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t-t Tin-: ItldlUlU) HKVPEH Wednesday. January 7. 1987 4 11187 Workers Compensation Rates Now Effective sizeable portion of workers compensation claims. In 1985 the NCCI projected that rates for 1986 would need to be increased twenty-five percent. Commissioner Yancey, after further discussion with the NCCI, approved an average rate increase of only 17'4 percent.

The commissioner stated due to his prior action, the increase for 1987 would be a modest 3.C percent. All insurance companies doing business in Utah and writing workers compensation coverage, including the State Insurance Fund, are required to use the new rates. The approval of the new workers' compensation rates which become effective January 1 will create an overall average rate increase of 3.6 percent, according to Harold C. Yancey of the Itah State Insurance Department. The National Council on Com-jx'nsation Insurance (NCCI), a national statistical organization for workers compensation, filed a request with the Department for the increase.

The Commissioner noted that the medical cost index presently has an inflation rate of 10-12 percent, which represent a Plans Underway For Another TV Station which qualified to do business in Utah in November. The company is a subsidiary of Miami-based Grant Broadcasting System owner operator of independent television stations in Philadelphia, Chicago and Miami. Grant Broadcasting recently filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 provisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. According to the firms petition, filed in Philadelphia the move was made to allow time to resolve cash flow problems and to raise equity financing.

The company is said to owe more than $25 million to television program syndicators, including Viacom International Lorimar-Telepictures Corp. and Warner Communications Inc. Grant Broadcasting reorganization plans are expected to have no effect on its joint venture agreement with American Television of Utah. Officials with Grant Broadcasting and American Stores did not respond to telephone inquiries for the last several weeks. American Television of Utah, a wholly owned subsidiary of Skaggs Telecommunications Service in turn a subsidiary of local American Stores has joined forces with Miami-based Grant Broadcasting System Inc.

to launch a new area UIIF station that will broadcast locally over channel 14. A public announcement regarding the joint venture is expected to be forthcoming. According to an informed source who requested anonymity, transmitters for the new station have been purchased and Channel 14 should begin broadcasting sometime next summer. He indicated American Television of Utah was formed exclusively to operate the channel. While the station was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in 1979 as a subscription television service, he said those plans were abandoned in favor of a U-band channel.

A minority interest in the venture will be held by Grant Television of Utah a Texas corporation 11287 Spicing Up Story-Works Even For Bacteriologists MONDAY iTUESDAY DAYTIME Basmr By Jillyn Smith Science Writer Utah State University Bacteriologist Paul DeKruif told in his memoirs about writing a purple patch. It was 1924. He was at work on Microbe Hunters, a dramatized history of the early microbiologists. Author Sinclair Red Lewis was looking over his shoulder at the first chapter, about the Dutch janitor who made one of the first microscopes. Soup it up, Red said.

DeKruif did. He typed: Caesar had gone to England and come upon slaves that opened his eyes with wonder but these Britons were as ordinary to each other as Roman centurions were to Caesar Huge elephants amazing to Alexander the Great but commonplace to Hindus The Pacific Ocean astounding Balboa but ordinary to Central American Indians APPLIANCES WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL! Come see us today for a great Appliance buy Blake Electric Co. 50 W. 100 North Richfield Leeuwenhoek? This janitor of Delft had stolen upon and peeped into a fantastic sub-visible world of little things. Beasts these were of a kind that ravaged and annihilated whole races of men ten million times larger than they were themselves.

This was Leeuwenhoeks day of days. Youve got it, Red shouted. DeKruif, wrote one of his reviewers, chased fame on the back of the literary hare instead of the scientific turtle. He left his research laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute in the 1920s to collaborate with Lewis on Arrowsmith, A Pulitzer Prizewinning novel about a microbe hunter. He did not get credit of authorship, but he received 25 percent of the Arrowsmith roylaties, and he discovered he was pretty good at writing purple patches.

He wrote Microbe Hunters, and followed it, over a period of 45 years, with dozens more popular books and articles on medicine and science. He died in 1971, having become an important force in U.S. medical politics. Microbe Hunters was translated into 18 languages, and is still in print today, 60 years after it was published. The purple patch still works.

Although DeKruif was accused back then of practicing galloping jazz journalism, his writing style can be found today in the works of science writer and two-timer Pulitzer winner Jon Franklin. a rtf Mi WANTED! We Will Buy Clean COTTON RAGS The Richfield "Reap er 43 South Main Richfield.