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P1-ovo’s current anti-litter ordinance, adopted in August of 1978, is patterned after a model law of a national beautification organization. But it has not solved the problem of unwanted and unsolicited handbills and other such materials from cluttering front orches – partly, perhaps, Because many people may not understand their responsibility under the law. The… Continue reading Low on Doorstep Litter

Utah Valley experienced some destructive flooding earlier this week – and authorities involved should devise preventive measures to avoid recurrence where possible, The Goshen Dam in southern Utah County broke, causing severe highway flooding and washouts plus flooded basements. Flooding west of Pleasant Grove along the Proctor Lane inundated some homes, barns, pastures and roads.… Continue reading Flood Prevention Steps Vital

Next year’s federal census will answer a lot of interesting questions on population in Utah. For example: -Will Provo or Ogden be the state’s second largest city, behind Salt Lake City? -Two of the state’s fastestgrowing cities – Orem and Sandy – are in a neck-in-neck race for fourth glace among cities right now. W… Continue reading Population Guessing Game

If you read the Herald comics land who doesn’t’?) you probably observed an interesting bit of political philosophy contained in a recent Sunday installment of ”Berry’s World” by Jim Berry. The script for ha f a dozen panels portraying an interview with a “Congressman Rodomontade” read as follows: “Congressman Rodomontade, what is your philosophy about… Continue reading Whot’s Your Opinion?

The Utah Highway Safety Division, in analyzing traffic fatalities for 1978, has come up with some telling figures on the devastating influence of speed and alcohol on the highway. Dur ng the year there were 315 fatal crashes which killed 376 persons. Of these accidents, alcohol was a contributing factor in two out of every… Continue reading Speed ond Alcohol Kill

Administration of justice in our judicial system sometimes is impeded or made more costly by challenge through ”technicality.” Conviction or acquittal too often hinges on one technicality or another – the police officer erred, the suspect wasn’t properly advised of his rights, court procedure didn’t go according to Hoyle. Sometimes, it almost seems, technicalities are… Continue reading Techniculities cmd Justice

Productivity, one of the factors vital to the nation’s economic health, once again figures in the news, with: 1. A Labor Department report that output per hour worked at the nation’s businesses (excluding famis) fell at a seasonallyadjusted 8.9 percent annual rate for the second quarter. 2. Release of the Joint Congressional Economic Committee’s midyear… Continue reading We Must Strive to Reverse Productivity Slump

There is cause for deep community concem i11 the u coming U.S. Steel-EPA negotiagons on environmental issues, Indeed, the very future of Geneva Works could be at stake. Dale L. Armstrong, who until July 1 headed U.S. Steel’s western division, laid it on the line in an interview with the Herald a few darlyls ag;).… Continue reading PubIic’s Vital Stake

Productivity is one of the measures of Americas economic well-being – and Labor Department figures for 1980 indicate that output still needs major national focus. For the third consecutive year, productivity among U.S. businesses declined. Economists usually interpret a decline in productivity (the nation’s output of goods and services per hour of work) as contributing… Continue reading Time to Reverse Decline in Business Productivity