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Show Poge Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES . UTAHS . FEARLESS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Combined with The Suit Lake Mining 6 Legel News Published Every Pridey ei Suit Luke City, Uteb Second Cl us Postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah 711 South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 364-846- 4 GLENN BJORNN. PnblMm 'T bis THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, APRIL 6, .1973 publtcetion is not owned or controlled by euy party, clem, digtse, lection Number 52 Volume 52 (Continued from Ptge 1) . . Health Education For years, the medical profession has been actively pursuing health education programs aimed at encouraging sound health practices. At last there appears to be a growing interest in this kind of preventive health care. More people, including many in positions of influence, are becoming aware that improved personal health practices can do more to raise the level of the nations health than almost anything the medical profession can do. A member of President Nixons Committee on Health Education recently told an American Public Health Association meeting that of the $75 billion the nation spends on health services each year, less than 0.5 . percent goes for health education. Unless tliis effort is expanded, he warned, physicians and hospitals will have a great deal of trouble coping with the flood of patients that will accompany enactment of any type of national health insurance program. In America today, about 75 percent of all deaths are caused by cardiovascular disease, cancer and accidents. In all three areas, the public can do a great deal to protect itself, but has so far seemed loath to do so. Overeating, improper diet, lack of exercise, alcohol, reckless driving, refusal to use those simple devices seat belts all contribute to a deadly toll. Medical science can and has achieved miracles in treating the ills of the human body. The American Medical Association and other groups are seeking, through education, to do what is beyond the reach of the healing tools of medicine educate people to pursue good health practices that are chiefly a matter of self discipline. By the Seat of the Pants Since nickels, dimes, quarters and even 50 cent pieces wont buy much any more, men are increasingly burdened by having to drag their wallets out of their back pockets to reach for a dollar bill. As a result, the increasingly costly seats of the pantes of evermore expensive suits are being worn out in growing numbers. Columnist Bussell Baker suggests with tongue in cheek humor that if the dollar bill were turned into a coin to be carried as loose change in a mans pocket where it belongs, this problem could be solved. The government is always trying to solve our problems for us, and usually it fails miserably. In this instance by a little decisive action it could succeed splendidly. Everyone knows that inflation has us bythe throat, and it is depressing indeed to realize that it also is taking out the seat of our pants. Would You Hire Yourself? Would you hire yourself? heads a thought-provokin- g article. Its a good question. The editorial seems worthy of a wider audience and so here are a few quotes from it: If you were a boss and needed someone to fill your present position, would you hire yourself? If you had your choice of a dozen people you presently work with would you be the first choice to fill your position? Or would you have to look around for someone with more initiative, interest in th job and a better attitude toward the work and fellow employees? Then the editorial goes on to point out tliat if we are honest with ourselves, we are each the best judge of our weaknesses and strengths. Its worth flunking about would you hire yourself? U. of U. Kidney Specialist Issues Warning About Pain Killers A specialist in internal medi- products without the ingredient. cine says prolonged and excesBut numerous preparations sive use of some common pain containing phenacetin are still killers can cause chronic kidney available and some persons are disease. continuing to take large doses of Dr. H. Allan Bloomer, head of the drug, he said. the Division of Kidney Diseases The reason people take these at the University of Utah Medi- medications is rarely a result of cal Center, said his studies indi- a doctors prescription. The macate that six per cent of a group jority take it on their own, he of 128 patients with end stage said. Persons suffering from anxiety kidney disease were guilty of abuse. analgesic produced tension headaches may Those patients are now on take handfuls of these pills. It chronic hemodialysis with the is not unusual for such indiartificial kidney or have had viduals to take more than 20 such pills daily for more than 15 kidney transplants, he noted. An analygesic is anything years. short of a narcotic drug that reWe find that if we double lieves pain, he said. Persons who the amount of pills a patient adabuse these medications take mits taking, we will get closer more than six tablets daily for to the truth of the number he many years to relieve the minor has really taken. aches and pains. But I want to emphasize the These analgesics can be pur- damage comes from prolonged chased without a prescription, use of these compounds in exand are usually a combination of cessive amounts, he said. Its really hard to blame the ingredients, inclding aspirin, caf-fei- n and phenacetin. pharmaceutical firms for the Weve found that pure aspirin problem. They cant help it if probably does not cause kidney some persons buying the drugs damage. Most authorities be- are going to abuse them. lieve phenacetin is the culprit, What is needed is for more he said. physicians to recognize that the He said a large quantity of medications can be harmful if phenacetin over an extended pe- abused, and they must realize riod of time poisons the kidney that plain aspirin can do just as tubules and eventually causes good a job in most cases as many irreversible damage and kidney combination analgesics. failure. In essence, persons take the he have Drug companies, said, compounds rather than pure asn realized the danger of phenace-tri- pirin because they believe the over the past several years medications to be more potent and are beginning to market pain relievers.' . University of Utah Receives Grant For UYA Program A third of Salt Lake Citys low income housing projects are placed in jeopardy when the Nixon Administration froze the funding of new- housing programs will be constructed after all. Commissioner Jennings Phillips, Jr., said the Department of Housing and Urban Development approved the construction of 50 turn key city.owned units. - Salt Lake City has been selected as one of 20 major cities across the United States to receive two trained dogs for the Salt Lake City Municipal airport for bomb detection. Police Chief Earl Jones said the two dogs will be specially trained German Shepards, and also under the same grant Salt Lake City will receive a $2,000 X-r- ay scanner. Salt Lake County Sheriff Del-mLarson needs four additional jailers but lacks the funds to provide the needed assistance. The additional monies required for the four jailers results in $20,000 for the rest of the year. ar The sheriffs booked 1,504 prisoners between Feb. 14 and Mar. 21, or 22 percent above the same to rehabilialcoholism linquency period of time last year and the tation. sheriff reports that March and Ten volunteers will work with April will even be higher. the Community Organizations Operations Program. They will be involved in the delivery of Brigham City Mayor Olof Zun-dwill fight closeure of the supplemental foods, Indian School. The housing, breakfast programs and said that he will contact mayor juvenile delinquency prevention. p Navajo leaders in Arizona, the The volunteers will enable to expand its services and Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Utah Congressional delegation. deliver them more efficiently. Ten volunteers will work with The Bureau of Indian Affairs anthe Indian Walk-I- n Center to as- nounced that it will eliminate sist in an Indian alcoholism re- the freshman class for the next habilitation program. They will year, which shows that closure of the school is in the near fudevelop and deliver employment ture. and various social services to the Indian community and plan and Salt Lake City Commissioner develop a more comprehensive Indian Tribal Center. Stephen Harmsen, at a commisIn addition, six volunteers will sion meeting, made a resolution work with handicapped youth motion to the commission adoptand adults at the Columbus ing the concept of the Jordan Center, where they will help River Parkway and asked other establish a physical therapy pro- members of the Commission to gram. incorporate the ' plans Other ACTION programs are into its planning parkway and zoning rethe Peace Corps, Volunteers in quirements. Service to America (VISTA), Foster Grandparent Program, Governor Calvin L. Rampton Service Corps of Retired Execommitted $150,000 for. a sewer cutives (SCORE), Active Corps line for Camp Williams in South of Executives (ACE) and Retired Salt Lake County, which is part Senior Volunteer Program of a $6.5 million sewer improvement project. The camp officials said that they needed a commitment for the project to comply with federal government requirements and for approval of Department of Housing and Urban Development officials. . el ACTION, the citizens volun- teer service corps, has awarded the University of Utah in Salt Lake City a $122,373 grant for a new University Year for ACTION program, Walter C. Howe, ACTIONS Acting Director, announced recently. Utah is one of 18 colleges and universities to receive grants to start a UYA program this year. The grant will enable 30 students to work full time for one year in projects while earning academic credit and a modest living allowance from ACTION. UYA is part of ACTION, established by President Nixon July 1, 1971 to administer federal volunteer programs at home and overseas. Presently 1,700 students in more than 50 colleges and universities in 31 states and the District of Columbia are participating in the UYA program. Utahs volunteers will work with both the young and old. in a variety of social service programs, ranging from juvenile de anti-povert- y low-inco- tan me Co-O- dial . Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! Several University of Utah employees have been threatened with no job advancement or termination if they join the Utah Public Employees Association. This is the rumor which has been reported to the Governors office. Governor Rampton said that the employees are covered under the Right to Work Law, which states that employment cannot be denied because of membership in an organization. |