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Show -r '.TV ii THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 21 ,1976 Burn Center Expanded; Patients Are Moved In Patients have been moved into Generally, patients admitted to the newly expanded Intermountain the unit suffer from second and Burn Center at University of Utah third degree burns over 40 or more Hospital. The facility has been percent of their bodies. Since the center in enlarged to accommodate six beds, opening of the three-beadmitof March has the an array sophisticated equipment 1974, hospital of from all 94 team ted burn victims states a burn specialists and in medical centers referral area the ranging from surgeons and nurses 44 from Salt Lake City and to physical therapists and social workers. County, 17 from other areas of The burn center is under the Utah, 12 from Idaho, 10 from direction of the Us department of Wyoming, 8 from Montana, 2 from surgery and is the only one in the Nevada and I from Colorado. The expanded unit will include a Intermountain Region. It treats and referred for young children and five crib by physicians patients d hospitals throughout a regular patients beds, Dr. Halversen said. University hospital construction crews finished the remodeling nearly two weeks ahead of schedule and all work was approved by the State Building Board. The unit was constructed in the hospitals rehabilitation wing. Dr. Halversen said 50 percent of the 94 patients were 19 years or younger, and half of that figure were under five years old. When the number of citizens this region supports is taken into consideration, its easy to see the importance of such a facility, Dr. Halversen noted. Nationally, statistics show there will be one burn victim annually out of every 2,800 Medical Center is expanded. persons. That means 1,000 InterA highly trained staff of person- mountain Westerners will be nel are on hand to care for the burned each year. Of those," he added, '125 fall patients on an around-the-cloc- k rehabiliinto the critically burned category basis, providing medical, tative and emotional support serv- we use as a general criteria for ices to the critically burned. admission. seven-stat- e area. Dr. Chad Halversen, center director, said the former unit had room enough for only three beds. Now that six patients can be cared for at a time, we can better serve the state and region by providing highly specialized burn treatment to more people. The original three-be- d area generally ran at full capacity, and burn center officials were often involved in helping additional patients gain admission to other hospitals. The opening of the expanded unit is the next step toward eventual d construction of a 10- - to facility planned for the early 1980s when the entire University of Utah 12-be- Mountain Fuel Supply Faces Reorganization Mountain Fuel Supply Company this week announced a major reorganization of the Company. B. Z. Kastler, President, said the reorganization, which has been under study for severl months, was due to the continued growth of the Com- and the increasing complexity the firms operations. The plan, is effective immediately, has been approved by the Companys Board of Directors. B. Z. Kastler, who has served as President and Chief Executive Officer, has been named Chairman of the Board of Directors and Presi- dent. M. M. Fidlar, who was Chairman of the Board, will continue to serve as a member of the Board of Directors. Under the new structure, J. T. Simons, Executive Vice President, will devote his full energies to exploration and development of the Companys oil and gas properties, and the acquisition of new prospects and gas supplies. John Crawford, Jr. is a new Executive Vice President. His responsibilities include Operations, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Public and Employee Affairs and Administration. C. F. Coleman, who has served Distrias Senior Vice President bution, assumes responsibility for production and transmission activi- ties previously directed by Mr. Simon. Colemans new title is Sen- ior Vice President Operations. A. J. Marushack assumes a newly created position as Deputy Vice President Operations. He move from Rock Springs where has been Assistant Manager of Gas Supply Operations. E. J. Johnson has been elected Vice President and Treasurer and now oversees the financial affairs of - I I :i V x T. J .f . I ... M t v.-- . 4 (continued from page 1) calls to bring them into line with interstate rates now in effect. There were no intervenors or protestants at the hearing which were held this week. Company witnesses were cross examined by G. Blaine Davis representing the Division of Business Regulation. Appearing during the Tuesday hearing along with Fuller was Norman W. Leake, manager of financial analysis, Denver. He was questioned in detail on the companys budget for Utah, which, he explained, was developed for three year periods and then carefully evaluated and revised three times each year. The budget for 1975 was based on a cost of living index showing a 7.8 percent increase. That figure was used for 1976, but the CPI index now appears to be nearer 6.1 percent, which will affect the current budget, Leake admitted. However, he quickly pointed out, the companys labor contract ends in 1977, and that may result in unforeseen increases. The projected budget was established on the basis of wage rates already in effect. We have assumed the present terms of the present contract for budgeting purposes, Leake said. In an opening statement, David E. Salisbury, legal counsel for Mountain Bell, said that over 97 percent of the residences in Utah have telephone service. Recent studies conducted by the company indicate that approximately 85 percent of those using public coin telephones have telephones available in their homes or businesses. To a great extent, these calls are made at the convenience of the customer and the usage is within their control. It does not seem unreasonable to require these people to bear a more realistic portion of the cost associated with providing this service rather than imposing this burden upon the basic telephone tomer, he said. We feel that all of the proposed tariff changes are necessary, reasonable and proper and should be approved. He noted that the present order suspending the rate changes will expire on June 11. On that date, the rate increases will become automatic by law unless the commission rules other con-tempat- wise. of Carbon County. He received BA and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Utah. He joined MFS in 1957 as an attorney. He was named Senior Vice President in 1974 and a Director in 1975. Mr. Coleman attended Weber STate College, received a BS in mathematics and an MA in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah. On FEB. 23, 1770, &ARON jLIlUldlallip WlflflPfQ NfltnpH PRUSSIAN FKEPEfZJCK VON $TEUPEN ARRIVED AT VALIEV FORGE WHERE HE INSTITUTED A THAT training program transformed Washington's continental army into a far MORE EFFECTIVE FIGHTING FORCE' O AFL-CIO-COP- . . 20 Cent Call A Possibility Company Director since 1964. Mr. Crawford is a native Winners of the 18th annual Utah State AFL-CIHigh School Schol-wi- ll awards have been an-h- e arship nounced. Two Utah high school students, Nancy Ann Coon, Skyline High School and John James, Box Elder High are winners of a $450 college the Company. scholarship each. The winners were selected from students participatbeen who has Clyde M. Heiner, Director of Rates and Planning, ing from high schools throughout becomes the Manager of Engineer- the state of Utah. The scholarships will be present- ing. This is a new position created to direct all engineering aspects of ed to the two winners during the the company. This includes Rates Annual Utah State and Planning, Civil Engineering, Convention to be held in Septem-Desig- n Engineering, Reservoir En- - her. a '. ginecnng, Petroleum Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Research. D. N. Rose fills another new position, Manager of Administra- tion. He directs many support and service functions, such as Purchas-pan- y ing and Warehousing, Communica-o- f tions and Transportation, Compu-whic- h ter Services, Safety, Training and Office Services. R. LaVaun Cox remains as General Manager of Public and Employee Affairs, but has assumed additional responsibility for the company's Personnel function. Mr. Simon has been with Mountain Fuel since 1939, and hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he received a BS in petroleum engineering. He was named Vice President in 1955 and has served as a Page Five E Che TEtHNUUIEg TEU0EN OF VON HAVE LARGELY ptEN 6Y IMPROVED METHOD REPLACED OF MILITARY PARON'5 $.lNE. And women of the BUT THE DRIVE FDR EXCELLENCE TILL LIVE ON AMONG THE MEN VOLUNTEER ARMY. modern ed U Doctors Identify New Group Of Potential Bone Disease Victims A painful condition characterized by bone deposits developing in muscle tissue has long been observed in patients suffering from a wide range of maladies. They said the newly identified disease form has been found in healthy patients whose lesions are neither the result of trauma nor are they progressive (from birth). It appears there is something unusual in these patients' disease processes that make them more susceptible to development of bony lesions in muscle tissue. The U physicians based their observations on four patients who had no medical complaints other than pain and swelling in various portions of their bodies. Tests were conducted that showed bony masses in the tissues. Subsequent biopsies of the affected areas resulted in microscopic tissue sections that indicated myositis ossificans The disease, known as myositis ossificans, can occur from birth on, as the result of a severe trauma or due to other neuromuscular and chronic illnesses. Now, two University of Utah bone specialists have identified a new category of petients who appear healthy but suffer from the disease. Drs. Sherman S. Coleman and Kent M. Samuelson of the division of orthopedic surgey reported their findings in an issue of the Journal of the American Medical Associawas present. tion (JAMA). FREEDOM IS WE THE PEOPLE Don Blumenthal The United States of America is a very special land. It is the land of the free. It is the land 'of the people, by the people, and for the people.' It is a land not only of opportunity, but also a land that, throughout its 200 year history, has shared a certain sense of common destiny among its people. That destiny is freedom and We The People make it happen. The first 100 days of the American Bicentennial we have traveled throughout the Western United States. During our all travels we have met with, and talked to, many Americans kinds of Americans from the Rocky Mountains to the West Coast. American craftsmen, teachers, doctors, musicians, hard hats, newspapermen, housewives, and the unemployed. Our vehicle for initiating conversation about What do you think about America? has been a belt buckle. It is a belt buckle designed to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the United States of America & We The People. It is not just an ordinary buckle it's a feeling, a concept seeking to dispell apathy and regenerate faith in, and participation by, We The People. The initial response to our question: What do you think about America? has generally been hastily in the negative. Its going down hill. Americas alright. But it used to be, and could be, better. Its too expensive. Its the best! No comment. Out of 5,000 Americans polled during the first 100 days of the Bicentennial, 61 of the initial replies were negative in were positive; 6 no comment. Most of the nature; 33 initially negative responses admitted having taken America, Democracy, Freedom for granted for so long that they did not fully understand the question, and switched to either a positive or a bewildered attitude about America and what it means to them. 77 of those who responded negatively admitted to not having voted in as much as eleven years. So many years of spectating would make a complainer out of just about anybody. Freedom can never be taken for granted. To do so, is to lose it forever. Its up to us, We The People. To preserve and protect our right and desire for freedom. It takes effort, lots of effort. It takes participation, too. To spectate in apathetic dejection is to take for granted, and to lose, those basic freedoms, and rights, for which many before us have given their lives. Freedom is We the People. Information on the WE THE PEOPLE Bicentennial Collectors Buckle, numbered, registered, handmade write to American Buckeroo30 Hillside AveSalt Lake City, Utah 84103. Include name and birthdate. Permission is hereby granted to Salt Lake Times to reprint this article. Don Blumenthal 76 |