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Show 7W THE SALT LAKE TIMES . tk i' ft Ti ' , f I J ,Xf .. ', ,, Rage Three of Retarded Pres. Ford Signs In Raised in Poverty Of Real Estate T ax 75 Copper telephone wire is an attractive target for thieves, especially en remote areas. While Mountain Bell has an ongoing program to recover and recycle the wire, thieves sometimes beat the company to it. Thanks to close cooperation between law enforcement agencies and company security personnel, wire thieves are often caught. Recently, in Box Elder County, three teenage thieves were caught, convicted and fined for wire theft. While vandalism is usually directed at equipment, it can result in the loss of productive work time for company crews. One morning, for example, a crew of employees in the Salt Lake Valley found their d and tractor had been containtrench driven into a ing four feet of water. Not only was the tractor damaged, but an entire days work for several men was lost, he said. Were doing everything possible that we, as a company, can do to reduce losses due to vandalism and theft, he said. Public awareness of the problem and its cooperation in reporting acts such as these would make our job a lot easier. In addition to possible federal penalties, under Utah law persons hot-wire- 20-fo- ot caught intentionally destroying public utility property are subject to a $1,000 fine and one-ye- . imprisonment, out. ar Soderberg pointed Farmers Await UFBF Convention Members of Utahs largest farm organization will gather in Salt Lake City December 9 in the Utah Farm Burau Federation's 59th annual state convention. The meetings will be held at the Salt Lake Hilton Hotel. Elmo W. Hamilton, Riverton, president of the 13,225-memborganization, announced an impressive lineup of speakers for the meeting. They include Utah's Senator-elect Orrin Hatch, Governor-elec- t Scott Matheson, BYU president Dallin Oaks and John Datt, Farm Bureaus Washington, D.C. legislative specialist. inventHighlight of the two-da-y ion will be the debate and final adoption of Farm Bureau policy on legislative issues to come before the Utah legislature and the new Congress. 8-- If we are able to use all the knowledge about causes of mental retardation that we already possess, Says Patricia Nelson, Executive Director of the Salt Lake County Association for Retarded Citizens, the occurence of mental retardation could be reduced by fifty percent." During the month of November the National Association for Retarded Citizens, through its 1900 local member, units, is conducting Mental Retardation Prevention Month as a public awareness campaign. The Salt Lake County ARC is attempting to alert the Salt Lake area to the fact that mental retardation can be prevented. For example, many children are needlessly retarded because their mothers, when pregnant, contracted German Measles, were exposed to or took certain drugs. Other women do not receive adequate nutrition or health care during pregnancy. Many children who are born normal become retarded because of malnutrition, poisoning from lead paint or other toxins, or simply from spending their early years in an environment tht has very little to interest them or stimulate them to learn. Many of the causes of retardation are associated with poverty. In a poverty environment, a pregnant woman is more likely to b exposed to disease or inadequate prenatal health care and diet. Her baby is likely to be born small, which sometimes results in retardation. In its early years, the baby many be sick or malnourished. The child may have an unstimulating environment during the crucial early years of learning and developing. If he lives in an old building, he is a likely target for lead paint poisoning. Poverty alone doesnt cause mental retardation, but its influence is clear. About 75 percent of all people with retardation were raised in poverty. X-ray- s, er lequilaThe Way You Like It Keep The 4--H Safety Hags Flying Safety has more emphasis at Hawthorne, Liberty and Webster Elementary Schools because of the help from USU Extension youth programs, with Bertha Daniels from Salt Lake County giving personal assistance to the schools. Safety films were shown to approximately 353 students at Liberty School, 460 students at Webster and 519 students at Hawthorne School. Following these films a green pennant flag was presented to the Safety Patrol and is flown under their American Flag so long as there are no pedestrian accidents among these young people. Once a month volunteer leaders Hellen Layton, Deane Robbins and Rayola Lee will give individual instruction to the 90 Safety Patrol youth and present a poster to be displayed about a particular safety item pertinent to the time of year. These posters come from the Safety for All Seasons Project. The Safety Patrol assisted by their school teacher Lauren Spalding from Webster School; Wayne King from Liberty School; and Jerold Nielson from Hawthorne School will reemphasize Safety to all the school youth. is happy to assist in teaching safety to the boys and girls in Salt Lake City. believes the hope of tomorrow comes from the youth of today and encourages individual as well as group participation in its many educational projects, according to Dr. Kay Bendixsen, Salt Lake County Youth Agent. - 4-- 4-- Sunrise Tequila , FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1976 Vandalism is Costly to Mountain Bell Vandalism and theft costs the telephone company and its customers in Utah thousands of dollars each year and can result in the interruption of existing service or a delay in establishing new service, according to Mountain Bells security chief. A. Perry Soderberg, security supervisor for the Utah division of Mountain Bell, stated that malicious vandalism and theft of accounts for a signifi-- . equipment cant loss to the telephone company and its customers each year. Customers have a big stake in trying to reduce such losses, He because every time explained, vandalism occurs, it's the customer who suffers the most. He estimated losses this year to date from vandalism and theft have exceeded $40,000. More important, however, than a cost the dollar loss incurred which must ultimately be shouldis the ered by the consumer interruption of service or the delay in establishing new service. Soderberg cited an example in the Payson area when a junction terminal box was blown apart by a homemade bomb. It was probably just a prank to those involved, he said, But to the 100 subscribers who were left without service for a time, it could have been much more serious if an emergency had aris- -' en. M Such vandalism is not only a violation of local and state law, but often breaks federal law in which case the Feberal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) immediately becomes involved. Damage to lines serving federal agencies or interstate lines always involve the FBI because of the possibility of sabotage, Soderberg explained. .The large increase in building permits issued in Utah County over the last several months had put tremendous demands upon the telephone company for new service. Over the Labor Day weekend, a cable was large reel of 900-pa- ir rendered completely useless after vandals peppered it with .22 rifle shots from their automobile. The destruction was compounded because much of the cable was laid before the bullet holes were discovered so it had to be pulled out and new cable reordered. Much of the destruction is senseless. Near Logan, two men poured gasoline over a telephone company tractor parked near the roadside and set fire to it. The two were eventually caught, but the damage was done. id 33E2 Heady-Prepar- ed 4-- Make your own mixed drinks with great, imported Jose Cortez Tequila d or enjoy the finest Jacquins Sunrise. You're a winner in either case. ready-mixe- CharlM Jacquin ct Cm., Inc. Phila., Pa. Joaa Cortes Tequila - 80 Proof Sunrise 25 Proof 4-- H H H H Lieu Bill President Ford has signed legis- unit but payment would still be. lation authorizing the Secretary of limited by the unit population. No the Interior to make payments in payment of under $100 would be lieu of real estate taxes to counties made under either formula. and other units of local government Federal acres included in the law having certain kinds of federally-owne- d are lands administered by the land within their borders. Bureau of Land Management, BurLand owned by the federal govern- eau of Reclamation, National Park ment' has historically been exempt Service, Forest Service, and Corps from local taxation. of Engineers. The law does not The new law would base pay- include federal wildlife refuges, ments to local units of government Indian lands or lands included in on the acreage of certain types of military bases. It does not include federal land within the unit, on the federal lands acquired from states amount of money paid to the unit, or local units of governments if the from revenue collected from those' lands were not subjected to real lands, and on local population. estate taxes prior to being acquired In each case, the local unit would by the federal government. be entitled to the greater amount of is provided Additional money computed by either one of to . local unitspayment for National Park two formulas. lands December 31, after acquired The first formula would be com1970 if on the tax lands were the puted by multiplying. 75 cents by rolls at the time of acquisition. the acres of specified federal lands within the unit. This amount could Such payments are to be 5 of the not exceed a ceiling based on the value of the lands paid to the local unit at 1 per year for five years. population of the unit. The ceiling is graduated from $50 per capita for Interior officials noted that all to of their figures at this time are 5,000 and under populations $20 per capita for populations of estimates since final figures cannot 50,000. One million dollars is the be computed until state governors maximum any unit could receive in the public land states provide ; ; . : . under the population limitations.' Payments received by the local unit from federal land revenues as a result of other statutes would be subtracted from the initial calculation to arrive at the actual amount the local government unit was due under this formula. The second formula is computed by multiplying 10 cents by the total number of the specified federal acres within the unit. Under this formula there would be no reduction for revenue shared with the information about the distribution of certain receipts received from the federal land to their local governmental units. This information will be requested shortly. They also noted that there cn be no payments until Congress has appropriated funds for these in lieu tax payments. Given current schedules, congressional action on appropriations would not be likely before late spring, 1977; payments, would be made for the fiscal 1977 year shortly thereafter. VA In An Intensive Drive To Conserve Vital Energy An energy bank that makes ice in winter to cool a hospital the next summer, solar energy to provide another hospitals hot water, and a university-spawne- d computer prochoose to the optimum air gram from among 30 conditioning system are methods these possible, futuristic projects being among the developed by the Veterans Administration in an intensive drive to conserve the nations vital energy. In Wilmington, Delaware, a VA research laboratory is being equipped with solar panels to provide heating and cooling systems that will be linked to a computer feeding data to the agencys Washington, D.C. headquarters. VA engineers there will compare the building's energy requirements with those over a four-yespan when only conventional energy sources were used for heating the ar cooling. In a separate project, a new d VA nursing home in Wilmington will be equipped with an energy bank tht will convert waste energy from a heat pump into ice which will be stored in a huge, underground tank for use during. the summer when it will provide chilled water for cooling the building. VA engineers describe the system as unique and say it will achieve a significant energy savings from the beginning. Under design for installation at the VA hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., is a system that will use the facilitys incinerator in conjunction with a waste heat boiler to produce steam burning 1,000 pounds of waste to recover an energy per hour of 83,000 gallons of oil equivalent each year. Solar energy will provide hot water for use in a VA nursing home in Palo Alto, California; a new hospital in Augusta,' Georgia, a clinic in Reno, Nevada and a 60-be- research and education building in Miami, Florida. In a joint effort with VA engineers, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh are designing for VA a computer program which will allow the agency to analyze over 30 different air conditioning systems for optimum energy consumption in VA hospitals. And at the VA hospital in the nation's capitol, a computer system that is the vanguard of others to come operates the hospitals environmental control system. The computer optimizes air conditioning and heating equipment so that the most use is made of the required energy. It even schedules equipment maintenance. VA engineers say that they were also able to use the computer to determine that an existing cooling plant had sufficient capacity to take care of a planned building addition. Looking even further into the future, VA engineers are exploring the possibility of increasing the agencys efficient use of energy by installing what are known as Total energy systems by which hospitals and other VA facilities generate their own energy and make the most efficient use of the waste ts. Assistant VA Administrator for Construction Viggo P. Miller said, VA is using all known energy technology together with results from our search efforts in our current construction program and we intend to keep abreast of any new developments in the energy conservation field in the years ahead. Some seven per cent of all babies in this country are born with birth defects, says the March of Dimes. The voluntary agency supports nationwide research programs into the prevention of birth defects. . |