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Show THE SALT LAKE TIME1 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1973 Page Nine Car Owners WarnedNew Insurance Community Pride Participants Awarded by Oil Company law will be in Mect trom January 1 their one the No-Fa-ult Gaylene McDougal, West Jorof six plaques dan, received for outstandawarded to ing community pride projects during the first annual Community Pride Conference in Salt Lake City. The award was made by Standard Oil Company of California, of the conference with Utah State University Extension. Miss McDougal told the 60 participants of the conference that she gathered up a group of who together painted the dairy barn at the State Fairgrounds. Attending the conference from Salt Lake County, in addition to Miss McDougal, were Randy Fitzgerald of Sandy, and adult leader, Eddus Hyde, also of Sandy. Thes eagerly told of projects they were doing in their own communities, ranging from mailing litter back to the persons who carelessly tossed it, to putting up flower planters on Main Street. But community pride is more than just clean up projects. We need a variety of things to be proud of," she stated. Jeanine Theobold, Tooele, rein her community, Keeping an eye on downtown traffic, motorcycle policeman Steve M. Fife, 7232 Walnut Way, a ported that had been marking the lt veteran .of seven and a half years on the force, will be required to check for Insurance historical sites. Law violations; beginning January 1. Officer Fife and policemen throughout the state wili ask Although only seven represenlt motorists stopped for a moving violation to prove they have the insurance required by the new tatives had been assigned to dislow. The law is designed to eliminate many costly and lengthy trials resulting from auto cuss the progress reports they accidents. It is also aimed at saving policyholders money and stabilizing premiums since insurance companies will be relieved of investigating and contesting many minor claims. 4-H- ers co-spons- 4-H- ers 4-- H 4-H- ers 4-H- ers No-Fau- No-Fau- Utah automobile owners are cautioned to put their insurance company's name and the number of their policy on their automobile registration forms. If they dont, the forms will have to be sent back again and that means not only a delay, but a waste of money," said James L. Schwab, administrative secretary of the Utah Tax Commission. Our office hopes auto owners lt will realize the new Automobile Insurance Law starts January 1, 1974, and comply with it. That means making sure they have the new insurance and answering questions about it correctly on their registration forms," said Schwab. Auto owners in Utah, Salt Lake, Davis, Cache and Weber Counties will be mailed a license plate application form, their tax assessment forms, a set of instructions and an envelope to mail it all back in. Approximately 635,000 of these mailings will be made early in December, Schwab No-Fau- said. If auto owners fail to read their instructions or forget to fill in the additional questions about lt Insurance, we will be in a real mess," he added. Some 150,000 auto owners in counties that do not have a mailing system were also cautioned by C. N. Ottosen, Utahs Commissioner of Insurance, not to forget to put the needed information on their cards when they visit their motor vehicle offices. Without the name of their insurance company and the number of their policy, they will have made the trip for nothing. Theyll simply have to come back another time with the correct information, said Ottosen. He explained that the Auto Insurance Law was passed earlier this year during the regular session of the State Legislature and that the law No-Fau- No-Fa- ult No-Fa- ult Utahns Optimistic About Water Project Interior Department Secretary Rogers Morton promised the Governor and the Utah Congressional delegation this week that he will have a definite yes or no answer on continuation of the Central Utah Project no later than October 26. He promised to call the Governor. Senator Frank E. Moss arranged the meeting which was attended by Governor Calvin L. Ramptoh, Senator Wallace F. Bennett, Rep. K. Gunn McKay and Rap. Wayne Owens. These Utahns said they were optimistic about the project following the meeting. Morton said he does not believe there is any suitable alternative to continuing the Central Utah Project, but that he was committed to looking at an alternative proposal being drafted in the Interior Department. Secretary Morton asked about water needs for oil shale development in northeastern Utah, and was assured by Senator Moss that the Central Utah Project is not involved with those projected needs. Moss said the state has already filed for water that would be necessary from the White River. Assistant Secretary of Water and Power Resources Jack Horton told the Utahns that all that is needed to begin work on the Currant Creek project is the approval from the Department. He said the money is also available for beginning Strawberry Aqueduct but that the Department does not want to go ahead without assurance from the Office of Management and Budget that money will also be forthcoming for that project in fiscal 1975. The Utahns said they would get to work on that. 4-H'- ers . their homes. Parents of small children should be particularly mindful that an untreated or an improperly treated severe head cold or an earache can result in a hearing loss. This is particularly true during the winter months. It is wonderful to grow old if you can keep young while doing it. Capital Ideas goes into effect January 1, 1974. Under the law, all auto owners must have Auto Insurance and have an insurance identification card to prove it. The card, he said, is to be issued by the insurance companies and must be carried by drivers or kept in the car to prove compliance with the law. It must be shown to a police officer, if a driver is stopped, just as a drivers license must be shown," Ottosen said. Insurance identification cards are not required for trailers or for motor vehicles that are subject to the requirements of the public service law of the Interstate Commerce Act. Also, motorcycles and snowmobile owners are exempt from the insurance law, for those vehicles," said Ottosen. If the insured cannot be immediately provided with an insurance identification card, then the insured may use instead a copy of his insurance application, a premium receipt, or his insurance policy. A summary of the new law will be printed on the back of the instruction form to be mailed out with registration forms," Ottosen said. Also, new brochures explaining the law are to be available at insurance agencies throughout the state and at county and state governmental agencies and motor vehicle offices. Ottosen said the new law was designed to eliminate many costly and lengthy trials resulting from auto accidents and at the same time adequately insure motorists who are involved in accidents. Legislators believe the new law may eventually save insurance policyholders money and stabilize premiums since insurance companies will be relieved of investigating and contesting many minor claims. had made in homes, others informaquickly volunteered tion on what they had been doing in their communities. Among the activities during the conference were the planting of a tree at the Peace Gardens, a tour of local refinery and tour of the various areas in Salt Lake City to show what had been done and what needed to be done. The also got a chance to discuss how their own communities would rate in the areas of environmental improvement, people building, community facilities, and economic development. William G. Bruhn, state director of community affairs, met with the participants and told them, You cant have much pride without progress and making progress is like eating an elephant. The only way to do it is a bite at a time. He challenged them to get excited about the community pride program and to put it into action when they went back to ASHINGTON EVENTS AFFECTING OUR COMMUNITY news for Social Publication 552, ' through Security recipients: next your District Director of June a 5.9 Internal Revenue. increase will go into effect, to be reflected in your July, At least one government 1974, checks. Vital force official says that while conbehind increased benefits has' struction of. an oil pipebeen Russell Long (D., La.). line across Alaska will do much to help alleviate Good cost-of-livi- ng -- Want to save about a dime an hour on your next automotive outing? Well, according to a Washington Post reporter, you can do it simply by driving at 50 mph. instead of 60 or 70. Two experimental trips around Washingtons 1495 Beltway proved to. the reporter that 15 of a gallon of gasoline or more could be saved lor each hour of driving at the lower speed! Concurred Sen. James McClure (R., Ida.):. "Such savings in gasoline consumption would help alleviate a large portion of the current gasoline shortage." In addition. Sen. Edward Gurney, (R., Fla.) and Rep. James Haley (D., Fla.) offered a resolution asking motorists to save gasoline through 10 mph. reductions in posted highway speeds. Savings of about 10 result for each 10 mph. down to 45. Median U.S. family come for 1972: $11,116. in- Ever wonder how long to keep those old tax records, checks, receipts, and the like? Internal Revenue Service language is somewhat vague, but is summed up by the statement that "records must be retained as long as their contents may be material in the administration of any internal revenue law." Still confused? Write for free IRS booklet, McClure Long Swearingen Nassikas the current energy crunch, theres one other untapped petroleum resource: the Atlantic continental shelf. John N. Nassikas, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, advocates a "massive" offshore exploratory drilling program, citing a vast potential for oil and gas. In agreement with Nassikas is Standard Oil of Indianas board chairman, John E. Swearingen, who told an audience at Washingtons National Press Club recently that unless the nation launches an immediate concerted effort to expand domestic energy supplies, we are going to drift closer and closer to a genuine crisis in which the country could be paralyzed." Swearingen called on government, industry and the media to work together in solving the energy situation. |