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Show Univsrsity of Utah Library City 12 s, Important Goal Is Freedom t Vol. 24, No- - 23 Ten Cents Per Copy SALT LAKE CITY, FRIDAY, JUNE 9 1961 States General Wedemeyer General Wedemeyer, World War II Commander Theater and author of the long suppressed China situation, Wedemeyer Report on the post-wwas the principal speaker at this past Mondays third Seminar at meeting in the current of the China Govt Should Stop Competing Advocates U. P. & L. President The tax- - investor-owne- d, paying electric power companies of Utah, Arizona, Wyoming Colorado and New Mexico have received a bloody nose from Washington bureaucrats dedicated to the" Control of Practi-ca'l- y everything. And in process, the long-sufferi- ng public of the 50 states have been clipped too, to the extent of $137 million. Reduced to its simplest terms the story is this. Congress, in 195S, authorized the $760 million Colorado River Storage Project (now estimated at over $t billion), in the interests of flood control, irrigation, recreation, fish and wildlife as well as the generation of 1.219.000 KW of electric power at four installations. Under the Act, which was supported by tile utilities, power revenues are to be used to repay the costs of power facilities and to help defray the costs of the irrigation facilities involved. The importance of water development and the principle that electric energy sales should help pay for the project are well recognized by the utilities who also believed that the expenses of power transmission should be held to a minimum. ' Accordingly, the companies who had previously surveyed the area and planned power lines to meet an estimated demand of 20 million kilowatts 20 years hence (16 times the output of the Colorado Project), offered the projected 2.000 miles of line for distri Natl bution of the Federal power at modest wheeling fees. But Washington said NO to the proposed combination system that would deliver power at the same rate the Government will charge - and the taxpayers will have to dig down for upwrards of $137 million the Government will spend to duplicate these power transmission lines. Such bureaucratic refusal to cooperate with the power companies in the very substantial interests of all the people indicates something approaching contempt for the taxpayer as well as a determination to Federalize the nations electric power. E.M. Naughton, president of the Utah Power & Light Company goes even farther in commenting on this arrogant decision: . VIt he said, "that agencies of the Government stopped competing directly with investor-owne- d businesses in this country. Unless., this is done, all business will ultimately be owned and controlled by' the Federal Government Is time, Put another way, it might be said that unless the Government stops interfering with the business of its citizens it will be unable - as it gradually dries up the springs of revenue - to conduct its own business of defending the nation against our enemies. Our choice, roughly, is to return to Constitutional principles - or start studying Russian. Businessmen Back Anti-Commun- ist Blooming Baskets Sugar House is known the country over for its community cooperation and pride. It will be more evident than ever before this week end with activities galore to spruce up this, the sweetest spot on earth. MONUMENT LIGHTED Thanks to the service organizations of our community, the beautiful center piece of Sugar House will now be in a flood of light. Four high powered flood lights have been mounted and will be officially turned on Friday night, June 9th, at 9:00 PM, by the new Sugar House Queen. To make this possible, the Sugar House Jaycees, Sugar House Business and Professional Womens Club, Sugar House Lions, Sugar House Kiwanis, and the Sugar House Rotary Club cooperated with this organization to purchase and install this fine lighting. COLORFUL APPEARANCE One hundred and forty gorgeous flower baskets were hung on the streets through Sugar House on Thursday morning, June 8. These are magnificent with their colorful blooms and foliage. A portion of your activity fund has been put to good use on this project, you will agree. Thanks go to the aggressive and active Sugar House Jaycees who assembled and installed these baskets. A special thanks to Don Antizak, chairman; Orson D. Wright, Allyn Mahoney, Richard Watkins, (Continued on Page 4) School Board Assn. Opp oses Federal Aid PHILADELPHIA, May 6. The leadership of the Nations thousands of school boards voted here today to drop its cloak of provincialism and become a major spokesman on national educational issues. The National School Eoards Association, composed of school board members from 50 States, the District and two territories, has never before attempted to express its feelings oh Nationwide educational matters. The NSBA members, holding their 21st annual convention in Convention Hall, decided their effectiveness would not be felt if they continued to stand for. local isolationism and did not speak .out on educational issues affecting the Nation . MIGHT CHALLENGE NEA The decision immediately was interpreted as placing the NSBA in a good position to challenge the National Education Associations ranking as the foremost spokesman for American public school education. i It is a foregone conclusion, officer said, that we will be disagreeing with the NEA often one association The statement was based on NEAs strong stand in favor of Federal aid to education. After deciding to jump into the national scene, the school board group voted overwhelmingly to: . 1. Oppose Federal aid to Education because it would be ar naive to think that it will not mean Government control. 2. Oppose any broadening of the National Defense Education Act, which, among other things, provides Government scholarships. 3. Oppose Senate and House bills giving aid to States for Educational television. CHOICE OF TEXTBOOKS 4. Oppose further Federal Aid of any kind until the association could determine the position of each of the State School Board Associations. 5. Insure that choice of textbooks in the Nations Schools remain a local and State mat- ter. (THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. Saturday, May 6, 1961.) Highland High School. We need the courage of our the tall white-hairconvictions, mlitary man told an audience of approximately 1,200 persons. How can we expect the peoples of the world to he follow our leadership, rea we asked, when present defeats and of pattern curring ed debacles? The meeting was interrupted twice during the early part of the proceedings by a woman loudly demanding that the sponsoring organization explain what she termed previous slanders against the American Civil Liberties Union. Lending color to the gathering was an honor guard of ROTC cadets from South High and a group of choristers representing the fifth and sixth grades of Curtis Elementary School. The latter gave spirited renditions of patriotic airs, finishing with Youre a Grand Old Flag. In this reporters opinion, it was a healthy con- trast to a recent presentation at Evergreen Junior High wherein American youngsters were obliged to show the blood red banner of Soviet Russia, and sing the Soviet Tank Song. General Wedemeyers words were directed at just such thinking as that at Evergreen Junior High when he said: American young people have the right to factual information (about the Communist threat). The Communists know the importance of propagandizing the homes, schools, and churches (but) all too many Americans refuse to accept the facts regarding the Red Menace. Those who refuse to heed the lessons of history, the General pointed out, will live to experience them. General Wedemeyer paralleled the situations of the present day United States and the Athens of Demosthenes and Pericles. He recounted the warnings of those sages con- cerning a tendency on the part of a free people merely to react to the feints and incursions of their adversaries as though acting upon orders from them. If the Communists threaten Berlin, he said, we hasten to that area while the Communists prepare new offensives on the to other side of the world which we again belatedly turn our attention. America should take the offensive, Gen. Wedemeyer contended, particularly on the propaganda front. We should never let the world forget that to this day Soviet Russia refuses to allow a United Nations ... commission to investigate con- ditions in Hungary .... three years after the UN decision on the matter. If the Communists continue to refuse an inspection of Hungary, he maintained, then we should admit that the United Nations has degenerated into a farce, and a tool of Communist designs. Theres no such thing as peaceful coexistence with Communism. General Wedemeyer cited the example of Mao Tse Tung and Chou En Lai who openly boasted to him to their Communist beliefs and ambitions even while Americans in (Continued on Page 2) S. L. Schools Stress Remedial Reading Salt Lake City Schools remedial reading classes have returned 495 slow readers to their regular grade levels during the past year, reported Dr. Marion G. Merkley, deputy superintendent. Remedial classes for pupils capable of reading but for some reason reading a full grade or more below their capacity were conducted for grades three through seven, Dr. Merkley said. There were 772 boys and girls in the remedial program. During the course of instruction, 108 children improved enough to return to their regular classes, 36 were dropped from the course because it could not help them, and 64 were transferred out of the school district, Dr. Merk, ley said. Of the remainder, 387 will start next school year at their regular grade levels, and 241 will return to the remedial program to continue their improvement. The program was conducted in 29 of the citys 43 elementary schools the past year, and if teachers are available, three or four more schools will be added next year, Dr. Merkley said. i Eva Mae Green, and Edythe A. Unsworth, supervisors, and Zita Birkhaus, consultant on elementary education, directed the remedial programs, each in her own district. (Reprinted from Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, June 5, 1961 By William F. Smiley, Tribune Education Editor.) |