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Show FRIDAY, MARCH Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES 14, 1975 National Guard Labeled as One Of Nation's Greatest Bargains THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Late Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah you can appreciate the contribution that the Guard really makes to the community. Besides providing effective national defense at bargain costs and channeling considerable federal funds into the state economy General Watts pointed out that the Guard serves the community in other ways. Over boys participate each year in Bantam Basketball programs in 37 different Utah communities all organized and conducted by the Guard and financed by local sponsors. Besides sponsoring such programs as Armed Forces Day, Operation Patriotism and the Freedom Academy the Utah National Guard has worked on projects as varied as helping to clean up Utahs lakes to improving the Mount Pleasant Airport. Miles of recreational roads have been built bridges constructed, and sites improved as part of training projects for the citizen-soldieraccording to Watts. These are carefully screened to avoid competing with private contractors. Because of extensive training facilities available, the Utah National Guard will generate over 45,000 tourist man days for the state this year as other guard units come to Utah for training surrounding city exercises. This conclusion is based on the amounts of ozone; The Guard is one of the best dont know of a better buy found in rural and urban areas in Xew York State. Hut examples there is of revenue for Itax than National The federal govern-- 1 At a time when the nation is South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah S4I0I facing double digit inflation and rising costs on all sides, the NaGLENN DJORNN, Publisher tional Guard is one of the coun' This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction trys greatest bargains, acording or corporation. to Major General Maurice L. Number 49 Watts, Adjutant General of the Volume 54 Utah National Guard. 10 The primary role of the National Guard is national defense, a role it performs admirably at only a fraction of the cost of a full-tim- e Army, according to General Watts. A Guard unit can fulfill the function of the from :same type of unit in the active (Continued page one) the cost. (Army at only one-fift- h enOne way of measuring an individual urban emission sources may not solve the effectiveness is by means tire ozone problem and a larger regional approach may armys of training tests. In the Utah be required. National Guard, not only have Traditional theory has blamed high ozone concen- all of the companies and batterappropriate Army trations in city air primarily on complicated reactions in ies passed tests but so have all of training oxides as well. We feel battalions the sunlight (photochemical) involving nitrogen and hydrocarbons, common air pollutants from auto ex- that we have about 90 , of the effectiveness of active Army haust. units at a fraction of the cost, indisaid General Watts. However, studies by the New York scientists A National Guardsman is not cate a different mechanism at work. a soldier, but also an im. . . for those cities studied, local urban photo- only portant part of the community. chemical generation of ozone is not the dominant mech- More than 70' ; of our men have which in anism for ozone production, tliev say in their report. In college experience, practical terms means that they fact, the high urban ozone concentrations are principally jneed less training to do as good air into or better a job than the typical the result of transport and mixing of ozone-ric- h from the the air mass. lidded recruit General Watts 1 1 the IEASSD 364-446- High Urban Ozone Not Caused By Auto Exhaust 3,-0- 00 ! ; s, j GRflPEVIKt Governor Calvin L. Rampton this week transmitted a state retirement bill which he had threatened to veto to the Secretary of State unsigned but without a veto. The Governor said it would be his constitutional duty to veto the bill which would increase retirement benefits for state employes since he believed it to be unconstitutional. However the State Attorney General opinion differs I have refrained from a veto of this bill only because it arrived at my desk late in the session and if a veto were sustained I can get no assurance from the legislative leadership that another retirement bill could be passed. World Affairs Forum told this week that more elaborate w-a- s and sophisticated military weapons are forthcoming. Col. B. H. Curwen of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces told the forum that tomorrows n sailor, coastguardsman, and marine will be a hightrained ly capable expert in the multitude of highly technical weapons designed to make him more valuable than ever before. sol-;die- r, air-ma- j the scietists added in a telephone interview that this same-ingGuarXGcnerarWatts For only a fraction of the is probably common to other parts of the supporting the Utah GuardVir- - ifcde cost of a the II. S. as well. jtually all of which ends up as Guard and ReservesArmy provide Ozone is one of the pollutants covered bv Federal income in 26 communities all more than 30c; 0f our national . ronclud-mechanis- m - full-tim- Utah. When you realize air quality regulations, and current ambient air stand- lover that the Guard brings over 25 ards are set at .08 parts per million (ppm) of ozone as an million dollars into the state, in- defense force. It provides additional income for thousands of not to be exceeded more than once a year. cluding over a million dollars Utahns, and performs valuable paid in state taxes from techni- public services in communities as well as several cian the Xew York team salaries and training pay from Smithfield to St. George. hourly average However, have noted ozone levels much other investigators rural areas. higher than this standard in wide-sprea- d When the authors monitored the ozone concentrations for several New York cities Syracuse, New York City, Huffalo, Kingston, and Glens Falls they observed that during episodes of high rural ozone concentrations, urban areas also experience high ozone peak concentrations. Furthermore, maximum ozone levels in urban areas occur during the afternoon. The report points out that it is also during the afternoon that the greatest amount of atmospheric movement and mixing takes place, with large amounts of air moving into cities from surround- However, they continue, what the data do indicate is that ozone concentrations in excess of the 0.08 ppm Federal maximum hourly standard do exist in rural areas and can be transported into urban areas through advection and vertical mixing. What this means in regard to current air quality standards for ozone is still difficult to asess, the authors; said in a telephone interview. For one thing, it is not yet certain from where the ozone in rural areas comes whether it is largely natural or whether it was produced in some other location and was carried by the winds. If the new theory holds up after additional study, ing areas. they continued, it may mean that controlling individual if ozone the the authors being urban emision sources continue, Therefore, now the approach to reduce the source measured in urban areas has as its primary ozone pollution will not solve the total air quality bulk air mas over the state of New York, the urban ozone problem. will generally reach its peak concentration when the surWe should still be interested in controlling these beface winds and temperature reach their maximum, emissions until we know just where we stand, Dr. Stas-iu- k is its this urban mass time the cause at air said via telephone. undergoing Hut we think ultimately we most rapid interchange with the air above and outside will have to go to some sort of larger regional approach of the city. to controlling ozone. Although these factors combine to support the new theory, they are not by themselves conclusive. Hut according to the authors, is strong. Rural ozone concentrations have similar values acros wide areas of the state, and the peak urban concentrations show a correlation to the rural concentrations being measured at the same time, a fact difficult to explain solely through photochemical generation (from A transfer and mixing auto emissions), they state. mechanism would suitably explain these correlations. Where thousands Therefore, we believe the correlations do imply a tin-evidenc- dial common ozone source. Although they believe the transport mechanism accounts for most of the ozone in an urban area, the sc:cn- tists quickly add that local photochemical production can contribute to the total urban ozone burden. of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! Sen. Frank E. Moss said this week he will introduce a package of legislation to regulate cigarette sales and discourage tobacco production advertising and use. The bills call for elimination of tobacco subsidies, increased taxes for cigarettes based on tar content limitation based on tar content in cigarettes warnings to be posted wherever tobacco is sold and elimination of business tax reductions for the advertising of cigarettes. The Salt Lake County Sheroffice plans to check Salt Lake County residences this week and advise owners how to burglar proof their homes. Residents may request Pe service by calling the Sheriffs Office, according to Jody Brennion, director of the local United Crime Prevention Effort. The 60 volunteers, members of the County Sheriffs Security Force, are completing a training course under the direction of John Syablcs. chairman of the Board of Directors of the Crime Prevention Program and formerly Scotland Yard. iffs Salt Lake City officials this week called the Ticket Amnesty Program a flop. James Budd, director for the Traffic Violations Bureau, said only a small percentage of those who had delinquent citations naid off their tickets. Under the amnesty program those persons could cay the tickets with the original fine. When the amnesty began Jan. 15 Ihere were approximately 112.-00- 0 delinquent citations. Only 10,039 tickets were paid during the program that had been issued prior to Jan. 15. V Navy Airman Recruit Jerry L. Timothy, son of Mrs. Ruth B. Timothy of 956 N. 200 East, Orem, Utah, graduated from cruit training re- at the Naval Training Center, San Diego. The training included instruc-fio- n in seamanshio, military rcgulations, fire fighting, close 'rdcr drill, first aid and Navy hislory. |