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Show FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1972 Poge Eight Car Salesmen Help to Defeat Safety Devices Government's Dominance in Utah Economy Increased in '71 Government increased its dominance in the Utah economy in 1971, according to an analysis by Utah Foundation, the private research organization. The Foundation report shows that personal income in Utah derived from the government sources (federal, state, local), increased 12.7 per cent last year compared with an income rise of only 8.0 per cent in the private sector. Since 1960, the increase in personal income obtained from government amounted to 190 per cent, compared to an 89 per cent rise in income from private sources. Last year personal income in Utah totaled $3,768,000,000, of which $1,189,000,000, or 31.68 per cent came from government in the form of wages, benefits, or other payments to individuals. For the United States as a whole, government payments were 24.3 per cent to the nations personal income total. Thus, Utahs reliance on government is nearly one third greater than that of the U.S. Foundation analysts point out that Utah improved its relative economic position among the fifty states slightly for the second year in a row after having deteriorated badly during most of the 1960 decade. In 1971 Utah's per capita income was equal to $3,442, an amount $714, below the U.S. figure or 17.2 of $4,156. Utah ranked 37th among the fifty states by this measure of economic affluence. The low point in the Utah economy was reached in 1969 when per capita income was 19.7 below the U.S. average and the State ranked 41st in the nation. A surprising contrast, in 1962 Utahs per capita income was only 8.8 below the U.S. average and the rank was 29th in the nation. Between 1962 and 1971 per capita personal income in Utah rose by $1,280, or Throughout the United States, on the other hand, per capita personal income increased by $1,786, or 75. The report observes that one factor in Utahs relatively low per capita income is the large size of families in the state. When personal income is compared on a per household basis, Utahs relative position appears not quite as unfavorable. During 1970, for example, total personal income per household in Utah averaged $11,556. This sum was about 8.5 below the U.S. average of $12,632 per household. By 59. It is emphasized, however, that the larger family size in Utah also results in greater total needs per household. This is especially true for costly government services where the larger family size means more children to be educated in the public schools, and consequently a greater educational burden. Although Utah is substantially above the national average in the proportion of personal percentage obtained from manufacturing. The Foundation study shows that manufacturing wages last year accounted for $424,000,000 or 11.3 of Utahs total personal income. Throughout the United States, manufacturing wages of total perconstituted 18.7 sonal income. Recipients Get Rent Watch pro-rate- subvert that important stand- ard. Staff members of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, posing as prospective car buyers, visited 11 new car dealers handling various makes in the Washington, D.C., area. In each showroom they asked the salesmen whether the light and buzzer could be disconnected or circumvented. According to the article, one salesman said the dealer could disconnect the devices and two others said that the dealer may be able to. (A dealer who disconnects the devices before the car is sold is punishable by a fine of up to $1000 for each violation.) Eight salesmen reportedly explained or offered to show how the warning devices could be disconnected or circumvented. Only two of these 11 salesmen accompanied their dangerous advice with the recommendation that the buyer develop a habit of wearing seat belts. Play Ends n For Utah Stars Institutions Unjustly, Says Eunice Shriver At least 60 percent of those Internal Revenue Service inin mental institutions vestigators are checking rents in people Utah buildings in national Rent Watch to prevent landlords from boosting rents to take advantage of tenants increased Social Security payments. This month, 28 million Social Security recipients will receive a 20 per cent increase in their payments. Roland V. Wise, IRS district director, said. We are urging landlords not to raise the rents unless they are certain such increases are legal. In some cases landlords have already raised rents this year and must wait until 12 months have gone by since that increase before raising rents again, he said. Landlords must not raise rents beyond a maximum 2.5 percent d a year increase plus increased of taxes, pass throughs and services and municipal fees capital improvements. Tenants also should receive a detailed 30 day notice. The Cost of Living Council has given the IRS new administrative sanction powers to protect tenants from illegal rent increases. Now the IRS can order landlords violating regulations to restore overpayments to tenants. roll back rents to the legal limits and impose penalties of double the overcharged rent. The Revenue Service will refer to the Justice Department for prosecution cases of flagrant and willful violation of rent rules. Mr. Wise urged tenants to report rent increases which they consider illegal. The IDS gives priority handling to rent complaints from Social Security number of car salesmen are helping to defeat devices mandated by law to increase auto safety, charges an article in the Consumer Reports magazine. To encourage wider use of seat belts, one alternative of federal motor vehicle Safety Standard 208 requires cars built after Jan. 1, 1972 to have a warning light and buzzer that go on if the drivers tries to drive away with his or the right front passengers seat belt unbuckled. Unfortunately, many car salesmen are all too willing to help motorists Pre-seaso- Many People in Mental S. S. THE SALT LAKE TIMES The Utah Stars conclude preseason play this week end with a pair of contests against the Denver Rockets Saturday night at Carbon High School in Price and Sunday at Mesa Junior College in Grand Junction. To say the Stars are delighted to be meeting ABA competition after some most unfortunate confrontations with NBA opposition would be a gross under- should not be there, charges Eunice Kennedy Shriver, wife of Democratic Vice President candidate Sargent Shriver, in an article in Coronet magazine. There simply is no justice for statement . the mentally retarded, she reThe Utahns came out of six ports. battles with NBA clubs with but They are put in institutions one win, a 1 win over the and left there. They receive none Seattle in the final of the education; encouragement, game of SuperSonics the round robin tournaexaminations, promotions, re- ment in Honolulu a week ago. views and incentives given to The Stars took it on chin normal children. They cant vote from the Chicago Bulls,the Portand they cant marry. Their le- land Trail Blazers and Phoenix gal and sexual rights are in- Suns twice and the Houston fringed. In some states they are Rockets. The most recent seteven sterilized. backs came when the Stars lost But the terrible thing is that to Phoenix 2 and to Houat least 60 per cent of those in ston the institutions should not be An encouraging factor in the there. They arc retarded because last two games was better shootof social and economic reasons and rebounding. The Stars and can be rehabilitated. We ing 41.6 per cent against the hit know how to bring them back Suns and 42 percent against the to be useful, contributing, and while neither of the Rockets, citizens, but we dont do is on a par with the 48.9 It figures Mrs. Shriver. laments it," per cent recorded by last years is a scandal. club it is well above the 33 per As an example of what can be cent the Stars shot in the first done with retardates, Mrs. Shri- four games this year. ver points to the Kennedy famZelmo Beaty garnered 14 and ilys Flame of Hope project, 13 rebounds in the two frays in which began some years ago as Phoenix as the Stars held then-ow13 workshops training reardates with the two NBA teams. to make candles and perfume. Also encouraging was the imThe project today is a million proved play of guard James dollar business that is financial- Jones, who scored 36 points in ly independent and owned com- the two games while hitting on pletely by the retardates, and it 16 of 29 attempts from the field. has developed the capabilities of Biggest problem confronting several hundred retardates to Stars Coach LaDell Anderson is the point at which they have finding consistent pjerformanccs graduated into regular jobs in from the guard position opposite the community. That shows you Jones and the forward spot opwhat can be done. posite Willie Wise. 115-11- 129-12- 127-11- 5. tax-payi- ng prc-cseas- on n Utah's Highway Safety Report Emphasizes 'PUSH' on Roads When Utah concentrated its efforts to eliminate the physical flaws in the states highway system, it also included PUSH, that is Practices for Utah Safer Highways. Now near completion, PUSH and other spot safety improvement projects will, according to Clem H. Church, chairman of the State Road Commission, result in a significant reduction in traffic accidents. Mr. Church expressed his view on Utahs highway safety progress in a special State of Our Roads report being compiled by Potters Industries, Inc., manufacturers of reflective glass used in pavement markings. Improvements under PUSH have included the upgrading to breakaway bases for sign and signal poles, turned down guard rail and sections, improved barrier devices and slope improvement on the Interstate, at a cost ranging from $1 million to $3 million a year. Primary and secondary roads are also being improved as a result of the 1966 Highway Safety Act. In addition, recent National Highway Safety Grants will provide $150,000 for pedestrian safety surveillance of high accident sites, railway grade crossings, traffic control in construction, mile posting and other projects. Utah has programmed $300,-00- 0 a year for improvements and maintenance of traffic control devices. Full adoption of the Topics program, involving improvements required through area wide studies by all major urban communities, will cost $1 million for the first two years and we anticipate $500,000 a year thereafter. The costs for safety are high, but funding has been a major problem in Utahs safety programming. Too, every effort is being made to provide full traffic control visibility during the night time hours. Utah has implement- - n ed highway lighting and both of signs and striping. We have added edgeline striping where roads are 24 feet or wider as a standard to improve night time road visibility, he stated. There is no doubt that driving in the state will be safer in the seventies, but much more must reflec-torizatio- and can be done by citizens. As he puts it, a monumental advance in highway safety can only be realized if we reduce and eventually eliminate alcohol related accidents and im- prove driver behavior. Although both of these efforts are in form at present, they now promise to be the next great contributor to accident reduction, believes Mr. Church. The most prolific and continuous efforts for safety conscious involvement are contributed by the Utah Safety Council. Other groups, however, have involved themselves from time to time in safety campaigns. For example, the local sector of the Institute of Traffic Engineers, in cooperation with the Utah State Department of Highways, promoted a school children pedestrian safety campaign, which proved a success. More importantly, its proposed reutilization on a regular basis may help reduce the number of pedestrian fatalities in Utah, which is slightly higher than the national average. em-by- ro our firm belief that driver training, imperiodic proved licensing requirements and vehicle inspection are needIt is ed. This, coupled with stronger enforcement and judicial response to drunken driving, will greatly improve driver awareness. A continuance of the safety improvement program on roads and added input of the driver awareness will definitely bring to fruition a marked improvement in highway safety. County Claims How Much Can They Pay for Indigent Finances The Salt Lake County officials cost the county some $200,000 a have agreed that the State is the year for medical costs for such logical government to pay for residents. At present the law as written the medical care of indigents and should relieve the counties by the legislature says that those persons able to work but arc of any such responsibilities. unemployed cannot qualify for the medical care indigent care programs and the county must pick up the tab for those persons under the private doctor contract with the county. These programs for medical care are only a part of the total medical care services being sponsored by Salt Lake County. The care facilities include a mental health clinic which is being run incurred. Salt Lake County has attempt- very successfully by the county ed to reduce its medical care and will continue to be run and by the county. budget of the indigent poor dur- financed The medical care programs ing the past six years. The forthe indigent include the care for mula the county began using cost of many physical injuries several years ago enabled shiftto those persons. to ing of part of the expenses the State government. County Commission still reported that the cost of medical services to the taxpayers of the LIKE MAD? county is in the neighborhood of $1.5 million a year. Get this doctor's formulal County Auditor Gerald R. Zemo speedily stops torment of Hansen says that the county caused itching . . . of externally should shift the financing of eczema, minor skin irritations, insect bites. Desensitizes medical care for the poor who state nerve under prodo not qualify endings. Kills millions of surface A skin with germs. grams to the state anyhow. Zemo or Ointment. Liquid contract with private doctors The three-ma- n County Comwith mission agrees proposed state legislation that will amend statutes to relieve counties of their participation in medical indigent care programs. Under the present law, howmill property ever, a one-ha- lf tax levy costs Salt Lake County $400,000 to $500,000 a year in addition to other medical costs ITCHING non-poison- De-itc- h ous |