Color Country Spectrum (Newspaper) - March 25, 1977, Saint George, Utah f Color Country Spectrum Friday March The printed voice Utah's booming Volume 13 Number 285 Local forecast Cedar Heavy snow warning today with cumulations of four inches or more by decreasing snow showers tonight with partial clearing at variable clouds Saturday with a chance of snow showers mainly along high Saturday low tonight 26 St Showers through this clearing during the partly cloudy high near 57 low tonight 32 Drive to amend law gains ground WASHINGTON A drive to amend the law that forced the Food and Drug Administration to call lor a ban on the use of saccharin appeared to gam ground today in Congress Sen Lloyd Bentsen joining as a sponsor of legislation to amend the socalled Delaney Clause said the intent was to lei FDA weigh the benefits of a substance as well as its risks before its use is banned There are an estimated 10 million diabetics in this country for whom sugar is poison and for whom saccharin is She only sugar substitute available Bentsen said He said saccharin also was needed by overweight persons because they face greater risk of heart disease and ar- A leading cancer expert went beyond that Thursday telling a Senate sub- committee that banning saccharin might make some people on restricted diets more susceptible both to cancer and heart disease Frank Rauscher former director of the National Cancer Institute obesity itself predisposes toward cancer as as tow ard heart disease He said there was no evidence charin has caused cancer in humane Rauscher and other scientists appeared before the Senate Health and Scientific Research subcommittee considering legislative proposals to overturn the proposed ban The Delaney Clause requires banning any substance from food if it is shown to produce cancer in either humans or animals and therefore FDA proposed banning the artificial sweetener because of Canadian tests showing it causes cancer in rats The scientists agreed it might be possible for a panel of experts to evaluate existing data on saccharin and come up with a useful report within 60 days to help Congress decide whether to allow continued use The proposed ban on saccharin cannot take effect until July at the earliest Missile plans continue WASHINGTON if PI The Soviet is moving ahead with no sign of a slowdown on deployment plans for a new President Carter has linked to army government sources said today Mounted on a tracked launcher the missile is the an in- 2.500 mile range weapon None is yet known to have been moved to two launch areas in Europe and one facing China in the Far East but learned work on support facilities at the sites has been continuing steadily and the missiles can be expected to appear at any time Carter commented on the in a news conference Feb 8 saying he would like the Russians to halt ment and refusal to do so put a great deai of pressure on us to develop a mobile missile 01 our own Although the is not a direct threat to the United States arms control experts have said it's in a gray area of negotiations because it is a shortened version of the m- missile that could reach this country Carter has already proposed a slowdown in development on a U.S intercontinental missile with mobile basing prospects the MX us full potential is demonstrated Even at full scale development the MX would not be operational until the Some U.S analysts believe may already have been placed in a few fixed launch silos The Pentagon has voiced fears might be converted into the bigger weapons presenting an identification problem The sites prepared for contain structures which U.S officials believe would be used to store the missiles They could then be dispersed to firing points in the surrounding area Analysts believe that in Europe the are intended to replace older missiles witn less accurate single warheads The carries three multiple warheads each bigger than a atomic bomb In addition U.S sources said the Soviet Union recently escalated the nuclear picture in where the United States provides a nuclear umbrella for its NATO allies by basing submarines in the Baltic Sea lor the first time From six to seven G class diesel subs which nuclear missiles with ranges are now based at Liepaja on the Latvian coast the sources said From patrol stations in the Baltic they can reach targets in a radius that covers Germany part of France and England Hospital future considered the one-year contract with Intermountain Health Care Inc to manage the Valley View Medical Center coming to an end on May 1 the Iron County Commissioners are pondering several alternatives concerning the future of the hospital At their regular meeting on Eugene Beck of met with the Commissioners to discuss natives and to make recommendations relative to the physical plant Previously IHC had asked for operating capital from the county to continue the management contract between the county and IHC At the Commission meeting Beck reduced the amount to prior to renewing a management agreement The Commission saw no means of meeting this sum in the present Beck proposed a five-year lease as an alternate plan The county would put up a minimum of now of capital funds for improvements to the physical plant and then as a maximum yearly sum for the term of the lease An option to buy would remain in the lease agreement which could be exercised when and if the were ready A firm price on a saie offer for the hospital was not established at meeting but Beck promised to get a firm recommended price from financial advisor If the Commission decided to cise none of the management lease or sale options it would resume operation of the hospital after May 1 In other action the Commission decided to reopen the Juvenile Detention Center in Cedar City Requests from the District Judge and citizens prompted the decision The County Attorney also read from the Utah Code which defined the obligations to maintain a detention facility or to arrange with another county for one There was a debate among Com- missioners on whether the Commission should set up an advisory board of citizens for the Detention Facility Commissioner Jim Clark expressed his wish to see more citizen involvement in the concerns of the Center and thought the Advisory Board would assist the Commission to keep the facility running Commissioners Cleo Wood and Grant Seamon voted to continue on the same basis as in the past Commissioner Clark voted against this procedure Advertising to obtain services for the center will be made shortly A salary of a month for a couple to operate the facility was decided upon In a matter related to the Center the Commission had received a for TV rental for the Detention Facility for a period when the Center was not in operation The will be refused Joe acting executive director of the Association of Governments asked the Commission to give the input on the 208 Water Quality Study just completed by that organization He said trie courts had ruled in that the Water Quality Program passed by Congress in 1972 held mandatory planning stipulations and that states must comply Governor Calvin ton had designated the AOG as the official planning agency for this area This is a two-phase program It en- tails a survey on water quality and the development of a management framework to ensure acceptable water quality standards Steering Committee now has some basic findings on which local input is desired After receiving elected officials input the management plan will be drawn and then there will be a series of public hearings to comment on the proposed management plan The Commission decided to meet with Melling and the County Planning and Zoning Commission at their regular meeting on April 6 to involve the Commission in the input process In shorter actions the to refer a complaint by Jim Hartling that his assessed valuation was inequitable to the State Tax Commission and deferred payment on it until it could be resolved a fire control agreement with the State Forestry Division in which certain dangerous fire conditions due to drought would precipitate a joint fire response county as well as state units April 12 for a meeting with Escalante Valley Migrant Housing Authority board members To state groups Matheson speaks ST Governor Scott Matheson said the state is making an attempt to have third level air carriers certified by the civil aeronautics board The certification Matheson said would improve air service to southern Utah areas allowing earners such as Skywest to receive subsidies Matheson spoke to members of the St George Chamber of Commerce the In- Development Executives Association the Utah Industrial Development division the Utah Travel Council and related tourist promotion groups today at the Sugar Loaf Restaurant Matheson also indicated he felt the Utah Legislature had prepared a good work product in the bills it had sent to his desk He stated he still felt that Utah needed the gasoline tax hike which wasn't passed by the legislature to maintain the good highway systems and insure good tourist growth The Utah Governor also his support for the Bonneville unit of the Central Matheson told the group the economy is growing We all have to work together for the best interests of our state to insure that our economy and growth will be solid steady and positive stated Matheson We have to use the ingenuity of our people The rest of the country is looking toward us now We have been discovered Matheson also attended a meeting of the Utah Chief of Police convention and the Utah juvenile judges meeting The Utah organizations all met in separate meetings today following the governor's address Chill warms in relations between U.S and Cuba Utah Governor Scott Matheson addressed members of several state agencies and associations and local officials this morning Spectrum photo by Cooper WASHINGTON A 16-year chill in relations between Cuba and the United States appears to be warming a bit with the disclosure that direct U.S negotiations with Fidel Castro's regime are going on in York This initial step toward eventual of relations with Cuba involves talks on offshore fishing limits It is the first direct contact of top officials from both countries since diplomatic relations were cut in January 1961 The long political and ideological Cuban struggle reached its climax later that year w ith the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion The Cuban crisis came a later The talks disclosed Thursday by the State Department are the second Carter ad- ministration gesture toward Cuba in iess than a week On March 18 Carter ended the year ban for Americans going to Cuba Cambodia Vietnam and North Korea The Department declined to divulge exactly where the New York meeting was held or whether the talks were continuing Asked this a L S official said thal in these cases secrecy better serves our interests Switzerland has been representing U.S interests in Havana since the 1961 break The Swiss are understood to have helped arrange the current direct negotiations The U.S delegation to the talks in York is headed by Terence A Todman confirmed Wednesday by the Senate as the new assistant secretary of state for inter- American affairs The Cuban delegation according to the State Department is headed Deputy Foreign Minister Torra The State Department which refused to divulge the location of the meeting said the talks will last more than a week and The governments of Cuba and the United States initiated today in York negotiations aimed at regulating questions concerning fisheries and maritime boundaries resulting from the promulgation of laws on these matters by both parties Both the United States and Cuba extended their fishing zone to 200 miles on March 1 The two countries are separated by 90 miles of ocean Killing 30 persons Quake rocks Turkey ELAZIG Turkey 25 UPI A strong earthquake rocked mountainous Elazig Province in eastern Turkey before dawn today killing at least 30 persons villagers and damaging homes schools and mosques officials reported Officials said rescuers recovered 30 bodies in the fanning town of Palu which appeared to have taken the brunt of the shock They said the death toll might increase when communications were restored to outlying areas The government mobilized troops to help in rescue operations and the Red Crescent Turkish equivalent of the Red Cross rushed tents food and medical supplies to the scene The province about 375 miles east of Ankara houses Turkey's largest electric complex at Keban Dam but officials said the quake appeared not to have damaged it The observatory in Istanbul said the quake which hit at p.m EST had not registered on its equipment indicating it was very an official said Though the tremor's intensity was not announced in Turkey a spokesman for the U.S National Earthquake In- formation Center at Golden Colorado said it was probably less than 6.5 on the open-ended Richter scale because it had not triggered alarms sensitive to shocks greater than that Nevertheless it caused damage to two schools a mosque and many homes in the Independent Turkish News Agency said Officials said troops were dispatched from the provincial capital of Elazig 40 miles east to Palu to help in rescue efforts They also made their way to villages around Palu where com- had been lost Elazig a city of 107.000 persons is the administrative center for the copper mining province The quake hit an area some 220 miles west of Lake Van about 60 miles north of the town of Diyarbakir It followed four months a killer quake north of the lake that left more than 3.000 persons dead and brought the total number of earthquake victims in Turkey to more than in the past 20 years Eastern Turkey straddles the giant earthquake fault running from Iran where at least 130 persons were killed in a quake Tuesday Turkey and Yugoslavia to Italy Another quake earlier this month the Romanian capital of Bucharest and caused at least deaths Turkey's worst disaster on record was in 1939 when an earthquake took lives in Erzincan SEA A strong earthquake hook tern Turkey bringing kilter death and destruction to a region Last November a toft at toast 3 OtO map
