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Show Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Now Totals $122 Million Students who need money for their education after high school may now apply for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants, according to HEW Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. More than $122 million is available under this new program administered by HEWs Office of Education. Although limited this year to first year, full time post secondary students, the program is expected to benefit an estimated one half million students who might otherwise be unable to continue their education' Secretary Weinberger said. Along with other federal programs of student financial aid, it marks significant progress toward the Administrations ultimate goal of making post secondary education available to all young people who desire it. Under the Basic Grant problem, students in financial need may .obtain funds to help pay their educational expenses at an approved college, university, vocational' school, technical institute, or hospital school of nursing. How much a student or his family can contribute affects the amount of his Basic Grant and is determined according to a formula established by the U. S. Office of Education. To apply for a basic grant an . - . Application for Determination og Expected Family Contribution must be obtained, filled out, and. mailed to P.O, Box B, Iowa City, Iowa 52240. Within a month the student is notified of the amount of his familys expected contribution. He then submits the notification to the school of his choice, which calculates the amount of the basic grant to which he is entitled. Application forms are available to student financial aid offices at post secondary institutions, high school guidance offices, post offices, state employment offices, county agricultural extension agents, and the Talent Search, Upward Bound and Student Special Services projects. in your area, If unavailable write to Box G, Iowa City, Iowa The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare has awarded a $199,520 contract to the University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, for continuation of its MEDEX doctors assistants program. The award was announced in Denver by Dr. Rulon R. Garfield, director of the six state Rocky Mountain Region of the Department. It is part of a total of $6.2 million that has been given by HEW under the program to institutions in 24 states. The money will be used to helD suoport the training of 30 MEDEX trainees persons with military medical or equivalent civilian medical experience who will work as assistants to medical doctors. The Utah program is for one year, consisting of three months classroom training and nine months field experience with a physician. The program money will complete the training of one class of 15 which will graduate next January and will finance a new class of 15 which will begin this October. Forty MEDEX graduates of the University of Utah now are working with doctors in eight western states. The national program supports nearly 1.900 trainees who will be enrolled during the year in programs supported by the HEW Departments Bureau of Health Resources Administration. All are continuation grants for programs already in operation. An estimated 700 physician assistants will have graduated by the end of fiscal year 1974 from programs supported by the Bureau. About 300 of them graduated during fiscal year 1973, the first year the Bureau supported the training of physician assistants on a large scale. The Bureau also has awarded a $425,000 contract to the National Board of Medical Examiners in Philadelphia to develop a national proficiency examination for physician assistants for Salt Lake Attorney Named to American Bar Assn. Council Salt Lake City Attorney Sanford M. Stoddard, a partner in the law firm of Fabian and been elected to the nine member Council of the section of Taxation of the American Bar Association during its convention in Washington, D.C. During his three year term in the Council Mr. Stoddard will oversee the operations and help formulate policy of the $15,000 member taxation section. Mr. Stoddard said that the taxation section is one of the most active sections of the American Bar Association and performs a constant analysis of federal tax laws and initiates proposals for new legislation and comments on tax bills before Congress. Also at the meeting the American Bar Association held its annual meeting of the entire Bar Clen-denin,h- as . Association. Mr. Stoddard said one of the Other forms of federal student main points of concern for the assistance such as Supplemental 52240. Educational Opportunity Grants, College Work Study, National Direct Student Loans and Guaranteed Student Loans are available in addition to Basic Grants. For further information on basic grants and other student financial aid programs, students should contact their high school counselor or the financial aid officer in the school in which they expect to enroll. . HEW Awards Training Funds to Utah University Medical Center . THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1973 Poge Eight entire Bar Association was the alleged involvement of so many lawyers in the Watergate scandal. Concern was so great over the involvement of the lawyers in the Watergate problem that the usually conservative ABA ruling body entertained several negative motions about the lawyers involved, and members of the California and New York Bar Associations are said to be considering action against the President. Economic Stabilization Conference August 26 A Regional Conference on primary care. The first examina- Phase IV of the Economic Station, according to the Board, is bilization Program will be held scheduled to be administered in Denver Monday, August 20, next December 12 at various by the Cost of Living Council. locations. The half day session will begin As of July of this year, there at 9 a.m., featuring a cabinet-levwere an estimated 800 formally speaker. Key Cost of Livtrained physician assistants in ing Council officials will partithe United States, about double cipate in a panel discussion rethe number of a year earlier. sponding to written questions el The federal government has supported the training of physician assistants for primary care in an effort to improve the delivery of medical services, especially in rural and inner city areas. Graduates of these programs assist physicians practicing family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics, or emergency medicine. The training of physician assistants, a comparatively new category, varies occupational widely. The training period is from one to five years. Graduates are addressed by various titles, depending upon the program completed, such as physician assistant, Medex, or Child Health Associate, Clinical Associate, Medical Services Assistant, etc. from the audience. The goal of the conference will be to better inform business and labor communitites on the Phase IV regulations and how these rules differ from those in Phase III. There will be an opportunity to ask questions concerning all areas of the program. The meeting will be held at the Centre Theatre, 216 16th St., Denver, Colo. All interested persons are invited to attend. For further information call 303-837-419- 6. Utah Banrkuptcy Referee Jenkins Hosts Seminar (Continued from page 1) quested to host the Seminar and noted that it was. a first in the history of the Utah Bankruptcy Court. Diet Counselor Operate your own Diet Salon from your home or office and make more money than you can imagine. No selling. Our diet centers are sweeping the country. Clients average one lb. loss per day. They dont get hungry and have plenty of mainenergy and feel great. 70 tain their weight loss. Investment for materials to operate a 'diet center - $6500.00 fully redeemable. Call collect or write Larry Ballentine 1280 Cherry Lane Provo, Utah 84601 Phone (801) 373-1930 Jenkins said that the first day of the Seminar will be deMr. voted to the intensive review of the New Bankruptcy Rules of Procedure recently promulgated by the U. S. Supreme Court, which are slated to become effective October 1, 1973, and the second day will be devoted to an intensive review of current problems in the law of Bankruptcy and Debtor Relief, suggestions for improvement of the court operation and a review of recent decisions in the Bankruptcy and Debtor Relief fields. Mr. Jenkins currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the National Conference of Referees in Bankruptcy and served as chairman of its Committee on Improvements of Practice, Procedure and Forms. Statement by Utah Farm Bureau on Food Supply and Price Control Americans today are faced with a supermarket dilemma unlike anything they have ever seen. Housewives have more money to spend on food than ever before but they find it difficult to buy all the food they want. The U. S. Department of Commerce has reported that disposable person income has risen 12 percent as of July 1973 as compared to the same period 1972. This affluence is demonstrated in many ways, including an unprecedented demand for luxury and recreational vehicles. Reports from the State Motor Vehicle Department indicate 15 percent more campers and travel trailers have been licensed in Utah htis year as compared to last year. Vacation travel is up. Hotels and restaurant business is booming. Over 5 million more cars are on the highways than were there last year. This increased affluence, together with a grownig population, has created an unprecedented demand for farm products. At the same time, farmers have been unable to expand production to meet this new demand. Americans have an almost insatiable appetite for beef. Since 1962, per capita consumption of beef has increased from 88 lbs. a year to 118 lbs. Liberalization of the food stamp program has sharply increased demand for higher quality cuts of meat in low income people. The number of food stamp recipients nearly tripled in the past three. years. This is not to criticize the program, just a simple statement of fact to explain one reason why there is increased competition for meat. Foreign customers are demanding more meat and more food, and we want to make this one DOint very clear: If this nation intends to import 6 million barrels of oil every day and import millions of foreign cars, tape recorders, shoes and a long list of other products, we must sell something to protect our balance of trade. One other fact is very clear: Agriculture is our best hope for balancing trade. American labor is apparently unable to compete with foreign labor for many of the products in the inernational competition but the American farmers have been able to compete. Now the question consumers are asking is What of the future? Will farmers expand the production to catch up to the demand? Will we continue to export some of our food to other countries? As we farmers and ranchers attempt to answer these questions, we sincerely appeal to the housewives, the. laborers, the business men, the political leaders and every citizen of Utah and the nation for a new awareness of what it takes to put food on the table. No longer can we afford, to take agriculture for granted. No longer can we just assume the abundance will always be there. No longer can we ignore the political and economic roadblocks to providing that abundance for the future which we have to enjoy in this country. Let us list some of these road blocks. Environmental regulations which simply are not necessary to protect our health have taken their toll on agricultures productive ability. The total ban on some pesticides has increased feed costs. It has made it necessary to share all too much of our fruit, cereal grains and other products with the bugs and worms. When government regulations banned proven methods of controlling predators, sheep and wool production dropped sharply. Government statistics show current sheep losses to coyotes are running near the 11 percent mark. The ban on the use of DES, " control pills. Fuel shortages have hit farmers hard, particularly the cutback in natural gas for fertilizer production. Fertilizer costs have skyrocketed and the supply is short. New on animal regulations waste control in feedlots, poultry houses and air quality rules are taking their toll. While some of these. regulations may be necessary, they i have added to production costs and have. discouraged expansion of farm output. . County Not Responsible for Indigent Legal Fees Third District Court Judge Ernest Baldwin ruled that the county is not responsible for paying legal fees for indigents charged with city offenses which could bring jail terms as long as six months. In a declaratory judgment issued a day after hearing arguments from Salt Lake City Deputy attorney Roger Cutler the judge said the county is not responsible and that counsel must be provided by another source. Mr. Cutler did not rule out an appeal of the judges ruling which was asked two months ago when the city refused to contribute $5,303 to the county bar association legal counsel fund. a livestock growth stimulant, has cut beef production by an estimated 15 per cent: Yet the same chemical is allowed by another government agency as the basic ingredient in widely used birth TOURS Oct. 8 Departure Dr. Asahel D. Woodruff ' . 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