge mates would not be available until fiscal 1976 under the original Administration proposal. A breakdown of Utahs share showed Salt Lake County receiving $1,449,351, with Salt Lake City getting $1,231,892. Other cities and their estimated allotments include Ogden $314,-60Provo $213,065; Bountiful $72,060; Logan $80,768; Murray $80,608; Orem $63,432; Price $66,228; and all other cities 4; $922,561. Other counties receiving large portions of the statewide share include Box Elder $69,823; Davis $96,666; Iron $74,217; San Juan $96,746; Utah $95,707; Weber $285,205; and all other counties $441,947. Rep. Lloyd said the estimates were based on latest available statistics on population, incomes and revenues. Writing Paper For the Blind Being Developed Using a new polyethylene paperson can per, a newly-blinde- d almost immediately write and read numbers and letters he has always known. Ruth L. Barr of Webster Groves, Missouri describes this exciting new writing process in Science. Polyethylene paper No. 300 makes it possible, says Miss Barr, to emboss a letter or a number on the working side of the paper without having to write the characters in reverse. A jumbo bail-poipen gives the best embossed markings, but d a pencil works almost as well. Embossed letters rise about 16 thousandths of an inch above the surface of the Puzzler Fails paper a height that permits ready recognition of characters To Frustrate by touch. In a reading test involving 20 Clever Computer d A computer has overcome the totally blind or partially-sightevifrustrations of Instant Insan- subjects and 30 with normaldursion who covered their eyes ity, a popular puzzle that re- ing the trials, almost all could quires the player to arrange four read the characters with their cubes in a particular order. a minute or so. To determine there are 256 fingertips within was Each given a polysubject ways of arriving at one or more on which numsheet unique solutions to the puzzle, a ethylene senUNI VAC 1108 computer per- bers, letters, words, and subembossed. One formed 1,207,959,552 calculations tences were read an entire page in about and printed them on paper in ject 3 minutes. six minutes and 17 seconds. Use of this new paper and James E. Renouf, systems promethod is not only a tregramming manager for Univacs writing the newly-blindeData Processing division office mendous boon istoalso a breakbut it in Oakbrook, 111., noted that it of means written in takes some people hours to com- through communication between sighted plete just one solution. no new It probably would have taken and nonsightedbe persons; and no learned need to com- system a couple of man-yeanew gadgets are required. plete the calculations on paper, A small number of diabetic he added. Braille Each of the cubes has red, patients who learned but of onset blindness after the white, blue and green sides. The who had lost much of their sense colors are arranged so that no of touch as a result of diabetes two blocks are identical. and consequently had great difRenouf, who arrived at the ficulty reading Braille were able solution method with the help of to read with ease Arabic numtwo coworkers, explained that and letters embossed on the bers each cube has 64 possible combinations of sides. He said there polyethylene sheets. are a total of 16,777,216 combinations for the sides. A number was arbitrarily assigned to each side of the cube, Renouf said. In effect, we mathematically simulated the probsoothing antiseptic relief for lem or played the game in the computer, he said. Instant Insanity is manuWIND OR SUNBURNED LIPS factured by Parker Brothers, FEVER- - BLISTERS, COLD SORES. Inc., Salem, Mass. Well be happy to solve any. other puzzles INkTHEH All Renouf said, they have, GREENlTUBE they have to do is send them to nt blunt-pointe- d, rs CHAPPED LIPS us. THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1970 Page Eight Senate and House conferees have approved two amendments to the Interior Appropriations Bill offered by Senator Frank E. One amendment Moss, provides $100,000 for construction funds for the Ouray Wildlife Refuge near Vernal. The other provides $20,000 so that the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation can accelerate by one year the study of the Mormon Battalion Trail. The Ouray Wildlife Refuge was scheduled for completion five years ago when it was originally started back in 1964, but it is only 20 percent completed. When completed, the refuge will provide habitat conditions capable of producing at least 1,000 geese each year with sufficient food to maintain a peak population of 3,000 during v migration. In addition, the refuge will produce 13,000 ducks yearly with provisions for a peak population of 75,000. It will also include a visitors center, exhibition pond, observation points, picnic tables, fire grates and parking facilities. The Administration had requested funds for a study of the Mormon Trail, during fiscal 1971, but no funds had been requested for the Mormon Battalion Trial. It was planned to study this trail at least one year later. Senator Moss, feeling that each years delay caused more damage and possible loss of vital landmarks along the trail, asked that the additional funds be provided this year so the study could be conducted as soon as possible. Purpose of the study is to determine if the trails merit national trail status. The Mormon Trail is the route followed by Mormon pioneers from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Salt Lake City. The Mormon Battalion Trail extends from Council Bluffs and Mt. Pisgah, Iowa to Los Angeles, California. D-Uta- h. Moss Bill Provides Reduced Air Fares for Senior Citizens Senator Frank E. Moss, D-Ut- ah, a member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, said he will introduce a bill to provide for reduced fares for senior citizens on the nations airlines. Senator Moss wrote the various airlines last year asking for voluntary action to provide reduced air fares for senior citizens, but most airlines replied they were unable to do so without further legislative authority. My bill will amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 which contained a provision to allow reduced rates for ministers, Senator Moss said. I will add senior citizens to the section of that law. Senator Moss pointed out that the average trunk line carrier operates at only 50 of capacity so that 50 of the seats on an overall basis are empty. He said ;he percentage of empty seats on local service lines is slightly lower. The American taxpayers subsidized the local carriers by $36 million last year because they were flying below passenger capabilities. My bill to allow senior citizens to fly at a reduced rate will not only have the beneficial effect on the elderly, but could reduce the amount of subsidy the taxpayers have to pay. He noted that other forms of public transportation such as trains and busses are often difficult for senior citizens because of scheduling problems and the long periods of travel time required. Airline travel avoids many of these problems for the elderly. As long as the planes are flying with empty seats, and our senior citizens would like to be able to use the seats, but most cannot afford them, then we should do something to solve the problem. My bill will do just that, he said. Gateway Amendment Helps Explained for Commission Constitutions dont improve with age. Utahs was only average when it was adopted in 1895 and now in 1970 it cant be any better. Utah Constitution into harmony with recent federal court and congressional action on voting (the 1970 Voting Rights Act, for instance) with one ballot vote, since it would permit changes in other sections. By contrast the current system would require that six separate proposals be put before the vot- Members of the Constitutional Revision Commission this week heard this appraisal from Denny Ingram, committee researcher, who discussed advantaged of- ers. fered by the proposed ConstituHe said that under Gateway tional Amendment Procedure constitutional changes would be Amendment (formerly known as some ways more in yet the Gateway amendment) which simpler, difficult, since proponents would the commission has backed and have to overcome all objections which will be voted on by the to the one ballot proposal. Utahns in November. But above all, this proposed Mr. Ingram mentioned three system still leaves with the peospecific changes and noted that ple the same rights they now in each case, under the proposal, have; that of deciding themArmy Cancels Bids only a single vote on the ballot selves, by vote, how the ConstiOn Bus Service would be needed, while under tution is to be changed, he said. The Army has canceled an in- current constitutional provisions He cited another example: votes as as be would eight many bids from for vitation transporchanging the constitution with tation companies to provide com- needed to effect these same just one vote to modernize the muter bus service for some 200 changes. executive branches into say 20 would Deseret Test Center employees the help bring Gateway departments. who were scheduled to be transferred from Ft. Douglas to Dug-wa- y Proving Ground, Rep. SherCOMPANION WITH A BEDSIDE MANNER man P. Lloyd, reported. The Utah Republican said he was advised by Comptroller General Elmer B. Staats that the cancellation was made for reasons of economy and that the Army considered the bus service to be an unjustifiable expense. Rep. Lloyd said the transfer of Deseret employees was supposed to take place before July 1. However, at his request the Army postponed the action pending a decision on a proposal to transfer some of the defensive biologiWho says that medicine has the only form in which food is cal research operations from Ft. to iaste bad? stored for ready use in the Detrick, Md., to Dugway. That The next time your child is body is as sugar (glycogen). It decision has not yet been ansick and has a fever, you can is stockpiled in the muscles and nounced by the White House. give him a Medicine that hes liver to be used by the body to like. sure not whether known when energy or heat requireis It still ments are greater than the Candy. the Army plans to go ahead with that's Yes, candy. right, bodys intake at a particular the transfer of Deseret employees d A in a report time, for instance, during fever. from Ft. Douglas to Dugway, he that noted magazine said. A final .decision on this In other words, when the physicians have been using canR-Uta- h, family-oriente- transfer will come after the ques- tion on Ft. Detrick is resolved. He said the Army has proposed turning the Maryland facility over to the Department of Health Education and Welfare, and transferring some of its biological research operations to Dugway. About 200 Ft. Detrick employees would be moved to the Utah base. dy fer many years to fight fever by keepfng the supply of sugar in the blood high when the appetite is decreased. The article pointed out that doctors have stated that candy can prevent such high fever symptoms as: vomiting; fast, liard breathing; high fever out of proportion to the' illness; diarrhea; and Anally body has an extraordinary need for quick energy or heat because of fatigue caused by fever, the liver delivers the needed substances in the form of glycogen. The candy people at Luzon's, Inc., in Reading, Pa. livr.k your children are prrei enough to be made as corner table as possible when they arc v.-.- sick. s |