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Show i f THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1974 Poge Two Deer Harvest Goal Accomplished Researcher Cites Connection In Stress, Bladder Infection Business Picks Up1 For New Vacuums Years ago, American houseThe 1974 deer harvest went abandoned their brooms wives pretty much as planned, says Rodney John, Division of Wild- and carpet sweepers in favor of life Resources big game biolo- vacuum cleaners. Today, thanks A University of Utah College of Medicine research team has found what appears to be a connection between the presence of gist. The season was set to achieve Snowbird Posts Gains a decreased antlerless harvest, and that goal was accomplished, tension and progressive bladder In Summer Operations he explained. Deer check station infection. information indicates a prelimasDr. Hans Keutel, research Snowbird Resort experienced of 60,000 mule harvest sistant professor of medicine, substantial increases in patron- inary presented research findings at a age of all operations during the deer for this years Octobercom-19 meeting last month in Germany past summer, according to Ex- through 29 season. This of the German Urological As- ecutive Vice President E. G. pares with 82,319 deer taken in 1973. sociation. He worked on the (Bud) Sicmon. John pointed to several facproject with a former U uroloGuest occupancy in the Snow- tors for the decline gist, Dr. R.G. Weaver. over this accounting bird edges increased 89 The year. biggest cut, of The research was started three the previous summer. Much of was due to buck years ago to find out if a com- the increase was due to expand- course, on most units in only the bination of prolonged stress and ed group meeting and conference hunting state. Elimination control of inflammation would induce in business at the resort and the fewer hunters afield dogs a prototype of human inter- first summer operation of the permits, this year and limited seasons on stitial cystitis, a progressive in- new, Cliff Lodge. areas which did have eithose flammation of the total bladder. Food and beverage revenues ther sex hunting were other conDr. Keutel said a combination increased 77 over the previous factors. of stress and a distant streptoc-cocu- s summer period. Included in the tributing However, John added, Deinfection in laboratory ani- jump were gains in both indi- spite the apparent clamor of and group food and bev- some hunters for buck only mals had produced a permanent vidual business. Snowbird opererage in the state, many inflammation of the bladder ates two restaurants, a snack hunting to units with either sex switched wall. This inflammation, on the bar and a banquet facility durthe first three days. hunting basis of immunological and ing the summer months. This increased the harvest of to Over 60,000 persons rode the does on these units. studies, appeared Snowbird Aerial Tramway durto Thus, when all decreases and the human be greatly similar 48 the a increases of harvet in pecific disease. Without either stress or ing over past summer, peri-dthe like area are totaled, a net reduction gain previous streptococcus, not much hapaccording to resort officials. this year of over 21,000 deer harpened. Many of the revenue increases vested mostly does is seen. were related to additional group John noted that all Division Also, if stress was present busi- officers who worked in the conference and meetings and we used bacteria other than ness at Snowbird, which tripled Manti, Nebo and Fishlake area streptococcus, the disease didnt during the summer over the pre- the site of three day either sex, vious one. Snowbird expanded eight day buck only units reoccur, he added. meeting facilities prior to the ported increased pressure. HowThe research was funded its to include a summer ever, a feared influx of hunters through a grant given by the capacity conference center and onto the states other either sex Urological Research Fund, Inc., four other meeting sites for area did not materialize. That smaller groups. of Salt Lake City. area, in southeastern Utah, was 160-roo- m his-tochemi- w, 450-pers- on to modern technology, maintenance men in the Utah Highway Department are doing the same. The Highway Departments version of the vacuum cleaner is a giant vacuum-sweeptruck called the Elgin Whirlwind Vacuum Sweeper. The Department recently purchased two of them at a cost of $37,854 each for use in the Salt Lake, Tooele, and Utah Counties. The sweeper is unique from conventional sweepers because it has an vahuum nozzle which hovers over the sweeping surface itself. Driven enwith a separate gine, the vacuum system will pick up anything from microscopic dust to heavy accumulations of dirt, stones, bottles, sand, gravel, leaves, and even tin cans. bucks only the first four days and either sex the last seven days. During the first weekend, officers there checked 2,362 hunt-ter- s with 455 deer. The second weekend, when either sex could be taken, 968 hunters brought out 197 does and 160 bucks 357 deer. By the time either sex hunting began in that area, distant from population centers, most hunters had gone home, said John. Overall hunter success was about 33 percent this year. Biologists had estimated a 30 to 35 percent success rate. Harvest questionnaires being mailed this week will indicate more exact figures. er 125-square-i- six-cylind- er Maintenance officials in the highway departments District Two recently turned the two sweepers loose on sand and gravel littered Beck Street in Salt Lake City. Maintenance Foreman Daniel Wood said that after they were finished Beck Street never looked so clean. Like the housewife's vacuum cleaner, the Highway Departments sweeper comes with all kinds of attachments, including various hydraulically operated brooms and a wandering hose. The hose is eight inches in diameter and 12 feet long. Using the hose, workers can pick up the contents of litter baskets, sand boxes, salt boxes, and just about anything else that crosses their path. Sweeper are essential to good highway maintenance. Loose sand, gravel and debris can be hazardous to motorists, especially to motorcyclists. Sweepers are also useful in sweeping up truck spills and broken glass resulting from accidents. i t f - Call For Questionnaires Division of Wildlife Resources biologists have received only 39 uercent of the questionnaire stubs from open bull elk hunters nermits this year, causing a gap in harvest succes tabulations. Game Biologist Norm Bowden questionreports that follow-u- p naires are being mailed to hunters in hopes more data will be reported. If hunters would mail the questionnaire stub from their permits, it would save time, paper and other expense, he said. The information is needed to help biologists determine population and hunter success trends among Utahs bull elk. Doctor In the Kitchen by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D. Consultant, National Dairy Council PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE AMONG TODAY'S BARGAINS The inflation-burdene- d American housewife may be finding fewer bargains these days, but at least one class of products is a better buy today than it was a decade ago: prescription drugs. The Consumer Price Index, compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows that since 1964, while the indexes for food and for the average of all items in the market basket have marched upward side by side from 96 to 132 (a rise of about 37 percent) the index has prescription-drudeclined from 102 to 100. Tablet for tablet todays medicine costs the consumer an average of two percent less than it did 10 years ago, and prescription drugs account for only about eight cents out of every dollar spent on medical care versus 15 cents in 1964. For each dollar of prescription sales, the manufacturer realizes only 4.7 cents profit after tax, said Richard M. Furlaud, president of Squibb Corporation, in a recent speech. So that g I A POOR DIET The term risk factor is one the public is becoming more and more conscious of. Smoking is considered a risk factor in heart . (S4.32 on an average in 1973), a prescription may seem too expensive to many people. Also, since doctors write prescriptions and pharmacists fill them, the consumer knows much less about medicine than about most other products he buys. The average annual ex- penditure per person for prescription drugs in the United States in 1972 was $22.50, which amounted to $1.35 more than the spending for haircuts but about half what each consumer paid for shoes and even eliminating all manuslightly more than a third facturers profits certainly of his tobacco hill. would not make that much Interestingly, the spenddifference in prescription ing per person on alcohol prices. was $97.45 in 1972-mo- re than four times the tali for Why People Grump drugs. prescription One reason people grump about drug prices is that A principal reason for the per-capi- medicine is a not the kind person ordinarily wants to buy. Its something he buys because he needs it. Thus, it is not surprising that regardless of its price g heart disease. Certainly, most everyone now knows that diet may be involved. Eating too much fat, or too much sugar, for instance, is referred to as a risk factor. But what is a risk factor? Is it a cause of In a study of the market shares held by the four leading firms in each of disease? Not at all. The best explanation Ive heard is that a risk factor is a condition in your life that may dispose you toward a particular ailment. If You Stop . . . If you stop doing whatever it is, you move yourself statistically into another group of people, people who may be less likely to get whatever disease you are 413 manufacturing industries, the U.S. Census Bureau found that the pharmaceutical industry was among the least concentrated, ranking 313th. According to an industry study, the largest company accounts for only seven percent of all prescription sales in the United Strtes. The 10 leading firms account for approximately f of total sales. A RISK eat in early life can have profound effects on their brain demuscular coordinavelopment, tion and behavior. Proper diet also helps children fight disease. More profoundly, we are learning that the diet of the pregnant woman will influence her newborn childs resistance to infection long after it is born. And mothers may not have to be severely deficient in their nutrition for this to be so. Research At 3I.I.T. A nutrition research team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has studied pregnant women, suggests that nutritional deficiencies during pregnancy can impair the immune defenses not just of the fetus but of the mother, and that this immune damage can be reversed by improving the mothers diet. crucial, Particularly says talking about. But its no guaran-- ; MIT Nutritionist Paul M. New-bemtee you wont get it anyway. And, are those nutrients that for that matter, living with a may be marginally present in the risk factor does not necessarily diet, yet needed by the fetus to mean you will die of it. develop its immune system . . . Doctors know, as a perfect ex- Hie many unexplained illnesses ample, that not all people with in children, and the wide varie, one-hal- Todays prescription drugs, along with other improvements in medical care, enable physicians to cure illness faster, reduce the longth of hospitalization (or eliminate the need for it) and return patients to productive work sooner. For example, new medicine helped cut the average hospital decline in prescription-drustay of a tuberculosis patient is keen competition from 461 days in 1950 to prices in the pharmaceutical indus- about 78 days in 1973, cuttry. No single firm has any- ting the cost to the patient, thing approaching a dom- including treatment and lost inant share of the market. income, in half. e of thing ta disease. So is high blood sure. As is a family history of IS i high levels of cholesterol in their ation among children in their susceptibility to illness, may very possibly bo explained by what their mothers eat during pregnancy. Pregnant women need generous tain disease. But meantime, as a nutrition portions daily from the meat group, milk and researcher, I worry about what poultry-fis- h be the greatest risk factor other dairy products, fresh green may ' of all poor eating habits. and fruits, and vegetables We know that what children breads and cereals. ; I ! I i j blood will have a heart attack. So it is all a thing. Most physicians worry more if you have a combination of several risk factors for a cer-- ' might-and-may- be |