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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1974 Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Min tag & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Sriond Clr.ss Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah "i Vest Temple Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher l 564-846- 4 This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." Moss Pushes Bureaucracy to Collision Menace Treat Mid-A- ir U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss totally inadequate. It has not has called for Senate passage of kept pace with air traffic deCollision Avoidance mands and mid air accidents and his Mid-A- ir a Act in hearing before the Sen- death tolls have climbed. ate Aviation Subcommittee. collisions the Calling mid-ai- r most serious problem facsingle U.S. aviation today, Moss ing 20 other Senate cited as evidence of Congressional concern in this area. There is no question that we have a big threat to the flying public, the threat that's been with us and (Continued from page one) growing for nearly 20 years to is twice the point where, today, the poage. This land is available, however, since there tential for airborne disaster has as much idle cropland in the U.S. as there is corn acre- reached calamitous proportions. is The Federal Aviation Adminage. llecause only the starch component of the grain he used for can the used istration, the Federal Agency remaining components for animal feed in meat production. Increased meat pro- with thethesole responsibility problem of mid air solving duction and low'er meat prices would result. Liquid collision, has come under heavy effluent from treated sewage could he used as fertilizer fire from the Senator for several Water pollution years. Moss asserted that the and would he essentially cost-fre- e. FAA had limited its scope in would then be reduced. searching for a solution to the hardproblem and called the present New corn farms could obtain labor from the a parochial prediliction dollar yearly system core unemployed, forming a new 1 a single solution. Feeltoward business, and supporting 1..) million medium-incom- e ing the pressure, FAA witnesses admitted they had decided to families. triple their funding for airborne The resulting higher cost of motor feul would thus, systems this year and had taken of the social the the claims Fong, pay for solving problem serously. problems Moss bill would mandate The is crisis a country. The alcohol approach to the energy a complete program to test and stone that kills all the birds in sight. Perhaps. install collision avoidance sysbiothe a tems on session aboard the nations aircraft At the same meeting, during which has grown to 200,-00- 0 fleet logical effects of light, l)r. 'Thomas P. Vogl of the Colplanes. lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University Moss, chairman of the Senate's in New York described efforts to understand and de- Aeronautical and Space Sciences charged the in- Committee, also velop phototherapy as a treatment for jaundice in FAA of losing interest in applyfants. 'Today about nine percent of all babies horn in the ing the new technology develU.S. are treated for this common condition with light oped by industry. The ground based air traffic control system, in the first week of life. a strategy thats had more than It has been shown that by placing the infants under enough time to prove itself, is Number 8 Volume 54 co-spons- ors Alcohol for Motor Fuel ((() lion fluorescent lights for one to four days, the amount of a n substance called bilirubin in the blood is reduced. d cells that is the decomposition product of causes the yellow pigmentation of skin in jaundiced children. It often accumulates in blood because of liver immaturity or disease, and can cause brain damage, cerebral palsy, and even death. Although immediate side effects of the phototherapy are relatively unimportant, how the treatment works is only partially understood. And since there appears to studies of the problem, the queshave been no long-terside effects is uncertain. In fact, retion of long-terported Vogl. there is much evidence that light of the wavelengths and intensities used in phototherapy does have deleterious effects in a varietv of cell cultures. Vogls investigations have shown that the lights acts in the outermost one or two millimeters of the skin. He also found that it takes a few hours for the bilirubin to move into and out of the blood stream from the skin. So intermittent phototherapy, lie feels, might be just as effective as continuous therapy, thereby reducing the total exposure of the infant and minimizing the possi-hilit- v effects. of adverse long-terIlili-rubi- red-bloo- m m m Authorization Bill Passes Senate to sell oil to the United States may be in the future, it seems fairly certain that the Mideast area generally will not soon become a hotbed of brotherlv love. This being the case, the uncertainties of petroleum supply from that part of the world will remain one of the important factors adding to the upward pressure on oil prices and emphasizing the urgency of developing secure domestic oil supplies adequate to meet our needs. 'The other side of the coin of increasing supply is to .seek out the most efficient possible ways to use fuel in every human activity. In the field of transportation, U.S.i transportation, U.S. Railroads are unquetsionably the LEASED (ill IIP Eli M V- - The U.S. Senate roared the Salt Lake Citys helicopter National Aeronautics and Space may be nothing more than a Administration bill last week money grabber. It is a like an overzealous big Saturn heavy financial burdenputting on the rocket. city. Public Safety CommissionThe bill passed by a voice vote er Glenn Greener said more in one and a half minutes. than $8000 worth of maintenance In his statement seeking the has been spent on the machine passage of the bill, Sen. Frank which now needs a new $14,000 E. Moss spoke for the agencys engine. The mounting costs have authorization for fiscal 1975. caused Greener to order an H.R. 13998 as reported by evaluation of the your Committee with an amend- worth since a new helicopters helicopter ment and now before the Senate would cost little more than what would authorize appropriations was and would to have be spent to the National Aeronautics and to keep the citys helicopspent Space Administration for Fiscal ter flying. . Year 1975. Before proceeding further, I would like to acknowledge the hard work of the committee and Sen. Goldwater particularly the the hearings, during markup and other deliberation on this bill. No chairman could ever wish a more knowldgeable and cooperative ranking member of Barry Goldwater. Mr. President, I submit that this bill deals with the most productive one per cent of the federal budget. Programs authorized by this bill provide both the high technology we need for the future and the direct benefits we urgently need today. It is increasingly evident that knowledge and capabilities produced by NASA programs over the past 16 years are affecting virtually every part of our daily Police are considering merging noise with radar traps to effective enforcement of the noise ordinance. Public Safety Commissioner Greener said in a report on the recently adopted noise ordinance shows that en- forcement has resulted in the issuance of 250 citations to motorists who drive excessively noisy vehicles. Salt Lake City Commissioners agreed that they cant force city court judges to be more strict with zoning ordinance violators but they can cut the judges salaries. The matter was discussed at a commission meeting this week after some 90 residents of the west side area of the city petitioned the commission for lives. enforcement of zoning laws that prohibit wrecking yards in the area. Commissioner Phillips said star performers of this fuel short era. National Science We can't force the judges to be but we raise their Foundation studies have indicated that railroads move moreandstrict we sure can cut it. pay four times as much freight as trucks in terms of ton miles per gallon of fuel consumed and put out only about one quarter as much in the way of air pollutant emissions. It is fortunate that the nation's most efficient means of transportation is also the one capable of moving more than all the trucks, barges and airplanes combined. The majority of rail freight is fundamental to this countrys The Army Corps of Engineers said this week that it cant take emergency measures to widen dike openings in the railroad viaduct across Great Salt Lake. The corps said existing law it to undertake flood control work in emergency situaeconomic activity. It includes such things as coal, tions does not apply to the Salt minerals, ores, farm products, chemicals and Lake problem. The lake waters have risen in recent months afpetroleum. In other words, the nations prime mover is fecting industrial recovery of also the most efficient user of fuel and the least damaging metals and other chemicals from lake brine. Officials of National to the environment. Company and other comThe resurgance of interest in the American railroads Lead panies with lake shore operaas the indispensable core of the nations transport system tion asked the Utah Congreshas been intensified by energy shortages. Such interest sional delegation to bring in the Army to widen opening in the is long overdue. As the U.S. moves across a wide front rail viaduct. per-miti- ng lion-metall- ic to solve its energy supply problems with minimum enIn a brief order the U.S. Suvironmental impact, it has become obvious that the nacourt this week rejected tions railroads will play a central role of unprecedented preme an appeal by a Utah man and importance. upheld a lower court ruling that Transportation Most Vital Whatever the slain of the Arab nations inclination tbe dial Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! members of the State Board of Education have some personal immunity from damage suits. The appeal was made by Melvin Smith, who was fired as an associate professor of history at Dixie College in 1969 in what he claimed was an action against his rights of free speech in a political issue. The federal energy office this week gave men an even hotter summer when they ruled that men will wear neckties. John Sawhill, federal energy chief, suggested one way to meet the fuel crisis and beat the need for air conditioning would be to men to go tieless. Salt Lake businessmen declared the mens necks would remain wrapped. al-b- w |