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Show 'he Review Thursday, January s, 1981 3toves Bring New Pollution Problems Wood-burnin- g stoves ) sed by local homeowners to cut own heating bills are ' ecoming an important rnsiad dangerous factor in n ir pollution in Utah n alley. aiot According to Dr. alvin H. Bartholomew, Brigham Young niversity associate rofessor of chemical ngineering, the rowing reliance on stoves is a "potential ;re for a very serious jalth problem." """Y'With the increase in ryine number of woo-dcutting permits being (JSued, it is likely that e could get some very bad pollution problems in the next few years," Bartholomew said. That conclusion is backed by a recent study using computer models conducted by three students in an air pollution class taught by Bartholomew. The most con-servative estimates of the report claim that in populated areas in Utah Valley, the use of wood-burnin- g stoves may increase particulate pollution 10 to 20 percent in the next decade. Bartholomew said if the use of the stoves continues to increase, the problems could be even greater. He said the computer model showed that if 50 per-cent of the homes in a densely populated area of the valley used the stoves frequently, it could double the pollution levels now experienced during a temperature inversion. The problem of air pollution from wood and coal stoves is not a new one, Bartholomew said, but there is an added concern now. "We had pollution from coal- - and wood-burnin- g stoves in the 1940's before natural gas was available, but the population density was small enough that it didn't have the effects it would have now," he said. "We should not even think about going back to wood and coal for space heating in populated areas." In fad, Bartholomew advocated curtailing the use of wood and coal stoves. "If we don't, we could be looking forward to air pollution episodes of serious magnitude, with a large part of our population suffering illness and even death," he said. The report says t he-us-e of the stoves is already a factor in air pollution in the valley, and may pose a more serious threat than other sources of air pollution. For one thing, burning wood creates smoke with very small par-ticles - smaller than many other forms of pollution. Those smaller particles are the ones most likely to lodge in the lower respiratory areas - and the ones the body has the hardest lime removing, causing or aggravating respiratory diseases. Bartholomew said Utah Valley ex-periences 40 to 50 air inversions a year, mostly in the fall and winter months and some lasting a week or more. It is not uncommon for the particulate count in the valley during an inversion to exceed the EPA limit of 260 micrograms per cubic meter for a period. New pollution control devices planned for industry should bring those levels down to the accepted limits, but if the use of wood-burnin- g stoves is not curtailed, hat reduction will be more than offset by homemade pollution in the heavily populated residential areas of Utah Valky, Bar-tholomew said. Yips IFor R$umd The peel-of- f label on le Federal tax ackage, like a lousand-dolla- r bill, is a nail but important iece of paper. - If used, it speeds the processing of Federal tax returns which, in turn, means quicker refunds and saves taxpayers money. When a return is received at the Ogden Service Center - as some 10.5 million will be this year - they wind up in the hands of data transcribers who enter the taxpayer's name, address and social security number into the computer. The IRS encourages use of the label, even if part of the information is incorrect. "Just draw a line through the error and correct it right on the peel-of- f label," the IRS says. By the way, the peel-of- f label has nothing to do with who gets sleeted for an audit. Most audits are triggered by a computer process that screens income tax returns for unusual deductions, credits and other items which are out of proportion in com-parison to returns of other taxpayers with similar income cir-cumstances. No Apple For the NEA By EDWIN FUELNEK Heritage Foundation The acronym NEA stands for the National Education Association, but to a lot of polilicans these days, it might as well stand for No Exceptions Allowed. That's because the NEA - which is, in case you didn't know, the largest teachers' union in the country -- - has been consolidating its political power with great skill and vigor these last few years. On the national level, and in many states as well, it seems that what the NEA wants, the NEA gets. What the NEA wanted in 1976 was a federal Department of Education. political action committee PAC contributions to reward only those who voted for the Department of Education. Although the teachers' union gives official support to a phalanx of liberal causes, the PAC contributions even went to con-servative Congressmen who went along with the NEA on this single issue. Liberal Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, who opposed the DOE, complains, "On every other issue, I've been on the NEA's side, but they went nuts on this one." Nothing nutty about it -- - the NEA simply wants to lay the groundwork for its next battle. This carefully organized political activism is practiced by the state chapters of NEA as well. In New Jersey, the NEA's power in state elections is legendary. Those targeted for defeat have usually been those who had committed the crime of favoring tax limitation. In Michigan, according to Professor Charles Van Eaton of Hillsdale College, the NEA is taking the position that "it alone should have the power to determine who enters the teaching profession and from what college they come, by con-sidering only those candidates from colleges that have the NEA as the bargaining unit representing faculty members." None of this is meant to disparage those many dedicated teachers who belong to their local NEA chapter. However, the national leadership seems to have less and less interest in the quality of basic education as time goes on, and more and more interest in political power, in limiting access to and accountability of their profession, and in trying to knock out the competition by whatever means are at hand. (I refer specifically to the NEA's staunch opposition to tuition tax credits and indeed to any measure that threatens its near-monopo-of the educational system and its bountiful federal funding. ) Let's hope that the next time the NEA comes calling, more of our political leaders will reply, ."Teacher, may I be excused?" c tisnuijfaus1 J w $10,000 Deposit for 6 Month Period - 13.432 a Jan. 8 thru Jan. 14 30-MON- TH s ira" CERTIFICATE in T )) S 10.000 Mm. deposit U UOU V 'JFt 1 1 OREM PLEASANT GROVE ' SANTAQUIN LEHI J '". AMERICAN FORK. UTAH SUPER STORE J W AT CAN'T BEAT' PRICES ! 3 is? (3r J 0 CT- - WW'S TliAfJ otz-KrJ&- e Home erieo 1 K-csta-pes y Excellent Food Storage Ky Available For Limited Time Only E V Golden Grain Elbow Macaroni g 20 lb. Tub Microwave dried, sealed and sterilized a Designed to store indefinitely in this area $14.95 Place Your Order By Phone Call Julie at 785-044- 4 g We Deliver Directly To Your Door! 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But despite his protests that the DOE would be a tool of the rival union, legislation establishing the new department squeaked through the House, 210-20- Now the NEA is ready to move on to bigger and better things. It organized an effort to get its members elected as delegates to the 1980 Democratic National Convention that was so effective that the NEA had 302 delegates -- - the largest single voting group in Madison Square Garden. In recent Congressional elections, the NEA carefully targeted its Minimum Wage to Rise Regional Administrator of the Department's Employment Standards Administration (ESA) in Denver noted. The Wage and Hour Division, a part of ESA, is responsible for ad-ministration and en forcement of the FLSA which also sets over-time pay and child labor standards in addition to the minimum wage rates said Loren Gilbert, Assistant Regional Administrator for the division. About 30,000 Utah workers will be entitled to a pay raise when the Federal minimum wage rises to $3.35 per hour Jan. 1, 1981, the U.S. Department of Labor pointed out recently. The Jan. 1 increase, from $3.10 to $3.35, was provided for in 1977 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). "The minimum wage increase is a matter of equity for low wage workers and assures that they are not forced to bear a dispropor-tionate share of the burden of inflation," Doyle Loveridge, - N Serving , . North Utah ,f " ''SA County ' ' V"' vv X II Smilh M;iin. IMc;is;mt (irovr, l't;ih Thf n psWnhfd mrj Thuudir by Kfwtjh. Ike which ho pobtrthn Ihc Crtuen id Th Fret Prm. Toftlhtr. Iht thret pobhcitiom ificti (bout 6b prcmt ol tht homes in Nonb Utih County, wcludini LmdoQ. Plraunl Grove. Amenon Fotk. Cdn IK. HifMjnd, Alpine. Ithi. Cedii Fort ind f jirtield. 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