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Show Page Two FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1 962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES iehind the Jdeadfined J-- .u mn l.J ii in m.it.niiL. ... in ,i No matter how many more A bombs may be exploded in the resumed East-We- st nuclear tests nothing occurring recently in politics can compare with the detonation set off within the Republican party by Maine lady Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Unlike the Rockefeller divorce issue which exploded over the American political landscape, Mrs. Smith's political A blast has been more like an underground nuclear detonation, producing minimum fallout. The chair reaction effect has been to help shock the otherwise lethargic Republican leadership into action. Heretofore the GOP has limited itself largely to its sniping at the Kennedy admin-istration. It will now try to pro-duce a few blockbusters in the megaton range. What Senator Smith did was to say out loud and publicly what many Republicans have been thinking and saying pri-vately since their razor's edge election defeat in 1960. More than a few Republicans have been making it obvious that they have no wish to tangle with the admitted Kennedy pop-ularity. GOP National Chairman Miller has to. So do the Senate leader Dirksen and House GOP chieftain Halleck, and so have most other high and low Repub-licans on occasion. What distress-es the GOP, however, is the real-ization that every attack on the President has produced sympa-thetic support for JFK, and al-though Republicans have not ad-mitted as much, they know that attacks on the President, family, administration or policies have failed to stir up very much voter v support for the GOP. Senator Smith declared that it is time for the GOP to stop act-ing scared and to begin politick-ing boldly and constructively. She heaped particular scorn on former Vice President Nixon, New York Gov. Rockefeller and Senator Goldwater for "writing off" GOP chances in 1964. More and more, she said, it appears that Republicans, wary of trying to wrest the Presidency from the popular Kennedy in 1964, are trying to boom Michi-gan Automaker George Romney as a "sacrificial lamb," so that the GOP can make a good show-ing in what many Republicans really regard as a hopeless race. The denials were so immedi-ate that the shoe seemed to fit. Nixon, Rockefeller, Goldwater, and others quickly denied that "if" they had any White House aspirations, they would be dis-suaded from seeking the Presi-dency by any reluctance to con-test Kennedy's popularity. Rom-ney stressed from Michigan that he is "only interested in winning the Governorship" of the Demo-cratic Labor controlled state and when pressed to say whether she would be willing to make the race as the GOP's 1964 standard bearer, even Senator Smith her-self shied away, and in effect said "No." Despite the young Democratic President's high popularity, Re-publicans hold a few aces of their own. The GOP came closer to winning, in losing in 1960, than any defeated party in recent his-tory. The GOP is tightening up its doorbell ringing local organ-izations, putting its Big City or-ganizations on a full time basis, making a strong new pitch for minority voters, riding a crest of conservatism, making deep in-roads among young voters and is now devising ways to take ad-vantage of the fact that President Kennedy's legislative programs do not have anything remotely approaching JFK's own personal popularity. The GOP is girding for a colos-sal effort to wrest control of all the key, big electoral vote states away from faction ridden Demo-cratic machines. The Republican prospects would be dismal if, after the dust settles this Novem-ber, Nixon, Rockefeller and Romney all lose in their guber-natorial quests. Republicans will be crestfallen if their strong bids for comebacks in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and possibly even Texas should flop. Yet the GOP is making admit-tedly strong bids for control of each of these states and appears more likely to win more than they lose. However despite the newfound emphasis on grass roots political organizatoin, Republicans suffer most from an apparent lack of direction. The White House gave the GOP a sense of direction in the Eisenhower era. The GOP must come to realize that it can not simply quash the political popularity of the New Frontier's domestic spending proposals by labelling them fiscally unsound and allying with Southern con-servatives in Congress to kill them. Republicans must offer constructive alternatives and make fiscal responsibility popu-lar again. Whatever the GOP's reasons for killing the President's pro-posed new Urban Affairs Post, headed by Negro Dr. Weaver, they failed to use finesse. They even alienated countless Negroes and city voters at the same mo-ment they are trying to woo the big cities and minorities away from the Democratic fold. Sentaor Smith caused her own fellow Republicans to begin long over-du- e soul searching. The GOP, spurred largely by the lady lawmaker's blasts, is forming "Idea Task Forces" to develop a hard hitting constructive nation-al program to offer the voters in November's congressional elec-tions, which largely hold the key to GOP hopes in '64. It won't be easy. Most observ-ers believe the GOP will actually be hard put to make the tradi-tional off year congressional gains and more than a few pun-dits believe the Democrats may be able to polish off all the GOP hopefuls in the key states of New York, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts, Texas, all in one fell swoop. There is nothing ahead to sug-gest that the Kennedy popularity will take an early nose dive. It is impossible to predict political impact of another Cuban inva-sion fisaco or another Korean Style war in Laos or South Viet-nam, although voters usually unite behind, not against the President, during foreign policy crises. Astronaut Glenn's orbiting popularity is not hurting the Kennedy Space program. The Moscow-Peipin- g split is giving the U. S. new confidence in the Cold War. The Congo appears to be stabilizing. The economic impact of the continued Berlin crisis military buildup, civilian defense shelter construction, space missile con-tracts, should keep the economy rolling and employment high. Republicans will be hard put to develop a hard hitting politi-cally popular and constructive program rivalling Kennedy's and suiting the times. But at least they are determined now to face up to their task. Westminster College Charts Annual Mardi Gras Fete Westminster College's annual Mardi Gras Carnival and Inter-national Dinner will get under way Saturday. The dinner, spon-sored by Sigma Pi Alpha honor-ary language fraternity, under the direction of Dr. Myra Yancey will begin at 5:30 p.m., and con-tinue until 7:00 p.m. in the stu-dent lounge. At that time, the festivities of the Mardi Gras will be launched in Payne Gymnasium. Classed as the top social event of the academic year the activity will involve all student organizations and the alumni association. Al-ready many applications have been received for booths and it is expected that total partici-pation will be the highest in the history of the event. Highlighting the evening's ac-tivities will be the selection and crowning of the King of Mirth, who, in turn, will select Mardi Gras Queen. General chairman is Tom Mitchell, vice president of the student government asso-ciation council. Committee mem-bers are: Bob Barden, who will serve as master of ceremonies for the evening; Gerald Bowden, Bob Byerline, Bill Bywater, Larry Eldredge, Doug Evans, Don Gar-na- s, Barbara Hall, Dennis Helge-so- n, Sherry Martin, Fred Pink-erto- n, Ray Richeda, Bob Stans-fiel- d, Ron Twelves and Max Waddoups. Proceeds from booth sales will be used to purchase a cinema-scope lens for the college movie projector. Admission charge to the public is 50c for adults and children free. Dinner tickets are $1.25 per person and may be purchased at the door. Guard to Sponsor Search for Art Art is where you find it, and the , Utah National Guard, as co-spon-of a statewide art ex-hibition, intends to find it in every Utah high school. The Utah Guard is offering 4 scholarships and 38 other awards as an incentive. The only re-quirement for entrance in the contest is to be a student in the 10,th 11th or 12th grades of any Utah high school. Deadline for entries is March 19. The occasion is the third an-nual Utah high school are exhi-bition to be held in the Granite High School, March 24-3- 1. Sponsoring organization along with the Granite School District and the Utah National Guard is Brigham Young Uinversity, Uni-versity of Utah, Utah State Uni-versity, Weber College and West-minster College. What kind of art work can be entered? Paintings, drawings, advertising art, photographs any type of graphic art. "Single entries can win prizes but not a scholarship," empha-sized Delbert W. Smedley, art supervisor, Granite School Dis-trict. To be eligible for a scholar-ship, a student must be a senior and must enter a portfolio con-sisting of several different kinds of art work. The Guard scholarships are good for $100 at any college or university in the state of Utah, according to Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General. In addition, other sponsors of the exhibition and local mer-chants are offering scholarships, tuition grants and numerous other prize winners. Every high school student in the state of Utah endowed with talent in the field of art is urged to enter this program. Details can be obtained from Delbert Smedley, Granite School Di-strict, 340 East 3545 South, Salt Lake" City. fmmmmmmmmmmmsmmammanr iS0O.JE " ON I (-M-ORE VJhere Ifa IF A 0 : T All the Time THE NEW I KAAUR f! 1230 On Every Radio : ; j Telephone Company Charts Program "Thresholds for Tomorrow," an hour long program exploring many of science's most exciting new frontiers, will be sponsored by the Bell System over NBC Saturday, March 10, at 5:30 p.m. This will be the final program in the three part' "Threshold" series sponsored by the Bell Co. during the current season. According to producer Robert Bendick the program might well have the sub-titl- e "What's New on Earth." He plans to present some of the research going on in five important fields the atam, DNA, the sea, miniaturiza-tion and computer technology and show its potential usefulness to man's life, well-bein- g and his destiny. From the field of atomic re-search the program will show developments in the peaceful use of nuclear explosions, "portable" atomic power units and potential employment of isotopes for such unrelated activities as weather control, medical diagnoses and agricultural pesticides. The program will point out the implications of the genetic code of the DNA molecule. As scientists work toward the un-derstanding of this code, they come close to the ability to con-trol the heredity of plants and animals. "Thresholds for Tomorrow" will show how research is un-covering new uses of the sea for farming, for mining and for a better understanding of life. It points out that man today faces the challenge of frontiers and adventures that have a big-ger potential than any in his past history. "The realization imposes on the individual a grave respon-sibility for study and even more for wisdom to apply that poten-tial to the benefit of mankind." Small Business May Gain From Change In SBA Procedure Harold R. Smethills, Regional Director of the Small Business Administration, Denver, Colo., announced this week that his office has developed a new pro-cedure which should afford more opportunities for small business firms to participate in govern-ment contracts. His office has compiled a list-ing of the more common items being purchased by the various Army Ordnance installations, in-cluding Ordnance Ammunition Command at Joliet, Illinois; Ord-nance Weapons Command, Rock Island, Illinois; Frankford Ar-senal, Philadelphia; and Red-stone Arsenal in Alabama. Copies of these commodity listing are being furnished to small business firms which have registered with his office, together with a supply of bidders' mailing list applica- tions forms. The firms receiving this data are being invited to review the commodity listings to determine whether any of the items are in their manufacturing capabilities. If so, then the firms will com-plete the bidders' mailing list appliction forms and return them to Mr. Smethill's office, where they will be reviewed and then forwarded to the proper Ord-nance installations. Small business firms in the SBA four state region who have not registered with the Denver SBA office and who would be interested in this particular proj- ect are invited to contact Mr. Smethill's office and request a set of the material relating to Ordnance procurement. s |