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Show u . i '..c 'rials U J j cf (M. -- ,lt Dept Irfce cf2Utah SOUTH SALT LAKE NEWS Serving The Center Of Industry FOUND1H Volume II, No. 20 Thursday, May; 14, 1970 Bennett Hails Banking Plan to Loan $1 Billion WASHINGTON Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, today hailed a plan just announced Bankers by the American additional to an Assn, $1 pour billion in soft" loans into minority businesses by 1975. The Senator called the pledge heartening and very much in tune with our times. The plan was unfolded Thursday morning in the office of Senator Bennett, ranking Republican on the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, by ABA officials, including Thomas W. McMahon, Jr., executive vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, chairman of the committee spearheading the new program. Mr. McMahon explained, The loans we are about often involve abnormal risk because the applicants lack R-Ut- ah, 50 target cities where the ur- ban need has been deemed the the lending to minority-owne- d manufacturing, retail and serv- ice businesses as well as small- greatest. The er businesses which serve disSen. Bennett said, banks have already made loans advantaged areas of the nain the hundreds of millions of tions cities, enabling these dollars available, and todays businesses to become viable announcement is not merey to and profitable. take credit for what has alThe Utahn said, The proready been done. Tne import- gram announced today is an ant point is the additional excellent example for other funds to be made available .The successful industries to follow. banking community, in fact, It puts bankers solidly in the hopes to exceed the $1 billion cornier of tjhose working to figure by 1975. It is encouragimprove the lot of all our nato commitment witness this ing tions citizens. of the financial and managerial expertise of the banking community to solving the complex and interrelated problems of our cities. The Utahn added, The granting of such loans involves Life Way far more than merely approving the credit of a customer From time to time one sees who walks through the bank the entrepreneurial know-hoor capital normally required to door and fil's out an applica- statistics proving that pro horse or the qualify for bank credit. The $1 tion .It also entails the offering football or 500 racing most is the Indianapolis billion in loans will be made at of special guidance in areas event our GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS of watched sports normal interest rates. such as operations, accounttime. The ABA also is calling on ing and marketing areas in No one mentions Death. Yet individual banks throughout which the applicants often will "HEALTHY BABY WEEK" a vistor from another planet the country to adopt and gear be lacking the experience nectheir own urban affairs pro- essary to make their business might find us so caught up in Governor Calvin L. Rampton today proclaimed the week of Death in all its guises as to grams to meet local needs. a success. 10 through 16 as HEALTHY BABY WEEK in Utah. AsChief focus in the Associations Sen. Bennett noted the ABA wonder at our sanity. No other May the Governor, and reigning over the coming week, is $1 billion goal will be on some sponsored program envisions action on the stage of life so sisting for 1970, Jason Bumgardner. He Utahs engages our attention as is the Happy, Healthyson Baby of and Mrs. Ross Bumgardner, Mr. Death. Richfield. Of course, we shall all die Hea'thy Baby Week, a national public health education eventually, and thus Death is of Dimes, The National Foundation-Marc- h all act in. But project sponsored by we shall a drama draws substantial scpport every year from major mens and Gentlemen : our interest in Death seems womens business and civic leaders. This support Thank you so much for telling about our Meas on Wheels times to go far beyond that has come organizations, at about because of concern for the health of future program as requested in our Febuary 6 letter. Without your of normal curiosity. Both sexes, Birth defects strike some quarter of a million Amersupport, we would be unable to reach the elderly persons needeach race and generations. group, age every ican babies every year. While this is an alarming toll, the news ing our services. nationality, all intellects and today is that prevention and control of. birth defects is becoming occupations fasten upon Death a reality. May has been designated as Senior Citizen Month and we with a no The emphasis of Healthy Baby Week is upon early prenatal to inform all the Senior Citizens in the valley of other human involvement can are trying which often is an invaluable safeguard against severe care, some of the services and opporunities available to them, and match. Without Death all the to the unborn. Also, it is up to the citizens to take full would appreciate your publishing the folowing: news and entertainment media damageof new preventives in the area of birth defects. For Once again it is time to honor the Senior Citizens in our of the country would perish advantage community. The month of May has been designated as SENIOR from malnutrition. Our babies example, the new Rh vaccine, which can eliminate the problems CITIZEN MONTH a time to pay our respects to the elderly are weaned on a diet of murder incurred when parents have the Rh factor; and the rubella vaccine against German measles, which has put new meaning into persons in our family and community. and sadism. When they learn the spirit of Healthy Baby Week. Metropolitan Salt Lake Services for the Aging, an agency to read, they see in one edition Utahs citizens, said Governor Rampton, can be proud whose object is to serve the aging and aged, sponsors 4 programs of a daily paper or on one teleheld MEALS ON WHEELS, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD vision newscast all the awful of their support of the recent rubella immunization clinics CENTER, PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAM and FRIENDLY forms Death takes. Death thoughout the state. The threat of the predicted rubella epidemic VISITORS. These 4 programs are for any Senior Citizen 55 makes headlines and sells more of 1970-7- 1 has been eliminated in Utah, one of the few Btates in and the years of age or over, regardless of race, creed, color or financial papers. Newscasts loaded with the nation which has taken this acion. The lives saved status. Death may even sell more of suffering prevented are inestimable. Activities are planned in most of the 28 March of Dimes MEALS ON WHEELS delivers a hot noonday meal 5 days the sponsors product. One a week to the homes of Senior Citizens who are in need of a might grimly suggest a manu- county chapters in Utah to make the public aware of the work nutritious meal. Both genral and modified diets, facturer of burial vaults as being done through reseach, patient care, and public education to help reduce the toll which birth defects take each year. prepared under the supervision of a Dietitian, are available at the ultimate news sponsor. a nominal cost. Those of us who grew to FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER is socializing, adulthood in the thirties and luncheon and entertainment held every Thursday at 11:00 a.m. forties were more sheltered To Aid Local Law in the Dining Room at 156 Westminster Avenue. The only cost violent Death. It cast no from is for lunch, and the rest of the afternoons entertainment is over our childhoods as it Quoting from FBI and National Crime Commission reports free. However, because of limited space, reservations are re- pall The sad Congressman Burton stated the crime toll is much greater must today. surely 3. quired. Reservations can be obtained by calling vocabulary of Death rests on than statistics indicate because of the huge number of unreportPHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAM offers supervised the lips of our smallest child: ed crimes. Conservative estimates place the cost of crime to the limited physical exercises tailored to the individuals own rekill, war, gun, bomb, and assasnation at more than $50 billion a year . . . five times the amount quirements. This free exercise program is held every Tuesday sination. The last word lisped federal government spends in aid to all education. Even the at 10:30 a.m. in the Dining Room at 156 Westminster Avenue. cant that cope yet tongues more serious than economic loss, said Congressman Burton, is After completion of the exercises and a rest period, lunch is by with all the esses. the appalling human cost resulting from criminal action. There served to those desiring it. Is it any wonder then that is no monetary appraisal which can be placed on the suffering by For those Senior Citizens who need something to combat victims of violent crimes nd their loved ones. loneliness friendship, personal interest, thoughtful attention our young people find in vio Congressman Burton further stated, I am particularly there is a progam called FRIENDLY VISITORS. FRIEND- lemt confrontation an exciteLY VISITORS is an program for those dedicated ment that recaptures their per- troubled that my home state of Utah has not escaped the crime people who want to help ill and homebound Senior Citizens. The verted childhoods. They have wave which has swept the nation, and that it must deal with a volunteer Friendly Visitor attends a free training workshop rejected the war we invented crime rate which has ranked among the top twenty states. and selects the name of a Senior Citizen who wants outside for them in Southeast Asia. Congressman Burton has joined with the Administration and social contact. At his convenience the Friendly Visitor calls at They want their own war on other members of Congress in sponsoring legislation to deal with their own streets. the worsening problem, legislation that will strengthen the ability the home of the elderly person and becomes a Friend. SENIOR CITIZEN MONTH is a good time to help those Their tragedy is that they of local and state crime fighting agencies to deal with criminal was for Senior Citizens who require these services. Call Metropolitan were sold violence as a means action. His appearance before the House 1, and to an end. Our tragedy is that the purpose of expediting the passage of thi legislation to the or Salt Lake Services for the Aging, at 466-60floor of the House. additional information on all progams will be furnished. they bought it Death as a talking of w one-year-o- ld May Designated Senior Citizen Month single-mindedne- ss - well-balance- d, Enforcement 466-604- Sub-Committ- 43 484-482- ee |