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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1972 Economic Stabilization What information must a base price information only by landlord include in a letter sent asking the retailer for it? to a tenant notifying him of a A. No. Prices are not considered to be displayed prominentposed increase? A. The letter was contain the ly if a shopper can obtain access base following information: (1) the only through requesting theretailamount of monthly rent before price information from the and after the proposed increase; ed at one of his employees. (2) the percentage increase and dollar amount of the proposed Interior Department increase; (3) the effective date of the proposed increase; (4) the Lists Nominations amount of the proposed increase which is attributable to capital For Desires Leases improvement, state and local real The Department of the Interior estate taxes, and state and local said this week that 15 companies fees, levies and charges for mu- have submitted 23 nominations nicipal services, and any increase of tracts they would like to see allowed under the 2 per cent offered for lease in Interiors rule; (5) the base rent and an oroposed oil shale leasing proexplanation of the manner in gram. which it was determined, includSeventeen of the tracts are in ing identification of the units in- the Piceance Creek Basin of volved and dates and amounts of five in the Uintah Batransactions where applicable; Colorado; sin of Utah and one in the Waand (6) the method of computa- shakie Basin of Wyoming. Each tion of the proposed increase. is close to the maximum In addition the letter must in- tract permitted for a shale clude statements approved by the acreage lease under the Mineral Leasing Price Commission on the right of Act of 1920, 5,120 acres. the tenant to examine the lanDepartment officials said they dlords records documenting the were pleased with the response increase and to meet with the to the call for nominations that landlord to discuss it, as well as a declaration by the lessor that went out Nov. 2. The time pethe facts inthe letter are true and riod in which nominations can that the increase is not in viola- be made ended Jan. 31. This is P th-e- Q. Psychologists Dispute Differences of Group Intelligence i (Continued from page 1) mty. and blacks She found that the Mexican-Americawho came from middle class backgrounds had IQs that ns matched those of whites. Those who lived in crowded, substandard housing, whose parents didnt speak English and who werent expected to do well in school, fared badly on the IQ tests. The IQ test as it now stands measures 20 percent to 30 percent cultural background, she concluded. Dr. Mayeske studied achievement test results of 123,-00- 0 studetns from across the nation that were collected in 1965. Looking specifically at the achievement test scores of sixth graders to find out why whites, on the average, did better than the minority groups Orientals, Indians, Mexican-American- s, Negroes and Puerto Ricans, Dr. Mayeske concluded, The differences among the racial-ethngroups approach zero as more and more considerations related to differences in their social conditions are taken into account. The most important aspect, Dr. Mayeske found, was how much the student was motivated by his family to do well in school. We intended to study the effect of race on test scores and ended by studying the effect of racism on test ic scores. The two reports were presented at the annual con- tion of Economic Stabilization regulations. The exact contents of these statements appear in the rent regulations. Q. Im taking out a new life insurance policy. Will my insurance premiums be subject to the price controls? A. No. Fees charged for all new life insurance and annuities with the exception of credit life insurance are exempt from the Phase II price controls. Q. Can an auto dealer try to charge for equipment on a car that was perviously handled as standard? A. No. This would be a violation of the price controls. Q. Does a landlord have to jus- vention of the American Psychological Association in tify a rent increase of 2 ? a step which which could lead to the offering of not more than six tracts for competitive bid leasing beginning in December. As a result of these actions, it is expected that enough information will be developed to prepare a final environmental impact statement, as required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. The Secretary will then determine whether or not to offer tracts for lease. If he decides to conduct a lease sale, final lease terms, environmental requirements and a leasing schedule will be published. Investigation of oil shale as a possible source of energy is in response to the Presidents clean energy message of June 4 and is another approach to the nations energy problem. A land description of the lease sites nominated is available from the Oil Shale Coordinator, Room 700, Dept, of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240. 4, LEASED GRAPEVINE v The so called swap meets or flea markets are the latest under fire from county officials. The County Attorney, Carl said that the meets attract the criminal person selling stolen goods. At one meet stolen goods were in a truck backed up into the meet and sold directly from the truck. To prevent the purchaser and the seller from any unlawful sale of goods, a county ordinance is being requested from the county attorney to set an action for sellers to list the items to be swapped to be filed with the Sheriffs office seven days before the swap. Ne-melk- a, Third District Judge Ernest F. Baldwin ordered the Salt Lake County Attorney to draw up a bill of particulars before continuing trial of Salt Lake City Commissioner Philip Blomquist seeking specific details concerning the allegations for which he is charged. Mr. Blomquist was bound over Nov. 29 by City Judge Floyd Cowans to stand trial on a charge of doing business in the name of a suspended corporation. The donation of some 155 acres of federal land for expansion of the Pioneer Trail State Park in Salt Lake City was disclosed by President Nixon. The donated land adjoins This Is The Place Monument at the mouth of Emigration Canyon. The President also donated from 16,303 acres of Bryce Canyon land to Southern Utah as a wilderness area. Dr. T. H. Bell of the Granite District will superintendent leave to attend the meetings of the National Advisory Council goes into effect. on Career Education. Dr. Bell the Q. Can a retailer satisfy is one of four educators named base price posting requirement to the council which will proThe technology developed under the U.S. peaceful if a shopper can obtain access to mote career education both In nuclear explosives program may prove useful in disposthe hifgh schools and the colleges and universities. The conference ing of the nations growing amounts of radioactive wastes, rock deep underground. will be held at Ohio State Uniaccording to scientists at the Lawrence Livermore LabCost of waste management using this method is esti- versity, which has received a oratory, Livermore, Calif. The laboratory is operated by mated to be much lower than that using the salt mine federal grant to direct the prothe University of California for the Atomic Energy Com- method. However, the primary advantage would be gram. he must notify a tenant in writing at least 30 days before a rent increase A. No. However, Washington, D.C. Radioactive Waste Disposal mission. the prompt and permanent elimination of the hazardous Salt Lake City Police have loThey suggest it may be possible to use underground waste from mans environmen twith the elimination of cated a substation at 2006 South cliimineys (cavities filled with broken rock) created the storage and transportaton required in present plans. 9th East. The leasing arrangements for the building were by small, contained nuclear explosions for permanent oOo to the city attorneys ofdisposal of radioactive wastes. Madison, Wisconsin, residents stepped up paper fice by city commissioners. The The chimneys would be located thousands of feet of all distributed in cent 40 to House ComChamber of newsprint Sugar recycling per beneath nuclear fuel reprocessing plants, which are the the area. U.S. merce will pay the building rent less is all cities cent. 25 than If per average April, May and June, and primary sources of such waste. Shipment of the hazardous could reach the 40 per cent level, it would save 120 million for will pay one half the rent for material would thus be eliminated, and storage and protrees wood the next per year. pulp year. Rent is $300.00 reduced. cessing greatly per month for the front portion of the building. The City attorThe increasing use of nuclear power to generate the neys office was asked to draw electricity will yield a growing quantity of nuclear waste. up a lease from April 1, 1972 Currently such wastes are stored in tanks at the earths through Dec. 31, 1973, with an surface. Present plans call for solidification of this waste option to renew for four years. and transport to salt mines for final disposal. W. Sterling Evans, Salt Lake The Livermore process would use heat produced by County Clerk, said that his ofthe radio active decay of high level nuclear waste to boil fice is still in the passport business. A recent announcement of the waste dry in the chimney. Steam from the chimney the postal service is that the U.S. would be processed and recycled. When capacity is then Post Office is also issuing passWhere thousands reached in about 20 years the heat would melt the rock-iports apparently causing people to believe that they could no and around the chimney. The molten rock would, in of listeners enjoy longer be obtained from the turn, dissolve the waste. Subsequently, when the rate of concert music and County Clerks office. The passradioactive decay decreased sufficiently, the molten mass ports and application are availnews every day! able in the Clerks office Monwould cool and solidify. The result would be the permaday through Friday from 8:30 nent entrapment of the hazardous waste in solid, insoluble a.m. until 5:00 p.m. re-fer- ed 860 n |