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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1974 Hoge THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah For Public Service Jobs By CETA Indian reservations in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming will share nearly $400,000 to operate transitional public service job programs under the Number 1 5 hensive Employment andCompreVolume 54 Training Act (CETA), the U.S. Department of Labor announced. (Table giving allocation by State and reservation can be found at the end of this release.) David T. Duncan, Acting Assistant Regional Director for (Continued from page one) Manpower in Denver, explained that these funds are apportioned higher wellhead prices to natural gas producers to in- to areas of substantial unemploycrease incentives. They have supported legislation in ment under CETAs Title II Congress to achieve these ends. They have done so as guidelines. tli bulletin explains because prices of natural gas under These are areas with unemployment of 6 Vz percent or more federal regulation were not permitted to rise commen- in any three consecutive months "11 South West Temple 4 Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Pohlisbcx "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation . 364-846- No Margin Left surate with competing fuels. This combination of high demand and low prices inevitably led to a gas shortage. Moreover, At the same time, the unmet demands for gas were transferred to competing fuels, ultimately resulting in greater demand and higher prices for these fuels. Thus, the gas shortage itself contributed to higher prices for alternate fuels, and the common belief that low gas prices insure a low ceiling price for other fuels has been shown to be a misconception. The American Gas Association has presented a thumbnail sketch of basic reasons for the energy shortage a shortage that has been smoldering for two decades like a time bomb under the pressure of unrealistic price regulation of natural gas producers in the United States. The present apparent easing of the energy short- age must not be permitted to obscure these elementary facts. There is almost no margin for error left in the adoption of national policies vital to future energy supplies. Please Don't Eat The Periwinkle Please Don't Eat The Periwinkle Vincamine. an antisenility chemical found in the familiar ground cover periwinkle ( vinca minor), can be synthesized efficiently from inexpensive starting materials, it is reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Periwinkle, a trailing evergreen plant with leaves and blue flowers, is also called glossy, dark-gree- n LEASED since July 1973. In the CETA Title II program, funded through June 30, 1975, the people to be hired must be unemployed or underemployed. GRflPEVINt Groups to receive special con- sideration include veterans, welfare recipients, and former manpower trainees. Jobs can be in any public agency, such as schools, police and fire departments, libraries, hospitals, parks, and recreation departments. Wherever feasible, the funds provide related training and services to help such persons move into regular employment. Public employees under the program must be paid the same as regular public employees and be given the same fringe benefits and working conditions. V- - The Utah State Tax Commission says it found deficiencies in taxpayers returns totaling $7.3 million for the past fiscal year. An increase of more than $600,-00- 0 from the 1973 fiscal year. Paul Holt auditing division director said that the returns include all those filed by persons and companies for income, sales, and use taxes, corporations, motor fuel, tobacco and others. Mr. Holt said also that the division audited 110,000 more individual income tax returns in 1974 than the year before. company for pharmaceutical products, Medimpex. refers to vincamine as a cerebral vasorelaxant that proved to be a potent hypotensive agent, particularly in cases of mild and more severe hypertension and cerebral vascular spasms. The Medimpex catalogue explains: . . . The main site of action lies in the brain-steModerately lowering the blood pressure and without influencing minute volumes of the heart, the effect is selective on the cerebral arteries and without any side effects. The catalogue refers to vincamines use in cerebrovascular conditions and crises, in disorders or disturbances of blood supply to the cerebral vessels, and hypertensive encephalopathies. According to Professor Michael Cava of the University of Pennsylvania, who supplied the sample of the naturally occurring vincamine to Dr. Schlessinger for comparison with his synthesized product, people in Europe and France who have been selling vincamine as a drug said that research has shown beneficial effects on some forms of senility by increasing the oxygen transport to the brain. They contacted him because they were looking for other sources of vincamine, and Dr. Cava had found some in a South American tree. Tliev told him that tliev could sell as much vincamine as tliev could acquire, but that their supply was limited by the avail-abiliof natural sources. Dr. Daniel Lednicer of The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, expressed some interest in the compound because of its cardiovascular effects and in Dr. Schlessinger s synthesis because it enables the preparation of analogs or closely related compounds for study. He commented that periwinkle, which apparently originated in southern France, grows over most of the world. Although it is not native to the U.S., it now grows wild in this country. The name periwinkle is a corruption from the Latin pervinca , he added. oOo 3 lost of us, in moments of fatigue or discouragement have taken a look at our daily task and wondered, What does it really matter? Precisely at those moments we should tell ourselves what my lifetime has taught me is the one true answer, I shall keep doing my job. for 1 matter a great deal. We are much more important than creeping myrtle. Said to improve intellectual capacity in patients with cerebrovascular disorders (MERCK INDEX), vincamine is also known to be mildly sedative and active against high blood pressure, said Dr. It. U. Schless-inge- r of the University of Rochester, senior author of the report. lie added in ail interview that vincamine is reportedly used as a tranquilizer in pediatrics in South America, but it is not approved for use in the U.S. Vincamine presently is supplied in amounts limited by the ponderous process of extracting the compound from periwinkle harvested primarily in Hungary and apparently also in France. Moreover, the present vincamine market is controlled mostlv bv the Eastern Euro- pean countries. Dr. Sehlcssinger added in the interview. we think. Therefore, there has been considerable interest in finding an economical laboratory synthesis. The new total synthesis gives an unusually high (40 to ,i0 percent) yield of vincamine and starts from inexpensive butyric acid, which is the renowned g agent in rancid butter and stale perspiration. The synthesis also delineates a new and generally useful route to synthesize additional alkaloids, particular! v modifications of vincamine. Other syntheses have been reported. Dr. Sehlcssinger pointed out. but none has the advantages of this new process. 10-st- the Indians Given Near $400,000 Salt Lake City emergency services leaders this week complained that city streets are often in such condition that emergency vehicles have problems reaching the scene of accidents and other emergencies. Public Safety Commissioner Glen Greener said he would like to know why streets are torn up time after time and also why the emergency department are not kept informed about the blocked street under repair. Salt Lake City Streets commissioner Stephen Harmsen however said that his department calls in the information every day but what the departments do with that information he does not know. m. Volunteer police community liaison officers who can assist the Salt Lake City Police Department with neighborhood difficulties will be working within a month Public Safety Commissioner Glen Greener said. Police Chief J. Earl Jones said that the president of SOCIO, Jack Quintana has been asked to select six persons to act as the liaison officers to work in the citys west side communities. The six will be trained by the police department and will be given identification cards so they can intervene during police-citize- n contacts. tv The Bureau of Reclamation was to award an $18.3 million contract this week for the construction of the Currant Creek Dam in Wasatch County. However bureau officials have not signed the contract. Low bidder on the long delayed dam project was a California company. The 1600 foot long earth fill dam is expected to take between three an dfour years to complete, it will stand 130 feet tall and in designed to regulate the folw of water through the Strawberry acqueduct for storage in the enlarged Strawberry Reservoir. Konrad Adenaur. ep odor-causin- In Hungary, where vincamine was isolated at Gid- eon Richter. Ltd., in 10 ;VJ and subsequently marketed under the name of Devinean,' perwinkle is harvested on commercial farms. The official Hungarian trading! The Federal government said this week it is offering some 1 acres of land in Utah for leases for geothermal energy. The Bureau of Land Management asked that bids be submitted by July 30 to the BLM office in Salt Lake City. The government hopes to attract companies interested in turning the underground steam into electricity through generating 23,-39- Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! i |