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Show sb JWX 'VJ By OF SAlf JUAN. COUNTY. UTAH Published Every Thursday al Monlicello. Utah Entered ad the Post Oific at Monlicello, Utah, as second class mailer under the Act oi Congress of March 3. 1873. TKS CITICIAL NEWSPAPER .... ..... ....... Larry M. Roe, Belly L. Roe, Business Manager Dorothy Blake. News Editor Cornelia Perkins. Society Editor Mrs. H. E. Blake, Correspondent Mrs. Marva Brown. News. Society Editor . Editor-Publish- er , Monlicello 4R3 Monlicello 4R3 . Monlicello . 4R3 Monlicello 27R2 . . Monlicello . Blending 13R5 MEMBER OF UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Subscription Rales in San Juan and Adjoining Counlies $1.75 Six Months $3.00 One Year Subset ip lion Rales Elsewhere $2.00 Six Months $3.50 One Year ... PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY $ Rcappmtlonment Amendment To date little has been released to the weekly newspapers in the way of information regarding several issues vital to the individaul voter during the forthcoming general election. There has been a tendency to sidetrack or at least Ignore a responsibility to the country electors of this state obviously aimed at guiding a gullible public into a decision they might not otherwise make were they better informed. One of the most important issues before the public today is the Reapportionment Amendment." Basically, the amendment is this: That the State Senate be composed of one and only one Senator from each county regardless of population. On the surface it appears that a minority group would like control of the legislature, or at least that is one of the arguments used against the Iteapportionment Amendment Citizens Committee. by the Lets look at a few facts and see If the present system gives fair representation in the state legislature. We now have twenty-thre- e State Senators represente Twenty-ninUtah of the Fifteen counties, or so it would ing appear. Actually, several of the Senators are representative of more than one county. Of the 23 Senators, seven are from Salt Lake County, two from Utah County and two from Weber County. The remaining twelve Senators are Counties. divided between twenty-si- x Of approximately 700,000 population in the State of Utah, the three Counties of Salt Lake, Utah and Weber comprise about 400,000. However, of approximately 85,000 square miles in the State of Utah, the three counties total less than twenty per cent of the entire area. Under the present system then we have eleven Senators representing approximately 400,000 population in three counties comprising about 15,000 square miles as against twelve Senators representing approximately 300,000 popucounties comprising about 70,000 lation in twenty-si- x square miles. If this adds up to fair representation, Im afraid I dont see it. And dont let the Citizens Vigilante group mix you up by presenting this amendment as a problem in analogy between State and Federal government. . tit The problem is, and will remain; Do we 'want fair representation from each county? For my part I fail to see a government Of the people, the people and for the people, operate efficiently on by other than an equal basis of representation. With this any in mind, I could vote no other wray than FOR" thought so-call- ed on the Reapportioment Amendment 14 3)cf 3ccioed The Utah Association for the United Nations is planning to ask Mayors of Utahs cities and towns to issue proclamations urging wide support of United Nations Day, Oct ober 24th. This follows the release of an official proclamation of of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who called for cooperation of public officials and private agencies in supporting a program that will demonstrate their faith and support of. the United Nations and create a better public understanding of its aims, achievements and problems. The United States Committee for U. N. Day, an official body, has appointed Mrs. Itay Ahston of Vernal, Utah, as State Chairman for Utah. The Utah Association for the United Nations has designated D. A. Skeen as chairman of U. N. Week. These two organizations are cooperating in promoting an appropriate observance of U. N. Week in and through every community in Utah. This is in no sense a political matter, but is a sacred observance by the people of Utah in the interest of world peace. Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president of the Utah Association of U. N. urges the people of Utah to do everything they are asked to do in making observance of U.N. Week and U. N. Day a success. Daily news sources, constantly highlighting the many troubled areas of the "world, serve to remind us that the UN Day program is needed today more than ever before. Although the UN has not solved all the worlds most vexing problems, it has had commendable success at solving or partially solving, many of them. This is a fact too often overlooked. It is a heartening reminder that the organization we seek to further is not just a frame which to hang tomorrows hopes, but an organization that is right now, today, making some very old dreams of mankind come true. The theme for UN Day this year will be . . . The UN Depends On You! The UN depends upon the individuals, upon what he thinks, wThat he says, what he does, how he influences others on this vital subject. If American and world public opinion can be forged into a truly powerful voice in support of the UN, no aggressor will dare defy it. The UN Depends On You. the President AIbrl My dear San Juaners: A world famous adventurer relates that he once made his careful plans to meet and nurry a certain rich heiress. He says he was getting along splendidly with his planned courtship and would have got the lady and wealth but1 right in the midst of it all, he fell in love with her. His ' love swept him swept him clear hlS feet, Off . and he could I no longer fol-i s i low the delib erate program by which he had been succeeding. Losing his fine dignity of self control he could not command her respect as before. She saw him now as a man. desperate with unconcealable desire, his heart on his sleeve, and she dismissed him. It may not have occurred to her, even if she cared, what a despotic power was m her hands to transform that man into some thing better than he had ever Deen before. There is a tide in the affairs of men which, Ipken at its flood, leads on to destiny. The tide in that adventurer was at its flood, but it was left to ebb away and be lost forvere. That loss was not chareable to her only if he had realized what mighty things were possible to the vaulting zqal enkindled within him, and had conserved and intensified it with care, focussing it as an arclight on the object of his hope, hed have done the biggest thing of all his life. The story is told of a young Englishman who fell desperately in love with a iss Gurney of Ireland. She loved him, and she saw clearly how much he loved her, and she might simply have (accepted him and lived happily But she was not ever after. swept off her feet, she discerned in the situation the high tide of destiny which is too precious to be left ebbing purposely away. Without letting him know how much he had moved her, she told him to go back and achieve something of real worth that would justify him in aspiring to be her lord. He returned home and studied law till he had achieved what he thought was some thing big, and he returned to press his claim. She conceded that what he had done was good but not enough to fit him to her standards, to be her lord and master. He went back and after much effort, reported again; Miss Guemey knew she had him in her pespotic power, and she resolved for their fortunes when they were united, to have him reach the most splendid height of his possibility. Of course there came a time when she could not refrain from the wellng response of his love, and she became Mrs. Fowell Buxton, wife of one of Englands great statesmen. I maintain that the most invincible combination in this world is a man and woman, a true man and a true woman united in purpose and faithful to In n man a woone another. man there is appreciative understanding of the potency of love, and what it can be trained to do they may la vail o fit as the high flood tide in their lives, to carry them on to their loftiest goal. It is more than a tragedy when love is dissipated prematurely and the souls to whom it came, mope wearily on as before to small purpose. They have missed the bus, period. Albert It. Lyman i' NU-V- mi MONTICELLO. Starting Tim UTAH 7:00 P. M. R. Lyman by Waiter Chamblin, Jr. Principal interest in centers around mtoa the outcome of the congressional elections, but it is becoming increasingly evident that regard-le- a of which party wins control of Congress-- - the legislators are going to have an exceedingly busy time next year, starting in January, 1955. Here are a few of the subjects which seem certain to play a prominent part in the proceedings of the next session of Congress: The oil industry in the Rocky Mountain region and adjoining states appears headed for a record number of well comple- tions in 1954. Petroleum Information, Inc, regional oil reporting service, estimates that the 154 total of well completions will be 4,406. The estimate is based on previous drilling. The P-- I figures cover Colorado Wyoming, hlontan ta, Utoh Nebraska, northern New Mexico, North and South Dakata, Nevada and Arizona. Petroleum Information recorded 3,417 completions in 1953, and 2,358 in 1952. A completed well is one of which all work is done. Completed wells include dry holes (wells in which no oil or gas have been found.) Operators in the 10 states com pleted 3,009 wells in the ninth month period of 1954, from the first of the year through September. Petroleum Information rated that period as the best 9 months for drilling in the history of the Oil Industry in the Rocky Mountain region and adjoining states. Well completions m the same nine months of 1953 totalled 2311. Well completions in the first half of 1954 amounted to 1902. The gain in activity for the nine months of 1954 amounted to about 30 per cent in compariosn to the same period in 1953. Wild cat drilling- - drilling in unproven or previously undrilled arcus-gai- ned in 9 approximately 20 months of 1954, compared to tue same period of 1953. Petroleum Information Inc. reported that there were 121 discoveries in the 939 wildcats drill ed m the nine months of 1954. There were 100 discoveries in th 820 wildcats of the three quar ter period of 1953. Utah completed 6 oil wells, 8 gas wells with 40 dry wells for a total of 954 through September activities to the spates.) These are expected to point the way to reduced federal spending and of slenderizing the Washington bureaucracy. 7. Mr. Eisenhower will submit new proposals dealing with the tariff kind foreign trade- - subjects certain to stimulate considerable i by Harry Mai low of the best guarantees The publics right to know is onewill not stray too Tar off of government form American our that thC ButsoStones this right of the publics is not held ia as be by some state officials. high esteem as it might officials in Utah, particularly on the state For the most part, m the public level, have cooperated fully with theon pressstate helping government. in the understand goings to know and orders Gov J Bracken .Lee in particular has issued specific all meetings should be that control his under to t departments has been asked to open to the press. In some instances, the pressBut those instances use information gained only as background. right to know, and have been rare. Capitol newsmen have had the informed. been have state of the through them, the people are slip-up-s. And right now, there is But sometimes there one which could deprive a lot of people of their right to know. on junior This fall, Utahns will vote on some referendums or not whether Carbon decide to the asks One public colleges. or abandoned. be institution state a as remain will Price College at The other asks the public to decide whether or not Weber and Snow College College at Ogden. Dixie College at St George of the Church of control to the transferred be at Ephriam snould Saints. Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y has always played a These issues are important- - Education ' vital role in this state. Yet, the public will not get the pro and con arguments on these issues which the state is supposed to give them. Why? Because some of the state officials slipped up. The Secretary of State had two choices. He could publish the arguments He first chose the newspaper media. by newspaper or by pamphlet. When it was too late to use any other method, he discovered the cost was too high. This, in spite of the fact he had been quoted a tentative price which was even higher that the actual price. The states top officers said the arguments did not have to be printed unless the proponents and opponennts of the arguments paid for printing costs. The Supreme Court upheld that decision. Yet the Utah State Press Association offered to absorb $12,000 in printing costs and asked only distribution costs, which amounted to $50,000. The state said the proponents of the idea cf abandoning Carbon and turning the other schools over to the Church would not pay their share of the costs. And who are those proponents? The state of Utah. The opponents of these two plans of junior college disposal are challenging actions of the btate Legislature. The supporters of the plan are the state officials. These pro and con arguments will get to the people. The weekly papers of the state and the daily papers still plan to public the pros and cons as fully as possible as a public service. But the publics right to know in this instance at least . . . is not getting the attention from state officials that it might do. Certainly, it sometimes costs money to fully inform the about matters of government. But, after all, who foots the people bills? The people. And a good many citizens would rather pay to discussion. know the facts than to vote uninformed and possibly pay more Other proposals certain to be money because of their not being fully informed. considered include continuation Do You Know: or revision of the Defense ProThat the word Utah comes from a duction Act, health insurance, Ute Indian word meaninig On the or Top Of increasing the minimum wage, The Mountains. The state Emblem Heights a is Beehive signioutthe Bricker amendment to law treaty law, elmination or fying Industry. n restriction of Government with industry, increased Do You Know: That 32 miles west of pay for federal employees, high- near Utah 8 late Highway 33, is one of theBrigham City, outstanding er postal nates. Anti Trust law historical spots of tne United States? This is Promontory revision, repeal or revision of n fair trade legislation, renog.a Summit, wnere on May 10, I8b9 the event of tion, and the Smith bill to pro-- the driving of the Golden Spike took p,ace united the tect state laws from invalids- - Union Pacific and Central Pacific, now Southern Pacific. 1. A renewed battle over the revision cf the Taft Hartley Act. Mr. Eisenhower has said definitely that the Taft Hartley Act needs some revisions" and they will be propsed to Congress. 2. Amendments to the recently passed Atomic Energy Act Two important points will be in (1) advocates of socialyolved ized federal power development will seek to limit the part that private enterprises can play in atomic development fcnd (2) the advocates of government control will seek to continue the present ban on the pnvate ownership of atomic patents during the next five years. 3. Further tax revision, including whether to permit the corporate tax rate to drop from 52 to 47 on April 1 for a revenue loss of $2 billion, and whether lower excise taxes on automotive products, tobacco, and alcohol will be allowed to go into effect on the game date for a revenue loss of about $1 billion. 4. Vigorous efforts will be made by the Administration to hold appropriations and spending to a minimum (consistent with government efficency and national security.) Its success will detei-miwhether a higher ceiling now $275 billion- - will be sought on the permissible national debt. A temporary $8 billion boost was voted Dy the recent Congress, but this applies only until next June 39. It seems certain that serious consideration will be given whether the $275 billion ceiling must be elevated again. 5. A strong attempt will be made by socialized power advocates for legislation to authorize Government development of the $400 milion Niagara River hydro electric project This would be a venture into socialism, as there is not even a pretense that it would be anything other than a federal power project to prevent private construction and operation desired by five stockholders owned companies. 6. Congress will consider reports by the Hoover Commission (to reduce bureaucracy) and the tlThere Relations Intergovernmental gressmen getting bored by commission (to return federal ne j? wfifbexcfS -- ...... com-etio- well-know- Con- - the first transcontinental railroad line to be built across crest. the nation. 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Savo With a t1QW Chevrolet! asms?; DOLLAR-SAVIN- nition system and That on July 24, 1847, the Mormon October 19 and 20 Pioneers entered the Great Salt Lake Valley. Even before The Big Carnival their homes and churches were built, they established a Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling government called the State of Deseret, and applied for admission to the Union. Statehood was denied, and the State of Deseret functioned from March 5, 1849 to September 9, Thursday, October 21 1850. The territory of Utah was organized September 9, 1850. Star and Guitars That Utah tried two times for Statehood before she was accepted into the Union on January 4, 1895. Utah was once termed the ugly duckling of the Union, and her struggle to gain stateshood is a perfect example of the old adage, if at first you dont succeed, try, try, again. President Grover Clevelands proclamation made Utah the 45th state to don the robes of Statehood. Headed For Record Number DRIVE-I- N U Do. 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