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Show bag Four FRIDAY, OCTOBER THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Sait Late Mining 6 Legal New Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah 4 711 South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 64101 USDA Proposes Amendments To Food Stamp Program Rules The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed amendments to food stamp program regulations which proGLENN BJORNN, Publiihct vide permanent procedures for "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction retroactively restoring a houseor corporation ." benefits wrongfully deholds Number 27 Volume 54 nied, delayed or terminated hrough administrative error. Since January 1974, interim procedures have been n effect. In the proposed regulations USDA asks comments on three methods for restoring lost benefits. All of the methods involve offsetting the households pur-- , chase requirement with the lost (Continued from page one) benefit entitlement. proposed regulations difone million joules of energy at an early date and at low ferThe from the interim procedures cost, said Dr. lteed J. Jensen, group leader of the in these areas: Laser-- 3 Recipients can receive lost program at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. benefits going through He cited the joint efforts of Jack P. Aldridge, N. Roy the fair without hearing process if the Greiner, Larry S. 11 lair, Richard W. Getzinger, Paul F. client, food stamp caseworker, Bird, Robert G. Wenzel, and George P. Arnold all from and supervisor agree. will be reLos Alamoms and E. LL. Patterson and R. A. Gerber storedLost benefits 12 months the for only of Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque. the preceding discovery of the is ex- error. The reaction between hydrogen and fluorine Recipients lost benefits will plosive in nature, and the concept of harnessing the energy be reduced by the amount of from this reaction to multiply laser energy is not new. any outstanding claims against However, the production from chemical explosions of ihem. Other proposed regulations the large amount of pulsed laser energy needed to initiate were announced which: fusion required fundamental innovations in triggering Require a standard format chemical reactions and in rapidly driving them to com- for the authorization to purchase card. pletion to extract the maximum amount of energy. This Make the lias now been accomplished, Dr. Jensen said in an expla- state agencies liableadministering when their failure to cooperate with USDA nation of his work, continuing: resulted in an adverse court Recent developments in the technique of instanta- has decision. 564-846- I Chemical Trigger For Fusion Power Is Reported neous ignition of the explosion of mixtures of hydrogen and fluorine have produced dramatic results in coupling rapid chemical energy release directly into laser power. In a recent series of experiments, over 2,300 joules of laser energy was obtained in a 30 nanosecond (0.00000003 second) pulse by investing less than 1000 joules of electrical energy in the gas to initiate tre explosion. This high rate of energy return will make it possible to provide laser pulses near one million joules at an early date and at a n low cost, so that the basic physics of pellet be fusion can investigated. implosion necessary for laser An electron beam M as used to initiate the reaction. The laser tube contained fluorine, oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur hexafluoride. The oxygen was present to keep the hydrogen and fluorine from reacting before the electron beam pulse was delivered. The sulfur hexacuoride is an extra source of reactive buorine atoms; it sheds extra fluorine atoms at an early time in the reaction to boost the rate of reaction to the highest possible value, he explained. High pressure used in the latest experiment leads to a very rapid reaction rate so that the pulse duration is only 24 nanoseconds (0.000000024 seconds) the peak power is 100 billion watts. A watt is an international unit of power equal to one joule of energy per second. In future work, we will increase the pressure of each of the constituents about tenfold, thereby reducing the lasing time to less than 2.5 nanoseconds. We hope to eventually get the pulse energy to nearly one million joules, lie said. laser-drive- THE SALT LAKE TIMES 11, 1974 The proposed regulations were scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on Monday, September 30. Written comments may be mailed or delivered to Royal Shipp, Acting Director, Food Stamp Division, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. Comments must be received by October 30, and will be open to public inspection. Emergency Loans Available To Farmers For Drought Losses Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, facing the nation. But if Congress makes the wrong choices among current National Health Insurance proposals, the present system of private health insurance and medical care could deteriorate into monopolistic, federaand managed health care. Then health lly-financed services may quickly become the publics number-on- e worry. The private health insurance industry and government programs already provide coverage for upwards of 00 percent of the American people. This degree of progress has been made by the medical system we al- - ah, reported today that farmers in Duchesne, Iron and Sanpete Counties are eligible for emergency loans through the Farmers Home Administration. Sen. Bennett had earlier written to the FHA urging that the loans be made available in order to relieve farmers and ranchers suffering from the drought which lasted from April through the end of August. Sen. Bennett said that applications for emergency loan assistance, which is repayable at a 5 percent interest rate, can be filed in area FHA offices. Applications for loans to cover physical lasses will be accepted until November 18, while production losses will be covered until June ISASSD GRflPEVfAlk v f The U.S. Department of Commerces Salt Lake City office will be an important outpost in the fight against inflation. Former Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd, whose confirmation as director is expected from the Senate soon, said that the Utah district office will be the delivery center for information concerning the national program of energy conservation so strongly emphasized by President Ford. Salt Lake County must soon convert a number of its gasoline storage tanks from leaded to unleaded gasoline if it is to order 1975 vehicles. In a letter to the County Commissioner from William Smith, Purchasing Agent, he told the commissioner that the new cars must use only unleaded gas. This is one of the new measures coming from the EPA to auto manufacturers, and a highly controversial subject to the motoring public. Rep. K. Gunn McKay, from Utahs First Congressional Dis- trict, criticized inaction on the federal paperwork burdens in remarks during the debate on a 20, 1975. bill to commission a two-yestudy of federal paperwork. We know what action must be ready have. As to the future, the head of the nations taken now and these actions should not be delayed for two largest health care prepayment organization believes years. Paperwork is simply too that federal action is necessary, not to replace private costly to the government and medicine but to strengthen private health insurance cov- too burdensome on private citizens to continue delay. The conerage and eliminate problems that can never he re- gressional representative said solved without the active participation of government. that federal paperwork cost over In setting up this type of working partnership, some of $1 billion a year and that there over one million different the basic principles to be considered are. in his dew: are federal forms. Federal financing for coverage of the poor and medicar ally indigent: Catastrophic coverage tied to a program of basic benefits to protect against the costs of prolonged and serious illness; and Effective regulation of the health insurance industry to eliminate abuses and assure that adequate levels of coverage are provided. In the interest of such matters as efficiency, quality of care, maintenance of free choice between provider and patient and options as to health care delivery systems, including Health Maintenance Organizations, there should be maximum participation by the private sector. These are the basic relationships and principles of operation that have made the U.S. medical system what it is today in terms of delivering the highest-qualit- y care to the majority of the American people. These essential basics of health care in America must be preserved. If they arc not. the result will almost inevitably be financially catastrophic, and what is worse, a medical tragedy. Keep The Basics Apparently, only about three percent of the public considers health care to be among the major concerns R-Ut- tie dial Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! Salt Lake Citys police and fire rhiefs this week asked the commissioner if they can replace firemen and policemen who retire or quit. Their concern stems from the city commission action last June which stopped all replacements of employes after Oct. 1 except in emergency circumstances. The commission action was aimed at reducing the city payroll by 100 workers to cut costs. Plblic Safety Commissioner Glen Greener told the chiefs to go ahead and fill the position but to ask the city commission for con-tinue- to permission. This past week saw Mayor J. Gam go through some $1 million. This happened when the mayor opened his mail and found a $1 million check for the citys share in the revenue-sharin- g programs. Minutes after the mayor endorsed the check City Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr. grabbed it and rushed to the bank for deposit. Commissioner Phillips said that the $1 million earns about $500 interest per day when deposited early in the day. E. The term counter steer, one of the keys to safely controlling a skidding car, is confusing to many motorists. Specialists explain it simply as driving in the direction you want to go. necks. |