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Show NEWS & ADS 0 278-28- J VISIOR 66 3s Circulation 278-28- Yol. IX LEAGUE HAS A BALL Page 11 x si 60 Southeast Salt Lake's Community 2265 East 4800 South No. 42 eehD evucr 10 October 15, 1964 XZs Theres been a smattering of talk during the campaign about booze..,, not much but more, were sure, than any of the candidates feel Is absolutely necessary. cant blame them for when the topic Is CYou Its a perilous Issue because a pretty good argument can be launched from almost any viewpoint. The way office seekers field Is usually the block-bustgood for a 'chuckle, though. Some skirt It carefully. Pointing their finger the other There are way, they say, those who favor liquor by the drink. Not me, of course! But some people like the Idea so maybe they should be aler This presumably leaves the Impression of a sufficiently open mind while conveying confidence that the question would be soundly trounced In a referendum. Others say, Id like to find out what you voters want and thats what Ill do . because I hope to be your ... chosen leader. Like the tour guide, theyll lead you anyplace you want to go. 0he rlp-tld- I Vh night. you even seen him do an It? Neither have we exof outrageous disregard ''Have .... isting ordinances! ALMANAC The weather bureau wont agree but our political alma nac says the social climate will begin to warm up again around Thanksgiving. Right now feeling runs high and county employees shun friends. cant afford to get (Continued on page 3) their GOP I Just Strong-Ar- m Money Details Raising Tactics Charged two percent of worker must kick-l- n to Democratic the polisupport earnings tical machines. Mr. Cannon cited man- -, euverlng In the last county primary elecwhich saw lncumbant W. G. Lartion son lose his place on the ballot to Marto support his charge vin G. Jenson that Democratic control of the commission Is primarily politically oriented. His hard-hittivolley also Included a suggestion that employes are fired If they dont contribute; details of a 1962 private letter urging the dumping of Mr. -- - In the hip -- Is that erupted at a GOP pocket, political rally Wednesday night. The two Republican candidates for Salt Lake County Commission launched an agres-slv- e drive for victory In November, contest from now portending a slam-ban- g until election day. Hurling details of money transactions, comTed Cannon seeking the four-yemission seat against lncumbant Decalled for mocrat Jarvln G. Jenson an accounting of flower fund money which he alleged is demanded from all county employees. He said every county The battle of the bulge lowed to vote on It. brave ones fulp, hope Interpreted the public pl.se accurately and flatly reject any proposition to alter liquor laws. If they base this on moral grounds, theyre wading Into e. After all, If the It's qa question of morals aren they then compelled to try to outlaw to liquor entirely? The response we like best goes something like this: Show me efficient enforcement of present laws and Id consider a more liberal plan for distributing alcohol. Theyre right! Night life regulation are not rigidly enforced. For Instance, the chief of police Is legally required to a bel1 soundln? curfew Demo Fund Moss Demands . Personal finances loomed as an Issue In the heated race to represent Utah In the U. S. Senate. The Wilkinson camp maintained stoic silence regarding a partisan advertisement this week revealing a $3.2 million Investment by their candidate In a Houston, Texas, $6 million luxury appartment project. At the same time, the Democratic lncumbant Frank E. Moss pointed to the opening of his private financial ledger last April and called for his opponent to do likewise. Ifeel that -- - like Caesars wife aU. S. Senator should be above suspicion. Last April, I therefore voluntarily made a public statement of my Income and financial holdings. The statement appeared In the Congressional Record and Is available to anyone who wishes to see It. I have called upon my Again and again, he continued, opponent Ernest Wilkinson to make a similar financial disclosure. He has made no reply. In fact, he has not even Indicated he has heard me. Why Is Mr. Wilkinson unwilling to disclose his Income, his financial assets, his business relationships and all other matters which might be a basis for conflict of Interest? What Is keeping him from, telling the people whom he wants to represent In Washington, D. C., where his Investments are? Is It because he has chosen to Invest most of his capital Is it because he does not have faith enough In the future of Utah to Invest his money here so It will provide more Jobs and more Income for our people? "I think people have a right to know the answers to these questions lief ore they, decide whether they want to vote for Mr. Wilkinson for a seat In the U. S. Senate. Senator Moss accounting Issued in of 1964 listed mid-Ap- ril ng ar See Whos $17 MILLION COMPLEX OKAY ; Next Tuesday voters In southeast Salt Lake County will have a chance to confront candidates for the State House of I Representatives It all starts with a single stroke of the designers t pencil and weeks later $17 million Is committed to erect ' an elaborate civic center complex. Above, Clark P. Russell, 759 East 3155 South, works j. Oil preliminary plans for the Salt Lake Civic Auditorium complex which was approved last Tuesday. Looking over his shoulder Is J. Howard Dunn. ,( (Continued on page 3) . at the Rocky Mountain Review - KCPX-T- V sixth town meeting. In the Cottonwood Mall at 7:30 P.M. Vital Issues, Including the school crisis, state finances, reapportionment, tou rlsm, (Continued on page 7) Spending Your Money expansion of Utahs Industry, will be discussed by aspirants from both parties from dis- tricts 14, 15, B. Hilbert, DeanH. Bradshaw, Calvin Y. Wells, and Dr. Frank Schick. The Granite Wasatch Council of the PTA Is the meeting In addition to the Rocky M ountaln Relvew and KCPX-T- 16, 17, and 18. Participants Include, Republicans, William H. Doxey, Ray M. Harding , Roland G. Kaiser, Loren N. Pace, and Brent Scott, , and Democrats M rs. Thomas Mulhull, Robert V. Who will get your vote? Join us, ask questions, and find out. Cottonwood Mall, 7:30 P. M. Tuesday Paperback Charges Not True Says Of Committee Report Fact-Findin- g Report on NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON by John Stormer by the National Committee for Civic Responsibility 1. This seems to be the only publication of Liberty Bell Press. Florissant, Mo., listed as the address of Liberty Bell Press, Is a suburb of St. Louis, Mo. There is no Political Novel Moves Well In Local Stores Are voters reading more and enjoying it less? Judging from the sale of pocketbooks heavily weighted one ay or the other In this years campaign, the scholarly approach the rage. 0 Prominent among best sellers around the county -- - with are three Interest reported particularly high in Salt Lake books aimed at discrediting the present Democratic administration and directly or Indirectly promoting the candidacy of Barry Goldwater. by John Stormer; They are None Dare Call It Treason, A Texan Looks At Lyndon, by J. Evetts Haley; and A Choice Not An Echo, by Phyllis Schafly. On the other side, a recent book entitled Barry Goldwater: Extremists Of The Right, by Fred J. Cook, has appeared on the scene. All of the publications are drastically tilted to one side or the other. Are local voters swallowing more than their share of partisan propaganda? Which side finds the political spook stories most palatable? check with books stores In Salt Lake reveals brisk sales None Dare Call It Treason, some sale of A Choice Not and practically no stores this week were stocking An Echo, the more recent book criticizing Barry Goldwater. for several High local public interest has been building weeks. For example, the September 14 weekly letter of the Industrial Relations Council, with offices In the Tribune Building, Salt Lake City, Informed members: "None Dare Call It Treason and A Choice Not An Eco are two paperback books that are being widely read and discussed these days. Several employers tell us they are buying books in quantity at 25 cents each for distribution to and employees. The books are available at American "Opinion Library Book Store. In this weeks check, American Opinion Library Book Store (Continued on page 3) A of 3 telephone listed to Liberty Bell Press In Florissant and none In the Greater St. Louis area. 2. The listed price of this book Is 75 cents but It Is being distributed In Cleveland at prices ranging from $1 to free by such right wing organizations and their representatives as the John Birch Society and the Organization To Fight Communism, Inc. Booksellers In Cleveland receive their copies from Klein News, a large distributing company. Klein News receives Its supWilliam Shelper, ply from area coordinator of and public spokesman for the John Birch Society In Cleveland. Klein News pays 20 cents a copy with the unlimited right to return all unsold copies. Both the price and the arrangement are much more favorable than From an normal practice. article In the New York Times on July 23, 1964, It would seem that the distribution of this book Is a John Birch Society project in other parts of the country as well. 3. Since this book contains 818 references supposedly substantiating the material contained therein, It gives the appearance of being the study which It claims to be. Nothing could be further from the truth. Stormer relies heavily for his documentation on the CON- Study Reveals Flaws , Shellacks Paperback Rebuttal to None Dare Call It Treason comes from a group In Cleveland, Ohio known as the National Committee for Civic Responsibility. In a detailed analysis the committee shows how the books author, John Stormer, quotes many sources, such as the Congressional Record as fact without citing sources. Seven examples of misquotation are revealed as well as three distortions of fact. The committee summarizes Its comment on the book: At best an Incredibly poor Job of research and documentation, and at worst, a deliberate hoax and a fraud. This conclusion has been reached without giving any consideration whatsoever to those things which Stormer presents as a matter of his own opinion or that of others. Matters of that kind must properly be left to partisan debate. Because of the widespread Interest of this book In Salt Lake the Rocky Mountain Review reprints the entire contents of the report. extraneous material, and since hearings before congressional committees contain testimony from many unreliable sources, including Communists, It Is necessary to know Just who Is saying what If one Is to properly make an evaluation. Stormer seldom provides this Information In his documentation. 4. If the reader does not understand the nature of the GRESSIONAL RECORD CONGRESSIONAL and If he cannot differentiate or the name of the person who Inserted the material between testimony before congressional committees and the findings of those committees and so Is led to believe that such documentation Is in any way official or necessarily factual, the fault Is pot en- - Into the RECORD. Since the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD contains material on tlrely Stormers. 5. But the reader has a right to expect that references set RECORD and upon testimony given before committees of the Congress but in most instances he falls to give the name of the person whose testimony he relies upon side of every conceivable every issue along with much 1 4 state is thus worse than the capitalist state because It Is forth by Stormer as documentation will at least say what Stormer claims for It. In case after case, the author those refhas subverted erences to give a totally erroneous Impression and even to say precisely the opposite of what his own reference claims. 6. Some examples: A. Stormer, pages 169 and 170: This became sharply clear In an article by Arthur Schleslnger, Jr., Assistant to P resident Kennedy, which set forth the plan for achieving socialism In America (CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, February 6, 1962, p.A881. Schleslnger outlines no such plan; reIn fact, Schleslngers RECIn the Inserted marks, ORD by Representative CHARLES E. GOODELL, of New York, February 6, 1962, pages A881 A884, said pre- cisely the opposite: Page A881: y The socialist more inclusive In Its coverage and more unlimited In Its power. Organization corrupts; total organization corrupts totally. The socialist state Justifies Itself on the ground that the concentration of power is necessary to do good; but It has never solved the problem of how you Insure that power bestowed to do good will not be em ployed to do harm, especially when you remove all obstacles to Its exercise. Page A882: The more varieties of ownership the better; liberty gets more fresh air and sunlight through the Interstices of a diversified society than through the close-kn- it grip of collectivism. The recipe for retaining liberty Is not nationalization but muddling through. B. Stormer, page 29, para In 1943, congres graph 2: sional Investigation later revealed, before the United States had Itself assembled the first atomic bomb, half of all American uranium and the technical Information needed to construct a bomb were sent to Russia. Is it any wonder that the Communists became a nuclear power years ahead of expectations? (Hearings, Shipment of Atomic Material to U.S.S.R. HOUA, 81st Cong., p. 1156.) The testimony referred to was given by MaJ. who George Racey Jordan wrote several books making sensational charges but whose accounts varied so much from time to time that his charges have been discredited (see Time magazine, Dec. 12, 1949; Newsweek, Dec. 19, 1949). Nowhere in this . reference does Major Jordan or anyone else refer to technical in' formation needed to construct I a bomb being sent to Russia, nor Is any mention even made about any atomic bomb In- formation. Tavenner, counsel for the Committee on Activities: Mr. Tavernier, I was very Major Jordan does discuss shipment 4 embarrassed of radio- active material on page 1156 and 1157 of the hearings. Quoted from page 1157 Is the following response by Major Jordan to a question from Mr. only located when I found you 45 pounds of when the papers I had called for 500 pounds. So I listened to General Groves (Continued on page 2) . GOP Denies Selling Partisan Paperback Political attacks used to be limited to campaign oratory or, at most, page-sizpieces of partisan literature. The fashion le now is the political novel paperback editions heavily slanted to promote a particular viewpoint. National Interest, focusing on Utah as one of the areas where Interest In the books Is particularly high, has caused state political strategists to scurry In opposlt directions. While Republicans denied an October 4 report In The New York Times that Utah State headquarters was selling the most controversial of the paperbacks, None Dare Call It Treason, Democratic organizers began to stock a book of their own. Citing Utah, the Times article said The books were placed on sale In Republican headquarters In Salt Lake City three weeks ago fatef considerable After receiving a vast number of Inquiries state chairman Ramon Child sounded out Republican leaders and the books were stocked despite the strong opposition of Thomas Judd, a Republican candidate for Congress. The Rocky Mountain Review, seeking to buy one of the books at Utah GOP headquarters, was told by a campaign worker None Dare Call It Treason was temporarily out of stock but regularly handled. The next day, party officials hotly denied that it was being sold by the state organization. A Texan Looks At Lyndon Mr. Child told the Review, and A Choice Not An Echo are carried but the other paperback was not official sold as part of campaign activities. He said there had been no comment from national headquarters on two of the books, but the John Stormer volume had been ruled "not acceptable campaign literature. The reason, he said, was because the book was uncomplimentary to the Elsenhower administration. We dont carry None Dare Call It Treason, Mr. Child said but we point out where It can be purchased. Campaign volunteers working In state headquarters may be selling the book privately, he said explaining conflicting reports. We cant do anything about that. ed full-sca- 1 |