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Show " FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Power Companies Announce Environmental Control Research Utah to Head Five State School Planning Project The art association of electric power utilities in the west has initiated a new environmental research project aimed at farther cleaning up emissions from coal fired electric generating stations. Sixteen member utilities of WEST Associates (Western Energy Supply and Transmission), which represents 23 public and private utilities, will sponsor the project which will involve scrubber tests for removal of sulfur dioxide (S02) from stack gases emitted from generating plants. The project will be conducted at the Mohave Generating Station in Nevada, according to M. C. Titus, chairman of the WEST management committee. It will An cost nearly $80,000 and will sup- plement a $1 million sulfur dioxide removal project already under way at Mohave, sponsored by some WEST members. The sulfur dioxide removal tests will be undertaken by the Atomics International, a division of North American Rockwell Corp., and will be managed by Southern California Edison Co., a WEST member. Scrubbers, it was explained, are intended to cleanse the emissions of a stack by absorption. The Mohave plant was chosen as the site of the tests so results can be compared with present scrubber technology research being conducted there. Atomics Int., submitted a proposal which has four advantages over most scrubber research projects, including a low pressure drop, waste handling in the form of solids, no reheating required and low water requirements. The company will test one of the primary process steps of its Regenerative Aqueous carbonate slurry process for removing the sulfur oxides from stack gases and recovering elemental sulfur as a useful byproduct. If the tests prove successful, this will add up to cleaner . The ACP features makes possible a process which WEST member companies hope will effectively treat large volumes of flue gas containing relatively dilute concentrations of sulfur oxides while regenerating relatively small volumes of waste ma- terial. Group Tour Program Sponsored by Utah Travel Council The Group Tour Program sponsored by the Utah Travel Council received a boost with an announcement by the Travelcade Club of a two week visit to Utah. This travel group, organized by the Avion Travel Company, totals 65 travelers and nearly 30 trailers. Upon the recommendation of the Royal Rovers, the trailer group that toured Utah in 1971, Travelcade contacted the UTC. A special tour was put together by the UTC and accepted by Travelcade. The camper trailer owners make up over 22 per cent of our non resident summer vacationer. These trailer groups help spread the word about Utahs scenic and recreational advantages." The group, composed of members from all portions of the nation, will be in Utah from May 30 to June 13. Touring will begin at Pine Valley and terminate at Wasatch Mountain Park. Between the two points the trailer travelers will make day long sight-seein- g trips with pre-arrang- ed stopping points each day. TheU. S. Forest Service, Na- tional Park Service, regional travel organiaztions and Utah Division of Parks and Recreation will assist the UTC in making preparations for this tour. A minute mite that lives in the skin of foxes causes mange in the animals, producing crusted sores that result in hair loss. The worlds fines! Bourbon since 1795 1 of planning educational programs is becoming a science. Not too long ago school district superintendents estimated their future needs and planned their school programs from their own experience. There was little reliance on statistical data or planning techniques. But in the last few years the science of school planning has come of age. Although this new science is still in its infancy, it is a healthy and lively young being that will soon make a sizeable contribution to hold down the rising costs of education. The Utah Statee Board of Education has been a leader in developing this new science. The state was recently named administering agency for a $611,877 U.S. Office of Education project grant called The Next Step. Other states in the project are Georgia, Iowa, Oregon and Wisconsin. According to William H. Timmins, director for the interstate project, planning is a simple, straight forward management tool. He indicated the basic idea behind the project is to bring the school planning out of the think tank and on to an operational level. To do this each of the states will begin introducing selected state and local school administrators to new planning techniques; eventually to get them to apply to real world problems in their classrooms. The new techniques involve such things as systems analysis, assessing, school district' future needs, identifying problems as opposed to symptoms, designing solutions to problems by specifications, and evaluating school programs. Each state in the project also has a corresponding local district which will undertake to produce a Next Step on the district level. Ogden School District has been selected as Utahs local district. Training workshops will be used to give lccal and state administrators expertise in the new methods of school planning. The workshops and the project will deal primarily with planning for programs in vocational education general education and education for the handicapped. An orientation meeting to acquaint members of the State Board of Education staff with the project will be held Monday at Ben Lomond High School Media Center. How sharper than a serpents ooth it is to have a thankless child Shakespeare. KEK? THE SALT LAKE TIMES 1, 1972 Page Two Take Precautionary Steps at Rail Crossings, Council Urges If motorists would regard each Dont let yourself get railroaded at grade crossings, advises the grade crossing as an implicit warning sign and approach grade crosings with caution, it is cerAmazingly, many of the dents involve cars or trucks run- tain that trains and cars will not ning into the sides of moving cross each other so often in the trains. This happens in spite of future. grade crossing lights flashing, bells ringing, or with the cross- Mineral Receipts from ing gates down and blocking Utah Safety Council. traffic. acci- BLM Land Paid . Other grade crossing accidents happen because motorists become impatient. They would rather gamble their lives than wait for an oncoming train to pass. Challenging a train is an unfair battle for a motorist to take on. The car with its passengers is certain to lose if a collision takes place. Trying to beat the train to the crossing is, at best, a gamble. Is it worth it? Motorists should also try to avoid getting trapped or boxed in on railroad tracks by cars ahead and in back. To avoid this, never drive onto a grade crossing until you are sure you can get all the way across, but if you should be trapped or have your car stall when a car is approaching, get out of the car immediately. The occupants of the car should run away from the vehicle and in the direction of the approaching train. This will prevent their being hit by flying debris when the train strikes the car. WE ALL NEED CALCIUM Readers of this column will recognize the following quotation. Ive used it before but it bears repeating because of its eloquence and importance: A body well nourished with calcium and other nutrients can be expected to have good bone growth and de- nervelopment, a vous system, a high level of vigor and positive health at every age, and a longer period of the prime of life. The promise of that statement is something everyone should seek to realize. The words are those of Drs. Millicent L. Hathaway and Ruth hi. Leverton, who originally wrote them for a U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook more than a decade ago. But the message is even more meaningful today as we learn well-functioni- that malnutrition exists in America at all economic levels, not just from poverty but from ignorance or lack of motivation as well. The Specific Needs Young people need sufficient Qd9X3E3 cOeD 003 86 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY THE JAMES B. BEAM DISTILLING CO., CLERMONT, BEAM, KENTUCKY mssm The treasury of the state of Utah received $1,666,797.44 and five counties reeveived $1,675.39. The money was paid by the Bureau of Land Management as a result of mineral receipts from BLM administered lands in the state, according to Robert Nielson, BLM state director for Utah. The payment of $1,666,797 to the state was Utahs share of bonuses, royalties and rentals received under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 during the last six months of 1971. Six months ago the state received from BLM a check for $1,638,107 for its share of mineral leasing receipts in the first six months of 1971. Payments to the five counties were for 25 percent of BLM mineral leasing receipts on lands acquired by the federal government under the Bankhead Jones Act. Counties receiving checks were Duchesne, $153.75; Emery, $3.23; Garfield, $1,302; Juab, $162 and Uintah, $53. amounts of calcium all through their growth years if they arc to realize their full physical potential. Then once they are adults, calcium is needed to keep both bone and tissue in top shape. The bedy, including the skeletal structures, constantly loses calcium ar.d needs new supplies from the foods we eat. And finally, when wc are older, the disease called osteoporosis can set in, perhaps as a result of years of not getting enough calcium in our diets. If this happens - and it is common in America - the bones of older thinned and people become susceptible to fracture. The only prevention I know of is for peo- ple to get enough calcium throughout their lives. The best source (in fact, nutritionists find it almost impossible to plan adequate calcium in ones meals without it) is milk. And recent research, reported by scientists with the Metabolism Branch of the National Cancer Institute - one of our National Institutes of Health in Bethcsda, Maryland - indicates that we benefit most by not only drinking milk in adequate amounts, but by drinking it more frequently during each day. Greater Frequency Drs. Arthur N. Kales and James M. Phang report that calcium in a single dose would be absorbed with less efficiency than calcium given in smaller, more frequent feedings. They conclude that not only the magnitude of calcium intake but also the dose regimen can affect calcium metabolism. Calcium helps the blood to clot. Normal blood clotting is an essential process. Calcium helps muscles, including the heart, and nerves to work. Calcium also regulates the use of other minerals in the body. And it is essential in the action of certain enzymes and the control of passage of fluids through cell walls. In combination with phosphorus, calcium gives rigidity and hardness to teeth and bones. Milk and milk products arc the source of three-fourth- s of the calcium and a great deal of the phosphorus in our food supply. life-preservi- ng |