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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER Commissioner Jackson 22 Utah Delegates Blames JPs for Will Attend U.S. Drunk Law Failure Childrens Meeting New Highway Plan Stresses Moving People, Not Autos State Commissioner of Public Safety Raymond Jackson this week said Utahs drunk driving law is being hampered by some justices of the peace who are failing to do their job. Mr. Jackson, whose duties include overseeing operation of the State Drivers License Division, said many drinking drivers retain their operators license because some justices of the peace fail to keep the Public Safety Division up to date. We sometimes find ourselves renewing a license for a driver who has been convicted of drunk driving on a recent charge because we have no record of it, Mr. Jackson said. State law requires that JPs report within 10 days the dispo- sition of each traffic case handled, he said. Failure to do so can result in dismissal from office. We have some real problems, in some cases the JP handling a charge of drunken driving just takes the fine and doesnt do anything else. This makes a mockery of the whole drunk driving law. We cant do our job administratively if we dont have cooperation from the JPs. The problem is not limited to drunk driving cases. It involves any traffic violation handled by the JP. The drinking driver gains most of the attention, however, because for every two traffic fatalities in the state you can just about bet that one of them has been drinking, Mr. Jackson said. Because of the failure to recases, the division finds itself in the position of closing the barn door after the horse gets out. Jackson says he is contsantly reminded of the problem. Ive had as many as three complaints in one week from citizens who know a certain driver should have lost his license because of being picked up for drunk driving. Voters Approve Airport Bonds Twenty two delegates will take Utah ideas to the White House Conference on Children, Dec. 13 to 19, in Washington, D.C. The event is the first part of the White House Conference on Children and Youth which is called only once each decade by the President of the U.S. Gov. Calvin L. Ramptons Committee on Children and Youth has been working toward the national conference since early summer. They appointed 11 task forces (134 persons representing as many segments of Utah society as possible) to study assorted Utah problems affecting children and youth. These groups met, did research, and interviewed between 200 and 300 people about the problems. They then drew up position papers. Fourteen regional meetings in the state attracted more than 3,000 citizens, both adults and teenagers, to react to the papers. After this kind of exposure to what Utahns are thinking and feeling on vital issues affectting young people, the delegation felt confident of representing Utah at the national event, according to Afton Forsgren, executive-secretar- y 18-memb- er of the Governors com- mittee. Youth is heavily represented on the Governor's committee itself, in the task forces and in the delegates to the national convention. This is a really productive way to involve young people in efforts to improve our commented Mrs.. Helen B. Ure, chairman of the Governors Committee. On the national1 level the conference has been split in to two separate conferences. The December meeting will center on problems facing children from birth to age 13. In February, the White House Conference on Youth will be concerned with problems of youth aged 14 to 25. Another Utah delegation will attend that meeting. Financing for delegates costs in attending the meet is being raised from private citizens and businesses. Many of the adults trips will be paid for by institutions they represent. These young people and others who can't count on this kind of help are paying as much of their own costs as possible. The rest of the money is being raised by a committee consisting of Normand Gibbons, Ken Olsen and Rowan society, (Continued from page 1) for the Salt Lake City Commission appointment of a 15 member citizens committee to decide how and when the money is to be spent and how these airport plans can integrate with Ford Stutz. Motor Co.s $30 million transO. C. Tanner, Salt Lake busiportation system. nessman, is a member of the naIt also means plans can go tional committees Finance com-- , ahead immediately for $5 million mittee. One third of any money in land acquisition for a third he raises in Utah for the Narunway (capable of handling tional Conference will go to the the new jumbo jets) and $1 mil- Utah delegation. lion to bury a high tension wire. Utah delegation includes The Spending beyond that will be six young people of high school determined after study. and college age, parents, reprePlans are for $12,450,000 for sentatives of minority groups, airport renovation and expan- church officials, educators and sion including a new baggage interested citizens. building and a third concourse, The group includes the 16 extension of another, addition of alloted to the state, a second story to both of the delegates three persons who are members present concourses, new cargo of national forums for the confacilities, roads and parking. ference and three others apapvoters Tuesday Murray pointed by the Congressmen. proved the sale of $1.5 million worth of bonds for school capital outlay by more than a relatively light in comparison to the total electorate the 826 margin. highest number Capital outlay includes the vote cast is the bond elecseveral in the past purchase of school equipment contions. and building sites and the struction of buildings. Unofficial totals show 721 perit's sons voted in favor of and 105 sale. bond against the 364-846-4 Schools Supt. J. Easton Par-ra- tt was said while the total vote , 6-- 1 if printing ... dial 4, 1970 Pag Ftva Efficiency Experts Tell How To Avoid Panic Pre-Christm- A major new emphasis on moving people, rather than vehicles, on urban freeways and streets has been announced by the Department of Transportation. Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe said that the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration has instructed its division engineers in all 50 states to encourage the greatest use of buses in preference to individual cars. He said the action was taken to improve the productivity of urban highway systems to the maximum extent possible and he cited it as an example of the Departments policy to provide more flexibility in the use of highway trust funds. In its instructions to the division engineers, the Federal Highway Administration pointed out that buses are highway vehicles, that people riding in the buses are highway users and that highway funds can be used to provide facilities for bus use. Explaining the new emphasis on moving people rather than vehicles, the administrator said: It will not be financially possible and even if it were, certainly not socially desirable --to provide all the highway facilities that would be needed in order to satisfy the peak period demands, especially in our large urban areas, for all of the people who want to drive cars. FHWA told its division engineers that additional attention should be given to the movement of people as well as the movement of vehicles in future study for the general determination of the number of lanes on high-voluradial highways, including freeways. Whenever there is reasonable expectation that there coordicould be to establish special bus nation use of urban highways, detailed analyses should be made of exclusive bus lanes or preferential bus treatment alternates in the preliminary plans. At the same time, FHWA has stressed to make the new concept successful, bus companies must be willing to provide the additional buses that would be required, and to make their service a desirable one. me state-city-loc- Geology Abstracts Theses Published Abstracts of theses concerned the geology of Utah to 1966 compiled and edited by Barbara S. Childers, assisted by Bernice Y. Smith, Bulletin 86, is available from the Utah Geological Survey. The bulletin brings together more than 570 abstracts representing graduates theses of the geology of Utah. A partial range of subjects covered includes: Alta area, Big and Little Cottonwood Mining District, and Central Wasatch); Beaver County, Big Indian Uranium District, Box Elder County, Cache County, Clay and Coal, Construction Materials, Copper, Davis County; drainage changes within Cedar City and Parowan Valleys; Morgan and Sanpete Valleys as well as the drainage patterns in the Uinta Basin; Duchesne County, Emery County major fault areas, the Grand County, Great Salt Lake, Iron, Juab and Millard Counties; Mineral deposits, Oil Shale, Petroleum, Provo Canon, Sanpete and Sevier Counties, Stratigraphy, Summit, Tboele, Utah and Washington Counties; Uranium, and the Wasatch Mountains. as Businesses have for years relied on efficiency experts to make sure they are operating at maximum productivity. Now a group of efficiency experts has tackled Christmas to show the wives and mothers how to accomplish this seasonal production job with the least expenditure of time, money and effort. In a recent Redbook magazine executives of the Wolfac Co., a management consultant concern in Morristown, N. J., and their wives offer their blueprint for a more efficient Christmas. Although their major piece of advice, to start early, as early as January 2, is of no value this year, some of their other suggestions can still save the day for many a disorganized woman. 1. Start on your cards right away, especially if you like to write notes on them. If you wait until the last minute, you will get writer's cramp and the dear friends will get such terse messages as How Are You! 2. Make your card list before you buy cards. Only a seasoned veteran knows exactly as to how many cards to send every year. Underbuying isnt tragic, but if you buy many more cards than you need, you mayq end up throwing some away rather than risk having your friends recognize them next year as leftovers. 3. Dont buy anything you will have to assemble on Christmas Eve after the children have gone to bed if it contains a diagram with such instructions as Attack sprocket Wheel A to chain If youre planning a party, really plan it by putting every thing down on paper first. It's making a schedule, not sticking to it slavishly, that matters. Jnust making areally list of all the things you have to do gets rid of a great mental load. 5. Next year, start your Christ. mas plans earlier.. Sports Administration Workshop Readied The First Annual Workshop on Sports Administration designed for the secondary school teachers, coaches and. administrators will be held .this week end at the University of Utah. The workshop is sponsored by the College of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and the Division of Continuing Education. Two hours of graduate credit will be available for those who wish to or apply the credit toward a graduate degree, according to Dr. Leon L. Griffin, workshop director, The workshop content centers on relevant and timely athletic problems, especially in the state: Among the more controversial issues covered will be the recruitment of high, school athletes by college coaches, student disruption at high school athletic contests, liability of coaches and financing mens and womens high school athletics.. The three day workshop is designed to avoid disrupting the C. regular work day of participants 4. Do as little decorating as as much as possible. Registration possible. It is far better to keep will be held Thursday at 6 p.m. Christmas preparations simple with sessions running until 10:15 ' than to exhaust yourself trying P.m. to recreate your vision of a 19th century Dickensian gala. If a Seat belts do save lives, but tree is most meaningful to you, only if they are worn.1 Buckle you can even get away with just up for safety is not just a slothat. gan, its a way of saving lives. re-cert- ify ' |