| OCR Text |
Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1968 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt. Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as second class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1879 4 South West 711 Telephone Temple Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84104 364-846- GLENN BJORNN, Publisher "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation.". Number 7 Volume 48 oi Too Many People Spell Doom For Life on Earth? Moss Criticizes 'Lonely 20' for Supreme Court Opposition Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah since the letter was released to in a senate speech criticized what the public. They have not dehe called the lonely 20 for fended their position on the suptheir opposition to the nomina- posed lame duck status of the tion of Justice Abe Fortas and President. We have not heard Judge Homer Thornberry to the them on the Senate floor as we U.S. Supreme Court. have heard the supporters of He identified the lonely 20 as the nominations. the 19 Republican senators who signed a letter opposing the nominations and former Vice President Richard Nixon, who has supported their opposition. I refer to these men as the lonely 20 because there have been very few, if any, other government figures who have joined their political maneuvering. On the contrary Senator after Senator has risen to support the Presidents right and duty to make these appointments. On June 28 I pointed out that the Constitution left him no alternative but to make the appointments. The language of the Constitution requires the President to do so, Sen. Moss said. Again on July 2 in a Senate speech I listed seven newspaper editorials from the country supporting the President and criticizing his opposition. Since signing their letter, the 19 Senators ' must have indeed realized the loneliness of their position because the tide of information and public comment has been almost unanimously against them. Perhaps that is why Senator Everett Dirksen, who does not support their position, now says that he knows four of the 19 will now vote to support the President. It is interestnig to me that we have not heard much from the 19 signatories of that letter (Continued from Page One) born, but far too many live longer than formerly because of advances in medical science. Populations thus continue to grow at astronomical rates, outstripping all efforts to produce sufficient food to feed them. The need of growing modern societies for more and more paved roads and buildings have eliminated millions of acres of plant life growing land. This has cut down with on plant life and has meant less photosynthesis resultant diminshed oxygen production.' In addition, we are dumping larger amounts of lutants into our oceans which are the worlds major source of oxygen production, accounting for more than 70 per cent. How adversely they affect the photosynthetic process of the oceans plant life is not known precisely. The ocean pollutants, however, ultimately could seriously affect the atmospheres oxygen content. Homes; autos, industrial plants, and airplanes are burning more and more fossil fuels each year. They spew carbon dioxide out into the atmosphere in such vast amounts that it is doubtful that our plants and oceans can continue to assimiliate them. In summary, man is accelerating the recombination of "fossil carbon with oxygen while reducing the rate at which oxygen in the atmosphere is regenerated. The present 21 per cent oxygen of our atmosphere is threatened as oxygen producing processes of nature continue to decrease. It appears that too many people, polluting too much, curtailing plant photosynthesis too much, and in need A cooperative program beof tod much food in relation to mans ability to produce tween the Salt Lake County Deit, eventually will doom life on earth to extinction unless partment of Public Welfare and Office of Rehabilitation Servdrastic corrective measures are undertaken. Perhaps the columnists Evans and Novak explain why in their column in the Washington Post this morning. Todays piece says that the reason the attack is crumbling is because from the outset it was almost entirely an instinctive partisan attack on President Johnson. This woudl explain why we have not heard from any of the 19 that Abe Fortas is not qualified to be Chief Justice. On the contrary some have indicated that the y felt he should be nominated, but then their habitual and obstructionism so in the gets way, they come up lame with the feeble, duck reasoning, and then, having raised their transparent excuse, they have gone days without trying to defend it on the Senate floor or by other public means. There is no question but what we in the Senate have the responsibility to look long and hard at these important nominations sent to us by the President for it is true that Abe Fortas could serve as Chief Justice for a long time. We should investigate his qualifications to do the job: The same is true of Judge Thornberry. But we should not make the matter one of political bickering, which is the only way one can describe the single question which the opposition has raised. no-sayin- g so-call- Rehabilitation Program Saves Taxpayers on Welfare Costs Ae--lS ASSD GRAPEVINE Y f i Utahs newly-appointe-d state investment and cash flow con- Dr. Bruce F. Baird sultant will study the states finances on a basis and scrutinize every idle dollar for its interest producing capabilities, Gov. Calvin L. Hampton said Sunday. day-to-d- ay I. A. Zander of the American National Insurance Co.s Salt Lake City branch office No. 1 at 15 West 2865 South, marks his 10th anniversary with the company July 14. - The appointment of retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Murray A. Bywater as assistant manager of Salt Lake City International Airport was announced Monday by Parks Commissioner Conrad B. Harrison. Utahs professionally trained peace officers must receive adequate salaries, Governor Calvin L. Rampton said Friday night at the University of Utah Police Academy graduation exercise. If we are going to establish high training standards, we cannot offer salaries, the governor told the 26 graduates and their guests. sub-standa- rd , . Both the Mormon Trail and the Mormon Battalion Trail will be surveyed for possible inclusion in a national scenic and recreational trails system. The House of Representatives apa create bill will which proved such a system this week in Washington. . The State Board of Examiners his energies in successfully com- decided this week that state empleting the training program in- ployees who are candidates for stead of using his energies to political office should take leaves solve the types of problems that of absence unless they continue ices saved the public $349,000 will probably be resolved when to work for the state last year through the rehabilita- he is trained and employed. during their campaigns. tion of welfare recipients, Dr. As a result of this program, diL. Dr. Hall stated, during the fiscal executive Hall, Vaughn Utah is wel lahead of most Office of Rehabilitation year ended June 30, 1967, 213 states in its 1968 Savings Bond rector, ' full-tim- e J. D. Williams Favors Balanced Budget J. Lull in Labor Economy is Evjdent Services announced. Utahs typical The intent of the is the Democratic nomination as lull in the labor economy was to rehabilitate welfareprogram recipients U.S. Senator from Utah, declared evident last week as new jobs so that become self supportthey Tuesday evening that he favors decreased and claims for unem- ing, tax paying citizens. This a balanced budget to combat ployment increased. involves a concentrated effort inflation in the United States. Jobs offered by Employment by both agencies. He went on Williams, who has spent four Security Offices declined from to say that the emphasis of the years working for the research 834 for the week of July 6 to 776 Office of Rehabilitation Services bureau of Congress in Washing- for the week just ended, while is vocational rehabilitation and ton, laid the blame for current initial claims for unemployment that it works to create, coninflationary pressure to the cur- insurance increased from 613 to serve or restore the working userent level of the federal budget 833 during the same week. fulness of human Any deficit, caused in part by the The 5,105 continued claims for goods and services beings. to necessary annual $30 billion commitment unemployment insurance repre- render a handicapped person fit to the Vietnam conflict. sented 1.95 per cent of all work- to engage in a gainful occupation His comments came at a series ers covered by state and federal is supplied. Services available of three get togethers with state unemployment counseling and Democratic delegates in three for the week of insurance laws, include: the ratio 6, guidance, testing, medical and Salt Lake City legislative dis- was 1.81, and a July 2.07. year ago, surgical treatment, training, job tricts. As of Friday, July 12, farm placement and job follow-up- . Mr. Williams added that he The Welfare Department relocal Emdoes not favor a guaranteed min- representatives fromOffices were fers the clients to the Office of imum wage for the nations poor ployment Security the supply of Rehabilitation Services and probut supports instead massive ef- optimistic that would be ade- vides casework to the clients cherry pickers forts ifi job training, programs quate. family, and maintains contact such as Headstart and eliminawith the rehabilitation counselor tion of employer discrimination, in helping during. the process acAirman Class First Larry J. cording to Ronald Hampton, speagainst minority groups. son of Mr. and Mrs. L. cialist in Rehabilitation for the Gillett, ConHe was hosted by Sue R. Gillett of 406 Penny Ave., has State Welfare He over, 2021 Herbert Ave., Fifth arrived for duty at- Anderson said that one Department. of the principle Legislative District; Pat Clark, AFB, Guam. uses of the caseworker is also Gillett, a security policeman, to allay the clients anxieties 1215 Gilmer Drive, Fourth Legis assigned to a unit of Strategic and fears t, concerning his chilislative District; and Roger Air Command. dren, his wife, his financial dif327 Blaine Avc., Eighth He is a graduate of Granite ficulties, while the training proLegislative District. High School. gram is continuing. He can use D. Williams, candidate for mid-summ- er on-goin- - Mar-chan- g public assistance clients finished their rehabilitation program. Before rehabilitation, the combined earnings of these 213 welfare recipients was $12,800. After rehabilitation their combined earnings were $798,000, representing an increase of 614 per cent. In addition, it is calculated the savings in public assistance payments to these same people will be $349,000 annually for as long as they are employed and self supporting. Rehabilitation of welfare clients is not easy, particularly cf long term welfare recipients, according to Mrs. Elsie L. Shults, caseload supervisor, office of Rehabilitation Services. It takes a great deal for a woman on welfare with six children to get up at 6 each morning, get the children off to school or otherwise taken care of, and go into the training program. Changes are required in a person and change is bard for many people. The percentage of the population on welfare rolls in Utah has decreased markedly over the last 3 decades, from 19.86 per cent to 3.68 per cent and is now somewhat static. With a static population to draw from, Mrs. Shults stated, this cooperative program makes it possible to whittle away at this number and . campaign, according to Mrs. Kathleen Meikle, state director, for the Treasury Departments Savings Bonds Division. thereby decrease the number of individuals on welfare. The program, which began in 1965 as a demonstration project has proved so successful projects have begun in Utah, Weber, .Carbon, Uintah, and Iron counties. Personnel of the Welfare Department and the Office of Rehabilitation Services are working cooperatively to establish this program in the state. that-simila- The first airplane flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C., lasted only 12 seconds and the plane traveled 120 feet. Every employee of a Chicago firm gets a 10 per cent bonus, whether hes an executive or janitor, when he punches in on before the start of his work shift. One former worker said he often wondered why no one got killed rushing to work. Apparently the number of lateneses is miniscule, however. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an aduca-tio- n but the means of education. Emerson. r |
