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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1974 UTAH'S FEARLESS Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah at Salt Lake Gty, Utah West Temple Telephone 364-84Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher Second Class Postage paid INDEPENDENT " l South L NEWSPAPER Free OSHA Announced by Utah P the Council for Industrial Leaders THE SALT LAKE TIMES LEASED The business and industrial dred of Utah employes could atleadership of Utah individuals test to the penalties and embar- 64 charged with industrial safety activities will have an opportu"This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction to nity acquire more information or corporation concerning the federal OccupaNumber 40 tional Safety and Health Act Volume 53 and the recently enacted Utah State Plan at a free public seminar to be held at the TraveLodge Convention Center, 161 West 600 South, on January 28, 1974, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. a, U.S. delegation will travel next year to China to study Many operators of small and their findings. medium sized businesses may be serious violation of law with The various catalogs, published by Chinas eight in out even realizing that such a foreign trading corporations, show a wide variety of law exists. The U. S. Department Chinese chemical products for export. These catalogs, of Labor reports that only 31 per which will be copied by the council for interested com- cent or better than 31,379 establishments checked in the twelve and list but no prices, months ending June, 1973 were quantities properties, give panies, found to be in compliance with article. says the safety and health standards. Perhaps the most interesting catalog is that of the job These seminars are designed to Chinese Patent Medicines, published by China Na- provide much needed informational Native Produce and Annual Import tion on: 1. The scope and general reand Export Corp. of the law. Chinese pharmacology has developed over tliou-scan- quirements 2. Specific standards which of years, and traditional medicines are now pre- apply to their operations. 3. record keeping and pared in convenient tablets and pills, the catalog notes. how Proper to comply with the Act. Ingredients of the patent medicines include such 4. Employees and the emmaterials as antelope and rhinoceros horn, tiger bone, ployers rights and responsibiliherbs and natural products such is ginseng root, and ties. Those attending the seminar bees. secretion of will receive a copy of the Wilglandular Essence of Chicken with Cordyceps is a tonic liams Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Handy efficacious to the lungs, to the sperm, and for treatment Reference Guide to the Occupaof general weakness, gleans C&EN from the catalog, j tional Safety and Health Act, Recordkeeping Requirements un (Cordyceps are fungi parasitic on insects.) der Safety Health Pantocrin (made of antler) is said to be an effec- Act, Occupational and Guidelines for Setting tive remedy for neurasthenia (nervous exhaustion), or Up Job Safety and Health ProIt is increasingly apparheart failure, impotence, loss of memory, lumbago, poor grams. ent that both the Federal OSHA appetite and malnutrition. and Utah OSHA are dead serious made from Coated about trying to eliminate acciPlacenta Tablets, And Sugra dents on the job and hazards to placentas of healthy mothers, are said to contain large employee health. Several hun hormones and are considered an ideal Rhinoceros Horn Pills By-Produ- cts ds rassment of being cited for violations under OSHA. Statistics indicate the chances are better than two to one that you would be found in violation of OSHA if an inspection were to be held in your plant today. Even state and local governments must meet Job Safety and Health Rules under the Utah State Plan. Because so many firms with fewer than 500 employees do not have safety departments or even a full time safety engineer, the Utah Safety Council has been provided funds to train Utah employers, employees and their representatives in their obligations, rights, and responsibilities under the two Acts. You, as an employer, are obligated to train your employees under OSHA at at your GRflPEVIAIt 1 Collections and pledged totaled $1,790,615 in the United Way of Great Salt Lake campaign. Lowell F. Turner, executive said that he is projecting that final collections will be in the neighborhood of $1,810,-00If that is true the campaign would be about $390,000 short of its goal of $2.2 million. vice-preside- nt 0. Salt Lake City received its revenue sharing check this past week, and within 10 minutes Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr. invested the money, which totaled $1,041,695. Mr. Phillips said the money is Salt Lakes allocation for the last quarter of 1973 and will earn substantial interest every day it is invested. The Commissioner also said that investments made before noon earn a full days interest. expense. This seminar is an excellent opportunity for you to have some of this training completed without direct cost to you. Enrollment in the Seminar is on a first come first served basis. The courses will be taught by staff and Safety Professionals who are familiar with both the letter and the spirit of OSHA. The Americans for Democratic Thet panel members have been Actoin rated and released specifcally trained in the latest their has of rating the U.S. Senators. provisions of the standards and The ADA rated the senators on requirements of the Act. a point sysetm. The Utah Those desiring to register for and Idaho senators were rated adthe January 28 seminar are as Senator Frank E. Moss 80, vised to call the Safety Council, Senator Wallace Bennett, 5, Sen. 1 Council the or write Frank Church of Idaho 20, and offices at 535 South 300 West, Sen. James McClure of Idaho 84101, attention Robert Inger25. the By comparison, highest soll, director. awarding by the ADA was a 95 point rating which included Sen. Its mandatory that you fasten Edmund your safety belt in an airplane dale and Muskie, Walter MonGaylord Nelson. because its law. The Safety Council suggests you buckle up in your car because its safer. The Public Service Commission has set a public hearing on Jan. 24 for the Utah Power and infrared absorption of a gas sample. The claim that Light request for a 25.5 percent accurate measurement of air pollutants at levels of a rate increase. The Public ServCommission suspended the few parts per billion will be possible, as opposed to the ice power companys proposed Febmuch higher concentrations accurately detectable by ruary startup date for the higher rate, saying the rights and intermany other means. ests of require hearAs a basis of the system, a precisely tunable infrared ings andthea public commission decision laser is aimed into the cylindrical sample chamber with a on the rates. Utah Power had resensitive microphone attached. The laser is tuned to the quested increases of 25.5 percent forr esidential, commercial and frequency at which the pollutant to be detected absorbs industrial general services, 26.3 strongly. As the pollutant molecules in the device absorb per cent for public street and lighting, 25.6 per cent the lasers energy, they raise the temperature of the cham- highway for other public authorities, and ber rapidly, producing a wave like pressure increase. This 25.7 percent for resalable power. 0-1- 00 328-585- -- amounts of female medicine for neurasthenia, anemia and agalactia (absence of milk in the breasts after childbirth). Sino-U.total trade in 1973 will reach $800 million almost 10 fold increase from 1972 including only $50 million to .$100 million of U.S. imports, reports C&EN. Furthermore, this spectacular expansion does not include large U.S. export contracts already signed that will only show up in the trade figures upon delivery. Largest factors in the expansion are U.S. sales of agricultural products and aircraft. China will strivee to step up its exports to the LT.S. d in an effort to make less a trade balance massively in the U.S.'s favor. Perhaps the catalogs are one pressure wave travels outward to the walls of the cylinder step in that direction. where it is detected by the microphone. In addition to its use in detecting air pollution, the technique might be applied as a highly sensitive gas detector to sniff out explosives in packages and luggage Since the passage of stringent air pollution laws in at airports and other transportation terminals. Very the country, scientists have begun grappling with the and perhaps less sensitive German Shepherd difficult problem of quickly and precisely detecting the expensive dogs are now being used selectively to detect the minute minute quantities of many gases in the atmosphere. mvmnts of vapor given off by explosives at such location. chemical reactions to detect air Originally using pollutants, scientists are now exploring spectrometric techniques that involve measuring the way a gas absorbs light (usually infrared) at certain specific wavelengths. By comparing that absorption with a reference light beam that has not passed through the gas sample, scientists can determine the constituents of the sample and their concentration. The problem with such absorption methods is that there are usually only minuscle amounts of the target Where thousands gas in a sample, and the length of the lights pathway of listeners enjoy through the sample is small. Both these factors result in a small difference between the detector light and the concert music and beam often a difference too small to be analyzed. news evsrv day! Scientists at the Massachusetts of Technolog have been developing a method to amplify enormously the S. one-side- Acoustic Detection of Pollution ref-em- ce m iw Standard Oil of Indiana and Gulf Oil Co. were the high bid-ier- s at $210.3 million for the right to devolp oil shale deposits in northwestern Colorado. The bids opened by the Department f Interior were the first under the federal governments leases for prototype operations to mine and extract oil from rock formation. The joint bid was far abvoe the high of $500,000 rejected by the government in 68 when it first tried a proposal for easing of public owned oil shale and. The second highest bidder this week was by Suri Oil of Delaware of $175 million. Utah State Prison inmates are working as fast as possible in painting new speed regulation igns to post in the nations newest gas saving effort of limiting the speed to 55 miles per hour. d Vbiit 2.200 signs will be in about two weeks but some motorists have already earned the hard way that citations are issued before the signs are actually changed. The signs are being prepared in two sizes. com-'letc- |