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Show .y: A. mm i1'1 mm saL--., SSj.jI-'- Efeitfiaiffiritiirfl THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1976 Page Two F Utahs Congressional Delegation the Meets to Discuss Clean Air Act (D-Fla- .), 10 America In The World (continued from page called the pre-nat- al 1) sunset years. Facts are plentiful about care in the United States, birth, early childhood, adolescence, courtship and marriage, and but not about retirement and old age. family living The American newspapers and popular magazines on the racks do offer glimpes of life in retirement communities, but only in the seductive language of advertising. The selection of books and periodicals for information libraries abroad can only reflect the dominant scholarly and popular interests that librarians are expected to serve. Gerontology, the scientific study of aging, is not yet one of these. It has only recently received much attention in academic circles. A stimulus has been federal money. First federal funds came as a result of The Older Americans Act of 1965. Other funds joined these to develop gerontological centers for teaching and research. By 1973 there were 47 such centers on American campuses, serving upwards of 2,000 students in regular courses on aging and giving several thousand other people short-tertraining. While hardly yet one of the glamor fields in higher education, gerontology is steadily gaining ground as a respectable and important subject. It is safe to predict that continuing research in the field, and increasing publication of the research findings, will gain international attention of the sort now accorded our academic contributions to nuclear physics and other hard sciences. When that happens, well no longer have reason to worry about the limitations of our information libraries abroad. m so-call- ed These libraries might well follow the lead of public libraries, in many American cities, in programs exclusively for older people. The Never Too Late Group at the Boston Public Library is one conspicuous example. This group of more than 200 men and women over 60 meets weekly for informal educational programs in the library lecture hall, and participates in excursions and other activities in and near Boston. While hardly yet one of the glamor fields in higher education, gerontology is steadily gaining ground as a respectable and important subject. It is safe to predict that continuing research in the field, and increasing publication of the research- findings, will gain international attention of the sort now accorded our academic contributions to nuclear physics and other hard sciences. When that happens, well no longer have reason to worry about the limitations of our information libraries abroad. As a nation, however, we havent yet had much to say about aging to the rest of the world, which has learned to look to us for pioneering studies and s in so many fields of knowlresearch edge. If we should falter now, and revert to sweeping old age under the rug of ageism. or if we continue glorifying youth as if the young were forever immune from chronological aging, there would be little hope of our helping other nations cope with their unsolved problems of aging. We are not morally bound to lead the world in everything, or even to make the effort. Yet we do share a very strong concern for the worlds form, the decisions allowed under consideration by the full Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Similar legislation has been introduced in the Senate. Representatives Howe and McKay and Governor Rampton all stated their strong belief that the Clean Air Act Amendments should meet the goal of improving the protection of air quality in national parks and other areas of special natural, recreational, scenic or historic value, but they also express their concern that the bill may lead clean air to a Federally-establishe- d buffer zone around protected areas of such large and unreasonable dimensions that development of power resources in Utah would be in many inessentially locked-ou- t stances. The two Congressmen and the Governor said that Utah, and other states, should have the authority to set reasonable standards that will allow for a proper balance between air quality protection and power resource development, rather than having an unrealistic set of standards set by the Federal government. Congressman Rogers assured Reps. Howe and McKay and Governor Rampton that the Clean Air Act Amendments bill does not establish a hard, fast buffer zone limit but would allow for the consideration of each proposed power project location on its own merits, and that the bill contains languge granting the states authority to set standards that will maintain 'the quality of the air in protected areas. Reps. Howe and McKay and Governor Rampton said they thought the language in the bill Salt Lake City officials can no longer wait until the last minute to begin the bargaining process with their employe organization, City Atty. Roger F. Cutler said. Cutler, in a letter to city commissioners, said the city must being now to establish formal bargaining procedures especially with the fire department union which wants a written collective bargaining contract. The proposed bargaining contract submitted by the fire union is unacceptable in its present form. Cutler said. It appears clear that the city will need a sharp pencil and able negotiators to reach a fair and reasonable accord with John H. Klas, Utah State Demo- the fire department union, added cratic Chairman, announced . this cutler. week that he had received from Senator Moss a copy of an Opinion of Counsel from the Federal ElecSalt Lake County will consider tion Commission in response to a banning beer and other alcoholic request for an opinion from Senator beverages in its Riverview Park in Moss, Governor Rampton, ConMurray in compliance, with a Murand gressman McKay, ray City ordinance. The County Congressman Howe concerning the 100 Club. Commission today instructed the I am pleased to have this County Attorneys Office to study opinion and to note from this whether the county must comply opinion that the Commission found with Murrays ordinance. The counthat there is no violation of either ty does not ban alcoholic beverages the FECA or pertinent sections of in its parks. Title 18, U.S. Code, if the four elected officials serve as officers of A volunteer citizens committee the Club. deciding where $1.3 million in Salt Lake County Title 20 funds should be spent in 1977 was warned this week against holding any more private meetings. I find it ironic that we as government officials have to tell a citizens' committee BUY THINGS that they must hold open meetings, said Salt Lake County ComNATURALLY missioner Ralph Y. McClure. - Klas Receives Opinion from Election Comm. mm ran WHEN YOU THE THAT GO WITH IT ' Repeating their words of 1972 and 1975, Salt Lake County officials promised to give the city an accounting of jail bills within a matter of weeks. The city and county entered into an agreement in 1972 giving the county control of the jail and providing for a system to bill the city $2 per prisoner day. The city has not received an accountable bill although William Finney, county finance director, has asked the city for $278,000. Commissioner Glen Greener, wants a proper accounting of that bill before it's agreed to be paid. ed break-through- ii Glenn B. Goodrich, president of the UTA board of directors, announced the Utah Transit Authority will go ahead and purchase the franchise to run buses from downtown Salt Lake City to the International Airport. Goodrich said, We have examined the purchase of the franchise from the Salt Lake Transportation Co. (SLTC) for "A $86,000 from ever angle. members board of the majority approve the purchase, which also includes a franchise to run buses to Alta and Brighton resorts, and we will go ahead with it before our next board meeting, March 24. - - so-call- GRAPEVINE the states and the criteria on which they can be made are so restrictive that the states would have very little, if any latitude in setting standards. Reps. Howe and McKay both said they will watch the bill closely as it moves through committee consideration to the full House to make sure the authority is supposedly grants the states is genuine. Congressman Howe stated, "Basically, what we have to be sure of is that the states have some flexibility in making these decisions. It seems to me that this is the only way we can protect the parks and recreation areas in Utah and still make use of the natural resources adjacent to them. Governor Rampton observed, I have examined the language of the House bill only superficially to this point but, what Im concerned about is that it gives the states an apparent authority which, in terms of the entire bill, may be subject to so many criteria established by the bill itself or the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator that the states will actually have no discretion." The Clean Air Act Amendments bill, which could have a dramatic impact on whether or not proposed power projects can be built in Utah and where they can be located, has been under consideration by Rep. Roger's subcommittee and is now ttko LEASED grating the states authority to set some air quality standards is good, but expressed their concern that the power given to the states could mean very little if, in the bills final Congressman Allan Howe, Congressman Gunn McKay and Utah Governor Calvin L. Hampton met with Congressman Paul Rogers Chairman of the Health and Environment Subcommittee of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, to discuss a package of amendments to the Clean Air Act. look for these displays in your store. you do to get a tree lull gallon ol milk buy a two pound canoINntle Chocolate Flavor Qwk and Iwo packages of Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookes Then wind m proofs ol purctusn along with a coupon horn one ol these si ore All Milk Rclund P O Boa 9787. displays hi Natusco-NestlSi Paul Minnesota SM You II tel hack a coupon good lor a lire lull gallon ol mik' F ull details are on these displays m participating stores lor lor them today and get your neat halt gallon ol mHk tree Otlei vaptresM.iv 31 19b Oreos (Xek-amlk This is one oUer lhals really a natural1 iimcru in diiiry assTxiaiion1 '"I p te vr UiihlkurvQimmLsskn II lit!, wig Ike Sakte I in(M v I'M ri,fi k i IH ifg hI H Ilv A Third District Court judge ruled that the bulk of Salt Lake County Grand Jury accusations against two justices of the peace have This legal sufficiency. means that the two JP's, Ralph S. 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