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Show Juury 27. THE UTAH STATESMAN Page Po 1956 Dawson Reports By Rep. William A. Dawson ... MENTALLY ILL At the House I and the veto upheld. The strategy White request of the took an active role this week in will be to tell the farmers that the President, by insisting on his obtaining the passage of a bill to permit the people of Alaska to program, is responsible for any further decline that may occur in take care of their own mentally farm income between now and ill citizens. The measure is, I beNovember. lieve, good, humane legislation, and I hope the Senate passes the ROADS FOR PARKS I am bill so it can become law this encouraging response from consession. gressmen from western states in NaPRESENT CRUELTY . . . Trag- my campaign to see that our tional Parks and Monuments edy always accompanies mental share equally in the proposed exillness, but the present archaic construction promethod of treatment prior to hos- panded highway eastern The dominated gram. pitalization is downright cruel. Public Works Committee which Having no hospitalization facil-tie- handles legislation persons hit by mental illness failed to highway increase authorizations are held in jail until hospitalized for construction of roads and by court order. Then, at govern- trails in these scenic areas. I hope ment expense, they are flown to memwestern united all action by a private institution in Oregon bers can correct this oversight. miles ... s, Republican National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall discusses Young Republican work on the 1956 campaign with John Ashbrook, YRNF Campaign Committee Chairman, left, and Charles McWhorter, YRNF Chairman. STRATEGY The Best Things In Life Are Free Live To Enjoy Them. FOREIGN POLICY DRVE CAREFULLY W agstaf f Truck Center 1775 Beck Street PHONE EL Don't "Dig" At An Intersection 9-77- 66 Let Us Do The Job For Ton WE'RE EXPERTS" Chytraus Bros. Construction - - Excavating Grading Crane Work Hauling Concrete Breaking 2040 Redondo Ave. Salt Lake City PHONE HU 4-61- SINCE . . . Secre- tary of State John Foster Dulles account of how close this nation was to war and how our policy of strength prevented it apparently is going to become an issue in the next presidential campaign. Critics are trying to carve Secretary Dulles up for stating the United States was on the brink of war three times in the past three years. I think their knives are made of putty. They offer nothing but criticism. If the Secretarys action which preserved the peace is wrong, what do his critics offer as alternatives. There are only two both unthinkable. Continued capitulation to Communist conquest or war. His loudest opposition comes from those with a record of walking over the brink. FARM PROGRESS . . . While (the Old Oaken Bucket still FARM PROGRAM . . . Two hangs of President Eisenhowers in the well on nearly half of the aspects nine-poimy ennations farms, it is rapidly dis- thusiastic program have are the support. They appearing from the farms in Utah. a dollar limit to nt place According to the 1954 Agricul- proposal on size the of support payments tural census, more than 90 per to or farming unit Individual any cent of the farms in Utah are to speed up our served by piped running water. and the decision disposal procommodity surplus The census also reveals that Utah never have been able to I gram. farms outrank the national averpayment by the governage in the percentage having elec, justify ment of loans reaching into the tricity, telephones and home hundreds of thousands of dollars freezers. to any individual farmer. If the De- support program can be justified MORE VALUABLE spite the current decline in farm at all its is justifiable only as a income, the average per acre means of protecting the small value of farms in Utah continues family fanner. Certainly it should to increase. According to the sur- not be operated to guarantee vey the per acre value in Utah profits to large corporate farmers. ... has increased from $47.67 in 1950 to $51.80 in 1954. The number of farms in the state decreased from 24,176 to 22,825 during the same period. The survey also revealed a continuing trend towards mechanization indicating Utahs farmers are reinvesting a large part of their income in farm improvements. ... LIVESTOCK AID The soil bank proposal will not directly benefit livestockmen using the public domain for grazing, but indirect benefits should be substantial. The excess production of livestock in the midwest is refor skidding cattle sponsible prices. The retiring of acres there POLITICS ABOUND . . . Polithrough the soil bank should intics also have entered into the RUBBER CIIECK . . . Remem- crease the price of cattle farm program a situation I de- ber the hugh and cry that went in the west. plore. Apparently, the Presidents opposition is going to fight for restoration of the 90 per cent of parity, rigid price program, knowing full well it will be evtoed on-ho- of 29 National Tells Plans For GOP Convention Crager Wire & Iron Works QUUITY thousands of from their families and loved ones. Under the new law, modern medical commitment procedures are set up and funds are provided for the construction of facilities for hospitalization in Alaska. up when the 83rd Congress directed the government to sell its wartime synthetic rubber producing plants. Opponents of the move were quick to label the disposal program as a Republican giveaway. Now that the facts are in, however, they are strangely silent. Perhaps the reason is this: The government has realized $285 million from their sale; the cost to the government including a $136 million was $262 miloperating loss lion. The disposal has netted the taxpayers a $225 million profit. 18S5" Miscellaneous Steel Fabricators Manufacturers of Sand, Gravel & Ore Screen 34 East 9th South Dial EL 5-53- 97 Salt Lake City, Utah (Continued from Page 1) the August meeting when he said: Republicans head into the 1956 campaign with assets unequalled by any other . Administration in history a record of peace, progress and unprecedented prosperity. Wea re strongly unified . . . (the leadership of Dwight D. Eisenhowers team has written during the last three years the strongest possible Republican platform for 1956. This is the 26th Republican National Convention, and the first one ever held in the far West Chairman Hall announced. It will be the fourth time the Republican convention has followed that of the Democrats. The other occasions: 1856, 1860, 1888. Of the 25 conventions, 13 have OIL SIPAKn? Soil Utah Oil Building EM 4 - 5669 lak. City, Utah convened in Chicago; the first in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln was chosen to lead the larty. Another notable Chicago convention was that of 1880 when 36 ballots were taken before James A. Garifeld was nominated. Republicans have picked Philadelphia as their convention site on five occasions and Cleveland twice. Each of the following cities have played host to one convention: Cincinnati, Baltimore, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Kansas City. Western Dental Supply Go. 230 East South Temple Phone EM 4-35- 93 Salt Lake City -- |