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Show JR2H-GENEVA TIMES Published Every Thursday at Oram. Utah M. NEFF SMART, Editor and Publishei Entered as second class matter November 19, 1944 at the portoffice at Orem. Utah, under the act of March 8, 1879. "MEMBER: Utah State Press Association Subscription Rates: One year, strictly in advance 13.00 Six Months 2M RANDOM NOTES Collected at the Utah State Press association annual convention : "Don't make anybody mad, accidentally!" That was the advice of the experts in encouraging Utah weeklies to get up on their hind legs and utilize their editorial tolumns: They urged Utah editors to stand for things which the community needs and to attack things which hinder the growth and development of the community. "Letters to the editor" columns were described as an important clearing house for community ideas and problems. Encourage your readers to write letters when something bothers them. Personal columns are often the paper's most popular reading. Don't underestimate the value of the long list of pei-sonals pei-sonals and notices which come in from corrspondents. ra their own area they are important. Fill your paper with local news and let the metropolitan metropol-itan dailies worry about covering the internation situation. situat-ion. It's good for us to hear the experts occasionally, and we're determined to carry out some of their admonitions. admonit-ions. For instance you'll be noticing that we intend to campaign for the name change to Geneva, despite the fact that Mayor Gillman prefers to leave it Orem. We'll bfl criticizing local fruit dealers who sell anything1 except ex-cept the finest quality fruit along Orem-Geneva's State Street, despite the fact that many local growers pick Op a few extra dollars by disposing of their "orchard rana" at local sales stands. We'll continue to praise the city council for their vision with regard to water for Orem-Geneva. We'll be asking some questions and asking for letters regarding the feasibility of a row of ornamental trees along Highway 91 as soon as spring breaks. We'll bee asking for letters and ideas regarding the inauguration here of an annual celebration in order to put Orem-Geneva on the map. There are a dozen other things which may well stand discussion. You're invited to. use these columns to make suggestions, suggest-ions, to report news and to better the community. x The experts gave the Mt. Pleasant Pyramid the first annual Community Service award for an outstanding record of service in that community. The Orem-Geneva Times got honorable mention. This year we're gunning for first place. Meanwhile we'll try not to make anybody mad, accidentally. Speed the setting of gelatine Average automobile product-by product-by adding a cup of crushed ice , Ion in the United States is ap-after ap-after dissolving the package in proximately three cars for each a cup of hot water. truck built. Union PcGCC7:r;37 "rein Schadule tzo ycur Union fflAK3S. in Pacific C::.o !!u::iivo !"zry 15 Per ccmp.cto infcrrr.sticn ct cny Union Pcdlic ticket bed ccnt. PACIFIC RAILROAD ioad or tni Streamliners HIE Orem Youth Tries For Appointment To Annapolis Donald R. Sorenson, Rt. 2, Box 305, Orem, was among the 24 applicants for appointment to Annapolis Military Academy from Utah who took competitive competit-ive examinations for principals and alternates in Provo this week. Three appointments will be made by Senator Arthur V. Watkins from the applicants taking the examination. "It was decided," Senator Watkins explained, "that the fairest way to make the appointments appoint-ments was for the many applicants appli-cants to take this examination which was conducted by the Civil Service Commission. The person making the highest grade will be appointed principal and those making next highest grades will be appointed alter nates," he said. Mr. and Mrs. Murvel Walker have received word that their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Vogel, have arrived arr-ived safely in Illinois after being be-ing stranded for a time in the Wyoming blizzard. inquire of Hco cr ' la-iMin 9 mm i ji a - $64 QUESTION ft jr ' REACTION to President Truman's sUte of the union message here in Washington has been generally good. Farmers and labor were pleased. Business leaders who have barely recovered from the shock of November 2 are at least relieved and are no longer seeing "ghosts" around every corner. Reaction from Republican leaders In the 80th congress is what was expected ex-pected "His program will bankrupt the country," or "It Is a socialistic manifesto," or "It Is pure communism," commun-ism," or "He Is playing dice with the taxpayers' money." As a matter ot fact, there was nothing new, nothing dramatic in the entire message, one of the shortest of record. The President merely wrapped np in a half-hoar half-hoar message a summation of the 560 speeches he made in 23,-000 23,-000 miles of campaigning which old the people on his reelection. He carried ont his own pledges and those hi the Democratic platform. To big business supplying vital materials ma-terials In short supply, such as steel, Mr. Truman made a promise and at the same time threatened. He said we must have more steel, that the government wanted private industry indus-try to give the country more production, produc-tion, that the government was willing will-ing to help, even lend them money to build new plants or expand present pres-ent plants If necessary, but that if the increased production was not forthcoming from the industry Itself, then It Is the function of government govern-ment "to authorize the construction of such facilities directly if action by private Industry falls to meet our needs." The President's message was followed fol-lowed by Immediate action by the congress. The Joint session had hardly hard-ly adjourned and the separate houses reconvened when bills to carry out the President's program began to pour Into the legislative hopper one by Senator CMahoney of Wyoming to halt monopoly and artels; one by Senator Myers of Pennsylvania to raise minimum wage rates; one by Senator May bank of South Carolina to repeal federal taxes on oleomargarine; one by Sen. a tor Maybank and Senator Russell of Georgia to establish a regional valley authority (TV A) on the Savannah Sa-vannah river; a measure by Senator Langar of North Dakota for a nil WE'LL FIX IT PRONTO AT A REASONABLE PRICE Repairing JffXfl'- Jewelry WESTON New Zealand-Trained Watchmaker lion dollar appropriations to extend rural electrification; several measures meas-ures to extend reclamation projects In the West; a measure to include installation of rural telephones ir the REA act, proposed by Senato-Lister Senato-Lister Hill of Alabama; a natlonr' housing act to Include low rent public pub-lic housing, by Senators Kllender of Louisiana, Maybank of South Carolina, Caro-lina, Sparkman of Alabama; My err of Pennsylvania, Hill of Alabama, Pepper of Florida and Long of Louis-, lana; a Hawaiian statehood bill t' Senator Knowland of California, a new long-range farm program by Congressman Pace of Georgia; r:. anti-lynching bill by Mrs. Douglas of California; a new rent control bill also by Mrs. Douglas; a bill i: extend social security by Cangre-c man Havenner of California; salar increase for the President and Vice-President Vice-President by Congressman Miller oi California; a new conservation act by Congressman Hope of Kansas; a bill to increase social security payments pay-ments by Pace of Georgia; one to repeal the Taft-Hartley act by Congressman Con-gressman Perkins of Kentucky . . . and many others. President Truman stood by his guns on his demands for his civil rights program. While no applause came from the southern bloc, since this was the cause of the Dixiecrat split in the party, the President did receive scattered scat-tered applause from both Democrats and Republicans. In all, throughout his half-hour speech he was applauded ap-plauded at 30 separate times. The concensus among leaders . in Washington, Republicans and Democrats alike, is that this congress con-gress will give the President a majority of his proposals as be wants them. It may be that some of the more controversial, such as a pre-paid health Insurance program, will result in a compromise with the congress setting up the machinery for only a start on the program. Whether he will get his tax increase is problematical. problem-atical. He asked for a four billion dollar Increase In taxes, most of it to come from corporate taxes, estate es-tate and gift taxes. But if his program pro-gram is enacted, the program on which he went to the people during the campaign and which the people apparently approved, it will take more than four billion dollars to put It Into effect. "7 I J. SMITH mm Members of the 28th Utah Legislature returned to Capitol Hall this week after a long holiday hol-iday ready for action on more than 175 measures, many of which are expected to provide an early test of party lines in the two houses. ' Such tests will be directed at a spirit of "harmony" wnich seemed to dominate the first week o fthe 60-day session, especially es-pecially after Gov. J. Bracken Lee had delivered his opening message on the second day. More likely to be in a position to work out a number of red-hot political issues is the Senate, with its close division. When the session opened the Democrats Demo-crats held a 12-11 majority, but with Sen- J. Arthur Bailey (D-Salt (D-Salt Lake) recuperating at home from a heart attack, the voting is even and may be forsometime This, however, is likely to make little difference, as there was a feeling of "getting together" toget-her" from the first day, when the body unanimously returned Sen. Alonzo F. Hopkin (D-Croy-den) to the president's seat and he responded with an expression that his election was evidence that "both sides of the house" are desirous of doing the will of the people. This same feeling is true to a large extent in the House of Representatives, but with the party division at 41 Democrats and 19 Republicans there is certain cer-tain to be a definite line drawn on measures concerning party philosophy. Rep. Maurice Anderson (D-Springville), (D-Springville), was named majority major-ity floor leader in somewhat of a surprise move- At the close of the week he was among those who were of the impression that the Legislature would be able to get together in a most constructive session over all. This same feeling was apparent in Speaker of the House r-'d J. McPolin (DPark City), indicating indicat-ing that an intensive effort will be made between the Senate, House and Governor to work out a beneficial program. One of the final acts of the opening week was the naming of committees in both houses by President Hopkin and Speaker McPolin. This set up both nouses for action on the record number of bills introduced during the opening days. Going into Monday Mon-day of this week, the Senate had introduced 100 bills and 15 res olutions and memorials, while the House had introduced 30 bills and four resolutions. In the Senate hopper were another 25 bills, which were introduced early in the week, and out of the House hopper came another 15 bills for introduction. One Senate memorial, seeking seek-ing early settlement of the three month-old Kennecott Copper strike, was passed immediately after its introduction. Introd-by Introd-by Sens. Newell Knight (R-Salt Lake), P. S. Marthakis (D- Salt Lake), and Lorenzo Elggren CD-Salt CD-Salt Lake), the measure asks the Utah Congressional delegation delega-tion at Washington to urge Pres ident Truman to secure a factfinding fact-finding board for settlement of the labor-management dispute. One other measure passed by both houses was a resolution of congratulations to President Truman on his election to the presidency. Originated in the House, the resolution passed without a dissenting vote. Ratification of the Colorado River Upper Basin Compact can be expected early, since no opposition op-position is noticeable aTound the halls. It is called for in Sen ate Bill 1, introduced by Sens-Hopkins Sens-Hopkins and Mitchell Melich (R Moab. Two joint sessions occupied the houses the first week and another came up Monday afternoon after-noon on reconvening of the lawmakers. law-makers. The Monday session was on the Colorado River Compact Com-pact and was directed at speeding speed-ing its ratification. Another joint session is expected ex-pected either the end of this week or the first of next when Gov. Lee will present his biennial bi-ennial budget message. From the tone of his first message, the latter is certain to be on the conservative side, but observers observ-ers find the legislators inclined to be more liberal than the gov .::-.-.:- -v ernor, and his budget is certain to get a good going over in meet ings of the joint appropriations committee. After the governor had presented pre-sented his message calling for a halt to government spending, the curtailment of special services ser-vices and reorganization of several sev-eral state departments, the houses met in joint session later in the week to hear a report of the Utah Legislative Budget committee. This brought out some opposition to the governor's gover-nor's anti-spending policy, with some members of the committee, particlarly Stanley N. Child, former for-mer Salt Lake senator, maintaining main-taining that more taxes are necessary nec-essary to provide progressive expansion. Following up Gov. Lee's plea to take welfare out of politics, Sens. Rus L. Clegg (R-Salt Lake) and Taylor P. Brockbank (D-Salt (D-Salt Lake) introduced a measure to reorganize the welfare commission com-mission by replacing the present three-man set up with a seven man board, which would have full power to name an executive director. Bills for the same kind of reorganization re-organization in the State lupart-ment lupart-ment of Publicity and Industrial Indust-rial Development and the state road commission, which also includes in-cludes the state building board and state aeronautics commission, commis-sion, also were introduced. Among other welfare bills to I come in were measures to exempt ex-empt lien signers from paying' property taxes up to $1250 val-J uation and to make financially' able sons and daughters of as-i sistance receivers responsible for their welfare- Labor measures introduced in early sessions ask repeal of the Clegg-Vest act and re-instate, ment of the 'Little Wagner act.'j a minimum wage of 75 cents per hour, an increase in work-' men's compensation pay to $35 per week, and the creation of rkre cars wnne SPaCC funerShome or servicing ser-vicing the un"aV; that is al-vice al-vice is a nveenXnple park- o friends is available a tUU tan- vfrtuarv. at eers . HvttuaiU l85fSl CENTER ffQ RINSE TUE3 AND -) I J s )nn Ls-JA ki U L-J Li U DURING Factory Cooperation THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 Lincoln FFA Hoopsters Win County Title The Lincoln high school FFA basketball team defeated the Spanish Fork team, 30-29, on Saturday afternoon, to become champions of the region. The Lincoln team defeated FFA teams from Lehi, American Americ-an Fork, Pleasant Grove and Heber to become champions of the northern division of the region. reg-ion. The Spanish Fork team came out on top in games played play-ed in the southern division. Playing on the Lincoln team were Floance Woodard, Royce Jackman, Ted Starley, Lloyd Or-vin, Or-vin, Wayne Edwards and Jimmy Boyce. mediation board for labor-management disputes which would bind both parties to the findings. find-ings. With this group might be placed the biennial appearance of the "anti-racial discrimination" discrimina-tion" bill, which appeared as Senate bill 100 and was introduced introd-uced by Sens. B. M. Jolley (R-Orem) (R-Orem) Elggren, MartnaKis and David Jones, (R-Sp. Fork. Of particular interest to agriculturists agri-culturists throughout the state was the introduction of a bill to provide refunds of all motor fuel taxes collected on motor fuel purchased for farm machinery machin-ery and all non-highway use- Also Al-so sought is repeal of the excise tax on oleomargarine. Bills for regulation of certain trades, professions and industries indust-ries appeared, with optometrists, optomet-rists, contractors, dental hygien-ists hygien-ists and electrical men particularly partic-ularly affected. The optometrist optomet-rist bills provide a set of ethics, eth-ics, and among other things, optometrists op-tometrists virtually would be prohibited from advertising. A number of fish and game measures also are set up for early action, with the principal ones calling for a hike in nonresident non-resident fishing and hunting license fees, and placement of the state fish and game department depart-ment under the merit system. Non-resident fishing fees would be upped from $3 to $10 and the deer hunting license for non residents would be raised from $20 to $50. Complete investigation of fatal fa-tal hunting accidents is sought among others in this group, a-long a-long with the limiting of one special deer permit per year per personthe barring of non-residents from buying special deer permits and the barring of successful suc-cessful elk and antelope permit per-mit applicants from applying for the following two years. t PHONf YEAR'S SUPPLY RINSO with every in Sale Now Is. Progress |