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Show March 1972 Utah Farm Bureau News Page 3 John Young, CLU Elected To Board The Farm Bureau congratulates Mr. John S. Young, CLU on his recent elected position to the Board of Trustees of Westminster College of Salt Lake City. Mr. Young has been very active in Utah Farm Bureau since his appointment as a Branch Manager with the Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company and Country Mutual Life in 1965. Mr. Young was elected as Marketing Vice President of Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company and Director of Agencies for Country Mutual Life in 1970. During 1971 Mr. Young com- pleted his studies with The American College of Life Un- derwriters and was awarded the coveted CLU designation. Mr. Young, a 1956 graduate of Westminster Bureau Insurance Agents Pose for Picture Companies Hold Awards Banquet The annual Awards Banquet was held recently for the agents of Country Mutual Life and Farm Bureau Insurance Company. The affair was held at the Fort Douglas Country Club and enjoyed by all attending. Company management expressed appreciation for the outstanding accomplishments achieved during 1971. It was noted that 1971 was the best production year in the history of Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company and Country Mutual Life. Country Mutual Life had an impressive $20,898,000 volume of new life insurance issued during the year. Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company agents likewise set a record of $2,500,000 in premiums. Agents assisted in making 1971 the best year in Farm Bureau memberships since 1961. Top production for CML went to Gerald Wilcox of Orangeville, 2nd place to Mike Caldwell of Salt Lake, and 3rd place to Jim Timmins of Salt Lake. The First, Second and Third places for sale of annuities went to Gerald Wilcox, Floyd Carter, Corinne, and Eddie Boyle, respectively. Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company top producers were as follows: Country Squire policies 1st, 2nd and 3rd places were achieved by A. Ray Reese, Tremonton, Gilbert V. McDowell, American Fork and LeRay Reese, Cedar City, respectively.. City Squire policy awards went to J. C. Hansen, Ogden (First), Leo T. Syphus, Clearfield (Second), and Gilbert McDowell (Third). Eddie Boyle sold the most Homeowners policies followed up by Rex Behling, Payson and Lloyd Horlacher, Richfield (Third). Kay Hamilton, Duchesne sold the most Fire with Gerald Wilcox Mon-ticell- o, auto included Carl Loveless, Provo, Thad Jensen, Orem and Ernest R. White, Salt Lake. GOOD COUNTRY MUSIC is still around. 2 Sample Records & List, only $1. GUARANTEED. Oatmora Stars, Box 9039 Little Rock, Ark. 72209 and Country Club. John S. Young Is burning of og waste dangerous? Citizen groups are disturbed about continued demands to "ban all burning of waste material when evidence available indicates such a corrective procedure may produce more pollution than benefits. side-effec- ts No thinking individual will object to laws and regulations to control burning of waste when it pollutes the air. However, such controls should be based on factual evidence that disposal by burning is dangerous. One of the groups that question the proposal to "ban all burning is agriculture. The research available indicates that there are periods when air pollution due to agricultural burning is "visually undesirable: however, these studies indicate that agricultures contribution to the total volume of air pollution is very small and, with the exception of the brief visual" contamination, as a whole, there is no justification for banning of all agricultural burning. In one state a proposal was presented that would ban all agricultural burning except by an approved high temperature incendiary machine for waste burning. While the cost of such a disposal machine (from $2,000 to $4,000) must be recognized, the major question is whether this proposed approach is sound. In the state of California, there were regulations adopted, based on researched data, that there should be no ban on "all agricultural burning, but there would be times when temperature inversions exist that it would be advisable that agriculture not burn excessive waste. The Utah Farm Bureau presented information at a hearing on legislation to ban agricultural burning that machine pulverizing of orchard pruning could create greater air pollution than burning the waste. They showed that a ton of gasoline burned in automobiles produces between 850 to 900 pounds of C.O. Thus, 75 pounds of gasoline or about 10 gallons will produce as much pollutants in C.O. as one ton of tree prunings. There is also evidence that burning of infected prunings is the only known control of some types of fruit tree diseases. People do not forget that one preliminary research report indicated the carbon particuli produced by burning of orchard prunings has a scrubbing effect that aids in cleaning the air. In the '50's we heard about the dangers of the "finger on the nuclear trigger. Today, we hear man has his finger on an "environmental trigger. We are told the second is no less dangerous to our survival than the nuclear trigger. The thoughts of an oxygen shortage, air too foul to breathe, or water too toxic for use is not pleasant to consider. But environmental management is not a new problem. Men from the beginning of time have struggled to develop a liveable environment. What are some of the known facts about air pollution in the nation? From the "Resources of the Future" (1969) report we learn: the residues from energy conversion alone included 106 million tons of carbon monoxide, 20 million tons of hydrocarbons, 22 million tons of nitrogen, and 9.5 million tons of ash. It is estimated that in (Second) followed by Champ Church, Panguitch. LeRay Reese led the pace in Health and Accident policies with Rex Behling and Errol Jensen, Salt Lake taking second and third respectively. liiree placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in at College President of the Colleges Alumni Association lives with his wife JoAnn and his two children at 5649 Calann Drive (5600 South). 1965 The United States Public Health Service estimated that in there were 188 million tons of pollution pumped into the air of a ton of U.S. or approximately three-fourth- s the by woman child. and each for man, pollution The principal sources of air pollutants, according to the Health Department, are: 64 per cent automobile and diesel engine crankcase exhausts (internal combustion engines) 1966 THE AUTHOR Leonard H. Johnson, assistant director of the AFBF natural resources department, is a veteran of 18 years staff service in Farm Bureau. He primarily serves natural resources interest in state FBs west of the Mississippi. He is a Brigham Young University graduate with an economics degree. per cent from industry per cent from power plants 6 per cent from heating homes and buildings 2 per cent from burning of trash and disposal of waste There is no reported measure of the volume of pollution from agriculture. Carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and aldehydes are formed when petroleum fuels are burned. These are damaging 17 11 to human tissues. London (twice), New York, Meuse Valley in France, and Donora, Pennsylvania are the five recorded episodes of high concentrations of air pollutants which accelerate death in the elderly and infirm. Many approaches have been proposed for the disposition of agricultural waste such as grain stubble, fence rows, tree prunage, ditch bank, etc. Purist environmentalists denounce agricultural waste disposal by burning, resulting in a confrontation of what to do! There is no recognized measure of the national volume of air pollution due to agricultural burning. It is generally listed in the Other or "Miscellaneous categories, which represents less than 1 per cent or 2 per cent of the total volume. A Santa Clara County (California) air pollution study revealed that pollution from automobiles in that county in one day exceeded the total air pollution from agriculture in that county for a whole year. California is the number one agricultural state in the Union in terms of total agricultural production. This is also the state which has an air pollution problem. California contracted a comprehensive study of air pollution due to burning of agricultural wastes. The study was completed in 1966 by the California Statewide Air Pollution Research Center and scientists from the University of California. From this research, California developed a set of air standards and burning regulations. The regulations are labeled as "guidelines. Most significant is they prohibit the total "banning" of all agricultural burning. The California Board stresses these are guidelines and that any local or regional authority may establish additional stricter standards for the control and regulation of agricultural burning so long as all agricultural burning is not completely banned. These agricultural burning guidelines include: A notice as to whether a day is a burn or a day will be provided by the Board each morning at 7:45 a.m. The notice will be based on meteorological data. Burning of agricultural wastes is not permitted on days, except as follows: (1) County and regional districts which are functioning and exercising their powers may by permit authorize burning of agricultural waste on days designated by the Board as non-bur- n days because the denial of such permit would threaten imminent and substantial economic loss. (2) Burning of agricultural wastes at 4,000 feet or more above mean sea level is exempt from the Board's guidelines. (3) County and regional districts that have large, removed and sparsely populated areas at altitudes between 2,000 and 4,000 feet. The guidelines recognize rights of the general public they provide that agricultural waste that is to be burned shall be: Free of tires, etc. Burn with minimum smoke, be dry, total volume per day is regulated and shall be locally regulated. Agriculture is concerned about the estimated of a ton of pollution pumped into the air each year in this nation and accept the responsibility to help clean the pollution up. The volume of air pollution caused by burning of farm and ranch waste is a small part of this total. As indicated by the California guidelines, there are meteorological conditions, land elevation, wind flow and other individual area conditions that are critical factors to be considered in controls to provide clean air. There are lands and areas where burning will seldome create a pollution problem. There are other land locations in which the exact opposite is true. Agriculturalists ask that corrective air pollution plans should be based on recognized facts and on area-by-arconditions. no-bu- rn no-bu- rn ea |