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Show U:UVS?.CA! BOX 2503 Micao?ni:;3 ccn?. 72 3-- 71 CITY SALT LAKH CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1971 Gov. Calvin L. Rampton Disfavors Inspection Service Consolidation Ordinance Urged to Make Runaway Illegal must inspect in specific areas. A consolidation of inspection would be very useful in some areas of manufacturing since some dairies produce both raw and grade A milk, thus doing away with a duplication in serv- being urged by the Salt Lake City Police Department Youth Bureau. The request is being made because supervision by the Juvenile Court in such cases is being terminated. This is another in the series of recent U. S. Supreme Court rulings that has done much to do away with needed services and welfare care. State juvenile court will be unable to handle such cases unless an ordinance to make running away from home illegal is exacted. Thus runaways would become the states biggest single problem because the juvenile courts and police will be unable to assist parents in finding their children. Runaway has been placed in the area of a behavior rather than a criminal act. Adoption of a city ordinance will enable police to pick up runaways beginning counseling services and needed treatment before criminal offense was committed. Between 1961 and 1970, city police recorded an increase of 30 to 35 percent in runaways. A City ordinance adoption that would make it illegal for law now provides that the state a child to run away from home is ices. A case in point which points Governor Calvin L. Rampton Several complaints concerning the inadequate milk inspection in the state has caused Governor Calvin L. Rampton to meet with representatives from boards of health to discuss the possibility of milk inspection consolidation. A proposal by boards of health would make the state responsible to inspect all manufacturing milk throughout the state, and raw and grade A milk where municipal inspection city-coun- ty city-coun- ty not done. Before any action can be taken towards the proposed consolidation of inspections the attorney general must investigate the legality of the proposal since is out that the present conditions and requirements for inspection was recently brought to Ihe attention of the governor and health personnel in a Murray dairy which had substandard facilities. An inspection was made of the plant and the recommended procedure to follow was given the dairy to bring it up to standard, then the health department do not follow up of the dairy and six months later found that the conditions still existed. The dairy was producing milk which was then sold to a Cache County cheese producer. The milk was used in manufacturing purposes and thus should come under state inspection. Governor Rampton said, The municipalities already have the facilities and men to carry out the inspection so it would be an added burden on the taxpayer to place these services under state supervision. The governor went on to say, I look upon this proposal (consolidation of services under state) with substantial disfavor. Milk inspectoin should be made where it is produced and not where it is sold. Utah Colleges Face Problem of Checking Rising Costs in 4 Years Two fundamental questions facing college policy makers in Utah are (1) what can be done to hold rising costs in chock with out sacrificing educational quality and (2) how much of any increase in costs should be borne by the student and how much by the general taxpayers? These were the queries posed by Utah Foundation, the private research organization, in their latest analysis of the outlook for higher education in Utah. According to the study, if per student costs continue to rise at the rate of the past few years, total operating expenditures at Utah public colleges may double by 1975. During the past five years per student operating costs have climbed 54 per cent or an average of 9 per cent each year (compounded rate). This is in contrast to the experience during the first half of the 1960 decade, when per student costs remained virtually unchanged. Foundation analysts attribute the cost rise of the past few years to inflation, program expansions to accommodate minority students, and the limited additional cost saving at the public colleges over those adopted in the early 1960's. In the 1960-6- 5 period colleges were able to institute a number of cost cutting devices, such as the increase use of graduate students as teaching assistants, the elimination of small classes, and the utilization of large lecture classes. The report notes that the proportion of operating costs derived from student fees has increased within the past decade. Utah public colleges rank high in the tuition charges for resident students, but are still below average in the fees for students despite the substantial boosts made in charges during the recent years. (Continued on page 4) non-reside- nt out-of-sta- te 81101 Rampton Asks Nixon For Consideration A prominent Salt Lake church- man was an active participant in the 23rd World Scout Conference which brought over 500 Scouters from 103 nations to Tokyo for a five day introduction to the activities of the worldwide Scouting movement. Thomas S .Monson, 47 East South Temple, a member of the Council of the Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a member of the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, attended the 13th World Jamboree, served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the World Conference and contributed to the several conference discussions which will affect the Scouting movement for the next decade. The U.S. delegation, headed by International Commissioner Gilbert R. Pirrung of Bainbridge, Ga., voted to adopt the World Scouting Five Year Plan. The plan, designed to make Scouting more relevant to the needs of todays youth, called for extensive research, several programs to make Scouting more international, and to provide a Scouting program that will contribute to the economic, educational and social development of the emerg-i- n nations; and working sessions on a variety of subjects that the World Conference plans to emphasize in the future. Heading the list was conservation and environmental preservation, followed by community development, citizenship training, urban Scouting and the other subjects. Final reports were presented to the entire World Scouting Conference. The National Explorer President, 17 year old Larry J. Simpson of McEwen, Tenn., presented the report on conservation. The Emperor of Japan gave the opening address of the conference, which closed with a banquet that was highlighted by the announcement of the location of the next World Jamboree, 1975. About 15,000 Scouts of all nations will be in Norway for the 14th World Jamboree at Lake Mjosa, 120 miles north of Oslo. TODAYS A EDITORIAL v On Spaceport Utahs Governor Calvin Thos. Monson, Salt Lake Scouter, Attends Tokyo Scout Conference L. Rampton, chairman of the Federation of Rocky Mountain States (Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana New Mexico and Wyoming) in a letter to President Richard M. Nixon, expressed his concern regarding the questionable influence of an interim decision to use an expendable booster in the Space Shuttle program. The Governor explained that such a decision by NASA would favor the establishment of a permanent Spaceport installation at Floridas Cape Kennedy. The expendable booster concept requires a water dumping site and also entails substantial increases in the cost of the program. The Federation Governors favor NASAs original decision which would have called for a recoverable booster, which could be reused after launch, and would have lowered the cost. In his letter to President Nixon the Governor said, It is our preliminary estimate that this alternate could result in increasing the total ten year program costs by more than 3 billion dollars. We urge that no interim decisions such as that of the expendable booster be made without a complete public awareness pf their long range implications. September Sight Saving Month In the last few years, we have seen many organiza- tions come into being to deal with the conservation of our environment. As long ago as 1908, however, an organization was founded to focus on another kind of conservation; conservation of the eyesight of our citizens. The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness is the oldest voluntary health agency nationally engaged in this work. Spurring them on has been the knowledge that fully half of all blindness need never occur, and is, in fact, preventable. In the year ahead, of the estimated 35,000 more American men, women and children who will become blind, half will lose their vision needlessly for half, it could be prevented. The Societys comprehensive program o fcommunity services, public and professional education and research is aimed at reaching as much of the population for whom there is a potentiality of blindness as possible, before vision loss occurs vision loss from disease or aeciden, through ignorance or neglect. September of each year is designated as Sight Saving Month, marking the Societys intensive annual compaign to alert the public to the facts about preserving their vision. Activities are stepped lip during this period, but continue the year round: sight conservation cannot be seasonal. (Continued on page four) |