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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1971 THE SALT LAKE TIMES UTAH'S Combined with Tbs SJt Lobe Minin & Ltgnl Newt Pnblisbed Entry Fridny et SnU butt City, Utsb FKAMJDS Second Gass Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah 4 711 South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake Citf, Utah 84101 INMPENDENT 564-846- NEWSPAPER "Tbu pmblicetion it GLENN BJOBNN, Publisher net owned or controlled by ony pm ty, don, cUqne, fnction "notspso4sos so Number Volume 51 1 1 Trim Medical Care Costs initiative. Let your family doctor decide when one is needed. A specialist will charge higher fees and may duplicate tests that your family doctor has already made. Don't ask your physician to make house calls which are more costly. Do use the phone to ask your doctor about minor problems. Dont try to diagnose your own ailments or treat drugs. Not only is this a yourself with waste of money but it may delay important medical treatment. Do ask your doctor s advice about purchasing vitamins, cold cures, sleeping or reducing aids. Do ask your doctor to prescribe money saving larger quantities of drugs that you will use over long periods. Do use all available community medical services. Free laboratory tests are often given at public health departments or in public schools. These include chest diabetes tests, vaccinations against bacterial and viral infections. Don t overlook tax deductions on medical care. The federal government allows you to deduct most medical expenses on your income report. Do remember to include the cost of transportation to and from the doctor s office. non-prescripti- on x-ra- ys, A Matter of Supply Casting aside philosophical considerations socialism vs. voluntarism all out National Health Insurance at a cost to taxpayers of incalculable billions of dollars could turn into a classic cart before the horse proposition. The Wall Street Journal describes the consequences of National Health Insurance very well, . . . there probably are few fields where there is greater risk that a federal remedy will make the patient worse rather than better . . . The biggest danger is that Washington, in attempting to protect more people through insurance and other schemes, will merly expand the demand for medical services, not the supply, and the most likely result of that is further inflation of medical costs, with no real improvement in service. The Journal notes that passing a law entitling a person to insured and regulated health care will not be worth much to the sick if there are too few doctors to provide it. Meanwhile, the medical profession is exerting every effort to boost the supply of health care personnel including doctors. Dr. Walter C. Uornemeier, president of the AMA, lias proposed shortening medical training to speed the output of doctors under conditions that will preserve high quality care. Dr. Uornemeier and his colleagues have also suggested expanding the use of people with more limited training, such as former military medics as medical assistants to doctors. As the Journal concludes, These are the kinds of measures that will make good care available to more people and curb rising medical costs. When the availability has been expanded, thought can be given to new forms of medical insurance if, indeed they are by then Utah Symphony Comes Home In Triumph on July 4 On the Fourth of July, while the fireworks are exploding and the flags are waving, the Utah Symphony returned to the homeland, completely exhausted and completely exuberant from their fabulous tour of Latin America. For five weeks they have endured the rigors of airline schedules and unschedules, the frisking before each boarding for hidden weapons, impenetrable fog and chilling rain, buses, lorries, endless rehearsals, tropical hu-m- it heat from St. Thomas to Brazil, the( penetrating cold of a South American winter, Montezumas Revenge, bed bugs, cock roaches, untenable lodgings, shotgun protection, lost luggage, visas and passports. Add to this the constant worry about the whereabouts of their 6800 lbs. of instruments in a separate cargo plane which had not only to arrive on time but also to have separate landing permits and even truck permits to drive into the city to the concert halls, plus the ever present custom Then there were the oxygen tanks in La Paz, the constant illness and loss of sleep! In Santiago where they had to make connection to get to La Paz, they had the biggest snow storm in 17 years. Schools were closed, people were without homes because of the flooding and they had to knock the icicles off the plane before they could leave the ground. In Cordoba and Mendoza it was below freezing and raining. All this in countries wehere there is no air pollution because they do not bother to central heat the homes, offices or even the public build- Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they has been fishing. Herbert Hoover, once President of the United States and always a fisherman, looked upon fishing as a solution to many of mans problems. Notes from iis book, for Fun And to Wash Your Soul, mark several Fishing seldom the from freezing like a board. Then in Buenos Aires (the one place the Maestro was nervous about their possible reception) at the glittering Teatro Colon they played three concerts to tumultous ovations with the audience so warm that the Maes-tr- a had to literally drag the orchestra away after three encores. This highly sophisticated metropolis of the world with its elegant women and lordly gentlemen was literally electrified by the Orchestra, eating up each note and paying homage to a great orchestra and a great people with their shouts of approval. The Symphony really made this tour as goodwill ambassadors for the U.S. Government. In every one of the 13 countries they played, without exception, the American Ambassadors said they were the best trick in the bag of propaganda. They then proved to these volatile South Americans that North Americans are not ugly but in fact beautiful, friendly, cultured, talented and smiling people. LEASED GRAPEVINE V- - J Salt Lake City Water Commissioner E. J. Gam this week met with Water Department employees to let them know first hand his views of the Teamsters Union to organize water department workers. He said his views were the same as they had read in newspaper accounts, but he wanted to tell them personally. Basically, he said, he would not recognize Teamsters Union as the bargaining agent for the employees. The Teamsters have received pledges from 133 of the departments 180 employees indicating they would not join a Teamsters Local in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City officials this week filed a $427,930 suit in Third District Court to recover damages for alleged equipment failure at the city sewage treatBennett Bill ment plant. Would Set Roger F. Cutler, assistant city filed the suit, which attorney, Grazing Fee Formula seeks $250,000 from the Wheeler Sen. Wallace F. Bennett said Machinery Co. and $177,930.00 he is legislation to from Federal Insurance Co., the be introduced next week which bondsman for Wheeler Machinwill establish a more equitable ery. fee schedule for grazing on pubThe suit involves a gas oplic lands. erated energy plant which failed The Utahn has strongly op- to work. The city claims parts posed an accelerated grazing used in the system were defecfee schedule announced by the tive but Wheeler representatives Johnson Administration in Jan- claim the parts have been deuary, 1969, which he has called stroyed by hydrogen sulfide gas ings. The Orchestra waddled onto totally out of line with the eco- at the plant. the stage with everything they nomic reality of operating- on could pile under their tails and public lands." A resolution to share the cost The formula in the legislation of prosecuting University of evening dresses to keep from 1966 as a base year and re- Utah campus to audience death. The pses freezing parking and trafsat swaddled up to their ears to lies in part on tre 1966 Western fic violators was approved this keep warm. When they jumped Livestock Grazing Survey, con- week by Salt Lake City Comto their feet after every number ducted by the federal govern- mission. to stomp and clap and shout, ment in cooperation with the John A. Dixon, executive vice livestock Bravo, they probably kept industry. president at the University, explained in a letter to commissioners that campus violators plead innocent are not bethought of attributes of the spot which carry one far who ing prosecuted. beyond the creel and the count of its contents. Salt Lake County is presently The Declaration of Independence is firm that all unable to prosecute for alleged men and boys are endowed with unalienable rights which traffic and parking violations because of an inadequate staff, obviously include the pursuit of fish. Mr. Dixon said. The county does is wash chance one's soul to a with Fishing pure not receive any money from the the with the rush of brook, or with the shimmer of traffic and parking tickets writair, ten on the university campus. the sun on blue water. of-fiica- ls. - Jt brings meekness and inspiration from the scenery of nature, charity toward tackle makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of man for all men are equal before fish. dial needed. Beyond the Creel a 860 Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! A proposed contract to provide computerized searching of state statutes for the Legislature and Attorney General was considered this week at a meeting at the Capitol. Robert B. Hansen, deputy attorney general, explained that a 15 month contract with Aspen, Systems Corp., Pittsburgh, expired Thursday. County Clerk W. Sterling Evans is attending the Clerk- Auditor Assessor Workshop of the Utah Association of Counties at Vernal this week at county- approved expense of $74. Utah Attorney General Ver- non B. Romney this week was asked to give Salt Lake City Commissioner James L. Barker Jr. an opinion on whether the Salt Lake City Police Depart- ment and the Salt Lake County Sheriffs office may establish join operations of three |