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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES Star Programs Resume At Planetarium Utah Stars Review Past Year And Plan for Next Season Even though the 1971-7- 2 edition of the Utah Stars fell short in a quest to become the first American Basketball Association team ever to win back to back championships, the season still has to rank as a successful one. The club during the regular season won 60 games, a feat accomplished by only a handful of teams in pro basketball history. The Stars wrapped up the ABA western division title on March 12, finishing 13 games ahead of second place Indiana. The club established records for its longest overall winning streak, 12 victories in a row; for most consecutive road wins in succession, 10; and put together 18 straight home court wins before a final heartbreaking loss to the Pacers in the seventh and deciding game of the divisional championship playoffs on May 1. The Stars were a super shooting team, possibly one of the best in the history of pro leagues. They hit 48.9 per cent from two point range and led the league in three point bombing with a 35.6 percentage. The 71 club also led the league in free throw accuracy connecting at a 78.9 percent clip for a new ABA standard. Four starters, Zelmo Beaty at .542, James Jones and Red Robbins at .514 and Willie Wise at .507, wound up shooting at a better than 50 per cent clip from the field for the season. The fifth regular, Glen Combs, set a new ABA record for three point firing, hitting .406. Possibly most important of all accomplishments were the record shattering crowds which thrilled to Stars' play game after game during the campaign. During the regular season over 350,-00- 0 fans filed into the Salt Pale ace for a average of over 8,000 admissions per opening. Turnaway crowds for six playoff games swelled the total attendance for 50 home appear Hansen Planetariums $200,000 Space Transit Planetarium star projector returned to service last week after two weeks of exhaustive repairs following the explosion of a defective $95 star lamp which created a chain reaction that disabled all of the star projectors complex systems. It is estimated that the cost of repairs to the star projector will total nearly $1,500.00, not counting the hundreds of manhours of time spent by the technicians. Still more expensive has been revenue lost during the close down, estimated to exceed The ances to 417,574, exceeding by more than 50,000 the total draw of the championship 70 club. While highly disappointed at not having successfully defended their ABA crown, the Stars can not be ashemed of their performance against the Pacers in the showdown series as Indiana went on to capture the 1972 league championship with a 2 conquest of the New York Nets. It is ironic that the roles of the Stars and Pacers were exactly switched in 1972 from 1971. Indiana nipped the Stars by a single game in the regular season race in 1970 and had the home court advantage in the final playoff contest. The Stars stunned the Pacers and their fans in that April 28, 1971 skirmish. These two foes have been battling tooth and nail for the past three seasons. Indiana took the 1970 ABA championship in six games over the then Los Angeles Stars. To indicate just how close the rivalry has been between the two clubs, 44 games have been played over that period of time with each team posting 22 victories. Had a consecutive running score been kept for the 44 contests, it would read Indiana at 4838, Utah 4833. Next year should see a continuation of this intense warfare between the Stars and Pacers. Arenas in both Salt Lake and Indianapolis again will be rocking with fans as Utah attempts to dethrone their hated rivals. Personnel wise. Stars president Vince Boryla, newly appointed general manager Arnie Ferrin, and coach assistant general manager LaDell Andersen will have their eyes and ears open in an effort to improve the club during the off season. 4-- $3,000. Lost revenue and unexpected expenses are heavy burdens to bear, but the worst loss has been in terms of public service. The school group attendance traditionally reaches its peak at the end of April and beginning of May and includes school groups which come to the planetarium from all corners of Utah and out of the state. Most saddening was the necessity of disappointing 5,000 students and teachers who had planned for months to the planetarium visit. As the planetarium resumes its schedule the program will be They Walked by Starlight, the show which was in the first few days of its run when the defective lamp caused havoc. It is the story of men through the ages discovering the universe, constantly overwhelmed by its size and yet urged on to discovery by its beauty and order. Study Shows Auto Insurance Cost Small Factor in Operation Buying a new car? If you fit a government study, every mile you drive in a standard size14 1972 per model car will cost you cost you cent more than a mile Institute Insurance the in 1970, reports. In both 1970 and 1972, however, the federal study shows the auto insurance is the second lowest cost factor in operating the typical American car. For a typical car buyer of a 1972 standard size car that will be driven for ten years (by two or three owners) and for 100,000 miles, the cost (at todays price) will be 13.6 cents per mile, says the U. S. Dept, of Transportation study. In 1970 a similar DOT study showed the cost per mile for the same car was computed at 11.9 cents per mile, an increase per mile of 1.7 cents for 1972 over 1970. Broken down into six categories, the 1972 costs per mile can show and cost of the vehicle and depreciation is up 37.5 per cent; maintenance up 36.8 per cent; and gas and oil (no taxes) up 10 per cent. The insurance hike is 17.6 per cent. The startling increase was the 37.5 per cent jump in the cost and depreciation of the vehicle in just two years. This is attributed to normal price increases and to new equipment for the cars. In 1972, the study also ana- - Salt Lake Youth Writes for Magazine Salt Lake City boy who feels Americans must learn that continual growth is not the solution to all problems, speaks out in a national publication. Writing in the June Seventeen Grow up as soon as you can. In My Opinion column, Tom It pays. The only time you really Dickman of 1560 Indian Hills live fully is from thirty to sixty. Drive points out that a frightenHervey Allen. ing society similar to Aldous Huxleys Brave New World could be on the way. His formula for preventing it: iU.uxPftt.Ofr 6 Mi Realize that the world is today and will become more so tomorrow. We must accept the fact that there can be no true progress for mankind until we stabilize our population. Tom notes that there will be ry question so Many seven billion people in the world MOTHERS HAVE ASKEP 30 years from now. The world OYER . THE AST 40 YEARS, would be very crowded; most of aMY BABY LOOKS LIKE the earths surface would be THE GERBER BABY... 1 needed for living space. Of necIS IT A BOY OR GIRL essity, there would be a tremendous amount of government control over the economy and social WORLP'S MOST system to insure that resources and supplies got where they are FAMOUS needed. The government would ORIGINATE 0 IN 1928 AS A CHARCOAL SKETCH also regulate the lives of citizens SUBMITTEP BY THE LATE POR07HY HOPE SMITH, to an alarming degree. AN ARTIST OF THAT PER!OP A junior at Highland high Tom Q E is active in the Sierra Club and Zero Population Growth. He is SKETCH, l the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. CHOSEN OVER MANY FINE Dickman. PAINTINGS IN AN APVERTISING COMPETITION FIRST APPEAREP IN A Ha fflis Wmu BABy PRINT OVER CLAMOR 40 YEARS AGO,PUBL!C FOR COPIES OF IT PROMPTEP ITS APOPTION AS ONE OF THE WORLP'S FAMOUS TRACE -MARKS RECOGNtZEP TOPAY BY MILLIONS AS THE GERBER BABY. AT THE REQUEST OF THE FAMILY THE BABY'S IPENTTYIS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN, OF ALL BUT IT HAS BECOME SYMBOLIC BABES, BOYS ANP GIRLS 1972- APRIL 22 TO MAY 6, WE CELEBRATE THE402U ANNIVERSARY OF BABY WEEK has relot about everything scores six in the ceived perfect Nichboard examination. college olas Cataldo chalked up perfect scores in three mathematics tests, Latin and chemistry tests and an equivalent A plus in Greek. by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D. Consultant, National Dairy Council per-gam- ed A 17 years old youth in New Jersey who wants to know a Doctor in the Kitchen8 16-year-- old over-populat- lyzed the cost per mile of compacts and subcompact cars. It found the compact will cost 10.8 cents per mile to operate and the subcompact 9.4 cents. The decrease in the cost per mile for car insurance in the study is accounted for by changes in what the Dept, of Transportation researchers considered as typical. In the 1970 study they used a big city insurance rate as typical. This rate is higher than the suburban rate which was considered typical in 1972. In either case, the government figures show the auto insurance is the second lowest cost factor in operating a typical car. The federal study said it did not develop averages for all the cost categories. It based its information on probabilities according to the kinds of cars most people buy and how they use them. It said the cost per mile would be higher in some parts of the country, such as San Francisco and lower in other places such as Fort Worrth, Tex. MALNUTRITION AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT Does early malnutrition affect the developing brain? Weve talked about this before. But the subject is so important that it bears further discussion. Speaking at a recent National Dairy Council meeting, Dr. Myron Winick of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York said: The human brain undergoes a series of changes during its development, increasing both in cell number and in cell size. Undernutrition during the time that cell division is taking place (up until eighteen months of life) will retard the rate of cell division and result in a permanent reduction in. brain cell number. Dr. Winick is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia. He is eminent in his field and has studied the situation extensively both in the United States and in South America. Malnulrition Defined In defining malnutrition, Dr. Winick stated that he was referdeficienring to a protein-caloricy. In animals, where it had been possible to conduct detailed studies over a period of years, e protein- -calorie deficiency evidenced itself by producing a high degree of emotionality or a malfunction of the nervous system that produced abnormal behavior. Where such abnormalities occurred early in life, they were permanent. In humans, such detailed studies have not been possible. Also, malnutrition seldom occurs as an isolated factor. It is usually found in a lower socio economic environment, accompanied by poor housing and sanitation, crowding and a prevalence of parasitic disease which can influence mental development But we do know. Dr. Winick said, that malnutrition, as part of the overall milieu from which these children come, also can result in certain functional changes which persist even if adequate nutrition is subsequently taken. socio-econom- ic Much To Be Learned He is still doing much work in this area, Dr. Winick says. Much remains to be learned. Whether observed changes in the infant brain can be attributed to malnu- trition per se or to malnutrition plus other factors is still unclear. But one is for sure. The infant brainthing is vulnerable to the effects of early socio-econom- ic malnutrition. Nutritional priorities must be shifted to stress infancy and pregnancy as special times of life when optimal nutrition is imperative, Dr. Winick added. . n addition to gathering more information about over-al- l nutri-J;brain development. Dr. Winick is specifically delving into the area of nutrition supplied by nulk and milk proteins. He is being aided in his studies by a National Dairy Council nutrition research grant. This is very important research . since milk is the sole food in early infancy and it is of vital, ji'nuing importance thereafter. is also one of our best sources of s protein complete protein. n. first-clas- so-call- ed |