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Show Page Four FRIDAY, JANUARY 'Quit Smoking1 Pollution Answer THE SALT LAKE TIMES UTAHS Combined mth The Salt Late Mining 6 Legal Mews Published Every Friday at Salt Late City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah INDEPENDENT " 4 South West Temple Telephone NEWSPAPER Salt Lake Gty, Utah $4101 GLENN BJORNN, Publishes controlled is owned nos or "This publication by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation I Whats the answer to indoor J64-S46- pollution? asked Lyman F. Smart, president of the Utah Lung Association. Quit Smoking. The Lung Association is urv-in- g Utahns to support the Personal Pollution Solution and join together quit smoking groups he explained. This January will be the 11th anniversary of the Surgeon Generals Report on Smoking and Health. During this month the Utah Lung Association urges businesses, industries, service clubs and hospitals to take their own steps toward encouraging employees and members to quit smoking. The campaign is based on the premise that smokers quitting together can be helpful to one another. Sharing the quitting experience can strengthen convictions and motivate continued actio n. explained Mr. Smart. An attractive certificate has been designed by the Lung Association for groups of smokers to pledge their support of the Personal Pollution Solution and quit smoking together. on information Additional availto kick the habit is how able at the Utah Lung Association, 1616 South 11th East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105. We encourage anyone wishing information about what he can do to effort, support the to write or call, Mr. Smart said. Number 40 Volume 54 10 Layer Of Salt Believed Blanket Of Jupiter Satellite (Continued from page one) y scientists throughout the world that a special period took place in November, was planned as a time i'or coordinated internatinal observations of Io. The coordinating point for To Week will be the Center for Earth and Planetary Physics at Harvard University. If we know the characteristics of the materials that the solar systems started with, we can go a lot further in determining how it was formed, a spokesman in the NSFs Astronomy Section said. The salty satellite has a diameter of 2,2(i() miles and orbits Jupiter about a quarter of that of the earth at approximately 2(10,000 miles. 10-da- anti-smoki- Good Out Of Evil? No thing con ever justify the taking of human life, and one of the paradoxes of war is that instruments contributory to combat wounds later many become instruments of mercy responsive to urgent human needs. Applied Optics , a journal of the Optical Society of America, carried this report in a recent issue. d An example is that the U.S. night the from darkness of cover goggles, designed to take the concealment advantage of the enemy, now hold the promise of giving sight tomorrow to many who are blind today. Application of the technology of Night Vision Goggles to aid those afflicted with the night blinding several thousand disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa (HP) are estimated to be so affected throughout the United was reported at Fort Belvoir, Va., by the U.S. States Army Night Vision Laboratory. HP victims using the BVGs can begin to do things during the hours of darkness which the disease previously prevented them from doing. Some victims are blind under lighting conditions as high as normal street lighting; many cannot walk down the street after sunset. Goggles-therap- y feasibility tests were conducted at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston under the director of Eliot Berson. Army Night Vision Laboratory scientists joined with Dr. Berson in 1972 by n NVGs approach to HP using the therapy. Once the effectiveness of the equipment was determined, XVL representatives brought together representatives of industry to manufacture the systems for the Army. Consequently, through mutual endeavors a pair of NVGs may soon be redesigned, lower-price-d available for sale to HP patients. ng anti-smoki- ng The Utah Lung Association is concerned with the heath of everyone. Clearing the air of cigarette smoke improves the environment for the health too. smoker and the smokIt is known that cigarette ing is linked to emphysema, lung cancer, heart and other diseases. Now recent research clearly shows that cigarette smoke is also harmful to the innocent bystander. Sidestream smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, and mainstream smoke pulled by the smoker and exhaled, are more than merely nuisances to the public auction to the highest nostrils and eyes of others. This double exposure offers serious threats to the lungs and circulatory system of the unwilling inhaler, Mr. Smart reported. According to one study, researchers found that smoking seven cigarettes in one hour . . even in a ventilated room . . lifted carbon monoxide levels in the seat next to the smoker to 90 parts per million, almost twice the maximum permissable level allowed for industry. If industries can spend large sums of money to keep pollution levels down, surely the smoker can do his part, he said. The evidence against smoking is great. The Personal Pollution Solution program is a good opportunity for smokers to band together in a group effort and pledge to quit smoking now," Mr. Smart concluded. non-smok- er . . GRAPEVINI Salt Lake City officials this week formally adopted a recommendation that construction of a state office building on Capitoi Hill should meet not only the immediate needs for office space and the long range needs of state government but also be compatible with the land use planning of Salt Lake City. Included in the policy decision recommended by Street Commissioner Stephen Harmsen is a series of recommendations forwarded to the Capitol Hill Commission which is developing a plan to be presented to the State Legislature. 9 Political documents, including personal files dealing with the Presidential impeachment, were recently donated to the University of Utah Marriott Library by former U.S. Congressman Wayne Owens and ex Salt Lake City Mayor E. J. Garn. Mr. Owens donated 32 boxes of records some pertaining to hearings held by the House Judiciary Commit- tee on the impeachment of former President Richard M. Nixon. Others deal with the hearings on Nixons nomination of Gerald R. Ford as vice president. future, a shortage of electric energy in human terms will add up to sharply lowered living standards and very high levels of unemployment. Following a survey, which one major utility company made, concerning 278 of its 13,700 commercial customers, the president of the company noted that a 10 percent curtailment of electric power would cut more than 1,300 industrial jobs, and 3,300 jobs would be lost if electric service to the 273 companies queried were to be cut by as much as 20 per cent. National Salt Lake County Commissioners approved Gerald B. Kinghorns appointment as Assistant County Attorney this week. Mr. Kinghorns recent law action caused the commissioners some concern over the appointment. Mr. Kinghorn has been challenging the county ordinance over X rated movie. Mr. Kinghorn will receive $26,304 yearly County Attorney Paul Van Dam, who made the appolicies aimed at solving the nations en- pointment, said that the commiswill be pleased with the problems and assuring the adequacy of sion work of Kinghorn. deserves the most and will ergy supply those supplies urgent priority economic statesmanship on the part of national require leadership, federal agencies. Congress, regulatory commissions and state legislatures. An important part of the effort should be dirceted toward putting development of the nations electric generating capacity back on the financial track. The penalty for failure will be measured in unemployment and human suffering. second-generatio- Shortage In The Making a matter of deep concern that the nations electric utilities are being forced to cut back construction plans far beyond wha would be accounted for by a somewhat slower energy demand. Finding themselves hit hard by rising costs of construction and the increasing difficulty and cost of securing funds in the securities markets, the nations electric companies have reduced their construction budgets by 18 percent for the next! four years. A study of the situation has shown that nuclear energy accounts for much of this decline. A cutback amounting to $1(1.1 billion of a projected $88.1 billion LEASED Appointments in city government this week meant pay raises in addition to the new resoonsi-bilitie- s for some officials. Mayor Conrad Harrison who became construction program through 1978 has been made. Most mayor this week, will receive a of the reduction is accounted for by postponements rather pay increase of $1,680 per year shorter in the and. from Nuclear cancellations. tlitn actual $17,700 to $19,440. City Herman Hogensen. electrical generation are seen as one of Recorder run, coal-fire- d who was appointed commissionthe important means of easing the pressure on available er to fill Mr. Harrisons post, will supplies of oil and natural gas. Also, looking to the see a S570 a year increase. Army-develope- It the Says Lung Association Official FEARLESS ! THE SALT LAKE TIMES 10, 1975 is ! Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every dayI The number of Salt Lake County employes laid off in the first week of the new year totals 30 this week. More layoffs will occur in stages as the coun- ty closed down its extended care hospital, employing some 43 persons. Douglas Thomsen, personnel director, said the cutbacks are being made to meet the countys new $54.1 million budget. Difficulties in getting a Salt Lake County declaration of intention on the proposed $32 million Little Dell Dam and Reservoir in Parleys Canyon will be resolved this month. Salt Lake County officials this week agreed on e pression of disfavor over the $1.7 million local flood control assessment and the requirement to repay the amount uo on construction of the project. The county feels that the f gurc should be lower and that its payment should extend over a period of perhaps 50 years, as other local cost proportions are being handled. |