Show '- - - I e 0 s : IC0-4-itityf:'od¼uTt lit::'Milli4 fOil'":--- - ! 04(VE-qttip0:4-rw 11 11 - --- I itrtoOw' - c Nearly one million dollars is urgently needed to purchase replacements for and 'junk' trucks and nearly worn-ou- t equipment for the Salt Lake County Highway and Sanitation departments Lamont B Gundersen county highway director said Friday At the same time Mr Gundersen said $1173000 is needed for eonstrUction repair of roads in the counly-- - 775000 for repairs alone "A total of $202700 is needed right now for replacement of trucks and pickup trticks'' alone" Mr Gundersen said "This would buy 14 heavy trucks and eight pickups" lip said expenditures in this category actually should be $400000 annually in order to have the most economical oper ation I ti(ii tHi C 7"7"""1"'"1""ar-6Peoqw-w 7?t' most economical level" Generally five years is the expected life of a piece of -equipment before Maintenance and repair costs begin to rise 'uneconomically - 'high Trade Allowances All cost eatimates take into accomit allowance s on new purchases he trade-i- said Mr Gundersen said construction of roads to be financed-ou- t of State Class B Road Funds is expected to reach $400000 this year The projects he noted will be let for contract to private TIM construction firms An additional is needed for $775000 road repairs end this would have to be financed out of the county highway department's 1967 budget of $2450000 Record of Repairs Here is one of two amphibious tanks to be used by the Salt Lake City riot-contr- With Water Cannon lice ol Po-- I Department in quelling anything from mild disturbances to riots The tank will Local News Comics SL Police Add features a water presunit is being readied TV Fare 7rbr--5-a-tt-tgak::-titInif:' Second Eection 2 'Tanks' for bold 10 officers and sure- cannon Second Page 30 Salt LakeCity Utah—Saturday Morningr- - April 8 1967 rage 2 5 0 L!? R'NOrMONFV irA4Pr111 "We have kept a record of repair and maintenance costs" he said "and in the last 27 months we have $385793 repairing old equipment" "This amount would have bought eight new heavy trucks'! lie noted that of the county's 71 heavy trucks and 42 pickup trucks 19 are classed in poor condition and 23 are classed as junk In addition $160000 is needed for the replacement of heavy equipment such as front-enloaders tractors draglines and graders Six of the county's 78 pieces of heavy equipment are classed as junk and 17 are classed poor Replace Six Units Police Chief Dewey J Finis and Pub lie Safety Commissioner James L Barker Jr Friday unveiled the first of two riot- eontrol tanks to be used by the police de partment in quelling anything from mild disturbances to riots: The surplus amphibious truck has been eonvertrd to carry a water cannon The tank will hold 10 officers The vehicle is 1 Annual expenditures for heavy equipment replacement he said should be This would replace about six $130000 units a year some costing as high as $50000 each when new Furthermore Mr Gundersen said six or eight of the county's 19 garbage trucks are in the shop for repairs each day "costing us money for both repairs and in a worker's idle time" New garbage truck purchases he said should amount to about $100000 annually "We should replace of our equipment each year" he said "in order to keep our equipment operating at the d 1 - V f built with portholes and covering shield to protect officers inside who will be able to use tear gas and other weapons as well as the water cannon Mechanics at the Salt Lake Fire Department shop have worked on the first tank for the past two months When the second is completed one will be stored at the shops and one at the police depart- A Wi one-fift- ' ' turret-mounte- : t !IkMP ?:Atei43 rt ' E t4 at East and 6th East just a couple of blocks from the school Mrs Williams a fourth grade teacher at Columbus and Mrs Lois Cook a sixth grade teacher each took a crew of students representing all six elementary grades to the overpasses Friday and got to work h Police Plan Auto Auction 5th - Auctioning of 30 automobiles and a motorcycle impounded by Salt Lake City Police will be held April 15 at 11 am at the Utah Recovery and Impound lot 540 W 4th South The auction was approved by the Salt Lake City Commission Each student brought his own materials" Mrs Cook said "They furnished their own buckets and brushes The school furnished the hot water and soap" Student council officers also partici- the clean up project The students will continue their campaign with citizenship posters placed around the school pated dikes around the lake The dikes would stabilize the sea's fluctuations The jetty or peninsula now is 2600 feet long 300 feet wide and contains about moon tonr of tailings It extends a thousand feet into the water Many tests are being made For example a variety of grass seeds al planted on the agricultural test plot on the Jetty Monday to see which seeds will grow best as a ground cover to hold down the light sand on top of the penin- sula "Waves have had some effect on the tip of the jetty" Mr Richards reported "It originally was built with a bulb at the be tip This now has become in cause of wave erosion This is not detrimental — it is merely a part of the information we hope to gain from the experiments" Strong south winds have shifted light sands along the ground some 50 feet to the north on the peninsula he added None was airborne This too is not detrimental but is providing additional information The wind And ‘vave crosion have not reduced the size of the jetty "Patterns are beginning to take place" Mr 'Down' Arrows 41" Vk from left busily scrub overpass school part of cleanup campaign near pillars Opens Cleanup Drive pupils from Columbus EleEast took it mentary School 2530-5tupon themselves Friday to help clean up part of Salt Lake City The student council at Columbus tinder the direction of MrsMay Williams recently decided that something should be done about chalk and charcoal scribblings on the pillars of the overpasses 1M" I Itiv Forcelil Pupils' 'Bucket Brigade' 20 - zot Students at Columbus Elementary School Kenneth Stensrud Bruce Hermonsen James Hardy and Tony Some - ttzyttT1414--'- i Taking a critical look at signs marking freeways in the area the Salt Lake City Traffic Advisory Council Friday aprecommendation to proved a four-poiimprove safety and reduce confusion Noting that many signs are a different width and are not centered over any particular lane the council suggested that wide signs for normal lanes would assist the motorist in determining the location of the traveied lane if the signs were spaced over the lanes -- themselves tr Stc1 Do Tailings Withstand Winds Waves? Patterns are being observed to indieate the wind and wave erosion at the Kennecott Copper Co experimental tail fogs peninsula at Great Salt Lake Final testing results will not be known until Nov 30 project eneineer A Z Richards Jr announced Friday Tailings (waste materials) from KCC's Garfield concentrator have been deposited into the lake to see just what effPut the waves and wind will have on the materials are conducted by The experiments KCC and the Great Salt Lake Authority The purpose Is to SP1 whether the flaky sand tailings might be used to build k gr 8 Earth Shocks g playing with a boy She was treated at University llospital shortly after the 4 pm incident ant released to her parents Officer R E Miller who investigated said Diane Bowerbank 3 daughter of Mr and Mrs Blaine Bowerbank 710 N 2nd West was stabbed In the lower back and left side The Incident occurred while the tot was at the home of an aunt at 270 W 6th North The girl was taken to University Hospital by her parents and was released in good condition after treatment Officer Miller said the apparent weapThe on was a small pocketknife — boy was questioned and released to his parents -- - Panel affers Safety Plan For Freeway Guidance 'y'14 A11'''ci ' Salt Lake girl playing friends at the home of an aunt was stabbed twice Friday afternoon while - SL Area Rocks— But Few Fecl In case you missed them there were eight earthquakes centered around Salt Lake City during the month of March Larry Wilson technician analyst for the University of Utah Geophysics Department reported Friday He said the largest was one of a 23 magnitude on the Richter scale which occurred on March 10 and was felt by some people in the area Mr Wilson noted that brings the total In the area to 11 for the first three rnonths of the year and for the entire state approximately 30 earthquakes were ' recorded in the same period Heaviest was one earlier in the year border about 25 near the miles from Salt Lake City and with a Richter scale magnitude of 4 - Next strongest recorded during the quarter on the university seismograph was one near Ogden That one felt as far away as Huntsville: measured 3 on the Richter scale Mr Wilson said Continuous records of all quakes in the area are kept by the department he said many of which are so small or In such remote areas that few if any them feel them h A with Endof Confusion? five-seco- d Stab Wounds 46 ment Chief Finis said police officers and civil defense officers will be trained in use of the egtiipment Phil Dern civil defense director was also present for the unveiling The riot control tank painted light blue was demonstrated at Friday's unwater tanks inside veiling Two the machine provide sufficient "ammunition" The water can be "fired" from water cannon at the intervals and can reach at least 300 feet in any direction Deputy Police Chief Eugene G Ceder-lo- t Capt Don D Roberts chief executive officer and Commissioner Louis E Holley were also on hand for the first public showing Suffers Two - Crowd Control I Girl Richards said lie said visitors will be able to drive onto the peninsula early this summer A road constructed on the jetty is now being graveled Q Project to Detect Hearing Loss of New Infants statewide campaign to detect hearing impairments in newborn babies was under way Friday as an expert arrived to train personnel Mrs Marion Downs Denver director of clinical audiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine will train six staff members of the State Health Department's speech and hearing clinic They in turn will train others until an adequate number is skilled in deafness detection techniques "This is the first time such training has been started on a statewide basis" A Mrs Downs said "It is a pioneering venture which has all of us very enthused" Detecting deafnesi in newborn infants is extremely important she said If the child cannot hear he cannot talk And there have been cases where such babies have been regarded as mentally retarded and even institutionalized because deaf- ness went undetected Through the use of a Newborn Auda device whiqtremits only the iometer critical tones of speech — impairments can be detected and the child treated At the audiometer's highest level the normal baby jumps At the second level it turns its head or eyes and reaches out At the third it reaches out and opens its eyes At the fourth movement or recognition is questionable And at the fifth there is no reaction 7 that It also was recommended "down" arrows in signs should be placed directly over the center of the traveled lane It was noted that now arrows frequently haye no relationship to the traveled ways underneath The council pointed out that many of the signs are quite wide and have more than one message This multiplicity of words they said adds to the confusion and indecision of the traveler Another recommendation was that additional overhead sign structures would be Justified in a few lOcations including between llth and 13th South Light Relocation Acting on a report that the intersection of 7th East and Interstate Highway SO was the highest accident rate location in the city the council suggested traffic lights at the intersection be relocated and a longer turning lane be constructed for southbound cars on 7th East making 7 a left turn to get on Meeting in a regular session at the Ft Douglas-HiddeValley Country Club the council also: that —Approved a recommendation freeways in the city be considered "lim- ited access highways" in the traffic code so pedestrian traffic can be regulated under the ordinance —Turned over to the city traffic engineer a request from the Temple Square Bureau of Information for out of state parking on the north side of South Temple from Main to West Temple and west side of West Temple from North Temple to South Temple after noting the traffic engineer could make a decision on this request without going through the City Commission —Approved a proposal for right turn lanes on 2nd West at North Temple and South Temple —Recommended that the projected improvement of 40th West (the Airport Road) retain its plans as a controlled access road Governor Observes 130 Crossing Snag Gov Calvin L Rampton Friday personally inspected traffic congestion at and 23rd South Ile State Highway Department Three-to- r Henry C Helland and other highway officials observed while motorists ignored "Right Turn Only" signs at 23rd East and 2760 South The area has become a traffic problem since were opened at the intersection Mr Helland said the vehicle volume has been greater than expected and suggested Friday that Salt Lake County be asked to consider making 23rd East a street Earlier this week the highway department installed the "No Right Turn" signs for east and west bound traffic on 2760 South but motorists apparently will not accept the restrictions one-wa- y Chamber Advisers Sav Tax Levy On Gross Would Hurt Retailers A special advisory council of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce met Friday and voted to recommend to the Chamber Board of Governors that some other means be sought to increase the revenue for Salt Lake City besides a f per cent gross rfeeipts tax The Citizens' Review Board on Salary and Revenue Problems under the chairmanship of Gus P Backman suggested that the advisory committee not recommend a gross receipts tax in any form The committee unanimously voted on the motion Mr Backman's board appointed by the city commission is trying to find a means to raise some $1800000 in revenue for Salt Lake City The funds would one-hal- be used to strengthen the Salt Lake Police Force increase salaries of most city employes equipment replacement and the maintenance of other services at the - present level Calvin A Behlesald a per cent tax would mean a big cut in the profits of local retailers The panel suggested that the best way one-hal- f city revenue is to add a gar bilge and sewage fee with the city comrn mission setting the amount of the Such a fee they said may cause resi dents to look to private collectors for theirgarbage collection needs If thiq curred the board suggested that a high er licensing tax be levied on the private to increase Fr collectors f |