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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1972 Page Eight Britains Stamp Act Forerunners of American Revolution Job Dissatisfaction Reduces the Work Psychological Income The will to work is fundamental to happiness, and if man loses this traditional drive, he will eventually overload and destroy other vital aspects of his personal life, such as leisure enjoyments, family relationships and even sex. This warning was issued by Dr. Frederick Herzberg, noted behavioral scientist and professor of industrial psychology at the University of Utah. Dr. Herzberg recently participated in a national will to work" conference which probed for answers to the growing problems of low productivity, slowdowns, featherbedding and the much publicized phenomenon of the welfare ethic replacing a work ethic. Other participants included William F. Buckley, Jr. and Robert Townsend. Unless a worker enjoys his labors, he comes home without any psychological income, to confront an equally bored, emoTo tionally bankrupt wife. make up for that void of meaning they overload each other with interpersonal relationships to try and make up for it, and they fail each other, he says. The same quest for a work satisfaction substitute is causing leisure Americans to ennot Wes he argues. time, joying leisure, were consuming it. Man is even overloading sex in the form of pornography, he warns, looking for some sort of experience that will awaken the de-enri- ch dulled senses. The end result from failure to find fulfillment may produce an upsurge in psychopathic behavior from the frustrated individuals. I One of the more significant dates in American history is November 23, 1765. It was on that day, more than 200 years ago, that the Frederick County, Md., court ordered its regular business carried on without the use of stamped paper as required by the famous Stamp Act. At this time American states were still English colonies. In March of that year, Perliament had passed a Stamp Act, recommended by Sir William Keither, a former royal Governor of Pennsylvania. The Act levied a stamp tax of three pence to ten shillings on legal papers, two pounds on college diplomas, four peunds on licenses to sell wine, two to six shillings on deeds, ten shillings on a pair of dice, a shilling on a pack of cards, a shilling for every advertisement in the newspapers, etc. The tax outraged many of the Americans, who felt that only their own state assemblies had the taxing authority over them. Patrick Henry in Virginia managed to get a defiant resolution adopted by the Virginia General Assembly, so much so that it was expunged from the record the day after it was passed. Aroused citizens in many states deliberately destroyed the stamps that had been sent from England. The bitter reaction was so widespread wiser heads in London favored repeal of the law. Benjamin Franklin, the American agent in Londan, was summoned before the House of Commons and wisely warned members that if the act were enforced with arms the enforcers would not find rebellion but may make one. The act was repealed, four months after the Maryland courts defiance. But it had sparked such resentment and such a surge of nationalism many historians believe it had helced appreciably to bring the Declaration of Independence a decade later in 1776. Detroit produced 11 million cars and recalled 13. Do you call that efficient? I dont. The junk Detroit produces, the absenteeism, employee turnover, alcoholism, mental health problems and social disintegration all add up to the most inefficient system I know he said. Dr. Herzberg believes the solution to the problem lies in restructuring work and organizations so that human beings will find a personal senset of fulfillment. We need to make work a human experience, where work become a psychological income for the person, not merely an instrument to buy a car. He has developed what he calls the hygiene motivation theory, based on tests of nearly 2000 workers. He found that elements within the job context of supervision, working conditions, etc.) only constituted 19 percent of the factors workers cited as contributing to job satisfaction. Conversely, work content, including opportunity for achievement, recognition, growth, etc., constituted 81 per cent of these factors cited as contributing to job satisfaction. Utah's General Fund Continues to Crow With monies of the state in- vested into area banks, the state general fund has been able to collect about $17 million in interest. This amount was determined by the State Treasurer for the past four years. The state funds were invested in bank certificates of deposit and repurchase agreements in 175 banks all over the state of Utah. This has helped the banks as well as stimulate the growth of What is causing dissatisfaction with the work ethic? Dr. Herzberg cites several factors, rang-n- g from a los of traditions to profit hungry management. the states economy. Ironically, modern technologiAt least $100,000.00 in state cal advancements and sophisti- funds is kept in each of the 175 cated know how have diminshed banks with larger amounts in the quality and enjoyability of the larger banks. work, he says, while the better The State Treasurers office education of people has en- handles about $2 to $5 million hanced the idividuals a day in checks with the largest You cant put an indiday ever recorded for state vidual through college, which is spending on Sept. 15 of this a mind and ego expanding exyear when some $23 million in perience and at the same time checks were issued. diminsh him through the strucThe State Treasurers office ture of our industries and or- has control of some $350 million self-conce- in Ogden. ganizations. worth of securities and also has Were training people more the problem of collecting securiand more to be less and less. We ties after they have been purteach people that life is growth chased or exchanged. experience and then put them The state agencies with the in a meaningless job which is a largest amount of securities is dying experience. the State Land Board, the Rereferver religious Societys tirement Board and the Insurgarding work has been under- ance Fund and the Division of mined by a gradual loss of some Indian Affairs. of our traditions and mysteries, At the end of the year the he notes. No one has time to conpresent State Treasurer, Golden template basic values, because Allen, will be replaced by merely surviving is difficult, Democratic candidate and consequently the traditional David Duncan. values are neglected and lost. Mr. Duncan will take the oath Also, we are questioning a of office Jan. 1, as stipulated by heck of a lot of other assump-tino- s, state law. such as economic growth is good and work should be at the center of mans existence. Mountain Bell Pays The doubts manifest themselves Tax Bill in terms of diminishing produc- $2,555,310 Mountain Bell recently mailed tivity by the working force and a check a for $2,555,310.67 to Salt negative industry is getting return on its investment in peo- Lake County. According to Public Relations Manager Ken O. ple, he adds. conHill, the check covers 1972 ad Managements overriding cern with efficiency and profit- valorem (property) taxes owed able systems at the expense of by the company. The amount is $167,652 more developing a motivated, loyal work force has backfired, he than last years payment. Ad valorem taxes paid by says, as evidenced in the Detroit cononce Mountain Bell to Utah counties auto assembly plants, sidered the epitome of American in 1972 totaled $5,024,866, an industrial progress. "Last year, increase of $229,946 over 1971. 4 Formal ceremonies commemorating acceptance into the Union will be held at Weber State College beginning at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center. The public is invited free of charge. Featured speaker is Dr. Richard O. Ulibarri, director of WSC Ethnic Studies programs. He will speak on the subject Utahs Minorities. Activities for the celebration focus on Utahs ethnic minorities, their histories and contributions to Utah, said Dr. Melvin T. Smith, director of the State Historical Society. Festivities begin at noon with major displays of minority arts and crafts in the Ogden Union Pacific Railroad depot, 25th and new-ly-elece- td Wall Ave. The Junior League of Ogden is coordinating the exhibits to which the public is invited free of charge, Dr. Smith said. Displays at the depot close at 6 p.m. State and local dignitaries, including Governor Calvin Ramp-to- n will participate in the formal ceremonies at the college. I Mr. Anderson worked for W. W. District Five Engineer for the Clyde & Co., as a Field Engineer, Utah State Department of High- Utah Power & Light Co. as a deways, has been named to succeed signer and Morrison Knudsen Blaine J. Kay as State Highway Co. as a materials engineer. He Engineer. Mr. Kay, who will as- joined the Highway Department sume the responsibilities of Di- in March of 1959 and served as rector of Highways in March, chief of party, District design nominated Anderson. engineer and assistant District Clem Church, chairman of the Three engineer. In August 1966 Utah State Road Commission, he was appointed District Five announced the appointment at the Commissions regular meeting in Salt Lake City. In making the announcement Mr. Church said, Skips proven good judgment and experience will serve him well in his new assignment. I and the commissioners are satisfied that Blaine Kay and Skip Anderson will prove to be one of the most progressive and energetic teams ever appointed to administer the activities of the highway department. C. V. Anderson has been involved in highway construction for 24 years. He is a veteran of the Korean conflict, a civil engineering graduate of the University of Utah and a registered Professional engineer. Anderson is a native of Utah, born in Springville. He will move to Salt Lake from Cedar City with his wife and four children. Prior to his employment with the State Highway Department, New Training Officer For Utah Natl Guard Lt. Robert M. Fowler, 384 Woodlake Drive, was recently appointed to the full time staff of Utah Army National Guard, according to Maj. General Mau- Engineer, responsible for a big area from the Utah Arizona border to the Juab Utah County line and from the border to the mountain summits between U.S. 91 and U.S. 89. Mr. Anderson will officially take the responsibilities of State Highway Engineer on March 15. At that time Henry C. Helland will retire as Director of Highways and Mr. Kay, who has been State Highway Engineer for the past eight years, will assume Mr. Hellands responsibilities. Utah-Neva- da Brady Unit Offset Well Passes Tests An offset well being drilled in the Brady Unit of southwestern Wyoming where the No. 1 dis- covery well previously had encountered commercial quantities of both oil and natural gas has produced a significant flow of natural gas during a 118 minute drill stem test, it was reported Monday by B. Z. Kastler. president of Mountain Fuel Supply Co. The test was conducted at the No. 2 well located nearly one mile northeast of the discovery well. At a depth between 11,077 and 11,107 feet in the Dakota formation, the well flowed natural gas at a rate of 4,050,000 cubic feet a day with a show of condensate through a one half inch and three-quartinch sur-fachoke, he said. Previously, this same offset well was tested in the shallower 0 Frontier formation between and 10,630 feet and resulted rice L. Watts. Utah Adjutant General. Lt. Fowler is the Operations, Training and Readiness officer for the Utah National Guard. He will also be the Aide De Campe to Gen. Watts. The Lieutenant has attended the University of Utah and Utah State University. He is active in a number of organizations, inin a show of natural gas but no cluding the Utah Pistol Club, Utah National Guard Associa-atio- oil. The well has not yet reached National Rifle Associa- the deeper Nuggett or Weber tion, Nature Study Society and formations which were producis a director of the Utah State tive of both oil and gas in the No. 1 discovery well or in the Rifle and Pistol Assn. He also was an honor gradu- Phosphoria formation which was ate. Utah Military Academy of productive of natural gas only. The No. 1 well is still drilling the Utah Army National Guard 1970. at the present time at a depth in of 14.283 feet but has not been Emission Standards tested further since Dec. 10. Also at the present time is To Test Your Nerves drilling the No. 3 Brady unit well locatYouve been sitting in line for ed about one mile southwest of two hours, inching forward one the discovery well. It presently car at a time. Youve taken the is testing in the Frontier formatime off work, but have no other tion at a depth of 10,500 to 2 choice. Finally you reach the feet. end. You pull your car into a Mr. Kastler cautioned that stall and a uniformed worker while the results of the tests at attaches probes and sensors to the No. 1 and No. 2 Brady wells it. You wait as a test is run. have been the full Then the officer hands you v economic encouraging, significance of the card and motions you on. Latei could not be deterunit Brady Your car mined you read the card. more information is until has failed the emission test. In obtained through testing and order to receive your 1978 registration your car will have to producing the wells. The Brady Unit is located in be repaired and retested. Thank Sweetwater County, Wyo., abou you for your cooperation. Furious, you take more time 28 miles south and east of Rock eff and tour the repair shops, Springs. The Unit is comprised trying to get your car fixed so of 39,012 acres of which 13,760 that it will pass. Then you go acres arc in a pooled area enthrough the whole thing once compassing the well sites. more. Ownership in the discovery Hard to imagine? Cant hap- well, the two offset wells, and pen? Dont kid yourself. Accord- the pooled acreage is shared 41 ing to Motor Trend Magazine, per cent each by Champlin Peemission inspection is coming, troleum Co., and Mountain Fuel and unless positive steps arc the remaining 17.50 percent by taken this little scenario could Amoco Production Co., of Tulsa. well be an accurate description. Okla. er ct n, The Utah State Historical Society in cooperation with the Weber State College Institute of Ethnic studies will commemorate Utahs Statehood Day Jan. Charles V. (Skip) Anderson, 10,-53- Historical Society Commemorates Statehood Day Jan. 4 pt. Charles V. Anderson Succeeds Kay as State Highway Engineer A rattle snake has, on the av- crage, two rattles (not one) for each year of its age. 10.-52- |