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Show !T!WTT1 wCf '1r. v) '11 ?s , . s ' ?' !Vi': ; V'l'v'lA i V V' 1 a- s - V x v By HAL KNIGHT Deseret News Science Editor I'''""' v JP i University of Utah scien- tists, using sensitive detection instruments, may have discovered a way to predict earthquakes. f- apparently buildup takes place a few days prior to the quake and might be an accurate means of knowing that an earth movement is imminent. It offers the best hope we have yet seen for earthquake said Dr Kenneth prediction, L. Cook, head of the universitys Department of Geophysics. However, he added that many unanswered questions remain that may take years to solve. It would also take years for experts to get familiar enough with a certain region to be able to say what any buildup of strain would mean as far as the size and scope of a quake. The measurements began last October when some incredibly sensitive strain gauges were installed in the vaults 2,000 feet under the mountain. Zsirvm University of Utah geophysicist Steve Bellon charts movements in earth's crust recorded by a sensitive gauge which may help predict quakes. These consist of Realign Regions, 5 Ask - ' GoverWASHINGTON nors of five Rocky Mountain states today asked the Nixon administration and their con for delegations gressional realignment of federal regions across the country. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton of Utah, Stanley K. Hathaway of Wyoming, John A. Love of Colorado, Don Samuelson of SJSHIff Hay 6 to 9 problem? Dial p.m. Monday through Friday, or write to Box 1257, Salt lake Cty. Utah 841 10. Igpay Atinlay What is the origin of pig Latin. Idaho, and Forrest Anderson of Montana met at a closed breakfast session this morning with Vice Pres. Spiro T Agnew. This afternoon, the governors met with members of Congress from their states and from New Mexico to delve further into the regionalization reconsideration. Most of the governors object to administration plans which would place the seven Rocky Mountain states in four different regions, with headquarters in Seattle, Fort Worth, Denver and San Francisco. What the governors want, if possible, is a regional setup for administration of federal (Pig Mail Answers To Mail Problems Todays mail brought us the answers to several problems. Mrs. P.S. of Salt Lake City has now received a refund of nearly $50 for a Kansas City mail order firm says some items she ordered but had not received. And T. H. of Bountiful, who ordered some bulbs from a company in Michigan finally received them. Finally, R.E.W., of Salt Lake City who ordered a Holland Wind Mill from an art group in Connecticut way back in March should have by now gotten it as they advised Do-I- t Man it had been Action Reaction The other day you ran an item about a lady who said her feet were so misshapen that she couldnt wear regular shoes and you referred her to a shoe store where a cast could be made of her foot. What you should have done was recommend that she visit a podiatrist who specializes in foot defects. He is licensed to practice medicine. He makes a complete cast of the foot up to the ankle and sends it to an orthopedic shoe laboratory in the east. Then the shoe is returned partially finished for additional fitting. Cost is high but it is important that a person with about $100 for a pair R.S., Salt Lake City. (Do-I- t foot defects be properly fitted. man stands corrected. When your feet hurt, you hurt all over.) Take A Look On Page 14 Desoret News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Sen. Wal- lace F. Bennett, has joined Sen. Frank E. Moss, in sponsoring a bill requiring the Federal Communications Commission to renew broadcasting licenses on the basis of meritorious service, rather than offering such licenses to new stations out of the northwest head- quarters in Seattle. Headquarters for New Mexico would be and federal Fort Worth, programs for Arizona would be handled out of San Francisco. Montana Utah, Colorado, would be and Wyoming lumped with North and South Dakota in a region with headquarters in Denver. This proposal also would cut across regional lines such as See GOVERNORS, Page 2 in the absence of such a review. Sen. Bennett said, The FCC in the past renewed licenses based on a showing by a broadcaster that he had been operating and would continue to operate in the public interest, convenience, and necessity. " . researched Lake County additional counties, Cache and Washington, also are being Harlow studied, explained. Data is being gathered in 24 areas of Salt Lake County. These include population, housing, welfare, land use, schooling and facilities, crime ll'fj ill'll? v' iil;; 1 T"-i- : $ vi i i.ilS'V ! ij the strain meters there have installed, been two moderately large quakes along the Wasatch Front. One on Jan. 16 was 2.3 on the Richter Scale. The second, a month later, was 2.2 on the scale. Both were felt by some area residents. Since (Really strong qjakes which can cause damage are usually 5.5 to 6 o.i the Richter scale. Each decimal point on the scale means the shock is once again as large. A 6. quake would be 10 times heavier than a 5. quake, for example.) In both the January and February quakes there was a rapid buildup of strain recorded by the gauges. The ty Sheriffs Mutual Aid Association filed suit in Third District Court Monday to compel the Merit System Commission to furnish eligibility lists for appointment and promotion. The suit was filed by Parley W. Blight, association president, against the commission and its members, Frank W. Pennock, Joseph Mazuran and Dr. Leslie D. White. It seeks a writ of mandamus to compel defendants to open the lists for inspection and copying by plaintiffs and also a judgment that the lists are public information open at all times to the deputies or any citizen. The complaint also asks judgment for cost of legal action. Blight charged that the commission has categorically refused to supply the lists, even when tendered money to pay for the cost of preparing copies. The suit holds that this is contrary to Utah law. long quartz tube is contained in this box in granite mountain vault. It measures slightest shifts and strain occurring in rocks. 100-fo- ot Now, however, the Commission has changed its procedure, with an issuance policy replacing the renewal policy. As shown by recent decisions, this means that even though an existing licensee may have a good record, a new and unproven applicant may file for the license anyway. Immediate area since the gauges were installed. A lot more rock apparently stretched and then snapped. When it snaps, we presumably get an earthquake, Cook said. After the quake the strain of the gauges dropped sharply, he added. experience is needed. No one knows how far away the devices could pick up an imminent quake or if there is any way of telling between a moderate quake and a really big one. These have been the only two quakes of any size in the f those needs are being met, what former needs are no longer meaningful, and what urgent needs of communities may be neglected, the director said. Additionally, the study will concentrate on organizational functions. moon, Cook said. gfs' fefflge By DOROTHY O. REA Deseret News Staff Writer PROVO Is there a solution to the national problem which takes an annual toll of 55,000 lives plus millions of days of sick leave and up to $25 billion? Dr. Robert J. Beveridge, thoracic surgeon, Salt Lake City, believes there is.. He believes it can be done by placing the facts of cigarette smoking before young, people as early as 14 years of age. j Some of the facts young people should know were given by Dr. Beveridge Monday ii) the opening session of the Sixth Annual Tobacco Education Workshop held in the Stephen L. Richards Physical Educai tion Building on BrighanJ Campus Young University Sessions will continue daily at 8:15 a.m. through June 13. A preview of the weeks program was given by Beveridge, who said Utahs Smoking and health education program is probably the best x in the world. He said until 1911, cases of lung cancer were so rare onlj 274 cases were recorded in medical literature. By 196(k cancer of the lung had become a top killer in the country, claiming up to 55,000 lives in a year. Up to 95 per cent of all people who die with lung cancer are smokers. J Anyone who smokes over ft period of time has chronic bronchitis. This eventually leads to emphysema. Every person who smokes a package of cigarettes a day will die lung cancer unless one of the diseasother smoking-relate- d es gets him first, the doctor Salt Lake County detectives were considering legal action against several teenagers d after a boy swallowed a accidentally homemade LSD capsule Sunseven-year-ol- day. Eric Stahr, 7, son of Mrs. 5 Rouse, East, in was fair condition today at but University Hospital, Detective Joe Gee said the boy was in very poor condition Sunday when he was admitted to the hospital. The 7161-215- a swallowed child 1, 12 2, 3 3 City, Regional Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads said. Five major reports are expected at the conclusion of the study, Harlow said. These will include a comprehensive on report, recommendations intergovernment arrange-ments- , internal government arrangements, methods and procedures, -- iid guidelines for I The home influence is parjf-Se- e HAMMER on Page B--2 3-- Hanson, Salt Lake Commissioner Conrad Harrison and Diana Garff, left, study local government modernization survey at advisory board meeting. well The first quake occurred at the peak of the lunar tid& and apparently demonstrate! the moon can trigger earthC quakes under certain unusuj ai conditions. Most quakes are not related to phases of the CferferfffTC Rex and delinquency, unemployment, nursing, elections, ability to finance local government, operating revenues, debts and taxes. From these studies conclusions and recommendations will be made concerning the needs of the community, how S I is being in depth, and two ' v 111; modernization. He addressed a group of 100 Utahns Monday at a noon luncheon who have been invited to serve as citizens advisory committee for the study. In the East, local government is in serious difficulty, and all sorts of critical problems have arisen. They will here in Utah, too, unless steps are taken to anticipate these problems and find solutions before they occur, Harlow Salt k Vu Here in the West we still have time, but time will run out on us, and wed better be ready, said LeRoy Harlow, director of the Local Government Modernization Study, in reference to local government Already done as you will note in the copy of the 1969 souvenir program of the 56th annual meet held on April 24, 25, 26. Take a look on page 14. Sorry, I have no answer as to why it was not listed in other years. O ttssv; N , 10 And Local Qovemmnieinift said. The current study is being done under the direction of the University of Utah. Harlow is associate professor of organization and management at Brigham Young University, on leave to direct the study. For purposes of the study, r would V were Bennett, Moss Back Measure In the spring of 1966 BYU hold its annual junior high school Invitational track and field meet and relay carnival. School in Clay Simmons, a 9th grader from West Junior High Roosevelt set a now pole vault record of 11 feet 8 inches in division 2. The record was to be recorded in the record sheet in 1967, but was not and it also did not appear in 1968. Many this and people from the Basin area are disturbed about C.J.B., want the record listed. Can you get it done? Vernal. (Editor's Note: Wt'ro sorry tt number of calls and tht voluma of mail make it Impoisibla to answer every question, please, ne medical or tesal uestiofu. Don't send stamps Of envelope? as answers can interest will bo In this column. Only questions of general 'V be viven f the feHirs prescribed. Give your name, address and telephone number Man phono answered and telephone cells can be accepted only on tho Do-Man help you.) ei for publication but to help Do-- which embrace the same states as are contained in the Federation of Rocky Mountain States. Under the administrations proposal, Idaho would operate ' v '''! SN' NX Pat J.C., Salt Lake City. Ybay ittlelay oysbay who etestedday atinlay. Pig Latin is attributed to the inventiveness of boys during Medieval times. The exact clue to the inventor has seemingly escaped our historians. Only thing we found out came from our counterpart Answer Line on the Phoenix beGazette which said it began as dog Latin, cause it was a mongrel distortion of the classic Latin. It is not known when it became pig Latin (which in English is transposition of the first letter of the word to the end, and adding ay.) However, it enjoyed great popularity in EngLatin for By little land just prior to World War I. boys who detested Latin.) programs s s, earthquakes. The Salt Lake County Depu- By M. DeMAR TEUSCHER h JlSH s x Cook noted that the moons gravity causes a pull of about a foot when it passes over this region. This creates considerable stress in the rock and may be the cause of some Suit Seeks Open List On 'Merits' Deseret News Political Editor U one-on- Experiments carried out since last fall deep in the granite mountain vaults in Little Cottonwood Canyon indicate that prior to moderately large quakes there is a rapid buildup of earth strain which can be measured. This quartz tubes anchored on piers imbedded in the granite. Any movement is recorded by an electrical pen. .Die gauges are so sensitive .vill that measure they e hunchanges down to dred thousandth of an inch and will register the earth tide the passing through rocks. Earh tide is the pull on the earths crust by the gravity of the moon, similar to the tides at sea. Grantsville Boy Die; financing local government. Members of the citizens advisory committee were asked to consider specific needs for modernizing local government in organization, operations, and financing; on alternative means of meeting public needs most efficiently, economically, and agreeably; and impediments to modernization of local government. Members of the committee will include Sheldon R. Brewster, Wayne S. Brown, Mark Buchi, Clayton Christensen, Lee Tim Curtis, Ellison, Roger H. Freund, Kevin J. Gully, Rex J. Hanson, Mrs. M. Stewart Mis. Hanson, Richard A. Kevern, Terry Madsen, Dix McMullin, Ben-ne- y Richard H. Schmidtt, Shubach, Jack Olson, Frank C. Overfelt, Jack E. Christensen, John S. Persinger. Richard W. Winder, Quentin C. Winder, Norman H. Bangert-er- , Richard N. Hughes, Diana Felt, Mrs. Chester Powell, Mrs. Bryce E. Roe, Manford A. Shaw, Helen B. Barker, E. Woodrow Walton, Ken Farnsworth, Margaret Paulsen, Joceivn McMurrav, Lynn Green, Roger Dunn, Darrel L. R. R. French, Runnrlls, Kathy Dangerfield, Eva Han- See HAMMER on age B-- 2 In Rollover GRANTSVILLE - An over- turning station wagon took the life of a Grantsr ville boy in a accident Monday evening three miles one-ca- south of here. Daniel Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merl P. Green, Grantsville, was dead on arrival at Tooele Valley Hospital after a car driven by his mother veered off a South Willow Canyon county road and rolled over. The boy tumbled out the right doof. and the car passed over his head and chest, investigating officers said. Mrs. Green suffered minor bruises and abrasions in the accident. i The fatality brought Utah; traffic deaths for the year to 9S. compared with 92 for thie same date last year. The Tooele County traffic death toll now stands at 8, compared to 10 at the same time last year. J tourist. I The Green youth and his mother were returning home after acting as guides for la The accident occurred abot)t 10 p.m.. according to investigating officers. |