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Show DECEMBER 1957 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Page Four FRIDAY, 13, ; THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The SaU Lake Mining & Legal Newt FearleSS Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as jecood IndCDCnden t class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1879 i. AleWSpaper 711 South West Temple Telephone EM I . I GLENN BJORNN, Publisher Subscription Price 13.00 per year in advance "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation. Volume 37 Number 29 It's Time to Retire There has been some speculation that in view of his promise to the nation and in view of his third major illness President Dwight D. Eisenhower might resign. But strange as it seems, there has also been speculation that Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the man who would become president in the event of an Eisenhower resignation, might resign first. The speculation about Nixon doesn't carry much weight. He would be a sap to step out now when it appears pretty obvious that he will be president before the next general election. The speculation gains its support from the fact that so many other members of the Eisenhower "team" have left for the showers. There is little doubt that Mr. Nixon would dearly like to disassociate himself from the debacle of the current ad-ministration but He is hardly in a position to do so. A cabinet officer can and as we have seen in recent months does resign, and take up a good job in private industry. But a vice president with a burning ambition to become president would cut his political throat by resigning. So Mr. Nixon is caught up in a tight situation. He can't quit and he hates to stay on under the present setup. The only things that makes sense for Mr. Nixon is the fact that he is an odds on favorite to become president before Mr. Eisenhower's term is up. The utter confusion in Washington these days is ample proof that this nation needs a full time president even if it has to be Mr. Nixon. Public opinion will demand that Mr. Eisenhower step aside in the crisis. One more debacle like our big satellite launching in Florida last week and Mr. Eisenhower will retire to his farm. Mr. Nixon will inherit one of the greatest messes in the nation's history. Our Sleep Administrator! (Continued from Page 1) in defense, natural science, military planning and the like, has showed how far the Soviets have advanced and what our relative positions will be in I960. It showed how badly we are being left behind in the arms race. And the Central Intelligence Agency, it was revealed by its director Allen Dulles (the secretary of state's brother) has made numerous reports to the administration on the same thing. Yet the Eisenhower administration, no doubt dreaming of the glorious days of 1945 when Ike led Allied forces to victory in Europe refused to believe what its own agencies told it. Nothing was done. Charies Wilson, then Defense Secretary, turned down money offered by Congress for beefing up this nation's defenses. No one bothered then to tell the people the facts. It was only after the Russians tossed an artificial moon into the sky where all could see that the administration has been forced out of its sleepy attitude. Even now, several months after Sputnik I, all is still con-fusion. And it won't end until the bunglers are tossed out of office in I960 at about the time when Russia, by current calculations of the aforementioned experts will have achieved military dom-ination. the LEASED GRAPEVINE V-T-W-t A 4200 member stake has been formed in the rapidly growing Orange County, Calif., by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. Karl C. Durham, a Santa Ana grocery store man-ager was named president of the new stake. Eddie Leishman has been cho-sen general manager of the Salt Lake City entry in the Pacific Coast baseball league. Mr. Leish-man was owner and operator of the Salt Lake Bees in the Pio-neer league for the past seven years. Dr. E. Allen Bateman has been reelected president of the Great Salt Lake Council, Boy Scouts of America. New vice presidents to serve five years are Wendell J. Ashton and Henry E. Ogaard. They replace Col. E. G. Thomsa and R. Y. Gray. A jury of nine men and tly"v women found Norman Ash Fa rell innocent of the sex slaying of six year old Gregory Mc-Com- b. The trial was conducted before Third District Judge Han-son. Utah Education Association membership is at an all time high of 8,035 teachers and edu-cators, 1 the UEA reported this week. Dr. Albert Diefendorf, retired head of the University of Utah engineering department, is new dean of the school of engineering at College of Pacific after teaching there a year. The congregation of Tem" B'nai Israel has gone on recKJ opposing inclusion of the ques-tion of religious affiliation in the 1960 census. The Utah Department of Fish and Game this week reminded sportsmen who have received game kill questionnaires to re-turn them as quickly as possible. To date some 30,000 question-naires have been mailed to Utah sportsmen concerning the take of big game and waterfowl. Re-turns so far have been rather scattered. Questionnaire recipients are selected on a random basis Ol University Receives Ford Fund Grant Utah's program of "living-roo- m learning" has been given an ad-ditional $45,000 grant one of the largest awarded nationally for this type of program by the Fund for Adult Education (Ford) to boost the program over the next three years. University of Utah officials were informed of the additional; grant by the Fund for Adult Ed-ucation. President A. Ray Olpin said the grant would be used to promote adult discussion groups in the humanities, social sciences and fine arts. "The Fund's gen-erous support is a tribute to those who are pioneering liberal ' adult education in Utah,' he said. I Following a policy of the Uni-versity of Utah Extension Divi-sion the other universities Utah State University, Brigham Young University and Weber College were invited to parti-cipate in the program. Over 100 discussion groups throughout the state have already been organ-ized. Study groups can select from some twenty topics includ-ing world politics, foreign pol-icy, international relations, mod-ern poetry, parenthood, under-standing great books, economics, modern painting and aging in a modern world. Dean Harold W. Bentley of "the University's extension Divi-sion stressed the excellence of the materials in the courses and said, "This is a splendid oppor-tunity for friends and study groups to further their educa-tion in their own living rooms at a cost well within the reach of everyone." Additional information about the courses offered in "forum for Americans" many of which include specially prepared films and recordings may be pro-cured from the Extension Divi-sion of the University of Utah or from the other paritcipating universities. JO jChristensen Vetoes I Increase in Service Charges Salt Lake City Commissioner Joe L. Christensen has turned thumbs down on a proposal to increase garbage and sewage col-lection fees as a means of rais-ing badly needed funds for the city. Mr. Christensen replied to the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce committee on city finances which had suggested the increases as a fair way of getting more revenue. The chamber committee said it did not feel it fair to raise some $400,000 annually by rais-ing business taxes as had been proposed by several commission-ers. It offered the service charge increase as a partial substitute. Park Commissioner L. C. Rom-ney- , who proposed the business tax boost, said he realized there were inequities and the plan was to make fair adjustments. UVAI Competition in Public Relations America is supposed to be the land of high pressure sales-manship, of publicity agents supreme, a place where the art of advertising has been carried to perfection. But in recent years it has become apparent that while our much-vaunte- d public relations and advertising works very well for selling washing machines and electing presidents it isn't going over very big in some key nations where we are trying to make a big impression. It might be that the Madison Avenue man goes to work for the government' he loses his flair and turns out a watered down product for use abroad. Or it may be that our government press agents simply don't understand the foreign mind. In any event, dispatches from abroad continually report that our various foreign aid programs are not getting the credit they deserve, that people in the recipient countries don't like us despite the handouts. More recently it has been reported from India that a Rus- - ( sian loan of $126,000,000 is receiving publicity considerably , mnrp fsvnrnhle fhan our own one billion dollar loans to the Indian government. The main reason for this state of affairs seems to be that the Soviet loans bear a lower interest rate than our. This, ad-mittedly is a tremendous talking point for the Russians. It's not easy for us to make our loan look more generous when the Russian loan carries a 2 per cent interest compared with ours at nearly 6 per cent. But the difference in interest rates is not all. The manned in which the loans are granted by the west apparently gives the Indians some concern. And the Russian terms for repayment are considered far more lenient. So the Christian Science Monitor this week reported "... A trend, thus, is developing in this country (India) which one Indian newspaper calls 'Russian generosity' compared with the caution amounting to parsimony' of the western world. "Moscow therefore makes hay in the luminous light of the Sputniks although its contributon in cash and kind constitute only a small portion of Indian developmental expenditures and measures up not at all to the billion dollars contributed by the United States to the successful accomplishment of the first Indian five year plan." 1 th OQomJM of llltll KENTUCKY BOURBON liJjSgZJ ,NCE1810 V, urn ViL IP |