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Show fv -- alt Library City 12 Ol 10a kr . vo Impact of the Stepped-u- p Military Program Has Not Yet Been Felt flRST, the Individual Salt Lake City, Friday, August Vol. 24, No. 34 Ten Cents Per Copy 25, 1961 The impact of the stepped-up- , military program has not But this peyet been felt, says The Industrial News Review. riod of relative tranquility (if such a word can be used in In the will be short-livetodays unpredictable world) near future thousands of reserves and members of the National Guard may be called to duty. This will be done, in the beginning at any rate, on a selective rather than a unit basis. Certain skills are needed now, and individuals possessing them will get the summonses. Draft calls are to be increased three times over, at the start. If conditions worsen, of course, much larger increases d. Mrs. America of 1961 Honor Guest at University Reception 76e 'Heart The nations number one homemaker, Mrs. America of 1961, will visit the University of Utah campus August 26, as part of a y personal appearance tour in Utah. The United States and all American nations except Cuba last week signed the $20 billion, ar plan for the development of Latin America. During the first 10-ye- two-da- year it will involve a billion dollars of U. S. help. Over the decade help also is scheduled to come from Western Europe and Japan, with the U. S. of course, and as usual, supplying the bulk. Despite all the enthusiasm at the signing, the hurdles are still to come, and unless there are drastic internal reforms in many of the nations to be helped, many of these billions could go down the n drain. Mrs. Rosemary Murphy, Kent-lan- d, Ind., who is nearing the end of her year-lon- g reign as Americas top Mrs. will be guest of honor at a reception in the Union Panorama Room at 7:30 p.m. Hosts include President and Mrs. A. Ray Olpin, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Jack and Mr. and Mrs. C. Lowell Lees. Mr. Jack is director of planning and development at the University, and Mr. Lees heads the University Theater. Other distinguished guests will include state, city and university officials and leading patrons of the University Theater. Mrs, Murphy was chosen from a field of 50 candidates at the 1960 Mrs. America competition in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The is 33 years old and the mother of five' chil- dren. She is appearing ni Salt Lake City under the joint auspices of the Johns Manville Corp., her national sponsor, and Construction Co. Cannon-Pap-aninko- lis well-know- "Sirs. America This week, paintings by 19 Granite art students were sent to New Delhi, India as entries in an international art contest. The invitation to participate in the Shan-ke- n International Childrens Competition was received about three weeks ago, according to Delbert W. Smedley, art supervisor of the Granite District. Students and the schools represented are: Gayle Knibbe, Central Junior High School; Richard Clegg, Brockbank Junior High School; Bonnie McGregor, Anne Blackesley, Kathleen Wood, Linda Vanderlinden, and Leslie Allen, all of Evergreen Junior High School; Barbara Allred, Linda Gray, Steve Heaton, and Helen Mullins, Kearns Junior High School; Harry H a u g a n, Gail Quells, and'Susyn Lehman, Valley Junior High School. ' Linda Balis, Marilyn Omer, Bonnie Kirk, Dennis Gines, and Sharon Laub, Olympus Junior High School. of 1961 Funds Approved For Sugar House Park Development In a recent news story from Washington, Senator Wallace F. Bennett was quoted as saying the time has come to invoke the trading-with-the-enemy-- and act break off all trade with Cuba. He said: So long as we continue buying Cuban imports we are contributing to the cause of interThe Salt Lake' City Commission national communism and aiding has approved a transfer of $45,-0- those who would destroy us. from Salt Lake City to the Sugar House Park Authority. Is your income over $10,000 a This amount had been agreed upon and set up in the 1961 bud- year? If not you arent one of the get as the citys share of contin- 4,783,226 who reported that much ued development in the park. in 1959. And if you made more Commissioner Romney said. The than $1,000,000 that year (and you County Commission has agreed to did, of course), you were among appropriate a similar amount for the exclusive 280 in the nation who reported a grand total of the year. in taxable income. $425,065,000 Projects planned for this year, for which money is already avail- That wasnt take-hoyou can Uncle be Sam for sure, got able, include construction of the of it. lake and bowery and surfacing of the roads north of Parleys Did you know that 103 manCreek which runs through the made objects are still flying site. The money being transferred around in orbit? Only five of now will be used on additional them are Russian, the rest ours. projects, according to Warren Included are a dozen earth satWhite, superintendent of parks ellites which are still transmit-itn- g back to the U. S. and public property. 00 $267,-766,0- Westminster College at 13th East and 17th South is to have a new mens dormitory to cost approximately $500,000. Groundbreaking ceremonies are set for September 18 with completion scheduled for September, 1962. The building, to house 120 students, is being financed with a $425,000 loan from the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, as was Hogle Hall, residence for women which was completed in 1960. The new building will have the same general appeart Westminster is now in midst of a campaign to raise in connection with the $5 million decolleges velopment program which was launched in 1958. Last year student enrollment at the college increased from 409 in the 1959-6- 0 school year to 511, a gain of approximately 25 per cent. A further increase is anticipated this year. Dealer of the Year is the title given South East Furniture Co. by the Speed Queen Division of McGraw Edison Co., Rippon, Wis. An award was presented the company for South East' Furnitures advertising, promotion and sales of Speed Queen products in 1960. 10-ye- ar, 00 party line that Americans are the talkinest people in the world over the telephone. Were not and havent been for the last 15 years. Canada, for the 15th straight year, has taken the worlds per capita telephoning title 540 calls apiece against 520 in the U. S. The Mountain Fuel Supply Company has filed with the Se- curities and Exchange Commission a registration statement covering a proposed sale of $18 miil-lio- n debentures due in 1986 proceeds of which are to repay bank loans of approximately $12 million. The balance will be added to general funds. The obligations the will be offered publicly. $1,-600,0- Dealer of tlie Year Hold everything for the night of Saturday, September 16, says Chief Samuel B. Davies of the South Salt Lake Fire Department, for that is when the annual South Salt Lake Firemens Ball is to be held. i The gala affair is set for the South Salt Lake Auditorium, 2490 South State Street be- ginning at p.m. Dance music will be furnished by the George Thomas Band. Receipts from the ball will be turned over to the Mutual Benefit Fund of the South Salt Lake Firemens Association. A feature of the evening will be the giving away of a television set which has been donated bv the South Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. Members of the fire department are selling tickets throughout the area, or they can be purchased at the fire station, 90 East Oakland Ave. The price is $1.00. Taking a Look At Democracy These days when the very survival of democracy and freedom for mankind is threatened by communism, world, power-hungr- y call for serious thought about the future. Believing that by our not thinking about communism or its and poaims, or the make-u- p our tentials of Democracy, it will go away, is following an illusion. In a recent issue of Harper's So you were under the impresa sion especially if you have a magazine, John Fischer drew College To Build New Dormitory ance. September 16 9 me Paintings by Granite Art Students Are Sent to India Firemens Ball 00 Water worries are not Utahs exclusively. The Exchange magazine points out that at a consump- brief but very worthwhile picture of democracys stature that is worthy of our consideration. He said: A glance at history indicates that stable democratic societies have survived for any considerable time only when they have pobeen: (1) An Anglo-Saxo- n a litical tradition; (2) strong infusion of Protestantism, with its toleration of pluralism; (3) fairly high standards of living and education; (4) a strategic situation which made large standing armies because the unnecessary-usuall- y borders were protected by seas, mountains, or other physical barriers. In the Latin Catholic countries Spain, Italy, France and South America democracy so far has taken only precarious root. And the new countries which emerged from the two world wars mostly started out with some kind of authoritarian government as we have seen in Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, Korea, Iraq and Ghana, to mention only tion rate of a quarter trillion gallons a day this country, as a whole, has water worries aplenty. These cares seem to be leading to a new water desalting and purifying industry. At least 25 ma- -. a few. (Continued on Page 2) will follow. The overall military budget is now $48 billion a year. Congress swiftly approved the president's requests with hardly a dissenting vote, and in some instances, appropriated more than was asked for. As columnist Robert S. Allen writes: That stupendous total could go higher, depending on what happens in Berlin, Cuba, South Vietnam, Iran and other danger points. But a $48 billion defense budget is a certainty for the next several or more years. The president has said that he may ask for tax increases, of an as yet undisclosed nature, early next year. He added that whether he does or not will depend on the governments receipts from existing taxes. At the same time, he has promised balanced budgets to come. Very few economists believe that the receipts will increase enough, even if there is a big business boom, to doltake care of the multi-billilar boost in the budget. And Congressional leaders have said that they will approve higher taxes when and if they prove necessary. Along with all this, a highly significant change in military attitude has been taking place. For a consideralbe period of time all the emphasis was laid on major nuclear war war to the absolute finish, in which the ulitmate weapons would be employed. Some military men anticipated that such a war would foe decided in 24 or 48 hours. But now there is a widely held belief that the chance of this kind of war is remote, that no one would be insane enough to start it, and that future conflicts, if they come, will be fought with what are known as conventional weapons. They would thus be limited in scope and destructiveness. Another very important point of controversy is going to make headlines for a long time to come. Administration leaders, it would seem, want to carry on a hugely expensive social welfare, or welfare state, program right along with the defense program. Opposition to this is strong. And the matter is not a partisan one some of the leading advocates of rigid economy, such as Senator Byrd, are Democrats. on New Center Scheduled For Retarded Qiildren new day care center for trainable mentally retarded children will be 'opened September 5 in the Murray area. The Brooks-dal- e School for Exceptional Children will be geared to meet the needs of trainable retarded children between the ages of 6 and 25 years who are not at present included in special classes. The program will be open to children throughout the area. Any further information may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Frances L. Peterson, 4230 or Mrs. Lane, AM Helen Budge, 1828 Grover Lane, A Cheg-widd- CR en |