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Show The Payson Chronicle, The Soil Profile Comment The White House thus far has stood rather firm against the New-FaDeal drive to plunge the nation into a socialistic spyending spree under the guise of curing a recession. In taking this attitude, President Eisenhower and his business advisers have laid themselves open to attacks from the political opposition and the firing has started on all sides. The President has said that March will see the beginning of the end of the down-turin the we apply economy provided ourselves with confidence to the job ahead." The effect of the Presidents declaration may be to slow up the movement in Congress to rush through to passage huge public works bills. But Mr. Eisenhower also has risked his political prestige. Some of the proposals now being strongly urged in Congress are: A huge public works program, with emphasis on building hydroelectric dams in competition with private business; Launching the nation on a huge atomic power plant program in opposition to private ir n industry; Tremendous increase in defense spending cancellation of San Juan Man Elected Uentfeer of Board of Hat I Farm Loan Assn At the annual stockholders meeting of the Central Utah National Farm Loan Association held February 22, in Provo, Charles Redd was elected a mem ber of the Board of Directors for a term of three years. Mr. Redd is well known as a livestock-ma- n and rancher in the LaSal area of San Juan County. Mr. Redd was recently honored for his good relations with the people of the British Empire The central Utah National Farm Loan Association serves farmers and ranchers' credit needs in the counties of Wasatch, Utah, Juab, Carbon, Emery east of the Clark Valley Guide and Meridian, Grand and San Juan. Officers of the association are: Glenn W. Coffman, Springville, president; T. LeGrand Jarman, Orem, vice president; Loan Committeemen J. William Simmons, Charleston, Heber Eugene Hansen, Benjamin and Mr. Redd of Provo. Guest speaker at the meeting was Glenn Browne, assistant vice president and regional manager of The Federal Land Bank of Berkeley. Other guests present were Land Bank' Appraisers N. A. Ogden and A. L. Strang, both of Salt Lake City. The Eisenhower proposals to turn duties and responsibilities over to states; Billions for new aids to farmers and for rebuilding cities; Legislation for more housing subsides, more social security, more government aid of various kinds. This program advanced in the name of providing jobs unquestionably would lead to a federal deficit of several billion dollars in each of the next few years. The real motive behind many of the proposals, of course, is the consistent drive of some forces to involve the federal government in socialistic schemes, to reduce the role of states, to increase government controls over the economy, to make big government bigger. Secretary of the Treasury Anderson appears to be strongly supporting White House resistance to extreme measures, which could deal a heavy blow to private enterprise. He emphasizes the duty of all citizens to aid in promoting prosperity. In a recent speech he said: In our decentralized free enterprise system, the momentum of the economy comes from the millions of decisions being made all over the country by businessmen, workers, investors, housewives all of us, in every walk of life. It is in this area, most improtantly that each one of us needs to assume serious responsibilities. iMr. Anderson says that part of the economy readjustment has occurred, and he thinks business spending may rise. While business has spent huge sums for plant modernization and new plants, he says that an increasing proportion of this investment was required to repace capital values currently being used up. Thus, he said the fear expressed by some that we have and have much more new capacity than we will need would seem to be exaggerated. THE TAX OUTLOOK There is no longer any doubt that there is a strong demand in Congress for tax reduction. This is due to many factors, Protests for years against high and discriminatory income taxation- have made an impression. The urge of Congress to cut taxes in an election year is present. There is a recognition that wartime levies have continued far beyond a reasonable period. But there is increasing talk also of using tax relief to combat the business downturn so much so that both Democrats and Republicans say they are studying the problem. Some members of Congress insist that tax reductions would act much more quickly as a tonic for the economy than public works or defense spending. some THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1958 By C. T. Lowe I had an opportunity last week to meet with a group of very interested conservationists. They were th e Boy Scouts in Lor-- r i n Partridge's troop in Payson. There were about 20 boys present besides the two leaders and Mrs. Partridge. They have been studying and water conservation for some time and are to the point on their march toward Eagle Scouts that they must pass the merit badge test for soil and water consercation. This is an essential requirement for that high rank. I attempted to brief them in on the how and why of conservation and to give them some of the needed answers. Some conservation terms were defined such as contour farming, terraces, crop rotation, watershed, top soil, soil profile, sub- CHRONICLE sub-stratu- little about the productive capacity of top soil as compared to and finished with a very brief statement on soil classification and the factors affecting classification such as: soil texture, soil structure, depth of soil, slope of land, salinity and alkalinity. The fact was brought out that everything they eat, most of their clothes and shelter and most of the things they use comes from the soil, either directly or indirectly. It was a good session. y The Soil Conservation is behind the current Scout move to teach conservation to Scouts. A series of round table discussions will be 'held with instructors and Scout masters in the near future to help train the leaders, who can, in turn, take the material to their Scout troops. F. Reed Hansen, Supervisor of the Nebo Soil Conservation District, came in the other day to tell me that his neighbor, a sub-so- il e, acti-vil- OF SORROW FUNERALS $ICQ as low as HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF OUR SERVICE 64 KEITH JOLLEY MORTUARY West Find North Payson, Utah 72 Phone Ambulance Service "PAYSON'S MOST MODERN AND COMPLETE MORTUARY Governor George D. Clyde and three Utah youngsters are looking at a pint of Red Cross blood which produces valuable dividends in gamma blobulin the blood derivative the youngsters have been receiving each month in order to stay well. Shown above, left to right, are d Susie Jensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Jensen, Orem; Curtis Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Jones, Cedar City; Governor Clyde; and Jan Parkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reid W. Parkinson, of Wellsville, Cache County. The young people are among 600 children and adults in Utah who are receiving without charge more than 5,000 ccs of gamma globulin from the Red Cross each month because they lack an adequate amount of this d iseasef ighting substance in their own systems. If purchased commercially, the cost of that amount of gamma globulin would exceed $15,000 each month. Your contributions to the R)ed Cross in March plus your blood donations make the continuation of this service possible. three-year-ol- five-year-o- ld Frank Gull, was interested in some land leveling. This is an excellent example of the functioning of a District and the interest the Supervisors have in the welfare of their fellow farmers. Take your problems to them. Theyll help you. Reed reminded me of the Nebo SCD Annual Meeting to be held UgS)Nitrogen Fertilizers UTAH POULTRY FARMERS on March 6th at 1:30 p.m. in the Memorial Building at Spanish Fork. The Timpanogos SCD will meet with the Nebo cooperators. 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