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Show Page Four FRIDAY, THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lite Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah 4 South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 GUINN BJORNN, Publishes 'This fhbliiation is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation. I 364-846- Number 36 Volume 54 10 An Incredible Achievement (Continued from page one) From 19G7 through August of 1974, prescription drug prices in the U.S. increased less than four percent while the Consumer Price Index for all items rose 50 percent. In 1973, the sales volume of four major classes of antibiotics was $205 million, $105 million less than the same amount would have cost in 1909. Patients now pay 24 percent less for the leading oral antibiotic product in the U.S. than they did when it was introduced just three and one half years ago. While total health costs have gone up 54 percent in the last G.5 years, prescription drug prices have increased four percent. Such a record of price stability or actual decrease in this inflationary period is almost incredible. Quite plainly, the effect of prescription drug prices has been to hold down the cost of medical care rather than to increase it. Also, without the miracle drugs that get people well quicker, the cost of being sick today would he vastly higher than it now is. DECEMBER 13 A Hobby That Spans The Seasons the All Year Makes Home A Garden EDITORS NOTE: Faun Poul-soactive in the Democratic party in the State of Utah, has turned her attention to art. The following is taken in part from a feature article in her hometown of Beaverton, Oregon. Now when most gardeners are asking themselves Where have all the flowers gone except for the fact that they are cleaning up the dregs, so they know clever people like Fawn Poul-so- n of Beaverton (by way of Seattle, Southern California and Salt Lake City), are picking airy bouquets. Picking them not from the earth but from the stock they have so carefully dried during the passing seasons of bloom. Ever since her childhood in Utah, where formal gardening was limited and interesting weeds, grasses and wildflowers were much more plentiful, Fawn has collected odd bits of flora anl arranged them for family and friends pleasure. When her husband, Phyl, accepted a job with the federal government in defense contracts services which meant moving from Salt Lake City to Southern California, then Seattle, and three years ago Portland, Fern found herself without their grown children and grandchildren, without her job and without their large home to maintain. It's been like an extended vacation,' she beams, and one of her great delights has been the time she is able to devote to drying and arrangements culminating in a specialty of framed arrangements, varying from to formal. earthy Phyl travels, and when at home, likes to join Fawn for long wandering walks. She always has one eye open to new things, new colors, new possibilities. She stores and arranges materials in their condominium's spare bedroom and uses a small attic space for drying larger things. Drying agents she recommends include silica gel, cream of wheat, borax and salt singly or in combination depending on the texture of petals to be preserved. Fragile pansy blossoms, for example, she starts in cream of wheat. They absorb protein and toughen, then are finished up in n, -5 Choice To Be Made The people of America have a fundamental choice to make. Free market incentives and the drive of investor-owned private enterprise have produced more jobs, higher standards of living, more opportunities for personal fulfillment and greater national strength for the United States than anvone in the world ever dreamed of before. The question now is. do Americans, in seeking a solution to the pressing national problems of inflation and energy supply, want to rely on the system that did this job for them? Or, do they want to depend on government with its rules, regulations and bureaucratic management to pull our national chestnuts out of a fire that government was primarily responsible for starting in the first place? Nowhere is the choice more clearly drawn than in the energy industries. Federal government costrols are the greatest single obstacle in solving the nations energy problems. An executive of a major ail company has pointed out that some 00 rifferent agencies in Washington, D.C. are involved in energy matters. While they may not have produced a barrel of oil, they have created an astounding maze of red tape, restrictions and regulations. Oil company profits arc up, as they must be, if billions of dollars of new investment are to be attracted to the risky business of exploration, discovery and production of new domestic oil reserves. But, at the verv time that U.S. oil companies must plan to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to invest in land leases, exploration and new production and refining facilities. Congress does little except consider dozens of punitive laws that would block development or tax the financial guts out of the industry, liclative to the proposal that the federal government go into the oil business, the industry spokesman observes, there is no wav that a federal entity would ever com- pete on equal terms with private companies. What has been proposed is an agency that would pay no taxes other than property taxes, that would get preferred access to oil and gas hearing lands in the federal domain, and whose financing would he guaranteed by the United States government. . . . All of this highlights two things. 'The nation must have a coherent nationtl energy policy to bring order out of chaos in domestic energy development. And the American people have to decide on which horse to place their bets. Judging by performance, this choice should he easy, and it must he made without delay. THE SALT LAKE TIMES 1974 silica gel. Flowers should be picked at the first moment of fullest bloom, from 12 noon to 1 in the afternoon, preferably, though some can stand in water for a short time without losing quality. The single exception is roses, which should always be picked and dried while buds. LEASED Fawns favorite reference is The Art of Drying Plant and GIOPEVIIt 4 Flowers by Mabel Squires, and the perfection of her bouquets indicates she learned her lessons well. An interest in art broadened her hobby from simple dried arrangements to framed pictures of bloom. Under glass, arrangements keep their color and delicate form even longer, so its a rewarding effort. And most inspiring is Fawns knack of creating the lovliest miniatures from the most ordinary materials. Scraps of straw hat brims become patterned baskets, overflowing with bloom. Discarded cosmetic caps become stylish brass and pewter vase for prim bouquet. mtrm Effective immediately and through 1975 the federal government will be providing a larger percentage of money for federal aid road construction projects in Utah. The State Road Commission has lowered the states matching fund ratio from 85.5 percent federal and 14.5 percent state to 90.2 percent federal and 9.18 percent state. It appears that Governor Rampton will have a difficult time to come up with requested monies for all departments this year in light of the estimated decline in state revenues. This became very apparent when he held a meeting with some educators and told them he still needs to trim some $6.9 million from his budget and he hasnt yet considered the Division of Daisies, pansies, iris, camellias, gardenias, mariposa daiies. Cecile Brunner roses . . . even tiny individual hydrangeas blooms can be dried to an amazappearingly fresh and life-lik- e ance. As all very special hobbies do. Fawns began to expand her horions years ago, leading her to teach crafts classes at their condominium community center Witer Resources. and to accept special orders for arrangements from friends and acquaintances. She credits patience, an instinct for scrounging and a healthy dose of enthusiasm for experimentation as the elements of her success. Her hobby spans the seasons and makes her home a garden all year around and to Fawn Poulson, thats the greatest joy. A slight reduction in natural gas rate to customers of Mountain Fuel Supply has been approved by the Utah Public Service Commission retroactive to Dec. 1. The Company asked the PSC permission to reduce recently approved rates when the , BLM To Close Canaan Mountains To Motor Vehicles Federal Power Commission reduced the amount of a rate increase requested by Northwest-pipelin- e Corp. The MFS rate decrease will mean a reduction to Utah gas bills of $94,149 over a one year period. ; Canaan Mountain and nearby A resolution by Salt Lake is being closed to all motorized vehicles effective Decem- city commissioner to cut the city ber 10, according to Paul L. payroll by 100 employees Howard, Bureau of Land Man- through attrition is headed in agement state director for Utah the wrong direction and city The action is being taken to commissioner this week promprevent loss of primitive, out- ised to try to reverse the trend personnel Director Lynn standing scenic, environmental City Marsh submitted a report during and other resource values, Mr. this week commission meeting Howard said. Involved in the closure are which show that instead of los26,816 acres north of Hildale ing 100 employees as was deand south of Springdale, Wash- cided in July, 57 have been ington County. The closed area added to the payroll. The total includes Canaan Mountain, Low- city payroll now stands at about er Mountain, South Mountain 2,000 employees. (sometimes called Ghost or Oliver Mountain) and portions of A proposal by a South Creek. Chicago based firm to continue act-- I Boundaries of the area are consulting as the consultant for the noted on maps which may be ing Main Street beautification proat seen the BLM Kanab district was ject flatly denied this week office, 320 North 1st East, Kathe city commission. City nab; Dixie Resource Area office, by 38 Federal Building, St. George, Attorney Roger Cutler informed and the BLM state office in the commission during an executive Salt Lake Federal Building, session that the firm submitted a bill for $70,000 for suppleRoom 8103. mental work on the Main Street job and that it also requested a new contract to continue its area services. Salt Lake County commission in their newly proposed budget Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! omitted from the budget a 5.5 percent pay increase for nearly 2700 county employees and about $6.5 million worth of capital improvements which has been requested. The county will collect an estimated $55.4 million in all revenue but will spend only $51.7 million. The $3.7 million surplus has been included in the 1975 budget but revenues next year are expected to fall short of the proposed budget. |
