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Show HEALTH PROJECT ftuderafts y Vands Ate At U. "Under Tests rijuoimco By LOUISE GARDINER Deseret News Staff Writer - Students at Upland Terrace Elementary School, 3700 S. 2860 East, probably have the cleanest hands in the state today. Theyve been scrubbing harder and more often since Wednesday when county sanitatian Orval Provost showed the Students what their own germs look like.' Mr. Provost visited the school last week and took to show the germs each person carries. The students sneezed, fingerprinted and kissed petri dish" es, small discs containing a gelatin solution which provides the ideal environment for germ growth food, heat and New Drug Reaction Reported cul-nr- es By STEVE HALE Deseret News Medical Writer A newly recognized form of mental impairment caused by marijuana was reported today by a University of Utah medical student after testing the drug on 18 physicians and classmates. moisture. After a week, the invisible germs showed themselves in spots, spirals and geometric formations. I never knew I had those on my hands, one third grade 5 girl gasped when she saw the cultures. . . And at noon the school lunch lines took longer than usual to ftr-the kids had to wash their hands first Sponsored by the school PTA with assistance from the State Health Department, the cultures are only part of a School-wid- e health project I dont know when th-- ' e has been such an extensive j effort on health education in a vhole school, said Dr. Lanice Monk, nutrition consultant. I hope other schools will follow suit. She said teaching the children respect for germs and diseases will help prevent outbreak of serious epidemics. In the past three weeks, students at Upland Terrace have been visited by a hospital dietitian ana other professional people advising on eating and personal habits. t And if these lectures dont sink in, the State Health Department has furnished posters which remind the children that fFood is fuel for the body, and ask Did you remember to wash your hands? They lost ability to judge time, according to Ronald Hughes, who lectured on the subject to fellow medical students. The doctors and medical students took a day off, agreed not to drive for 24 hours, drank an extract of marijuana and took several kinds of tests. Mr. Hughes reported they had recognized marijuana reactions Sanitarian Orval Provost and Lisa Sorensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ard Sorensen, 2835 E. 3600 South, study germ cultures. - t By JOSEPH T. LIDDELL Deseret News Staff Writer T pairs forwarded last fall to the islative Council. lf ' The Salt Lake City Commission today pledged to reduce other taxes by 26 per cent in return for a one-ha-lf cent local - option sales tax increase.' Instructed die city attorney to draft a resolution addressed to the Utah Legislature pledging the tax adjustment. Commissioners 4 ?A sales tax more equitably shares the tax burden than property levies and special taxes the city now collects, officials explained. A cut of 6.4 mills in property tax levy would be required to effect the $2 million reduction the commission is pledging officials said. The half-ee- sales nt tax in- crease would generate another $3.2 million revenue for the A cushion of more than $1 million will accrue as the dif- City ference between the proposed additional sales tax and the promised reductions.' $800,000. However, city officials deducted from this cushion a $400,000 drop expected due to the elimination of he inventory tax repealed last november officials are considering the elimination of sewer service charges and the utility franchise tax if the sales tax increase is permitted. Each of these two levies yielded about DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Thursday, function. The newly observed symptom Involved their inability to estimate the length of elapsed blocks of time. All of them overestimated the length of time GIVEN MEDICINE One became so sick he had to be given medicine for that con dition. Utah voters. Eventually the city expects to lose $700,000 a year in Inventory taxes. Another reported he was plagued with an inability to conThe cushion is needed to centrate on a conversation. begin funding actuarially the Scraps of background discussion fund with from other areas distracted police pension $300,000 annual installments; him.- hire additional police, fire Some volunteers also experfighters and nurses and furnish annual merit pay in- ienced difficulty in reacting corcreases to the nearly .1,700 rectly to light signals. Salt Lake City employes. Mr. Hughes noted that at reacOn $323 million assessed some points, volunteers tions were excessively long. valuation, the citys They just werent with it, levy will yield $7.5 million property taxes for s the city he said. ; FURTHER TESTS government and bonded debt Asked if this might mean requirement during this year, according to city budget sta- marijuana user would be a poor tistics. automobile driver, Mr. Hughes said he intends to make further tests involving driving simula-tor- Jeri Crandall, Shanna Patterson announce sale. RETAIL FIRMS $1 Million ll A January 16, 1969 passage. Mr. Hughes said some of the volunteers reported nausea. fcy - The increase in sales tax is being asked in a bill the city Rich- - Tom Up city under jhe local option allowed by the Legislature in the present one-hacent sales tax the city receives. Leg- hand unsteadiness, inability to concentrate, memory problems and a decrease in mental B1 Sale Nears s. Rich County Treasurer Wins Mark Tuttle Honor and eight city government officers coordinated by Kenneth Olson, a member of the governors staff. of eight eounty officials, Mrs. Gwen K. Hanney, Rich County treasurer, today was awarded the Mark Tuttle Award as the outstanding county official in Utah during 1968. krs. Hanney, Randolph, who has held that post for 22 consec- We want you to tell the state government what counties and cities need to solve their problems. We will tell the counties and cities what state and feder- utive years, received the award at the opening session of the Utah Association of Counties 40th annual convention at the al government programs are available, the governor said. Tferrace, 464 S. Main. 'Vernon L. Holman, a member of the Utah Tax Commission, the selection and announced said Mrs. Hanney has served as the groups lady vice president, been on the resolutions, nominations and legislative committees and. is active in church and clvie work in Rich County. , VThis committee must not be--c o m e he added. d, Mrs. Gwen K. Hanney . 22 years at post Ms. Hanney helped organize the summer conventions for county treasurers and hosted the first one in Randolph. It was such. a success that the group voted to return to Rich County again the next year, Mr. Holman said. a plaque for the biggest provement in its landscape in 1968 from Dr. Arvil Stark, extension horticulturist, Utah State University. ;She is the mother of one daughter and four sons. Each son completed a mission for The of Jesus Christ of Chutch latter-da- y Saints. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton said a local affairs committee he suggested last year has been formed and he will announce the members in a few days. i Sanpete County was awarded w The committee will consist Flying flags and window banAll the research subjects had ners await downtown shoppers difficulty with hand unsteadi- Friday and Saturday in the Salt ness. Lake Retail Merchants Associanoted tions annual Million Dollar said he Mr. Hughes hints of visual impairment in Oearance. Bankruptcy Petitions Decline During '68 By ROGER PUSEY Deseret News Staff Writer The number of bankruptcy petitions filed in U.S. District Court for Utah during 1968 decreased for the second consecutive year, referee Bruce S. Jenkins said today. Thousands of dollars were distributed to creditors under these proceedings. It is amazing what some debtors are able to accomplish with a disciplined budget, the referee said. . The names of credit-car- d plans handled through banks He said 1,406 petitions were were mentioned more often in filed last year, compared with 1968 as they became extremely 1,591 in 1967 and a record 1,625 popular. filed in 1966. Mr. Jenkins said Mr. Jenkins said there are last years total was the lowest many variables in explaining since 1964 when 1,466 petitions what causes a person to file for were filed. See PETITIONS on Page NO REASON Mr. Jenkins said It Is some subjects. None of them was a marijuana user and one reason the drug was given in liquid form is that many of the subjects are not experienced with smoking, Mr. Hughes said. , They were given reading comprehension tests before and durwhen they were ing under the effects of marijuana. All scored lower on the tests shortly after drinking the drug. Some reported inability to concentrate on a single thought, Mr. Hughes reported. This affected their reading comprehension, he said. 5 the association, will identify participating stores. Colorful flags will decorate the downtown area to call additional interest to the event. Heres a chance for the conSpecial banners, prepared by sumer to save substantially on literally thousands of items, including clothing for all the family, sporting goods, house-ho- li B needs and many, many more," according to Richard Schubach, association president. City, Regional .1, 11, 15 Most stores will be open until Comics -- 2, 3 9 p.m. Friday and many firms Theater validate for convenient, nearby Entertainment parking lots. TV Highlights Obituaries Sales are listed in a special Weather Map color section in todays Action Ads Deseret News. SECTION . hard to give a reason why the number Continuing a practice of visit- of petitions decreased, but it ing counties and cities when he could be due to generally prosfirst took office four years ago, perous times and relatively full Gov. Rampton said he would employment. again visit around the state dur He said more cases were ing May and June. dosed in 1968 than were filed This way I can get the feel- and a backlog of pending cases has been substantially reduced. ing for local people and get to soonthem so we can help them We are hearing the cases done in was than er after filing solve their problems, he said. the past and procedures in the The governor said that the wage earner plans have been Legislature is off to a good start streamlined. despite the difference in his poMONEY RETURNED litical party and the majority On the cases pending, Mr. party holding control of the Sen Jenkins said, 180 are wage earnate and House. er plans that allow willing debtHe said there has been no po- ors to work out their problems litical haggling because of this with creditors under court disparity, supervision and control. Juadge Studies Amphetamine and barbituate prescriptions allegedly written by Dr. A. G. Tritt, a Salt Lake osteopathic physician, for a excesboy were sive, the state medical examiner testified Wednesday. Dr. Tritt is being tried on the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor before Second District Juvenile Judge Regnal W. Garff. All witnesses have been heard, and Judge Garff said he expects to hand down a verdict by Feb. 3. IDiriag During an earlier session of Deputy County Attorney the trial, a youth Identified 18 David Goodwill asked Dr. Wesprescriptions for barbiturates ton this question: and amphetamines as ones he the patient Assuming received from Dr. Tritt. that he needed complained The youth testified he told Dr. Desoxyn (an amphetamine drug Tritt he was depressed. and named on some of the prescrip- that he needed drugs to stay! tions) to keep awake, would the awake on a night job. amount in these prescriptions Dr. James T. Weston, the be excessive? medical examiner, testified that physicians are warned not to .. . give barbiturates to depressed!' patients because such persons Mr. Goodwill asked if a pracmight commit suicide after tak- titioner writing the prescriptions over such a period of time ing such drugs. tlt Case would be acting with due regard for the health and safety of the patient. Dr. Weston replied that he did not think so. are You without patient ? giving this opinion having examined the asked defense attor- - Yes," Dr. Weston replied. Barbiturates, lie testified, can be Amphetamines can cause high blood pres- habit-formin- t See DRUG on Page BIS I 'Question Still: Is Semaphore Needled? ' cm i Not Great Panacea 7 , ; Since they built the new road west of Highland Dr., and south of 27th South, they removed the traffic signal on Zenith Ave. Residents of the arcs believe this is a mistake; that accidents have increased and it is very difficult for children and others to cross the street. Can you get to changed back? What la the accident record before, compared with now? D W., Salt Lake City. It is almoct impossible to convince people the traffic signal is not the great panacea for all traffic ills. Yet, exhaustive research proves that sometimes signals cause accidents instead of reducing them. Basically, signals DO NOT serve as safety devices, hut only to efficiently move vehicles and if some degree of safety is achieved, it Is only the add not the original intent, Only justification for a signal is when it will prevent more accidents than it creates. The signal you mention was changed to a flasher system to simulate i stop sign conditions on Oct. 18 to hopefully reduce accidents. Accident experience here In 1967 was 14. Since October there has been only one reportable accident. This matter has been and even in the face of neighborhood disreviewed twice senters, it will remain a flasher until statistical significant facts can be determined (two to three months) to prove or disprove accident reduction. Depending on result, the signal could be restored. They Didn't Acknowledge Honesty Six weeks ago we ordered some bearings from a Chicago firm. They came, but the bearings were for a Mercedes Ben and not a Flat. We sent them bark and asked for exchange. No word. We wrote, but still no word. If we d been dishonest, we could kept the first bearings which were worth about $10 and sold them. The parts we ordered only are worth $4. Can W.I., Provo. yon help ns? Got tills terse answer t Order adjusted, which Do-I- t Man takes to mean your $4 parts are on the way. Does seem they could have added a note of appreciation on your honesty in returning the $40 bearings. Windshield Policy Complicated I have heard that the highway patrol has forbidden Inspection stations to Lssue stickers to cars with two cracks in the windshield, regardless of size or location. Is this true? D.J., Salt Lake City. Untrue. Ruling on windshield cracks is quite complicated but does pertain to size and location. Your inpsector, and you, should refer to highway patrol bulletins for policy. If Insured, No Problem We sent our son in England a camera. The duty was so much be refused it and sent it back. Hus was in Sept, and 4 4 j J V ), Huso a probtom? Dio! 6 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, or writ to Sox 1267, Salt lok Gty, Utah 84110. we have not got it yet. What Idaho. cm we do.? M.Y., Pocatello, Was it insured? If so, make a claim at your local postoffice and you will be reimbursed. Jf not, a tracer can be put on it. Hope you were smart and did insure it. 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